Purposeful Pivoting with Kelly & Abigail White – The Mother Daughter Journey
In this week’s episode we are thrilled to invite Kelly and Abigail White from The Mother Daughter Journey to our podcast.
Kelly and Abigail are a mother/daughter team that started as partners running a travel business. They recently pivoted to The Mother Daughter Journey – a podcast and communications program that helps mothers and daughters strengthen bonds and work through communication issues.
This mother and daughter share their story of their pivot from working in corporate America at separate jobs, to opening their own travel agency. From there they once again pivot to The Mother Daughter Journey podcast where they share their journey to a better mother-daughter relationship. Krystal discusses all of this with them and also their desire to help others achieve a better mother-daughter relationship.
One of our biggest takeaways was how to listen to your inner voice that starts to tell you “this is no longer working” and then be brave enough to do something about it.
Working as a mother daughter team is not easy, but they have found that their story has changed the way they view the importance of the mother/daughter relationship. And they hope that their story invites others to do the same.
You can listen to their podcast, The Mother Daughter Journey on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
You can listen to this episode on all the same channels. Enjoy!
For this weeks conversation in our purposeful pivoting series, Wendy Guth speaks with Laura Ritter of Ritter Farm in Sykesville, Maryland. Wendy and Laura discuss Laura’s pivot from school teacher to co-founder, along with her husband, of Ritter Farm, LLC. Ever wonder what it’s like to manage four children and a working farm? Don’t forget to throw in managing all of this during a pandemic. Join us and find out a little bit more about Laura and her pivot journey.
Purposeful Pivoting with Laura Ritter of Ritter Farm
Laura turned her interests in sustainable farming into a a reality when she went from school teacher to stay at home mom to now CEO of Ritter Family Farms in Howard County, Maryland.
Honey, we bought a farm!
Remember that movie? Honey, we bought a farm?
Well, sustainable farmer Laura Ritter did just that with the assistance of her family-run farm in the middle of Howard County, Maryland. Former public school teacher Laura turned sustainable farmer has sat down to discuss how in times of necessity, we do what we have to do.
This week’s episode is about putting yourself first and prioritizing the rest. Laura Ritter of the Ritter Family Farm talks to Wendy about her most important hat – the “me” hat and why prioritizing and having a clear purpose in what you are trying to accomplish in your life.
So we pose these questions for you – what hats do you wear? Are you living a purposeful life?
The 5 hats that Laura wears
When you are an entrepreneur you wear many hats. The 5 hats that Laura wears are:
Me
Mom
Wife
Business Partner
World Citizen
Let’s talk about the “Me” Hat
What is the “me” hat? It’s remembering who you are. Specifically remembering who you are when it is just YOU.
As a female. As a mom. As an entrepreneur. We can’t think of anything more important to remember!
Purposeful Pivoting with Jen Pasquale of Pride & Grit
Purposeful Pivoting with Jen Pasquale of Pride & Grit
Strengths Coach. Consultant. Military Spouse. Mom of Teens. Champion for Military Connected Entrepreneurs.
And that’s just a few of Jen’s diverse hats that she wears on a regular basis (as if that’s not enough!).
Jen is a self-professed accidental entrepreneur. She created Pride & Grit originally as a blog so that she could tell the stories of seasoned military spouses to give them a voice to share the wisdom and struggles of military life. Later she returned to her consulting roots working with spouses, corporations, and teens to help individuals lean into strengths to be more successful in their world.
About Jennifer Pasquale
Jen is a 16-year active duty military spouse, certified strengths coach, and the founder of Pride & Grit – a Transition Support Organization for Military Spouses. Jen is passionate about helping seasoned military spouses rediscover their identity, embrace their unique strengths, and thrive in their final season as a military family. She’s also the owner of Jen Pasquale Consulting, where she offers strengths coaching and team development workshops to small and large organizations.
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Is there that one thing that you have always wanted to do but are afraid to take the leap?
Did you know that you can learn from and transform your life just by conquering your fears?
Our guest Kristine Goad, owner of Surfing Your Edge Coaching, was just like (what we’re guessing) is you. She started her coaching business on a leap of faith and to conquer a fear.
In today’s episode, Kristine and Wendy talk about women who have that one thing that they want to do but shelve it because they were afraid or didn’t know where to start or just did not have the time.
For so many of us, we may not even realize it was a fear holding us back… it seems more like a distraction from something else important to us, so it’s easily justifiable, right?
As we chat about conquering fears, learning from mistakes and how perfection is not normal, think about what is the one thing that you would love to do but haven’t for one reason or another.
Spoiler alert: Wendy’s is surfing.
But we’d love to know, did something pop into your mind about this? Hit reply and let us know what it is.
About Kristine
Kristine Goad is the Surfing Your Edge Coach. She helps women over 40 break out of their “reality-sized” version of themselves so they can live the bigger, bolder, more badass life they know they were born for.
