Episode 67: How to Repurpose Instagram Lives Into a Podcast (Apple + Spotify) with Gilly Garrett
How to Turn Instagram Lives and Short-Form Video Into a Thriving Podcast (with Gilly of Gilly's Organics & Everyday Rockstars)
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Have you ever thought about using Instagram Lives as your podcast episodes?
That's exactly what my guest Gilly did — and it's one of the most creative podcast origin stories I've heard.
Gilly is the founder of Gilly's Organics, an organic skincare line nearly 20 years in the making, and the host of Everyday Rockstars, a podcast celebrating entrepreneurs, creatives, and community leaders doing incredible things.
What started as short Instagram Live interviews for a local New Jersey magazine turned into a six-year run of 14-minute Zoom conversations edited for Instagram — and eventually, a full podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
In this episode of Podcast Growth Tools, Gilly shares the behind-the-scenes story of how her show evolved, what podcasting has done for her product-based business, how she approaches interviews with confidence (even when she's nervous), and how she launched her newest venture — the Rockstar Collective — all fueled by the relationships and reach her podcast created.
If you're a business owner wondering whether podcasting is worth it, or if you've been doing content on social media and wondering how to take it further, this episode is your sign.
Key Takeaways
How Gilly turned Instagram Lives and Zoom interviews into full podcast episodes on Apple and Spotify
The moment that convinced her to make the leap from a 14-minute Instagram show to a full-length podcast
Why you don't need massive download numbers to see real business results from your podcast
How one podcast appearance led to a subscriber who has purchased every month for five years
What podcasting has done for Gilly's confidence, her speaking career, and her product-based business
Practical tips for conducting deeper, more natural podcast interviews
How to balance preparation with spontaneity so your conversations flow (without being robotic)
Why Gilly believes podcasting is the best creative outlet for multi-passionate entrepreneurs
How the Everyday Rockstars podcast directly fueled the launch of her Rockstar Collective coaching community
The importance of hiring support and trusting others as your business grows
Timestamps
00:00 – Meet Gilly: From Instagram Lives to a full podcast
03:12 – How a local magazine gig became Everyday Rockstars
06:35 – The conversation that made Gilly put her show on Apple and Spotify
07:40 – Repurposing content: How Instagram and podcast episodes work together
09:02 – The story behind Gilly's Organics and nearly 20 years of organic skincare
11:15 – How one podcast appearance created a five-year subscriber
12:05 – Why small download numbers can still drive big business results
14:48 – The hardest part of being an entrepreneur (and how to manage it)
17:05 – The biggest blessing of entrepreneurship: trusting yourself
19:28 – Tips for conducting better, deeper podcast interviews
22:16 – How to stop overthinking your episodes after you hit publish
23:34 – From podcasting to coaching: How the Rockstar Collective was born
27:20 – The power of hiring help and trusting your team
If You're Asking These Questions, You're in the Right Place:
Can I turn my Instagram Lives or short-form videos into podcast episodes?
How do I make the transition from social media content to a podcast?
Is podcasting worth it for a product-based business?
How do I get better at interviewing guests on my podcast?
Can a small podcast audience actually grow my business?
How do I stop overthinking my episodes after they go live?
Why AI Is Becoming a Major Podcast Discovery Engine
People are no longer just browsing podcast apps.
They’re asking questions like:
“What are the best podcasts for female entrepreneurs?”
“What podcast should I listen to if I want to grow my business?”
“What are the best marketing podcasts right now?”
And AI is answering.
That means your podcast is now competing in a much broader ecosystem. Not just podcast platforms, but the entire internet.
The opportunity here is massive. But only if your content is structured in a way AI can understand.
Because if it’s not clear, specific, and keyword-driven, your podcast simply won’t show up.
From Instagram Lives to a Full Podcast: Gilly's Journey
Gilly's podcast journey didn't start the traditional way. She was hired by a local magazine in Bergen County, New Jersey — Be Local Bergen — to interview community members doing interesting things. For three years, she conducted short Instagram Live and Zoom interviews, editing them down to 14 minutes so they'd fit Instagram's format.
When people outside of New Jersey started asking to be on her show, Gilly launched Everyday Rockstars as its own brand — still as an Instagram show.
The turning point came when she heard a conversation between Kylee and Kathy Heller on Kathy's podcast. The insight that even a small audience of 60 people is worth showing up for hit her hard. She reached out to Kathy, booked her as a guest, and realized their conversation couldn't possibly fit into 14 minutes. That night, she signed up for Buzzsprout and put Everyday Rockstars on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Six months in, and she's never looked back.
Why Small Download Numbers Can Still Drive Big Business Results
One of the most powerful moments in this conversation is Gilly's story about a single podcast appearance — not even on her own show — that led to a subscriber who has purchased her organic skincare products every single month for five years.
You never know who's listening.
This is a reminder that podcast growth isn't just about download numbers. It's about reaching the right people. Whether that's 60 listeners or 600, each one represents a potential customer, collaborator, or long-term relationship.
How to Conduct Better, More Natural Podcast Interviews
Gilly shared several insights about improving your interview skills as a podcast host:
Let your guest guide the conversation. When you're too rigid with your questions, you might miss where the guest actually wants to go. The best conversations happen when you follow their lead while keeping the overall direction in mind.
Prepare questions, but don't read them on camera. Gilly prepares questions ahead of time but treats them as a safety net rather than a script. This allows the conversation to feel organic while still having structure to fall back on.
Remember: everyone is just a person with a story. Whether you're interviewing someone with a massive following or a local business owner, the same principle applies — they said yes because they want to share their message. You're amplifying it.
Stop overthinking after you publish. It's tempting to replay the conversation in your head and wish you'd asked something differently. Gilly's advice: let it go and move on to the next one. It happened, it was good, and your audience loved it.
How Podcasting Fueled the Rockstar Collective
Gilly's newest venture — the Rockstar Collective — is a weekly group coaching community for women entrepreneurs. It grew organically from years of informally coaching women who came to her for business advice, starting all the way back when she helped female entrepreneurs through the crowdfunding platform iFund Women.
The podcast played a direct role. By interviewing inspiring entrepreneurs every week on Everyday Rockstars, Gilly attracted women who wanted to be part of that energy. The collective meets weekly on Wednesdays for goal-setting, guided meditations, honest conversation, and mutual support — and it's become a natural extension of the podcast itself.
Your Next Steps
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Resources & Links
Connect with Gilly
Website: gilliesorganics.com
Everyday Rockstars Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/everyday-rockstars/id1827117808
Instagram: @everydayrockstars | @gillysorganics
Connect with Kylee
Website: podcastmarketinghub.com
Podcast: Podcast Growth Tools
Instagram: @kyleejchandler
Let’s Connect!
Share your favorite trend from this episode or ask questions by DMing me on Instagram at @thepodcastmarketinghub.
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Kylee: Have you ever thought about using Instagram Lives as your podcast episodes? So my guest today is
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Kylee: amazing woman. Her name is Gilly and she's the founder of Gilly's Organics and host of Everyday
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Kylee: Rockstars. And in this conversation, she's giving a little bit of behind the scenes look at
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Kylee: how her podcast evolved as well as her, herself as a human being and her businesses. So Gilly
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Kylee: started with short Instagram lives and zoom interviews edited into 14 minute episodes,
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Kylee: Then she made the leap to publishing full podcast episodes on Apple and Spotify.
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Kylee: It's such a fun story.
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Kylee: We talk about what prompted that shift, how she still repurposes content for Instagram,
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Kylee: and why podcasting has actually become one of her best tools for building relationships,
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Kylee: growing her businesses, and expanding her reach.
