IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS* Welcome to the fourth episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! In today's epsidode, I'm interviewing Indie Author and fellow Texan, Adrian R. Hale! Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL* This episode is marked explicit. Nothing crazy, just don't want little ears to be around! Keeping it real around here!* Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew!* Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&amp;A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram* Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here.* Oh and I say the word "cool" a lot in this episode. ;)TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE* National Novel Writing Month* Making Sacrifices* Fake it till you Make It* Find Facebook Groups that you can join...find people that you can trust* Opportunities* Keeping Creative Juices Flowing* Intentional Homework* Practice Your Craft* Writing Things Down and Dreams* "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great." Jimmy Dugan from A League of Their OwnTAYLOR SAID"I do have to look at all of the opportunities that are coming my way and if I can&rsquo;t legitimately say that this is a &lsquo;hell yes&rsquo; kind of opportunity, I have to say no." Taylor Bradford "You have to have information and inspiration in order to get to the new creation, without the information, it&rsquo;s hard to create." Taylor Bradford "Intentional homework, give yourself homework and read." Taylor Bradford"To just note when you are trying to get your creative juices flowing is that you should expect challenges, not everything is going to come naturally to you. Taylor Bradford"Fill your mind with lots of compelling content, whether or not it is something for whatever it is you&rsquo;re creating." Taylor Bradford"Find like-minded creatives." Taylor Bradford"Keep creating, even if it&rsquo;s crap, just keep doing it because eventually you will break through, and when you break through, embrace it." Taylor Bradford"The creative process, it takes time, it takes energy, and it takes intentional effort, it&rsquo;s not going to come easy." Taylor Bradford"In life, go forth with grace and gumption and know if the creative juices aren&rsquo;t flowing now...do the things that like make you who you are and just love what you do and do those things and I totally think that will help you break through and help those creative juices flowing." Taylor BradfordADRIAN SAID"...how am I going to balance anything at all? How am I going to balance this juggling act?" Adrian R. Hale"I had to learn to say no a lot more, when you know you have a deadline you have given yourself for a book or you know you have an early morning wedding, you kind of need to say no to some of those social aspects of life." Adrian R. Hale"You have to look at things and be like is this something that's going to get me further along in my career? Is this going to help me in someway or what?" Adrian R. Hale"My dreams have just really grown and changed over the years and to be able to do both (hair/makeup and author) at the same time has been pretty phenomenal this year." Adrian R. Hale"Publishing is a huge business that I had no idea about. I finished a book and was I was like 'Hey! I finished a book, what do I do now?' and people were like 'oh calm down, young one, like here's a whole list of things for you to learn about now'." Adrian R. Hale"You have to fake it till you make it, don&rsquo;t let them see you sweat, and then finding the people that you trust to get you through it." Adrian R. Hale"I'm either writing fast and furious or not at all." Adrian R. Hale"I try and find something that interests me. Because I'm not going to be able to write about French Cooking because I'm not really interested in French Cooking. But if you talk to me about MMA or if you talk to me...

