Online Business By Design

In this episode of the Online Business by Design podcast, host Ivana Ivanek interviews Stephanie Ramirez about building a sustainable online business and personal brand through identity shifts, self-expression, and intentional lifestyle design.

Stephanie shares her experience as a first-generation college graduate carrying pressure to achieve, how repeated layoffs (including a third layoff in 2022 while working in tech) pushed her toward entrepreneurship, and the internal decision to stop chasing a fourth corporate job after experiencing remote work, digital nomad travel, and lifestyle flexibility.

They discuss how high achievers often replicate corporate habits in business by overworking, people-pleasing, copying online...

In this episode of the Online Business by Design podcast, host Ivana Ivanek shares insights from four years as both a podcast host and guest to help listeners pitch themselves to podcasts for more visibility, speaking opportunities, and personal brand growth while building an online business.

She explains what she learned reviewing around 60 guest applications, including noticing that most applicants were men and how fear of rejection and overthinking can hold women back from putting themselves out there.

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In this episode of the Online Business by Design podcast, Ivana Ivanek welcomes Kristi, an expert in building sustainable businesses. Kristi shares her journey as a business coach, shaped by a unique upbringing and a strong philosophy of life without rules. She emphasizes the importance of being intentional in creating a business that supports one's version of a wealthy life. Kristi discusses overcoming social pressures, the mindset shifts required to embrace failure as growth, and the duality of being content with the present while striving for more.

She also delves into client retention strategies, ensuring unique and transformative client experiences...

In this episode of the Online Business By Design podcast, host Ivana Ivanek explores the real reasons behind why people avoid creating content on social media and building a digital business card and personal brand. Ivana dispels the myth that fear of sales is the primary reason and introduces four main layers of fear and self-sabotage that she has identified through recent conversations. She provides strategies for overcoming these barriers.