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Kylee: So we get into interview confidence, how to have deeper conversations, so many other things,
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Kylee: and you're going to love it.
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Kylee: She's such a wealth of knowledge, but she's also has the bubbliest sweet
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Kylee: personality in the world. So you're going to love her. So let's get into it. Let's dive in.
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Kylee: Please help me welcome Gilly.
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Kylee: welcome to the show gilly i oh i'm so excited for this okay
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Kylee: For those who are tuning in, we literally have been on the phone or on recording for...
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Kylee: 20 minutes and we're finally diving in because we've been meaning to catch up.
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Kylee: But Gilly, welcome to the show.
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Kylee: I'm so happy to have you here.
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Gilly: I'm so honored and so excited to be here.
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Gilly: I've learned so much from you and I just love being in your presence, Kai.
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Gilly: You're just like the best.
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Gilly: So thank you.
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Kylee: You too. So I mentioned this in the intro, but
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Kylee: Gilly came into my world through Kathy Heller. So there's always so many things I can be grateful
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Kylee: for, for that connection. But I'm here and I want to dive right in with you. And so I
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Kylee: Talk to me about how you actually didn't start with a podcast.
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Kylee: You started doing other stuff like Instagram Lives and Zoom.
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Kylee: So this strategy is cool, but I love that it ended up
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Kylee: moving you towards a podcast.
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Kylee: So talk to us about that.
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Kylee: journey.
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Gilly: Yeah, well, so first of all,
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Gilly: you're the reason it's more of a podcast than it was a show.
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Gilly: It used to be a show.
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Gilly: Here's how it went.
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Gilly: Years ago, I was hired from a local magazine.
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Gilly: It's called Be Local Bergen in Bergen County, New Jersey.
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Gilly: to interview people doing cool things in the community.
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Gilly: So from young to old, all different types of people
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Gilly: whether they were a charity leader, somebody,
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Gilly: a little kid on Broadway, an autistic music writer,
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Gilly: teachers, I mean,
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Gilly: once a month for three years.
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Gilly: And that went on their Facebook and Instagram.
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Gilly: And then after three years,
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Gilly: Many people were asking me, hey, can I be on your show?
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Gilly: But, um,
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Gilly: they weren't in New Jersey. And I said, well,
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Gilly: Let me see, so I spoke to the publisher and he was like,
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Gilly: of course you can go out on your own.
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Gilly: And the idea of this Everyday Rockstars,
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Gilly: was yours, so I'll hire you when we have New Jersey people,
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Gilly: but you go do you.
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Gilly: And so I started interviewing people in Los Angeles
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Gilly: and New York City and all over,
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Gilly: But.
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Gilly: I didn't have the whole podcast.
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Gilly: platform stuff down. I just knew Instagram. So I knew how to do an Instagram live.
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Gilly: I knew how to take a zoom
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Gilly: and edit it down to like,
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Gilly: To make a reel, I think it's 15 minutes or less.
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Gilly: on Instagram.
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Gilly: So I was really just keeping it
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Gilly: Tight.
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Gilly: these conversations, I tried to make them 15 minutes on Zoom
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Gilly: and like wrap it up.
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Gilly: Four questions done.
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Gilly: And then...
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Gilly: It was great, it worked, because people don't necessarily have
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Gilly: the biggest attention spans.
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Gilly: Some people are really great with a 14 minute,
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Gilly: you know, Instagram show.
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Gilly: And it worked for 30 years.
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Gilly: like three years after this,
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Gilly: magazine i've been doing this for so long and then all of a sudden
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Gilly: You know that back almost a year ago,
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Gilly: I joined Cathy's collective and in that collective,
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Gilly: I,
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Gilly: met you
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Gilly: But this was before.
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Gilly: I was listening to her podcast during that time,
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Gilly: And there was an episode where she's interviewing you.
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Gilly: And
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Gilly: I tell you!
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Gilly: I reached out to her right after and I was like, I want you on my podcast.
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Gilly: She wrote me back and said, yes.
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Gilly: Based on the things that you conversed about in there,
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Gilly: you said something, she made a comment like,
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Gilly: if you had sixty women in a room that you can promote your products to
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Gilly: Don't think that your platform is too small because wouldn't you want to go sell your product to 60 women?
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Gilly: So I like,
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Gilly: regurgitated that to her in the message and,
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Gilly: And she was like, I'll come on your show.
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Gilly: And then...
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Gilly: In that moment, I was like, wait a minute,
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Gilly: this woman talks a lot, so do I.
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Gilly: There's no way we're talking for 14 minutes.
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Gilly: There's no way an interview is going to be 14 minutes.
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Gilly: And I was like, listening to everything you guys were saying,
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Gilly: about how it's like,
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Gilly: doable, to put it on Spotify and Apple and
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Gilly: It just...
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Gilly: I just came home and I like Googled it or chat GPT'd.
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Gilly: And then the next thing you know, I'm on Buzzsprout.
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Gilly: putting it on Apple and Spotify and I,
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Gilly: brought over the woman who was editing it for me before and she figured it out in two seconds
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Gilly: And,
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Gilly: Voila, there it was because of your conversation with Kathy.
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Gilly: I was like, all right, it's time.
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Gilly: It's like, I've been doing this for six years already, like as a...
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Gilly: Instagram show and I can't officially call it a podcast if it's not
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Gilly: in that little purple app.
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Gilly: So...
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Gilly: I'm making it a podcast.
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Gilly: Ciao.
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Gilly: That's how it happened. It's been...
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Gilly: Since, I don't know, like...
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Gilly: at least six months now it's been on Apple and Spotify and I love it.
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Kylee: Oh my gosh.
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Gilly: You like so much from Kylie.
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Kylee: It's so fun. I just love the progression of it and how cool that you, I mean, because that's one of the things so many podcasters that are new are like, well, I'm just so nervous to interview or just, you know, and so you came in with those tools. So no wonder it's do everyday rock stars is doing so well. So do you still repurpose?
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Kylee: those 14 minute clips or have you like gone through all of them and now you're recording
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Kylee: new only?
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Kylee: Like, what does that look like?
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Gilly: So they live...
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Gilly: on Instagram, at Everyday Rockstars.
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Gilly: And
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Gilly: I share them out
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Gilly: when it's like an anniversary, but
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Gilly: rock stars that are on the show are always doing rock star things. So like, if I see you who,
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Gilly: Thank you for gracing my show.
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Gilly: having a mastermind or
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Gilly: launching a program. I want to share you out to my story. So I'm constantly reminding people like,
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Gilly: check out what this rock star is up to.
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Gilly: Instagram gets its
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Gilly: its own attention, especially when there's a new episode. So
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Gilly: The only difference...
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Gilly: Now...
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Gilly: I was already doing that heavy lifting of editing
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Gilly: No.
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Gilly: An Instagram show.
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Gilly: It's actually not as hard
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Gilly: Well, it's hard, but like,
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Gilly: If you don't mess up too much,
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Gilly: putting the whole conversation on Apple and Spotify
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Gilly: is easier to
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Gilly: then editing the clips, what makes it into those 14 minutes
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Gilly: so that I can also fit maybe a sponsor or
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Gilly: or a plug for my business. So,
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Gilly: I think that's been the hardest, but it's so fun.
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Gilly: It's a labor of love.
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Gilly: because
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Gilly: I love the people that are on my show.
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Kylee: That is so fun, Gilly.
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Kylee: And it, you know, like that's where we started because I knew you had that fun strategy and
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Kylee: I wanted people to hear like the different ways that not only podcasts come about, but
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Kylee: they can think about using their podcasts.
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Kylee: But your story started way before you were invited.
