The Avalanche Podcast

Did you know that there are more job openings in the United States right now than there has ever been in history?! Crazy, right? So, how do you break through the noise as a job-seeker or employer? It’s all in the benefits. Join Rayanne and Lance as they discuss which benefits to look out for, which benefits to embrace, and which benefits to ask more questions about in this week’s episode of The Avalanche Podcast.
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Today Lance and Rayanne are joined by financial success coach, Tara Jones-Williamson from Your Pretty Pennies. Check out this episode to learn about the biggest money mistakes you’re probably making, easy ways to improve your finances, and more.

Check out Tara at yourprettypennies.com or @yourprettypennies on Instagram.

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This question has been asked many times since the start of the 21st century: is automation going to take all of our jobs? The short answer? Some of them, yes. The long answer? Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that. Join Rayanne this week as she discusses this question as well as the implications that it has for business owners.
Watch David Auter’s TED talk, “Will automation take away all of our jobs?” here: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_autor_will_automation_take_away_all_our_jobs?language=en 
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Welcome back to Side Hustle School! Now that you’ve created your side hustle and you’ve decided who your ideal target audience is, you’re ready to get some customers and get the ball rolling. Join Rayanne and Lance this week as they discuss their favorite forms of marketing and their tips to get new costumers for your business.

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When it comes to growing your business, growing your team can be one of the hardest (but also most vital) parts. In this episode, Rayanne gets into the nitty-gritty of hiring - who to hire, when to hire, what you really need to know before hiring.

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Have you ever struggled with building habits, or don’t know what habits would help make your life easier? Look no further! Join Rayanne and Lance as they discuss their mindset around habits, the habits they’ve worked to build, and how habits have positively impacted the life they live.

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Have you ever wondered what a professional athlete does after they retire in their thirties? In this week’s podcast episode, Lance and Rayanne get the inside scoop from professional hockey player turned real estate agent, Chris Summers, as he describes his career transition, the impact of the pandemic, and more.

Follow Chris at @summersrealtygroup on Instagram!

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COVID-19 has forced many businesses to “fast-forward” their work from home policies throughout the past year. As a newly growing business and an intentionally “remote-friendly” team, Avalanche Creative has faced some unique challenges during the work from home “revolution” that we’re ready to share with you. Join Lance and Rayanne as they talk about working from home, building a team from home, and what the future holds.

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With the world going virtual over the past year, networking online has become more and more important! LinkedIn has grown from an online resume to a full blown social network - from hundreds of users, thousands of posts, and dozens of daily job postings, it can be pretty intimidating and hard to stand out. Join us on this episode to learn how to spruce up your LinkedIn profile, gain those connections, and accelerate your career.

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If you’re a business owner or entrepreneur and thinking about hiring your first employee, listen to this episode before you make one more move! Hiring is an exciting, major, and necessary step in the growth of your business, but it is also one of the hardest and scariest! Between trusting someone else with your baby to the endless HR regulations, laws, and paperwork, hiring your first employee is really hard and can go wrong in countless ways. Join Rayanne as she discusses Avalanche Creative’s real-life experience of how everything seemed to go wrong when hiring their first employee and how you can avoid the same fate.

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Happy Birthday, COVID-19! Can you believe it’s already been a year? Yeah, us neither. However, despite all of the uncertainty that this past year has held, there are plenty of silver linings. Join Rayanne and Lance as they talk through the past year of growing Avalanche Creative, navigating through a crisis, and more. 

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Despite some opinions, email marketing is far from dead! In fact, HubSpot has shared that for every $1 you invest into email marketing, you get a $38 return - that’s a 3800% ROI! Join us as we delve into what email marketing is, how to grow your list, and how to use this key digital marketing tool effectively.

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Welcome to our first episode in the Side Hustle School series! That’s right: the Side Hustle School SERIES! With the success of our original Side Hustle School episode, we took it as a sign to expand it into a series of episodes, covering everything from starting your side hustle to marketing your side hustle to financing your side hustle and more. In this episode, we will be covering starting your side hustle - how do you decide when to turn your hobby into a side hustle? How do you pick a side hustle? What do you need to make your side hustle successful - and what defines success? Join us as we explore these questions and more.

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With the whole Reddit and Gamestop fiasco nearing the horizon behind us, a lot of people are eager to dip their toes into the world of investing. However, people believed for a long time that investing just wasn’t for regular people - but that’s completely untrue. Rayanne and Lance are ready to dispel these myths, share how they got started investing, and more.

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Welcome to the first ladies-only episode of the Avalanche Podcast! Today, Rayanne is joined by her life-long best friend, Jessica Lynn Parsons. As a long distance friendship success story, Rayanne and Jessica haven’t lived in the same city for over a decade, but their friendship is stronger than ever. Check out this episode as Rayanne interviews Jessica, exploring her journey into freelance marketing, the highs and lows of being a woman in business, and more.

Check out the Mila Kunis episode that was referenced here.

Find Jessica on Instagram, Twitter, and her website. Check out her Twitch channel, HelloGoodberry, and follow them on Twitter and Instagram. Interested in Juniper Creative Co.? Give them a follow on Twitter and Instagram.

It’s no secret that the struggle to find a job right now is a common one. Rayanne takes on our first ever solo episode and shares her advice to new grads - or anyone looking for a job - as someone who graduated during the Great Recession. With experience as both the interviewee and interviewer, here is some of her best advice.

As a self-described mix of Phoebe and Monica from Friends, Camille Trent at MarketerHire is dominating the field of marketing on LinkedIn. In this episode, she tells us more about how her engagement has skyrocketed and gives us her secrets to help you do the same. Whether you’re a freelance marketer, someone who wants to take their LinkedIn profile to the next level, or someone who’s just starting out on the platform, you’re going to want to give this episode a listen.

Check out Camille on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/camillehansentrent/

As an Enneagram 3 and 7, we are programmed to do all the things, to go hard or go home...in short, we have a propensity for intensity. Hustle culture is real, especially for entrepreneurs, but we are realizing that it’s not an either-or. You can work hard and be disciplined without completely sacrificing your present joy. We’re learning to pay attention to how certain activities make us feel and intentionally slow down when we need to. If you’re feeling stressed and burnt out, this might just be the episode for you.

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Episodes mentioned: 

• Power of Delayed Gratification

Resources mentioned:

• MetaFi

It's a new year, a fresh start, and time to set some goals for the year ahead! If your goals for 2021 include starting a side hustle or taking your side hustle to the next level, this episode is for you! We're talking about the nitty-gritty of starting and running a business and setting it up to scale. 

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2020 has been a hot mess and a rollercoaster and the wildest year we could ever imagine. But we survived it and made it to 2021! Join us as we reflect on the high, low, and just plain weird moments of the past year. *Including a bonus surprise that 2020 gave us as a parting gift during the first attempt at recording this episode.*