Curiously Guided Podcast

Ep.60 | How to Embrace Authenticity (And Not Roll Your Eyes) with Shay & Mariah

Whoooop whoooop babyyyyy, this is our last episode for season 3.
Where has the time gone??? For real for real.
Join us in this episode as me & Shay explore authenticity from multiple angles, plus our own self-reflections, and where the podcast is headed...
Thank you so much for tuning into this podcast.
We appreciate you being here, see you in season 4!
In this episode, we explore:
➡️ Exploring what AUTHENTICITY actually is & the complexities of it
➡️ What we’ve learned over the past season from our guests, our listeners, and ourselves
➡️ The connection between curiosity & authenticity
➡️ The issue with watering down your message
➡️ How to start building confidence in your voice, your perspective, and your message
➡️ What we’ve been moving through in our own businesses & in life
➡️ What we see for the podcast moving forward
➡️ How we’re stepping into the next versions of ourselves
 
SEASON 4 COMING IN AUGUST 2023!
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AI for SEO: Will Google Rank AI Content? (Mariah’s Blog Post)
FREE Meditation pack (includes dream day meditation)
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Ep.59 | Tired of Social Media Marketing? Build an ”Anti-Social” Business, with Business Strategist, Holly Marie Haynes

Holly’s whole perspective on business is refreshing as fuck. She’s a firm believer that you shouldn’t build your entire business on social media, but instead, use social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok as your marketing “sidecar”.
In this episode, we explore what it means to have an “Anti-Social” business and “ditch the social drama”. Holly shares her real-life examples and stories of why ONLY relying on social media can be problematic, and what to do about it.
Plus we explore the power of pivoting, how to ask better questions, and the compound effect of taking the time to build relationships.
This is a JUICY one.
Get out your pen & paper bc you might just have a million ideas after listening 😉
Overview of the Episode:
➡️ Holly's journey of becoming an entrepreneur
➡️ The question that Holly started asking herself that changed everything…
➡️ The power of pivoting & keeping it simple
➡️ Starting where you are with what you have
➡️ Corporate world vs entrepreneur world
➡️ Anti-social business strategy; building your business without relying on social media
➡️ What Holly did when her Instagram got deleted during a launch
➡️ Making your marketing easier by repurposing content
➡️ Putting the emphasis on the customer/client experience
➡️ The magic of asking the right questions
➡️ The compound effect of taking the time to build relationships
➡️ What successful entrepreneurs have in common
➡️ Exploring multiple income streams in business
 
Links & Resources Mentioned:
Holly’s “Ditch the Social Drama” Private Podcast Feed
FREE Meditation pack
Buy us a coffee/support the podcast
Book a Strategy Session with Shay & Mariah
About Holly Marie Haynes:
Holly helps female entrepreneurs create simple scaleable offers and systems to grow to multiple 6-figures without relying on the social algorithm. An industry expert and featured Thrive and Entrepreneur.com author with a 20-year business consulting background with Fortune 500 companies, Holly runs her strategic coaching business, the Crush the Rush Planner company, and hosts the top 100 Crush the Rush podcast while raising her twin daughters with her husband in Columbus, Ohio.
 
Website: https://www.hollymariehaynes.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehollymariehaynes/
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Ep.58 | Flipping the Script on Becoming an Online Influencer (Even With a Small Audience), with Business Coach & Podcast Host, Jenny Melrose

This episode is JAM-PACKED with golden nuggets of info, including what it’s like to sell a blog (which we thought was pretty fucking cool lol).
Jenny shines the light on not only the power of blogging & content creation but also on the opportunities available for entrepreneurs to start making money by partnering with brands.
She gives so many tips & perspective shifts, along with being SUPER transparent about pricing and where to start with it when first starting out, which we LOVED.
This episode is a juicy one, we hope you enjoy it!
Overview of the Episode:
➡️ Jenny's journey from teacher to full-time blogger & coach
➡️ Pivoting from blogging as a hobby, to turning it into an actual business 
➡️ What it’s like to actually SELL a blog
➡️ Getting sponsorships even from a small audience
➡️ The importance of finding & using YOUR VOICE in your content
➡️ What brands look for when searching for creators for sponsorships 
➡️ UGC (User-generated content) examples
➡️ Establishing boundaries with brands
➡️ ACTUAL EXAMPLES for pricing sponsorships
➡️ Pivoting from gifted collabs to paid sponsorships 
➡️ Is blogging dead?
➡️ How you can use SEO to leverage paid sponsorships AND find gaps in the market for organic traffic 
➡️ Common mistakes that bloggers make that hold them back from the success they want
 
