Tandem Talks Podcast

LET’S DO THE HUSTLE! Why Side Hustling Is The Solution With Carrie Bohlig And Craig Clickner

June 02, 2022 19:32 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MB

Married entrepreneurs Carrie Bohlig and Craig Clickner discuss the power of side hustling, how it solves the human paradox we are all struggling with, and how it helps you live with fulfillment and create an impact. In this latest episode of Tandem Talks, Carrie and Craig will share their personal journey to side hustling, how it changed their lives, and how you can apply it to yours. HIGHLIGHTS Finding your end of the spectrum The side hustling breakthrough Reasons to do side hustling ...

Get Off Script! The Improvisation Mindset with Shannon Hughes

March 10, 2022 16:32 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

HIGHLIGHTS Shannon’s background and experience Starting up Enlivened Studios Improvisational Mindset in Entrepreneurship The concept of “yes, and” Collaboration in improvisation mindset Importance of Improvisation in communicating as an entrepreneur Shannon’s tips on Improvising Applying conversational facilitation on online platforms Deep thoughts on Tandem Talks (Special portion) QUOTES Shannon: “Improv is highly structured and highly rehearsed. And so, there are a number of con...

There’s More Than One Way To Run A Business with Laurie Barkman

January 27, 2022 22:57 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB

HIGHLIGHTS A lifetime of learning and micro-pivots Developing CEO Dreams and an entrepreneurial spirit Owning a business vs being a business owner Mountain climbers, craftspeople, and freedom fighters The 8 types of Entrepreneurship Working as a mergers and acquisitions advisor The business model canvas The best way to learn about business is to run one What is your Return On Time? Being an entrepreneur can be lonely Deep thoughts on Tandem Talks QUOTES Laurie: "If someone w...

On building The Best Founding Team And Other Tactical Tips For New CEOs with Nick Hughes

January 13, 2022 19:45 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MB

HIGHLIGHTS What problem are you trying to solve in the world? Just talk to business owners in the real world Know your skillset and create a team to fill the gaps How to vet people for your dream team Dig into people's motivations Building a founding team is almost as serious as marriage Are you in it for the long haul? Track all the goals that you want to accomplish QUOTES Nick: "I like to ask, what problem are you trying to solve in the world? That is something that everyone,...

Empowering Founders And Leaders To Grow Their Leadership with Meghann Conter

November 13, 2021 09:15 - 46 minutes - 37 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 02:28 The Dames: Empower more women into 7-figure and C-suite roles 08:14 Networking in an ecosystem of collaboration transforms you 10:38 Leads groups and working with someone to align values and business models 14:49 Intuition: Harnessing this female energy for business success 21:17 Develop intuition by distinguishing mind from heart 27:02 For new entrepreneurs: Align your business to your zone of genius 31:22 Combining feminine energy and data-driven strategies in bus...

Upgrade Your Mindset, So You Can Lead With Purpose with Joshua Miller

November 08, 2021 17:56 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 01:42 Falling into coaching: How a tripping incident gave birth birth to a career 06:12 Leadership is a skill anyone can develop 08:25 Be intentional with time, energy, and presence 11:09 Set very clear boundaries 16:25 Fear of ego: A selfish undertone beneath the fear 25:18 Meditation and mindfulness: Start with one minute and build from there 32:41 "Try" is an out to accountability and the problem with got to/need to/have to 42:25 Being transparent and vulnerable for a m...

Why Blend In When You Were Born To Stand Out with Tisha Marie Pelletier

September 23, 2021 21:11 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 01:54 Tisha makes her side hustle the main hustle 04:17 Get started, have a mentor, have a vision, and invest in yourself 09:12 Choose a skill you love and focus on it 12:01 Gain momentum, increase confidence, and keep going 19:00 Networking tip: Strike up genuine conversations 22:14 Create your personal brand: Personal and work life will always intertwine 30:07 Connect with Tisha QUOTES 04:36 "You have to get out there. You have to start getting out and networking. I ...

Coaching Business Leaders Through Change And Growth with Pete Mohr

September 16, 2021 18:41 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 02:31 Developing an entrepreneur's mindset and embracing side hustling early on 07:25 Entrepreneurs are made, not born, and they find better ways of doing things 10:17 The multipreneur follows 4 P's: People, Processes, Products & Profit 14:45 Entrepreneurs need clarity to build confidence and gain momentum 19:53 Mistakes and learnings with the 4 P's: Keep testing, keep optimizing 26:11 Let go of processes that don't work to give you time 28:30 Get business partners and offe...

How To Build A Multi-Million Dollar Consulting Biz & Why You DO NOT Need Calendly with Nathan Flood

September 09, 2021 22:36 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 02:12 Nathan's passion for side hustling and military service 05:42 Entry to entrepreneurship after defense contracting 11:35 Time management is the biggest challenge to side hustling 16:12 Scale faster: Let go of time-consuming tasks and hire talent to grow with you 25:11 Work ethic: Know what you want so you can decide what to give up 28:03 Life hack: Add software as you fix problems, not as infrastructure 33:16 Connect with Nathan QUOTES 06:47 "I started looking at h...

