Is this you? You’ve gone to post on social media, but you’ve stopped because you felt:

😟 The caption wasn’t quite right

😟 The picture needed tweaking

😟 Worried about what comments you might get

Welcome to the world of ANTs, my friend. 🐜 Those Automatic Negative Thoughts that pop up whenever you go do something that feels out of your comfort zone.

But what if there was a way to replace thoughts like this with thoughts that serve you better? Beliefs that helped you take action rather than slowed your progress.

Here’s why you need to tune in
At TechPixies, we know that learning how to post on social media is all well and good. But it doesn’t mean a thing unless you have the confidence to put yourself out there. So our chief TechPixie Joy decided to dedicate this podcast episode to teaching you a powerful Neurocoaching™ technique that will help you understand that you are worthy.
It’s a technique that really could transform your life. 🦸

Here’s what to listen out for:

[00:33] What is the messy middle?

[05:09] Have you experienced this common block around social media?

[07:53] What is your subconscious saying?

[09:51] Do you feel worthy?

[16:41] The power of faith.

[19:20] What is brain priming?

[23:26] Tune into a brain prime.

[26:37] Hear one student’s story and why you can change your life with TechPixies.

Remember! You are worthy of this life and all the beautiful, amazing things in it. Hit play now. ▶️▶️▶️

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Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

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Do you need help working through the messy middle? 🙋 It’s that moment when you’re working on something – perhaps a goal, your dream, your business or your social media – and you know where you are now and where you want to be, but you’re caught in the messy middle trying to figure out the how.

How do I get to where I want to be?

It’s a position Joy Foster, our chief TechPixie, is in right now. So she’s recorded a podcast episode with a piece of advice that helped her and will change the way you think about the word ‘how’. You’ll want to have a pen and paper ready. ✍️

Here’s why you need to tune in
You’ll hear Joy’s (peaceful) call to arms to encourage more women into tech and why learning social media could be the start of something amazing – just as it has been for TechPixies alumni Tracy Davenport, Michal Kahn and Maria Collins. Learn more about the 7 fundamental principles you need for social media success with handy tips on how you can leverage them. And stay tuned for that mic drop moment about the word ‘how’.

Here’s what to listen out for:

[03:34] What is the messy middle?

[09:20] Tackling gender equality through AI.

[14:19] Why is TechPixies called TechPixies?

[17:37] Learn about Joy’s experience of the messy middle?

[20:54] Know that the how is known.

[23:54] Discover the 7 fundamental principles of social media.

[28:54] Learn how social media can change lives.

[43:03] Growing an engaged following with PomTiddlyPom.

[48:40] The 8th fundamental principle of social media.

[51:59] Hear about the TechPixies PROGRESSION membership.

[57:30] Tune in for 2 lessons on the messy middle.

🎧 Move forwards. Hit play now. ▶️▶️▶️

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For links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com 

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at [email protected]

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Are you leveraging your social media for maximum impact? That’s the question our chief TechPixie Joy is tackling in this week’s episode of the Sparkle and Thrive podcast. Well, that and a nifty little thing Joy likes to call the Minimum Viable Social Media Posting Plan.

If you’re in business, you’ll already have come across a gazillion buzzwords – CRM, KPI, ROI. You can’t move for them, FYI 😂. But hang around long enough and chances are you’ll come across MVP, aka minimum viable product.

This is the most basic thing you can create to sell that will give you the maximum amount of information on your customers, and according to Joy, you can apply this concept to social media too.

Here’s why you need to tune in
Discover what Joy means by a Minimum Viable Social Media Posting Plan and how it will help you get maximum impact with the minimum amount of content. Learn why you want to be a magnet and not a peacock, and hear about a fun Reel format used by one of our alumni that is super easy to create. 💃

Here’s what to listen out for:

[04:09] Are you a person of increase?

[07:12] How social media boosts confidence.

[08:30] What does it mean to leverage social media?

[10:55] What is the minimum viable social media posting plan?

[16:48] Hear about the different types of Reels.

[19:56] Are you a peacock or a magnet?

[24:06] How often should you post?

[28:14] Learn to batch.

🎧 Learn how to leverage social media. Hit play now. ▶️▶️▶️

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For links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at [email protected]

Thanks for listening!

If your feelings about live video are similar to Dracula’s sentiments about sunlight – best avoided – you’re going to want to sit back and tune into this week’s special episode of the Sparkle and Thrive Podcast.

Recorded from Berry, our chief TechPixie’s campervan, parked somewhere just outside Glastonbury, Joy is joined by a woman whose name you’re going to want to remember. Because it won’t be long before the soulful voice of country gospel singer Sophie Rose Simmons is winning accolades at the Country Music Awards. 🎸

This is the story of how one woman found not only her voice but also a whole community only too happy to help her get back in the studio and follow her dreams.

