{"id":91107,"date":"2023-10-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honeybook-blog.site.strattic.io\/?p=91107"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:51:20","slug":"new-host-of-the-independent-business-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/new-host-of-the-independent-business-podcast","title":{"rendered":"Introducing a new season and new host of the Independent Business podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-image stk-block-image stk-block stk-deecf44\" data-block-id=\"deecf44\"><figure><span class=\"stk-img-wrapper stk-image--shape-stretch\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"stk-img wp-image-91148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Transition-Episode-3.png\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1548\" alt=\"Meet the new host of the Independent Business Podcast Akua Konadu\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Transition-Episode-3.png 2000w, https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Transition-Episode-3-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Transition-Episode-3-1024x793.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Transition-Episode-3-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Transition-Episode-3-1536x1189.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/span><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve been busy behind the scenes over the last few weeks and are excited to share some news with you. In this bittersweet episode, Natalie Franke is signing off as host and passing the mic to a familiar face to guide listeners through season two of the Independent Business podcast. You may remember Akua Konadu from a few bonus episodes we dropped earlier this year and we\u2019re thrilled to welcome her as the new host of the Independent Business podcast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua is stepping into the hosting chair to talk with an all-new line-up of inspiring independent business experts to continue on our podcast mission of uncovering the science of self-made success. She&#8217;ll be digging into experiences and strategies that have helped today&#8217;s top entrepreneurs triumph and share insights that you can apply to your business. 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Yeah, storytelling,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua Konadu<br>I mean, just all the things, I think that it&#8217;s we have been on a very incredible, amazing journey. And now things look very different. So I think it&#8217;s so important for us to talk about that and just share where we&#8217;re at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Franke<br>Yeah, I always love we were chatting, we&#8217;re like, how do we start this episode? And it was like, I&#8217;m just gonna look at you and say, so how did we get here? Hey, everyone, this is your host, Natalie Frank, and you&#8217;re listening to the independent business podcast, more people than ever are working for themselves and building profitable businesses in the process. So on this show, I sit down with some of the most influential authors, entrepreneurs and creators to break down the science of self made success so that you can achieve victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua Konadu<br>You know, this is this episode is really the other fields. I just have so many emotions. But I think we just need to start off by just talking about how we got here. Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Franke<br>By now, if you haven&#8217;t heard the announcement, we&#8217;ll give you a little context. After eight years and HoneyBook, I am transitioning into a new role as head of community at float s a big part of that is that I&#8217;ve been the host of the podcast now for the past seven, eight months for season one. Yeah. And it&#8217;s been so much fun. Yes. And we&#8217;ve gotten to work on that together, which has been a blast. But with this transition, the time has come to pass the baton and to bring on a new host for season two. Yeah, I wonder who it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua Konadu<br>I don&#8217;t know, girl. I don&#8217;t know who it could be. I know she&#8217;s pretty dough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Franke<br>She is. She&#8217;s pretty incredible. We&#8217;re so excited to have you jumping in and joining us today for this conversation. Because like I said, I&#8217;m transitioning out if you saw that on social already, if you haven&#8217;t, go check out honey book Social, we are celebrating our brand new house today we are celebrating the one and only Akua konadu going to be taking this podcast to new heights and leading us into season two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua Konadu<br>Yeah, it&#8217;s I&#8217;m number one just so grateful and so excited. But it&#8217;s just wild the journey. I don&#8217;t know if anybody knows this. But I have been working on the podcast from the very beginning behind the scenes, working with topics, questions, all of that stuff, doing a lot of the episode prep. So it has been such a blast working with you. And on the podcast team. Honestly, it has been just a gift honestly working besides beside you. So let&#8217;s just talk about how we even got here because I&#8217;m shocked that the story still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Franke<br>How far back we want to go. On a warm summer day in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We started our friendship. Yeah, that was the first time we met the rising tide retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua Konadu<br>Yeah, yeah. Yeah, those words we met. But I think you know, I was going back to the beginning. I didn&#8217;t think that far back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Franke<br>All the way back to the very origin story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua Konadu<br>Oh, yeah. Well, it&#8217;s honestly just even backtracking a little bit. Since we are backtracking. It has truly been. This is another full circle moment for me. Because back in 2017, I didn&#8217;t have a business I had met a friend who. And I met her through Google, I just Googled a couple topics. And I met with her because we ended I ended up finding out that we grew up in the same town. So we were in the same area. And she told me about this group of community, like a group of people that get together to talk about business. And she told me, she come to the next one. And I said, You know what, I&#8217;m gonna go. And at that time, I had no business. I had no clue what I wanted to do. I had just graduated college, and I was lost. And I just remember that day showing up at Lake Harriet, and it is busy there because it&#8217;s summers in Minneapolis. So everybody&#8217;s out before the winter hits. And I don&#8217;t know what it was. But I just saw throughout the whole midst of a whole bunch of people, just a group of people sitting there and I walked right up to them. And I said, Hi, is this a group that like, meets once a month to talk about, like, I don&#8217;t know, business stuff. And they were like, Yeah, and it was a really, really incredible event. And I just kept going, and I didn&#8217;t have a business once a month. I just kept showing up every time. And it was wonderful, because everybody in that community helped me build my business. And that was when I learned it was rising tide. That&#8217;s when I learned about you it was everyone&#8217;s like V Natalie Frank, right. Like everybody was like, Oh my gosh, who is she? And like, everybody just spoke so highly of you. And I was like, I don&#8217;t know who she is. But she sounds great. Showing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Franke<br>No, no. For folks who don&#8217;t know, I am one of the cofounders of the rising tide society. Yes. So I had been just one of many people that you know, was really integral in the beginning. Yeah, throughout the growth of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akua Konadu<br>the gross and I&#8217;m honey book too. And that was the thing. Nobody was talking about HoneyBook and rising tide. And so it was through that community, people were like, Akua, I want to help you get your business together, what do you need help with your website. Let&#8217;s get your headshots together, I&#8217;ll help you with copy so many wonderful people that helped me build my business. And I couldn&#8217;t have done that without honey book. And I couldn&#8217;t have done that without you. And I hadn&#8217;t even met you yet, which is wild. And so I eventually become an RTS leader, eventually. And that was fun. And then finally, they picked Minneapolis to have our leaders retreat. And there were conversations about it. You know, there were little bit emails, but I wasn&#8217;t really involved in it. I just was like, cool. It&#8217;s cool. Whatever, just let me know. I&#8217;ll just show up. My other leaders kind of took the charge and communicating and I don&#8217;t you meet so many people&#8217;s I don&#8217;t think you remember are like very first interaction. I remember you telling me that you like I knew you. I didn&#8217;t know that you knew me. I know you do remember that interaction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Franke<br>I do. Because I so I do meet a lot of people. Yeah. But especially when it comes to rising tide. 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And as we were creating the podcast, you always made me feel seen because as we were thinking through, you know, what questions do we want to ask? And what conversations do we want to have, you have a way of challenging me to be the best version of myself. And then when you see me stepping into that throughout every hard decision, every you know, joyful conversation on the back is every afterwards I&#8217;m feeling like some episodes, some interviews are so easy. Others I beat myself up after I&#8217;m like, I shouldn&#8217;t have done this. A coup is the one though that will celebrate everyone in her life when they&#8217;re stepping into who they&#8217;re supposed to be. And you&#8217;ve been that for me, you&#8217;ve been that for me on the show, you&#8217;ve been that for me as a friend. Now over the years that we&#8217;ve become closer off, you know, the podcast, and even in making this really hard decision to jump into a new role. Yeah, you cried with me. 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