Soulful MBA Podcast
by Jennifer Barcelos and Sandy Connery
Our binge-worthy podcast is a sanctuary for those curious about what it's really like to build a company from scratch, work remotely with your best friend, and consciously engage with other humans on the Internet.Our mission is to help other ambitious women build and grow businesses online.
Episodes
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Re-release: Women, Money + Mindset
We all face self-sabotaging thoughts on occasion and it is important for us, as women, to collectively confront these issues so that we can move passed them as a community. Today we get into self-imposed limitations, balancing vision and action, the ever-present victim mentality, and setting...
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Re-release: Kelly Diels on Women, Money + Power
Kelly helps feminist entrepreneurs and culture makers sell to women without selling out by teaching feminist principles, including how they apply to marketing and other facets of business. She talks openly about controversial topics, including the false perceptions that exist around poor people…
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Re-release: Emily Williams on Mastering Your Money Mindset
Emily is a success coach and the author of the new book: I Heart My Life. Emily teaches women to examine their mindset around money and to do away with the limits we so often put on ourselves. She reveals how our false backstories are holding us back, and she shows us that, as ambitious women, we...
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Re-release: Our Money Stories
In this episode, we’re getting vulnerable and sharing our money stories with you. This is not always an easy topic to discuss publicly, yet we need to start having these conversations in order to remove some of our collective shame about money—shame that is not helping any of us, particularly...
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Re-release: The Value of a Wife
On this re-released episode of the Soulful MBA podcast, we talk about a slightly controversial topic—the value of a wife. We touch on several articles we’ve read recently about the economic benefits for men who have a wife at home (or at least in a position where she is still primarily…
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2019: A Year in Review
As with last year, we’re bringing you a recap of the year vis-à-vis our favorite things. Here are the links for you (think of it as a stellar gift guide or a place to bookmark for inspiration later on): Best Books Jeni: The Great Alone / Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done Sandy: The...
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147 Financial Intelligence: An Intentional Approach to Your Numbers
#147 An Intentional Approach to Your Numbers It is a common misconception that numbers are out of a business owner’s control. This pervasive thinking is not only untrue but also lends itself to a passive financial approach. Jeni and Sandy want you, as the powerful entrepreneurs you are, to take...
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146 Financial Intelligence: What You Track Grows
Far too often business owners either fear or dread looking at the numbers or simply find it impersonal and boring. This is not an empowering way to approach your financials and does not have to be the case! Looking at the numbers can become a sacred monthly ritual where you take time to pause and...
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145 Financial Intelligence: Making Friends With Your Profit + Loss Statement
In this episode, where we dig into everything you need to know about profit and loss statements. Understanding the numbers and margins that our business generates each month can be intimidating—and understandably so—but we are here to tell you why it is actually incredibly empowering to be aware…
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144 Financial Intelligence: Know Your Numbers
In this episode, we talk about something that makes many of us uncomfortable: financial numbers. As an entrepreneur, it is so important to know and understand the numbers in your business, where to look, and what to be tracking. Whenever we talk about numbers, we see the fear it triggers. This...
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143 Gather + Grow: the Value of Offline Events in an Online World
In today’s episode, we are talking all about in-person gatherings and the powerful effects they can have on your online business. As online entrepreneurs, we find that our offline and online identities can become incongruent with one another. This can lead to feelings of isolation, which is why…
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142 Building an Uncaged Business with Becca Tracey
Welcome to another episode of The Soulful MBA podcast! Today’s guest is Becca Tracey. Becca is Founder of The Uncaged Life, where she teaches solopreneurs – typically life-coaches, designers, and consultants – how to get new clients and launch their businesses. We invited Becca on the show to…
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141 The Power of Beta Launching with Ericka Thomas
If you’ve ever worried that you need a massive email list or social following to successfully launch as online program, this week’s guest is living proof that you absolutely do not. Ericka Thomas, founder of Elemental Kinetics LLC, joins us on the show to share the juicy numbers from her…
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140 Investing in Yourself and Your Business with Nicole Lebreux
Our guest today is Nicole Lebreux. Nicole is a yoga instructor, a whole-plant herbalist, a mom, and the founder of Nicole Lebreux Yoga and Wellness. One of our Inner Circle clients, Nicole is an inspiring example of what you can achieve when you take action and invest in yourself. She has…
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139 Why You Should Build Something That You Own
This episode of our show was inspired by a recent blog post by Seth Godin, titled “What Do You Own?” Today’s economy is rapidly shifting. The old capitalist model of going to school, getting into college, and settling down into one job for the rest of your life – is almost non-existent. There are...
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138 Why Now is the Perfect Time to Launch an Online Offering
As we move into Fall, we honestly cannot wait to get down to more serious work and slide right back into high productivity mode. This is traditionally the busiest time of year for us. School is starting again, colder weather and the end of the year is looming, and it’s time to sip coffee and get...