She’s also the author of the memoir Your Mileage May Vary, and the creator of the Surfing Your Edge Experience and Bigger, Bolder, Badass, a 6-month adventure to help you fall in love with life and be the you you were always meant to be.
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Let’s have a rhetorical raising of hands for if you got starry eyed when starting your entrepreneurial journey – imagining how quickly and easily you’d have success? Even if you flinched and raised a pinky just now, know you are not alone! One of the most irritating beliefs we’ve run into as entrepreneurs that is ever-present even today, is the idea that you can become an overnight success… and the dark flip side, you’re a failure if you don’t achieve this. In this week’s candid interview on the Serendipitous Rebel Podcast, we talk with Tammy Pereira, Facebook Ads expert and CEO of Tammy P about this notion of overnight success and how she took her corporate skills and turned it into a business that is ever changing.
One conundrum Tammy often faces is how to define success in her own business and life, when her whole job is defining success in tangible, black and white measurable ways such as Facebook ads. Listen hear to our discussion around:
How she felt like a foreigner in another land when it came to the online space
How success is not instant but a journey that evolves
How her life shifts (pivots) to meet the next steps in her journey
Spidey sense… a tingly feeling… that inner knowing…
How much do you rely on intuition in your life?
For example, have you ever lost your keys and simply asked out loud for assistance in finding them… And then actually found them?
This week’s guest on the Serendipitous Rebel podcast is empathetic and intuitive Irena Miller, an energy alchemist, who joins us on this episode to tell us how she used inklings and her intuition to pivot from her brick and mortar business to the online space.
In this episode, Irena offers a unique, down to earth perspective to the sacred arts that unlock the mysteries and hunches of the unexplainable. We dive deep into how to use your gut to discover your limitless potential and how to step into the life you were born to live.
Listen in on this candid conversation on how Irena
Has been guiding curious seekers and visionary empaths on how to take rewarding action on their gut instincts
Shines the light on blocked energy that can show up as physical pain, limiting beliefs, self sabotaging behaviors and glass ceilings
This is an episode that you are going to want to sit, listen, and reflect on.
The truth is, we could all lean into our intuition a bit more.
Let us know where you fall on trusting your gut on making decisions.
About Irena
Irena Miller has been an empathic intuitive since birth. Over the last 2 decades as an Energy Alchemist and Spiritual Life Guide, she has been guiding curious seekers and visionary empaths on how to take rewarding action on their gut instincts. She shines the light on blocked energy that can show up as physical pain, limiting beliefs, self-sabotaging behaviors, and glass ceilings. With her logical background as a Decision Science major and her intuitive side as a Reiki Master, Astrologer, Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Teacher, Tarot Reader, and Energy Healer she offers a unique down to earth perspective to learn the sacred arts that unlock the mysteries, hunches, and unexplainable. As a speaker, she offers done-for-you energy healing and trainings at conferences, on-demand courses, and virtual gatherings. With her guidance discover your limitless potential and step into the life you were born to live! Continue the conversation with Irena https://www.irenamiller.com and grab her FREE Gift to YOU http://www.irenamiller.co/getcalm
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She’s a mom, a wife, an entrepreneur, a house manager, a worship leader. I could also add having known Mallory for a number of years right now, an amazing marketing strategist. She currently runs her own marketing agency, Mallory Schlabach formerly known as Girl Boss and is the host of the Marketing Magic Podcast
We are so excited to welcome Mallory Schlabach for our first interview for Purposeful Pivoting.
After working as a journalist for a newspaper after college, it became apparent very quickly that this was not the space for her. Mallory got started in the online space as a coach for moms. After many signs from the universe she began to lean into her marketing degree and started to help other female entrepreneurs learn to love their marketing strategies again.
Q: How did you get started in the online world?
I started out as a journalist in college, and I worked at a newspaper. And I quickly decided that was not for me. So I pitched myself to my dad, who was also an entrepreneur straight out of college and said, “Hey, here’s my resume. Here’s a job opening for a position you do not have that I’m creating, can you hire me?” and he did.
He took a chance on me a long time ago to basically learn the ropes of his business, do all the marketing and grow with it the past 15 years. So really, He sort of introduced me to Jeff Walker Product Launch Formula, Ryan Levesque of the Ask method Shailene Johnson. We started to go into all of their workshops and events and joining their masterminds together. Because we were trying to figure out what was our side thing going to be, we both wanted to do something I had no idea it was possible, he gave me this bug.
I actually started out in the space as like a mom coach, and I was called the happy mama coaching. My thing was, I was going to coach women who were moms who were just overwhelmed with their life. When I started this, my four kids were 1, 3, 5, & 6,- they were all they’re all very close together. And everyone asked me like, why do you do it? How are you so calm and how you did it, us.
I got certified as a life and business coach through IFC, and I was like, I’m gonna coach Moms, I’m gonna save the world. It’s gonna be amazing.
