Join us and insurance expert, Octavio Jara from Potlache Benefits, to learn how COBRA works, stipulations and timing to be aware of, and how it can help your family so that you can finally make the leap into freelancing!

Social media tends to highlight the "fun" parts of traveling as a family. Nobody wants to see the image of your child having a temper tantrum in the middle of the airport; trust me, we have all been there. The reality is traveling with a kid is nothing like traveling before you had a kid. That means your expectations and planning will need to change slightly, and Tiffany's tools in this episode will hopefully make any trip a little less stressful for everyone.

Tiffany shares her own experience of working hourly (and why that doesn’t work), and walks you through the step-by-step process she used to untangle herself from hourly and what she learned in the process.

Since 2017, Lauren has been helping female business owners launch their podcasts. She’s now a Podcast Strategist with an online program that trains people (just like you!) on how to jump into this awesome career path.

Join Tiffany as she shares five practical strategies that you can put in place today to help you stand out from the crowd. Her insights come from a combination of serving clients for the past 15+ years, plus being on the other side as a client herself.

We interviewed Allison Antoinette, a Business Process Consultant, to hear what it’s like to juggle clients, work, and show up as a calm and present parent to her toddler. You’ll learn all about the services she offers, how she finds her clients, and the fascinating story that led her to start this business.

We interviewed Ester Inman—military spouse, work-from-home mom, and the creator of 90 Day VA—a program that teaches women how to leverage their existing skills to create a lucrative virtual assistant business. She is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to all things VA!

In this episode, Beth and Tiffany walk you through a step-by-step scenario, detailing from start to finish exactly how to find, hire, onboard, and manage subcontractors. They share their best pro tips from both a project management and a financial perspective.

We picked Rebekah’s brain about what her life looks like as a virtual assistant: What exactly does she do as a VA? How she juggles motherhood and running her own business from home. How she hopes to continue growing her business in the next year, and tips for anyone looking to get started in the VA world.

Running a small business is hard enough without adding the complexity of understanding how to do your taxes every year. That’s why in today’s episode, we talk with CPA, Shannon Weinstein, about how to get prepared for the year-end so that you can keep more of what you’ve earned and avoid expensive mistakes.

Over the last year, we’ve connected with dozens of talented, hard-working, ambitious parents who are tired of working for The Man and ready to transition into freelance or consulting work, so that they can create a life, a schedule, and a career that actually works for their families.

Wealth consciousness coach AJ Bishop focuses on helping women define and create their own wealth consciousness, eradicate their financial anxieties, and empower themselves to be in full control of their wealth and financial futures.

Lisa Cumes—six-figure freelancer, business owner, and mom of three—visits the Kenza Pod again to discuss how to cultivate a mindset of abundance, in order to achieve the success you desire and deserve both in your personal and in your business life.

Kat Lee is a licensed acupuncturist, intimacy and relationship coach, and host of the Empowered Curiosity podcast. She joined us on this week’s episode of the Kenza Pod to talk to us about how listening to what our body is telling us can help you feel more rooted in yourself, so that you can create an abundant life and business.

If you’ve ever asked yourself how you can attain more freedom in your life, better manage stress, be a more present parent, and continue to crush your professional goals, get ready to take notes! This episode with CEO Coach, Edita Atteck, will teach you how to be a better, healthier parent entrepreneur today. 

Tiff and Beth spoke with Executive Director, Rafael Espinal on how he got his start as a freelancer advocate, why the Freelancers Union is so important, and how you can take advantage of all the Freelancers Union has to offer, including access to affordable health care and a ton of other benefits traditionally offered by larger companies.

Candice Elliot is a human resources strategist with a focus on community-building and teaching. She’s a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources, specializes in California Labor Law, and works with students in her Wholistic HR incubation program. Candice has built these businesses from grassroots in her community, and that community is what has allowed her such success.

In this episode, Tiffany tells us the story of how she weathered the perfect storm of evacuating from a devastating wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California during the Summer of 2020. While in the midst of a global pandemic, two weeks away from escrow closing on their house, with half of their belongings in boxes, trying to organize a move 8 hours south, hold down their jobs, and launch The Kenza Collective, a massive wildfire broke out and threatened to completely change the course of their lives.

In this edition of So Ya Wanna Be A... we sit down with Liz Ryan of Wildflower Landscape Design. Liz, Tiff, and Beth sat down to have a fun and candid convo about how Liz got her start as a business owner, what it takes to be a self-employed landscape designer (awesome news: the barrier to entry is low, and the work is rewarding), how she juggles being a mom of two young kids, and how the pandemic has impacted Liz’s business and parenting.

Kenza CFO Beth Gummere walks us through how to read your P&L, how to understand and categorize different expenses, how to determine your gross and net profits, and how to use these nuggets of information to expand your business and focus on growth.