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Local to Legend

Emily Steele

67 episodes

6 months ago

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Ciara Landroma, an entrepreneur, coach and van-lifer who finally said yes to her dreams and shed the expectations of other people a year ago to set off on her own adventure traveling the country, working on the road, and supporting women with finding financial freedom. She joins Emily to chat more about letting go of goals that weren’t really hers to begin with, selling it all and living in a van, and her new found love for content creation. A ...

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In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Ciara Landroma, an entrepreneur, coach and van-lifer who finally said yes to her dreams and shed the expectations of other people a year ago to set off on her own adventure traveling the country, working on the road, and supporting women with finding financial freedom. She joins Emily to chat more about letting go of goals that weren’t really hers to begin with, selling it all and living in a van, and her new found love for content creation. A ...

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Entrepreneurship

Episodes (20/67)

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66 - Shedding Expectations, Living in a Van, and Reclaiming Your Life with Ciara Ladroma

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Ciara Landroma, an entrepreneur, coach and van-lifer who finally said yes to her dreams and shed the expectations of other people a year ago to set off on her own adventure traveling the country, working on the road, and supporting women with finding financial freedom. She joins Emily to chat more about letting go of goals that weren’t really hers to begin with, selling it all and living in a van, and her new found love for content creation. A ...

3 years ago

42 minutes

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65 - Launching a Local Music Venue with Tobi Parks from xBk

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Tobi Parks, an entertainment and intellectual property attorney, majority owner and CEO of xBk, a Des Moines-based music venue, and Board Vice President for the National Independent Venue Association Foundation. Listen in as Tobi & Emily chat through Tobi’s experiences in the music world, both as an artist and on the business side. Tobi shares how her journey led her from rural Missouri to New York City and details her decade in the city wo...

3 years ago

29 minutes

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64 - Empowering Kids in the Kitchen with Sue Honkamp from Real Food 4 Kids

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Sue Honkamp, founder of Real Food 4 Kids, a brand dedicated to offering food education and hands-on cooking classes for kids and teens. Sue is passionate about getting kids involved in the kitchen and teaching them how to create wholesome, tasty meals for themselves and others. Listen in as Sue & Emily talk about Sue’s background at Oscar Meyer that led to a career shift and motivation to investigate the foods she and her family were consum...

3 years ago

28 minutes

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63 - Building an App for Local Business Owners to Share Food & Drink Deals and Live Events with Grace Rigdon from deetz

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Grace Rigdon, co-founder and COO of Deetz. Deetz is an app that you can use to see what’s happening around you right now in your very own community. As a fellow tech co-founder on a mission to support local businesses in every community they’re in, Emily and Grace dive into Grace’s journey into the startup space, her first business that led to Deetz, and how Deetz supports its users and small business subscribers. Tune in for topics like: Grace...

3 years ago

38 minutes

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62 - Writing a Small Business Survival Guide with Jackie Reses & Lauren Weinberg, Authors of Self-Made Boss

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Jackie Reses and Lauren Weinberg, co-authors of new release, Self-Made Boss, a book designed to give small business owners an essential survival guide with stories and experiences from business owners and advice from industry experts. Whether you’ve been in business for 30 years or have been noodling on a new idea, this book will offer you tangible, actionable advice you can implement right away. Jackie & Lauren join Emily to discuss their ...

3 years ago

28 minutes

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61 - Creating a Conference Focused on Connection with Lisa Even from Even Connection

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Lisa Even, founder of Even Connection and corporate culture junkie turned entrepreneur. Lisa joins to share more about her one million interview mission, upcoming conference, and how she’s striving to build more connection opportunities in the world. Lisa founded Even Connection in 2019 after years of building strong team cultures in the medical and financial industries. She decided it was time to take her expertise to more people so she opened...

3 years ago

26 minutes

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60 - Building a Business on Your Own Terms with Brooke Happe from b.e. happe designs

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Brooke Happe, owner of b.e. happe designs, an evergreen apparel brand. Brooke joins to share more about her unconventional business and life path, running b.e. happe as she travels the country with her family in an RV, crocheting hats and producing products. In 2015, Brooke stepped away from her role as a Doctor of Physical Therapy and opted to stay home with her two young boys and a daughter on the way. She started crocheting hats to keep her ...

3 years ago

26 minutes

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59 - How You Can Use Storytelling To Drive Your Business Forward With Jessi Shuraleff

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Jessi Shuraleff, host of the podcast, This is My Truth and coach for women seeking to reclaim their stories and their voice. Jessi joins to share more about storytelling and how to actually use it in your business to drive sales and connections. At the age of 33, Jessi was handed a pivotal moment when her husband asked her one morning - are you happy? Her answer changed the course of her path. In that moment, she realized that while on the outs...

3 years ago

27 minutes

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58 - 5 Spring Cleaning Tips to Grow Your Local Business Today & For Life

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily dives into five different areas all local business owners can do some “spring cleaning.” If your business operates in a local community and you want to find organic, sustainable growth, these are the things to focus on not only in the spring, but a few times a year! Here are five areas Emily dives into: 1. ONLINE PROFILES Your online profiles such as Instagram, Facebook, Google, and Yelp likely have an opportunity to get a little clean up. Whether you’re ...

