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The Speak Easy Podcast

Jen Estill and Karen Stefl — creative studio entrepreneurs, brand and video experts, boss ladies, moms

Hi. Jen Estill and Karen Stefl here. In The Speak Easy Podcast, we share years of expertise in marketing, branding, video production, strategy—not to mention management, employee development, mentoring, sales, creativity, maintaining life balance, managing money, and.. you get the idea. It takes a lot to keep a couple of creative studios thriving. We developed this podcast after years of "how do you..." boss lady conversations. It was clear that if we were both in such similar places with regard

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00:26:03

73: Adapting To Change And Evolving Your Business

The Speak Easy Podcast ·

2020/05/19

Businesses should always be moving. When your business is standing still, that means the world around your business is moving and you're stagnant. In order to survive times of crisis, we need to make sure that we adapt and change–even though it’s easier said than done. As business owners, we have had to make many changes to the way we run our businesses over the past few months, and we will have to make even more changes in the upcoming weeks as we transition back out the work from home life. What

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00:36:06

72: Creating A Legacy Of Service—Featuring Guest...

The Speak Easy Podcast ·

2020/05/05

This episode’s guest, Rachel Willis, has been an active member of the community since childhood. Her family instilled the importance of making yourself heard, taking a seat at the table and helping those around you from early on. Rachel models these beliefs through her work every day–but how does she make time to focus on herself in a life of service? As vice president of regional operations at Bethany Christian Services, Rachel aids families and children everywhere through social services and

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00:16:09

71: Catching Curiosity: How Asking 'Why' Can Model...

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2020/04/21

We all aspire for childlike curiosity. From birth, being curious helps us learn about the world around us and teaches us imperative problem solving skills. However, as we get older, it becomes easy to lose our curiosity. Many workplaces frown upon asking too many questions, poking holes in current processes and structures, or wondering, "Why are we doing this?". How does curiosity benefit us our lives and the workplace and why should it be something we practice? Curiosity has many benefits, from

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00:22:36

70: Bad Manners In The Workplace: How To Avoid Them...

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2020/04/07

We have all worked a job at one point in our lives where a coworker had terrible manners. This episode, we're talking about *that* guy: The one who clips their nails in the cubicle, or the one who is 30 minutes late every day. The one who still wears leggings even when she knows there is a client meeting, or the one who overshares every intimate detail from their Friday night. Yeah, that guy. Not only can these little things get on our nerves, but they can seriously impact productivity, too

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00:19:19

69: What Do We Do Now?—Leadership During Crises

The Speak Easy Podcast ·

2020/03/24

Amid the growing COVID-19 pandemic, we switched gears this episode to discuss how we can maintain solid leadership during a global crisis. Let's be honest—every business owner has a different problem. And those problems could be technically or emotionally complicated. We won’t sugarcoat it: It’s a scary time for small businesses, and it’s a scary time for all businesses. Particularly, small business owners who are having to make decisions that they haven’t had to consider in the past. As we learn

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00:37:01

68: Fueling Your Fire And Finding Your...

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2020/03/10

Balancing two young children, being a part of a rapidly growing care facility, and going back to school for an MBA all at once might sound impossible. But this episode’s guest, Tammy Hannah (CEO of Origami Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center), made it happen. Still, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. What kept her going when she wanted to quit? Her self-motivators: taking a step back and reminding herself why she was getting her MBA to begin with, knowing that the chaos was only temporary. Life

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00:22:51

67: Finding And Using Your Voice: The Art Of Advocacy

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2020/02/25

There are so many reasons why it's important to practice using your voice in your work. As entrepreneurs, we (sometimes unknowingly) become advocates for ourselves, our teams and our clients. If we enter the business world without learning how to speak up for ourselves, people will take advantage of that. However, it also becomes important to consider why we are having the conversations that we are having. Are we holding conversations that are going to help further our clients toward their goals

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00:19:03

66: The Games We Play Beyond The Board

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2020/02/11

Everyone loves a good board game. They help us build skills like patience, rationale, and strategic thinking. Sure, we use these skills in a good old-fashioned game of Monopoly or Risk, but they're also applicable to everyday life. These qualities help us to win over a new client, hire a new employee, and figure out the next best move for our business. Games give us the ability to look two or three steps down the road and help decide what the next best move is for the long-term. In order to succeed

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00:17:46

65: The Power Of 'Yes': How We Can Break The Routine...

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2020/01/28

When was the last time you said "yes"? Just an all-out, hesitation-free, no-questions-asked "yes"? Over time, a lot of entrepreneurs get really good at saying "no." Which, as we've discussed in past episodes, is important. But in the process, we can fall into a routine of refusal when it comes to exploration. We forget that trying new things is almost like the process of falling in love: The enthusiasm we get when we've discovered something for the first time is almost indescribable. We talk about

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00:53:39

64: What Romance Novels Teach Us About Feminism and...

