Business without BS

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Business without BS episodes

  • How to Be a Great Leader in This New World
    “It’s all on you to deliver the kind of environment that your staff want to stay in.” ~ Nick Barnsdall.
    When was the last time you assessed your leadership skills? Regardless of whether your business consists of a team, or you’re a solopreneur, it’s critical to understand your leadership style in your business.
    24 min
  • How to pivot your business in a struggling industry
    “All the customers are still there – you just have to find where they are.” – Joanne Brooks.
    Crikey – where to start? There are SO many actions you can be taking if you’re in a tough industry right now. This podcast gives you over 15 top tips that you can implement TODAY to make a difference and build a formidable business.
    25 min
  • Nick’s Tips for Mental Health in Small Business
    “Work towards a life you’re happy with, f!@# everyone else.”
    In this bite-sized podcast, Nick provides us with mental health tips, and advice he would give his younger self, to help navigate business ownership in a world that is weighing heavily on all of us.
    Nick delivers the brutal but must-hear truths on how to balance your mind and your business.
    6 min
  • Your Business Will Benefit from Intrapreneurs
    “The capacity to innovate and create is available in every business, we just need to liberate it.”
    In this fascinating conversation, Jo and Nick discuss Intrapreneurship with Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw. Whether you're a business owner, freelancer, side hustler, or employee, she dives into how we can all be innovative, creative, and add value to whatever context we're in.
    44 min
  • The Art of Reading People Effectively
    This week, we had the remarkable opportunity to speak with Alan Stevens, International Profiling and Communications Specialist, and prominent guest speaker on national and global media outlets, profiling politicians, celebrities, and royalty.
    In this juicy podcast, Alan invites us to all explore the way we read people, and how to do it more effectively and efficiently, and he doesn’t just talk bout the standard, “mirroring” practice that every other psychology expert covers. This conversation is SO much deeper than that.
    48 min
  • 5 Ways to Break Through Fear of Hiring for Your Business.
    “Show me a bad employee and I’ll show you a bad manager.”
    In today’s podcast, Nick and Jo discuss the ultra-important topic of hiring for your business. Here, they discuss everything from bad hiring to bad management, and what to do when you hire a dud employee.
    More importantly, they help us break through the fear of hiring your first recruit, which can seem paralysing and complex to so many solopreneurs. On this, they also explain why so many businesses are dying, not due to the landscape, but because they failed to scale.
    30 min
  • It's Lonely at the Top
    “One of my biggest tilt moments was when I was appointed CEO in my mid 20s, and all my colleagues and peers were cheering me on, saying I would be amazing. Then when I arrived at the top, it was a very different story. I have never felt so lost and lonely and isolated.”
    In this podcast Nick and Jo speak with Sally Foley Lewis, Leadership Speaker, Management Consultant and Author of four books including The Productive Leader, Managing Remotely, and Delegate.
    27 min
  • Achieve the Impossible and Get What You Want (Without Stress)
    “No one has any idea what their potential is.” – Stuart Walter.
    In this episode, I interviewed Stuart Walter, Professional Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner who has guided 39 world champions and professional athletes across Australia and abroad, as well as ambitious entrepreneurs and individuals, helping them to unveil their potential and achieve the impossible.
    42 min

About Business without BS

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Joanne Brooks is the business without BS podcast brought to you by Joanne Brooks of Navig8Biz. This podcast is all about business- the wins, the challenges, and everything in between. In each episode, Joanne interviews a business owner or leader about their business journey. These conversations are real, raw, and vulnerable- providing listeners with an inside look at what it takes to build a successful business. Through the Business Without BS Podcast, Joanne provides valuable insights and tips for business owners of all stages.