Behind the Windowsill; Exploring a Creative Mind with Margo Tantau
Release Date: 11/24/2020
Behind the Spotlight
Going behind the spotlight to meet Vanessa Bruce, co-founder + CEO of Dough. Vanessa is an award-winning, patent holding, founder, operator, and designer passionate about transparent commerce, driving change with our purchase power, and financial independence. Beth and Vanessa discuss how her family inspired her to create her own path, conscious consumerism, company values, balancing family and business, and collaboration over competition.
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Beth is joined by life coach, entrepreneur, speaker and connector, Melanie Curtis. Melanie has jumped out of an airplane over 11,000 times in over 20 years and has circled the globe as a professional skydiver. She is also the founder of How to Fly, Inc. where she works with Type A high-achievers through fear and the feelings that come with it across widely varied life challenges and business pursuits.
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Join Jacklyn Mellone and I talk all thing digital entrepreneurship. The pitfalls, the tragedy as well as the triumph.
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This week Beth is joined by Pam Christian to discuss mindset and changing our realities as a result. Pam has suffered devastating loss, trauma, and has dealt with countless struggles in her life and is proud to say, “I crawled out.” Now, she helps others stand up and move into a new light. She’s found clarity through self-exploration, self-examination, meditation, time alone with herself, as well as many other modalities.
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In this episode Beth sits with Chic CEO, Stephanie Burns. In 2009 when all of her friends were getting laid off from their jobs, Stephanie was getting her MBA. Her friends assumed she was learning how to start a business which wasn’t quite the case but she started researching. She quickly found a lot of information telling her what was possible but not how to get there so she took measures into her own hands and now provides others with all of the info one needs to get a business off the ground.
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In this episode Beth is joined by Jaclyn Mellone who helps experts exponentially grow their business by becoming the Go-To Authority in their space. She is a coach, strategist, Keynote speaker, mama, guac lover, and host of the Go-To Gal podcast! Jaclyn helps her clients get out of their own way, package their expertise to scale, position themselves as the go-to authority, and have their dream clients and opportunities landing on their lap!
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Beth hosts a 1:1 coaching session with Claire Owen. For years Claire enjoyed a party lifestyle but felt trapped in a vicious cycle of drink-regret-repeat. After losing a friend, she had a lightbulb moment and decided it was time to take action but she struggled with society’s portrayal of alcohol. She now helps others to reframe their perception of alcohol. Beth and Claire discuss the pain points in Claire’s business and where she feels most challenged and where she should seek media and PR opportuniti
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Beth is joined by business coach Cassie Howard. Cassie helps ambitious women create thriving online businesses, through digital marketing. She started her first online business when she was 18 years old, after being tired of working endless hours at the local coffee shop for minimum wage and then spent over a decade becoming completely self-taught in online sales & marketing.
info_outlineIn this episode of Behind the Spotlight, it’s a dual interview with the creative and talented, Margo Tantau. Margo has spent basically her whole life immersed in some sort of creative project or another. She loves putting art out into the world, especially the work of other artists. Although she does create her own, she’s always preferred to focus on standing for the potential of others and her favorite pursuit is helping other creatives grow their careers by focusing on what they do best.
Margo and Beth discuss:
- How they know each other
- Margo’s tales of business in China
- Bringing out the best in others and how they each do that in their own ways
- Being unafraid of the messy
- The importance of being truly authentic
- Margo’s (organic) creative process
- Why home is Margo’s most important place of being
- What brings Beth joy when it comes to PR and business
- The importance of connection and community
- And so much more
Margo has decades of experience in design, manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, and all around management of artful products and creative people. Margo can be found creating with Studio M, hosting her own podcast, Windowsill Chats, and helping unique standout artists wanting to push their boundaries.
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