Raw with The Landlocked Mermaid

Don’t Be Perfect, Be Gutsy

Natalie Franke: Author, community builder, and mama bear for small businesses. As one of the founders of the Rising Tide community and Chief Evangelist at HoneyBook, she leads tens of thousands of independent business owners while fostering a spirit of community over competition around the world which means she has a LOT to offer in the way of words of wisdom.
She shares how her frustration with the status quo lonely, isolating life as an entrepreneur ultimately led her to found the Rising Tide community. We also dive deep into her personal journey, from childhood perfectionist tendencies to fertility struggles and motherhood, imposter syndrome, and the fear of external perception that made her keep a brain tumor diagnosis a secret for five years. 
These experiences and her healing work led Natalie to be gutsy, not perfect. This episode will inspire you to come forward more boldly, honestly, and transparently and ensure that you are not the one standing in the way of your dreams. 
 
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If You Want an Easy Life Do Hard Things

If you want a hard life, do easy things; if you want an easy life - do hard things. That’s Ben Hartley’s model that is transforming his life, his marriage, and his business. 
 
Ben is one of the rare individuals who unapologetically shows up as himself. He's not afraid of a little backlash, not afraid of speaking his truth and saying the hard things, and today on the podcast we got off on a topic I wasn’t expecting. 
 
This episode is all about personal growth and doing the inner work in order to move forward in business. Ben shares his commitment to doing the things he says he will do and his path to radical honesty and transparency that have changed his definition of success. It’s in having the hard conversations with ourselves and the people around us that we can find true growth and happiness.
 
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Showing Up As You Are

Tomayia Colvin is one of the creative leaders in our field who is truly open to her community and really embodies the authenticity and rawness of what her life truly is like at any given time. It wasn’t always this way, though.
 
In this episode, we talk about the challenge of showing up authentically as a leader and the impossible standards created by social media to show only the carefully curated version of our lives. Tomayia shares how her divorce helped her drop this mask and start showing up as she truly is.
 
We also explore how she’s learned to be honest and transparent about her own capacity and limitations and how a recent health scare helped her shift her mentality and priorities about what is truly important. 
 
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When Woo-Woo and Business Collide: Trauma, Healing & Learning to Trust Yourself

Holistic approaches to healing can have big ripple effects on your business and your life. In this episode, I talk with creative business and sales strategist Kerry Walsh about the place where “woo-woo” meets business through listening to ourselves and our bodies. Kerry shares her journey in battling cancer as a youth and the way it affected how she approached business ownership, and the surprising ways holistic approaches affect our bottom lines. She specifically talks about the ways our nervous system regulation {or lack of} impacts our productivity, capacity, and our ability for growth. 
 
I share a lot about my own journey and the quote “mid-life breakdown” I had when I ended my marriage and the surprising modalities like reiki and EMDR that brought both me and my business back to life.
 
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People Over Profit

Many businesses tout people over profit but few actually live it the way Seattle-based content creator and photographer Jon Taylor Sweet does. Now, that's not to say that he hasn’t had tremendous success financially. If all you did was stalk him on social media, you’d see his hundreds of thousands of followers and the amazing content he’s been paid to do for brands and couples worldwide. But for him, success isn’t measured by fiscal numbers. 
We talk about how his faith taught him to serve, how it inspired him to bring the model of giving into business, and how it continues to build his business today. Jon shared how this way of living formed his views of success and how you too can transition out of simply working to make more money and instead work to serve the people around you. 
 
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Living a Beautiful Life After a Cancer Diagnosis

Are there parts of your life that you hide in the “name of your brand”? It happens so often when we try to show up online as the polished, finished versions of ourselves instead of the raw, real humans that we actually are. 
 
Angie McPherson is a branding photographer and marketing strategist out of Virgina, and today we are having a super interesting conversation about how we minimize areas of our life, like motherhood and, in her case, a cancer diagnosis, to keep up appearances in our business. We talk about how going through cancer at a young age changed the way she decided to show up for others, how she used her story to inspire those around her, and how hitting a wall in our lives changes our priorities. She shares some amazing tips on eliminating the word balance from our vocabulary and focusing more on things like being well-rounded, focusing on what's important, and living our life to the fullest NOW while we have a life to live. 
 
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Redefining Success On Her Own Terms

Kaleigh Wiese is an Austin, Texas-based endless creator, visual branding educator, entrepreneur, and public speaker. She is one of those people I could talk to for hours and never run out of things to say, and our conversation on the podcast is no exception. 
 
Kaleigh has one of the most unique upbringings of anyone I know because she was homeschooled and went to college at 15… yes, 15! She always knew that entrepreneurship was her calling and she has worked her entire career helping creatives find their visual voice.
 
Today she opens up about where she is in business and some of the growing pains she is experiencing as she works to scale to the next level. We also discuss how the pandemic gave her a new sense of freedom in identifying what fulfills her and how to protect her energy while still pouring into and serving others, and how she has come to redefine success on her own terms. 

How Vulnerability Saved Him From Addiction

Shaun Austin Gordon is a successful entrepreneur, wedding photographer, and my longtime friend. Today he shares a deeply personal story that up until just a year or so ago he couldn’t even say out loud. He talks about how his life came crashing down on him one day and how vulnerability saved him from addiction, saved his business and his marriage, and changed the way he does business. Tune in for a great conversation about how introducing vulnerability into your life not only increases the connection to those that matter, but how being vulnerable with yourself can also change your life trajectory.

The Road to Authenticity

Welcome to the first official episode of Raw with the Landlocked Mermaid! Let me tell you a little bit about how this came to be... 5 years ago, I was working in Thailand when I had an unplanned major life pivotal moment {generally how they go}. I was feeling unfulfilled, lost, confused... Yet I continued to post on social media and show up online like everything was perfect. It looked like I was "living the dream"... but it certainly didn't feel like it. Do you know the feeling?
This experience sparked a major realization of how I was showing up in the world, and as a result, RAW was born - the extension of my personal quest to uncover the honest sides of entrepreneurship through unfiltered conversations with the visionaries and leaders we all know and love.

Welcome to Raw with The Landlocked Mermaid

Serial entrepreneur and worldwide editorial photographer Jamie Findlay is on a quest to uncover the honest side of entrepreneurship, and all of the challenges, joys, and ah-ha moments that come with it. Join her for unfiltered conversations with visionaries and leaders from all walks of life as they explore the path to success, overcoming setbacks, growth, trauma, healing, and everything in between.