Except for I found the first year, nobody wanted help. They just wanted to bitch and moan about their life, which I get. And I was like, this is not working. I had to save the world. But what I was getting traction on was people would be like, “Hey, can you like, read this copy?”
I’m like, this is not gonna save the world. And so finally, my husband was like, you should maybe just do the thing you’re really good at because it will still help people. And I’m like, it’s not. It’s not worthy. I was like, Fine. I will just put out this thing in a Facebook group. I’ll say I’m doing a free marketing strategy session. Just see what happens. And overnight, I got 54 people applied. I did them all in the span of two weeks. And I was like, dang, I think I have something. And so that’s where the start of me doing an online marketing business happened, was realizing I could step into my strengths, and I could build change the world just wasn’t the same way I envisioned it. And that’s kind of where my online journey has begun.
Q: And was it an instant success or success? In your initial online venture?
Oh, Lord, no, no. And actually, it’s kind of funny, because I would tell you, I was at a retreat this past weekend in Miami with all these really successful business owners. And personally, we’ve had one of our highest grossing months, this month, I spent the weekend in tears still, you know, just, you know, there was just so much emotion. And even though we’ve had our best month, I just felt like a failure still, like today. So even so I think like success I’m learning. It always feels like it’s moving. And so I have to stop chasing success and what success looks like because it’s always a bar that moves.
Q: Were you scared? Every 30 days? Are you scared when you you’ve made pivots?
Yeah. Oh, absolutely. And I always try to be very honest with my team, but also like, not scare them. I have one person on my team who I talk a lot to, and I’m like, “You’re my therapist. today. I just want you to know, this is where I’m really feeling.”
I tried to be really honest about “Hey, guys, we’re going to do this because this happened.” And I don’t ever think it’s a freakout thing. I don’t take you know – clients coming and going and crazy things happening – I don’t think it’s a bad thing. Like I might have emotions freaks out, but we’re gonna get through this together. And so I think for me, I’m always scared. But I tried to be really, really brave about the decisions I’m making. Despite the scariness.
You can listen to more of this amazing interview with Mallory on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts or wherever you get your pod on!
About Mallory:
Mallory Schlabach is a marketing strategist with over 15 years of experience guiding six and seven-figure businesses. She’s the CEO of The GirlBoss Agency, her creative digital marketing agency for female entrepreneurs that helps them say goodbye to soul-sucking, boring marketing forever.
Whether she’s helping clients explode their visibility on social media, crafting marketing messaging so compelling clients are throwing money at you, or turning boring websites into lead generating machines, Mallory makes marketing easy, fun and magical for every single person.
She’s the proud mama of 4 humans under the age of 13, two dogs, a guinea pig, and an assortment of fish. She will request tacos as her last meal (and every Tuesday of course) and you’ll find her at 90 years old still wearing hot pink lipstick, heels and hoarding books.
This week is a continuation of last weeks episode. If you haven’t listened yet, we encourage you to go back and check out Part 1.
What does it take to show up in your business every day?
In our opinion: confidence.
Often it takes just a small initial push to get started. We want the flexible laptop lifestyle, and everyone likes to make this look easy.
The fact is that the process is simple, but it is definitely not easy. You need a certain amount of confidence to get moving. And as you keep going on your entrepreneurial journey, you will build confidence along the way.
But if you are solid in your purpose and you know why you are doing this and why you are showing up in your business, then you’ll be able to show up with even more confidence.
As we continue with the discussion on purposeful pivoting we touch on “what is our personal purpose?” This is not the same thing as your entrepreneurial purpose. It is a hard truth as to why you are here in this space, the online space.
Is it to make a change?
Is it for money?
Is it for your family?
We, as lifestyle entrepreneurs, want to have a certain standard of living and want to be able to do certain things and have certain goals. They are driven by wanting to feel like we are accomplishing things, that we are making contributions to our family and to our world.
In this episode we are talking about how we are leveraging our own strengths and gifts, because we don’t want to work 60 hour weeks, and we don’t necessarily want to run an empire of seven figures.
So we thought that we would ask, why are you doing this? What is making you show up everyday?
In this weeks episode Krystal and Wendy are taking you behind the scenes on their most recent pivot inside Serendipitous Rebel.
As we continue with the discussion on purposeful pivoting we touch on “what is our personal purpose?” This is not the same thing as your entrepreneurial purpose. It is a hard truth as to why you are here in this space, the online space.
Is it to make a change?
Is it for money?
Is it for your family?
We, as lifestyle entrepreneurs, want to have a certain standard of living and want to be able to do certain things and have certain goals. They are driven by wanting to feel like we are accomplishing things, that we are making contributions to our family and to our world.
In this episode we are talking about how we are leveraging our own strengths and gifts, because we don’t want to work 60 hour weeks, and we don’t necessarily want to run an empire of seven figures.
So we thought that we would ask, why are you doing this? What is making you show up everyday?
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