The Business Backpack: Recent Episodes
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A loaded and lighthearted journey through the adventures of entrepreneurship, the Business Backpack will cover all sorts of tips and tools for launching and building a successful small business. It all starts with YOU and your mindset and willingness to step forward onto the trail of ideas and prepare yourself to weather whatever challenges might come your way.
Join members of the Idaho Women’s Business Center, Crystina Perez, Oscar de la Torre, and Megan Bryant, for this laid back yet informative podcast adventure!
Angie takes us on a musical journey through entrepreneurship and the creation of community through song. Have you ever had someone tell you that you “can’t” play music for some reason or another? They have and are changing the narrative of playing music as a form of community and celebration in the excitement of creating music in a collaborative environment. Take a listen and start jamming out with Boise Music Lessons.
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Erica Alfaro is the proud daughter of migrant farm workers, born in the heart of the central valley farmlands in Fresno and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. In this episode, she shares details of her experience working with art licensing, creativity, and starting a small business. Erica encourages listeners to dream bigger, and believe in their potential.
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Curious about a career field in tourism? Join us in hearing the entrepreneurial journey of Michelle, and her business Feeling Groovy Tours located in Boise, Idaho. She purchased a 1976 VW Bus, renovated it, and built a business to share the epic landscape of the Treasure Valley. Her boxy, yet fun time machine is hitting the road for Summer in the City, Urban Wine Tours, and Private Charters. Hear about her story and the passion behind her business idea.
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Flower Farming! Join us as we chat with Collen Taugher, the business owner of Mellifera Farm.
Listen in as one of the IWBC’s amazing teammates, Dr. Cheryl O’Brien, regales us with her impressive, introspective, and important career path. She spent many years as a leader in a highly male-dominated field and has made some big pivots in life, including a shift to working with us to help women achieve their goals as small business owners.
Crystina and Megan talk about how important it is to pause, reflect, and realign to ensure you are able to execute the business strategies that are most important to you! Listen in as we chat about our 44 X 22 Idaho Rural Growth Initiative - with an accompanying project where we will interview one woman business owner from each of the 44 counties in Idaho by the year 2022.
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Crystina and Megan connect on this episode to chat about the passions and pass times that inspire us, along with chatting about some of the really exciting opportunities for entrepreneurs through the Idaho Women’s Business Center. Life is all about balance. Let us help you keep that flow of loving life while being super effective with your work.
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We brought in IWBC Director of Mentorship, Paige Wiscombe, to chat all about mentorship and how it can elevate your entrepreneurial goals. Tune in to learn about our Mentorship program at the IWBC and how mentors have guided us in our careers and life choices.
We caught Executive Director of the IWBC, Diane Bevan, with about 1 hour notice to get a candid interview with her about WHY she is so passionate about serving entrepreneurs. She has been, and still is an entrepreneur who has a huge scope of experience with the swings in triumphs and trials every step of the way. It’s always fun to turn over the stone where someone has laid a foundation in helping others possibly take the easier road by learning from another person’s experience.
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If you have a business idea OR you have been in the game for a while and have a new product or service you want to launch, crowdfunding might be the best vessel to make it happen! Rally your community and explore this financing option when traditional means may be unattainable.
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The ability to connect with clients and teammates virtually during these trying times is a MUST DO. We talk in this ep all about virtual connections, why ya gotta have a website if you are a small business, and how to embrace the current business climate online.
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Do you feel confident? Whether you DO or do NOT feel confident, have you ever thought about why that is the case? We need confidence and to recognize where are strengths are in order to really thrive as our best self! And - we shouldn’t be devastated when we lack skills in certain areas, but rather find appreciation for those who fill those gaps in our lives. Mmmmmm - yeah, through collaboration of strengths!
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Sometimes we get bowled over by the things during our day that don’t go smoothly. It can start to suck the life out of us if we aren’t careful. It’s cool to acknowledge the things that go wrong or just plain irritate us, so long as we also take time to seek out those things that are also going right. Look for those wins, baby!
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The paths we have all taken in life aren’t wrong even if they are different from each other. In this episode we unpack some thoughts around WHY we have made certain decisions in life as far as education and choosing a career trajectory, and discuss how much of our decision making is based on influences around us.
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Time. We all have the same amount of it in a day, and yet we all have the choice to make it custom to our life; our experience. In this ep we break down time as a concept and chat about how we manage it functionally and as effectively as possible.
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Hello from your hosts of The Business Backpack! Listen in to get a feel for your trifecta of hosts - Crystina, Oscar, and Megan. We work together for the Idaho Women’s Business Center and we cannot wait you bring you along for these adventures in entrepreneurship!
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app