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Join two very different, busy, passionate moms, Ariella Vaccarino and Theresa Ofstad, on their own journey/quest towards entrepreneurial and business success. With them, celebrate other mompreneur guests as we learn from their experiences and wisdom all while balancing the ever-demanding role of motherhood...
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Monday Dec 26, 2022
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Logistics are not always a fun part of the process, but very necessary. Listen to how Ariella and Theresa work through the process of creating a grief workshop and other things. Things that you create didn’t exist before. So many mommies have something magical inside of them.
Ep. 5 - Planning process.
1:45 - Building a Grief workshop on Mastermind.com
3:30 - Many people have lost someone in their life.
4:25 - How are you going to record and upload these courses?
5:52 - When are you going to start recording?
6:45 - Is a podcast the right platform for grief?
7:35 - There are so many steps to take to get there, you don’t even know it exists.
9:05 - Creating a Niche market.
10:40 - creating a challenge on Facebook.
12:22 - Trying to decide which podcast host and other technical platforms.
14:25 - Setting up a business license EIN / FBN / Bank account / Stripe / PayPal
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18:30 - Once you create it, you will have that, and it can develop into something else.
18:52 - Monthly version for Grief workshop. It’s a Constant journey.
19:57 - Something that you created.
21:15 - When opportunities come, grab them
22:15 - Invitations can lead to opportunities
24:58 - The magic of networking
26:45 - Find a community that is important for you.
27:46 - We created a community that did not exist before we started it.
31:15 - Start with something that inspires you.
We figured out how to set up Affiliates!
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Some Background on the hosts!
Ariella Vaccarino-
Once an opera singer, mother to 5 children, voice and piano teacher, creator of
Voice Lessons To Go, a line of voice lesson CDs/downloads that sell nationwide.
She is also the host of the podcasts:
The Talented Magical Mommies Club
Ariella's Vocal Notes
and she has her own YouTube channel about singing:
www.youtube.com/VoiceLessonsToGo
Theresa Ofstad-
Is currently working a fulltime job while running a Basketball Club with her husband and teenage son. She is developing a business called Fuller Life, a resource for patients, seniors and their families. She is an area director with Toastmasters, a lifetime learner, leadership fanatic, and community connector.
Sign up for her monthly newsletter to volunteer and support:
Fuller Life
Join MOMentum's private Facebook group:
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https://patron.podbean.com/momentum
Friday Dec 30, 2022
Friday Dec 30, 2022
Trying so hard not to laugh…Have you ever had one of these moments? Share with us in the comments or on Facebook group below…
Bonus laugh track…
We figured out how to set up Affiliates!
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We figured out how to set up ads!
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Some Background on the hosts!
Ariella Vaccarino-
Once an opera singer, mother to 5 children, voice and piano teacher, creator of
Voice Lessons To Go, a line of voice lesson CDs/downloads that sell nationwide.
She is also the host of the podcasts:
The Talented Magical Mommies Club
Ariella's Vocal Notes
and she has her own YouTube channel about singing:
www.youtube.com/VoiceLessonsToGo
Theresa Ofstad-
Is currently working a fulltime job while running a Basketball Club with her husband and teenage son. She is developing a business called Fuller Life, a resource for patients, seniors and their families. She is an area director with Toastmasters, a lifetime learner, leadership fanatic, and community connector.
Sign up for her monthly newsletter to volunteer and support:
Fuller Life
Join MOMentum's private Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/849622462704055/
Become a Patron by clicking the link at the top of the page or clicking here:
https://patron.podbean.com/momentum
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Alternate ways to build funds for your business? #GivingTuesday, Crowdfunding, Grants, loans. Follow Ariella Vaccarino and Theresa Ofstad as they unfold multiple options to get started in their businesses. Including technology resources for collaboration and email campaigns. Follow them on their path each week as they share their journey…
Ep. 6 - Alternate funding ideas and technology tools
0:24 - New experiences, new technologies.
0:54 – Take advantage of YouTube for tutorials.
2:14 – We picked a podcast host; Podbean. Click HERE before signing up for Podbean.
3:55 – Someone will need something we are sharing, but you may not need it all.
5:10 – Theresa’s big win for the week, #GivingTuesday campaign. Click HERE
7:45 – How do we come up with funding?
9:00 – Crowdfunding is an option for building funds.
10:18 – Free Platforms for Emails, Newsletters, Landing page, and other tools.
12:56 – Successful Failure.
14:37 – Creating content that we can use over and over again.
15:20 – Getting Business License, DBA, Bank Account, Stripe account.
18:01 – You can still do it! Follow up Emails and Newsletters to continue the mission.
19:14 – Big successful wins between the two of us.
19:55 – Trello, collaboration tool to help us complete projects we are working on together.
21:30 – Win for Ariella… picking podcast host. Purchased for the year with multiple channels that allows us to do everything we want to do.
