Biz Women Rock! With Katie Krimitsos

How do you build your blog? Listen to our Interview with Arielle Haspel of Be Well With Arielle to find out! Arielle Haspel began her entrepreneurial career as a health coach but quickly became a food blogger. Her blog BeWellWithArielle.com features amazing recipes that have been "healthified." She's passionate about inspiring others to get in the kitchen. In this inspiring interview, Arielle shares her jump into business, her creative approach to her company, the best marketing strategies that have worked for her online and all the ups and downs she's experienced (and continues to experience)! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/70

How do you build a company that you can hand over to someone else to manage? Listen to our Interview with Eve Mayer, Founder of Social Media Delivered to find out! Eve Mayer started her company Social Media Delivered in 2008 when using social media for business was a new concept. She has since become one of the most respected social media companies in the country! She works with medium and large companies, including a few Fortune 500 companies, helping them strategize and execute effective social media campaigns! In this incredible interview, Eve digs into how she's built a phenomenal team culture that has won her one of the Best Companies to Work For in Dallas, Texas two years in a row! She also talks about hiring the President of her company and what it means to have someone else in the daily management of her company. http://www.BizWomenRock.com/69

How do you leave corporate and build a great business? Listen to our Interview with Liz Brazier, Founder of Life Your Life Now to find out! Liz Brazier spent years as a corporate gal and made shift into her own business even before her business existed. Along her journey, she has invested a lot time and energy into programs that would help her. She launched her business Live Your Life Now and is an accountability consultant who helps people Get the Right "Bleep" Done (also the name of her podcast). She is passionate about helping people get focused and productive! In this inspiring interview, Liz really goes deep into how she made the leap into business, how she's build out her company and all the lessons she's learned along the way! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/68

How do you bring your invention to market? Listen to our Interview with Erin Balogh, Inventor of the Hot Iron Holster to find out! Erin Balogh is inventor of Hot Iron Holster and a creative entrepreneur with a background in Nursing. Her award-winning inventions can be found on The Today Show, Real Simple Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Lucky Magazine and in many other fashion, beauty, and reputable books and morning shows. Before exiting her Nursing career, Balogh adopted a role as a working mother until she fashioned the Hot Iron Holster prototype out of household items. After creating the Hot Iron Holster, Balogh went on a mission to help others clear their lives of clutter and started creating a career by design. In this inspirational interview, Erin goes deep into her experience as an inventor and all the things she's done to bring her idea to market and to create $1.1 million in revenue for her company! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/67

How do you build an international association? Listen to our Interview with Jill Salzman, Founder of The Founding Moms to find out! Jill Salzman is a serial entrepreneur who has experience managing bands, selling baby jewelry online (her jewelry was worn on Gwen Stafani's baby!) and started a fabulous membership organization called The Founding Moms. She started Founding Moms when she had her first baby and simply wanted to pick the brains of other great mompreneurs. Her association is now in 43 cities, 9 countries and has over 8,000 members! In this inspiring interview, Jill shares about her story about all the great lessons she's learned in her business journey! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/66

How do you shift a massive cultural belief system and have a thriving business because of it? Listen to our Interview with Isabel Foxen Duke, Blogger & Coach to find out! Isabel Foxen Duke spent her youth on diet after diet, trying to win the war of weight loss. Realizing this constant roller coaster was actually crazy, she spent her young adult years trying to find the solution for getting out of this way of living. She discovered solutions that worked for her and passionately began blogging about her experiences, knowing she wanted to help other women stop the craziness as well! Through focus on growing her email list, she began engaging an ever-growing number of women with her stories and ideas and strategies and many of these women turned into coaching clients for her. She has built a healthy 6 figure business as a coach and is on the precipice of scaling out her business with products that everyone can access! In this incredible interview, Isabel shares all the details on how she's built her list, ho

How do you build a company by securing government contracts? Listen to our Interview with Tracy Balazs, Founder of FSR to find out! Tracy Balazs started her career as a Registered Nurse and soon found herself in love with caring for veterans and the military. She was inspired by their passion to serve our country and saw the need to help them get back to work after their duties were done. She created FSR, which is a staffing company that marries companies who need great people with the great people who have the needed skills...most of the time, these are military and veterans. The staffing company was created to fulfill the requirements of the government contracts Tracy won. In this insightful interview, Tracy goes in depth about how to go about winning government contracts, how to build out and manage a team (her team consists of 28 corporate folks and 400 associates!) and all the lessons she's learned along the way in her 10 years of running FSR! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/64

