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Welcome to Dear Business Coach, the podcast. My name's Elizabeth Walker, your producer and host, bringing you exclusive spotlights, interviews, articles, free resources. This is Dear Business Coach, the podcast.

Listen, follow, and the email subscription is at dearbusinesscoachpodcast.com. Also access the free magazine each week. All it takes sometimes is one little thing to move your business forward today. I was recently called the executive producer.

At the Fuchsia Talent Conference. And yeah, I'm also the executive producer. That's correct.

Should I change my profile? Maybe, maybe. All right. So you were in the right place.

If you signed up or got an invitation or clicked on something in your email for Elizabeth, producer's notes, and today is a call for women in finance. Right now I'm broadcasting to you live on LinkedIn through the free version of StreamYard. And guess what? I'm actually, this is the only place that you can actually listen live right now.

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And so today is a call for women in finance. And this is, if you haven't guessed already, a call for women to come on the show. I'd like to do a series of women in finance and the way that's working right now is I already have two, one episode is released and actually went out yesterday to subscribers, to email subscribers.

So you get early access if you, if you're an email subscriber to the episodes. So right now it's in your email box. If you're a subscriber, that was Dr. Jessica Schlumpf and she has, she recorded with me recently.

So that episode is live and ready to email subscribers. However, it won't be available to the public until Wednesday. Okay.

So that's how the timing, that's how the schedule works each week. Let me take a sip of coffee here. Welcome again.

I love having you here. Please leave a comment. Please leave a comment.

Did you know that leaving comments is one of the best ways and the most fun ways that I like to make connections on LinkedIn. When you leave a comment on someone's profile event, you can't leave a comment on someone's profile. You can leave a comment on an event like this.

And that actually does show up on your feed too in your comments. And sometimes people will take a look at your comments. It shows how active you are and we get to hear your voice.

So it actually is a form of sharing and showing your authority is by leaving comments like this, just say hi, or, you know, thank you to say, you don't have to say thank you, but that's what I do when I go to people's posts and events is leave a comment that usually involves a thank you for posting or a comment on the content, of course. But anyway, so the point is, yeah, leaving comments actually will boost your profile and show your authority and your activity to people in your network too. All right.

Taking a sip of coffee. What's the date today? Is it November 17th? And can I still talk while I minimize the screen? This is a test. So it's 837 AM Eastern time.

A call to women in finance, a call to women in finance. Well, what does that mean? So the best, so the best thing I can say is I want to appeal to listeners who are curious about different, different, all kinds of different topics around finance for women, I in general would like to, uh, be careful with the phrasing. What I just did there.

I said finance for women. Don't know if that's exactly the best phrase to use. I'm using, I'm writing in my notebook as I'm talking to you here as well.

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Switch microphones and now I can talk to the microphone. All right. Put my phone down here beside me.

The way I do this on the live broadcast is I'm using my cell phone and you can do that too. So if you are interested in broadcasting live, you can use your cell phone and just talk to your cell phone. Or if you have an external microphone that you can plug into, you can do that too.

I'm not actually using any quote studio equipment. Uh, just my cell phone and the microphone in a room with the door closed and, uh, the, the heat is on. I have a mini split in this room and it is on ever so slightly.

I can hear it. I just hope that you can't hear it, but I will listen back and find out. I guess something about these live audios is extra fun because I get to give you behind the scenes details behind the scenes information behind the scenes.

What's going on in the production room and what's going on with, uh, an upcoming events. I actually just. Wrapped up the future conference almost at concert, the future conference on Friday.

I was a panelist and that was really awesome. It might have been my 1st. Experience as a panelist and that was so great.

I hope I get to do that again. Let's see, I was just looking at the background. I think it's their 4th annual their 4th annual conference and the section that I got to be a panelist on was, should I start a podcast or not? And it was me.

And let's see 5 or 6, 5, 4, 5 other folks. I actually posted the. I posted the, uh, the poster I posted the poster that they made with my picture on it there with the other panelists.

So cute. If you ever have a chance to. Work with future and be a part of 1 of their events.

They are. So good at their marketing, they make it really, really, really easy and the folks over there at future are on top of it. I'll tell you what.

So, thank you again for inviting me to be a panelist and that was really fun. What did we talk about on whether to start a podcast or not? Well, some of the questions is a fantastic. Is a fantastic host and panel leader.

She just really knocked it out of the park. 1 of the questions that she. Wanted to pose was, you know, why do you think people want to start podcasts? And I thought that was a really great warm up icebreaker because guess what? Everybody in the room had some version to say of you think that you, you know, if there's a lot of pressure or marketing pressure, that's.

Kind of phrase I would use marketing pressure to pose yourself as an authority in business by having a podcast. So. No, you don't have to have a podcast.

However, those of us who do have a lot to say about. The work that goes involved in it and. How how it is so rewarding and that is really the biggest part of it for a lot of people is the reward factor.

So, that's true for me too, but maybe maybe go back to the future page and check out some, some content from Thursday and Friday from the conference. Now, what about finance for finance for women? That's what I wrote down in my notebook. And I had said just a minute ago.

