The Turning Lemons Into Lemonade Podcast
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTurning Lemons Into Lemonade is for the woman entrepreneur who wants to build a physical or online business, become an author or a speaker, and grow through digital marketing!
In the day of Instagram envy - we're pulling back the curtain to tell the stories of how successful six and seven figure online entrepreneurs turned their biggest struggles into their biggest successes.
Online Marketing/Digital Marketing/Business Coaching/Blogging/Lifestyle Marketing/Passive Income
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037 - Why Your Net Income Is The #1 Metric In Your Business with Ariane Trelaun
March 26, 2019 06:30 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBToday's episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade features Ariane Trelaun. Ariane is a money expert - who specializes in helping women control their business finances. We had a really fascinating conversation about mindset, fears, and self doubt. Ariane told a story that we hear a lot from women entrepreneurs. She had years of experience, but she had internal feelings of inadequacy. Because of this internal fear, she was afraid that people wouldn't value her expertise, so she invested $26,...
040 - How to Turn Your Side Hustle Into Your 9-5 with Mollie Openshaw
March 19, 2019 06:30 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBMollie the creative behind Mood Swing Wines, originally the intention was to uncork the conversations about menopause through a bottle of wine, I mean who doesn’t love wine? Now Mood Swing Wines now has given Mollie a platform the speak to women’s audiences all around the globe. Mollie’s motivational high energy and comedic relief have women’s audiences falling off their seats while walking away from any event feeling inspired and a refreshed with a new zest for life. Mollie has a unique a...
039 - When Your Personal Life Changes Your Business with Kimra Luna
March 12, 2019 06:30 - 34 minutes - 48 MBKimra Luna is a personal branding and online business strategist. She helps freedom-seeking entrepreneurs to stand out, captivate their audiences’ attention and monetize their authentic brands online. Since May 2014, she’s grown her email list and combined social media followings to over 200,000 people. Kimra has over 5000 students currently enrolled in her digital courses, and her flagship monthly membership, the Freedom Hackers Galaxy, is regarded as one of the most encouraging places i...
038 - Getting The Most Out of Business Coaching with Kisma Orbovich
March 05, 2019 07:30 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBI loved this conversation with Kisma Orbovich. I met Kisma a few years ago in my 90 Day Basecamp program. Kisma is one of the warmest and most positive people I ever met. Kisma is the founder of The Prosperity Code - a group program to help her clients step into their right to be prosperous. Kisma talked about something that we all hear frequently - that she invested in a coaching program that just didn't provide what was promised! She said that she had the option to either be upset a...
036 - How To Move On After You LOSE Your ENTIRE Business...with Heather Prestanski
February 19, 2019 07:30 - 42 minutes - 59 MBThis episode of the Turning Lemons Into Lemonade podcast covers every business owner's biggest fear - losing your entire business to hackers! One day over seven years ago, hackers took over my website and my instagram account. It was DEVASTATING, time consuming, and costly to recover! But in Heather Prestanski's case, if she hadn't been amazing at sales and marketing, it could have literally destroyed her business. We always hear, build your email list - no one can ever take that away ...
035 - Dealing With Your Past To Create Your Future with Amy Johnson
February 12, 2019 07:30 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBAmy Johnson of AmyJ.co, has built her life and business on the belief that your path can be a casualty of your circumstance or championed by your convictions. Staying true to this belief, Amy reaffirms her commitment to her convictions daily.
034- How I Achieved My Dream Before Age 30 with Niki Riga
February 05, 2019 07:30 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I spoke with my long time client, Niki Riga, about some of the unexpected challenges of running a business. Niki knew from the time she was five years old that she wanted to be a business owner, despite teachers trying to dissuade her! We talked about how being a business owner often comes with responsibilities and surprises that we never could have planned for, and that you pretty much just have to accept that "it will cost more and it wil...
033 - Building a Female Focused Business In a "Man's World" - With Felena Hanson
January 29, 2019 07:30 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons to Lemonade, you are going to hear from Felena Hanson. Felena is a serial entrepreneur who has run marketing agencies, been a professor, and most recently launched a number of companies such as Hera Hub, Hera Labs, and Hera Venture Summit. In Greek Mythology, Hera was the Queen of the Gods. Hera serves as the inspiration of the Hera Companies. I met Felena in 2011, just after I launched my second San Diego fitness studio. We were sitting at a networkin...
