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Ep. 115 - From Fired While Pregnant to 6-Figure PowerPoint Queen

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Ever been knocked down so hard you thought you'd never get up? Picture this: 8 months pregnant, career vanishing, and your world crumbling. That was Emily Schneider's reality - until she turned her biggest "screw you" moment into a 6-figure business.

In this raw, unfiltered episode, Emily rips open her playbook on how she transformed from a corporate castoff into the PowerPoint Queen who now commands $5,000 per presentation. She's not just helping executives look good - she's helping them land $300,000 deals with a single pitch.

But this isn't your typical "girl boss" success story. Emily breaks down how she weaponized her "creative chaos" into a business that has Fortune 500 executives begging for her magic touch. She proves that sometimes your biggest setback is actually your setup for a legendary comeback.

Warning: This episode contains zero BS, pure fire, and might just make you quit your job.

🔥 What You'll Learn:

  • How to turn your "weird obsessions" into profit
  • Why PowerPoint isn't dead (and how it's making people rich)
  • The exact moment Emily bet on herself (and won big)
  • How to charge premium prices without flinching

Connect with Emily: LinkedIn: Emily Schneider Facebook: Emily's World

Get ready to have your mind blown about what's possible when you stop playing small and start playing to win.

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Stoy Hall, CFP®:

PowerPoints. I'm pretty sure PowerPoints are dead. Kind of like radio, kind of like newspapers. I remember PowerPoints growing up. That was like our hottest topic. We had to learn about it in college. We presented a hundred percent on PowerPoints. I personally have not used a PowerPoint in years, years, but today. Our expert on PowerPoints will be Emily, and she's going to divulge, obviously, how she got to where she's at, but why, why PowerPoint is still a thing, and probably why you should hire her, because I will be if I need to do a PowerPoints. Without further ado, Emily, welcome to the show.

Emily Schneider:

Oh, thank you so much for having me. That was such a sweet introduction. I loved it. You're right.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

Before we dive in and give everyone the secrets of PowerPoint, which you're going to have to turn my vision on that one. But yeah. Let's talk through how you even got to where you're at today. Let's start from the beginning.

Emily Schneider:

I mean the way beginning or like where I started. And how it felt, you know, yeah, yeah. Um, okay. So I was just a child that broke everything. Why? Because I had this creative curiosity. Now I can articulate it as that. I wanted to see how things work. I wanted to understand what was underneath. Like literally I remember like piggy banks and picking them up and wanting to know how the, like how you got the money out. Right. But like. I was also the biggest klutz I've ever, well now my daughter follows in me, but like we're two of the biggest klutzes. So like I'd be holding this thing in a store and it would drop and now my mom would buy it and then I would have to figure out a way to like use it or not feel as guilty about it, right? So it kind of created this. Like, it was really, it was a creative curiosity of how things worked and put together, um, and I just think that that was something that, like, was innate in who I am and who I wanted to be. I also have this empathy for the world and this wonder about how things work. So like, that combination put me on this path to ask a lot of questions, to get curious about how things work. And also to, like, show up and help people just smile more. Again, these are just my personality traits. What I have learned over my 42 years of life is I have figured out and adapted to, which, within each season or each age frame, how to Cultivate both of those curiosity, like the curiosity and the skill set to provide and to help people. I have this mission that I wrote a couple years ago. I want to be a magical badass. It's kind of like a unicorn, but cooler. It's rooted in love and kindness. My idea is to sprinkle joy wherever I go, but more importantly, it's to empower people to feel confident and to shine their light brighter, right? We don't get dim, like the room doesn't get dimmer when I spread my light. It actually starts to illuminate more. And so, I fell into this, you know, I used to think PowerPoint was a bad word too, so you're not hurting my feelings. I fell into this world of PowerPoint, because PowerPoint is a platform that people didn't like. But they really needed it. And I worked in the agency world for a long time. And I loved, I worked with marketing, right? You're creating these campaigns. You're making people do something. You're feeling something, but I never knew what they did at shelf when they purchased it, how they felt, what they responded to. But I did know how my clients responded to our presentation. And there was just something really cool about connecting with somebody who And what they and how they responded when you, when it resonated with them and what that meant and whether they were able to move that campaign forward or not, right, was kind of out of my control, but I started to get really curious. I started to raise my hand for all the business pitches anytime we needed to sell something to the client. I wanted to be part of a team. I love the storytelling aspect of it. I love the concept of leading. Your brain or the audience through this really articulate and fine tune, you know, story so that they feel something so that they think something and then they do something at the end. And I just literally kept asking questions, kept offering to help, and I had a small agent or it wasn't a small agent. It was a tech startup. They were a bunch of data scientist geeks. I love data too. I just think it's super fun and it gives you a lot of like grounding purpose. And they were like, we need help. Obviously we're data scientists. We don't know what we're doing. Our VCs aren't, you know, we're not, our pitches isn't resonating. How can you help? And within that first presentation, they're like, we're sold. I freelance for them for a year. And then they offered me a full time position and I haven't gone back to agency world. They're really working for anybody else since.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

