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Welcome to the Be Fabbo Podcast - your go-to destination for candid conversations and valuable insights on the creative entrepreneur journey. I'm your host Bobbi Brinkman. At the heart of this podcast is my passion for empowering and uplifting you, the listeners, so each episode is packed with mindset, motivation, and encouragement, as well as practical and actionable business growth strategies to help you take action and build a thriving business. The show covers a range of topics, including personal and professional development, inclusivity, and the challenges and triumphs, of being a creative entrepreneur, what drives them and why. Solo and guest episodes featuring takeaways that motivate, educate, and celebrate you and you know I’m going to challenge you to embrace what makes you fabbo and use that as inspiration to grow the business and life you want, love, and are proud of. Join me for in-depth discussions about what's working and not working for creatives in tools and tech, and hear stories about wins, losses, and everything in between. So, grab your earbuds, and let's get motivated to be fabbo together building the thriving business and life we deserve. Photo: Meredith Ryncarz

Be Fabbo - A Business + Personal Growth Podcast for Creative Entrepreneurs Bobbi Brinkman

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Welcome to the Be Fabbo Podcast - your go-to destination for candid conversations and valuable insights on the creative entrepreneur journey. I'm your host Bobbi Brinkman. At the heart of this podcast is my passion for empowering and uplifting you, the listeners, so each episode is packed with mindset, motivation, and encouragement, as well as practical and actionable business growth strategies to help you take action and build a thriving business. The show covers a range of topics, including personal and professional development, inclusivity, and the challenges and triumphs, of being a creative entrepreneur, what drives them and why. Solo and guest episodes featuring takeaways that motivate, educate, and celebrate you and you know I’m going to challenge you to embrace what makes you fabbo and use that as inspiration to grow the business and life you want, love, and are proud of. Join me for in-depth discussions about what's working and not working for creatives in tools and tech, and hear stories about wins, losses, and everything in between. So, grab your earbuds, and let's get motivated to be fabbo together building the thriving business and life we deserve. Photo: Meredith Ryncarz

    74: Ready to pursue your next big goal? Here are 15 things you'll need to give up!

    74: Ready to pursue your next big goal? Here are 15 things you'll need to give up!

    How many of you have a vision board of what your next set of goals looks like? Maybe you have a journal. You know, we talked about journaling a lot here. Maybe you've wrote down your your next steps. If you're like me- I have an idea book. I'm always writing ideas down. So how many of you are ready for that?  My my philosophy is, embrace where you are right now. Be proud of where you are right now. Right? But you need to be looking towards the future. Not too far away, though, right? I want you to look at the year coming up, maybe the next few years coming up. I want you to focus on where you want to take your business and your life. Where do you want to thrive where you have to have some goals...bigger goals, maybe than the ones that you're working on daily. That's our topic today on Episode 74 of the Be Fabbo Podcast. Ready to Pursue Your Next Big Goal? Here Are 15 Things You'll Need To Give Up. And I bet they're not what you think. 
    Grab your fave ☕, ✒️, 📝, or 💻, take some notes and let's dig in!
    Then, listen with an open mind and 😍 open heart!
    Put your notifications on silent, invest this time in yourself and let's work together to shift your Mindset!

    FULL SHOWNOTES AT BOBBIBRINKMAN.COM

    Key Takeaways:
    If you want to accomplish big goals, you'll need to give up a few things


    Worrying about what's outside of your control.   Worrying about what others think. Wasting your time on things you can delegate or outsource.  Getting lost in the scroll.  Binging the latest whatever.  Distraction on your phone.  Interacting with the noise around you.  Looking for the easy route.  Worrying you will fail.  Be around or listen to those not doing what you want to do. Being an exact copy of someone else blueprint.Procrastination.  Let your emotions guide you when logic should lead.  Keep making the same mistakes.  Seeking getting it done faster versus seeking progress.  
     


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    • 31 min
    73: 8 Reasons Why Saying No to New Opportunities is Important for Business Growth

    73: 8 Reasons Why Saying No to New Opportunities is Important for Business Growth

    The power of saying yes versus the power of saying no. Quite often as creative entrepreneurs, we're the pleasers, right? We want to say yes to everyone. We want to help everyone, we have that servant heart, right? We want to serve by sharing our gifts. But if you ever thought about it, or maybe you've looked at your stats, or you've looked at your your outline in your analytics, and you realize that every time you say no, you're not seeing much business growth. Maybe there's a reason for that. 
    We're going to talk about the power of saying no, on today's Episode 73 here on the Be Fabbo Podcast, where our topic is 8 Reasons Why Saying No to New Opportunities is Important for Business Growth. 
    I know you want to hear more, and find ways to continue to strive for business and personal growth. 
     Grab your fave ☕, ✒️, 📝, or 💻, take some notes and let's dig in! 
    Then, listen with an open mind and 😍 open heart!
    Put your notifications on silent, invest this time in yourself and let's work together to shift your Mindset!