032 - From Military Trainer to Relationship Expert - How Communication is Key To Your Success - with Michelle G
January 22, 2019 07:30 - 39 minutes - 55.1 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons into Lemonade, I interviewed my very dear and long time friend, Michelle G. Michelle is a relationship expert and is up to some VERY big things! She tells the story of spending years in the military - training on intelligence and communication. She told the story of how her marriage fell apart in her time in the military - and then how when she transitioned to civilian life, she found that true communication and connection were lacking in many relationsh...
031 - The REAL Talk For Women In Your 40's and Beyond with Ladies Road Map
January 15, 2019 07:30 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBThis episode is SO fun! I interviewed podcast hosts - JoJami and Lana - the hosts of Ladies Road Map - a podcast that talks about the issues that women face in the second half of their lives! This conversation is so fun. They tell me about some of the most interesting episodes of their own podcast (see below for a list of some of their faves). We also talked about how as we get older, we become more self aware - and as women, we really need to take more time to journal, meditate, and r...
031 - The REAL Talk For Women In Your 40's and Beyond with Ladies Road Map
January 15, 2019 07:30 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBThis episode is SO fun! I interviewed podcast hosts - JoJami and Lana - the hosts of Ladies Road Map - a podcast that talks about the issues that women face in the second half of their lives! This conversation is so fun. They tell me about some of the most interesting episodes of their own podcast (see below for a list of some of their faves). We also talked about how as we get older, we become more self aware - and as women, we really need to take more time to journal, meditate, and r...
030 - Bigger is NOT Always Better In Your Business With Christine Whitmarsh
January 08, 2019 07:30 - 39 minutes - 54 MBThis is sure to become a favorite episode of many! Christine Whitmarsh really is the impetus for this podcast. We had worked together and become friends in the past, and she had a situation show up in her business when she was feeling pretty down and depressed with the business she had created! One day, I was standing outside a Starbucks in Encinitas, CA and Christine realized that she had built this big business, with this big team - and that it wasn't what she actually wanted for her b...
029 - Listen To Yourself to Live the Life Of Your Dreams - With Krysti Turznik
December 19, 2018 05:23 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, you are going to hear from Krysti Turznik about how we show up in the world, how we show up in our business, and listening to our internal voice to do what we are really meant to do! As a business coach, I frequently meet people who are struggling to make decisions. In finance, I called that Analysis Paralysis - when you couldn't make a decision because of ALL the good opportunities. As a business owner, you often have the same struggles -...
028 - Is Your Business Profitable? The Struggle In Running Your Businesses If You Don’t Know Your Numbers – With Alison Beierlein
December 11, 2018 07:00 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBIf you struggle with business finances at all, this is a GREAT episode for you! Alison is a certified Profit First accountant and business advisor! This means that she helps entrepreneurs make more NET income - and keep more of what they generate! If you've ever tried to grow a business, this is a HUGELY critical factor! We talked about when I was building my fitness business and was so focused on growing my gross revenue that my life was out of control!! I was measuring (and striving ...
027 - Are You All In – Or Are You Optional? Your Business WIll Never Grow Until You’re All In And You MAKE It Grow – With Liz Czepiel
December 04, 2018 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I interviewed the amazing Liz Czepiel. Liz spent years in corporate as a productivity coach to Fortune 500 companies and their teams! Over time, she felt pulled to launch her own business - so she started a "side hustle" consulting. For a couple of years, she was constantly juggling her corporate career - AND her consulting business! Despite achieving tremendous success, she still had that common issue that many women entrepreneurs face "impos...
026 - When The Bills Are Piling Up - You Find a Way - And That Way Becomes Your Future With Emily Borja
November 27, 2018 07:00 - 30 minutes - 42.9 MBEmily Borja is an American Sign Language interpreter and a successful entrepreneur. She helps women look at their situations as an opportunity to advance their personal and professional development. When her husband was hit with a cancer, she was completely unprepared. Months later she was presented with the opportunity to open a virtual business. Broke and exhausted, she silenced her fear and took a leap of faith. Emily candidly shares her story of how she became the CEO of her own compan...