Links & Resources Mentioned:
3 Secrets Brands are NOT Telling You About Sponsorships FREE Training
Jenny’s Book: Influencer Entrepreneur
How to Setup Google Search Console
FREE Meditation pack
Buy us a coffee/support the podcast
Book a Strategy Session with Shay & Mariah
About Jenny Melrose:
Jenny is a former reading specialist who “retired” from her teaching career when her blogging income far exceeded her salary. Through hard work and dedication, her lifestyle blog, The Melrose Family, became regularly sought out by nationally recognized brands such as Neutrogena, Smuckers, Glad, Costco, Stanley Steamer, Sara Lee, and many more. She is a content strategist that helps entrepreneurs better understand their messaging and unique position in the online space. 
Now, she’s combining her passion for teaching with her extensive experience of creating strategic content for online business owners via JennyMelrose.com and her podcast, Influencer Entrepreneurs with Jenny Melrose as well as her first book Influencer Entrepreneurs: The 4-Step Framework to Building Your Audience, Growing Your Business, and Making More Money Online.
 
Website: https://jennymelrose.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenny_melrose/
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Ep.57 | Detaching Your Identity & Self-Worth From Your Business, with Blogger & Head of Content, Ryan Robinson

This episode was NOTHING like I thought it would be, and everything we needed. Truly. Especially after listening back, there are SO MANY good nuggets of wisdom in here.
This is going to be an episode that I personally listen back to over and over again.
During the conversation, we dive into the depths REAL QUICK about how easy it is for our identities & self-worth to become wrapped up in our business, along with how each of us is handling it.
We also get into the details of Ryan’s journey, what he’s learned about self-worth, blogging, partnerships, and harnessing A.I. in a way that’s exciting for him.
If you feel like you’re constantly trying to balance structure, with intuition, this episode was made for you.
We hope you enjoy it. Thanks for being here :)
Overview of the Episode:
➡️ Ryan’s journey of turning his hobby blog into a successful business & beyond
➡️ De-coupling & detaching yourself from your business 
➡️ Starting off your day getting the “feel good” from yourself vs. seeking it from outside of you
➡️ Balancing having goals & structure, with shiny object syndrome & experimenting with business 
➡️ Coming back to yourself & shifting perspectives
➡️ Exploring the energetic frequencies of self-doubt through the Gene Keys lens
➡️ The power of asking questions & curiosity
➡️ Harnessing A.I & allowing our businesses & ourselves to evolve 
➡️ Our experience with partnerships in business
 
Links & Resources Mentioned:
Check out RightBlogger 
Wisdom of the Masters (Meditations & Spotify Playlist)
FREE Meditation pack
Buy us a coffee/support the podcast
Book a Strategy Session with Shay & Mariah
About Ryan Robinson:
Ryan Robinson is a blogger, podcaster, Head of Content @ Close.com, and (recovering) side project addict that teaches 500,000 monthly readers how to start a blog and grow a profitable side business at ryrob.com.
 
Website: https://www.ryrob.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRyanRobinson
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theryanrobinson/
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Ep.56 | Affirmations for Business Success; Feeling Expansive & Limitless

We wanted to keep this week’s episode simple & share with you some affirmations for business success to help you feel limitless and expansive.
Both Shay & I use affirmation recordings on the regular so we wanted to create one exclusively for the podcast.
This affirmation recording would be perfect to listen to in the morning before you start your day, on a walk, or even when you need a pick-me-up during a stressful time.
We hope that you use these affirmations as a tool to help you tap into the unlimited possibilities, and ultimately remember that you truly are LIMITLESS ✨
WE APPRECIATE YOU!
Additional Links & Resources Mentioned:
FREE Meditation pack (includes dream day meditation)
Buy us a coffee/support the podcast
Book a Strategy Session with Shay & Mariah
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Ep.55 | Behind the Scenes of Building a SAAS Platform that Leverages Live Video for eCommerce Brands, with CEO and Cofounder of eStreamly, Nicolas Bailliache

Ah, we LOVED this episode with Nicolas!
We were able to pull back the curtain and get an inside look at what it’s REALLY like building a SAAS company, what goes into it, and how Nicolas’s journey evolved through the process.
Nicolas also shares a TON of knowledge about live video, how he sees it evolving, and why it’s so damn good at converting consumers for eCommerce brands.
We dive into marketing tips, ways to get more website traffic, how to build an audience, and so. much. more.
We hope you enjoy :)
Overview of the Episode:
➡️ Nicolas’s journey about going from a food scientist to a co-owner of a SAAS company
➡️ The power of testing, tweaking, and doing market research
➡️ eStreamly & how eCommerce websites can use it to drive more sales 
➡️ The problem most eCommerce shop owners have when trying to get sales
➡️ Why video drives more conversions
➡️ WTF do you talk about when doing a live video?!
➡️ Ways to increase engagement to appease the social media algorithms 
➡️ Communicating with your audience & building community around your brand 
➡️ Ways to drive traffic to an eCommerce website 
➡️ How to build confidence in doing live video
 