004 INTERVIEW WITH ADRIAN R. HALE

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the fifth episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today my Co-Host is Jennifer from Busy Being Jennifer. Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * This episode is rated explicit. Nothing crazy, just don't want little ears listening in. * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&amp;A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE * Finding Your Blog Tribe * What to Look for in a Tribe  * Trusting Tribe Members  * True Purpose of a Tribe  * Where to Start Finding Your Tribe  * Tribe Challenges * Bitly Links * SEO * Proper commenting on blogs TAYLOR SAID "...try to find a tribe of people of no more than ten when you are first starting out. And some people now are calling them masterminds which I think is a cool girl boss term because a tribe doesn&rsquo;t necessarily have to be everybody in your exact niche." Taylor Bradford "What it feel like to be part of a tribe, just the camaraderie of having people that kind of know what you&rsquo;re doing and kind of understand it." Taylor Bradford "I can&rsquo;t stress enough how important finding a blog tribe is." Taylor Bradford "Seasons change. Friendships change. Tribes change." Taylor Bradford "The biggest, number one thing you need to look for in a tribe is people you can trust." Taylor Bradford "You want to be able to freely share about the things that are going on in your head, like your ideas, in a space where you will not feel like someone might scrape that idea, or steal that idea." Taylor Bradford "Cultivating your tribe is more than just blogging and commenting on their blogs." Taylor Bradford "Always give back, always offer support, and always provide value." Taylor Bradford JENNIFER SAID "Finding people who were of the same mind and interested in the same things, which was blogging, was so key for me not going crazy." Jennifer Salter "Your tribe will change, guaranteed, it will change overtime, but that&rsquo;s a good thing because you&rsquo;re growing, which means your tribe needs to grow." Jennifer Salter "You want to look for people too that are learning things, you don&rsquo;t want to talk about the same old things." Jennifer Salter "Try to find a least two or three people who are experts in something that you suck at." Jennifer Salter "Your tribe is not about getting ahead, your tribe is about supporting each other and sharing knowledge." Jennifer Salter "Don&rsquo;t be afraid to put yourself out there because, if you&rsquo;re doing it through your computer, there is a little bit of a buffer so you don&rsquo;t have to be afraid of rejection because you know it might happen but, just feel comfortable." Jennifer Salter RESOURCES AND LINKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE 31 Days to Build a Better Blog - Darren Rowse aka PROBLOGGER http://www.marieforleo.com/bschool/ Fearless Launching SHOUT-OUTS *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* SITS Girls The Pioneer Woman MORE FROM TAYLOR Pink Heels Pink Truck - pinkheelspinktruck.com MORE FROM JENNIFER Blog: Busy Being Jennifer Handmade Biz: Homespun Happiness Facebook: facebook.com/BusyBeingJennifer Twitter: twitter.com/busybeingjenn Shop Facebook: facebook.com/HomespunHappiness Shop Instagram: instagram.com/shophomespunhappiness/ CONNECT WITH US ON INSTAGRAM Taylor - @pnkheelspnktrk Jennifer - @BusyBeingJennifer #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA

005 FINDING YOUR TRIBE

EPISODE AT A GLANCE * Selling Out * 8 Signs of Being on the Verge of Selling Out * Proper Disclosure * The 80/20 Rule * Being True to your Brand, Content, and Readers * What's Happened to Twitter?? * I totally lose count on how many tweets I was counting. That's funny, y'all! It's about 24 tweets in. QUOTES BY TAYLOR "If your posts always have free items in it, you might be on the verge of selling out." Taylor Bradford  "Don&rsquo;t host a giveaway every single day on your blog, unless you&rsquo;re specifically a giveaway blogger." Taylor Bradford  "You want to always be honest about what you are talking about but you don&rsquo;t also want to engage in brand bashing on your blog." Taylor Bradford  "Genuinely want to be there to support your fellow bloggers, support your tribe members and don&rsquo;t always just ask ask ask and take take take, always be willing to give back, it&rsquo;s all about community." Taylor Bradford  "Keep your credibility with your readers, don&rsquo;t push them to question your content." Taylor Bradford  "Money isn't worth losing your street credit as a blogger." Taylor Bradford "If you get approached for something that is not a &lsquo;hell yes&rsquo; than say no." Taylor Bradford  QUOTES BY JENNIFER "Setting your line in the sand about products you are willing to do, what you&rsquo;re not willing to do, and really establishing that before the offers even start coming because otherwise they will be tempting if you don&rsquo;t already have your standards set." Jennifer Salter  "You have to treat everyone with dignity and respect whether or not you had a good experience with that product or not, and I think sometimes you can earn a better reputation by holding your tongue than by just spewing how much you disapproved or disliked something." Jennifer Salter  "You don&rsquo;t want to be committed to a project that your kind of slightly hate and miss out on opportunities that you could have said yes to that were a 'hell yes'." Jennifer Salter  RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED Twitter Periscope SHOUT-OUTS *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* Trish on Twitter - @TriniCapini Love Laughter and a Touch of Insanity (Trish's Blog) Texas Women Bloggers To my BST Ninja Monkeys!! Lancome Covergirl Neutrogena Shark Tank MORE FROM TAYLOR Pink Heels Pink Truck - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk MORE FROM JENNIFER Blog: Busy Being Jennifer Instagram: @BusyBeingJennifer Handmade Biz: Homespun Happiness Facebook: facebook.com/BusyBeingJennifer Twitter: twitter.com/busybeingjenn Shop Facebook: facebook.com/HomespunHappiness Shop Instagram: instagram.com/shophomespunhappiness/