That I don't think I really want to use that phrase for women. The, uh, the call today is a call to women. In finance, or a call for women in finance.

So what I mean by this is. Women who work in the financial field, if you have a topic to bring to the series around. About around the finance industry, if you work in the financial industry, and you have a perspective on giving information to other women who are interested in working in the financial industry.

Please, please, please contact me dear business coach podcast at gmail.com. You can also reply directly to the newsletter, the email newsletter that comes to me as well. That's. Through the company or website, email Elizabeth at dear business coach podcast.

And what I will ask you is simply to come to a meet and greet. And meet and greet is where we meet over zoom and I will just ask you what would be. Something that would be fun or important for you to highlight right now in your business today.

And, of course, with the preface that we're talking about women in finance. Do you have a story you want to share about your experience working in finance as a woman? Do you want to get into the financial industry? Did you want to get into the financial industry and find a path for yourself? And do you have a perspective? If you've been in the financial industry and left, or have you been in the financial industry for a while? And you're still here and you want to share your perspective on how the financial industry is the same and or different as when you started. So, Dr, Jessica is.

On the podcast now, as I said, that episode is actually available to the public on Wednesday and it's in your email box. If you're an email subscriber, you have early access to it right now. So, that's actually a fantastic thing to bring up on Monday morning live sessions here is to highlight for you.

What's this new episode that you're missing out on if you're not an email subscriber? So, yeah, sign up for email. If you notice that is the 1st thing that I. Like to advertise notice how I haven't said I follow anywhere in particular go to the email list 1st. That's how you have the best information and the most direct and up to date new release early release stuff.

Okay, I'll call to women in finance. So what we had Dr Jessica slump record. She is streaming now and then I have another meeting schedule.

I've already had the meet and greet. I have another recording scheduled for the 2nd. Interview for women in finance, and I'd like to get 6. that's probably my goal.

I like the idea of a mini series of 6 episodes. Really good. If we get more, then let's do it.

We'll do more. So, I'm deciding how to package these interviews together. My guess is that.

I will go ahead and record with you as you come to the show 1st, come 1st, serve and release the episodes. It might work out that we just end up with a series within the show, or I can put them together. In a package and advertise them on social.

Individually, which I will do probably anyway, because we're talking about this year. So, let's see. We'll see how the, how the marketing goes.

But either way. I've been thinking about this for a while and for whatever reason now is the time that I've decided to talk to you about it directly. So it's time and a call for finance for women in finance is the topic today on this slide.

So, every Monday morning, I go live at 830 a.m. Eastern time. And this is usually audio only if you haven't noticed there's no video. I'm not asking you to watch the video.

So you can play. This audio on your desktop or on your phone, just set it next to you and listen to it like the morning news and. You can open up your computer screen, your phone, your email, your messages and kind of.

Put me there next to you on your desk and get a little warm up for the day. So I, I hope that. Listening to this Monday morning time is good for you as far as.

Setting the mood thinking about who do I want to connect with this week? Right? We're talking on. LinkedIn today, so LinkedIn automatically makes me think of connections. That's the button that we use connect with people and follow.

Let me take a sip of coffee. Women in finance, there are so many questions that I have to ask you many of them. Personal finance questions, and then there's personal finance questions often bleed over into.

Business finances, you don't need to be a business owner. To come on the show, I would love to talk to some executives in finance. One of the industries that I know I started to see.

Women in roles in finance that were forward facing in my early adulthood. Or mortgage brokers, for example, I feel like I started to notice at some point in my young adult life that. More the position of a mortgage broker.

Much like real estate is. Something that I would see women in right women in those roles. And I wonder if there's a reason for that is there more to the finance industry than women who are.

In those forward facing roles, are there women in the analytics of finance that we haven't heard enough from? Are you someone who has had a career in analytics in the financial industry? Are you someone who reports on the financial industry? So if you are. Someone who's interested in weighing in on the financial industry. From the perspective of working as a woman in the financial industry, I would love to hear from you.

And here's a side note for for you from me. I, I, I kind of hesitate actually against this idea of making. Topics or episodes specifically about women or for women or from women.

However. People have I've been getting feedback from coaches and listeners. Who have said to me, you actually do want to use that.

You do actually want to quote, take advantage of. The idea of for women by women of women. So that you can speak directly to the audience that you're talking to if you're interested in speaking with and about and for women.

I just. Have a little bit of an inner battle around that because I feel like it singles out. Women, yet again, as a special group who needs special training or something, it's condescending.

I realized that I probably have. Many of my own triggers around vocabulary and concepts related to women in general. As far as that goes, I'm trying to be conscious of that.

So that I don't get offended too easily or dismiss an idea suggestion or feedback simply because. It's too touchy for me to think about. So I'm working on that.

If you have any advice for me, if you're listening and you have some. Advice for me as far as how to think about these topics. When we say finance for for women, or if we say finance.