Links & Resources Mentioned:
Check out eStreamly & learn more about live streaming
Join Nicholas's FREE Community!
FREE Meditation pack
Buy us a coffee/support the podcast
Book a Strategy Session with Shay & Mariah
About Nicolas Bailliache:
Made in France, based in Atlanta Y'all! Nicolas is the co-founder of eStreamly, a live and video commerce SAAS platform empowering brands, retailers and creators to engage shoppers and sell seamlessly using the power of shoppable videos.
Prior to eStreamly, Nicolas was a sales leader at Naturex, a company supporting CPGs & brands transitioning to Natural Foods. Citizen of the world, he had the opportunity to work and live across several continents. Passionate about Innovation & Commerce, he loves exploring, learning and having a positive impact people's lives.
 
Website: https://www.estreamly.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/estreamly/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/estreamly_
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Estreamly
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Ep.54 | Removing Shame & Finding Joy in Your Business Finances, with Financial Coach, Keina Newell

This episode was such a joy to record with Keina. She approaches, talks about, and explains money in such an empowering way that it’s truly contagious. Me & Shay have already made progress & took action steps as a result of this conversation.
And we LOVE the way she balances the strategic piece behind finances, money, and budgeting, WITH the emotional piece of it.
It’s really a refreshing episode, especially about a topic that a lot of people (myself included) try to steer away from.
We hope you enjoy it. Thanks for being here :)
Overview of the Episode:
➡️ Where Keina’s love of finances started & her story of becoming a financial coach
➡️ Removing the shame around not being able to support yourself as a new biz owner
➡️ How to financially prepare yourself to go full-time in your business
➡️ Connecting money with impact
➡️ Build safety with your finances
➡️ Financial planning even if your income fluctuates
➡️ Balancing the emotional & logical aspects when it comes to finances
➡️ Scheduling money dates with yourself
➡️ The biggest mistakes online business owners make with their finances
➡️ Different perspectives about putting your prices on your website
 
Links & Resources Mentioned:
Keina's FREE spending plan to make a business budget
FREE Meditation pack
Buy us a coffee/support the podcast
Book a Strategy Session with Shay & Mariah
About Keina Newell:
Keina Newell is the founder of Wealth Over Now, where she works with professional women and solopreneurs to create new possibilities with their money so they can save more, pay off debt, invest in themselves and stress less about money. She is passionate about her work and finds no greater satisfaction than helping her clients start managing their money with joy because they’ve learned to feel possibility where they once felt shame, guilt, overwhelm, and anxiety.
When she is not coaching, Keina is spending quality time with friends and family and traveling! To learn more about Keina head over to Wealth Over Now and explore her tips to manage your money well.
 
Website: https://wealthovernow.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wealthovernow/
Podcast: Money Files: https://wealthovernow.com/category/money-files/
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Ep.53 | How to Find Your Zone of Genius, with Shay & Mariah

Shay and I have been OBSESSED with this idea of discovering, uncovering, and stepping into our zones of genius.
Both of us recently worked with our mutual friend & past podcast guest, Ash Burnside from Healing Hustle Co, and through her program & curriculum geared around exploring “Your Genius Self,” we’ve learned A LOT about ourselves.
Things for both of us are looking wildly different, especially in business, compared to just 6 months ago, and a lot of it has to do with us becoming more aware of & taking action on our GENIUS.
Which is EXACTLY why we wanted to pull back the curtain & share it all with you in this episode…
In this episode, we explore:
What actually IS genius?
What could it look like to start stepping into your zone of genius
Why it’s SO DAMN HARD to OWN our genius
Collecting data points
How the RIGHT relationships can help you see yourself
Why starting with what it’s NOT can be helpful
Questions to start reflecting on & where to take inventory
Behind-the-scenes examples and stories of how we’re uncovering OUR zones of genius & how the path is unfolding for us
Different tools we use to reflect & get additional insight
Tips, insights, and some laughs along the way :)
Thanks for being here with us, we hope you enjoy the episode!
 