Here’s why you need to tune in
Discover how Sophie Rose went from feeling painfully shy and anxious about social media to doing an impromptu live stream at a store in Glastonbury. Discover the lessons she’s learnt on her TechPixies journey and how the community that lights her up inspired her to pen a track for her new EP (it’s a future No.1 – just saying). Turn up the volume for a spot of ANT squashing (no ants were harmed in the making of this podcast, FYI), the power of brain priming and an acapella performance you won’t want to miss.

Here’s what to listen out for:

[05:06] Sophie’s feelings on doing her first live video,

[09:50] What’s the difference between nerves and excitement?

[11:42] Why is live video so important?

[18:43] Discover the power of the TechPixies community.

[26:56] The 3 keys to success.

[29:08] Hear how Sophie is stepping into her power.

[34:07] Learn about the 3 Ds.

[35:39] Discover the difference between will and willpower.

[43:08] How Sophie broke free from the ANTs to write a song with her studio partners.

[46:11] A story about Ted The Viking.

[51:30] Tune in to hear Sophie’s soulful voice.

🎧 Lean into the power within. Hit play now. ▶️▶️▶️

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Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

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Joy Foster, our chief TechPixie, is a pretty keen sportsperson. She’s married to an Olympic Gold-medal winning rower, so it makes sense she’s into rowing too. And sure enough, Joy has a gold medal from Henley Women’s Regatta to her name.

But Joy will happily tell you that her medal win was a collective effort by her team and her coach. And there isn’t a medallist or trophy-winning sportsperson alive who hasn’t been coached to glory.

So if coaching is the key to success, shouldn’t more of us be doing it? 🤔 Not to win gold medals, but to achieve the success we all want to enjoy in life?

If you need proof of exactly how important coaching can be, you only need to look at the success Anna Badcock is currently enjoying. She arrived at TechPixies, fell in love with our mindset and life coaching, and was inspired to put coaching at the heart of her businesses. Oh, and she snagged herself a social media qualification along the way!

Here’s why you need to tune in
Come and discover why Anna calls coaching life-changing and how she uses it in her businesses. And hear how coaching is vital in helping you work through blocks, so you can move to the next level of success and put a rocket under your results. 🚀

Here’s what to listen out for:

[00:58] Anna describes why she wanted to upskill in social media.

[03:06] How Anna identified a problem and worked out she could help.

[06:01] How to make the most of Facebook ads

[06:42] Hear Anna’s thoughts on our life coaching.

[11:17] Discover the importance of support.

[15:00] Learn how Anna helps people navigate major life changes.

[17:16] The importance of certification in social media.

[20:38] Anna describes her personal transformation.

🎧 Want transformational success in your life? Hit play now. ▶️▶️▶️

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For links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at [email protected]

Thanks for listening!

Imagine going all-in on a business, committing full-time, and only six weeks later finding yourself fully booked and having to take on extra help. 😲

For Lee-Anne Brown, our guest on the podcast this week, this was precisely the scenario she found herself in after launching her business, Citrine VA.

Although Lee-Anne happily confesses that she’s not sure how this situation happened, you know she’s a TechPixie when she says, “when you really want something, you kind of put it out there and then it all kind of comes in, and it just happens.”

Lee-Anne thought she’d learn social media to showcase her love of quilting, but diving into our training has enabled her to add another string to her bow as a VA, and now her agency is flying. 🚀

Here’s why you need to tune in
If you’re on the precipice of needing to take on some additional support in your business and need a gentle nudge to do it, this is the episode for you. You’ll hear Lee-Anne and Joy’s thoughts on taking on subcontractors and why being able to prove her experience to clients has been so useful for Lee-Anne. Oh, and look out for Lee-Anne’s top social media tips too.

Here’s what to listen out for:

[01:02] Lee-Anne reveals what she was doing when she joined TechPixies. 

[06:29] Hear Lee-Anne describes how she took on subcontractors.

[08:00] Joy reveals the lesson she learned when running an agency model.

[11:45] Discover what Lee-Anne enjoys most about running her business.

[12:35] Learn about Joy’s theory of change.

[17:09] Hear Lee-Anne’s top social media tips.

🎧 Hit play now. ▶️▶️▶️

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Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at [email protected]

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Imagine if Apple had been called Steve Jobs Technology Solutions or Tesla had been named Elon Musk Electric. 😲 No offence to Steve, but we’re not sure Apple would have topped quite as many cool brand lists without its iconic name and branding.

What you call your business and your vision for it is something you want to nail from the start. Will it just be you, or are you going for global domination? (No, we can’t say that without thinking of Dr Evil’s laugh either! 🤣)

It’s a point Rebecca Newenham, our guest on the podcast this week, is here to discuss, along with a whole heap of tips on whether franchising is for you.