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Kylee: to do those interviews for those magazines. So you have an amazing organic skincare line called
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Kylee: Gilly's organics. Everybody go out, buy it because it's so good. It is, it is amazing. So I,
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Kylee: somewhere along the way, heard that like lotions, that the first ingredients is water is like not
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Kylee: going to do a lot for your skin. So Gilly sends me her lotion and the first ingredient is aloe
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Kylee: Vera and I'm like, okay, this is the real deal and our family is obsessed with it.
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Kylee: You created that.
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Kylee: and then moved into the other areas.
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Kylee: But I know you have a unique and very like,
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Kylee: Strength.
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Kylee: first story with Gillies, and I'd love to hear
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Kylee: that story.
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Gilly: First of all, I thank you for that.
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Gilly: I, you know, Gillies Organics is still my baby and I still...
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Gilly: I still, I'm so proud of the products and,
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Gilly: She's growing.
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Gilly: She, this baby's still growing up.
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Gilly: It's been...
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Gilly: She's almost 20 years old.
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Gilly: I mean, it's been a long time.
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Gilly: and it's evolved and it's been really fun.
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Gilly: I do love talking about
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Gilly: about health and wellness, especially for your skin. It's still my love language. And
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Gilly: What podcasting has helped me do...
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Gilly: and for sure speaking engagements.
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Gilly: Is...
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Gilly: prepped me for where I am right now, where I am
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Gilly: having back-to-back speaker nights in early March,
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Gilly: at a beauty event where I'm speaking about
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Gilly: the good quality ingredients versus what you should not put on your face and things like that. So
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Gilly: It's prepped me.
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Gilly: And,
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Gilly: podcasting gets easier and easier and easier for me.
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Gilly: First of all, we can edit, which is a beautiful thing,
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Gilly: unless it's alive.
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Gilly: And so what if you mess up?
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Gilly: Humans mess up, right?
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Gilly: I mess up all the time.
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Gilly: Um,
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Gilly: but it has definitely helped my business.
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Gilly: I just want to say that
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Gilly: The first one of the first podcasts I was ever on was from this woman who's she's a chef.
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Gilly: And...
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Gilly: Not the first, but...
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Gilly: Ever since that,
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Gilly: podcast episode.
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Gilly: And I was like, who's going to hear this?
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Gilly: I don't know. You never know who's listening.
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Gilly: One woman.
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Gilly: fell in love with my products, and for the past five years, she has been a subscriber.
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Gilly: every single month.
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Gilly: replenishing her products. So you just never know who's listening. I think that's
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Gilly: a really cool,
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Gilly: thing about it. That's another reason why I decided to go
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Gilly: and make it an actual podcast on Apple and Spotify.
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Gilly: because there's just a broader reach.
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Gilly: You know?
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Gilly: And washing something's harder.
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Gilly: Like you have to commit to those 15 minutes, but if you're on a walk,
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Gilly: and you listen, it's different.
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Gilly: Do you agree?
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Kylee: Oh, I agree a hundred percent. And I just, you know, I think that like in our minds, the,
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Kylee: the downloads are so inflated for so many years. And so like even new podcasters used to hear like,
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Kylee: people are getting a million downloads and they think that that's the goal.
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Kylee: And it's like, again, what if, what if you touch a hundred lives and like, what if,
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Kylee: 60 people, or you said 60 before, so we'll go with that.
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Kylee: But what are 60 people decided to start buying your product or decided to, you know,
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buy your product, your digital course product, or just listen to your podcast and like walk
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away with a huge takeaway.
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Gilly: I think sometimes-
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Gilly: I agree 100%. And I think that
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Gilly: Usually entrepreneurs have like a lot of passions, right?
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Gilly: And, uh,
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Gilly: I feel like this is my creative outlet, but I also, my podcast is called Everyday Rockstar.
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Gilly: So it's a little bit about me.
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Gilly: but it's really about the guest.
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Gilly: So I get...
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Gilly: to get re-motivated
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Gilly: In Gillies Organics,
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Gilly: every single week. So if I meet you and you tell me,
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Gilly: Something so special. You said something so special on my podcast, Kylie.
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Gilly: I was crying.
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Gilly: It reminds you of something in your life.
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Gilly: In your case, it was motherhood.
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Gilly: That reminds me of something that I have in my life that I should either be grateful for
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Gilly: where I could cultivate
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Gilly: I've had people on my show that have interviewed say,
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Gilly: some of the coolest things that keep them in rockstar mode,
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Gilly: And so I benefit.
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Gilly: Sure, they get exposure, they get content,
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Gilly: they get to be like, "I was on this podcast."
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Gilly: They get views,
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Gilly: I...
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Gilly: Get something from it.
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Gilly: So,
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Gilly: powerful, it re-energizes my product-based business because I get
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Gilly: this motivation, I mean, from all different types of people,
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Gilly: authors, actors,
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Gilly: product-based businesses, podcasters,
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Gilly: news people. It's just like everyone has a story.
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Gilly: And it's cool to hear it.
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Gilly: I know, you know, because you get to interview people all the time, too.
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Gilly: So that's to me, it's the best.
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Kylee: Oh.
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Kylee: I mean, I completely agree. And it's so fun because when I've interviewed
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Like,
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Kylee: a lot of people I've interviewed, I'll ask them like, what has been the best thing about podcasting?
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Kylee: And it's just like,
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Kylee: the relationships, the conversations, like, and it's when you start a podcast, you don't necessarily
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Kylee: think that's, you would never probably think that that would be your answer.
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Kylee: Yeah.
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Kylee: But it's like time and time again, it's what I hear.
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and self.
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Kylee: So you are an entrepreneur in many aspects. What's been
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Kylee: the hardest thing about being an entrepreneur.
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Woo.
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Um,
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Gilly: Sometimes for me, it's turning it off at night.
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Gilly: but I'm getting really good
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Gilly: just like anything else, like a muscle.
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Gilly: where when you do something enough times,
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Gilly: you're able to tell yourself,
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Gilly: I got this.
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Gilly: You know what I mean?
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Gilly: Like.
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Gilly: Time to put it away.
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Gilly: read a book, take the Epsom salt bath,
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Gilly: Put the phone away.
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Gilly: Like really, it's hard sometimes because I'm like, oh,
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Gilly: the podcast, the speaking engagement,
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Gilly: Oh, I have a coaching collective. We could talk about that.
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Gilly: I just hired somebody, she's amazing, but like I still have to train and
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Gilly: Things like that.
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Gilly: The mind is always going, and so for me...
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Gilly: My biggest challenge would be
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Gilly: that I've become someone that's like,
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Gilly: very organized because they,
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Gilly: Sometimes I could just be like very Pisces.
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Gilly: This is my birthday month.
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Gilly: I could be very like,
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Gilly: all over the place, you know, like, I see something,
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Gilly: and it catches my eye, and then I want to do that, versus,
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Gilly: being organized and I've learned to hire people
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Gilly: those types of
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Gilly: amazing women in my life that commend it.
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Gilly: mostly women that
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Gilly: keep me sort of grounded because I can get all over the place too.
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Yeah.
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Kylee: Okay, wait, when's your birthday?
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Gilly: It's next week. It's February 24th.
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Kylee: Okay. I was like, wait, are we in Pisces now? Okay. Oh, I love that. Yeah.
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Gilly: So we came today.
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Gilly: It's my birthday. And, um,
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Gilly: I love this month. It's fun.
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Gilly: But everyone loves their birthday month, don't they?
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Gilly: Okay.
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Gilly: So yeah, those are the biggest challenges, I think. I think that's universal, I think, a lot for a lot of
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Gilly: just moms and women and,
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Gilly: business women and not just business owners, but sometimes you're able to
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Gilly: Leave it at the office.