006 SIGNS YOU'RE SELLING OUT

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the seventh episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today my Co-Host is Lauren from Lauren McBride Blog. Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&amp;A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA EPISODE AT A GLANCE * Power Behind Instagram  * Benefits of Instagram  * Being Intentional on Instagram * Iconosquare * How to Grow Instagram Feed  * Instagram Challenge  QUOTES BY TAYLOR "(Instagram) allows a bit more organic feel even to sponsored content because you are still having to share something about your life through that photo." Taylor Bradford "Having an intention with what you&rsquo;re posting is something that will help you grow your Instagram account." Taylor Bradford  "Figure out what your game is on Instagram, what your aesthetic is." Taylor Bradford "Try to figure out what your game is, what is your feed, what are you wanting to share, and does it align with your brand." Taylor Bradford  "Who are you posting for, who is your customer, who are you trying to engage with on Instagram." Taylor Bradford  QUOTES BY LAUREN "That&rsquo;s what makes Instagram so powerful because it&rsquo;s so visual, it&rsquo;s really one of the only forms of social media that doesn&rsquo;t have like a stupid algorithm like Facebook or Pinterest." Lauren McBride  "I'm all about the aesthetics of my Instagram feed...I have a method on how I edit my IG photos." Lauren McBride "I am constantly being intentional about how I want my photos to look. If I don't like how it looks (overall feed), I'll quickly delete it." Lauren McBride "In my brain, engagement, commenting more, liking more, in general is also really helpful, posting a few times a day, making sure your feed has that style like Taylor was saying, aesthetically pleasing..." Lauren McBride  "You want someone to go to your Instagram profile, scroll down, and you want everything to flow as a whole, but also...you want that photo to be appealing on its own." Lauren McBride RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED Instagram Facebook Snapchat Iconosquare Twitter SHOUT-OUTS *Links below may contain Affiliate Links. Purchasing through them help support Boss Girl Creative.* World Market  Elvis Duran and the Morning Show Brock O&rsquo; Hurn Instagram  Brock O&rsquo; Hurn Snapchat: username-imbrockohurn Cents of Style on Instagram Lindsay Cotter on Instagram  Helene in Between on Instagram  Goose and Gemma on Instagram  The Samantha Show on Instagram  MORE FROM TAYLOR Pink Heels Pink Truck - pinkheelspinktruck.com Instagram - @pnkheelspnktrk Facebook - PinkHeelsPinkTruck Pinterest - pnkheelspnktrk Twitter - @pnkheelspnktrk MORE FROM LAUREN Blog: Lauren McBride Blog Instagram: @laurmcbrideblog Facebook: facebook.com/laurenmcbrideblog Twitter: twitter.com/laurmcbrideblog

007 ALL ABOUT INSTAGRAM

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the eighth episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm interviewing Heather Disarro from Heather's Dish. Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&amp;A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA EPISODE AT A GLANCE * Facing obstacles in the blogging world * Choosing the right opportunities  * Balancing family and blogging  * Overcoming failure  * Being yourself  QUOTES BY TAYLOR "There is really no rule book&hellip;as far as how you do something, or how you grow your brand or how you grow your community, or whatever it is your trying to do, there's no rulebook, we kind of invent things as we go." Taylor Bradford "Brands are flying by the seat of their pants because this is a new space for them and as far as traditional advertising and traditional media, they have a set process and whereas an online world, there is really not one yet." Taylor Bradford  "The moment that you can just be honest with yourself that there is a potential for failure, and it&rsquo;s okay to have those thoughts and feelings, I think you become more true and real to your readers, that your product and what you&rsquo;re creating and what you&rsquo;re putting out there in the world becomes better, because we are human. We're not perfect." Taylor Bradford  QUOTES BY HEATHER "Honestly, the biggest obstacle is always myself, which is you know, I feel like typically the case, just when you&rsquo;re trying to do something and you have so many creative people out there that are doing something similar&hellip;it can be really hard to not second guess yourself on every single thing that you do and so kind of getting over that, and getting over the hurdle of instead of trying to be like other people, just trying to take what you love about their style and apply it to my own style." Heather Disarro  "This is an every growing, ever changing industry. And it's still kind of a baby industry at this point and so just as advertisers and third party companies and ad networks kind of are always changing their policies and having to go with the ebb and flow of that, that's always been another big obstacle." Heather Disarro "I had to get to a point where I was like &lsquo;okay my time is worth this much money,&rsquo; and not just because it&rsquo;s my time because now it&rsquo;s my children&rsquo;s time and my husband&rsquo;s time and they deserve to have a mom and a wife who&rsquo;s completely present when they are home and I can&rsquo;t be that if I don&rsquo;t be very selective with what I do. So I really only try to work with companies that I really believe in what they do, that they have a good reputation&hellip;" Heather Disarro "To go from wishing I could get some free granola bars to making a full time income, I didn&rsquo;t even put the two together." Heather Disarro  "I&rsquo;d rather know that I put it all on the table, rather than held back and I hope my boys see me, I hope they do see me fail and see me get back up again and do it different and try again, because I think that is one of the biggest life lessons I could ever teach them." Heather Disarro  "You can look at other people and kind of gleam things that you really like from their work but, as far as aspiring to be exactly like somebody or to be the next somebody, you know it&rsquo;s so much better if your just try to be yourself." Heather Disarro RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED Arkansas Women Bloggers Conference AWBU Foodie Friday Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Food Buzz Federated Media BlogHer Food Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Pinterest SHOUT-OUTS *Links below may contain Affiliate...