025 - Picking Up The Pieces and Doing The Work – Even When You Don’t Feel Like It – With Amy Mewborn
November 20, 2018 07:00 - 12 minutes - 9.01 MBIn this solo episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I tell you about one of the worst days in my LIFE - not just my business. A couple of months ago, my 14 year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Emma, passed away. Emma had been with me and Mike for 14 years, since she was just 12 weeks old. I told the story of the first night we picked her up, and the next morning, taking her spunky little self to Petco for all the puppy things she needed! Emma was truly one of the absolute best com...
024 - Being Responsible For Your Team With Trivinia Barber
November 13, 2018 07:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBI had really been looking forward to my interview with Trivinia Barber! I had met her years ago when I attended one of Amy Porterfield's events and she was working as Amy's virtual assistant. Then after she launched Priority VA, we had gotten to know each other better at events and in coaching programs together! First, let me tell you one of the things I love most about Trivinia, and why I think I always felt like we just "got each other." Trivinia is one of the absolute most authentic,...
023 - Building a Business That Suits Your Life With Laura Pennington
November 06, 2018 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBBefore today's episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I had never met Laura Pennington. It turns out that she is one of the savviest women building a business that I've interviewed on my show. We had SO much in common that it felt like I was talking to myself in a lot of ways. First, Laura talked about how she built her writing business as a freelancer while she still was working in corporate. Then she talked about how despite making more as a part time freelancer than she did in her ...
022 - Stepping Off The Income Roller Coaster With Pam Carpenter
October 30, 2018 06:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I had the immense pleasure of interviewing Pam Carpenter. I met Pam just a couple of months ago in Todd Herman's Certified Partners/ 90 Day Basecamp program! Pam specializes in technology - particularly helping create membership sites and create residual income. Pam was SO transparent in sharing her business path and some of the challenges she's faced along the way. She shared how she left her real estate firm after her manager was taken awa...
021 - Get The Finances Right First - The Rest Will Follow With Laura Sprinkle
October 23, 2018 06:00 - 30 minutes - 21.5 MBI loved this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade with Lauren Sprinkle! I know Laura through Todd Herman's 90 Day Basecamp. At the time of recording, Laura was just finishing a HUGE launch with Selena Soo's Impacting Millions! Selena's Impacting Millions has been one of my very best investments in my business - and is so powerful for anyone who really wants to increase their visibility in their business! Laura had just served as the Affiliate Manager during the launch, and had done S...
020 - Get Maximum Business Growth - WIthout New Clients - With Rene Serbon
October 16, 2018 06:00 - 55 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I interviewed my beautiful friend, Rene Serbon! Rene educates dermatology clinics on all things systems, practice management and business growth strategies! We started the episode talking all things skin care, skin protection, sun protection - and education! But where we hit REAL gold with Rene was in her most challenging moment in her business - she had a brand new baby, and her business partner notified her that they no longer wanted to sh...
019 - How an Imploding Family Business Can Provide Clarity on What You Do Next – With Jade Duggan
October 09, 2018 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBThis episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade is truly one of my favorites so far! First, I just adore Jade Duggan. She is real, no nonsense, and one of the most emotionally intelligent women I know! Second, she really opened up and told us everything about her journey into building a family business with her Dad, and how his illness and death really turned their long standing business upside down. She talked about the blessings of having time as the business owner to be truly present for ...
018 - How My Own Health Crisis Launched My Business With Maggie Berghoff
October 02, 2018 06:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I interviewed Maggie Berghoff, a health coach specializing in Functional Medicine from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Maggie had been a RN for years and despite eating well, and doing everything "right" she was gaining weight at a rapid rate, and was becoming more and more unhealthy by the day - gaining 50 pounds in just a couple of months. She kept going from doctor to doctor to find out what was going on, and was given the standard answer, "your tests...
017 - You Get What You Ask For - With Media Coach - Victoria Mary Clarke
September 25, 2018 06:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBToday's episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade featured Media Coach - Victoria Mary Clark. Victoria lives in Ireland and is just such a cute spitfire! She is a media coach who really specializes in helping you find alignment in how you show up. Victoria totally understands that one of the biggest challenges for women in business is how they show up in the world - wanting to be authentic, but not necessarily showing all the "yucky stuff" we all feel and experience in our lives and business...
