Turning Personal Tragedy into a Life-Changing Business w/ Emily Tanner
Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast
Shane Sams
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, I sit down with Emily Tanner, a former healthcare executive who turned her personal tragedy into a powerful online coaching community: Brave Widow. After unexpectedly losing her husband, Emily navigated the stages of widowhood and found her purpose helping others rebuild their lives.
Emily shares how she created a faith-based program that goes beyond grief recovery. She talks about the importance of offering personalized support, creating new ventures, and building meaningful connections through community.
We also dive into the marketing strategies that helped Emily grow Brave Widow, including tips for leveraging social media to attract an authentic and engaged audience. Whether you're looking for inspiration, guidance on launching your own online business, or strategies to scale your impact, this episode has something for you.
Don't miss this conversation – it's proof that even in life's hardest moments, there's a way forward, and it might just change someone else's life too.
🎧 Ready to take action? If you're inspired by Emily's story and want to start or grow your own online business, head over to FlippedLifestyle.com for our free resources and community support. Don't wait – let's turn your idea into income today!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Flip Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. |
| 0:07.0 | We're your host, Shane and Jocelyn Sam. |
| 0:11.0 | We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. |
| 0:16.0 | And now we help other families do the same. |
| 0:19.0 | Are you ready to flip your life? |
| 0:21.3 | All right. |
| 0:22.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.8 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome back to the Flip Lifestyle Podcast. |
| 0:33.2 | It is great to be back with you again today as we hang out with another amazing member of our Flip Lifestyle community. |
| 0:34.4 | One I know very well. |
| 0:36.5 | Emily Tanner, welcome to the Flip Lifestyle podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | Thank you, Shane. |
| 0:44.7 | I am so excited to be able to be here today. We talk all the time on our Marco Polo app, |
| 0:50.9 | and you're a ray of sunshine. You always bring the happiness and the joy, and it is just a beautiful experience, like hanging out and talking with you. So I'm excited that everybody, like, gets to know you a little bit better on the podcast. |
| 0:57.4 | So tell everybody who's listening about you, about your background, and kind of like your online business while you started it and things like that. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, thank you. |
| 1:06.0 | So Emily Tanner and I'm the founder of Brave Widow, which is an online coaching and community |
| 1:12.8 | program for widows to help them rebuild a life that they love. And I spent 20 years in health |
| 1:22.3 | care, more on the administrative side. Just growing up through the ranks, I was an SVP, I had thousands of employees |
| 1:28.7 | and over 100 hospitals. And in 2021, my husband died unexpectedly. So we had four teenagers at home. |
| 1:38.6 | And my life would just completely imploded having the loss of him, living on a 40-acre property, traveling |
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