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Gilly: In this day and age, this digital day and age where you're
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Gilly: like accessible at all times,
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Gilly: Do you think it's a challenge for most people?
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Gilly: To shut it up.
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Kylee: Oh, 100%, 100%. And what has been the biggest blessing for you being an entrepreneur?
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Gilly: uh,
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Gilly: Calling the shots, you know?
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Gilly: Deciding who I wanna collaborate with
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Gilly: deciding who I want to work with, deciding
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Gilly: What products to promote?
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Gilly: Um,
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Gilly: Saying yes to it lights me up.
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Thank you.
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Gilly: and
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Gilly: In the very beginning, it can be lonely.
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Gilly: if you don't put yourself out there.
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Gilly: But once you do, look at these entrepreneur friends,
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Gilly: look at you like that.
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Gilly: could call up in a heartbeat and say, "Hey, I need your advice."
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Gilly: What do you think of this?
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Gilly: You know, you don't have to be in that corporate setting.
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Gilly: to feel, um,
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Gilly: supported.
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Gilly: But you do learn to support
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Gilly: yourself and trust your gut.
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Gilly: So I would say that one of the biggest blessings
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Gilly: is
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Gilly: Trusting.
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Gilly: Definitely become more trusting, trusting in myself, trusting in the universe, the divine, the world's order.
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Gilly: It's all going to work out.
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Gilly: You know?
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Kylee: I love it. And I agree with you. And I even fill that with podcasters. Like it can be such
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Kylee: a lonely, it can feel so lonely and feel like, what am I doing this for? Like,
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Kylee: Looking at the numbers and it's like, oh, but that is just my goal for this year is to bring more female podcasters together to create community.
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Kylee: So it feels less alone and it's like,
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Kylee: the questions you ask yourself, like, is this a good episode title? Is this a good episode topic?
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Kylee: Is this a good interview? Or does my cover art like,
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Kylee: then you have somebody to bounce those ideas off of who are,
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Kylee: who are another podcaster. Cause that can feel lonely. So yeah.
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Gilly: Totally. I love that you created that.
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Gilly: You attract the best women and podcasters too, so...
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Gilly: - That's awesome.
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Gilly: No, I think community is really important.
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Gilly: And as we are,
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Gilly: you know, podcasters, entrepreneurs, we all need these
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Gilly: containers to share
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Gilly: and grow in and give each other ideas and support and
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Gilly: accountability and all sorts of things that come with,
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Gilly: I come with that.
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Gilly: So yeah, I think it's been a huge blessing.
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Gilly: I wouldn't trade it again.
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Gilly: There have been times when I've...
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Gilly: thought about, wouldn't it be nice? Hmm.
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Kylee: that steady paycheck. I know, right? Every once in a while, I go, oh, should I go get a job? And my husband's like,
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Kylee: You really want to?
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Kylee: Why you say that?
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Kylee: It's like, you know, but...
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Kylee: Okay, so you interview, you are a pro interviewer.
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Kylee: Which...
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Kylee: is not the case for every podcaster, but I know with time it gets easier. So talk to us about
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Kylee: what are the tips and tricks that we can be using to really...
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Kylee: have amazing, deep conversations at art service level that pull the audience in because you're
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Gilly: wonderful at that. I love you for saying, I'll say what I think that I'm,
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Gilly: what I needed work on. And this is what I'm going to say that I've
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Gilly: This is what I've learned.
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Gilly: What I've learned because I needed the work.
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Gilly: I tend to interrupt.
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Gilly: I'm an interrupter at home.
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Gilly: Like, I can't wait.
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Gilly: My kids are like, mom.
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Gilly: Just let me finish my sentence, you know.
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.
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Gilly: I...
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Gilly: have learned, I am learning.
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Gilly: to let my
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Gilly: Guest speak.
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Gilly: Because sometimes I want to just be like, yeah, me too.
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Gilly: - Yeah.
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Gilly: It's about them.
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Gilly: So I'm learning that I have gotten so much better at that, I think.
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Gilly: And I would say...
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Gilly: that's, um,
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Gilly: When you let
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Gilly: the guests speak, they usually
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Gilly: guide you into what they want to talk about,
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Gilly: Because if I'm so robotic about what my questions are,
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Gilly: but that's not really where they want to go.
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Gilly: Like,
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Gilly: It's not a performance, that's another thing.
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Gilly: I can be
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Gilly: you know, dramatic, I'm not trying to perform, but if you,
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Gilly: If you don't perform and you just show up and you have a conversation, you forget that there's a camera.
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Gilly: That's one of the best conversations happen.
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Kylee: That's so good. So do you prepare questions? Like, how do you go into an interview where you're like, not totally flying by the seat of your pants, but you're not super strict? Because I think that that's the balance most people are looking for.
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Gilly: I totally, you know, it's so funny.
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Gilly: Like there are certain people that you just,
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Gilly: I connected with you immediately, never met you in person, but
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Gilly: I just love you.
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Gilly: I knew that our conversation was going to not need any rigidity.
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Gilly: It was just going to, it was just going to flow.
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Gilly: But I have this other woman, she's canceled on me twice.
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Gilly: She's kind of like,
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Gilly: She's a big deal. And I was excited. And she said she's going to it's going to happen. But
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Gilly: I was so nervous when it was about to happen.
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Gilly: She canceled two hours before it was supposed
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Gilly: to happen last week.
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Gilly: She said, and she wasn't feeling well, it's fine.
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Gilly: point is, is that I was like,
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Like,
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Gilly: The questions were ready.
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Gilly: And I think that
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Gilly: I'm actually...
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Gilly: When that happens, when it does eventually happen, if it happens,
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Gilly: I think I just need to go in there and prep myself that,
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Gilly: It's very...
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Gilly: they're just, everyone's just a person with a story.
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Gilly: And just like,
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Gilly: If you mess up,
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Gilly: So what?
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Gilly: It's editable.
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Gilly: Right.
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Gilly: and
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Gilly: Um,
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Gilly: Yes, I do make questions beforehand.
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Gilly: But I don't,
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Gilly: because I don't want to read it on camera,
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Gilly: It just tends to be there
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Gilly: And there are times when I get off a conversation with somebody and I'm like, oh, my God, I totally forgot to ask them this, you know.
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Gilly: But it wasn't supposed to be, you know?
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Gilly: So I tend to think
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Gilly: Once I've done it, I try not to like,
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Gilly: go back and lament about it.
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Gilly: Mm-hmm.
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Gilly: Do you ever do that like,
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Gilly: where,
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Gilly: You worry how it came out or how many times I said amazing.
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Gilly: I used to say amazing, like too many times.
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Gilly: I probably still do.
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Gilly: And...
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Gilly: If I go back and watch it,
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Gilly: I'm just going to get annoyed.
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Gilly: Like, don't even think about it.
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Gilly: It happened.
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Gilly: They loved it.
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Gilly: was good.
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Gilly: Just let it go and go on to the next one.
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Gilly: That's kind of where I'm at these days.
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Kylee: No, no, I get that. And yes, I am a person who like thinks about past conversations in my head and reworks them and replace them. And I should have said this, but
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Kylee: No, I get that so much.
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Kylee: I love those tips.
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Kylee: I think that it is so good.
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Kylee: I agree.
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Kylee: I've had some people on my show where I'm so nervous and I always have to remind myself.
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Kylee: They're just.
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Kylee: There's just somebody with a story.
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Gilly: And they said, yes.
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Gilly: Yeah.
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Gilly: You're amplifying their message.
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Yeah.
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Kylee: Yes. So good. Okay. So this is so fun. You went from
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Kylee: And you still do. You have Gillies Organics.