That's awesome. That's awesome. So we, we talked about off camera and just a little bit of like the value of your services, my services. And I, I tell people this all the time, regardless of what they are as a business owner, where they are at life, you need to figure out if you value yourself and what you value yourself as, because if you can't answer that, then. It doesn't matter like who you go to work for, what clients, everyone's going to take advantage of you because you don't actually value yourself. Where in life did you, like, did that trigger for you? That like, I know who I am. I, I might be a certain way. That's not normal, but this is me. I love me. And this is my value to myself. Do you know like when that was or like what kind of like triggered in your brain for that?

Emily Schneider:

So no, but I think what I, what I did know is that I like to help people. Feel good. Be happy. And I just have always exuded, to be honest, a really maybe a cool confidence. Maybe people wouldn't say it's cool. I used to think it was like, you know, you wanted to stand out. You wanted to be different, but you wanted to make your presence known. And I loved being part of that or being, being in a group that we did that. I was a cheerleader in high school, right? I was on boards of things like I like to, to collaborate and bring things together. together. Um, but I think, you know, my journey to really getting curious about who I was started five years ago. Um, when I went out on my own, actually, it's kind of timely, but I, I started a health journey and I started from the inside out. And now, and I still meet with my, I actually talked to her earlier today. I still meet with my health coach every week. I talked for 15 to 20 minutes because I need that, that outward conversation, that verbal processing, that reassurance that like, it's not going to be perfect, even though I'm always going to strive. What am I a recovering perfectionist? But the idea that like, I know I'm good at things and when I can say I'm good at things, it helps me let other people know that they're good at things. And that's the magic that I love to share. I, again, like we kind of said, the idea that I can brighten, I can help somebody have more confidence, which then in turn lets them shine brighter, do their work better, feel more confident. And whether they take mine or they borrow my confidence in them, it's such a win win. Um, have you heard of the book, uh, 15 Commitments of a Conscious Leader by Jim Dettner? Okay, so 2023 was really tough for consulting and I took that year to reflect. What did I like doing? What did I want to do? What was I good at? And if I'm going to tell people I'm available, I want to tell them I want to do the work I want to do. I got, this book got introduced to me and he starts talking about this concept of zone of genius. And that's when I realized. This is my sweet spot. It's not just that I'm good at it. It's that it lights me up. And when I say that I geek out about data and I geek out about PowerPoint, there is no shame in that anymore. Because. It's true. And so like, if I don't hone in my truths, how does anybody else know what I'm good at?

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

That's so important, right? Like just be, be yourself, your authentic self in life. So let's go back. You said five years ago, you decided to go independent in that, in that realm. A lot of our listeners and predominantly, by the way, my business, not my. Actual podcast, but my actual business, black mammoth, I run all the financials for women and minority business owners. And so in that realm a lot, how was it being a woman in, I will say a more corporate setting and going, you know what, I'm going to go independent. How was that for you mentally of, of that switch?