22:20 – If you can work with somebody, we highly recommend it to encourage each other and share responsibilities.
We figured out how to set up Affiliates!
Before signing up for Podbean click here:
https://www.podbean.com/ourmomentum
We figured out how to set up ads!
If interested in advertising on our channel, click here:
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Some Background on the hosts!
Ariella Vaccarino-
Once an opera singer, mother to 5 children, voice and piano teacher, creator of
Voice Lessons To Go, a line of voice lesson CDs/downloads that sell nationwide.
She is also the host of the podcasts:
The Talented Magical Mommies Club
Ariella's Vocal Notes
and she has her own YouTube channel about singing:
www.youtube.com/VoiceLessonsToGo
Theresa Ofstad-
Is currently working a fulltime job while running a Basketball Club with her husband and teenage son. She is developing a business called Fuller Life, a resource for patients, seniors and their families. She is an area director with Toastmasters, a lifetime learner, leadership fanatic, and community connector.
Sign up for her monthly newsletter to volunteer and support:
Fuller Life
Join MOMentum's private Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/849622462704055/
Become a Patron by clicking the link at the top of the page or clicking here:
https://patron.podbean.com/momentum
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Projects need to be written down, visualized, and action steps taken to get them done. Business Plans can help. What are your time savers? Ariella and Theresa share tips and inspirational stories. But the most important thing to remember is… Don’t let people destroy your dream! Go out and achieve it!
Ep. 7 - Project lists and action steps
:52 - My upcoming projects to success, joy, and real wealth.
1:20 – Seeing it in front of you, speaking it, and believing it.
List of 24 projects with 24 tasks each – MOMentum list examples:
2:51 – Select Podcast host - Podbean
3:04 – Buy the equipment
3:55 – Create a workbook
4:02 – Interview Candidates
4:07 – Create a logo
4:12 – Create music for intro
4:20 – Look into sponsors and advertisers; click here to advertise:
4:50 – Set up PodBean landing page / Webpage
5:00 – How to connect Patron
5:08 – How to distribute this out
5:21 – Calendar schedule
5:27 – Re-record intros for first episodes
5:37 – List for each episode
7:02 – Business plan and Action steps.
8:53 – Write each step down so as we accomplish them, we can see what we have done.
9:12 – Ariella’s past Success with CD’s Voice Lessons to Go.
10:30 – Trello is a platform to help with collaboration.
12:00 – Files on computer desktop help to keep you organized as well.
13:30 – Tip: Pull from one document with majority of content.
14:30 – What are your time savers?
15:36 – List Power intensive – build your list of contacts first is one way to go…
16:24 – CRM systems – “Customer Relationship Management”
18:03 - You can google anything. We live in a world of acronyms.
18:45 - Ariella started with a product, did everything wrong in marketing it and was still a success.
19:52 – Don’t let people destroy your dream. If you have an idea in your head go out and create it, build it, believe in yourself.
20:46 – Nobody starts as a professional. Everybody has to start from something. Oprah was fired at age 33 before becoming Oprah.
21:31 – Rocky story…
We figured out how to set up Affiliates!
Before signing up for Podbean click here:
https://www.podbean.com/ourmomentum
We figured out how to set up ads!
If interested in advertising on our channel, click here:
https://www.podbean.com/OurMOMentumAds
Some Background on the hosts!
Ariella Vaccarino-
Once an opera singer, mother to 5 children, voice and piano teacher, creator of
Voice Lessons To Go, a line of voice lesson CDs/downloads that sell nationwide.
She is also the host of the podcasts:
The Talented Magical Mommies Club
Ariella's Vocal Notes
and she has her own YouTube channel about singing:
www.youtube.com/VoiceLessonsToGo
Theresa Ofstad-
Is currently working a fulltime job while running a Basketball Club with her husband and teenage son. She is developing a business called Fuller Life, a resource for patients, seniors and their families. She is an area director with Toastmasters, a lifetime learner, leadership fanatic, and community connector.
Sign up for her monthly newsletter to volunteer and support:
Fuller Life
Join MOMentum's private Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/849622462704055/
Become a Patron by clicking the link at the top of the page or clicking here:
https://patron.podbean.com/momentum
Thank you for visiting our website. We have just wrapped up SEASON ONE of:
MOMentum Podcast
We have already released 30 episodes of our journey. About halfway through Ariella and Theresa interviewed some amazing mompreneurs who have learned to pivot during difficult and challenging times. These women share some great tips and advice from their successes. Go back and listen to each episode and share with others to gain some wise business advice and family tips while raising children.
We have paused to take care of our own families and businesses but will be back for
SEASON TWO with updates on our journey and more amazing mompreneurs.
This will give you time to get caught up on all 30 episodes, just click above to load more episodes and listen on all major platforms...
Join two very different, busy, passionate moms on their journey towards entrepreneurial success.
