Episodes
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There's a "thing" that you are good at, likely better at than anyone else in your agency, and the more you do that "thing" the more you are holding back the growth of your agency.
Your job is no longer "doing the thing" -- as the leader of your growing agency your job is to build the system in which "the thing" gets done.
If you have to do it, your growth is stalled!
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Whatâs In This Episode:
It's a wild time in our lives. Jill decides to find out what it's like for Eraina Ferguson and Dr. Charity Hughes who have unique experiences as Black mom entrepreneurs trying to continue running their businesses and manage their kids' emotional roller coaster rides all while attempting to take care of themselves.
Get Jill's tip top tool of the week, very honest revelations about allll the feelings rn (anger? exhaustion? hope?) and and ways that you can cope with the apocalypse that has hit us all.
Jill Salzman is currently growing her third entrepreneurial venture, The Founding Moms, the #1 platform for mom entrepreneurs to build better businesses. Sheâs the author of The Best Business Book In The World and the best-seller, Found It: A Field Guide for Mom Entrepreneurs. Jill gave her own TED talk on 11/11/11, was dubbed a âmommy mogulâ by CNNMoney, a âCool Mom Entrepreneur We Loveâ by MSN Live, and was recently named one of the Top 50 Women to Watch In Tech as well as a Top 100 Champion Small Business Influencer after Forbesâ named The Founding Moms one of the Top 10 Websites For Entrepreneurs. Sheâs shared the speaker stage with Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Daymond John, Marilu Henner, and Desmond Tutu and she regularly appears on ABC7âs Windy City Live TV show. In her spare time, Jill enjoys kloofing, baking, and erasing her daughtersâ crayon artwork from the kitchen walls.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Jill Salzman lets you in on a little secret. (Spoiler alert: it's the best way to grow your business, mom entrepreneurs.) She shares a surprising story never heard anywhere else about famed actor Paul Rudd that highlights why she's shouting.
Get her tip top tool of the week, her foray into TV show stardom, and the ridiculous experiment that can help you grow your business.
Jill Salzman is currently growing her third entrepreneurial venture, The Founding Moms, the #1 platform for mom entrepreneurs to build better businesses. Sheâs the author of The Best Business Book In The World and the best-seller, Found It: A Field Guide for Mom Entrepreneurs. Jill gave her own TED talk on 11/11/11, was dubbed a âmommy mogulâ by CNNMoney, a âCool Mom Entrepreneur We Loveâ by MSN Live, and was recently named one of the Top 50 Women to Watch In Tech as well as a Top 100 Champion Small Business Influencer after Forbesâ named The Founding Moms one of the Top 10 Websites For Entrepreneurs. Sheâs shared the speaker stage with Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Daymond John, Marilu Henner, and Desmond Tutu and she regularly appears on ABC7âs Windy City Live TV show. In her spare time, Jill enjoys kloofing, baking, and erasing her daughtersâ crayon artwork from the kitchen walls.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: Welcome to breaking down your business, episode 365. You can find the show notes of this episode of breakingdownyourbusiness.com/365.
Jill: It's us again. Oh my gosh, 365 episodes.
Brad: It's like a whole year. People don't spend a whole year with us.
Jill: Look at you, good at math.
Brad: I did that in my head.
Jill: Yeah.
Brad: Not even a calculator.
Jill: Unbelievable. Thank you to everybody who has stayed with us for fricking 365 episodes.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: Welcome to breaking down your business episode 364. [crosstalk 00:00:10].
Jill: Hello. It's still up.
Brad: You can find the show notes for this episode of breaking down your business.com/
Jill: I don't know, but you just said episood. I don't know.
Brad: 364.
Jill: It's like you still can't pronounce. We're 364 episodes then he's going to learn to speak English one day.
Brad: I don't know why you think that.
Jill: I don't know cause it helps with running a business.
Brad: I'm 53 years old. I am not going to learn something. [crosstalk 00:00:36] Pronunciation things.
