You're listening to the Gold Digger podcast episode number 88. That's the year I was born 1988.

Today I have on Jenny Rudasovich from the amazing blog, I Spy DIY. Jenny has had a pilot show on HGTV.

She's written a book. She had a product line. I mean, this girl is doing it all and she is doing it all in Milwaukee.

We are going to talk about the Smoking Meers game that is social media. What things can look like to the outside world, but what's really going on behind the scenes.

And how we are choosing to navigate all of that moving forward. If anything, you're going to feel a little more normal and a little less alone after listening to this interview. It's such a good one.

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Hey cold diggers is Jenna good. I'm hanging out with the incredible Jenny redosovitch. We are recording this for this second time. And that's how much we love you because we are having technical difficulties. And so Jenny's story is just way too good to let it slip by.

I got this girl on the line. I got a keeper. So if you don't know Jenny, Jenny is the founder of I spy DIY, which is an incredible DIY blog. I swear every project this woman touches is pure gold.

She recently had a pilot show on HGTV. She lives in Milwaukee. So I love my Wisconsin girl. And today we're going to talk through all different things from growing your business to what the reality of running an online business really looks like how to navigate those hard seasons. And we're talking about failure. So welcome to the show again.

Hello, hello. We're like going to be season professionals by the time this sucker actually happens. So it's my first podcast and somehow I've already managed to mess something up.

Absolutely not. So let's dive on in. I want for you to tell people kind of the story of I spy DIY. How you got your start and what that's looked like as you've transitioned over the last seven years.

Yes. So first of all, thank you so much for having me on. It's so fun to see other Wisconsin girls kicking butt online and just doing it really amazing things. And we got to we like met like oh my gosh, how many years ago was that now like two or three years ago, Jenny came to my house and we shot a tutorial about coloring your hair.

And it was amazing. Like actually I colored my hair in the middle of your dining room. It was really really awesome.

But yeah, so I spy DIY. Yeah, as a DIY, do it yourself blog and I'm from Wisconsin, Manitlwak, Wisconsin, which is now kind of an infamous city. But I wanted to get out of it pretty much forever. I always wanted to move to New York.

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