Emily Schneider:

Um, I mean, can that, are we allowed to use inappropriate language on here? It was a total mindfuck because I didn't choose to do that. I had the rug pulled under me when I was eight and a half months pregnant. And my, my position was terminated. I was working for this startup. They didn't meet it in harm, but. They had a business to run and their financials were not in line and my position was the next one to be cut. Um, and so it was a total life act. I think there's still like PTSD of some of my yearning or, you know, like we said, talking about value because sometimes when that happens and you're so shell shocked and also dependent or kind of, you know, I'm an optimistic person, but these guys are good guys. They didn't mean to do this to me. It's just the way things go. But it was kind of at that moment where really after my daughter was born and I like, was like, I'm never going back to an age. I'm not going back to work for somebody and I'm never going to look the same. And. But, you know, it taps back into my whole kind of youth and childhood, like believing in myself and being poured into and being loved and being seen and then, you know, being celebrated. And I remember vividly standing in my kitchen one day and being like, would I bet on myself? And I was like, fuck, yeah, I will totally bet on myself. And what does that need to be? Is it financially? Is it giving myself space to figure it out? Is it telling people like being vulnerable and being like. I'm doing this. This is weird. Can I help you? How can I help you? Or this is what I want to do. Do you need help or do you know somebody? Um, and so, yeah, it was crazy, but it was like the best looking back. That was like the best thing that ever happened.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

1. That's amazing. 2. My wife just went through that exact same thing and works for my firm now, which I'm going to, we'll have her on an episode later, but very, very much similar her concerns. And this is usually when, when I. Work with a lot with women is that it's more layers to than just like crap. There's like, you start when you were pregnant at the time. So you're definitely, we're like, well, how am I going to raise this kid? How am I going to take care of it? How

Emily Schneider:

am I going to go to the next doctor's appointment? Like, do I have insurance coverage? Like it was things like, it was like so simple and things like that. Yes.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

What, I guess, how did you get through that so well? Right. Cause it sounds like you went through it smoothly. Uh, flying, like there was no doubt. What were the struggles of that?

Emily Schneider:

Uh, okay. So I got, again, being curious. And being, and realizing that like, it would do no good for me to hold, not necessarily hold it in and like, but like to not lean on the people that I had in my bubble. Like I called people when I felt down or when my mom, you know, or when I caught myself in my mind, I use the avenues that I already had kind of established to create some healthier. I, now I can say habits, but like simple point I, um, at that point I was doing, I was part of core power yoga. And I was going. Unlimited all the time and paying for a membership. Well, I asked them if they had a trade program and I started trading my time for yoga sessions. Well, that helped save a couple hundred bucks every month. It was the little things, right? It was. I got, I started instead of being like, Oh shit, I don't work anymore. It was like, okay, well, my son's not going to go to full time daycare anymore. Guess what? Now I get a little bit more time with him as you know, and like, as a mom, you get really sentimental. So I was like, this is where we're at. I negotiated my computer. So I didn't feel that financial. So for me, it was like, it wasn't so it was mentally, but it was the financial stress that I really was trying to navigate. I got really. You know, started cooking a lot more, just cutting back and realizing these important things. But it really was kind of saying, reminding myself, it's just a season and having a team, my husband, my parents, my, you know, my sisters having and good friends who I could lean on, who I could say like, Can you go on a walk? Like you can't go to lunch. I don't really want to grab coffee. I'm pregnant, but like, can you go on a walk? Can you do something with me? So I'm not alone because when I was alone, I knew I got the thoughts. I also to be honest, my daughter's pregnancy had a couple little hiccups or scares. She's totally fine and everything was fine, but it gave me a really. Amazing perspective that like, and I think even now with where life is and there's a lot going on in the world is like, if we're healthy and we have people we love close by, like, that's really all that matters. And you can get caught up and you can, you can get all these things, but it's really about like, yeah, it's really about who you've got in your corner and, and if you're healthy and how you can create that happiness around it.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