Ariella Vaccarino and Theresa Ofstad met at their kid's basketball practices. They found themselves taking walks while they waited for their kids which got them to talking...
They found that they both shared a connection of having a calling to do very different yet powerful things (outside of their blessed motherhood).
After many of their walks around that high school track, they decided that other moms would benefit from hearing their "talks" and thus began MOMentum - a podcast documenting their own process of following their individual dreams and paths to success.
Follow Ariella and Theresa in real time as they both pursue their entrepreneurial quests while keeping up and balancing the joys and complications motherhood.
We figured out how to set up Affiliates!
Before signing up for podbean click here:
https://www.podbean.com/ourmomentum
We figured out how to set up ads!
If interested in advertising on our channel, click here:
https://www.podbean.com/OurMOMentumAds
Join MOMentum's private Facebook group:
Ariella Vaccarino
Once an opera singer, now wife, mother to 5 children and 5 dogs. She is a voice and piano teacher as well as the creator of Voice Lessons To Go, a line of voice lesson CDs/downloads that sell nationwide.
Ariella is happiest when her house is filled with people she cares about and they are eating delicious food! She loves traveling, trying new things and meeting new people.
Ariella loves to help people find the greatness and power within themselves.
If you like this podcast, Ariella has some more projects as well...
www.voicelessonstogo.com-Instructional singing products by Ariella Vaccarino- CDs/Downloads, books, Your Vocal Assessments and private study.
www.youtube.com/voicelessonstogo- Instructional singing videos, short and long form
Podcast- Ariella's Vocal Notes- Join the creator of Voice Lessons To Go, Ariella Vaccarino for her insights, advice, tips and instruction on singing.
Theresa Ofstad
Is currently working a fulltime job while running a Basketball Club
with her husband and teenage son.
She is developing a business called Fuller Life, a resource for patients,
seniors and their families.
She is an area director with Toastmasters, a lifetime learner,
leadership fanatic, and community connector.
Sign up for her monthly newsletter to volunteer and support:
MOMentum Guests
Lillit L. Cholakian is a mother of two daughters, and the Founder and CEO of NewGen Global Leaders. She is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and leading the Next-Gen track at NAWBO-LA (National Association of Women Business Owners) Lillit is a Certified Professional Coach through Logos University in partnership with Integrity Coaching and Top Leaders, Inc. She is also a certified John C. Maxwell Coach, Speaker, and Trainer. -Ep.14
Mariann Aalda As one of the first African American daytime soap opera heroines as attorney DiDi Bannister on Edge of Night. She is an Actress, Ted-X Speaker, and mom who is on a mission to create an aging shamelessly revolution. After “aging out” of Hollywood, AARP named her an Age Disruptor for her career reinvention as a hypnotherapist turned standup comic and performance artist. -Ep.15
Menina Fortunato, founder of MENINA ENTERTAINMENT, has been in the dance industry for three decades and maintains a hectic schedule working both in front and behind the camera, owning multiple dance businesses, traveling the world while juggling being a wife and mother of 3. -Ep.17
Gail Lara is a Small Business Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles. She was also the founder of the Women’s Collaborative Mentoring Program and is a business coach with Operation Hope progressing their Launch + Grow for women entrepreneur’s program. Gail is a mom of three, her son having Autism, and was an instrumental leader in navigating the system to help improve school programs for youth with Special needs! -Ep.18
Robin Barber- Creator of The Baby Fairy Shoppe. Following this dream a bit later in
life, Barber started The Baby Fairy Shoppe, a monthly gift giving enterprise for pregnant moms. -Ep.19
Elizabeth Brunner is a San Francisco-based designer and the founder of StereoType, a fashion-forward kids clothing brand that’s designed to celebrate individuality and freedom of expression by blending traditional ideas of boys’ and girls’ wear inspired by her own twins. -Ep.21
Mel Mutterspaugh Founder and Formulator at Mountain Mel's Essential Goods and The Herbalist’s Path program. On a mission to inspire people to take better care of our planet, through taking better care of themselves, naturally! Skilled in herbal formulations, clinical herbalism, team leadership, sales, environmental education, networking, and small business ownership hustle! -Ep.22
Jessica (Harbour) Maul successful model, ring girl, Rock Star Energy drink girl, turned mom, turned Travel Agent. Jess Harbour founded Jess Travel complimenting her husband’s celebrity touring RV company. -Ep.23
Anna Battung founder of MCSQ an Executive Consulting firm focused on guiding companies to operate differently in a fast-paced virtual world generating new business strategies to accelerate overall growth and build future opportunities. -Ep.24
Remy Meraz is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zella Life, a coaching platform for diverse workforce populations. Throughout her career as a sales leader, Remy would often find herself as the only woman or person of color in a room, fueling the idea for Zella Life and her passion for leveling the playing field for underserved communities. -Ep.28