Blissful Bites Podcast

Christy Harp, turned her catering business online and grew it all over Instagram. She is going to share some valuable tips today and give you a few things that you can implement right away. Christy harp has been a chef for over 15 years and has built her business online in the form of a membership site called TLC Foodies. Christy's goal is to help women achieve their health and weight loss goals, have greater understanding of food and nutrition without the use of restrictive diets, calorie counting or the elimination of carbohydrates so that they may educate the nest generation.  My top 3 tips to grow your instagram: 1. Do not use the big hashtags. Let's say you are a fitness coach and you see everyone using fitfam so you use that.  I want you to do is search fitfam and then scroll down the list and use the things that don't have millions of tags. Why? Because your gonna stay in that tag longer and people are going to find you.  2. Colors. It's all about colors.  3. Consistency. You need to be posting twice a

Denise Pomaski from the Granilla Bar has been cooking for most of her life! For the past 3 years, she has been working on exciting new Paleo recipes that infuse recipes from her Itailian heritage with the Paleo lifestyle! As well as being what we like to call our at home "Paleo chef", Denise is a CrossFit athlete, as well as, Crossfit Level 1 certified and a certified Crossfit kids Coach. Denise was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. However, she currently lives in Houston, Texas with her four children, loving husband, Kevin and her two Mastiffs Izzy and Odin. What is your biggest flop/disappointment? Not being able to move forward due to lack of finances. The inability to just access money is probably been my biggest struggle.Whole Foods approached me a year ago and they wanted me in their store which was fabulous news. But we couldn't do it because of our packaging.  We're still waiting to do it because I need to change my wrappers so that they're heat sealed. This takes a lot of money that I just don't h

Back to talking about focus. I've been going on a bit of a tear about things that are really important to me and I hope they're inspiring you. So far we're talked about the power of no, priorities, stress...and today is more about focus. Focus is something that I'm really working on because in order to work better and be more successful, I need to improve my focus. If focus is something you need to work on then I have a few thing for you to try! Stop with Shiny Object Syndrome As entrepreneurs, I think a lot of us have shiny object syndrome. We are always looking for the next best thing. We're always kind of popping around from thing to thing and multi-tasking and doing a million things. My goal for myself and for you is to really get away from that. We need to stop the multi-tasking honestly, I want you to think about where do you need to focus. We need to stop being all over the place and we need to focus on one thing at a time. If you feel like you are doing so many things and you keep adding things in and

Danielle Liss, Esq. is a partner and founder of Businessese. She is also the owner of Hashtag Legal, a law firm that focuses on social media law. Danielle is also the former Chief Marketing Officer of FitFluential, an influencer network concentrating on health and wellness initiatives. She's been blogging since 2004 at Kitten a Go-Go. Danielle lives in Las Vegas. Danielle and her partner started Businessese with one goal in mind, to make it easier for you to run your small business. Danielle is an attorney and experience business leader who has a lot of experience from running small businesses. Today we are going to talk to Danielle all about her specialty dealing with the fine print of business.When we go to Businessese, what are we gonna find? Right now it's very focused on bloggers and social media influencers but we'll be expanding in the very near future. We will also be offering different types of consulting services, for example, how to price services. Our goal is to offer different types of legal temp

Nicole Chaszar founded Splendid Spoon to take the hard work out of eating well.  Like many women today, she is driven by living a full life, and she felt exasperated by all the conflicting messages in the wellness industry.  Diet programs were confusing, cooking every meal was time consuming and ready-to-eat ‘health’ foods were highly processed.  Splendid Spoon creates simple, plant-based plans and mindfulness exercises that are amazingly effective at establishing healthy eating habits.  Splendid Spoon is committed to making women's wellness goals a reality through the science of soup, the power of plants, and the art of mindfulness.  Nicole is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, a former media executive at Conde Nast's WIRED and The New Yorker, and the author of the upcoming Soup Cleanse Cookbook, due August 2016.  She lives with her family in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. How did you get started with Splendid Spoon? When I was pregnant with my first son in 2013, it was kind of a wake up call of like: ‘Oh m

Does it go back to you taking on too many things? We've been talking about the Power of saying No and figuring out your priorities on some of the other Fast Friday episodes, so it's all kind of in alignment. Are you saying no to enough things? And do you have your priorities figured out? When we take on too many things it leads to a lot of stress and stress has some serious ramifications. Stress can cause headaches, stomach aches to major illnesses. It ages you, it can cause insomnia, it can increase blood pressure and more. I encourage you to figure out what is causing you stress and how to reduce it. One thing that causes you stress is multi-tasking. I used to take pride in the fact I am serial multi-tasker until a few months ago I didn't realize how bad it was to actually multi-task. Multi-tasking alone causes stress because your brain is constantly scanning when you're multi-tasking. If you have your phone out and you have a million tabs open on your computer and you have your iPad and you have so many th