Truly does take a team, but it's just, you know, it takes a village. It does. You have to have a team. No successful person's done it alone. So you definitely have to team. And you also, I say that our lives are integrated. I mean, meaning our, our mental or physical and our fiscal lives are very much integrated, right? My industry loves to say that. Take your emotions out of your decisions, right? Your financial decisions, make business decisions without emotions. It's physically impossible. We are humans. Everything we do is driven by emotions. It's just a matter of how those emotions drive you and how you can recognize those and make good decisions. My thing, I always say within those three avenues of our health is the fact that if one of them's off, the whole thing's off will occur. And if you're not prepared to deal with that, then you're going to miss an opportunity in life that could have took your family, your life to another level. And everyone's like, that's, you know, well, you're just lucky. No, I'm preparing. I got to prepare my body. I got to prepare my mind. I got to be fiscally prepared. But if one of those is off, I won't be prepared. When someone comes knocking, the next opportunity happens, you name it. To take my life to a different degree. And that doesn't always mean financially. It means a partnership, a relationship, you know, but if you're not there, then that's not going to happen. Therefore, you're going to say I'm unlucky and then you're going to feel alone. And it's just a backward spiral, but don't do that, right? Focus on those things you can get through.

Emily Schneider:

And going and like following up with that, I believe that part of how I've built my business and where I'm at today is because I want to be. Honest, vulnerable, true. And I listened to my emotions. I have fired, I use air quotes, but I have terminated contracts with on my own with clients and different in different businesses, because I just didn't feel like it was right. Because I know that I giving myself the space, the energy, and the time to focus on the things that matter. And guess what, when I find a client that's more aligned with my energy, with my compassion, with my empathy, The work is so much better. Like if you're not loving what you do, I just like, and I, I think your audience is like probably on the, on the path to want to love how they live their life. Don't get me wrong. I know people who their job is a job and then they have all these outside passions. You know, somebody asked me once, what's your hobby? I'm like, I don't know if I have a hobby, like I'm building this business that I'm so passionate about that, like besides being a mom, that's where a lot of my, my energy goes. And so I built my life. Around the things that matter most and showing my emotions and balancing my mental health and my wellness and having that financial security of what it should look like is critical and like anything that affects that to your point, it sucks off the wobble and like. We're not prepared. So, yes.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

No, we're not. We're not prepared. Well, you touched upon it. So, we're going to transition. Business, PowerPoints. What does all mean? Like, what do you? I can't believe

Emily Schneider:

it. I love that you just

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

vomited. Try

Emily Schneider:

heave. Try heave.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

I did. I like, I remember PowerPoints and they are the most disgusting things like I can remember making and took so much time, literally have not touched one in probably a decade. Great. Bring us there, help us understand how, one, you have a business doing it, and two, the importance of the PowerPoint in 2025.

Emily Schneider:

Okay, so, how I, like, I kind of said at the beginning, I kind of got into it because I loved, what it was, was an avenue for me to use my creative, Strategic concepting like vision. And I just said that so wrong. So maybe the better, the better way to say it is it's a, the place PowerPoint allows me to be a creative strategic thinker with limitations and boundaries. And, you know, going back to some of our, like these, these, these life lessons, like boundaries are, make us feel safe, but they give us the opportunity to push beyond that. And so PowerPoint was this. Was this bubble, but what it did and what it always was, was when I could send, set something up when I could design something, because I've got, I know I've got the design chops. And then I made somebody who this presentation was for, who was the presenter, who was the business leader. When they saw that come to life, you, I felt their energy, that smile on the end. That's how it got started. It was so fun to make. Those wins for other people. Um, and so like I kind of mentioned in 2023, my consulting business or my, my general design, I was a creative freelance general designer from 2019 to 2023, and I only worked on referrals. It was amazing. I never had, I don't even think my LinkedIn was updated that I was. Doing stuff like maybe it said I was freelance, but like I doubt it because I was embarrassed in a way or like I just didn't need to I didn't want people to know that I was looking for work. That's totally different now. But anyway, so I got curious and I realized, okay, if I want to keep doing this, I have choices. I do not want to go back to it. I don't want to work for somebody else anymore. I know I can do this. What should it look like? But more importantly, like, why don't I do the work I want to do? And I had a client who I did a lot of presentations for. They were a communications agency. I still work with them from today. They were one of the first clients I ever had when I went off on my own. And I was like, I love when I get to do these types of projects. And so I actually started having, I call them curious conversations and I called people in my network, a lot of people in the creative field. And I asked them how they were, what was inspiring them, what they were working on. And I just kind of kept getting this notion that like, it's okay to tap into something that like, Other people want to vomit about like, right. I think I used to think PowerPoint was bad for two, right? Especially as a creative, like you're in Adobe, you're not in PowerPoint. Um, but what I realized was by the end of that year and after I realized this was my zone of genius because it wasn't just that I was good at it, but it was the place that I shined so bright in my work that I took myself out of being in this box of creatives looking for jobs, trying to stand out differently being, you know, leader, creative directors or whatever. And I didn't enjoy that work as much. But when I said, all I do is PowerPoint, I now can offer my services to so many more people. And to be honest, I'm working with some really, you know, I'm working with executives and business leaders and senior leadership and C suites and venture capitalists and founders, right? The CFOs, the CMOs, the COOs, and these. These people are so brilliant and the way that they think is so different than me. And when we can collaborate, I keep learning and I keep growing. They are really good at saying, I know I have a story to tell. And they're usually, they're really good at presenting because obviously they got somewhere by sharing their story and through, but they're like, I don't know how to, I don't know how to make it look good. How do I make it look good? And when I can help somebody, they're already taking care of sounding good. When I can help them look good, their confidence soars, their trust, their credibility, their ability to move their business or create those needed decisions and investments. are huge and it's such a win. And so that's how I got here. Um, I realized the power of niching. Actually open the door for so many more things and I won't ever look back.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