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137 The Cold, Hard Truth About Making Money Online
On this episode of the show, we talk about mindset triggers that may be holding you back from making the kind of money you’re looking to make online. This episode is an important next step in our Women and Money Series, where we share the tough-love lessons we’ve learned about our own mindset…
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136 Having Faith and Knowing Your Numbers with Lori Kennedy
“I wanted the business more than I was afraid of the fear of not being able to pay the debt back.” - Lori Kennedy Our current series on women and money has encouraged many of you to reflect on your own money stories. During this process, you may have uncovered beliefs that are preventing you from...
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135 How a Group Coaching Program Can Fast-track Your Business
In this episode, we discuss the benefits of joining a group coaching program and explain why being part of one can help fast-track your company’s growth. We have both served as students and as mentors in group coaching programs and we have seen the power that comes from working in community. We...
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134 Claire Pelletreau on Getting Honest About Money
Continuing with our women and money series, we are thrilled to share this recent interview with Claire Pelletreau—a Facebook Ads expert who runs a six-figure online business and hosts The Get Paid Podcast. As you may infer from the name of her show, Claire loves to talk about all things money.…
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133 Women, Money, and Mindset
Our series on women and money continues, and today’s episode is about getting your mindset set up for building wealth. We want you to confront your own money stories and to uncover those internal narratives that could be holding you back. We’ve heard some encouraging feedback from listeners who...
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132 Kelly Diels on Women, Money, + Power
Welcome to another episode of the Soulful MBA Podcast! Inspiring us today is feminist marketing consultant and writer, Kelly Diels, who joins us for the next episode in our Women and Money series. When we first came across Kelly’s website, we could not stop reading through her refreshing body of...
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131 Emily Williams on Mastering Your Money Mindset
As part of our Women and Money series, we’re thrilled to bring you an interview with the powerful and inspiring Emily Williams. Emily is a success coach and the author of the new book: I Heart My Life. Emily teaches women to examine their mindset around money and to do away with the limits we so...
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130 Our Money Stories
In this episode, we’re getting vulnerable and sharing our money stories with you. This is not always an easy topic to discuss publicly, yet we need to start having these conversations in order to remove some of our collective shame about money—shame that is not helping any of us, particularly...
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129 How Joining a Mastermind Can Grow Your Online Business with Sara Christensen
In this episode, we chat with entrepreneur Sara Christensen—a leading expert in business mastermind groups, who has been curating and running them since 2010. Sara’s current business, Kickass Masterminds, rigorously curates and professionally facilitates structured mastermind groups and Sara…
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128 Lessons Learned After 5 Years of Online Business
We’ve just celebrated the 5 year anniversary of our fateful meeting at a gathering for tech entrepreneurs in the mountains of Colorado. This was the birth of a friendship that’s evolved into the business we run together today. In this tell-all episode, we discuss what’s surprised us so far in our...
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127 Kelly DiNardo on Living a Life of Exploration
Kelly DiNardo is a freelance journalist and the author of several books including Living the Sutras: A Guide to Yoga Wisdom beyond the Mat, which gives readers a modern, accessible and personal look at ancient yogic philosophy and the wisdom found within. She is also the producer, editor and...
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126 The Value of a Wife
On this episode of the Soulful MBA podcast, we talk about a slightly controversial topic—the value of a wife. We touch on several articles we’ve read recently about the economic benefits for men who have a wife at home (or at least in a position where she is still primarily responsible for...
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125 7 Tips for Stellar Social Media Videos
Today on the show, we will be giving you seven tips for creating captivating and impactful social media videos! Video has been the format for social content for years and it shows no signs of letting up. So what better way to master your social media skills than to brush up on your video creation...
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124 Trends in Online Business: Spring 2019
In this episode, we take a look at some of the current trends in online business we’re noticing in the Spring of 2019. From Facebook groups to the “new” Pinterest to shifts in membership and subscription model businesses to the rise of nanoinfluencers and IGTV. We dive into five exciting trends...
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123 The Future of Instagram
After reaching peak perfection on Instagram sometime in mid-2018, Instagram has started to shift to less-beautiful, less-curated content. Listen in to hear our views about this changing trend, as well as our evolving beliefs and predictions about social in general. Looking for some Insta tips? We...
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122 Our Controversial Approach to Facebook Groups
We’ve got a complicated relationship with our Facebook Group. Every few months we have a serious conversation about shutting it down. Neither of us would ever choose to spend time on Facebook for fun, so our Group is really the only reason we both maintain our accounts on the platform. Although...
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121 What is a Beta Launch (and how can it help my business)?
In this episode, we explain the concept of beta launching—and why we encourage all of our clients to use this strategy to launch new products, programs, and service packages. You’ll learn why we think that releasing an imperfect offer is the most efficient path to success in online business. To...
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120 Finding Your Inner Voice with Kelly Covert
Kelly Covert is an inner voice coach with a passion for helping women believe and achieve their big vision by connecting deeply with the wisdom that is inside of them (all while owning their worthiness each and every day). Through her intuitive, heart-centered coaching, she helps women awaken to...
