Book & Podcast Recommendations to Survive #COVID19 According to 8 Female Business Owners

Looking for book or podcast recommendations to survive COVID19? I’ve collected favorites from 8 intelligent, resourceful, and entrepreneurial business-owning women and compiled their answers below. Save this blog post for next time you need a book or podcast recommendation!

Tricia Snyder, Owner of Trish

Book Recommendation(s):

• Educated by Tara Westover

• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

• Wild by Cheryl Strayed

• The tender bar by j.r. Moehringer

• shataram by gregory david roberts

• a house in the sky by amanda lindhout & sara corbett

• the art forger by shapiro

Must reads that will make anyone feel better, happier, grateful and even educated. Very cool 😎 grouping of my favorites! Some old and some new but all an experience worth the adventure and time!

Xoxo 😘 TRISH

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Sara Andrews, Owner of Wanderful Boxes

Book Recommendation:

• Shoe Dog by Phil Night

Shoe Dog is like an autobiography, business book and economics book all rolled into one. Obviously we know Nike’s success but I like getting a look at the turbulence they endured and how they adapted and overcame.

Podcast Recommendation:

• How I Built This with Guy Raz

How I Built This gives a look at the challenges people faced early on and I like the questions they ask as far as how founders overcame them. I appreciate the authenticity and how they include the losses as well as the wins. 

- Sara

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Kristin Joslin, Owner of Cocoa Nouveau

Podcast Recommendation(s):

• The Box of Oddities with Katrina Walls & Jethro Toth

• Intentional Conversations with Melanie scott

I am addicted to The Box of Oddities podcast! I started from the very beginning and you never know what you will learn. I love Intentional Conversations and Shots of Inspiration from Melanie Scott, it just depends on my mood. Right now I am all in on box of oddities. It is addicting and so much fun. The couple is awesome.

- Kristin

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Sarah Blehm, Owner of Method Wellness

Book Recommendation:

• The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

I feel like I get something new out of it every time I read it!

Podcast Recommendation:

• How I Built This with Guy Raz

I am obsessed with How I Built This (basic, I know, but still I love it).

- Sarah

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Perry Orourke, Owner of Purely Elderberry and Wellness

Book Recommendation:

• Boundless: Upgrade your brain, optimize your body and defy aging by Ben Greenfield

I got Ben Greenfield’s new book, Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, OptimizeYour Body and Defy Aging, as a gift a couple months ago and have really enjoyed reading it.

Podcast Recommendation:

• Ben Greenfield Fitness

Any podcast from him are great, too. This episode,Healthy Drinking 101: How To Make Feel-Good, Alcohol-Free Cocktails Chock Full of Nootropics, Adaptogens & Botanicals! is cool.

- Perry

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Jacqueline Weisberg, Owner of Empowered Mind Wellness

Book Recommendation(s):

I’m incredibly passionate about personal empowerment, healing, and transformation, and therefore it’s no surprise that the book genres I love fall in the same categories. Some of my many faves include:

• Awakening Shakti by sally kempton

  A book about how embodying aspects of the Divine feminine can potentize and transform your life. 

• The Universe Has Your Back by gabrielle bernstein, Outrageous Openness by tosha silver, CreatIng a Life You Love by Swami shankarananda, and Conversations with Grace by (my friend) julianne haycox

  Faith-based books for inspiration & intentionality with personal accounts of spiritual transformation.

• The Book of Awakening by mark nepo, A Path With Heart by Jack Kornfield, The Book of Joy by dalai lama, The Five Invitations by frank ostaseski

  Buddhist and spiritually based books with practical applications for healing, living life fully and appreciating the preciousness of your beautiful human life.

• The Body Keeps the Score by bessel van der kolk

  A  neuroscience based book written by a foremost expert on healing trauma through adjunctive modalities including mindfulness, breath, movement, and others.

I hope you enjoy and love these as much as I do!

- Jacqueline

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Mia Byrd, Owner of Byrdhouse Creative + Byrdhouse Bridal

Book Recommendation:

• If You Have to Cry, Go Outside by Kelly Cutrone

• Normal gets you nowhere by Kelly Cutrone

Both books by Kelly Cutrone- ‘If You Have to Cry, Go Outside’ and ‘Normal Gets You Nowhere’ are two faves. They inspire women to speak up, be bold while being professional, and work hard to perfect their crafts and reach life goals.

Podcast Recommendation:

• The Daily by The new york times

I’m generally immersed in the creative world, but I want to stay in tune with the world around me and current events. It’s a 20 minute daily podcast featuring important current events.

- Mia

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Brittany Tilley, Owner of Tilley’s Social Threads

Book Recommendation:

• The Big leap by Gay Hendricks

This book is good for creatives/entrepreneurs or anyone really.

Podcast Recommendation

• The Science of social media by Buffer

I also like The Science of Social Media by Buffer. I always tell people to take everything with a grain of salt. You don’t have to do everything they say, just glean tidbits to start new projects or ideas!

- Brittany

What about you? What have you been reading or listening to lately? Comment below! I’d love to hear.

Cheers,

Emily

Four Entrepreneurs Share Their Biggest Lesson in Business

Some of the best advice I’ve received has come not from business textbooks but from individuals or entrepreneurs who have experience under their belts. If you can learn from someone else’s journey, why not? I’ve asked a few entrepreneurs I know and respect for what is one lesson they’ve learned in business. Here’s what they said.

“Know your biggest strengths and weaknesses. Find someone whose strength is your weakness and ask them for help and guidance. For me, Strength: Visionary leadership and Weakness: Financial controls.  

So I make a good CEO, but only if I have a good CFO.”

— Gregg Rozeboom, Fruitive

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“I think the biggest lesson I’ve learned has been to be more kind and understanding to myself and my abilities. To listen to my body and know that I’m doing all I can.

This helps me stay positive. Meditating daily twice a day and slowly digesting my thoughts. It may not always be the most productive, but if I’m not ok, everything stops. ”

— Nez Nelsen, nezlife studios

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“My biggest lesson in starting my own business is to come in with clear intention, to be very focused on my goal on helping individuals, families, & businesses with my highest ability, for their highest good. I take each client in as if they were someone in my family. I concentrate on staying focused, no multitasking, and get it done with respect, love, & understanding. ”

— Jen Van Horn, Jen Van Horn Health

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“Aside from the obvious - understanding what your services are, pricing them correctly, and having a robust client roadmap with clear understanding of deadlines and deliverables on both sides - I’d say the most important thing I’ve learned is that business takes place outside of Instagram and even social media in general.

It’s crazy to say that in the 21st century, but it’s true. I believe I spent more time coming up with the perfect Instagram caption and grid pattern in my first year than I took making sure the few clients I was lucky enough to have in my first year on my own were taken care of.

Instagram and other social outlets are an awesome tool. But to build a business that has depth, meaning and a potential legacy? It has to live outside the digital realm. It has to have a functionality in the real world. It has to have a mission beyond gaining new followers and more eyeballs to your content.

Otherwise, you’re building a digital sandcastle. The bits and bytes of trends and new platforms will crash like a tidal wave over your kingdom. And I want to build something that has a deep purpose and meaning. That can withstand a trend. That can sustain.

In the next year of my business, I am going to work to make my digital presence as a business into the real world. Meaning, I won’t spend more time on Insta Stories than I do creating meaningful content that makes an impact. ”

— Brett Tubbs, Valor Media Group

My advice? Surround yourself with individuals in different industries and various seasons of life who can challenge you, encourage you, and maybe even help you to not make their same mistakes!

Cheers,

Emily