Women in finance that that phrase specifically denotes to me someone who works in the industry and identifies as a woman. So I am curious about that for personal reasons. Like I said, I have questions that might be very personal and as well as bleed over into business and career.

I have a lot of questions about my own choices in my 20s and 30s around financial management in my personal life and how those decisions affected my business life. Once I became a business owner and once I was shifting into thinking about business budgeting and business financing cash flow. So, of course, I have many comments about mistakes that I made early, early on.

And I have a hard time asking reflective questions of myself or professional. Simply because it is in the past. I feel like I maybe have learned from some of those financial mistakes.

However, it's still a sore spot. I'm still really bitter, I guess about. Mistakes that I've made financially, so I am curious to see if I can.

Expose some of these questions to those of you who come on the podcast. So if you are a woman in finance and you'd like to come on to the show, I promise you the episode is about you and the episode is about your work. And to highlight what you have going on in your world to make an episode that hopefully is fun for you to share.

That's the same thing that I say to all my guests is I give you a list of the marketing things that come along with being on the podcast, like the magazine, the email list and the social media clips. As well as you can have the file, the video file of our interview. Once it is edited and released to share.

To your audience in any way you would like to, so I don't know if everybody does that. So if you if that's if that's a value to you, my hope is that you enjoy the interview enough that you like to share it and find some clips in there that you'd like to cut and share as well. However, it is.

Also important that I, you know, come up with some really. Important questions that are personal to me, because that's how I share with you. Maybe some of my gives you maybe an insight to why I'm interested in your work.

What do I maybe I perceive you as someone who can answer these very important questions that I'm afraid to ask and somehow being on the interview with me. We have a certain kind of bond, right? A podcast episode bond of sorts. Expert to questioner expert to novice expert to person who needs help.

So that's me. That's the role that I play in the interview process. Which is 100% true because I'm not an expert of any sort.

I have a business degree and I concentrated in finance. And as I was saying in my meeting the other day. Um, that if you might know that a concentration is not a major, those are not the same thing.

So. What that means is I've taken a few classes in finance as it relates to business. And I was in the student managed fund.

That was a lot of that was a lot of fun. And the track that I took in classes in my business major or financial classes, such as corporate finance. So.

That's my academic background to finance. I also learned early on. Once I graduated or they're close to graduation and shortly thereafter.

That insurance is, of course, a financial product, which I knew. However, I in my experience. There were many opportunities to jump into the insurance industry.

As a college graduate, there are sales opportunities. Internships and trainings in the insurance industry. And that is a perfectly good way to get.

To get into a career path that wasn't quite the path for me. However, I just learned a whole lot from the exposure to. Those jobs and those internships through interviews that I looked at potentially going to and did go to some of those.

All right, let me take a sip of coffee here. It's 856 a.m. Eastern time. On Monday, this is live.

I think I will release this episode on a on this on the business podcast. Potentially don't hold me to that. I reserve the right to change my mind.

And however, this is a pretty important episode for the call to women in finance to come on the show. The Dear Business Coach podcast has been going for two years. Actually, right now is the two year anniversary.

So I think maybe I should remember to do something with that. How about right now? Happy two year anniversary to the Dear Business Coach podcast. I've been a one women show for a long time.

However, in the last six to eight months, I have included social media teammates. And that has been tremendously helpful. So if you look at the videos that go on social, I make most of I do about 60 to 70 percent creative work on those and then get help to post them.

Some of the videos actually were created by a teammate on my social media team, and they often look a lot better than mine. So maybe we should start doing that again. But sometimes I can't help myself.

And if it's a weekend and I'm outside of those office hours for getting tasks sent over to social media, then I will post a video that I made. And I bet you can tell. I bet you can tell.

However, I think that it gets the point across. It's something fun to look at. And what I like to do is pull quotes from those clips.

I don't really care to interpret what the guest was saying. I don't want to rehash my opinion of what the guest was saying. I actually like to pull the quotes directly and use the actual verbiage from the interview.

I think that's really important. That's exactly how the magazine is done as well. If you want to read some of the notes in the magazine, there's a From the Producer page, kind of like a From the Editor page, right? I'm not technically by profession a magazine editor.

That would be something else if I were. I dearly look up to people in those professions. I'll move my hat off to you for the amount of precision and detail that goes into your daily work.

I would absolutely love to have an editor of a magazine on the show. Liz Long, the editor of the Renoker magazine, she was on my show. And it's been about a year now.

So that was an incredible interview because being an editor is not the only thing she does. Actually, learning how to talk to people who have so many roles in their life needs to be something I think about, right? You're no longer talking to the people. When you talk to someone about their work, you're no longer talking to people about their one job.

You're talking to them about all of the roles that they actually fulfill. Sometimes it's different organizations. So that's the culture.

That's the climate. That's how we do business these days a lot of the times. A call to women in finance.

My name is Elizabeth Walker, producer and host, executive producer and host. Thank you, Sharada, of the Dear Business Coach podcast. Check out the magazine if you're an email subscriber.

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