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Kylee: And then you created Everyday Rockstars.
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Kylee: And then there's kind of a new layer to all of this that
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Kylee: Do you feel like it's kind of
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Kylee: I want you to share about it, but do you feel like it's kind of developed from this journey of like,
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Kylee: moving through podcasting into this new
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Kylee: that was on your heart?
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Gilly: Sort of, it's like,
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Gilly: It's always been something that I've done.
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Gilly: So ever since I started Ghillie's Organics, like two decades ago, people would come to me,
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Gilly: local women would say like, hey, can we get coffee? How did you start a business? And
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Gilly: I would always just do it, you know, give a little help.
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Gilly: And then in...
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Gilly: 2000 and like
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Gilly: 15, 16.
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Gilly: Um,
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Gilly: I fund women.
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Gilly: which is a crowdfunding platform for female entrepreneurs.
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Gilly: asked me to help them coach their female entrepreneurs
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Gilly: with their video marketing, like with their marketing.
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Gilly: Because I did a campaign with them,
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Gilly: because I knew the founder, and I did a really,
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Gilly: if I don't say so myself, I did a really good job
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Gilly: with my marketing and my video, and it raised,
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Gilly: like the most money on their platform at the time.
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Gilly: So,
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Gilly: She's like, can you stay on and help the other women?
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Gilly: And it was like nominal pay.
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Gilly: I said, sure, no problem.
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Gilly: And I went to a few events where they asked me to speak.
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Gilly: One was like Microsoft and
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Gilly: I went to these events and I spoke.
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Gilly: and
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Gilly: women started asking me to coach them and
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Gilly: I would coach them with their campaigns for iFun Women, but then...
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Gilly: One day someone said, hey, can you coach me in my business?
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Gilly: I said, sure, what's your campaign?
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Gilly: And she said, no campaign, just...
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Gilly: Can you coach me?
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Gilly: And I was like, I don't have any like certifications, but sure.
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Gilly: And then slowly over the years,
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Gilly: And I didn't really advertise it, but over the years I've taken on
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Gilly: like one or two women throughout the year
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Gilly: Word of mouth only.
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Gilly: coaching them,
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Gilly: Mindset.
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Gilly: pricing,
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Gilly: website,
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Gilly: Social media, things I knew.
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Gilly: And
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Gilly: they...
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Gilly: were happy, I was happy.
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Gilly: Some paid a little bit, some paid a little bit more,
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Gilly: some paid hardly anything.
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Gilly: And some were just like, you know, free coffees with people.
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Gilly: And then...
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Gilly: I was currently working with this one woman.
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Gilly: And,
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Gilly: She lost her business partner, like,
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Gilly: They split.
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Gilly: And,
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Gilly: she was struggling and I was like, don't worry,
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Gilly: I'll still coach you.
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Gilly: Like she still wanted to do the business.
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Gilly: And then...
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Gilly: I was like,
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Gilly: I think I'm just gonna pull this all together
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Gilly: Rockstar Collective, call it, like,
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Gilly: Because everyday rock stars, they're all rock star entrepreneurs.
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Gilly: And I'm going to invite women for a very small fee, like put skin in the game so that they feel like they're going to show up.
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Gilly: Um,
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Gilly: to my group collective.
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Gilly: And this one woman who I was coaching was so happy
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Gilly: because it was like a tenth of the price of what
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Gilly: She was paying and now she gets this group
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Gilly: So just...
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Gilly: I would say...
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Gilly: that
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Gilly: To answer your question,
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Gilly: The podcast definitely helps.
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Gilly: And it helps because
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Gilly: It's reach.
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Gilly: I'm reaching more people.
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Gilly: I get to, I can't.
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Gilly: Get to.
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Gilly: Help.
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Gilly: inspire other people through the stories of my guests.
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Gilly: on Everyday Rockstars, then
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Gilly: if they want to be part of a group of women that are like that,
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Gilly: then they can join my collective.
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Gilly: So that's once a week on Wednesdays at noon,
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Gilly: we have a conversation and we do goals long and long-term,
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Gilly: short-term goals.
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Gilly: We do guided meditations.
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Gilly: We're really honest and really supportive of each other.
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Gilly: And it's helped Gillies Organics and Everyday Rockstars.
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Gilly: So...
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Gilly: It helps me too.
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Gilly: I have to say.
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Gilly: I know you have one.
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Gilly: Right, Kylie? Don't you have a
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Gilly: You have a mastermind, right?
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Kylee: Yep. My mastermind just kicked off. Yep. Yeah. So it's so good. Well, okay. So
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Kylee: I want to know
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Kylee: - Well, one thing I was gonna say would be great
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Kylee: these sound like amazing women to bring on your podcast and interview.
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Kylee: And then,
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Kylee: you know,
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Kylee: to grow the collective,
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Kylee: but,
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Kylee: Okay, Gilly, I love you.
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Kylee: I adore you.
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Kylee: I love everything you're doing.
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Kylee: You're doing so many wonderful things in this world.
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Kylee: Please share with my audience how they can find you.
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Kylee: All of the things.
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Kylee: Keep the Gillies organic.
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Kylee: listen to the podcast, you know, join the collective. You're so adorable. Do you ever
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Gilly: know that, you know, that saying like the busier you are sometimes like,
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Gilly: like you're more organized and you get more things done.
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Gilly: Like when you just have one thing,
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Gilly: some people are like, how do you do it? I'm like, just sometimes it's all about the podcast.
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Gilly: Sometimes it's all about the business, but
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Gilly: I've had the...
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Gilly: absolute pleasure and it's a blessing that I've been able to
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Gilly: hire people that helped me. I used to do everything.
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Gilly: I used to put stickers on jars and
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Gilly: do demos at supermarkets and, and, and like, it's not that I don't still do all those things,
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Gilly: but I now have somebody doing.
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Gilly: some TikTok shop and editing my podcast. So I'm
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Gilly: I'm lucky to say that
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Gilly: Um,
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Gilly: I've trusted in other people and they've been wonderful and
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Gilly: just like,
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Gilly: Oh.
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Gilly: over
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Gilly: over-delivered and just made my life so much easier. So I think that,
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Gilly: I can't go without saying that.
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Gilly: So you can find me.
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Gilly: You can find our products at GilliesOrganics.com, G-I-L-L.
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Gilly: Y-S-Organics, O-R-G-A-N-I-C-S dot com.
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Gilly: And-
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Gilly: at Gillies Organics, same spelling, on TikTok and Instagram.
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Gilly: Everyday rock stars on Apple, Spotify, and everyday rock stars, one word, on Instagram. So
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Gilly: Check us out.
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Gilly: And then if you want to learn more about the collective,
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Gilly: it's not up on the website yet, but I did,
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Gilly: get the URL everyday-rockstars.com.
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Gilly: So soon there'll be a place
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Gilly: where you can join the collective.
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Gilly: Look at, you could recommend guests for the podcast.
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Gilly: You can sponsor an episode.
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Gilly: But I'd love to hear from you in the meantime.
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Gilly: you could just DM me on Instagram.
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Gilly: at Everyday Rockstars. So I can't wait to meet you.
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Gilly: Kylie, I love you.
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Gilly: You're just like,
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Gilly: the biggest rock star I know. And thank you for helping me grow my podcast.
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Gilly: And I learned so much from you.
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Kylee: Well, I'm just so it's so fun. And, you know, to anyone listening, it's the these.
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Kylee: This is just one of the beautiful things about podcasting, the relationships that can come from it.
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Kylee: So, Gillies, it was so fun to have you on.