008 INTERVIEW WITH HEATHER DISARRO

BGC ANNOUNCEMENTS * Welcome to the 15th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm interviewing Stephanie Buckley, aka The Park Wife. * This episode was created sitting on the floor in a hotel room in Hot Springs, Arkansas. * Have comments or questions? Tweet/IG using the hashtag #BOSSGIRLQA or call in: (707) BOSS-GIRL * Have you seen the BGC Intensive?? * Support Boss Girl Creative endeavors by joining the BGC Crew! * Join me on Periscope (@pnkheelspnktrk) on Wednesday nights at 9pm CST for a live Q&amp;A answer session!! Send me your questions through email, phone or #BOSSGIRLQA on Twitter/Instagram * Want a direct link to the podcast feed? Click here. * Use these Hashtags on Social Media: #bossgirlcreative #bossgirlQA EPISODE AT A GLANCE * Overcoming Obstacles  * Picking the Best Opportunities  * Looking Back  * Easiest and Hardest Moments  * Encountering Fear in Business  * Keeping Balance * Blowing it as a Boss Girl  * Look into the Future * Admiring Women  QUOTES BY TAYLOR "You really have to have, A) You probably have to have a thick skin and you have to have the ability to know that tomorrow is another day and that you get to try all over again." Taylor Bradford QUOTES BY STEPHANIE "Everything has changed over these past ten years and as far as obstacles just keeping up with how fast everything is changing and also, not only in just the business and tech world, but also in your personal world." Stephanie Buckley "One thing I have always done is never compromise my integrity. So if something came along and I didn&rsquo;t feel it was right with who I am and if it wasn&rsquo;t worth the time away from my family I said no. And I think because of that I have a great world of people that feed me and encourage me and I try to do the same for them." Stephanie Buckley "I was just trying to find other people to hang out with. I couldn&rsquo;t imagine that we would have communities in eight states and amazing women lifting each other up and helping each other become better women and bloggers and social media influencers." Stephanie Buckley "The easiest for me because it&rsquo;s one of my giftings is community building and I think that the hardest is probably when it kind of exploded for me as a business to transition to owning a business, being a business owner and having people that relied on me and I relied on them and sometimes that&rsquo;s a little dance." Stephanie Buckley "You can tango or you can slow dance but at the end of the day you have to just be happy with the person you chose to dance with." Stephanie Buckley "I surround myself with like women. I have never with the state communities ever went to a state and sought someone to build a community because I think it takes a special gift to build a community. And I&rsquo;ve just been blessed that those people have just come into my life and the ones that have been there like you [Taylor], who have been there from the beginning of Texas Women Bloggers came along, and you have been there that whole time and I have that in several of my states of just champions for what we want to do and all I do is a business now but it doesn&rsquo;t work without community." Stephanie Buckley "It takes a lot of work to build a community and the rewards are great but sometimes people don&rsquo;t understand the work that goes into building a community." Stephanie Buckley "If I blow it I just laugh at it, say &lsquo;sweet mercy&rsquo; and move on because there is only so much you can do you know it&rsquo;s not the end of the world. Tomorrow will come, my husband will still love me, my kids will still be there and if I blew something in my business you know we all pick ourselves up and tomorrow&rsquo;s another day." Stephanie Buckley "You always hear &lsquo;go be amazing&rsquo; and I always laugh at that because you know you can&rsquo;t always be amazing, but you can be you. And so don&rsquo;t put on an act and try to be amazing all the time because that&rsquo;s not the true...

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