Heather Blackmon is an endurance coach and marketing consultant with over 14 years of experience in the digital space. Her goal is to help everyday athletes reach their goals in running and triathlon, while giving them the energy and confidence to fully live life. She offers a 30 Day Marketing Academy to help endurance coaches learn the marketing strategies and tactics to grow their businesses – helping to impact the lives of even more athletes. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT A LEAD MAGNET IS AND WHY YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED ONE? A lead magnet is basically something that you’re bartering for or giving to that person visiting your website in exchange for their email address. Now you can follow up with them in the future.  Technically, it’s something of value that someone else is going to want to get from you and those can take a million different shapes and forms. Most commonly it’s a PDF download that you are offering or a video series, something that is available for someone to get instantly online. It answers a basic need

Lindsay Cotter is a gluten free guru over at CotterCrunch.com she's a fitness professional and nutrition specialist for gluten free eating. Her goal is to fuel you with easy gluten free recipes nutrition tips and lots of no bake healthy bite recipes. She does her best to share proper health tips and tricks to keep your life in balance! Tips for someone who is starting out or someone who wants to make the transition towards working with brands and getting sponsorships: Companies like to approach you, but they want you to approach them as well and say 'hey! this is what I have to offer, this is what I think is going to be great. I mean I have a huge following but my reach is really high, I have an authentic voice and I will do my best and whether that'll be sponsored content or if you want to do it for free that's totally up to you but there's usually a budget and usually there's a way to work together but it's just all making that connection so I just say reach out. Keep reaching out and being kind to each oth

Do you believe in balance? Are you living the life you want to live? Figure out your priorities and make sure you are HAPPY.  Cheatsheet to figure out your priorities and balance your life here.  Connect with me on Twitter and Instagram!  Read more at nicoleculverblog.com  Leave Blissful Bites a Rating and Review and enter our podcast giveaway! Sign up for the 7 Day Dare Get 20% off your Blissful Eats order with code PODCAST at checkout! Click to view: show page on Awesound

Amanda is a digital marketing consultant, mom of two, and personal trainer. Amanda has spent over 10 years helping women get fit and healthy and now she enjoys the privilege of helping female entrepreneurs in the wellness industry generate significant income with the purpose of recirculating wealth back out to their family, church, and community. Amanda uses her expertise in digital marketing and passion for wellness to empower female entrepreneurs to succeed with their small business. Can you explain why having a unique purpose is so important? As entrepreneurs we will inevitably hit up against challenges and hurdles, and if we have a purpose statement it really helps us to push past those challenges and hurdles. It also helps other people understand why they should invest in our business. What is one or two action items to help us figure out our unique purpose? This is definitely not something that will come immediately. If the listeners sit down immediately today for an hour and think, ‘Gosh! I need to lan

Erika Welsh is the co-founder of Wild Friends Foods, an all-natural foods company that makes both flavored and plain nut & seed butters.  She started this company serendipitously back in 2011 when she and her college roommate were munching on peanut butter and celery and ran out of peanut butter!  Instead of going to the store to buy more, they pulled out their food processor and a bag of peanuts they just so happened to have in their pantry.  Once the food processor was running, they started combining all sorts of ingredients into the peanut butter and came up with many flavors that they immediately put in jars with a label and gave away to all of their friends! What was intended to be an afternoon project quickly snowballed into a business and the girls never looked back!  They left school to pursue their dreams of everyone having the opportunity to try Wild Friends! In 2012, Erika and Keeley appeared on Shark Tank which helped them gain tons of national exposure and has helped them go from farmer's mar

Fast Friday: What is the perfect idea or business? Don’t let the idea of perfectionism get in the way of starting your business. What can you do instead of waiting for the perfect idea or business?  1. Make sure your idea and business aligns with the life you want to live!  2. Make sure you have a strong why. 3. Write down your idea and talk about it with people. Tell everyone. You'll get feedback and refine your idea. You'll also build momentum. 4. Read Pat Flynn's book, Will it Fly? Links to mentions in podcast:  Will it Fly by Pat Flynn Build Your Tribe Podcast by Chalene Johnson Read more at nicoleculverblog.com  Leave Blissful Bites a Rating and Review and enter our podcast giveaway! Get 20% off your Blissful Eats order with code PODCAST at checkout! Click to view: show page on Awesound

Katy Widrickis a multimedia producer and social media manager.She blogs all about technology, health, fitness, parenting and current events atkatywidrick.com. She’s a certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor  and she also shares tips and tricks for staying healthy in a hectic world. Katy also offers brand building and increasing blog traffic at makemediaover.com and is a syndicate living blogger for the Huffington post and fix.com. She lives in Petersburg, Florida with her husband and two beautiful daughters.  What is the most under utilized tool that entrepreneurs need to be using? Search engine optimization. What can you do to your website or products to make them stand out in google? How can Click to view: show page on Awesound