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2020/01/15

If you want something different in life, change it—whether it's your career or the patriarchy. Or if you're our guest, author Lyssa Kay Adams, both. The last couple of years were pretty major for Lyssa. She pitched a story on Twitter as a relatively unknown author, was signed with an agent within two days, received a three-book deal with a publisher, and–oh, yeah–actually wrote the first novel, "The Bromance Book Club." (Not to mention her second novel, "Undercover Bromance," which comes out March

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00:16:59

63: Getting Back To Basics, Avoiding Shiny Objects...

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2020/01/06

t can be tempting to set new, ambitious goals based on what we think we should want. Achieving a certain milestone, expanding into a new service offering, or taking on an impressive project. It's important to get out of our comfort zones—but it's also important to stay focused in the process. That's why decluttering our goals, business objectives and offerings is just as important as decluttering our junk drawers. Constantly checking in on what our competitors are up to can distract us from our

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00:18:41

62: The Most Important Things We Do Each Year

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2019/12/17

For many entrepreneurs, the end of the year is a time for holiday get-togethers, meeting deadlines, and–the big one–goal setting. We take time to visualize where we see our organization in the coming year, in five years, or even a decade down the line. We carefully map out our business's progress and trajectory. But are we focusing on what’s most important? While it's pretty clear how to identify these quantitative metrics (like finances or organizational growth), it’s less clear whether our goals

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00:20:39

61: How The 80/20 Rule Can Help Us Get Our Priorities...

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2019/12/03

The 80/20 Rule is certainly a handy analytical tool for businesspeople. But, turns out, efficiency isn't all about rules and percentages. After reflecting on it, we realized that this idea of putting in a smaller yet more concentrated effort to yield a larger payoff can apply to almost every area of our lives: work, home, family, health, creativity...everything. While we might be tempted to get swept up in the details of the 80%, it's critical to give that foundational 20% the attention it

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00:19:25

60: Granting Yourself Permission To Be Creative

The Speak Easy Podcast ·

2019/11/19

Somewhere along the way, our culture fell into this mindset that more time working = more "success." This is the same logic that all too often forces our creative pursuits to take a back seat. You can't pull time for creativity out of thin air—so, you've gotta grant yourself permission to be creative. Permission to be creative begins with accepting that there are countless different definitions of creativity. Sure, images of paintbrushes and instruments come to mind when we first hear the word

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00:17:18

59: How To Face Big, Scary, Intentional Changes

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2019/11/05

Change is always an emotional process–but intentional changes evoke a different kind of feeling. It's the big package of emotions that come along with being in the driver's seat of our own decisions. We're not talking about day-to-day decisions like choosing what to eat or even which new hobby to take up. We're talking about those rare, monumental decisions that will forever alter the course of our lives: moving across the country, entering a new industry, expanding our families. And while these

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00:20:13

58: Learning New Things, Failing At Them, And Coming...

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2019/10/23

While many entrepreneurs seem to have an innate sense of curiosity, we can all agree that there are times when we get stuck in our own bubbles. Repeating our tried-and-true skills seems to objectively make more sense than venturing into new areas. Why mess with a good thing, right? Still, new experiences (and the failures that sometimes ensue) drive new ideas. There's much to be gained from getting our hands dirty within our industries and in totally unrelated fields. And, personally, we love

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00:19:11

57: What Keeps You Up At Night?

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2019/10/08

You know the feeling: You look forward to plopping into bed all evening, but once you're finally there you can't seem to turn off your brain. Everything you could ever possibly contemplate suddenly seems to worry you. What is your sales pipeline looking like? How are the kids doing? Why is the world...the way that it is? Whether it's something personal, professional or regarding the large grey area in between, we all lay awake at night worrying from time to time. For entrepreneurs, that might be

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00:29:48

56: Navigating Pricing While Knowing Your Worth

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2019/09/24

This week, we're tackling one of those hush-hush, secretive, taboo subjects your mother always told you not to discuss at the dinner table: pricing. In the creative industry, entrepreneurs often tend to avoid conversations regarding pricing. There's a delicate dance surrounding money, but getting your pricing right from the start can help avoid expensive mistakes later on. So now, the cat's out of the (money)bag. We're getting transparent about prices: how entrepreneurs can calculate cost, choosing

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00:41:31

55: Building Community - Live at Bad Annie's,...

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2019/09/10

There's no better place to talk about building community than out in the community itself. As our first-ever live show, this episode was recorded live from Arts Night Out at Bad Annie's Sweary Goods in Old Town, Lansing, Michigan. We welcome two special guests: Meghan Martin, interim executive director of the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, and Summer Schriner, owner of retail shops Bad Annie's and Grace Boutique, to discuss their experiences building community right here in Lansing. It's one

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00:29:39

54: Changing Careers And Running The Show–Featuring...

The Speak Easy Podcast ·

2019/08/27

To get something right, sometimes you have to flip your perspective on the topic altogether. This episode we welcome a new guest: Lis Weston, a versatile businesswoman, and executive director who brings a business-centric brain to education at Early Child Care Center in Lansing, Michigan. Lis knows a thing or two about the value of an outsider's perspective. Over the course of her career, Lis translated skills from one field to the next. After starting out in the nonprofit education sector, she

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