Emma Skeates joins us in the Habitz Podcast studio talking through how to grow an audience on social media. Whatever your platform of choice is - Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube – it can be difficult to grow an audience online. Some people manage it organically without trying, others can work for months to grow a channel without much luck, but Emma is here to chat us through how she has reached over 200,000 followers and a blog which reaches millions of people. She knows too well that the polished, perfection that many influencers portray isn’t real life, and has built a following from being real and sharing her stories.

Janine Mitchell joins us in the Habitz Podcast Studio talking through managing mental health in the workplace. Every level in an organisation has people who will be suffering from mental health problems. Whether they’re in a position to help themselves or are expected to be helping others can make it difficult to manage their workload and keep on top of things.

Janine knows the importance of communication and training for managers and gives a few good habits for managing mental health at work, or at least, understanding it and offering as much help as possible.

Chris Tibbets joined us in the Habitz Podcast studio talking through his experience with dieting, emotional eating and how he lost over 16 stone with help from mindset coaching (Paul Mort), nutritionists, trainers, and therapists to stop and overcome his overeating addiction.

Chris knows how easy it is to fall for quick fixes, celebrity trends and ‘easy’ weight-loss diets. He knows the fitness industry promotes an unachievable weight loss goal because to be able to follow these through you need to start with the mind and the reasons. Have a listen to see how he managed his 105kg weight loss.

David Lucas joined us in the Habitz Podcast Studio talking through how to use Facebook ads in your business. You might be trying a new marketing strategy or feel like you should be running Facebook campaigns because that’s what a marketing book told you to do. But you don’t need to if it’s not natural.

David works for a digital marketing agency that specialises in running Facebook ads. There’s a heap of different strategies to implement into getting your business seen online from PPC, SEO, social media, and email marketing – they all have a place, but not necessarily in everyone’s business.

Charles Booth joined us in the Habitz Podcast Studio talking through online training. Zoom has now become everyone’s best friend. Whether you like it or not, you’ll be doing some online training sessions at some point throughout your career. You’ll be listening to someone at the other end of a video call talk for hours about a topic you aren’t relating to.

Charles knows exactly how to engage people on Zoom. How to use teams to your advantage or make people sit up in your online training session. Have a listen and implement a few for yourself, your training will be more fun and enjoyable for everyone.

Shea Heer joined us in the Habitz Podcast Studio talking through sales training and how to get through to the gatekeeper. Making a sales call isn’t fun for most people, but it doesn’t need to be scary. Sales calling is a bit of an art, and once you’ve perfected the small steps you need to make before the call connects then you’ll be able to adapt it to anyone who picks up and have your cold calls feel less, well, cold.

Shea built her whole business on cold calling during the 2008 recession, so she knows it can be tough. But her sales call training can be put into practice by anyone and on Habitz she gives us a few tips you can implement straight away to come across better on your sales calls

Lisa Slater knows what she's talking about. She's been copywriting professionally for years and she's been in sales even longer. Lisa knows exactly how to get people to buy into you from your marketing. Writing copy is about the reader, not you. So here are some tips for your written content to make your copy count. We're not all destined to be a top-shelf copywriter or a grade A writer, but with these easy copywriting tips you might find it a bit easier.

Jennifer Tarjanyi joined us in the Habitz Podcast Studio talking about learning and development, and why we need to unlearn human behaviours that have brought us to where we are today. If you're a manager or in a position of power at work, a lot of the time the way you treat people in work isn't a reflection of how you are as a person. It's just how you've been conditioned to act at work. Jennifer has worked in the industry over 15 years so has seen it all and heard all the excuses.

So, what we need to do, is take steps to remove these biases and behaviours and see where these stem from. Most come from fear. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of showing weakness. The fear of being shown up. Once we've worked these out, we can start working on self-improvement and realisation.

Iain Griffiths joined us in the Habitz Podcast Studio talking through franchising and being a franchise owner. There's a lot that can go wrong when taking on a franchise or deciding you're going to franchise your business. There's a bit of a misconception that because there's already a business in place that there's less work to do. But Iain chats us through the good tips he has for starting up a franchise and building a name for yourself in a new area. Plus, all the bad habits to avoid.

Tom Cokill joined us in the Habitz Podcast Studio talking through recruitment and how to work with recruitment agencies properly. As a hiring manager it can be difficult (and boring) to find the right agency for you and you can end up getting trapped in the PSL hole and just letting everyone work the job for you. But hiring people needs to be more detailed than that. You should be spending the same energy on hiring as you expect someone to put into their CV or their job application.

Tom has a successful recruitment agency and knows how to hire people. He knows how to attract the candidates you want, can navigate his way through piles of people and can find you who you're looking for. So rather than wasting money and energy, you should be focusing on picking one recruitment partner to help you hire right the first time.