Being Boss with Emily + Kathleen

What does it take to make money doing the work you love? How do you position yourself as an expert? How do you find fulfillment as a creative and wrangle the responsibility of being a business owner? In the Being Boss Archives, welcome to the first 239 episodes of the award-winning, chart-topping, media-touted Being Boss podcast for creatives, business owners, and entrepreneurs. Listen along as co-hosts and business besties Emily Thompson and Kathleen Shannon navigate their paths as creative entrepreneurs in over 5 years of conversations about mindset, boundaries, habits, and routines. Join in on personal conversations and illuminating interviews with both working creatives and industry leaders, including Dr. Brené Brown, Brooke Castillo, Marie Forleo, Melissa Hartwig, Lisa Congdon and more, in an effort to help artists, makers, designers, side-hustlers and more to take control of their work and live life on their own terms. These Archives include episodes from 2015 - mid-2020. To listen to more recent episodes, search for Being Boss wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Being Boss with Emily + Kathleen

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#239 - PART 2: The Future of Being Boss

In this final part of the biggest conversation we've ever shared at Being Boss, Michelle Khouri wraps up her interview of Emily and Kathleen by covering how they'll share content that they created together, what support systems they leaned on f...

August 18, 2020 • 57:20

#238 - PART 1: The Being Boss Partnership

In this landmark Being Boss episode, Emily and Kathleen are interviewed by Michelle Khouri about their burnout and how it led Kathleen to make the decision to sell her ownership stake of Being Boss. Listen to Part 2 of this interview: <...

August 04, 2020 • 45:49

#237 - Authenticity in Marketing with Vivian Kaye of KinkyCurlyYaki

Live from the "Make Time to Shine" Being Boss Conference, Vivian Kaye of KinkyCurlyYaki joins Emily and Kathleen to explore the topics of personal branding and marketing with authenticity. The three of them also talk about finding gaps in the m...

July 21, 2020 • 1:00:46

#236 - Make Time to Shine

Emily is taking this special episode to recap the wisdom that was dropped during the virtual Being Boss Conference back in April. You’ll hear from Tara McMullin on why you should still promote your business in uncertain times, Autumn Witt Boyd ...

July 07, 2020 • 59:39

#235 - Creating a Business Plan

How do you make sure that the business you start will be everything you want it to be? A business plan can help put you on the right path. Being Boss has partnered with Freshbooks to create a B...

June 30, 2020 • 39:48

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