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.
Episodes
241 episodes
#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...
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#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: <...
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#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...
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#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 ...
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#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...
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#234 - The Power of Conversation
Live from the "Make Time to Shine" Being Boss Conference, Emily and Kathleen discuss the most powerful tool of Being Boss: conversation. They dive into ways in which conversation can elevate creativity and how to have conversations with yoursel...
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#233 - Find Your Business Bestie with Megan Flatt
Connections are an important part of growing as a business owner, so Emily's business bestie Megan Flatt is on this episode to talk about networking, how to share resources and knowledge, recognizing when relationships aren't a good fit, and ho...
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#232 - Building a Mindful + Responsible Business
Business owners don't always know how to react to the world around us, so Emily is diving into the steps that you can take to build a mindful and responsible business, touching on the themes of values, how to uncover your most impactful action,...
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#231 - Business as Creative Expression with Maia Toll of Herbiary
Author and business owner Maia Toll joins us today to talk about using your business as an outlet for your creative expression, how to use intuition in your business, and how you can stay motivated for the long haul. Maia also took some t...
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#230 - Being a Creative
Putting aside the strict business talk, Emily and Kathleen discuss the importance of being a creative, the difference between a creative process and a business process, what being creative actually looks like, cooking, and how to keep going whe...
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#229 - Healthy Money Habits with Danetha Doe
Finance expert Danetha Doe joins Emily in this episode to talk about addressing your money stories, combating scarcity mindset, tips for building a solid financial foundation, how the shifting economy is changing our relationships with mo...
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#228 - Sustainable Business Practices
Ebbs and flows are inevitable, so having sustainable business practices is key for long-term success. Kathleen joins Emily today to talk about those basic practices, which include starting small and bootstrapping, leveraging what you already ha...
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#227 - Q+A Part 2: Scaling, Seasons, and Sales Funnels
Emily recently hosted a Q&A session in the Being Boss Community, and now we're publishing her answers in a two-part series. In this second episode, Emily answers questions about scaling a business based on highly personalized services, deal...
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#226 - Q+A Part 1: Contractors, Company Culture, and Cold Calls
Emily recently hosted a Q&A session in the Being Boss Community, and now we're publishing her answers in a two-part series. In this first episode, Emily tackles navigating uneasy feelings around onboarding a contractor into your top-secret ...
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#225 - Pandemic ready? Coronavirus and Your Business
In this special episode, Emily and Kathleen take some time to talk about the Coronavirus pandemic, the lessons you can learn from it, the opportunities you can find in it as a creative business owners, and our top tips for working from home (es...
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#224 - Brand Strategies for Growing Your Business
Kathleen joins Emily today to discuss the ever-evolving nature of business branding, defining what exactly branding is, what to do with your brand when your business becomes more complex, and what to do when your ideas outgrow the busines...
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#223 - Social Media Marketing for Online and Local Business with Ellen Matis
Boss friend Ellen Matis joins Emily in this episode to talk about creating boundaries for social media, the impact that local community involvement can have on your life and business, and why it's important to invest in your community and neigh...
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#222 - Productivity Hacks
Being productive can be a challenge. In fact, a majority of Being Boss subscribers admit that time management is their biggest struggle. Emily and Kathleen team up in this episode to share their tips, resources, and hacks they use to better man...
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#221 - Plan a Happy Life with Stephanie Fleming of Happy Planner
A happy life doesn’t just fall in your lap, so we’ve brought in Stephanie Fleming of Happy Planner to talk about how to plan out your happy life. We’re also talking about navigating pivotal life moments, cultivating happiness and creative freed...
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#220 - Plan Out Your Year with 20/20 Vision
Whether it's once a quarter or once a year, there's never a bad time to do some business planning. To get 2020 off to a great start, Emily and Kathleen discuss the different methods for creating a plan, what types of plans you can benefit from ...
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#219 - Burnout + Buyout
This time last year, Emily and Kathleen felt burnout that prompted them to scale back their workload. One year removed from that fatigue, they're looking back at what caused the burnout and how it affected their businesses, personal healt...
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#218 - Gratitude Practices for Abundance
Practicing gratitude is essential for being a boss, so Emily and Kathleen are using this episode to talk about why gratitude is so important, how and why to implement gratitude into your relationships, and practices for showing appreciati...
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#217 - Your Wolfpack
Friendships and connections are important when you're running a business, so Kathleen and Emily are taking some time to talk about cultivating a community, finding your wolfpack, nurturing relationships with business besties, and more.T...
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