All right. PowerPoint queen. How does it all work? Right. I know how PowerPoint works and I know I can build them, but it sounds to me like you take more of the strategic kind of strategic marketing brain side of the storytelling side, as opposed to like, if I word vomited it to you, this is what I need. And you just. kind of pull it. What is your process and what does it look like?

Emily Schneider:

Okay. I'm going to ask you to stop because I probably am going to never take breaks because I get so excited about it. So pause me when we meet. It starts with when my clients come to me, I say, who's your audience? What do you want them to think, feel, and know? Think, feel, and do at the end, right? You've got to start with the end in mind. It's just like goal setting. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to make all these little steps towards it and celebrate all these wins along the way? You've got to create these bookmarks or these, you know, these, these key points within this process. So They got to know that and also they got to know how it's being delivered because a keynote presentation is very different than a company update or than a, you know, a team meeting, but they're still as important of stories because you're talking to people and that's also the beauty of presentations is. They're one on one conversations. Marketing is one to many. You're sending it to a vastness. People don't know. You don't know what they're doing when they see it. And now we're so used to like seeing so much that we scroll through it and we push it to the side. But when you can have a real conversation with somebody, when you can create that authentic connection, I think that's one of our most universal truths is we all want to feel seen, heard. Right. And connected. So, um, so, so that's how I use PowerPoint. Then the next step is understanding and making sure that their narrative is set. I am not a content writer. I actually, like, I am not a content creator. I'm a really good refiner. I'm really good at refining the rules. Hence, I think why I love PowerPoint, too, because I can break a lot of rules that, you know, they might have Box me in on typically, but I'll work with the client again to set up their narrative to make sure they've got the end in mind. And then it's just like a beautiful story. I think of my daughter, she's five. She don't know how to read, but she loves reading. Why? Because the power of a well crafted story to guide you, to make you feel something, to see something, to pay attention, and then to do something at the end is so powerful. You don't need words all the time. Now. A lot of corporate presentations. Of course, you have words and you have a lot of words. That's where the beauty of design comes in. And it's understanding very simply, breaking your slides down. And I use the overall principles, simplicity, consistency, and intentionality. And what does that mean? You want one to two key points per slide. If you have more than that, Break it up to a couple of slides. It gives your audience the space to digest information and to listen to what you're saying versus reading ahead or getting lost because, because they're not paying attention because they're overwhelmed by what your visuals are. Again, your, your visuals should be the support of who you are. You're the star of the show. And so once you have that, those simple things and you have that balance, you have the space to give some visuals or give yourself space to design your visuals. It's about communication hierarchy. Headlines should be short and really hit on what that slide is about, right? It's not just a summary. It's quarter two results that led us to do this short. It's not that long, right? It's a few words, but it makes such an impact because again, as the audience member, I can follow along and if I do go on my own tangent in my brain, I can come back very quickly. It's using bolding and stylizing your bullets and italicizing things that help. Audiences stay focused. They understand what's important and what's being supported. There's also this beautiful exercise I always encourage people to do is keep cutting words until it doesn't make sense anymore. And then you add that last word back in. And that's usually your sweet spot for how much content you need on a slide. I mean, ideally, it's like six to eight lines per slide. But again, sometimes In different industries to those just aren't the norm and we're used to thinking that if we over communicate, it actually shows our credibility. But there's actually this again, this cool confidence that if you don't overshare, you actually show how good you really are at knowing this information because you're sharing the right information and they're not going to ask you the questions that because they're confused. Does that make sense? You know, um, and then with design, like, Again, I can say it's simple, but it is, it's being simple and it's being consistent. Pick a color. Use that every time you mentioned that product or that quarter and bring that through. Our brains do this amazing thing of connecting the puzzle pieces when we set it out properly. So let your audience do the work. That's not that hard for them, but when you set it up for them to succeed, they will pictures. Pictures can say a thousand words, but pictures don't just have to be pictures. They can be dated graphs. They can be illustrations. They can be little icons, color blocking, giving yourself the ability to break content up and make it digestible. It's critical to really stylizing and design your slides for impact. And then. It's the livery, but at that point, it should be a no brainer because you spent time to know your audience, you've crafted your narrative, you feel really good about it, and you have this beautiful presentation. You don't need, you've already created this trust, and this, and this simplicity of what your story can be, and you get to shine, and it's, it's awesome.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

