Fireside

Today is a coaching episode with Jane Lindsey of Snapdragon Studio. I was excited to get Jane onto the podcast as she has built the on-paper success many would dream of with over 100,000 sales on Not On The High Street, but in the last year has decided to take the business in a new direction. In this episode we talk all about value - what it even is, the difference between physical and e-products, and we get into the free vs paid debate.

In this episode I’m talking to political risk strategist and blogger Supal Desai. I met Supal on the photowalk she led for Blogtacular this year and was so impressed by her life and story, how generous she is with her knowledge and how she is living her life without compromise. I wanted to get her on to talk about embracing this working set up, balancing everything she’s doing, taking opportunities and believing intensely in your work. There’s a great mix of practical and conceptual takeaways from this and I hope you really enjoy it.

I have a coaching episode for you today which is all about getting out of your own channels and making your business more visible. My guest is Vanessa Dennett of The Simpson Sisters, who uses her skills and experience acquired over the years to bring together like minded women in a warm and welcoming environment where they are so good at encouraging, supporting and enthusing each other. We talk about finding your audience, defining key stories, the mindset of pitching and the intricacies of it too. So I hope you enjoy this really practical episode and it gets you thinking about how you can get more visible too.

This week I want to talk more about how we work in our businesses, productivity, mindset and how to get stuff done. I think that a lot of us struggle with this in different ways, and productivity and motivation is something we tend to beat ourselves up over. So today I’m going to take you through a few tools and concepts that I use to keep going and getting stuff done.

Today is a really juicy coaching episode, which, like all great conversations, went down lots of interesting tangents and ended up coming out in a much better place than we expected. My guest is Ellen Carr of Being Change, a purposeful and holistic living coach based in Manchester here in the UK. In this episode we’re talking a lot about what a marketing strategy even is and whether you need one, and once you’ve figured that out, some ways to simply and easily plan and think about your activities. I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope you will too.

One thing I haven’t spoken much about yet on the podcast is visuals, and I guess that’s because it’s a subject that’s hard to do through audio. However, I thought it was time for that to change, so today I’m talking to branding expert Margie Jansen of Everyday Artefacts all about being consistent with your brand visuals. You 100% know Margie’s work because she created the visuals for Grow With Soul so they’re right there in the palm of your hand! And in this episode we talk about colour psychology and seasonal brand identities with lots of take aways for you to think about.

Today I am sharing with you a coaching call where we really dig in to the ins and outs of content planning. My guest is Christianne Squires of Bookwifery who runs courses to help people birth their books, from discerning whether someone is pregnant with a book, all the way through pregnancy, labour and post-natal care. In our conversation we get really into thinking about the customer journey and how to speak to people at the stage they’re at, planning content effectively, what goes on each channel, and there’s a little bit of book writing chat as well. There’s so much good stuff in here, and I hope you’ll enjoy it as much I did.

For episode 12 it's just me talking to you. Since starting the podcast twelve weeks ago, I’ve had lots of little questions which don’t quite make up their own full episode, but I really felt they would be universally helpful to answer. So today is a bumper Q&A episode answering all those little questions about marketing, working and everything in between.

This episode is all about how to take an idea that you’ve been mulling over and put it into action. My guest is Anna Dunleavy, a photographer who has recently gone full time in her main business, but has an idea for a membership community that she can’t shift. In this episode we talk through the idea from business model, through target customer and content and how Anna is going to make it real.

For episode 10 of Grow With Soul I have a treat of an episode for you. I’m talking Huma Qureshi, a client of mine who has turned into a good friend. Huma is the curator of the online store Our Story Time, and is also an award-winning published author and creator of the writing course The Quiet Words. In this episode we talk all things writing - starting a writing practice, how to write when you’ve been told all your life that you can’t, reading, journaling and generally the power of words.