Just Another Biz Podcast: Unfiltered Business Tips for Wedding Pros and Creatives

Episode 9: Shifting Your Fitness Mindset With Karon Hawkins

Hey Friends! Get ready to dive into this week’s episode because we’re talking about shifting your fitness mindset with Karon Hawkins of KronicFit. Karon is an NYC native living in Pittsburgh, working as an online and in-person coach specializing in biomechanics and nutrition. After completing his B.S. in Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University and working as a Cybersecurity Analyst for a year, he decided the corporate world wasn’t for him. His new journey began after being accepted into the Masters of Science in Health and Physical Activity at the University of Pittsburgh where he completed his degree in a year. From training people for free online and in-person locally to creating a full-time business internationally, Karon has expanded his coaching reach all around the world and is excited to keep helping people move and feel better one session at a time. You can find Karon online on Instagram, Facebook or via email. If you’d like to find out more about working with him, you can reach him on his website KronicFit.

Episode 8: Trusting Your Intuition As a Business Owner with Fran Gallaher

Today we’re chatting with Fran Gallaher, an Intuitive Life Coach and founder of Really Flourish. Fran is also the creator of the leadership program, Trust Your Gut: Intuition for Decisions That Matter. Fran combines an intuitive reading, where she “reads” a client’s energy, picking up information from their soul and guides, and coaches clients to new levels of success, healing, and well-being. As a result of working with Fran, clients regain focus, reconnect with their more authentic selves, and develop strategies for maintaining focus and connection to creativity, meaning, and soul purpose.

Episode 7: Embracing Slow Entrepreneurship

 

Today, we have the pleasure of chatting with a friend of mine, Sarah Magidoff. Sarah is the founder of the Slow Entrepreneur Movement, an online platform, newsletter, and challenge series dedicated to helping hard-working entrepreneurs work less while getting more done, so they can make room for what matters most. She believes that true, sustainable success, happens when we make our well-being the top priority. Sarah is also the founder of Canopy, a boutique creative studio crafting beautiful, purpose-filled brand strategies and design solutions for emerging businesses focused on sustainability. 

I can't wait for you to hear how she's embraced the slow entrepreneurship lifestyle and how you can implement it into your business and life too. 

 

 

 

Episode 6: What Success Looks Like For Celebrity Hair Stylist Lorien Meillon

In today's episode, we have the pleasure of chatting with Lorien Meillon, a celebrity hairstylist based in Los Angeles, specializing in hair extensions. She’s been in the industry for 12 years but has always had a passion for hair. Lo and I met at a church event about 6 years ago, and we were both trying to start our new businesses. She began an extension business with a partner that also donated profits to charity. I’m excited to have her here with us on The Local Table to discuss her journey to success and what that looks like to her. There are lots of nuggets of wisdom to glean from today's episode to apply to your own journey. You can find Lorien and her work on her website and on her instagram. Thanks for tuning into today's episode! 

Episode 5: Mindset, Meditation and Reiki with Danielle McGhee

Hey Friends! Welcome back to The Local Table! I am so excited to share the first episode of 2020. It's been a wild year so far, so I wanted to chat with someone who can help us tackle the stress, anxiety and uncertainties we're all facing. Today we’re talking to Danielle McGhee, a Reiki Master and Healing Touch Practitioner in San Diego, CA. Danielle has spent the past 7 years studying reiki, mindfulness and meditation and has her own company The Moon Medicine. In addition, Danielle is a yoga teacher who wants to empower people to open up their energy to self-heal. You can reach Danielle on her website and on her instagram. Enjoy and stay safe and healthy my friends! 

Episode 4: How Improv Can Change Your Career + Your Personal Relationships

On this week's episode of The Local Table Podcast we’re chatting with a good friend of mine from my days at TOMS, Brian Nelson, about improv and how it can change not only your career but your personal relationships for the better. Brian is currently the Senior Admissions Producer and Operations Lead at General Assembly but he also leads business workshops through his business, Seriously Improv. Brian shares about how he got into improv and how it's helped him in making career moves and improve relationships with his co-workers and in his personal life. Brian shares more about what improv is and gives us tangible steps that we can implement into our own lives to help better our relationships and our jobs and how we can be more intentional in the conversations we're having with the people in our lives. Improv isn't about being funny it's about being intentional, knowing how to improvise authentically in conversations, invest in others, and have an attitude of "yes and"! Brian's main advice is to show up, be true to who you are, adapt to the surrounding that you're in, listen and invest in others. I hope that this week's conversation helps you to break out of your shell and allows you to learn how to truly invest in others personally and professionally. Enjoy, friends! 

 

Episode 3: How To Make A Big Career Change, Be A New CEO + A Stay At Home Mom

This week's episode we have a very special guest, my cousin Maggie Rechkemmer of Iron & Lace Photography and co-founder of Brand Lab! Maggie lives in Iowa (where I’m originally from) and specializes in lifestyle photography. She’s also a supermom and wife to a firefighter. We chat all about how she made a big career change, started a photography business and is killing it along with being an amazing stay at home mom to 2 little ones. We talk about how she balances it all, saying no to things that don't fuel her and leaning into your community. You can find Maggie on her website and also on Instagram and Facebook. Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of The Local Table! 

Episode 2: The Top 6 Tips You Need To Help Start Your Business

In this week's episode on The Local Table, I'm talking about some of the things I think you need to know to start a business. I want y’all to know these are tips that I believe to be helpful and that have helped grow my business. They might not be 100% right for you but they will be helpful to you budding entrepreneurs! Tune in as I share my top 6 business tips for you to take action on today to get your business off the ground and growing. Enjoy today's episode! 

Episode 1: Leaping Into the Unknown + Going After Your Dreams

Today I'm talking with my good friend and work wife Gabby from 'Cause We Can Events. She's the best wedding planner out there for all those adventurous couples looking to glamp for their big day or get married in the woods. She shares how she took her dreams and made them a reality by getting out of her comfort zone. Gabby and I dive into a candid conversation about what it looks like to leap into the unknown and how to go after your dreams. We may or may not give a couple shout outs to La Croix and Brené Brown. Enjoy this week's episode friends! 

Welcome To The Local Table Podcast!

Kari Dirksen, the boss behind Feathered Arrow, a wedding planning and design company based in Los Angeles, CA brings you The Local Table podcast! This podcast is for entrepreneurs or people looking to become an entrepreneur or maybe you're just going after your dream. My hope is that this podcast feels like a supportive community and a place where you can glean information that feels attainable or applicable to you. We'll bring you shows weekly that will be a mixture of solo shows and interviews filled with educational content for business and life as well as some inspirational stories from other entrepreneurs. I want you guys, the listeners, to feel like family and to feel understood just by tuning in. So grab a drink and pull up a seat to the table as I share a quick intro into why I started this podcast and about my hopes and dreams for it. Welcome to The Local Table!