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119 A Culture of Failure: The Story of Elizabeth Holmes
In this controversial conversation, we share our thoughts and feelings about the downfall of Elizabeth Holmes—the youngest self-made female billionaire in history. After dropping out of Stanford at age 19, Elizabeth founded the heath-tech company, Theranos, and went on to raise a staggering $700...
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118 How Your Personality Type Impacts Your Online Business with Brit Kolo
Brit Kolo is a Marketing Coach who helps online business owners build marketing strategies based on their Myers-Briggs personality type. As the creator of the Marketing Personalities Framework, Brit has created a set of sixteen personality-specific strategies to help you to grow your business in…
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117 The Biggest Mistake We See With New Online Teachers
We’ve been noticing FAR too much attention lately being placed on the technical intricacies of building a business. We, as humans, tend to obsess over the things we can easily control or measure (Equipment! Productivity! Instagram followers!), but it’s much more important to focus on the bigger...
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116 Building the She Recovers Movement with Taryn Strong
Taryn is the co-founder of SHE RECOVERS (with her mama, Dawn Nickel.) SHE RECOVERS® is an international movement of self-identified women in or seeking recovery from a wide variety of issues, including substance use disorders and other behavioral health issues, trauma, abuse, codependency…
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115 Building a Marketing Empire with Emily Hirsh
In today’s episode, we interview Emily Hirsh—an industry leading Facebook Ads and Sales Funnel Strategist who works with high-profile entrepreneurs to grow their businesses online. In less than three years she has expanded her business from a single client to a multi-million dollar agency with…
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114 Do I Really Need a Sales Funnel?
If you’re working in the online sphere, you’ve probably heard the term “sales funnel” more times than you can count. But understanding what it is (and how it can help your business) is a whole other story. A sales funnel is a series of steps that potential customers take on the way to purchasing....
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113 Growing a Family Maker Business
In this episode, we check in with Jeni about her family’s maker business, Woodland Alchemy. It’s now been a year since the seed of an idea began to germinate into a creative outlet, a family hobby, and (eventually) a local artisan business. Where is the business now? What’s been Jeni’s proudest...
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112 Maura Manzo on Her Journey from Bartender to Thriving Yoga Studio Owner
Maura Manzo began to practice yoga to “learn to breathe” after a fire destroyed her home in 2006 and has been on a journey to share yoga with others ever since. Following her yoga teacher training, Maura raised $20,000 for HIV/AIDS programs in South Africa in collaboration with Off the Mat into…
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111 All About The Numbers: How to Measure, Audit, and Optimize Your Business Finances
We’re sharing the down and dirty details for how we track and manage the finances for our business. You’ll learn our favorite tip for reducing our year-end tax burden and we’ll share some suggestions for what types of information you should be tracking each month in your own business. What steps...
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110 The Digital Artisan Manifesto
After five years of immersion into entrepreneurship, we’ve learned a few things. Here’s the advice we’d like to share with our fellow founders, distilled into 23 suggestions for building an intentional business online. These are the practices of Digital Artisanship: Identify your core values…
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109 2018: A Year in Review
As with last year, we’re bringing you a recap of the year vis-à-vis our favorite things. Here are the links for you (think of it as a stellar gift guide or a place to bookmark for inspiration later on): Best Books Jeni: The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore / Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win / The…
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108 The State of the Wellness Industry 2018
Our industry has evolved significantly over the past decade, and this is perhaps best exemplified by the explosion of the Peloton brand. How does a spin bike company that’s now valued at a whopping $4 billion impact regular people like us? What changes are we seeing in the mainstream yoga…
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107 How to Know if You’re Ready to Start an Online Business
“Ready” is relative. Most people who have done everything in the known universe to prepare themselves to become first-time parents, or move to a new country, or come out to their families will STILL be surprised or uneasy when the time comes. The same goes for launching an online business—even if...
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106 Groundwork
In this episode, we’re discussing our favorite strategies for setting your new business (or new product, program, or service) up for success. How do you ensure that you’ll have paying customers when you open the virtual doors on day one? Which old-school marketing strategies should you be…
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Office Hours: Ethical Holiday Marketing
Somehow, it’s November. (Anyone else feel like 2018 was about 15 minutes long?) And that means we’re hurtling toward the holiday season at quite a clip. And THAT means many of us are madly scrambling to concoct marketing plans that will help us take advantage of the upcoming gift-buying frenzy....
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105 Partnership
In this episode, we share some previously unshared details about our business partnership... How we met. How we work together. The pitfalls. The benefits. We also explore our opinions on different kinds of business relationships. What about partnering with an investor? Or a technical co-founder?...
About this show
Our binge-worthy podcast is a sanctuary for those curious about what it's really like to build a company from scratch, work remotely with your best friend, and consciously engage with other humans on the Internet.Our mission is to help other ambitious women build and grow businesses online.
Hosted by
Jennifer Barcelos and Sandy Connery
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