Jill: I see, you're not going to learn words.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 363. You can find the show notes for this episode on breakingdownyourbusiness.com/363.
Brad: Hey there, Jill. Jill, you're on mute. The button on the lower left, the one that looks like a mike-
Jill: Hello.
Brad: There you go. There you go.
Jill: Hello.
Brad: There you go.
Jill: Can you hear me?
Brad: I can hear you now. Yeah.
Jill: Oh my gosh. What is going on with technolgy?
Brad: Is this the way we start every meeting now, six times a day I have this conversation.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business episode 362. [crosstalk 00:00:03] You can find [inaudible 00:00:04] of this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/362.
Jill: That was me imitating you, but it didn't work.
Brad: Hi Jill.
Jill: Hi Brad.
Brad: I'm Brad from Anchor Advisors.
Jill: I am Jill from the Founding Moms and we still managed to talk over each other even [crosstalk 00:00:26] in the same studio.
Brad: I am losing my cotton picking mind.
Jill: Well, congratulations. It was gone a long time ago, you're just finally noticing.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down your Business episode 361.
Jill: We're still here. Welcome back.
Brad: You can check the show notes of this episode on breakingdownyourbusiness.com/361.
Jill: 361, that's a lot of episodes.
Brad: I am Brad Farris from Anchor Advisors.
Jill: You are not. I'm Jill Salzman from The Founding Moms. See how I just cut you off right there? Did you like that?
Brad: Yeah. Yeah. It's good.
Jill: I'm ready for a fight today. Let's do it.
Brad: It's that banter, that back and forth.
Jill: Bant over because we talk over each other. Bant over.
Brad: Our sharp repartee.
Jill: Okay, sure. Yeah. I didn't mean to comment on the pronunciation. It's fine. Do you speak French?
Brad: No, no. Absolutely not.
Jill: Yeah, no, that was clear. That was rhetorical.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: If you're sick and tired, and every time you think about your business it makes you go aah, that is a poor indicator of your business health.
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 357.
Jill: No, no, no, no. No, no. No.
Brad: You can find the show notes to this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/357, beep, boop, bop, beep.
Jill: What's happened to you? Don't make me shout it. Nobody's going to know who we are. Oh, gross.
Brad: Jill. It's April. We're talking about numbers. So I thought that-
Jill: So, that immediately means robot voice.
Brad: Yes, exactly. Robot voice for the numbers.
Jill: Of course. Totally makes sense.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business episode [inaudible 00:00:04] and we're back. You can find the show notes for this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/359.
Jill: Yes.
Brad: I am Brad Farris from Anchor Advisors.
Jill: You're so shouty today. I'm Jill from the Founding Moms.
Brad: I'm always shouty, Jill.
Jill: Are you though?
Brad: I am.
Jill: I didn't know if it'd be different. I didn't know if it'd be different.
Brad: Today we're going to talk about how to sell during a pandemic.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business!
Jill: There he is!
Brad: Episode 358.
Jill: So exciting!
Brad: You can find the show notes of this episode of BreakingDownYourBusiness.com/358.
Jill: All the numbers correct in the numbers episode.
Brad: Yes! We're talking about numbers for the month of April.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: Welcome to episode 357 of Breaking Down Your Business.
Jill: Hello everybody.
Brad: There's Jill.
Jill: Hey. I-
Brad: I'm Brad.
Jill: ... Already miss you, Brad. I'm Jill and you're Brad.
Brad: It's true.
Jill: And it's really, really difficult to do this right now. Do you want to tell the people why?
Brad: Well, so the last couple of episodes were recorded before the coronavirus overtook the United States. And so they were recorded in the studio at the beginning of March and we wanted to rush back into the studio and do like a coronavirus update for you. But-
Jill: We couldn't.
Brad: ... that didn't work out.
Jill: It did not.
Brad: Because Jill has been struck with the coronavirus.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: I think a lot of people spend time with that sort of good fit. And they just think that's what business is, it's hard, you have to go out and scratch and claw and dig things up. And they're trying lots of things but nothing's really sticking.