016 - The Importance Of Running Your Business Like a Business - With Bree Noble
September 18, 2018 06:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBThis episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade was a fun conversation with an ex finance girl - who also happens to be a musician! Bree talked about how despite being a musician in her soul, she did the responsible thing and went to school to be an accountant. She spent years managing the books for large companies - and she realized it just wasn't a good fit for her life goals any more! In order to have the money and freedom to facilitate her dream of leaving corporate and being a full time...
015 - How having a stroke in the middle of The Container Store changed my life and business with Amy Mewborn
September 11, 2018 06:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBIn this solo episode of The Turning Lemons Into Lemonade Podcast - I am going to take you on a journey to a day about 12 years ago when I was perfectly healthy and in the best shape of my life. But I knew my life was out of alignment and that I wasn't really being true to the fact that I needed to make a change. Then one Sunday afternoon, in the middle of the Container Store in San Diego, I had a stroke - and it became obvious that it was time to listen to my body, listen to my heard, and do...
014 - Listening To Your Inner Self For A Life You Love - With Jessica Valor
September 04, 2018 06:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBIn today's episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I interviewed Jessica Valor. Jessica's story started with an attempt to take her own life, and a very clear near death experience. At that time, she knew she was destined for more. But it took her another 3 years to actually make the switch. Jessica's story continued with a tale that is not terribly uncommon - but maybe a bit more extreme. Jessica was in a corporate job complete with verbal and emotional abuse. One day, she was on the r...
013 - Making Business Decisions For PROFIT, and Get Out of Your Own Way - With Kathy Haan
August 28, 2018 06:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons into Lemonade, you are in for a real treat! I had never met Kathy Haan prior to our recording today, but we had SUCH a good time chatting. Kathy had been a financial advisor who had gained a ton of weight. As a way to hold herself accountable, she decided to become a health coach for other clients - losing over 120 pounds in the process. She did this for a while, but realized that although she LOVED coaching women, she really wasn't passionate about healt...
012- Mastering Your Mindset with Keira Barr
August 21, 2018 06:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, you will hear from Keira Barr. Keira just launched her new book The Skin Whisperer and she talked about how you can tell so many different things about your health from the condition of your skin. She also gave some things to look for in your skin as a busy woman entrepreneur. (I'm not going to give it all away - you're going to have to listen.) Keira also talked about some of her biggest struggles in building her business - something many o...
011 - Building A Business By Accident with Janneke den Draak
August 14, 2018 06:00 - 17 minutes - 12.5 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, you'll hear from Janneke den Draak. Janneke is from the Netherlands and is blazing a trail of coaching and online courses in a country where that isn't the norm! Janneke started her business through two key circumstances that forced her into a life of entrepreneurship. First, she had been an IT engineer who at the age of 28 was diagnosed with repetitive motion syndrome - meaning that she could no longer use her arms and hands at a computer a...
010 - How the BEST business coach may NOT be the best fit for your business right now!
August 07, 2018 06:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBIn this solo episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I tell you about how I hired my first business coach and our experience together and after two years together, it was time to part ways and find someone more suited to where I was in my business at that time. This episode covers the tough to talk about topic - whether or not a business coach is truly a fit. First of all - I believe that ALL businesses that really want to grow and scale need either a coach or a mastermind group to help hol...
009 - How Tragedies Inspire Action Over and Over Again With Leana Weller Smith
July 31, 2018 08:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I interviewed Leana Weller Smith. Leana is the founder and CEO of Weller Smith Designs. Leana's story is one that we don't hear very often. You see, Leana worked in the heart of Manhattan on September 11th. She experienced one of the worst experiences any one of us could ever imagine. She said that a few days after that traumatic event, she was back in her office and it just was no longer a fit - everything felt different, and that she did...
008 - How To Stand Out in a Crowded Marketplace with Tonya Harris
July 24, 2018 06:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBTonya Harris is one of my favorite people on this planet. As you watch or listen to this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, you will see that she is easy going, fun, and super funny! We spent a LOT of our time laughing! Tonya is a childhood cancer survivor who is on a quest to minimize the toxins in our environment to make us healthier, and keep us safer. But in her quest to do this, she has found resistance in the marketplace. I know I have it myself! People want to be healthier,...