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Kylee: you're such a treat and you're so special. And I, I just can't wait to see what you continue to do
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Kylee: with the podcast. So thank you for continuing to show up and putting it on Apple and Spotify
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Kylee: and all the things, but I love everything linked up. Yes, for sure.
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Gilly: Love you. Thank you so much, Kylie. I'm so grateful to you. You're so special.
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Kylee Chandler (00:00.642)
Thank you. You know, it's really windy here,
Gilly (00:04.813)
It's 14.
Kylee Chandler (00:05.568)
Okay. yes, I heard it's like somewhere over there now after here guys.
Gilly (00:10.797)
compared to the 10 degrees that it was.
Kylee Chandler (00:13.816)
gosh. Okay, there we go. I like to see more of you. There you are. Okay. And then one quick question. You actually were doing Instagram lives and then decided to start, right?
Gilly (00:24.431)
Well, some were lives and some were pre... Some were Zooms edited to the 14 minute Instagram and some were Instagram lives that lived depending on how the person wanted to do it. But I got comfortable after the lives doing it into Zoom and then editing it. But the thing about lives is the lives could go longer, but an Instagram reel can only be 14, 15 minutes. Yeah.
Kylee Chandler (00:54.4)
Okay, so I like that. I thought that strategy was kind of neat and cool. So I wanted to kick it off with that. And then we're
Gilly (00:58.831)
I'll tell you why I did it at first that way and then why I'm now doing it longer on Apple.
Kylee Chandler (01:04.462)
Yeah. Okay, amazing. All right. Welcome to the show, Gilly. I, oh, I'm so excited for this. Okay. For those who are tuning in, we literally have been on the phone or on recording for 20 minutes and we're finally diving in because we've been meaning to catch up. But Gilly, welcome to the show. I'm so happy to have you here.
Gilly (01:27.353)
I'm so honored and so excited to be here. I've learned so much from you and I just love being in your presence, Kai. You're just like the best. So thank you.
Kylee Chandler (01:36.91)
You too. I mentioned this in the intro, but Gilly came into my world through Kathy Heller. So there's always so many things I can be grateful for for that connection. But I'm all about here. I'm Daniel edit that out.
Gilly (01:53.199)
Happens to me every day.
Kylee Chandler (01:56.97)
I'm here and I want to dive right in with you. so talk to me about how you actually didn't start with a podcast. You started doing other stuff like Instagram lives and zoom. So this strategy is cool, but I love that it ended up moving you towards a podcast. So talk to us about that journey.
Gilly (02:15.855)
Yeah, well, so first of all, you're the reason it's more of a podcast than it was a show. It used to be a show. Here's how it went. Years ago, I was hired from a local magazine. It's called Be Local, Bergen, in Bergen County, New Jersey, to interview people doing cool things in the community. So from young to old, all different types of people, whether they were a charity leader,
somebody, a little kid on Broadway, an autistic music writer, teachers, I mean, once a month for three years. And that went on their Facebook and Instagram. And then after three years, many people were asking me, hey, can I be on your show? But they weren't in New Jersey. And I said, well, let me see. So I spoke to the publisher and he was like, of
Of course you can go out on your own and the idea of this Everyday Rockstars was yours. So I'll hire you when we have, you know, New Jersey people, but you go do you. And so I started interviewing people in like Los Angeles and New York City and all over, but I didn't have the whole podcast platform stuff down. I just knew Instagram. So I knew how to do an Instagram live. I knew how to take a zoom and edit it down to like,
To make a reel, I think it's 15 minutes or less on Instagram. So I was really just keeping it tight, these conversations. I tried to make them 15 minutes on Zoom and like wrap it up. Four questions, done. And then it was great. It worked because people don't necessarily have the biggest attention spans. Some people are really great with the 14 minute Instagram show.
And it worked for like three years after this magazine. I've been doing this for so long. And then all of a sudden, you know that back almost a year ago, I joined Cathy's collective and in that collective, I met you. But this was before I was listening to her podcast during that time. And there was an episode where she's interviewing you. And I tell you,
Gilly (04:39.038)
I reached out to her right after and I was like, I want you on my podcast. She wrote me back and said, yes. Based on the things that you conversed about in there, you said something, she made a comment like, if you had 60 women in a room that you can promote your products to, don't think that your platform's too small because wouldn't you want to go sell your product to 60 women? So I regurgitated that to her in the message and she was like, I'll come on your show.
And then in that moment, I was like, wait a minute, this woman talks a lot, so do I. There's no way we're talking for 14 minutes. There's no way an interview is going to be 14 minutes. And I was like, listening to everything you guys were saying about how it's like doable to put it on Spotify and Apple. And it just, I just came home and I like Googled it or chat GBT and then the next thing you know, I'm on Buzzsprout putting it on Apple and Spotify and I...
Kylee Chandler (05:14.318)
You
Gilly (05:38.393)
brought over the woman who was editing it for me before and she figured it out in two seconds. And voila, there it was because of your conversation with Cathy. I was like, all right, it's time. It's like, I've been doing this for six years already, like as a Instagram show and I can't officially call it a podcast if it's not in that little purple app. So I'm making it a podcast. So that's how it happened. It's been since, I don't know, like...
At least six months now it's been on Apple and Spotify and I love it. I'm learning so much from Kylie.
Kylee Chandler (06:13.16)
my gosh. It's so fun. I just love the progression of it. And how cool that you I mean, because that's one of the things so many podcasters that are newer, like, well, I'm just so nervous to interview or just you know, and so you came in with those tools. So no wonder it's do everyday rock stars is doing so well. So do you still repurpose those 14 minute clips? Or have you like gone through all of them? And now you're recording new only? Like, what does that look like?
Gilly (06:40.888)
So they live on Instagram, at Everyday Rockstars, and I share them out when it's like an anniversary, but rock stars that are on the show are always doing rock star things. So like if I see you who, thank you for gracing my show, having a mastermind or launching a program, I want to share you out to my story. So I'm constantly reminding people like, hey, check out what this rock star is up to.
Instagram gets its own attention, especially when there's a new episode. So the only difference now, I was already doing that heavy lifting of editing an Instagram show. It's actually not as hard. Well, it's hard, but like, if you don't mess up too much, putting the whole conversation on Apple and Spotify is easier.
than editing the clips. What makes it into those 14 minutes so that I can also fit maybe a sponsor or a plug for my business? So I think that's been the hardest, but it's so fun. It's a labor of love because I love the people that are on my show.
Kylee Chandler (07:54.83)
That is so fun, Gilly. And it you know, like that's where we started because I knew you had that fun strategy. And I wanted people to hear like the different ways that not only podcasts come about, but they can think about using their podcasts. But your story started way before you were invited to do those interviews for those magazines. So you have an amazing organic skincare line called Gilly's organics. Everybody go out buy it because it's so good it is
Gilly (08:14.072)
Totally.
Kylee Chandler (08:24.15)
It is amazing. I, somewhere along the way, heard that like lotions, that the first ingredients is water, is like not gonna do a lot for your skin. So Gilly sends me her lotion and the first ingredient is aloe vera. And I'm like, okay, this is the real deal. And our family is obsessed with it. So you created that and then moved into the other areas. But I know you have a unique and very like strength first story with Gillies. And I'd love to hear
that story.
Gilly (08:55.086)
First of all, I thank you for that. know, Gilly's Organics is still my baby and I still, I'm so proud of the products and she's growing. This baby's still growing up. It's been, she's almost 20 years old. I mean, it's been a long time and it's evolved and it's been really fun. I do love talking about.
about health and wellness, especially for your skin. It's still my love language. And what podcasting has helped me do, and for sure speaking engagements, is prepped me for where I am right now, where I am having back-to-back speaker nights in early March at a beauty event where I'm speaking about the good quality ingredients versus what you should not put on your face and things like that. So it's prepped me.
