Open & Awkward: Shop Talk with Katie & Amanda
Episode 16- ROBUST OUTLIERS
Small, potent, amazing, dangerous changes
What’s this podcast about?
Join Amanda Thomsen from Aster Gardens and Katie Elzer-Peters of The Garden of Words in another hilariously unpredictable episode of “Open and Awkward Shop Talk.” Katie and Amanda discuss hiring consultants vs. asking your own staff for their suggestions. They talk about the challenges of running a small, women-owned business, people with a scarcity mindset, how not all traffic is good traffic and the patriarchy fest.
Highlights:
- Katie returns from vacation.
- Katie’s other podcast experience.
- Hiring a consultant vs. asking your staff.
- Tyler and Kennedy discuss another plant shop.
- Amanda’s farmer’s market and car show challenges.
- Funny people Katie and Amanda follow on Instagram/TikTok (welcome to a Brooklyn coffee shop and the wedding planner that gets crazy requests).
- Old school thinking when it comes to women.
- Men are trapped, too.
- Amanda’s selling vibes (or wibes).
Links:
The Demon of Unrest – book by Eric Larson
The Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park in Historic Downtown Wilson
Pictures:
Whirligigs in Wilson, NC
The Stuff at the End
The Open & Awkward Podcast is a production of The Garden of Words, LLC. Copyright 2024 Amanda Thomsen and Katie Elzer-Peters. All rights reserved.