Here’s why you need to tune in
If you’re running a business and want to take it to the next level, could franchising be the answer? Tune in for some top tips from Rebecca, who runs a successful virtual assistant agency that she’s scaled through franchising. Alternatively, if you like the idea of running a business but want to tap into a ‘done for you’ system, could becoming a franchisee be the way forward? Press play and find out.  👌🏻

Here’s what to listen out for:

[02:17] Hear how Rebecca was inspired by her mum.

[03:52] Learn about the importance of nailing your business name.

[08:14] Discover why Rebecca went down the franchise route.

[11:31] How does franchising work?

[14:58] Learn about one of the major advantages of the franchise model.

[17:59] Hear why you need to celebrate success along the way.

[20:09] Rebecca reveals the lessons she's learnt.

🎧 Come and discover whether the franchise model is for you. Hit play now. ▶️▶️▶️

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Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at [email protected]

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Waking up every day and feeling like you’re making a difference, doing a job you love and working with brilliant clients. It’s the dream, right?

For Sarah Bronnert, this isn’t a dream, it’s her reality. And as you’ll discover in this week’s episode of the Sparkle and Thrive podcast, she’s totally nailed the social media management game.

Here’s why you need to tune in
After losing her job as a music teacher at the start of the pandemic, Sarah pivoted to social media and soon realised the difference she could make by helping other musicians with their social media accounts.   

By combining her passion for music with some top social media skillzzz, today she’s managing the accounts of six clients and calling on the support of three other team members. You’ll find out how this very talented winner of the TechPixies Social Media Service Provider of the Year award set up her agency, how she wins clients, and how she keeps them happy.   

Here’s what to listen out for:

[03:10] Sarah talks about her current work helping musicians with their social media.

[05:04] Sarah reveals how she grew her team.

[08:58] Hear some top social media strategy tips.

[12:30] Discover how TechPixies transformed Sarah’s life.

[18:10] How do you transition from voluntary to paid work?

[21:14] Learn how Sarah won contracts.

[24:26] What’s Sarah’s favourite part of her job?

[27:55] Don’t miss Sarah’s parting advice.

🎧 Curious to discover if running a social media agency is for you? Hit play now. ▶️▶️▶️

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For links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com.

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at [email protected]

Thanks for listening!

Have you thought about becoming a social media manager? Perhaps you’ve wondered what it takes to become one. Or maybe you’re just curious to know what an SMM gets up to all day.

Well, we’ve got the insider gossip from TechPixie Maria Collins.

She’s a successful social media manager who says that when she’s not in meetings with her clients, you’ll find her putting the pedal to the metal on her Peloton bike – it’s where she has some of her best content ideas. 🚴‍♀️ But, as you’ll hear, this isn’t the only nugget Maria is revealing about her job.

Here’s why you need to tune in
You’ll discover the speed with which Maria launched her social media management business, and you’ll hear her nifty piece of advice on finding her first paying clients. She also reveals the tips and tricks she uses to manage multiple clients and why mindset is a huge part of being a social media manager.

Here’s what to listen out for:

[02:14] How did Maria get into social media marketing?

[06:55] How do you transition from volunteering to working with paying clients?

[09:29] Why you need to understand your client’s expectations.

[14:14] The power of niching and understanding all the networks.

[20:38] How do you manage multiple clients?

[26:47] Your mindset will help you deal with overwhelm.

🎧 Are you ready to see where social media can take you? If so, hit play now. ▶️▶️▶️

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For details of links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com. 

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at [email protected]

Thanks for listening!

Can a social media network change your life?

“Oh, come on! You’re having a giraffe.🦒 How can social media possibly change my life?” you might think.

But it can, and it does.

We see the power that social media has to change lives every day here at TechPixies, and it’s the same for this week’s guest on the podcast, Mildred Talabi.

She’s a LinkedIn visibility coach who has used LinkedIn to build a business she loves, and she now helps other women to become visible online and use the platform to change their own lives.

Here’s why you need to tune in
Come and hear the best way to get started on LinkedIn, learn how you can overcome your fear of appearing ‘too salesy’ in your posts with Mildred’s simple reframe, and find out if you’re making the most of your banner space.

Here’s what to listen out for:

[01:33] Hear how LinkedIn changed Mildred’s life.

[03:38] Why you need to be visible on social media.

[04:59] What is subconscious reprogramming?

[06:37] What works on LinkedIn?

[10:37] How do you overcome a fear of selling?

[19:38] What’s the best way to get started on LinkedIn?

[23:43] Are you using your banner effectively?

🎧 Hit play and you’ll be shouting ‘yes, soooo true’ to everything she has to say. ▶️▶️▶️

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For details of links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at [email protected]

Thanks for listening!