And podcasting gets easier and easier and easier for me. First of all, we can edit, which is a beautiful thing, unless it's alive. And so what if you mess up? Humans mess up, right? I mess up all the time. But it has definitely helped my business. So I just want to say that the first, one of the first podcasts I was ever on was from this woman who's, she's a chef. And not the first, but
Ever since that podcast episode, and I was like, who's going to hear this? You know, I don't know. You never know who's listening. One woman fell in love with my products and for the past five years, she has been a subscriber every single month, replenishing her products. So you just never know who's listening. I think that's a really cool thing about it. That's another reason why I decided to go and make it an actual podcast on Apple and Spotify.
because there's just a broader reach, you know? And watching something's harder. Like you have to commit to those 15 minutes, but if you're on a walk and you listen, it's different. Do you agree?
Kylee Chandler (11:01.966)
Oh, I agree 100%. And I just, you know, I think that like in our minds, the downloads are so inflated for so many years. And so like even new podcasters used to hear like, Oh, people are getting a million downloads. And they think that that's the goal. And it's like, again, what if, what if you touch 100 lives? And like, what if you people or you said 60 before, so we'll go with that. what if 60 people decided to start buying your product or decided to, you know,
Gilly (11:20.184)
Hmm?
Gilly (11:28.685)
Huge.
Kylee Chandler (11:30.231)
buy your product, your digital course product, or just listen to your podcast and walk away with a huge takeaway. think sometimes
Gilly (11:34.499)
Thanks.
I agree. I agree 100%. And I think that usually entrepreneurs have like a lot of passions, right? And I feel like this is my creative outlet. But I also, my podcast is called Everyday Rockstar. So it's a little bit about me, but it's really about the guest. So I get to get re-motivated in Ghillie's Organics every single week.
So if I meet you and you tell me something so special, you said something so special on my podcast, Kylie, I was crying. It reminds you of something in your life. our, in your case, it was motherhood. That reminds me of something that I have in my life that I should either be grateful for, where I could cultivate. I've had inter, inter people on my show that I've interviewed say some of the coolest things that keep them in rock star mode.
And so I benefit. Sure, they get exposure, they get content, they get to be like, I was on this podcast, they get views, but I get something from it. So powerful. It re-energizes my product-based business because I get this motivation. I mean, from all different types of people, authors, actors, product-based businesses, podcasters, news people. It's just like everyone has a story.
And it's cool to hear it. know, you know, cause you get to interview people all the time too. So that's to me, it's the best.
Kylee Chandler (13:14.184)
I mean, I completely agree. And it's so fun because when I've interviewed, like, a lot of people I've interviewed, I'll ask them, like, what has been the best thing about podcasting? And it's just like, the relationships, the conversations, like, and it's when you start a podcast, you don't necessarily think that's you would never probably think that that would be your answer. But it's like time and time again, it's what I hear. And so, so you are an entrepreneur in many aspects of what's been
Gilly (13:38.669)
Agreed.
Kylee Chandler (13:43.574)
the hardest thing about being an entrepreneur.
Gilly (13:47.407)
Woo! Sometimes for me, it's turning it off at night, but I'm getting really good, just like anything else, like a muscle, where when you do something enough times, you're able to tell yourself, I got this. You know what I mean? Like, time to put it away, read a book, take the Epsom salt bath, put the phone away.
Kylee Chandler (13:49.304)
Yeah.
Gilly (14:16.45)
Like really, it's hard sometimes because I'm like, the podcast, the speaking engagement. I have a coaching collective. We can talk about that. Orders, I just hired somebody. She's amazing, but like I still have to train and things like that. So the mind is always going. And so for me, my biggest challenge would be that I've become someone that's like very organized because
Sometimes I could just be like very Pisces. This is my birthday month. I could be very like all over the place. know, like you, see something and it catches my eye and then I want to do that versus being organized. And I've learned to hire those types of amazing women in my life that, and men, mostly women that keep me sort of grounded because I can get all over the place too. So.
Kylee Chandler (15:12.62)
Okay, wait, when's your birthday?
Gilly (15:14.454)
It's next week, it's February 24th.
Kylee Chandler (15:18.006)
like wait, aren't we in Pisces now? Okay. I love that. We'll have you
Gilly (15:20.142)
Yeah. So a week from today is my birthday and I love this month. It's fun. But everyone loves their birthday month, don't they? So yeah, those are the biggest challenges, I think. I think that's universal, I think, a lot for a lot of just moms and women and business women and not just business owners, but sometimes you're able to leave it at the office.
Kylee Chandler (15:32.044)
Yeah. Okay.
Gilly (15:48.406)
In this day and age, this digital day and age where you're like accessible at all times, I do think it's a challenge for most people to shut it off.
Kylee Chandler (15:56.686)
Yeah. Oh, a hundred percent, a hundred percent. And what has been the biggest blessing for you being an entrepreneur?
Gilly (16:05.582)
calling calling the shots you know
deciding who I want to collaborate with, deciding who I want to work with, deciding what products to promote, saying yes to what lights me up. And in the very beginning, it can be lonely if you don't put yourself out there. But once you do, look at these entrepreneur friends, look at you, like that I could call up in a heartbeat and say, hey, I need your advice.
What do you think of this? You know, don't have to be in that corporate setting to feel supported, but you do learn to support yourself and trust your gut. So I would say that one of the biggest blessings is trusting. I've definitely become more trusting, trusting in myself, trusting in the universe, the divine, the world's order. It's all going to work out, you know?
So thank you.
Kylee Chandler (17:09.868)
remember. I love it. And I agree with you. And I've even filled out with podcasters like it can be such a lonely, can feel so lonely and feel like what am I doing this for? Like, look at you know, looking at the numbers and it's like, but when that is, that is just my goal for this year is like to bring more female podcasters together to create community. So it feels less alone. And it's like, the questions you ask yourself, like, is this a good episode title? Is this a good episode topic? Is this
a good interview or does my cover art like then you have somebody to bounce those ideas off of who are who are another podcaster because that can feel lonely so
Gilly (17:47.791)
Totally. love that you created that and you attract the best women and podcasters too. So that's awesome. No, think community is really important. And as we are, you know, podcasters, entrepreneurs, we all need these containers to share and grow in and give each other ideas and support and accountability and all sorts of things that come with that. So yeah, I think it's been a huge blessing.
Kylee Chandler (17:55.736)
It's been fun.
Gilly (18:15.31)
I wouldn't trade it again. There have been times when I've thought about, wouldn't it be nice? Hmm. That steady paycheck and whatever.
Kylee Chandler (18:23.79)
I know right every once in a while I should I go get a job and my husband's like you really want you Why are you saying that it's like, know, okay, so you interview you are a pro interviewer Which is not the case for every podcaster, but I know with time it gets easier. So talk to us about What are the what are the tips and tricks that we can be using to really? Have amazing deep conversations that aren't service level
Gilly (18:27.054)
I'm sorry.
Gilly (18:30.668)
Yeah.
Gilly (18:37.422)
this one.
Kylee Chandler (18:53.42)
that pull the audience in because you're wonderful at that.
Gilly (18:56.392)
I love you for saying I'll say what I think that I'm, what I needed work on. And this is what I'm going to say that I've, this is what I've learned. What I've learned because I needed the work. I tend to interrupt. I'm an interrupter at home. Like, I can't wait. My kids are like, mom, just let me finish my sentence. I have learned, I am learning to let my guest speak.
Kylee Chandler (19:04.366)
Mm-hmm.