Practical Strategies For Starting A Business with Steven S Hoffman

September 02, 2021 21:42 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 02:40 Creating the number 1 incubator for startups 05:34 Deciding when your side hustle is good enough to go full-time 10:10 Hunting for demand and finding the best people 15:05 Ask, don't tell: A winning culture on empowering your team 21:08 How to secure venture capital and close deals 32:08 The real work after securing funding: Hire the best and don't be cheap 38:54 Connect with Steven QUOTES 06:36 "What are their problems? What's keeping them up at night? What are th...

Drive Revenue Authentically with Ashley Quinto Powell

August 26, 2021 22:42 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 01:30 Updates on Ashley's life and being a mom and executive 05:27 Successful moms today also have side hustles 07:13 Early mistakes in business and nurturing the entrepreneurial mindset 16:02 Frontloading risk and learning through experience 19:30 Delegating and prioritizing your time for what's truly important 23:43 Ashley's 7 best business decisions 29:22 Connect with Ashley QUOTES 05:34 "There are lots of women, especially moms, who are doing amazing things in their ...

A Good Dialectic with Carrie and Craig

August 19, 2021 22:27 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 02:43 Personal development: Learning through the experience of entrepreneurship 05:48 Knowing when it's time to take action and not fearing failure 09:27 Following mentors and inspirations on social media 17:36 Discerning your own values and disagreeing with content creators 21:07 Using time blocks and being mindful of energy levels to stay focused 26:25 Mentors versus general counsel: Getting advice based on your needs right now 28:19 Books you should be reading QUOTES ...

Get Things Done with Madeleine Niebauer

August 12, 2021 20:15 - 42 minutes - 39 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 01:21 The serendipitous beginnings of vChief 04:51 vChief: Connecting independent chiefs of staff to your business 09:01 Starting out: Creating autonomy and overcoming obstacles 14:50 Finding trustworthy talent and learning to let go 18:11 Networking and coaching prepared Madeleine to scale up 24:19 Set boundaries and delegate to free up time to do the most important tasks 31:28 Common mistakes: Doing everything and not keeping the right people 38:06 Work shenanigans in V...

Creating Your Visual Presence to Attract Your Ideal Clients with Lisa & Eric Pezik

August 05, 2021 17:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 01:42 Teaming up and founding Infinite Design House 09:06 Obstacles in scaling: How to spend your time wisely and choose your projects 21:55 Building the mental skills to be successful in entrepreneurship 28:42 For side hustlers: Branding and content tips to get started 35:29 Deciding on the right mentor takes a mix of data and gut feel 40:41 Take ownership of your business and think big 47:02 How to connect with Lisa and Eric QUOTES 10:29 "It goes back to getting really ...

Improve Your Online Presence with Chris Misterek

July 29, 2021 18:53 - 41 minutes - 33.6 MB

HIGHLIGHTS 02:32 Circumstances introduce Chris to web design and podcasting 07:48 Powering through obstacles and motivating yourself with your passion 13:41 Community and networking propels your side hustle unlike any other 20:16 People should trust their capacity to reinvent themselves 25:37 Don't fear failure for it is a necessary part of success 28:21 Normalizing mental health has a positive ripple effect in all aspects of your life 36:51 How to use Upwork as your main sales platf...

Helping Accomplished Professionals Start, Build, and Grow their Consulting Businesses with Deborah Zahn

July 22, 2021 05:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MB

Working in the healthcare field for more than 20 years, Deb Zahn took advantage of the knowledge, skills, and expertise gained in traditional work settings and transitioned to being a consultant. As she dabbled as an independent consultant, doing side gigs while working on her day job, Deb got a taste of what it would be like and loved it! Fast forward to today, Deb Zahn is the CEO of Deb Zahn Consulting, LLC and Craft of Consulting, which helps accomplished professionals become successful ...

Pushing Yourself To The Fringe with Carrie and Craig

June 17, 2021 16:35 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MB

Carrie and Craig scaled their first side hustle, Click Global LLC, to $3MM+ in US revenues. The firm focused on building & monetizing online communities using already existing business systems to launch, scale, & duplicate more efficiently than real estate or traditional franchising. After stabilizing a majority of these revenues, they achieved their primary goal of stepping away from Corporate America, in their 20s/30s, respectively. They now consider themselves full-time parents & entrepr...

Heal Your Gut So You Can Trust It Again! with Chelsea Haines

June 03, 2021 16:51 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MB

Chelsea Haines is a Gut Health Coach at A Mindful Life, LLC. She helps heal physical pain, mental anxiety and harness a strong gut instinct using the power of intuitive eating, the abundance mindset, and the science of the gut-brain axis in order for you to live the life promised to you: easeful, downstream, profitable, joyful, and full of FREEDOM! Chelsea is also the show host of the podcast called Let’s Start Health. A podcast that is willing to start the awkward, vulnerable, weird, or ev...

