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chinwag
soft skills, hard truths. gabby and marisa having a good chinwag. [chin-wag] / ˈtʃɪnˌwæg /: to have a friendly conversation more info: http://chinwag.live/
Episodes
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the best thing is the next thing
nicole matthews has been running her business for almost twenty years, and she still has nights where she lies in bed wondering what she’s doing in the room…
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never cashed in
street team, part two. last episode we asked why street teams should only belong to authors launching a book, so gabby went down the rabbit hole and came back…
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paddling like hell
from the outside, club ichi looks effortless: sold-out events, a party at tiger mansion, hundreds of people following liz and nicole across vegas. but like…
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build the street team
back from imex and still debriefing, we kick things off with a question gabby found on substack: what if we stopped asking people what they do for work and…
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game knows game
our first repeat guest, our most requested episode, and this time we’re live and in person from the SPL booth at IMEX. kyle morris shows up complimenting the…
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not checking in myself
four days post-imex and neither of us has recovered. this is the honest recap: ten days in vegas, skipped lunches, power bars for every meal, and a booth that…
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first wag on the floor
we made it. first wag on the imex show floor, live from booth D3204, and it’s day one with a sore throat, a fancy hat, and gabby already threatening to sit…
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have the uncomfy
we froze on each other before we even hit record, so naturally that's how this one starts. gabby's deep in research for her scope creep talk and found the…
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grind without grace
chris vasami joins us to talk about his new book, wake up and be great. it's about fifty pages with no fluff, and gabby still managed to stick twenty tabs in…
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wearing a business suit
fall equinox hit and we both spiraled, just in opposite directions. gabby spent the day ready to blow up her whole business, quit things, start over, and…
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baked into your rate
true chinwag style — no topic prep, gabby half-losing her voice, and neither of them entirely sure they were recording until they were. the question they can't…
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science the woo woo
gabby took dayquil, went down a youtube rabbit hole, and came back with a thesis: the woo-woo is real, but you can train it. this whole one is her "sciencing…
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live what you teach
gabby comes back from nine days in LA — four BTS concerts, two toddlers, and a phone she left in the seatback pocket on day one, which delta eventually mailed…
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everyone is their mirror
marisa's fresh off connect marketplace and her brain is already six weeks out on imex — because chinwag is going live and in person, officially, in partnership…
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magic words
marisa's off at ASAE, so this one's a pre-record — and it turns into a full nerd-out on the tiny book that took marisa three years to actually finish: phil…
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stupid little box
grandpa kyle's words are officially living rent-free in gabby's head. after ten days apart — marisa back from two family reunions and her planning commission…
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no shame in going back
Here you go — tuned so the "no shame" thread carries through, since that's the title now: gabby comes in hot with a networking call that broke her brain —…
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set the hook early
grandpa kyle finally makes it onto the pod — and immediately turns it into a masterclass. kyle morris built and sold a business before thirty, then went…
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motivation is personal
marisa went to a PMI Nashville roundtable on a random tuesday night — not an events thing, not her industry — and came out of it texting gabby photos of slides…
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on location: heather o’ shea - not a bad date
Heather of O'Shea Event Consulting doesn't build registration websites — she reverse-engineers them. Start with what leadership needs to see, then backbuild…
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on location: nate dillon - twinkle in their eye
live from cvent connect, we grab nate dillon, VP of business development at SPL, for the most honest conversation about production companies you'll hear all…
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on location: brandon montgomery - solutions, not sales
Recorded live and topics totally unplanned — Marisa grabs Brandon Montgomery of Technical Elements for a hallway-style chinwag about what business…
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secondhand fomo
marisa went to her first cvent connect. gabby stayed home and saved up all her questions. this is the debrief. 5,000 people, zero sessions attended (no…
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on location: sarah stewart - little ichis everywhere
Day zero at Cvent CONNECT, episode two on location. Marisa pops the podcast cherry of one of her besties — Sarah Stewart of MC Squared and Club Ichi — to talk…
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on location: pete wilhelm - two separate events
Chinwag on location, for the first time. Marisa grabs fellow first-timer Pete Wilhelm (hosted creator team, resort side) on day zero of Cvent CONNECT in…
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if it feels icky
Recording on a whim from a DC hotel room, Marisa and Gabby stumble into the follow-up Episode 13 was begging for. Marisa's fresh off six connection calls in…
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rooms you're not in
We're talking follow-up, friends. Marisa ran her emails and meeting notes through AI to see who fell through the cracks over the last few months — and it…
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not content for content's sake
We just went official, y'all — chinwag.live is LIVE. 🎉 In this one we're pulling back the curtain on how Marisa built our entire website in about a half hour…
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head on a swivel
You landed the client — congrats! Now what? Marisa and Gabby get into the part nobody warns you about: managing the relationship once money's actually…
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trust the hawk
Have you ever given a friend advice so good they looked at you and said, "how much do you charge for this?" In this episode, Marisa and Gabby get real about…
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plan the room
Marisa and Gabby are back after a whirlwind stretch of travel — and they hit record mid-brainstorm. In this episode, you're getting a front-row seat to their…
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proof of life
Marisa and Gabby get real about the social media struggle every solopreneur knows too well — you post, you wait, and the only likes come from the same five…
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empathy, full stop
Gabby came into this episode with something she'd been sitting on after back-to-back meetings — two separate conversations where people said they wanted to be…
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the scary side of creative freedom
Marisa and Gabby get real about the Sunday morning spiral that hits when you're fully independent — the kind where total creative freedom feels less like a…
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before you think, say, or do
The Four-Way Test has been around since 1932 for a reason — 24 words, four questions, and a framework that cuts through the noise of every decision you'll make…
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holding space
Sometimes the most powerful form of support is the one that asks nothing of you. In this episode, Marisa and Gabby get real about gray-cloud days, anticipatory…
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finding your mile
a grounded, real conversation on what it actually takes to stay present when life feels loud, fast, and overwhelming. Gabby and Marisa get vulnerable... listen…
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let's start this thing
Marisa and Gabby kick off Chinwag by diving into the messy habit of making assumptions — in business, in friendships, and in your own head — and why stopping…