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How to Rock Your Social Media Profiles with guest Jen Lehner

By Kat Sturtz 8 Comments

Jen Lehner, Social Media Strategist

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It’s always a special delight when one of my favorite mentors agrees to share their expertise with on my Fast Action Fridays show. 

Watch the replay from June 3, 2016 below or directly on YouTube here. Keep reading to learn about Jen and review a partial summary of the terrific tips she shared to help you improve your social media profiles.

Meet Jen Lehner, Digital Marketing Strategist

Jen Lehner, Social Media Strategist

PASSION TO PROFIT

Jen Lehner began her career in non-profit, which taught her how to be resourceful in her marketing. The first in her crowd to get email, sell on eBay, and find a husband on America Online, Jen has always been fascinated by technology, and the power it holds to allow us to take control of our destiny, and connect us.

After launching a local marketing firm to help businesses learn to use digital tools to grow their businesses, Jen saw that the demand for this training was even larger than she anticipated.

She created JenLehner.com and now sells online courses that teach entrepreneurs how to use social media and digital tools to grow their businesses.

She is also a new course author with Lynda (a LinkedIn company), and founder of  The Front Row, a free online classroom for entrepreneurs. Connect with Jen on her Facebook page, Jen Lehner. 

Jen’s Fast Action Tips –
Listen to the replay to learn more and how to take action

1. Up the quality of your social media profile. The quality of your social media profile photo is important to the consistency and effectiveness of your branding.

2. Make a choice about the type of branding you want for yourself. Apply it consistently and move on. Don’t get stuck in planning and tweaking.

3. Use your banner space wisely. You can have your default banner be an evergreen offer. But consider changing them out regularly to help promote your freebies and upcoming programs. 

4. Include a “clickable” button on your banner. Note that the button itself may not be clickable, but the banner often is … and provides additional opportunities to give viewers more info and links. 

Originally recorded on Blab. 
     

 

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You are what you eat. Choose wisely. Make it healthy and organic when you can.

By Kat Sturtz 4 Comments

The Organic Effect
The Organic Effect
The Organic Effect, CoopSverige https://youtu.be/oB6fUqmyKC8

Be aware of your choices.

Although we may not have statistical scientific proof of the long-term affects of multiple harmful pesticides, herbicides, etc., in the body, I think there is plenty of visible physical and emotional proof already.

Just consider here in U.S. the alarming rise in obesity, learning disabilities, behavioral issues, and more, affecting adults and kids. Do we really need to wait x number of years for science (and politicians and our government) to catch up to what so many of us already inherently understand?

Look how long the predominant science thinkers, religious powerhouses, and government entities took in the past to acknowledge the Earth was round and rotated around the Sun, and more recently that energetic forces, including those generated by your memory, thoughts, and action affect our health and well-being.

Here’s a little something to watch and ponder.
Then make your own choices.

 

Think you can’t afford to eat organic?

Do what you can. Consider starting small. Cut back on processed foods and junk food choices.

Grow some of your own food. Buy from local farmers. 

When choosing what to buy and eat … think in terms of nutritional value rather than volume. 

For example, instead of that family-size bag of chips, consider the nutritional value in buying the same dollar value in fruits or vegetables. One 1 pound bag of carrots or apples can be used in multiple meals and a variety of ways.

chips apple carrotWhat’s in the Sturtz pantry?

It may surprise you to learn that, yes, there frequently is a bag of chips, a candy bar or two, and even a liter of pop (soda for those not from Michigan. 🙂 ), especially if we’re expecting guests we know enjoy those things.

Truth is … we enjoy those things occasionally, too.

Over the years, however, we’ve cut down A LOT on both the purchases and the frequency we enjoy them.

We don’t always buy organic or local either. Plus, much as I enjoy growing and eating our own food, our lives have been too hectic last few years to do as much gardening as I did in the past. 

Still, we’re more conscious than ever before about what we buy and eat. We work hard to weigh nutritional value versus spontaneous purchasing and eating whims. 

And that’s the point. Be conscious. Be aware. Choose wisely.

But don’t be a martyr.

Wave a Better Made™ chip in my face and I’ll chomp down on it before you can say Hey! That’s mine! And I’ll savor it immensely … a crispy salty morsel or two or three of good times from my childhood.

Same with popcorn. It’s drizzled with real butter or nothing. Yet, I do pop it in coconut oil mixed with a little bacon drippings. (The bacon drippings way was my dear Grandma Aline’s way. Need I say more?) But no added salt.

See … it doesn’t have to be just one way or another. It’s your way. Tweak it how you want it to be. 

Here in the Sturtz household, we’re choosing more healthy over less healthy more and more often these days.

And know what?

The amount we spend on groceries is actually down not up.

So don’t claim you can’t afford to eat healthy until you’ve really tried. And weighed in the benefits of better health for you and your family and friends.

What are your favorite ways to save money on food, yet enjoy more healthy meals and foods full of nutritional value?

Please share your tips and questions below. Your tips may encourage and help others.

Also Chef Dennis D. Sturtz and other professional food expert friends will be around to help answer some of your questions. I’m nor food expert or medical professional. But I do know what I like to eat … and why. What about you?

 

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Food as Spirit

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It’s been barely two months since my good friend, Les, shared some thoughts about “Food as Spirit.” In it was a prediction that the price of food in our grocery stores will likely double within six months or so. As Hurricane Ike hit hard along the coastlines of Texas and Louisiana late last week, and gas prices soared over $4.00 per gallon again, I was reminded again of his email and the more important information he shared in the wake of changing times.   Les Roggenbuck

I’ll let Les speak for himself.

Dear Friends in Spirit,

I am inspired to share with you today some of my discoveries relating to food and spirit.

Being given the opportunity in this lifetime to steward land and cultivate plants, I have made some powerful connections with the land, the food that is harvested from it and the spirit that it invokes. I can not stress enough the difference in energy that you will feel from the different ways that our food is prepared or the intent of the hands that produced it.

The material age has created a food system that has forced farmers to rely primarily on profit margins for growing food vs. focusing on quality and the health of the community benefiting from his or her labors.Now with the price of fuel increasing, the price of food at the grocery store will likely double over the next 6 months or so.

It would be a wise move while we are in the productive season to buy extra produce and put some up for winter. Locally grown, fresh organic produce is the best for the health of your body and for nurturing the spirit within.

I have been harvesting from my garden for a good 4 weeks now [July 10th]. Fresh asparagus, spinach, salad greens, broccoli, snow peas, baby beets, new potatoes, zucchini, summer squash and more. I have also been experimenting with sourdough bread and making yogurt from our cows milk. Pretty much every day I eat from the farm and the benefits are tremendous!

Seed saving this summer and fall should also be a priority. Any efforts in this regard will be rewarded!

Many Blessings on your path!
Les

Thank you, Les, for reminding us that we have the freedom whether or not to make wise choices when it comes to the feeding our physical and spiritual bodies. With rising food costs may hamper us, but we should not let it stop us from finding ways to eat healthy.

Les Roggenbuck’s fully certified organic farm is located in the “Thumb” of Michigan.

To learn more visit:
East River Organic Farm
www.eastriverorganic.com

NOTE: This post was originally published Sept 8, 2008.

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