    FULL SHOWNOTES AT BOBBIBRINKMAN.COM

    Key Takeaways:
    1. Will this be the best use of my time?
    2. Is there more investment or adding team members?
    3. Any red flags visible or hidden?
    4. Does this opportunity get you excited?
    5. Will clients' and your professional and personal lives be affected if you take this?
    6. Is this something different from your business?
    7. Would this impact YOU in a negative way?
     8. Have you talked this out with others you respect and your family?



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    • 23 min
    72: Turn Your Thoughts Into Action

    72: Turn Your Thoughts Into Action

    We're kicking off with Episode 72:Turn Your Thoughts Into Action. I know you want to hear more, and find ways to continue to strive for business and personal growth. 
    You pour your blood, sweat, and tears into your business so how do you maximize every effort?
    Grab your fave ☕beverage, ✒️pen, 📝paper, or 💻laptop, take some notes and let's dig in!
    Then, listen with an open mind and 😍 open heart!
    Put your notifications on silent, invest this time in yourself and let's work together to shift your Mindset!

    FULL SHOWNOTES AT BOBBIBRINKMAN.COM

    Essential Takeaways:
    0:00   Goals, vision boards, whiteboards, boxes of journals, blueprints, all the visions and plans that you have for your business and your life. Oh, trust me, I'm sure they're all amazing. But did you know that there's an easier way to achieve all these thoughts and ideas that you write down? Now, if you've followed the podcast for any length of time, you know, I'm all about mindset that I believe mindset is a strategy. And that with the right mindset, you can achieve anything that you set out to do.
    3:36   I want to share three steps with you to help you become more efficient, be more effective in turning your thoughts into actions, all those things that you have running around all those ideas, positive ones and negative ones, how to turn these thoughts into actions. 
    6:14   Getting these thoughts out of your mind and done on paper, will help you find the right place to start, right and how to turn these thoughts that you have into action, because you can now break them down into smaller, more manageable steps that you can start implementing and seeing some instant gratification.
    7:20   I'm all about you know, future planning. But I also don't want you to think about the things in the past, right? I want you to put your energy, where you can adjust your thoughts and your plans to the present. Because when you do that, you'll actually move closer, faster to achieving your overall bigger goals. 
    9:15   I mean, heck, My motto is to always be more, be more adventurous, you know, do more, you know be be more of whatever you want to work on that living in that zone---have more and be more sometimes falls in that overthinking zone because you're constantly wondering, Will this be enough?
    10:49   Once you complete these first few steps, you might find that you still have trouble turning your thoughts into an action. So let's see if we can determine what's stopping you. No fear, no distraction, it's time to shift that mindset and remove these limiting beliefs. There is no better time than the present to start reframing and rethinking your thoughts.
    13:30   Sometimes we work so hard in our future. And we get we want to get somewhere so fast, and we get there. And we're disappointed. So I want you to hone in on what you're working on right now. Because you might just have a new vision, you might just find out that when you write all these things down, it can be a new, a new vision for a new business. Maybe it's a new product that you want to offer. Maybe it's something else when you look at this list that you can get excited about. And as I mentioned staying present with your thoughts, and meeting them where you are. Remember, you are right where you're supposed to be and you're doing fabbo at that.
    16:20   You'll be amazed how much more you can accomplish if you just do what you say you're going to do. Rather than getting stuck in a thought loop or overwhelming or overthinking or the I can't stay out of that negative space. 

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    • 17 min
    71: 6 Reasons Why Failure Is Just As Important As Success

    71: 6 Reasons Why Failure Is Just As Important As Success

    Here we go with Episode 71: 6 Reasons Why Failure Is Just As Important As Success---- wait, what? I know you want to hear more, and find ways to continue to strive for business and personal growth. 
    You pour your blood, sweat, and tears into your business so how do you maximize every effort?
    Grab your fave ☕beverage, ✒️pen, 📝paper, or 💻laptop, take some notes and let's dig in!
    Then, listen with an open mind and 😍 open heart!
    Put your notifications on silent, invest this half hour in yourself and let's work together to shift your Mindset!

    The Essential Takeaways:
    2:12    Two things that every creative entrepreneur is going to experience as they build their careers. Two things, success and failure.
    2:45    you have the choice by friends to dust yourself off and move forward, or stay stuck and dwell because you got knocked down. This is where having that successful growth mindset plays a significant role.

    11:59    It's important to realize that failure is part of being a creative business owner, just as it is as being a human. But you cannot let them define you please do not let any failures define you. The chapter on right now is not your whole story.
    12:18    Now, if you're ready to shift your mindset, and crush your business goals, and be empowered to lead and grow a thriving business with confidence and clarity, I'm here for you.