Jill: Yep, yep.
Brad: And so I just don't want people to live in that territory for a long time.
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 356. You can find some of the show notes for this episode at breakindownyourbusiness.com/356.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Jill: In my industry there are a lot of assumptions and stereotypes like moms love to drink wine. I'll tell you right now, this mom does not.
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business episode 354, no, 355. It's 355.
Jill: You can't read numbers now.
Brad: No, I just can't remember numbers.
Jill: This is fun. This is a good start Brad.
Brad: If you want the show notes for this episode, go to breakingdownyourbusiness.com/355.
Jill: I can't believe he's checking his notes for two numbers. Unreal, unreal.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Jill: When you talk about online networking, it sounds like we're relieving you of actual traditional face-to-face networking, which I think there's almost nothing more important.
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 354.
Jill: You are welcome.
Brad: Welcome. You can find the show notes for this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/354.
Jill: Well you're welcome. Welcome, Brad.
Brad: Top of the morning to you, Jill.
Jill: Oh dear God, this is Brad from Anchor Advisors.
Brad: Okay, we don't need a British accent. It's St. Patrick's Day.
Jill: Oh it is?
Brad: So we need an Irish accent.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 352. You can find the show notes for this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/352.
Jill: I haven't complained about the volume in a long time.
Brad: But when you do complain and then I do it softly, you complain about that too.
Jill: Yes. Brad: So there's just no way to make you happy.
Jill: That's correct.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: I'm a big fan of podcasting.
Jill: Same.
Brad: I think podcasting is a great way to demonstrate expertise.
Jill: Agreed.
Brad: However, it is a long tail process. Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 352. You can find the show notes for this episode of breakingdownyourbusiness.com/352.
Jill: So glad [inaudible 00:00:28].
Brad: That exciting, thrilling energy field voice, that's Jill from the Founding Moms doing her Ethel impression.
Jill: I don't know why I wanted to look like this. This is Brad from Anchor Advisors. If you've never listened to the show, I don't actually sound like this.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Jill: If you want to play to my heartstrings, like every good story, like every good book or movie, I need you to move me emotionally.
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 351. You can find the show notes for this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/351.
Jill: 351.
Brad: When you go there, you might notice that we have a fresh coat of paint.
Jill: We do. New website, re-hauled, overhauled-
Brad: Nobody cares. Nobody cares.
Jill: ... over-site, over-web, website overhaul. We do.
Brad: That word salad there, that's Jill from The Founding Moms.
Jill: It is, and I believe we're listening to Brad from Anchor Advisors.
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Whatâs In This Episode:
Brad: I think a lot of people know things. There's a difference between knowing something and being able to articulate it in a way that someone else will understand.
Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business Episode 350. You can find the show notes and stuff at BreakingDownYourBusiness.com/350.
Jill: I'm so proud of you. You pronounced everything correctly. Well, then you just hit your hand on the computer.
Brad: I am my solved wacked today.
Jill: Hey, everybody!
Brad: So I am Brad from Anchor Advisors.
Jill: And I am Jill from the Founding Moms.
Brad: Are you?
Jill: Well, I'm also from the Breaking Down Your Business platform.
Brad: That's true.
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Brad Farris: When you're aiming at the center of the target, how often do you hit the center of the target?
Jill Salzman: Every single time.
Brad Farris: You do? That's amazing.
Jill Salzman: Sure, yeah.
Brad Farris: I think you lie. Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 349.
Jill Salzman: Good [inaudible 00:00:14].
Brad Farris: You can find the show notes from this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/349
Jill Salzman: You'd think I've done this before.
Brad Farris: ... slash three, four, nine.
Jill Salzman: 349 episodes. Can't ever get used to that.
Brad Farris: I just want to point something out to you, Jill, that might not have occurred to you.
Jill Salzman: Probably hasn't.
Brad Farris: No one else gets scared, because they pushed play. They know what's coming.
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