Sounds like it takes a lot of time though. Like I remember doing PowerPoints, it takes forever.

Emily Schneider:

I'm That's what I save my clients. I will say I help my clients, right? I have my investment in client time from kickoff to final delivery is usually under three hours. Versus 20 hours of their work, right? So it's the value, like I'm giving back time, like there's no, and now they get to do the work they want to do versus like being overwhelmed and being stuck in this world of pathway that they usually don't like either.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

That's amazing. One, your speed and efficiency, but that's, that's usually the hook that the hiccup of all of it, right. Is it just takes too much time. I mean, I do that, like, even with my own client stuff, like I don't have a PowerPoint. I don't have a lot of salesy materials because. It's me like telling myself. So if I can speak to you and connect with you, that's really what matters, but people like deliverables. But every time I think about doing one of those, I'm like, I don't have the time and the time's important. So that's amazing that you shave off. Oh, hell for me, it'd feel like a year's worth, but for others, maybe just 10, 10 to 20 hours. But for me,

Emily Schneider:

Well, and then the return on investment is so much like one of my favorite case studies is I got a white paper of like word document outline of slides. I think we ended up with 17 slides at the end. It was under 3 hours of time because every time we met, we were very efficient. I don't require my clients to like write emails, crafting their feedback, like get me on a zoom call to your point. Let's talk through it. Let me show you my screen. Let's iterate together. He used it in one presentation, and he got 300, 000 investment secured. He spent 5, 000, so he not only saved his time, but the payoff and the ease of what he sold. It was in one presentation, like, you can't, you can't make that stuff up. It's awesome.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

You can't you cannot and that's flawless right there. That's just flawless. Um, I always ask I like asking this question Okay, so we've been through your story We've been through what you do every day for business and I ask my clients this and almost every guest this what was your first? money memory

Emily Schneider:

Money memory. That's an interesting one. Okay. Okay. Okay. So I used to dance all lot and down the street from my dance studio was a pharmacy and I remember my mom giving me like 1 on Saturdays to go and get it. Yeah. Snacks during our, our, our dance breaks. Cause we would be there for a few hours, but we'd always have like a little hiccup where we could go and, you know, get our sugar crush. And I just remember buying airheads and like trying to figure, you know, cause that was like, I got four airheads for a dollar. So like, that's one of my earliest memories. Yeah. That's so funny.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

When you reflect back on that memory, first of all, you can't spend a dollar anymore and get almost like any type of candy love inflation for that. When you think back about that money memory and the emotions that brought it up, how do you think that's affected or negatively or positively? Decisions through finances throughout your life.