    FULL SHOWNOTES AT BOBBIBRINKMAN.COM

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    • 16 min
    69: Take Your Own Damn Advice with Jenny + Jai Holla

    69: Take Your Own Damn Advice with Jenny + Jai Holla

    April continues Mindset Month (yeah, I am claiming it!) Please join Bobbi for this 5 week series on Mindset with fellow mindset coaches Jenni + Jai Holla.

    The Hollas are creating a life fueled by freedom, fun and adventure on your terms.
    InstagramYou'll find this series on the social audio app Clubhouse in the Wedding Pros Club

                               FULL SHOWNOTES WITH LINKS AT BOBBIBRINKMAN.COM

    The 3 of us guide the audience through a series of questions, sharing insights and then do some live coaching with the audience.
    So grab your fave beverage, pen, paper, or laptop to take notes or fill out the worksheet.
    Put your notifications on silent, invest this hour in yourself and let's work together to shift your Mindset!
     A Better Business Starts With A Better You! Are You Ready? Grab your earbuds, and Let's get started!Grab Week 1 worksheet here if you like to follow along to help move you and your business forward and create the life and business you deserve!
                                                     Link for WK 5 Worksheet                                                                                                     The Essential Takeaways:
     19:00 Have you actually tried to implement somebody else's advice? And it's failed? Have you tried to implement somebody else's advice and said, Oh, my gosh, thank you for that. And it was a skyrocket, and it put you on a new course. It opened up windows and opportunities. Have you done that in business and in life? 

     56:15 if you don't fail, how do we know we succeed? Is that is that old adage, right? And again, when you when you win, and when you let's say fail or lose? It's a lesson. What are you going to take from that? 

     1:10:33 I want you to really consider leaning into that thing that your gut is telling you, or maybe the thing you've been avoiding doing, that can unlock everything for you. 


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    Grab a Fabbo Chat with Bobbi   **SPECIAL FOR LISTENERS: AN EXTRA 30 MINUTES!
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    • 1 hr 15 min
    68: The One Person You Should Compare Yourself To & Why

    68: The One Person You Should Compare Yourself To & Why

    March is Mindset Month Please join Bobbi for this 5 week series on Mindset with fellow mindset coaches Jenni + Jai Holla.
    The Hollas are creating a life fueled by freedom, fun and adventure on your terms.InstagramYou'll find this series on the social audio app Clubhouse in the Wedding Pros Club

                               FULL SHOWNOTES WITH LINKS AT BOBBIBRINKMAN.COM

    The 3 of us guide the audience through a series of questions, sharing insights and then do some live coaching with the audience.
    So grab your fave beverage, pen, paper, or laptop to take notes or fill out the worksheet.
    Put your notifications on silent, invest this hour in yourself and let's work together to shift your Mindset!
     A Better Business Starts With A Better You! Are You Ready? Grab your earbuds, and Let's get started!Grab Week 1 worksheet here if you like to follow along to help move you and your business forward and create the life and business you deserve!
                                                     Link for WK 3 Worksheet                                                                                                     The Essential Takeaways:
    6:53  Because a lot of times we want to compare ourselves to the person who has to quote unquote, the success, the spotlight success. That's That's what we'll call it today. Spotlight success. The they have the ton of the customers they have, you know, the they they put forth this life, you know, and it's like you look at them. It's the social media world, right? You look at it and be like, Oh my god, they look like their life is awesome and amazing, right? But we don't know the story. 


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    Grab my 10 Ways To Develop a Successful Mindset Guide
    Grab a Fabbo Chat with Bobbi   **SPECIAL FOR LISTENERS: AN EXTRA 30 MINUTES!
    Be Fabbo Workshops Coming to a City Near You! Get on the Email List!
    Looking for group coaching to refresh & re-energize you and your business? Get on the Group Coaching Waitlist!
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    • 1 hr 18 min

Customer Reviews

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14 Ratings

Bamboo Dreams Photography ,

Perfect motivation!

Episode 50 is the perfect motivation and perspective to tackle this new month! Thank you for your ongoing commitment to helping all creatives build and maintain a sustainable AND profitable business during the best and the most challenging times!

The Lady Griffith ,

What a fabbo podcast!

Whenever I need advice for my wedding business, I turn to the Be Fabbo podcast. Bobbi is really the hard of the podcast — she’s spent 40 years in the wedding industry and has a unique perspective. I know if Bobbi recommends someone on her podcast, I’m going to love them. Keep up the great work, Bobbi & Tina!

Coastal Chic Studios ,

Fabulously Fabulous!

Todd and I had a blast with Bobbi! We were so honored to be able to share our business (Coastal Chic Studios) with her and all of her amazing listeners. Bobbi is a wonderful photographer and educator who is happy to shine a light on our amazing wedding vendor community. We are so thankful for her support! Keep it up Bobbi, we appreciate all you do for our community.
-Ang + Todd
Xoxo

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