All the best ideas start over coffee at a coffee shop or maybe over a beer in the pub. And this is no exception. 

Today I talk with Jane James who is the founder of Little Voices and they're a national award winning, franchised organisation that helps children to be the very best that they can and bring out the best in them through drama and singing. 

In this conversation you won’t fail to notice how passionate the Jane is about her business. But like us all she's been through various ups and downs along the way. 

Little Voices is all about empowering children to find their voice to succeed in life. So it's through music and drama, but it's much more than just about the music and drama itself. 

We discuss all sorts of aspects around franchising why it might be a good thing to consider as a route to scaling, but we also discuss some of the challenges that Jane has had along her way - including the fact that Jane originally co founded the business with a partner, and they had a business divorce later on.

So lots of great learnings throughout this regardless of whether you're thinking about franchising or not. So let's go across to Jane and hear the rest of her story. We spoke about franchising being a consideration in strategic planning for scaling up. If you’d like some tangible actions around developing a scalable business model, you might like to take our free 20 question strategy checker https://strategicthinking.scoreapp.com

Jane can be found here:

linkedin.com/in/janemaudsley

https://littlevoices.org.uk/

[email protected]

 

Resources:

Diary of a CEO - https://stevenbartlett.com/the-diary-of-a-ceo-podcast/

The Mid-Point with Gabby Logan - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mid-point-with-gabby-logan/id1527545442

The School Run with Jane & Liv - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theschoolrun

Gmail - https://mail.google.com/

Google Tasks - https://support.google.com/tasks/answer/7675772?hl=en&ref_topic=7675628&sjid=5643080918397018839-EU

Google Drive - https://www.google.com/drive/

Xero - https://login.xero.com/

Trello - https://trello.com/

 

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