#40 Annie P Ruggles - how to shift from fear of selling to aligned selling as an introvert or empath

#40 Annie P Ruggles - how to shift from fear of selling to aligned selling as an introvert or empath

Author: Pepper Makepeace: Entrepreneur, Business Systems & Social Media Marketing Strategy, Solopreneur Consulting June 7, 2021 Duration: 43:11
For almost a decade, Annie P. has harnessed her Hulk-like disdain for hard-sales, tacky self-promotion, and overly competitive sleazeballs as inspiration to help people find better ways to grow their small businesses. As the Founder of The Non-Sleazy Sales Academy, she's guided hundreds of people toward making deeper connections, lasting impressions, and friendlier, more lucrative transactions and conversations. Her podcast, Too Legitimate to Quit, serves up instantly actionable small business strategies - with a pop culture spin - every Monday. In this episode, we’re talking about Annie’s journey from sales avoidant queen into why she created a business helping small business owners learn how to sell with integrity and confidence. Annie’s passion for helping people redefine selling so it uses their natural strengths, is based on their individual personality, and allows them to show up and sell in a way that feels authentic. She offers up some great tips to help you start shifting how you sell into something based on who you are as a person.

There's a particular kind of magic that happens when women building businesses decide to share their real stories-not just the polished highlights, but the messy middle parts, too. That’s the space you’ll find in the Small Business Sisterhood Podcast. Each conversation goes beyond surface-level advice, delving into the actual systems, the social media puzzles, and the personal hurdles that creative entrepreneurs and bloggers face daily. Host Pepper Makepeace brings her background as a strategist for solopreneurs into every interview, fostering discussions that feel like a candid chat between friends who just happen to be incredibly savvy about online business. This podcast serves as an audio extension of the Small Business Sisterhood community, offering a sense of connection and practical insight for anyone in those early, often isolating, stages of building something of their own. You’ll hear from a diverse range of female founders who detail what worked, what failed spectacularly, and how they navigated the path to a sustainable venture. It’s about finding your people and your strategy, one episode at a time.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 49

Small Business Sisterhood Podcast: Online Business, Blogging, Creative Entrepreneurs, Business Community
Podcast Episodes
#35 Tracy Lamourie - gaining media attention for your business [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:04
Tracy Lamourie is a human rights activist and award winning publicist who started her business campaigning to free an innocent man from Death Row. She’s passionate about amplifying important messages and being a voice fo…
#30 Susan Elford - relationship-focused approach to marketing and PR [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:55
Susan Elford believes relationship building is the key to a successful venture. In this episode she shares how that belief came about, the steps she took to build her businesses and the relationships she’s built. She off…