Lisa Sucked at Avoiding Burnout

Author and business owner Lisa Buyer joins us this week to discuss her experience with totally burning out from always being in survival mode, which lead to a career shift.

Lisa’s story is something many of us know well: we work 10+ hours a day thinking we’re making a better life for ourselves when we’re actually grinding our mind and body into the ground. Lisa and Kelsey discuss how Lisa got out of survival mode and what she’s doing now.

Learn more about Lisa and her podcast and books at: socialprsecrets.com.

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Catherine Sucks at Arts & Crafts

Catherine Quiambao joins us this week to discuss the wild world of arts & crafts. We talk about questionable art projects we do with our kids, how my mom suffered through Girl Scout patches and thoughts on what arts & crafts projects may be a good fit.

Learn more about Catherine’s podcast at No Hacks Marketing!

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Robyn Sucks at Not Catastrophizing

This week’s guest is Robyn Johnson, who tends to go into the worst possible scenario when something doesn’t go how she expected.

We dive into how that affects her as a business owner and mother, and how our childhoods may have shaped how we try to prepare for situations.

You can follow Robyn at @AMZRobynJohnson on Twitter.

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We All Suck at Failure: Getting Meta With Geoffrey Colon

This week gets meta as Geoffrey Colon of Microsoft and Kelsey Jones discuss failure as a whole in our society. Why is failure frowned upon when it has lead to the world’s greatest innovations?

We also discussed why the nerds you laughed at in school built the technology you rely on and where our society is going next in terms of innovation and failure.

Geoffrey is on Twitter if you want to talk more.

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Casie Sucks at Thinking it Through

This week, Casie Gillette joins Kelsey Jones to discuss the impulsiveness of home DIY and how not everything has to be a huge endeavor.  While Casie wants to jump headfirst into a project, sometimes there’s an easier way. It doesn’t have to be the “whole enchilada.”

Casie and Kelsey discuss homeownership, electric cars, and how sometimes, the easiest thing is right under our nose.

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Dr. Pete Meyers Doesn’t Have a Sense of Direction

Dr. Pete Meyers (of Moz fame) is terrible at knowing where he is. In this episode of StoryShout, Pete and Kelsey discuss their failures in giving directions, navigating traffic circles (aka roundabouts), and how their brain goes fuzzy when people throw out the terms “east” and “north.” This episode is hilarious, don’t miss it!

Dr. Pete is pretty active on Twitter if you want to ask for directions in Chicago (or, maybe you shouldn’t).

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Sarah Knight Sucks at Not Doing Anything

International best-selling author Sarah Knight isn’t bad at much, which makes sense since she writes anti-self-help books about caring less about what people think and managing anxiety. In this episode of StoryShout, Sarah and Kelsey Jones sit down to discuss the art of being able to do “nothing” and how that factors into anxiety, your home life, and feeling like you accomplished something.

To learn more about Sarah, her podcast, and her books, visit http://nofucksgivenguides.com/

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Amalia Sucks at Getting Stuff Done (aka Procrastinating)

Though Amalia and I just met through a mutual friend to record this episode, we have something in common: we both procrastinate…a lot. Though, as Amalia states, it has never done us wrong.

We have a great conversation about procrastinating that includes:

  • The logic behind procrastinating
  • Why we procrastinate some things and not others
  • How everything seems to always get done anyway
  • How failure and perfectionism plays into procrastinating

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Natalie Sucks at Letting Go of Control

Though she’s better at it now, bestselling author and business coach for women Natalie Sisson joins me on StoryShout to talk about her journey with learning how to delegate better. She shares stories about the times she’s had to let go of control and how that affected not only her but her team.

In this episode, we cover:

  • Why not delegating can hold you back
  • When it makes sense to control things, and when it doesn’t
  • How the mental load at home affects women
  • How to split up work more equally with your partner

Listen below, and also consider listening to Natalie’s podcast, Untapped. Don’t forget to follow us on your favorite podcasting platform as well!

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Akvile Sucks at On-The-Spot Rebuttals

Akvile is another friend of mine I met through marketing conferences, and I’m so glad we did. We’ve often referred work to one another and even were in a mastermind together for a year. Akvile is a paid media agency owner and often knows the challenges we face as women in technology, especially digital marketing, which still tends to be male-dominated.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Why our brains freeze up when someone says something rude
  • The best rebuttals we wish we’d had said
  • Examples of when we wish we had something good to respond with
  • Stock phrases we can stick in our brains the next time someone is rude, nosy, or sexist

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