Mariah’s SEO Workshop:
And if you’re interested in joining Mariah’s upcoming workshop happening 4/25/23: SEO for eCommerce & Product-Based Businesses, you can learn more & snag your ticket here!
Additional Links & Resources Mentioned:
FREE Meditation pack (includes dream day meditation)
Buy us a coffee/support the podcast
Book a Strategy Session with Shay & Mariah
Learn More & Connect:
Curiouslyguided.com
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Ep.52 | Bridging the Gap Between Spirituality & Business With Therapeutic Journaling, with Mind-Body Wellness Coach, Melissa Lyons

ooooh baby, we had goosebumps for almost this entire conversation.
Melissa’s story & journey is wildly insightful. From downloading a whole ass book through intuitive journaling, to changing identities, and everything in between, this episode has a lot of great nuggets.
Get ready for a super spiritual, yet grounded conversation where we pull back the layers around resistance, and explore what it means to listen to our own inner wisdom…
We hope you enjoy this episode. Thanks for being here :)
Overview of the Episode:
➡️ Melissa's journey through a 30-month sabbatical from her old successful career➡️ Wtf is a paradigm shift?➡️ Exploring what the 5D means to us ➡️ Learning to receive ➡️ Therapeutic journaling: what is it & how to get started ➡️ Examples of “just do it” vs. “just be it”➡️ The grieving process of changing identities & losses within ourselves➡️ Exploring who you’re not & what you don’t want ➡️ Resistance being our master messenger ➡️ What is an empath
 
Links & Resources Mentioned:
Freedom & Flow Community 2-months FREE
As a Man Thinketh Book (in PDF form)
FREE Meditation pack
Buy us a coffee/support the podcast
Book a Strategy Session with Shay & Mariah
About Melissa Lyons:
Melissa Lyons is a mind-body wellness coach, best-selling author, and thought-provoking keynote speaker. Through her programs, books, and group events, Melissa has helped thousands of people identify and modify imbalances and misalignments that block happiness, health, and success. The resulting transformation creates an abundance of clarity, opening pathways to freedom, flow, and connection to life’s purpose.
Often described as compassionate, raw, and relatable; Melissa draws on her own vulnerabilities, experiences, and humility to reach and connect with people in deep and meaningful ways. Her journey includes an MBA, decades of entrepreneurial and corporate business experience, and a 30-month intensive self-realization sabbatical.
Melissa’s innovative work in Mind-Body Wellness, Thought Nutrition, and Self-Care Essentials is timely and in high demand as it helps navigate challenging times in this ever-changing world. Her mission is to share wisdom, facilitate growth and awaken clarity as she guides and supports one’s inner journey to the alignment of greater harmony, love, and freedom.
 
Website: https://melissa-lyons.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammelissalyons/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IAmMelissaLyons/
Connect with the Podcast:
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Ep.51 | Being a Creative Thinker vs. an Overthinker with Brand Strategist, Melinda Livsey

Ya’ll, I listened back to this episode TWICE and took a full page of notes. Melinda has this way of like nonchalantly dropping wisdom & nuggets left and right without even realizing it lol
Tune in to get the full rundown of not only Melinda’s journey & Brand Strategy, but the behind the scenes insight on how to start making your creative process YOURS, as well as exploring the UNcertified movement.
You’re gonna love this episode.
Thanks for being here :)
Overview of the Episode:
➡️ Melinda’s transition from corporate branding job to entrepreneurship 
➡️ Exploring the fear of getting more visible online
➡️ The true power of honesty & what it leads to
➡️ Pulling the pieces together to make an awesome program/service
➡️ Learning to create & execute YOUR creative process
➡️ Brand Strategy 101 
➡️ Taking frameworks apart and putting them back together 
➡️ The UNcertified movement 
➡️ The pitfalls of getting “certified” What getting “certified” can often mask & the potential deeper levels of it 
➡️ Being a creative thinker vs. an overthinker
 
Links & Resources Mentioned:
Melinda's Brand Strategy 101 Free Email Course
The E-Myth Book
YouTube Series Melinda was Featured in: The Process on The Futur with Chris Do
FREE Meditation pack
Buy us a coffee/support the podcast
Book a Strategy Session with Shay & Mariah
About Melinda Livsey:
Melinda Livsey is a graphic designer turned brand strategist and founder of the Brand Strategy Bootcamp. Her aim is to help make brand strategy (and life!) easier for the creative over-thinker and believes that curiosity is the only certification creatives need. 
Website: https://melindalivsey.com/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/melindalivsey
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melindalivsey/
Connect with the Podcast:
Curiouslyguided.com
Instagram.com/curiouslyguided
Connect with The hosts Shay + Mariah:
Websites: saleswithshay.com & mariahmagazine.com
Instagram: @saleswithshay & @mariahmagazineco