How do you differentiate your podcast from all the others? Listen to our Interview with Elsie Escobar, The Podcast Philosopher to find out! Elsie Escobar started her podcast in 2006 when she was one of the few women in the industry and the very first women yoga podcaster! Since that time, she has fallen in love with the amazing community of podcasters and the beautiful power this platform has. Her podcast Elsie's Yoga Class Podcast is still going strong and she is also the Social Media Community Manager for Libsyn (the largest podcast hosting and distribution company) and hosts their podcast The Feed. During this amazing interview, Elsie talks about her experience as a podcaster and shares with you her philosophy about the industry. Whether you want to see it as a business or a chance to spread your message, her vantage point is that we can all infuse our podcasts with art and creativity! Update: Since this interview, Elsie launched She Podcasts! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/63

How do you build out a business that works while you're exploring the world? Listen to our Interview with Natalie Sisson of the Suitcase Entrepreneur to find out! Women in Podcasting!! A trained corporate girl, Natalie Sisson first made her leap into entrepreneurialism as the co-founder of a tech start up in Canada. During her 18 months there, she began blogging about her experience and soon realized she was super passionate about her blog and dove right in. A fun-loving adventurer who loves to travel and see the world, Natalie's evolution as a business woman always came from the lens of creating products and systems that were repeatable and duplicatable so it could run without her! The Suitcase Entrepreneur teaches other business owners the tools and knowledge they need to get the freedom they want in their business! Her podcast The Suitcase Entrepreneur are interviews with fantastic online business owners from all over the world who are sharing their expertise! If you want to know how to get your business t

How do you leverage the platform of Podcasting to bring great marketing ideas to the masses? Listen to our Interview with Esther Kiss, Co-Host of the Born to Influence Podcast to find out! Women in Podcasting! After a decade of successfully coaching companies on utilizing effective marketing strategies to grow their companies, Esther Kiss and her co-host Mette Muller launched Born to Influence, a 6-day-a-week podcast that interviews some of the most amazing marketing minds! In this inspiring interview, Esther walks you through her entire podcasting experience, how she builds her audience of loyal listeners and how she's distinguishing herself as a force to be reckoned with in the podcasting world! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/61

How do you build a global haircare products brand? Listen to our Interview with Gail Federici, Founder of Federici Brands to find out! Gail Federici may be best known for business partnership she had with hair stylist celebrity, John Frieda. She and John had a super successful partnership that grew a global brand, bringing products to market like Frizz Ease and Sheer Blonde that women (like me) go nuts over! After selling the company, she started Federici Brands, whose major products are Time Bomb, a line of skin care and Color Wow Root Cover Up. She reassembled her all-star team of beauty innovators and thought leaders to continue the legacy of break-through technologies and problem-solution products. In this incredible interview, Gail goes into detail about her partnership with John, how they grew their company on such a big scale, what her experience was selling the company and how she's been totally rockin' it bringing her new brand to the public! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/60

How do you take image consulting to a whole new level? Listen to our Interview with Anna Akbari, Founder of Sociology of Style to find out! Anna Akbari studied Sociology in her many years as an academic. As she worked in the fashion industry to pay the bills, she became increasingly fascinated by our ability to communicate with what we wear and how we look. She began her image consulting business in 2009 with a completely different approach. She consults with her clients through the lens of the larger picture of who they are, how they feel and what's important to them...not just their clothes. In this interview, Anna talks goes in depth about her sales process, her client interactions and her plans to scale! http://BizWomenRock.com/59

How do you build a membership organization? Listen to our Interview with Nicole Yeary, Founder of Ms. Tech to find out! Ms. Tech is a community of entrepreneurs and professional women in technology that was started out of the desire to help women get the resources they need in their early stages of starting their tech companies. Nicole Yeary herself was in the throws of making her technology business a reality and realized as she spoke with other women, they all needed the same help! Ms. Tech began as a thriving Facebook group and is now a community of 1200 ladies who connect offline and in person through events! In this inspiring interview, Nicole talks about the internal structure of a successful membership organization and her plans to grow Ms. Tech! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/58

How do you leverage direct sales as a way to distribute your products? Listen to our Interview with Ava Anderson & Kim Anderson, owners of Ava Anderson Non-Toxic to find out! When Ava Anderson was a teenager, she was absolutely disgusted by the amount of toxins that are found in the daily products she was using - face cleansers, cosmetics, deodorants, etc. After blogging about her frustrations and searching for products that were safe (unsuccessfully), she decided she needed to start her own brand of non-toxic products. Ava's mom, Kim has been alongside as her business partner the entire time and the two run this direct sales company with 6,o00 Ava Consultants! In this inspiring interview, Ava and Kim go into what it took to get their Direct Sales company off the ground, how they created the products in the first place and how they're building an army of Consultants who can spread the word to help save lives! http://BizWomenRock.com/57

