19 Lindsey Roman on stewarding each season in family & business
Lindsey Roman is a business educator, social media marketing guru, and photographer based out of Lawrence, Kansas. She’s one of the founders of The Heart University and she co-hosts The Heart & Hustle Podcast, a business podcast for creative entrepreneurs. Lindsey’s mission is to help women know their worth, value, and identity in who they are and boldly do what they were created to do. When she’s not speaking, teaching, or dancing on Instagram, you can find her spending quality time traveling and adventuring with her daughter, Eloise, and husband, Andrew.
18 Rocky Mountain Bride Editor Mackenzie Stevens on Allll Things Magazines and Submitting
Mackenzie turned her internship at RMB into a career as one of their incredible editors — she brought insight into the magazine industry as well as those juicy tangible submission tips!
17 Marketing Expert Micah Larsen on Vulnerability for Women in Business
Micah Larsen helps women creatives build audiences of engaged ideal customers so they can make a consistent income doing work they love. She is the Missoula-based marketing expert behind the 10 week program “How To Hustle.” She teaches everything from how to create a first impression to nurturing loyal customers.
16 Can you be a good artist AND sane!? Mental health, addiction, and authentic expression w/ John Piacquadio
John Piacquadio is a Montana-based artist and fly fisherman, often drawing inspiration from fly tying and fishing in his work. In this episode of the Montana Diaries Podcast, John shared his rich life story from growing up as the child of an Italian immigrant, to the tension between his religious upbringing and his education, to being an art student and drug addict obsessed with originality, to settling into himself as a sober maker and fly fisherman. John was incredibly vulnerable about creativity, mental health, and everything in between.
15 Hillary Folkvord on owning multiple businesses and the "family bottom line"
Hillary Folkvord is a force to reckon with — she is a mother, an amazing curator and social media presence, and a fourth generation Montanan who, along with her amazing family, runs multiple successful businesses, including The RSVP Motel, The Farmer’s Daughter Cafe, and The Sacajawea Hotel. Hillary held nothingggg back when it came to business advice, her lifestyle, or balancing motherhood with her ambition.
14 The value of support systems and creative communities w/ Dawn Jarvis!
In this episode of the Montana Diaries Podcast, we have one of my favorite photographers, I mean, one of my favorite people — she’s a badass business owner with the biggest heart, our twighlighty Myspace queen with a ridiculous amount of talent, and a super cool hang, Dawn Jarvis of Dawn Photo! This conversation went SO FAST you guys, we talked about so freaking much and I could have talked to this lady all day.
13 Silo Skincare Owner Morgan Ser Voss on Digital Sales and Social Media
Morgan Ser Voss is the owner of Silo Skincare, which is Montana-based skincare made for the wild women who lead an active lifestyle and want affordable, all-natural products that won't hold them back. How pithy is that tagline, like come on!? Morgan is the sweetest soul and I just know you’re all going to fall in love with her and her goats the way I have — in this episode, she talks alllll about following in her grandma’s footsteps and adapting a farmers’ market-style business to the digital age we live in. If you are in the weeds with growing your small business and navigating social media marketing and digital sales, this episode is for you — Morgan is incredibly honest and vulnerable about what it is to transition from a maker to a business owner while still working a day job, andddd what it is to be intentional about being content in your current circumstances without losing your ambition. She is amazing, so please please please review this episode and gas her up on social media!
11 Brand photographer Rio Chantel on getting back to one's boundaries
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8 Chris Mai's Burning Itch: A Filmmaker's POV on Innovation and Staying Creative
Chris Mai is an incredible Portland, Oregon based filmmaker serving the PNW + beyond. On episode 8 of the Montana Diaries Podcast, Chris and I discuss everyyyything from balancing family and entrepreneurship, to looking toward the future and trying to envision an end point. Chris has some incredible heart-centered takes on ambition, innovation, creativity, and “the dream.” This is a MUST LISTEN.
7 Bailey Anselme: YOU IS ME!? All about contentedness and growing where you're planted
BAILEY ANSELME is an Iowa-based photographer, videographer, and graphic designer serving the Midwest United States and beyond. I felt compelled to pull Bailey on the pod to show what it looks like to offer multiple creative services within one business, and she didn’t disappoint!
6 Mary Kantner: Human-centered business and keeping the art sacred
Mary Kantner is a portrait photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA. She is inspired by “imperfections”, in-between moments, and telling a story in her photographs. She uses both film and digital photography fluently within her work.
5 Shyla Hadley: A candid conversation about what it is to be a person with my college roommate
In this episode, I interview my college roommate Shyla Hadley. Shyla is one of my dearest friends, and was the star of many of my dumb YouTube videos that prompted people to start inquiring about paid photo and video projects. We walk down memory lane a bit before diving into what it meant to support and protect one another over the years, and what it meant to shift roles as long distance friends and merge our lives with romantic partners. This is a fun one!
4 Leanna Krenik: How Her Personal Style Shaped Her Mindset and Career
Leanna Krenik is my dear friend and a Bozeman, Montana based photographer. In this episode of the Montana Diaries podcast, Leanna gets craazzzyyyy vulnerable about her feelings about her personal style and social perception shaped her creativity and career. Keep listening until the end because Leanna's mindset around keeping her personal life and marriage sacred paired with her thoughts about protecting her time are pure gold.
3 Dawn Charles: Photography, Education, and Entrepreneurship
Dawn Charles is an adventurous wedding and elopement photographer turned educator and the founder of Rise Photo Academy, which Dawn calls "Netflix for photographers." She is the creator of multiple digital products and resources for photographers, including her wildly popular DC presets. Dawn joins the Montana Diaries podcast to talk about her progression from photography student, to intern, to business owner. These days, Dawn's main passion lies with helping small business owners find success in their niche.
2 Elise Perpignano: How Glacier National Park Inspired Her Creative Life and Career
Elise Perpignano is a Montana-based artist who specializes in graphic design and oil painting. Elise joins the Montana Diaries podcast to talk all things creativity and business. We discuss the freedom of trying things in childhood, what it feels like to try to cast a practical creative vision and monetize making things, and living outside Glacier National Park.
1 April Sky: Following Intuition in Business, Life, and Motherhood
April Sky is a Montana-based photographer and business coach for moms. She joins the Montana Diaries podcast to discuss her journey from stay-at-home mom to thriving owner of two businesses. In this chat, April gets personal about her divorce and the mindset hurdles she faced as a single mom faced with providing for her son financially for the first time.
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