OLIVIA SMITH
WELL HEY THERE,
I'M OLIVIA
I’m a small-town Minnesota author, podcaster, educator, and photographer with big dreams and the #1 Marketing Podcast in the country.
Very into: syrupy pancakes, good emails, and carving out a life you don’t have to pretend to like. Avoiding small talk since 1988.
I didn’t always have this business: the clients, the courses, the book, the sales, the millions of downloads...
In fact, just a decade ago you could have found me wearing red and khaki, exhausted in my stuffy windowless office. I thought I had landed my dream job, but that dream turned into a ladder-climbing nightmare.
At the age of 23, I invested in a $300 Craigslist camera. Little did I know, that camera would be my one-way ticket out of my windowless office corporate job. That single investment led me to the 7-figure empire I’m running today (and a bestselling book that tells the whole story). Today you can find me snuggled up in my cozy Minnesota craftsman with my two pups or basking on the beaches of Lake Superior with my dreamboat husband and our beautiful girls.
IN RETROSPECT
I probably should have known that the girl who would haul a cooler a half a mile to reach the intersection of two desolate dirt roads in a tiny Minnesota town to sell lukewarm lemonade for fifty cents would become an entrepreneur someday...
currently
I’m probably sipping coffee or a jalapeno margarita and dreaming of ways we can all get from where we are to where we want to be.
Want to know what lights me up? Helping women harness the power to take control of their lives. Busting the myth of balance. Redefining a person’s beauty in a world that tells us who to be. Shining a spotlight on glorious truths so we can all find our way back to a life that is truly our own.
In case you’re new around here, I believe that change happens where the woo meets the work. I can’t wait to show you exactly what I mean…
Ceo
When people think my business is a hobby, I tell them I’m a CEO of a multi-million dollar empire.
A FEW OF THE THINGS I ANSWER TO:
Mama
A title I wore through our struggle to become parents. Even though my baby girl said “Dada” first, this title is the one I’m most proud of.
Role Model
Author
When people think my business is a hobby, I tell them I’m a CEO of a multi-million dollar empire.
A title I wore through our struggle to become parents. Even though my baby girl said “Dada” first, this title is the one I’m most proud of.
Jen
Only "Jen" to my closest family and friends— this nickname is reserved for people who have known me for decades!
Babe
It’s weird when Drew calls me by my name. We’re just “babe” to one another. Cue the pet name jokes.
a look back
2011
2025
Becoming an "overnight success" took me ten years of hard work. Here's the timeline!
2012
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loved this shot
2025
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2011
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best. decision.ever.
2013
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my best work yet
MEET THE OLIVIA SMITH TEAM
Jenna
Customer Support
Jenna
Customer Support
Jenna
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Jenna
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WILL I BELT JULIE ANDREWS? MAYBE.
My Favorite Things
What does an entrepreneur/mom/midwestern model come to love? Here’s where you find out! This is everything I have tested and loved, from my beauty holy-grails, to my ultimate tech and platforms that help me run my life headache-free, to what I’ll never stop reaching for in my (crazy messy) closet.
Dive a Little Deeper
NEW HERE? HERE'S A GREAT PLACE TO START.
PERSONAL
Eight ways I transformed my Skin and What it cost
BEHIND THE SCENEES
Eight ways I transformed my Skin and What it cost
BUSINESS
Eight ways I transformed my Skin and What it cost
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how are you,
Forget hustle harder. Forget a mandatory 5 a.m. wake-up. Forget outlining your life plan in six-month, one-year, and five-year spans. Want to build a vision for your life that is unapologetically true to who you are and what you want? Here’s where you start.
Really
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ARE YOU READY TO LEVEL UP?
Let’s get laser focused on what your goals are for this month, year, and beyond so I can hand over resources specific to how YOU want to grow!