3 years ago

29 minutes

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57 - Launching a Micro Media Brand in Your City With Morgan Chicchelly, Founder of Des Moines Girl

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Morgan Chicchelly, founder of Des Moines Girl, a blog dedicated to all things Des Moines. Morgan joins the podcast to share more about building a local media brand that’s helped so many people discover new brands, places, and things to do in their city. Not in dsm? This story is still jam packed with value for anyone interested in building a micro media or online brand from scratch. Morgan grew up in Des Moines but spent the majority of h...

3 years ago

32 minutes

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56 - Pivoting to Products & Opening Up a Storefront with Regan from Doe a Deer

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Regan Doely, owner of Doe a Deer, a product-based business offering kitchen decor and home goods. Regan shares more about her leap from freelance to products, how she’s driven growth and what her expansion to a storefront has looked like. Reagan graduated from Grand View University with a graphic design degree and spent her first few years working in corporate graphic design departments. Feeling the itch to flex her creative muscles beyond stri...

3 years ago

29 minutes

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55 - Building Two Brands in Separate Cities with Andrea Metzler

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Andrea Metzler, owner of Art Terrarium in Des Moines, Iowa and Desert Rose Cactus Lounge in Bend, Oregon. Andrea joined to chat about starting a retail business and juggling two brands in two separate cities. Andrea’s career path has given her a wide variety of experience in many different industries. From using her degree in communications from the University of Northern Iowa to work in the film industry to joining her roommates' tech startup ...

3 years ago

34 minutes

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54 - From Etsy Shop to Globally Recognized Brand With Leah Longueville from Polished Prints

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Leah Longueville, founder & CEO of Polished Prints, a lifestyle brand dedicated to creating products that bring positivity to you, your children and your home. Leah shares more about how she grew her side hustle business printing sayings on onesies into a globally-recognized brand with products sold in over 700 retailers. Leah’s business started when she became a mom with her first daughter and wanted more time to spend with her. She got ou...

3 years ago

35 minutes

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53 - Building a Network from Scratch and Establishing Roots in Your Community With Katie Allgood From The Good Co. DSM

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Katie Allgood, the owner of a luxury rental company, The Good Co DSM. Katie shares more about starting a business during a pandemic, pivoting your offerings as you grow and navigating the complicated world of pricing. Katie’s business started in the summer of 2020 when she began outfitting a 68 VW bus with a photobooth that could be rented out for weddings and events. Since Katie had just moved to Des Moines, she had to build her network from s...

3 years ago

44 minutes

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52 - The Art of Focus with Travel Advisor & Educator Whitney Shindelar

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Whitney Shindelar, travel advisor and owner of Undiscovered Sunsets and Masters In Travel. Whitney joins to share about the travel industry, building not one but two businesses and honing in on your niche. Whitney walks listeners through her journey into the travel industry from working at five star hotels in Shanghai to filling for her own business just 24 hours after returning to the United States. She’s candid about the uphill battles she cl...

3 years ago

46 minutes

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51 - Trusting the Process and Tapping into Authenticity with Coral Thede

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Coral Thede, a creative storyteller, musician, writer and stand up comic known around Des Moines for her constantly sold out show, Tits Up! Coral joined to chat more about how she got into comedy and her beliefs in the power of trusting the process and believing in the journey. Coral takes listeners back to a monumental time in her life, losing her dad and then embracing Pantone’s Color of the year in 2019, Living Coral, as a sign to set...

3 years ago

42 minutes

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50 - Demystifying the Venture Capital World for Founders with Mikayla Sullivan from ISA Ventures

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Mikayla Sullivan, an associate with ISA Ventures, an Iowa multi-stage venture capital studio. Emily first got plugged into the ISA world when she joined their accelerator in early fall of 2021 with her other company, the hummingbirds, a local influencer and brand matchmaking business. Mikayla joins the podcast to chat about the venture capital world and how to navigate it as a first time founder. Mikayla got her start by building her own compan...

3 years ago

30 minutes

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49 - How Jodi Frank & Culineer Are Connecting Home Cooks with Local Food Producers

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Jodi Frank from Culineer, an app designed to build a community for home cooks who want to buy directly from farmers. Culineer is set to bridge the gap in marketing for the $70B direct-to-consumer farming industry. Jodi got her start in medical communications working for Bristol Myers before leaving that job to raise her children. After teaching at a local community college in the marketing department, Jodi was ready to finally get to work on an...

3 years ago

33 minutes

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48 - Building a Marketplace for Women-Owned, Home-Based Businesses with Sara Sparhawk & Lyn Johnson

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Lyn Johnson & Sara Sparhawk, the co-founders and creators of West Tenth, a venture capital backed app and movement to support more women-owned, home-based businesses in local communities all across the country. By simply downloading the app, you can shop the talents of women in your neighborhood like to find a homemade pie for your thanksgiving dinner or a tutor for your middle schooler. Sara & Lyn got their start in finance together in...

3 years ago

46 minutes

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47 - Writing a Book, Building Communities, & Coaching Business Owners to Their Best Year Yet with Ashley K Stoyanov Ojeda

In this week’s podcast episode, Emily chats with Ashley K Stoyanov Ojeda, a community builder, business development coach, author, and founder of a nonprofit called Womxn Crush Music. With a background in journalism and public relations, Ashley has held roles in a variety of industries. But the common thread throughout them all is her heart & knack for helping people turn their passions into something tangible & profitable. After college, Ashley served in community marketing for Yelp,...

3 years ago

38 minutes