Gilly (19:25.934)
Because sometimes I want to just be like, me too. It's about them. So I'm learning that I have gotten so much better at that, I think. And I would say that when you let the guests speak, they usually guide you into what they want to talk about.
Because if I'm so robotic about what my questions are, but that's not really where they want to go. Like it's not a performance. That's another thing. Like I can be, you know, dramatic. I'm not trying to perform, but if you, if you don't perform and you just show up and you have a conversation, you forget that there's a camera. That's when the best conversations happen. That's what I think.
Kylee Chandler (20:16.298)
So good. So do you prepare questions? Like how do you go into an interview where you're like, not totally flying by the seat of your pants, but you're not super strict? Because I think that that's the balance most people are looking for.
Gilly (20:27.886)
I totally, you know, it's so funny. know, like there are certain people that you just, I connected with you immediately and never met you in person, but I just love you. I knew that our conversation was going to not need any rigidity. was just going to, it was just going to flow. But I have this other woman, she's counted on me twice. She's kind of like, she's a big deal in, and I was excited and she said she's going to, it's going to happen, but I was so nervous.
when it was about to happen. She canceled two hours before it was supposed to happen last week. said she wasn't feeling well, it's fine. Point is, is that I was like, the questions were ready. And I think that I'm actually, when that happens, when it does eventually happen, if it happens, I think I just need to go in there and prep myself that it's very, they're just, everyone's just a person with a story and just like, if you mess up, so what? It's editable.
Right? And yes, I do make questions beforehand, but I don't, because I don't want to read it on camera, it just tends to be there. And there are times when I get off a conversation with somebody and I'm like, Oh my God, I totally forgot to ask them this, you know, but it wasn't supposed to be, you know? So I tend to think once I've done it, I try not to like go back and lament about it. Did you ever do that? Like where?
you worry how it came out or how many times I said amazing. I used to say amazing like too many times. I probably still do. And if I go back and watch it, I'm just going to get annoyed. Like don't even think about it. It happened. They loved it. It was good. Just let it go and go on to the next one. That's kind of where I'm at these days.
Kylee Chandler (22:16.686)
No, no, did that. And yes, I am a person who like thinks about past conversations in my head and reworks them and replace them. And I should have said this, but no, I get that so much. I love those tips. I think that it is so good. I agree. I've had some people on my show where I'm so nervous. And I always have to remind myself they're just they're just somebody with a story. And you know, there's good. Okay, so this is so fun. You
Gilly (22:33.55)
me.
Yeah, and they said yes. Yeah. You're amplifying their message. Yeah.
Kylee Chandler (22:46.558)
went from, and you still do, have Gilly's Organics, and then you created Everyday Rockstars. And then there's kind of a new layer to all of this that do you feel like it's kind of, I want you to share about it, but do feel like it's kind of developed from this journey of like, moving through podcasting into this new thing that was on your heart?
Gilly (22:58.99)
Yes.
Gilly (23:06.83)
Sort of. It's like, it's always been something that I've done. So ever since I started Gilead's Organics, like two decades ago, people would come to me, local women would say like, hey, can we get coffee? How did you start a business? And I would always just do it, you know, give a little help. And then in 2000 and like 15, 16, I fund Women, which is a crowdfunding platform for female entrepreneurs.
asked me to help them coach their female entrepreneurs with their video marketing, like with their marketing, because I did a campaign with them because I knew the founder and I did a really, if I don't say so myself, I did a really good job with my marketing and my video and it raised them like the most money on their platform at the time. So she's like, can you stay on and help the other women? And it was like nominal pay. said, sure, no problem.
And I went to a few events where they asked me to speak. One was like Microsoft. And I went to these events and I spoke. And women started asking me to coach them. And I would coach them with their campaigns for I-Fund Women. But then one day someone said, hey, can you coach me in my business? I said, sure, what's your campaign? And she said, no campaign, just can you coach me? And I was like, I don't have any like certifications, but sure. And then slowly over the years,
And I didn't really advertise it, but over the years I've taken on like one or two women throughout the year, word of mouth only, coaching them, mindset, pricing, website, social media, things I knew. And they were happy. I was happy. Some paid a little bit. Some paid a little bit more. Some paid hardly anything. And some were just like, you know, free coffees with people. And then
I was currently working with this one woman and she lost her business partner. They split and she was struggling and I was like, don't worry, I'll still coach you. She still wanted to do the business. And then I was like, I think I'm just going to pull this all together. Rockstar Collective, call it, because everyday rockstars, they're all rockstar entrepreneurs.
Gilly (25:31.918)
And I'm going to invite women for a very small fee, like put skin in the game so that they feel like they're going to show up to my group collective. And this one woman who I was coaching was so happy because it was like a 10th of the price of what she was paying. And now she gets this group. So just, I would say that the pod, to answer your question, the podcast definitely helps. And it helps because it's reach. I'm reaching more people.
I get to help inspire other people through the stories of my guests on Everyday Rockstars. Then if they want to be part of a group of women that are like that, then they can join my collective. So that's once a week on Wednesdays at noon. We have a conversation and we do goals long-term, short-term. We do guided meditations.
We're really honest and really supportive of each other. And it's helped Gillies Organics and Everyday Rockstars. So it helps me too, I have to say. I know you have a Kylie. Don't you have a, do you have, you have a mastermind, right?
Kylee Chandler (26:47.086)
Yep, my mastermind just kicked off. Yeah, yeah. So it's so good. Well, okay, so I want to know. Well, one thing I was gonna say would be great is these sound like amazing women to bring on your podcast and interview and then, you know, to grow the collective. But okay, Gilly, I love you. I adore you. I love everything you're doing. You're doing so many wonderful things in this world. Please share with my audience how they can find you all of the things. Keep the Gilly's Organics.
Listen to the podcast, you know, join the collective.
Gilly (27:20.206)
You're so adorable. Do you ever know that, you know that saying like the busier you are sometimes like, like you're more organized and you get more things done. Like when you just have one thing, some people are like, how do you do it? I'm like, just sometimes it's all about the podcast. Sometimes it's all about the business, but I've had the absolute pleasure and it's a blessing that I've been able to hire people that helped me. used to do everything. I used to put stickers on jars and
do demos at supermarkets and like, it's not that I don't still do all those things, but I now have somebody doing some TikTok shop and editing my podcast. So I'm lucky to say that I've trusted in other people and they've been wonderful and just like over delivered and just made my life so much easier. So I think that I can't go without saying that.
you can find me, you can find our products at gilliesorganics.com, G I L L Y S organics, O R G A N I C S.com and at Gillies Organics, same spelling on TikTok and Instagram, everyday rock stars on Apple and Spotify and everyday rock stars one word on Instagram. So check us out. And then if you want to learn more about the collective,
It's not up on the website yet, but I did get the URL, everyday-rockstars.com. So soon there'll be a place where you can join the collective. You could recommend guests for the podcast. You can sponsor an episode, but I'd love to hear from you. In the meantime, you could just DM me on Instagram at Everyday Rockstars. So I can't wait to meet you. Kylie, I love you. You're just like the biggest rock star I know.
Thank you for helping me grow my podcast. And I learned so much from you.
Kylee Chandler (29:21.25)
Well, I'm just so it's so fun. And you know, to anyone listening, it's the these this is just one of the beautiful things about podcasting the relationships that can come from it. So Gillies, it was so fun to have you on. You're such a treat. And you're so special. And I, just can't wait to see what you continue to do with the podcast. So thank you for continuing to show up and putting it on Apple and Spotify and all the things but I will have everything linked up. Yes, for sure.
Gilly (29:45.208)
Thanks, C.
Love you. Thank you so much, Kylie. I'm so grateful to you. You're so special.
Gilly (29:55.919)
That was nice.
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