Grow Customer Acquisition And Lead Generation with Jackie Hermes & Ryan Calton

May 06, 2021 16:13 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB

Jackie Hermes is the Founder and CEO of Accelity, a B2B SaaS marketing solutions company that services clients from planning to execution and offers: Inbound marketing strategy & execution, Inbound software implementation & management—Hubspot, Online lead generation & qualification, Content marketing (blogging + email marketing + social media), and Website design & management. Prior to establishing her own company, Jackie started her entrepreneurial journey with a cookie company, Sweet Monk...

Sell Is To Serve At The Highest Level with Marcus A. Chan

April 29, 2021 21:33 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MB

Marcus Chan is the Founder and President of the Venli Consulting Group, a professional training and coaching platform that specializes in helping businesses, sales professionals, sales leaders, and everyone else who wishes to achieve supercharged results. A professional who achieved a lot in the course of his career, Marcus is an Executive Member on the Forbes Business Council and has also been featured in Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch, and LinkedIn Top Voice. He’s also recognized by...

Brand Sorceress with Chantel Soumis

April 15, 2021 18:28 - 34 minutes - 32 MB

Chantel Soumis is the Founder and Creative Director of Stardust Creative who is also an internationally recognized speaker, personal brand expert, and social media influencer. Stardust Creative is a full service corporate and personal branding agency founded in 2018 that aims to level up their client’s brands to align with their unique proposition and values. Focused on embracing differences through personal and corporate branding, their services stretch from developing design, to establis...

Empower Teens & Young Adults To Gain Confidence with Dr. Ai Addyson-Zhang

March 25, 2021 15:56 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB

Dr. Ai Addyson-Zhang is the professor-turned-entrepreneur CEO and Founder of Classroom Without Walls, a Life Accelerator Program dedicated to young adults as it serves to supplement lessons that are not standardly taught in average schools. Through a tested and proven framework that makes learning more interactive, relevant, and transformative, their students are able to start developing the much-needed skills, knowledge, and mindset to help them become more prepared to face their future. H...

Building Emotionally Intelligent Companies with Teresa Quinlan

March 18, 2021 17:51 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB

Teresa Quinlan is a coach, leadership specialist, master facilitator and speaker. She is the founder and CEO of IQ+EQ=TQ, a human-centric company that specializes in executive coaching and leadership development. IQ+EQ=TQ stands for Intelligence Quotient + Emotional Quotient = Talent Quotient. Teresa has 22 years of experience in leadership and 16 years of experience creating leadership programming and training leaders. Being in numerous leadership roles at such a young age, she developed ...

Strategic Business Development with Kevin Wichman

March 11, 2021 18:30 - 33 minutes - 27.2 MB

Kevin Wichman is currently the Investor Relations/Business Development Executive at SARA Investments Real Estate. They raise investment capital for commercial real estate projects with individual investors, institutions, and wealth managers. Diverse portfolio opportunities currently include industrial, laboratory, office, and mixed-use properties in the Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Missouri markets. Kevin is a strategic business development entrepreneur with a diverse background in small busin...

Communicate And Connect Better with Amy Blaschka

February 04, 2021 17:27 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MB

Amy Blaschka is a Social Media Ghostwriter and Career Storyteller. She helps leaders craft their stories to communicate and connect better through ghostwritten social media posts, magnifying their reach and impact. She also writes engaging, original, and authentic career stories for her clients to position them for success and change how others perceive, pay, partner with, and promote them. Amy is also a contributor at Forbes. She writes for Forbes under Leadership, covering personal transf...

Eliminating benefits technology regret for insurance brokers, consultants, carriers & HR with Frank B. Mengert

January 28, 2021 19:01 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MB

Frank B. Mengert is the Founder/Creative Visionary at EBM in North Haven, Connecticut. EBM is the premier provider of intelligent employee benefits technology solutions. Frank is also a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council. YEC is an invitation-only organization comprised of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, aged 45 and younger. YEC represents nearly every industry, generates billions of dollars in revenue each year, and has created tens of thousands of jobs since its inception...

What It Takes To Be A Successful Entrepreneur with Steve Wohlenhaus

January 21, 2021 17:33 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB

Steve Wohlenhaus is the Owner and CEO of Weatherology. Weatherology is a world leader in audio weather dissemination to individuals and the broadcast industry. Weatherology serves thousands of radio stations with content for their terrestrial and digital assets, plus an army of individuals equipped with the Weatherology mobile app. Steve is also an Author and Podcast Host of the program called “Anatomy of Success.” You can find out more about Steve Wohlenhaus and Weatherology on his websit...

Get to know your hosts, Carrie and Craig

January 08, 2021 00:43 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MB

Join us for this inaugural episode of Tandem Talks where guest host Chris Decker interviews Carrie Bohlig and Craig Clickner about their background, mission for the show, and their upcoming book. Tandem Talks is a podcast meant to empower you to live your life, your way. Join us as we go deeper with entrepreneurs and their journey creating success in business and life. Learn more at TandemConsulting.co/talks Learn more about Carrie here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriebohlig/ Learn ...