Lee Hersh is the blogger and business women behind Fit Foodie Finds. She is a healthy recipe creator, food photographer, risk-taker from Minnesota. She co-runs the Blogger Project which is dedicated to bloggers learning more about the ever changing industry. Lee has transformed her website from just a recipe blog to an entire wellness brand. She is always having fun creating the next best recipe, showing her infectious personality on snapchat and she makes getting a good sweat in fun! Where do you see yourself and your business in 5 years? I wish I could predict the future because I have no idea what the internet is going to look like.  If I was doing exactly what I'm doing today in 5 years, I would be very happy.  I want to have kids, I want to raise them, I want to be at home with them and I also want to make 6 figures at the same time. Now, I like to take on a lot of projects so I could see myself kind of dipping my hands into some other businesses, not starting them but kind of joining a team of a busines

Do you say no enough? Things that work for us as a family: I say no a lot. If it doesn’t fit my priorities or serve my family in a positive way, I say no most of the time. For us, that has meant work travel. For this season of our life, our girls are young and we have chose to stay close to home for this time and work our business in a different way. We aren’t at every huge expo with Blissful Eats and that’s okay for us. It’s working. I set my non-negotiables. Early wake up. Exercise. Shower. Picking out girls clothes.  Morning family time. Bed time (with girls). These things are what I HAVE to do every day or week. We spend 30 minutes all together in the morning before I go down and do work. Work AWAY from the family: It’s SO easy and tempting to do work in the living room. I can hang with everyone and do work…right? NO. It doesn’t work. I need to be away and focused. When I’m focused I can do 5x as much. Stop with the distractions. Turn your phone off. Close all your tabs in your browser. Stop being a peopl

Lindsey is a mom to 2 boys and enjoys traveling the world with her family. As a photographer and social media junkie, Lindsey works with female entrepreneurs to fine tune their online presence and build brand confidence. She works with women to show you that you should have confidence in your brand and know that you should not spend thousands on perfecting your image. Lindsey has been able to really help female entrepreneurs fine tune their online presence and build brand confidence on and offline. Social media is a visually captivating platform that you really have to have eye for graphic and design as well as the social aspect of it. The things that you should definitely be working on is being consistent across all areas of business whether that’s your specific website, connecting with your network or just creating posts seen by the masses. What are the 3 things that they can do other than posting photos of their product?  Give a testimonial of the few previous clients that you had.Share your story and why

Jessica Merchant is a full-time recipe developer, content creator and blogger. She has been writing the food blog, How Sweet Eats, since 2009, when she finally discovered a way to mesh her passion for building recipes with one of her other favorite things: writing. She is madly, outrageously, inexplicably in love with food. In 2014, she released her first cookbook, the best-selling Seriously Delish. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pa with her husband Eddie and son, Max. In her spare time, she loves reading, writing fiction and practicing yoga. And margaritas. Obviously. Jessica is a completely self-taught photographer and recipe developer, has a true way with words, and shares herself through recipes, daily musings and, of course, on Snapchat. Jessica loves neon colors, lip gloss, bacon and most importantly is a mom and wife. Read more at nicoleculverblog.com  Leave Blissful Bites a Rating and Review! Click to view: show page on Awesound

When I started Blissful Eats I was always researching, reading and looking for stories of how entrepreneurs got their start. This podcast is it for you. You’ll hear entrepreneurs share their successes, struggles, lessons learned. I have no doubt you’ll walk away inspired and with something to go do! My goal is to share information, ideas, and just be transparent. I want this to be a place for you to hear stories, inspiration and navigate the craziness of the food industry. After reflecting on launch week, I realized that all the women I interviewed had a lot in common. The common threads I found were: GenuineTransparentHonest – seriously, it doesn’t get more honest than sharing the struggles of your journey!the want to share their journey and help othersA Strong WHY All of these things are SO important because it shows there not in it just for themselves or to just make a buck. All of the women want to share their journey to help others…and they’re so much more than just their product! They want to really hel

Jenna Wolfe is a TV journalist and Lifestyle and Fitness expert.  She's been sharing her passion for fitness (and fun) with America for the last 20 years, most recently at NBC’s Today Show, where she was the first ever Lifestyle and Fitness correspondent.  Jenna was a sportscaster from 1996-2007 and saw firsthand how treating and training your body can lead to dynamic results on a playing field. As a certified personal trainer, she's now focused on taking that passion and knowledge and sharing it with you. As a mother of two little girls, she knows the burdens of baby weight, of making the most of the precious time we all have and of the struggles with eating well on a daily basis. Read more at nicoleculverblog.com  Leave Blissful Bites a Rating and Review! Click to view: show page on Awesound

Nikki’s the owner of Nikki’s Coconut Butter and she is a self-described workaholic and loves a good challenge. She is the co-founder of Nikki’s Coconut Butter with her husband Andrew together they enjoy coming up with new and innovative ways to grow their business, develop new flavors and creating a business they truly love. Read more at nicoleculverblog.com Leave Blissful Bites a Rating and Review! Click to view: show page on Awesound