007 - Increasing Your Lifetime Value of a Client With Kelly Coulter
July 17, 2018 06:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I spoke with fitness marketing expert Kelly Coulter. Kelly talked about how she started her business as a web developer and graphic designer. She found one of the key struggles in business - in how to juggle client acquisition with client fulfillment. She experienced what we all have at some time in a new business - times of feast and times of famine. At one point, she had been so busy servicing clients that she stopped marketing - causing...
006 - How “The Patterns” You Fall Into Can Either Make Or Break Your Life with Stephane McAuliffe
July 10, 2018 06:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBIn this Turning Lemons Into Lemonade Episode, Stephanie McAuliffe shared some of the "yucky stuff" that really brought her to realize that she was allowing patterns to keep her from living the life she was truly meant to live! Stefanie was a fourth generation wife of an alcoholic. Her two husbands were both alcoholics. And she found herself repeating the same mistakes that had been made in her family for generations! Once she really saw the pattern, and saw herself repeating it - and realize...
005 - After recording 15 episodes of this podcast, I lost them all - forcing me to start all over
July 09, 2018 17:58 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBIn this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, I will tell you about how I got lazy, didn't follow my own processes and took a great day and turned it into TOTAL lemons! H ear how I woke up excited to start the day, and then ended up destroying the first 15 episodes of the podcast! Fortunately the podcast is Turning Lemons Into Lemonade!! I had to reach out to every single person who had taken the time to record with me! And even today, I still haven't heard back from some of them!! ...
004 - Sales Systems To Qualify and Convert Clients - With Nancy Ganzekaufer
June 26, 2018 07:00 - 57 minutes - 40 MBThis is one of the longest episodes I've recorded yet in Turning Lemons Into Lemonade. I had never met Nancy prior to our recording today, but this conversation was SOOOOOO full of amazing business nuggets. Nancy's Lemons story was based on her content creation strategy. She batch creates content, and unfortunately had a piece of content go out at a time that her clients and prospects found offensive. She told the story of waking up to angry client emails and unsubscribes. She talked...
003 - She made it to Oprah - and lost her business - WIth Franziska Neumann
June 19, 2018 06:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBIf you've ever felt like you're paddling upstream in your business, this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade is for you! I had known Franziska Neumann for about two years prior to our interview - and I had NEVER heard this story! Franziska had built an amazing design and furniture business in New York City. She was featured on Oprah, HGTV and had a THRIVING business, but then had to leave the country over immigration paperwork issues! It became impossible to ship and transact busi...
002 - How to Build a Business That Accommodates Your Life - With Lori Mercer
June 12, 2018 06:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBHear Lori Mercer talk about juggling a thriving business with family needs - and how you can build a business that supports your life - WITHOUT working 24/7.
001 - My VA deleted my ENTIRE 5 Year Infusionosft account - and how I made that a good thing
June 07, 2018 20:49 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBIn business, there are those things that happen that make us feel like we aren't going to be able to pick up and move forward. In the middle of a huge launch, my VA accidentally deleted my entire infusionsoft account. How I picked myself up, dusted myself off - and launched this podcast because of it!
001 - My VA deleted my ENTIRE 5 Year Infusionsoft account - and how I made that a good thing
June 07, 2018 20:31 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBIn business, there are those things that happen that make us feel like we aren't going to be able to pick up and move forward. In the middle of a huge launch, my VA accidentally deleted my entire infusionsoft account. How I picked myself up, dusted myself off - and launched this podcast because of it!
000 - Why Kate Spade's Death Points a Real Problem For Women In Business
June 07, 2018 20:27 - 9 minutes - 8.28 MBHear how Kate Spade's death is illustrating one of the biggest challenges and dangers facing women in business today. While scrolling through Instagram, we're looking at everyone's "highlight reel" and often feel inadequate or like an outsider. We don't know what's going on on the inside. This 000 Episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade will tell you what you can expect from the podcast - and how you can hear the REAL stories of how women are building 6 and 7 figure businesses today!