Today Dannie and Caitlyn are having a Jam Session on 5 Ways You Can Invest In Your Business. We believe in accessible content and that anyone who wants to learn from this content should be able to. In order to support this, we’ve had every episode of Season 4 transcribed. The transcriptions are available at the bottom of every episode blog post. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:A deeper dive into conferences, tools, coaching, and courses for your business. Dannie’s completed courses A deep dive into conferences both the good and the bad. Top free and paid tools. Free tools Google sheets Google calender Notion app Zoom Paid tools Dubsado Bulletproof planner Asana Course recommendations Biz Chic Co-op Trello for business  Squarespace Square Design Guild Shopsite School #OwnIt Academy Hand Lettered Design Winning Creative's Way Jenna Kutcher Courses InDesign Field Guide Copywriting for Creatives FOLLOW YOUR HOSTS: D Website | D Instagram // C Website | C Instagram Get the Side Hustle Starter Kit Episode Transcript - 5 Things to Invest   Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:00:21] Hello and welcome back to the side hustle gal podcast. Today you've just got me in Caitlyn for one of our favorite jam sessions to date. We're going to be talking about the five ways that you can invest in your business, and we're going to talk about some of the things that we've invested in and how they have or have not worked out. So grab your tea, grab your coffee because we are spilling it. Let's dig in. Caitlyn Allen: [00:00:49] Yes. Okay, so here are the five things we're going to talk about. We're going to be talking about conferences. We're going to be talking about tools that we use in our business or don't use in our business anymore. We're going to talk masterminds and coaching. We're going to talk courses, and then lastly, retreats. I am so excited to talk about these five things because. Guys you can make or break or, well, some of these can be great investments and others can be not so great investments and . We've both learned the hard way with some of these. So Dannie, what do you want to kick it off with?  Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:01:31] Let's kick it with courses, because while you were talking, I opened up my Trello board that has all of the business courses that I've bought linked with the logins and everything. Caitlyn Allen: [00:01:43] I do that one by asana board.  Dannie Lynn Fountain: [00:01:47] So I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen courses that I have bought in. The past probably three or four years. Um, and of these 14, I can honestly say that I have finished three. Um, so the three that I have finished, the first one is the bee free Lance. Uh, business practices course, unfortunately be free. Lance no longer exists, which really sucks, but they had like a business practices course basically teaching you how to be the chief executive officer of your own business. That was amazing. I loved it. Um, I took Squarespace design guilds,