Donna Maria is an entrepreneur mentor, the founder and CEO of the Indie Business Network, and the host of the Indie Business Podcast and the Indie Business Retreat. She has been recognized as one of the most trusted voices for Makers and Creative Entrepreneurs. Her coaching and consulting enterprise trains thousands of new and evolving entrepreneurs every day.
Welcome to Episode 98 of the Indie Business Podcast! On this episode, you’ll meet Larissa Lewis of Jargon Gist in Pasadena, CA. This episode is chock full of fantastic tips to help you boost your content creation chops. It’s also special to me because it’s an introduction to the wonderful daughter of IBN’s very first…
Welcome to Episode 97 of the Indie Business Podcast! I’m excited to introduce you to Catherine Robinson of Wildwood Aromas in Springfield, Missouri. A self-described introvert, Catherine started her business after she began making aromatherapy products for people who wanted to use essential oil blends to enhance their daily lives but didn’t have, a reputable…
As the founder of the Indie Business Network, nothing brings me more joy than presenting you with this curated selection of artisan made products to make your holidays merry and bright. Our members are going all out to ensure you have wonderful local handmade goodness to share with your friends and loved ones this holiday…
Welcome to Episode 96 of the Indie Business Podcast! On this episode, you’ll meet Kimberly Cross of Zhi Bath & Body in Charlotte, North Carolina. From the time she was a child, Kim has been in the beauty industry. She started out as a hair dresser in middle school. Later, after retiring from the military…
Nearly 24 years ago, I left a fantastic career track in corporate America to launch the Indie Business Network. Everyone I knew thought I had lost my mind. At the time, it was a disaster of epic proportions to be fired or laid off, and no one was quitting their job — even if they…
We are excited to introduce you to Elle N. of Rose Nicaud Perfume, our 4Q 2023 Robin’s Roses Entrepreneur Scholarship Recipient! Based in New Orleans, Elle N. creates small batch, hand crafted, artisan perfumes with fine aromatics to bring you the comforts of the Crescent City in the form of elegant handcrafted fragrances. About Elle…
As entrepreneurs, we are understandably concerned with how we invest our limited financial resources. As it turns out, we should be at least as concerned with how we invest our limited hourly resources. After all, we can make more money. But we cannot make more time. Our next Indie Business Book Club pick takes this…
The Indie Business Network was founded in 2000 in order to empower and encourage women to maximize their potential through small business ownership. Over the years, we have been true to that mission. In 2020, we initiated the Quarterly Indie Business Network Membership Scholarship which awards a year of membership and personalized coaching to at…
At the Indie Business Network, we help you design a business around the kind of life you want to live. It’s not easy, but it is absolutely exciting and so freeing to do the work associated with building a business that suits your life, complete with only those things that make your heart sing. We…
Welcome to Episode 95 of the Indie Business Podcast! On this episode, you’ll meet Rachel Beyer of Artist Apothecary in Portland, Oregon. For Rachel, art has always been a passion. Her mother and grandmother taught her how to sew, and growing up, she took extra art classes every chance she got. So it’s no surprise…
We are excited to introduce you to Ellen Demotses of Soul Holistic Health, our 3Q 2023 Maker Scholarship Recipient! Ellen offers small batch, hand crafted, artisan tea blends made with local organic, wild crafted ingredients. About Ellen In addition to her herbal business, Ellen runs a bookkeeping business. Unfortunately, many of her bookkeeping clients closed…
At the Indie Business Network, we help you design a business around the kind of life you want to live. It’s so freeing to be able to build a business that suits your life, complete with only those things that make your heart sing. Nothing more and nothing less. That’s why we’re so excited about…
Welcome to Episode 94 of the Indie Business Podcast! In this episode, you’ll meet Chelsea Selby Randazza of Witch Baby Soap in Cranford, New Jersey. It was nearly a decade ago when, in her kitchen, baby strapped to her chest, Chelsea first started making and selling soap and bath bombs and realized there was a…
The Indie Business Network was founded 20 years ago based on the transformative power of entrepreneurship. We believe it is time to replace traditional notions of entrepreneurship with the increasingly obvious reality that entrepreneurship is for everyone, and can be defined in different ways by different people with uniquely different lifestyle goals. You do not…
One of the greatest things about being in business today is that success is no longer defined mainly by the financial bottom line. While profitability continues to be important, other definitions of success have taken center stage as more founders reject the notion of growth for growth’s sake in favor of a lifelong experience of…
When it comes to growing and nurturing an online business today, the hot button phrase that describes you as the CEO is “content creator.” That is — you must create and share information that attracts a specific type of person to the corner(s) of the internet where your content lives, and give them opportunities to…
We are excited to introduce you to Ayanna Jackson and Kim Cross, our 2Q 2023 Maker Scholarship recipients. Ayanna is the founder of Arbria Creations in San Leandro, California. Kim is the founder of Zhi Bath & Body in Mint Hill, North Carolina. We are normally thrilled to welcome one new scholarship recipient, so you…
As you know, IBN’s proprietary entrepreneurial framework, the Maker Method™, contains four sequential phases you must past through on the road to building a profitable business that makes you happy and successful and can generate income for life. Those phases are: Emerge > Engage > Evolve > Expand. Welcome to Episode 93 of the Indie…
The Indie Business Network was founded 20 years ago based on the transformative power of entrepreneurship. We believe it is time to replace traditional notions of entrepreneurship with the increasingly obvious reality that entrepreneurship is for everyone, and can be defined in different ways by different people with uniquely different lifestyle goals. You do not…
As an entrepreneur, you know that a little voice lives inside your head. You also know that the little voice does not always tell stories that work in your favor. In fact, the little voice often works overtime to insert gobs of fear, uncertainty and doubt into your everyday life. If the little voice roams…
We have come to call it Black History Month, but Black History is not a month. Black History is a story. It’s a true and inspiring story that resonates throughout time and space to highlight the beauty of a people and their many and unending contributions to our nation and the world. Black History is…
