As small business owners, we are carrying a huge mental load, juggling everything from campaign ideas through to staff management challenges. In today's tip episode, Fiona share one of her favourite tools for getting ideas and thoughts about business elements out of your head and onto a mind map. What is mind mapping? Why should we use it as small business owners? Fiona discusses the answers to these questions and more in today's episode. Listen and learn now. 

Topics discussed in this episode: 

Introduction [0:55]

Mindmapping [2:05]

History | Where it came from [2:46]

Why we want to use it as small business owners [3:30]

Reasons why it’s useful [4:41]

How do you work with it? [6:44]

How to get started [7:42]

MindMeister (Recommendation) [9:26]

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Tony Buzan ,inventor of mind mapping [3:10]

MindMeister [5:30]

Episode transcript:

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