Small shifts, real numbers, and business advice rooted in daily work.
Taylor Bradford opens episode 566 with a birthday recording and then settles into the kind of week-by-week updates that make the conversation easy to follow.

Small shifts, real numbers, honest business lessons.
And So... follows Taylor Bradford through the messy middle of running and testing businesses. Garden updates, Instagram automation, sales numbers, search habits, and weekly business nuggets all feed into practical lessons about what is actually working.
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And So... is a business show built around the experiment log. Taylor Bradford does not present growth as a clean case study after the fact. She works through it out loud. Recent episodes move through birthday reflections, planting season, home projects, search bar confessions, sponsor tools, and then the promised business nugget. The structure feels loose, but the business thinking is specific. She watches the numbers. She reacts to them. Instagram reels, Facebook follower jumps, ManyChat automations, auto-DMs, story replies, trial reels, touchpoints, and sales conversions become raw material for lessons about how small changes compound. A recurring idea is the two millimeter shift: test, tune, measure, and adjust again. Another is the black coffee rule, a push to stop sweetening what is not working and look directly at the data. The show is especially useful when it links emotional frustration to a practical decision. Automation might feel odd, but it can also start thousands of conversations that one person could never manually handle. More content might sound like the answer, but better data may show where the useful content already lives. A few searches can reveal the real operational problems underneath a growing business, from margin formulas to website accessibility and updated terms of service. The tone stays conversational and quick. Tangents are part of the texture, not a distraction from the business lesson. Gardening, AI tools, affiliate offers, customer questions, and social platform mechanics all belong in the same working notebook. And So... is less polished lecture than honest founder field report. It works best for business owners who want usable coaching without losing the human mess of testing in public.
Made for: Best for business owners, creators, coaches, and online sellers who want practical marketing guidance tied to real experiments. It especially fits people testing content, automation, audience growth, and sales systems while running the rest of life too.
What sets it apart: The show turns live metrics and day-to-day friction into teaching material instead of hiding the messy middle. Its recurring business nuggets are grounded in what Taylor Bradford is actively testing across content, automation, sales, and platform growth.
Boss Girl Creative presents "And So..." podcast - a weekly business podcast & pep talk for women business owners in the trenches with host Taylor Bradford.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Taylor Bradford makes social media growth legible by sharing the metrics, experiments, and judgment calls behind her evolving business decisions.
And So... turns Taylor Bradford's active business experiments into an open operating notebook. She tracks what happens when she changes content volume, uses Instagram trial reels, publishes across platforms, or introduces ManyChat automation.
Tomatoes in the ground, Instagram metrics under scrutiny: Taylor Bradford gets your split attention.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Small shifts, real numbers, and business advice rooted in daily work.
Taylor Bradford opens episode 566 with a birthday recording and then settles into the kind of week-by-week updates that make the conversation easy to follow.
A practical case for Instagram automation that keeps intentionality at the center.
Episode 561 takes a plainspoken look at Instagram automation, with Taylor Bradford explaining how ManyChat fits into the first hello. She notes the mixed feelings some people have about robots handling that moment, but grounds the discussion in her own use across multiple…
Four sales become a grounded look at touchpoints, automations, and margin questions behind an online purchase.
Taylor Bradford turns four sales into a useful field test for pre-purchase marketing. Episode 560 frames a touchpoint as any digital or physical interaction with a customer or potential customer, then follows the visible activity around those purchases.
A grounded look at testing Instagram content, troubleshooting automation, and turning audience questions into a business habit.
Taylor Bradford frames Instagram growth as a working practice: test the reel, adjust the hook, watch the response, then decide what to try next.
A grounded look at the metrics, posting rhythm, and open questions behind a sudden Instagram reach spike.
Taylor Bradford breaks down a sharp Instagram upswing with a useful eye for what changed and what did not. The episode stays grounded in the account data: 10,886 views in the 30 days before January 31, then 170,142 views from January 31 through February 16.
A grounded look at trying Instagram trial reels when growth is slow and the content workload is already heavy.
Instagram trial reels come across here as a practical answer to a problem Taylor Bradford is tracking, not just venting about. She reports 0.37% growth from when she started watching the numbers to today, including 0.2% in a week, then walks through the move from making two…
A candid look at turning reused content into a measurable multi-platform experiment.
Taylor Bradford makes a clear, practical case for reusing the same content across platforms instead of rebuilding for every channel. Her experiment has enough shape to make the strategy feel concrete: YouTube climbs from 234 to 408 subscribers, while TikTok moves from 139 to 690…

Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.

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Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Taylor Bradford shares unfiltered reflections on ongoing challenges and insights after ten years as a serial entrepreneur, offering a free workbook for business clarity.
Taylor Bradford discusses the difference between joy and happiness while sharing personal anecdotes about a storm in North Texas.
Taylor Bradford opens episode 515 by discussing her recent audiobooks and garden progress.
Taylor Bradford shares her experience with Instagram's new trial reels feature, which allows creators to test content with non-followers.
566 starts with life first.
Taylor Bradford discusses an unexpected business pivot and reflects on the first quarter of the year, offering insights on entrepreneurship and personal growth.
This episode introduces the 'black coffee rule' as a business nugget while discussing social media growth and automation tools like ManyChat.
Taylor Bradford discusses content mining as a business strategy for creating effective social media posts and promoting automation tools like Minichat.
Taylor Bradford discusses how using ManyChat for Instagram automation can improve business efficiency and data collection, emphasizing that better data is more valuable than more content.
Taylor Bradford opens on spring light and Hunter Douglas shades.
Taylor Bradford uses episode 560 of And So to break down how ManyChat, Meta ads, and a 30-day Instagram strategy helped her reach 5,000 followers, 562,000 views, 184,000 accounts, and 183 profile link taps.
Taylor Bradford says she sold her first course at 7:25 AM while asleep, then ties that to 1,748 regained followers and 278,000 views in 22 days, 8 hours, and 56 minutes.
Taylor Bradford digs into a 17-day Instagram experiment after noticing a sudden change in how her content was getting seen.
Taylor Bradford celebrates 10 years and 525 episodes of her podcast with a special interview featuring Zach, her editor since launch, discussing their journey and collaboration.
This episode explores how the host uses ChatGPT and Trello to efficiently manage three brands while maintaining sanity during a busy season.
Taylor Bradford shares a personal life update about forgetting to discuss books last week due to excitement over AI, then begins reviewing murder mystery books including the Lee Child Reacher series.