Episode 415 || From The Bookshelf Files, Vol. 2

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s another episode of From The Bookshelf Files! In this new episode series, Annie and The Bookshelf’s super creative Community Manager and the visionary responsible for the concept of the "From the Bookshelf Files" podcast series, Felicia Dilbert, chat about the ups and downs of owning and running a small business. Today, it’s all about small business woes and wins! If you have a business-related question you’d like Annie to explore in a future episode of From The Bookshelf Files, please email Annie at Annie@BookshelfThomasville.com To contact Felicia, please email her at Hello@FeliciaDilbert.com To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website: Good to Great by Jim Collins Beautiful Healing by Felicia Dilbert Sacred Rest by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. Thank you to this week’s sponsor, the 102nd Annual Rose Show and Festival in Thomasville, Georgia. Come visit us for the weekend of April 28th-29th and experience the flowers, fun, food, and shopping in Beautiful Thomasville. Plan your visit at ThomasvilleGa.com. This week, Annie is reading If We're Being Honest by Cat Shook (releases 4/18/23). Felicia is reading B.F.F. by Christie Tate. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful to you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are... Donna Hetchler, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, and Laurie Johnson.

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:08.0	To love a person is always to love in spite of the faults that intimacy reveals, and so it is with a place.
0:32.0	Margaret Rinkle, Graceland at last.
0:38.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week we're back with the second episode in our new series From the Bookshelf Files.
0:48.0	I'll be joined in conversation by Bookshelf Community Manager and entrepreneur in her own right, Felicia Delbert.
0:54.0	Throughout this year, you'll hear us talk more about the business side of the bookshelf, our stores growth, and the ups and downs of small business ownership, what life looks like at the bookshelf, and how it's changed over the years, and how ideas like reader retreats and shelf subscriptions come to fruition.
1:10.0	Today, we are talking about small business woes.
1:15.0	Before we begin, we wanted to let you know we are getting ready to announce our upcoming reader retreat dates for 2023, and as we've done in the past, we're letting Patreon supporters know all the details first.
1:28.0	You can become a Patreon member at patreon.com forward slash from the front porch will announce to $50 patrons first, then $20 a month patrons, then $5 a month patrons.
1:40.0	So now is the time to adjust your Patreon support if you want to be the first to know about our reader retreat dates.
1:47.0	Patreon support not in the budget this month, that's okay. We'll announce retreat dates in our free weekly newsletter, just make sure you're signed up through the link in our show notes.
1:56.0	We cannot wait to host more of our from the front porch listeners and bookshelf friends in 2023.
2:01.0	We just finished our February reader retreat and it was a smashing success.
2:06.0	There are some of our very favorite things to do and we would love to see you there.
2:09.0	You can visit patreon.com forward slash from the front porch for more information and to make sure you're supporting us on Patreon.
2:19.0	Back in January, we launched our from the bookshelf file series.
2:23.0	You can go back and listen to our first episode that's episode 407 if you want to hear me talk with Felicia about the bookshelf's origin story.
2:32.0	Now Felicia and I are back to continue these business-minded discussions. Hi Felicia.
2:38.0	Hi Annie.
2:40.0	Welcome back to from the front porch.
2:42.0	Thank you so, so very much. I'm so glad to be here.
2:46.0	Yay. I'm thrilled to get to talk to you. Even though small business woes sounds like a negative thing.
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