Emily Schneider:

Yeah. I think it's about the value to your point of like what I can get and how far this is going to go. Um, you know, another early memory, I just remember a friend and we were older, but, uh, we were shopping on our own. So we were in our teens and she was like, will I wear this shirt three times? Because is it worth 10? Let's say it was 30. Is it worth 10 every time I wear it? Um, and that makes so much more sense. Now, as an adult and as a parent, money and the way I spend it, it feels so different now than when it wasn't my own. I mean, even money memories. Like, I used to hate leftovers until I had to Until I went until I left college and I was like, leftovers are great. I will, you want to send me home with food from some home cooking leftovers, even better. But yes, I will always take leftovers. How far can I make this stretch? But, but yeah, I think there's such an adventure in trying to be not frugal, but be mindful of how we spend. Yeah. And, and now as a business owner, even more so because it looks different, right? There's no, you don't have that security coming in every two weeks.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

Absolutely. It was always a fun one. It was always, I love it.

Emily Schneider:

I love it. But yeah, that's, I'm sure there's earlier memories, but that one's a good one.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

Maybe the

Emily Schneider:

broken piggy banks I used to have too, cause then I, but I don't remember the money in them. I just remember breaking them.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

Yeah, I was gonna say, I bet you just remember breaking them.

Emily Schneider:

You know what, sorry, now you're, I also remember making a cash register with my dad. Like old school, like it didn't, it was just a box with spaces that looked like cash or like, that looked like for dollars and coins and plain store. With my best friend growing up. So like money was fun then it wasn't about spending, but yeah, anyway, that's funny. I

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

do. That's awesome. All right. As we wrap it up, last question that I ask of you is what is one concept, idea, strategy, whatever you want to call it that you can provide for our listeners that will help them take that next step in their, in their journey, whether it's their life journey, wealth journey, business journey, who knows what's one thing you can leave them with.

Emily Schneider:

Stay curious and ask a lot of questions. There's no shame in asking or wanting to know why or how or who for sure. Those conversations are the best

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

day. Curious. I love that. My brain works that way too. So I'm sure we should go down a lot of avenues cause how things work and why. Um, and then I move on like that's,

Emily Schneider:

but what I think it allows you to do is be a lifelong learner. And like, isn't that the best, like, I don't ever want to be an expert. I mean, I want to be an expert at things, but like, I never want to stop learning, like getting more fine tune in the things that I'm passionate about. It's so fun. But yeah, if I throw them to the wayside, I still learn something. I'm sure it will pack me. I just don't, yeah, I don't hold onto it. I love that.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

Absolutely. Well, how can everyone reach you? Cause we always ask, we always tell everybody, Hey, like, share, subscribe, not for the algorithm. Cause we don't believe in that shit. Cause it never works for us anyway. It's more along the lines of, cause you're communicating to us and we are here to help and we want to help you as much as we can. So how can people reach out to you? How can they find you? What's the best way?

Emily Schneider:

So my website is a great place to start to learn more about my business. I am emily schneider. com, but I also am super active and love connecting and networking on LinkedIn. So if you want to, that might be a better place for your, for this audience to connect with is really just to have those conversations. And I love, I do, I know you're not into algorithms, but I just love supporting people on there. And there's so much, there's so many great, great ways to learn on that platform as well.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

There is. I just, I have a, I have a beef with algorithms lately. I keep getting the wrong things in the wrong time.

Emily Schneider:

Well, and then going back to your emotional connection to it, right? Like, am I valuing myself based on these things? So, I agree with you on that. But there's something really powerful about being connected. Yeah. And being able to support somebody and being like, I like this. This is great. Thank you for sharing.

Stoy Hall, CFP®:

More ever, too. I think that's valid, like, anywhere. Just reach out, connect with good people. So, well, we appreciate your time. We look forward to many, many more episodes and shows with you, especially when I know that I'll need you as, as a PowerPoint, maybe we just do an episode and we go through you creating a PowerPoint for me.

Emily Schneider:

Oh, that would be fun. And I probably should do that. It's kind of a oxymoron to be talking about a visual storytelling and never showing the visuals. Um, but, you know, it sounds amazing. Thank you so much, Joey.

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