How do you build your audience and get them to take ACTION? Listen to our Interview with Carrie Wilkerson, Founder of the Barefoot Executive to find out! Carrie Wilkerson began her own business 16 years ago when she made the quick decision to stay home with her brand new kids. Since then, she has built a very successful business by building her list, taking action and being herself! She is an author, an amazing keynote speaker and a consultant who helps her clients make major strides in their companies! She is passionate about her family and has built a six figure - and often 7 figure - business so that she can create the lifestyle she wants from home. In this interview, Carrie shares her story and her knowledge about what it takes to build an audience (fill your stadium) and get them to convert and take action, build consulting and speaking packages and ultimately designing the life you want!! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/56

How do you build a 6 figure speaking business successfully? Listen to our Interview with Joleene Moody, Founder of Joleene Speaks to find out! Joleene Moody began her speaking business, Joleene Speaks in 2010 when she finally decided to get out of a career she hated. Without any experience, she dove into the speaking circuit and spent the first 3 years of her business making huge mistakes and barely getting by. Today, Joleen has a very healthy six figure business, speaks around the nation and has a robust consulting career! She speaks on the topics of How to Convert the Room, How to Close and How to Sell More and Fear Less. She is a vibrant and energetic woman who has experienced great success staying true to her authentic self and continually getting back up after her mistakes. In this inspiring interview, Joleene shares her business story and shares powerful tools on how to build your own speaking and consulting career! Get ready to take notes! http://www.BizWomenRock.com/55

How do you build a successful consulting and product business fueled by your passion? Listen to our Interview with Doreen Martin, Founder of Raw Doreen to find out! The majority of Doreen Martin's life had been spent with an unstable relationship with food. She suffered from an eating disorder in her younger years and by her 40's, she was experiencing major health problems, including anxiety and digestion issues. Desperate for a change, she went on a two week raw juicing detox and she noticed the effects immediately - her anxiety was gone, her mood lightened, her head cleared and her body felt energetic and great! This was the beginning of her raw food experience that eventually created Raw Doreen. Her company focuses on helping people understand and create a plant-based, whole food lifestyle so they can live optimal lives. Through her coaching program and products, she has built a solid business model that is fueled by the powerful community she has built! In this inspiring interview, you'll hear Doreen's pa

How do you build not only one, but TWO great companies? Listen to our Interview with Nellie Akalp, Founder of CorpNet to find out! Nellie Akalp has built not one, but TWO incredible legal document companies. Her first company, MyCorporation (which is now owned by Deborah Sweeney - click here to listen to my interview with Deborah!) was started in the hay day of the internet and the "click to purchase" model worked wonders for she and her business partner and husband! They were soon bringing in $1 million/month and were quickly acquired by the behemoth, Intuit for $20 million. After attempting to start a handful of other companies, she and her husband went back to their roots and began CorpNet, one of the leading legal documents companies! Since it began in 2009, Nellie has established herself and the company as experts and leaders in the industry and is often featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine and Mashable. This amazing interview will give you insight into how Nellie has grown yet another great company

How do you create a specialized product that is high in demand all over the world? Listen to our Interview with Celeste Hilling, Founder of Skin Authority to find out! Celeste Hilling has brought technology and innovation to the skin care industry for the past 10 years. Her company, Skin Authority has been created after years of testing tens of thousands of people, seeing what worked and what didn't. What makes Skin Authority so different is not only their incredible products, but their entire attitude of treating skin care like a lifestyle choice. Skin coaches conduct interviews with clients, figuring out lifestyle, schedules, current routines and what their skin goals are. Based on this analysis, they create a customized package of products and work with clients for months to ensure they're getting results. It's an entirely new way of approaching skin care! Celeste continues to put a ton of time into educating herself about her industry so that she can innovate her products. In this inspiring interview, you

How do you build a strong personal brand that thrives through many different companies? Listen to our Interview with Kim Garst, Founder of Boom! Social to find out! Kim Garst first started building a business from her home as a stay at home mom. She dove into technology and the internet when it was just getting started and quickly established herself as an expert. In a short amount of time, Kim had built a 7 figure business consulting and implementing the online business and marketing strategies for her clients. But she was exhausted and not happy with the lack of time with her family. She sold her business, spent a few years building a networking marketing company and then began Boom! Social in 2012 where she brings all her online wisdom to help small businesses with their social media and general business growth needs! Kim dives in deep during so many parts of this inspiring interview - about what it took to sell her company, her advice on building a successful networking marketing (MLM) company and how she