Why Are We Shouting? with Jill Salzman
Business & Economics Podcasts
Jill Salzman wants no part of the traditional business landscape. Also, she can't stop shouting, especially when it comes to biz advice. Why Are We Shouting? tackles the A's to every mom entrepreneur's Q's when it comes to running a company and lets you in on the stories along the way. Jill ponders the big questions of our day: "How can I grow my business without losing my mind?" "Why can't my kids stop whining when I'm on an important call?" "How long will it take before Stephen Colbert's team invites Jill to be a guest?" Jill's an award-winning entrepreneur, author, global speaker, and gum junkie who's been building businesses for over a decade. She currently runs The Founding Moms, the #1 platform for mom entrepreneurs to build better businesses. Over the years, she's tried a million trillion quadrillion different things to grow her companies and wants to save you some time and a few headaches. Above all else, she's certain of one thing: she never knows what she's doing. If yo...
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What's In This Episode: How do you address people when you contact them? If you're still writing emails that start with "hi there!" and you're still making phone calls that begin "heyyyyy…how are you?" then I'm gonna argue that you're missing the boat. This week, we're gonna up your name game. It's time to start paying attention to the little things in your business that make a BIG difference to an awful lot of people. Folks mentioned in this episode * Regina Carey and her podcast, Hear...
What's In This Episode: How do you address people when you contact them? If you're still writing emails that start with "hi there!" and you're still making phone calls that begin "heyyyyy…how are you?" then I'm gonna argue that you're missing the boat. This week, we're gonna up your name game. It's time to start paying attention to the little things in your business that make a BIG difference to an awful lot of people. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the...
Frank's Pedigree Problem
What's In This Episode: If someone told you that you didn't have to work so hard to run your business, would you listen to them? It's time to re-examine how much effort you're pouring into your day-to-day and WHERE you're focusing your energy. Guest star Frank Agin will walk you through his big business blunder, which may very likely be one that you're still making right this minute. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
The Screen Scene
What's In This Episode: Do you spend a lot of time on your phone or your laptop when you're around your kids? We've all heard about the parents that throw their phones away when their kids need their attention. But it's not realistic. How can you get work done and continue to maintain a gorgeous relationship with your kids? Where there's a will, there's a way. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations...
The Ugandan Page Turner
What's In This Episode: How slowly or quickly do you get things done? Everyone works at a different pace. Some folks prefer to take their sweet time. Others speed through their work days without looking back. Jill's speed-of-lightening pace has gotten her into terrible awful no good very bad blunders, one of which left her stranded in the middle of Uganda. Let her blunder be a lesson to you. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable....
Josh's Business Card Blunder
What's In This Episode: Do you throw the kitchen sink at potential customers and clients when you're trying to make a sale? It's time to meet Josh Hall, web designer and founder of In Transit Studios, who once wanted you to know eeeeeeeverything there was to know about him. But why was that his big business blunder? Josh'll tell you all about it. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations and breaking the...
The Sponsorship Slip
What's In This Episode: Remember slipping up on that pitch you sent to that sponsor that one time? Let Jill help you out of the messes that you might make in the future when pitching to sponsors — and if you haven't ever pitched a sponsor for your business yet, may this episode be the driving force that gets you going and creates a whole new stream of revenue for you. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying...
The Weight Watchers Weakness
What's In This Episode: What do Weight Watchers, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Peloton have in common? To answer that question, Jill wants to introduce you to a few of her friends that are WAY into their hobbies for one very specific reason. It's a reason that might be the same for you and how you do what you do, too. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations and breaking the rules, she succeeds in inspiring...
The Vacation Oversight
What's In This Episode: Do you have too much work to do? Too busy to plan a vacation or even a staycation? Too complicated to coordinate days off or to figure it out with your kids' crazy schedules? Excuses, excuses. It's time to stop overlooking the best remedy for all your work woes. We're not built to work and worry 24/7, so why not finally do something about it? Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying...
Naa Ardua's Bungled Backup Plan
What's In This Episode: Why is it that we entrepreneurs often walk on the sunny side of the street? Is it because we're risk takers? Optimistic? Persistent people who get carried away? Meet employee-turned-entrepreneur Naa Ardua Flohic, founder of Paper Flo Designs, who got herself into a big business back-up plan blunder. She'll remind you why it pays to listen to advice of the experienced and why having a fallback is always a good idea. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration...
The Writer's Blockade
What's In This Episode: When you're running a business, you have to consider a LOT of words. It's tedious, it's exhausting, and you could argue that writing for business is its own form of insanity. But when you take Stephen King's advice to heart and blend it with decades of experience writing newsletters, marketing materials, articles, emails, and blog posts, there's a way to figure out what works for you. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into...
The Meetup Surprise
What's In This Episode: Wanna know just how interconnected the world really is? Find out what dentists and Meetup.com have in common, why it's important to tell your hairdresser what you do for a living, and how your business problems don't have to be solved by your lonesome. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations and breaking the rules, she succeeds in inspiring entrepreneurs to figure out what works...
The Negotiating Puzzle
What's In This Episode: Haggling. Bargaining. Hammering out a deal. Negotiating is an age-old practice that goes back to the before times – and then before that – because we are human and communicating is what we do best. So how come we're slow to realize that negotiation is always an option? Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations and breaking the rules, she succeeds in inspiring entrepreneurs to...
The Messaging
What's In This Episode: Messaging is tough. You can certainly overdo it. You don't wanna underwhelm, either. How do we walk that fine line somewhere between the two and give people the confidence they need to buy what we have to sell? Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations and breaking the rules, she succeeds in inspiring entrepreneurs to figure out what works for them by using meaningful action to...
The Ourself Champion
What's In This Episode: Are you a word nerd? Whether you like it or not, you need to arrange and rearrange words in a particular order to convey what you sell. You use spelling and grammar all over social media, your website, and in your emails on the daily. So what happens when you hire a contractor to write things on your behalf and she makes mistakes that you couldn't even have anticipated?! Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the...
The Movers & Shakers Dilemma
What's In This Episode: When you make changes to your business and ask your customers or clients to come with you, how smoothly do things usually go? Nobody likes change. Founders fight it regularly. So do their customers. But the next time you wanna placate to your people, is there a way you might be able to introduce the changes you'd like to make by enticing them in an enjoyable way to make the shift along with you? Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the...
The Firing Flip
What's In This Episode: How much of your ego is attached to the moment that a client fires you? We can all learn a little something from the folks that fire us. Let's pay more attention to the next time someone lets us go, shall we? In that act, they're offering important information to us so that we can improve the way we do business. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations and breaking the rules, she...
The Restroom Incident
What's In This Episode: Have you ever hired someone who came highly recommended to you by someone you deeply trust? What happened next? There was that one time Jill hired a really great website developer and, well, you can guess how this one went. (Spoiler alert: it wasn't good.) Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations and breaking the rules, she succeeds in inspiring entrepreneurs to figure out what...
The Terrorizing Talk
What's In This Episode: Remember that time that you showed up for work and scared half the people in the room? Let's explore all the gory details of Jill's most recent public speaking engagement and how she royally screwed it right up by saying all the wrong things…so that you don't have to. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations and breaking the rules, she succeeds in inspiring entrepreneurs to...
Liz's Real Estate Debacle
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