Friendships can be challenging...

Regardless of who you are. No matter whether it's a friendship with a coworker, colleague, fellow business owner, or BFF from grade school. As my guest Danielle Bayard Jackson shares in this episode, female friendships are especially complex while being incredibly important!

Because I've had my fair share of complex and complicated female friendships throughout my life, I had many questions! I thought you might as well, so I decided to bring in an expert in the matter, Daniel Bayard Jackson, who believes that it's worth fighting for our friendships.

Danielle is a female friendship coach and educator who speaks about platonic women relationships and the science behind it. Her podcast, Friend Forward, is dedicated to teaching us how to create and maintain better female friendships.

We get into:

• What makes female friendships so unique and different
• Why female friendships are worth fighting for
• Whether or not you should strive to find friends outside of business and / or entrepreneurship
• How to find friends
• And more!

Danielle Bayard Jackson is a female friendship coach and educator who speaks nationally about the science of women’s platonic connections. Her coaching business, Friend Forward, is dedicated to teaching women how to create and maintain better female friendships.

Danielle’s expertise has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, Psychology Today, Wall Street Journal, FORTUNE Magazine, and Oprah Magazine, various talk shows and a host of other media outlets.

A former high school teacher, Danielle now uses her teaching skills as an educator to coach women through common friendship conflicts. As a member of the American Sociological Association, she uses the latest research to create practical, tangible strategies to help women create more depth in their platonic relationships. Companies like TikTok, the NBA, NFL, and Etsy have all booked Danielle as a speaker to address the topic of connection psychology.

As the resident friendship expert for the global app Bumble For Friends, Danielle shares her insight weekly on The Friend Forward Podcast, has several viral videos on TikTok, and recently signed a book deal to bring her practical, research-based strategies to the masses in May 2024 (tentatively titled Fighting for our Friendships).

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About Emily Aborn Content Copywriter and Podcast Host:

Emily Aborn is a Content Copywriter, Speaker, and Podcast Host of Content with Character and She Built This. Since 2014, she’s had experience running brick-and-mortar as well as online businesses. She’s worked with 98+ industries and loves helping others increase their visibility, connect with their clients, and bring their dreams to life. For fun, she enjoys word games, reading, listening to podcasts, and hiking with her husband, Jason, and their dog, Clyde.

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Today’s episode is a bit of a different one!

It’s not a tips, how-to’s, action steps kind of episode, it’s the story. A story of where art meets science and the power of smell to transport us.

Today's episode is featuring Helida Dodd, owner of Marbella Perfumes, who loves bringing stories and scents together in a powerful way.

We get into how she started, where the path in the road took her on a totally different journey, and some of the things she has to face and overcome as a product-based, artisan business owner.

Our conversation covers:

• How Helida went from engineering to perfume
• Why smells are so important for connection
• Parallels between storytelling and scents
• Advice for for artisans, makers, and product-based businesses to overcome common fears getting in the way of their success
• And more!

Books and Podcasts Mentioned

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger

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The Perfume Making Podcast with Karen Gilbert

About Helida:

Helida Dodd is a Perfumer for lovers of beautiful fragrances who can’t tolerate traditional perfumes.

She loves showing how perfume and smells are as a sensorial component to teach critical thinking, create new habits, and form cohesive teams.

She’s a former Industrial Engineer who spent many years in healthcare, logistics and supply chain management. Today, she uses her engineering and chemistry background to create intricate perfumes and showcase the relationship between art and science. When she’s not concocting her exquisite formulas or speaking, you can find her spending time with her husband and two teenagers, volunteering with the Children’s Voice Choir, biking, doing yoga, or daydreaming about traveling.

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About Emily Aborn Content Copywriter and Podcast Host:

Emily Aborn is a Content Copywriter, Speaker, and Podcast Host of Content with Character and She Built This. Since 2014, she’s had experience running brick-and-mortar as well as online businesses. She’s worked with 98+ industries and loves helping others increase their visibility, connect with their clients, and bring their dreams to life. For fun, she enjoys word games, reading, listening to podcasts, and hiking with her husband, Jason, and their dog, Clyde.

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Stats show that communication is approximately:

• 55% Nonverbal Communication
• 38% Tonality (how we say it)
• 7% The words (the ones we choose to convey our thoughts)

Today's guest, Brian Galke, shares with us about that 55% as he digs into the nonverbal communication and information that can be found written on the face.

Brian is the CEO and Founder of Subtle Skills, a training ground for decoding faces to help you improve your communication with others, build rapport, and give them more time, attention, and presence.

For this episode, allow yourself to open up your mind to new possibilities and join me in following my own curiosity in learning something new!

Our conversation includes:

• How Brian learned about facial feature decoding and why he started down this path
• Benefits in facial feature decoding for our relationships and business
• Key features of the face to focus on for communication styles, information delivery, and more
• What makeup says about our faces
• The connection between overall body language and the face
• And more

Links and Resources Mentioned:

Books: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

You Say More than You Think by Janine Driver

What EveryBODY is Saying by Joe Navarro

YouTube link to this episode: https://youtu.be/iUbx7XpodhA

Brian's products: https://subtleskills.com/services/

About Brian Galke

Brian Galke is a renowned Facial Feature Decoding Expert with over two decades of experience in Business Coaching, Speaking, and Training. Brian's unique perspective on sales training challenges conventional notions by emphasizing the importance of creating a connection and finding a connecting point with your potential customer. As a "People Connector," Brian has a reputation for breaking down barriers and bringing out the best in people. His practical, street-savvy coaching style, fused with real-life stories and conversational techniques, connects with his audience at an intimate, intense, and individual level.

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About the Host, Content Copywriter Emily Aborn

Emily Aborn is a Content Copywriter, Speaker, and Podcast Host of Content with Character and She Built This. Since 2014, she’s had experience running brick-and-mortar as well as online businesses. She’s worked with 98+ industries and loves helping others increase their visibility, connect with their clients, and bring their dreams to life. For fun, she enjoys word games, reading, listening to podcasts, and hiking with her husband, Jason, and their dog, Clyde.

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