I'm pretty sure I first met today's guest, Siobhan Costello, at one of Corinna Gordon-Barnes's You Inspire Me networking meetups. I've known her now for a year or two, and when she spoke at Corrina's last meetup, I was inspired to get her on the show. It's so easy to get caught up in business networking without a purpose. It's nice to get out of the office and meet people, and it can be easy to forget that there's more to networking than just that. Siobhan has some great tips today on how to get results from business networking, based on what your networking goals are.

Siobhan Costello is founder of Great Business Results and helps women to build their businesses through confident networking.

After leaving a long nursing career Siobhan ran a successful business as a hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner.

At first Siobhan hated networking! In fact she stopped completely for a while disliking the pushy way people could be at a meeting and the way she felt she had to ‘perform’ too. It just didn’t feel right!

Then she discovered that there are key ways to make networking enjoyable and more importantly, she began to see her business grow through getting out there and networking in a way that felt authentic to her.

Siobhan now runs seven successful network groups for business women in East Anglia and is passionate about showing other women how they can build their businesses by networking confidently and with authenticity and in a way means they can remain true to themselves.

Siobhan runs a 5 Step Programme for Confident Networking to help business owners who are struggling to get referrals at network meetings to confidently and authentically promote their business so that they get a return on their networking investment.

• Siobhan's top tips on how to get results from business networking
• How to follow up with people after the meeting
• How to find the right network for you and your business
• When to evaluate whether or not a group is working for you
• How often you should go to networking meetings

• Women in Business Network

• Catherine Watkin

• Website
• Facebook
• Twitter

[R2B 93] How to Get Results from Business Networking, with Siobhan Costello http://wp.me/p3507p-362 #podcast

I first met today's guest, Holly Gillen, on Instagram. We started following each other, and then I checked out her website and discovered that I loved what she does. Video is so important for business, and I know so many women who avoid it because they're either afraid of the camera, or terrified of technology, or they just don't know what to say. Holly has loads of great tips on how to get started with video for your business in today's episode.

Holly started her freelance career in 2008 as a Videographer, Producer, and Editor working with big industry names including the Sundance Channel, Sony Music, nick.Com, HBO, Bono, Big Time Rush, Forest Whitaker and many others.

Her skills and experience run the full gamut from Producing and Directing to Shooting and Editing, and she has translated those skills into a range of educational courses and services to support entrepreneurs in their quest for video stardom.

Holly believes that video isn’t “just” video; it’s your ticket to a more personalized brand, your secret weapon to cut through the static in your market, and your best opportunity to have a meaningful conversation with your clients and customers (that converts to dolla-dolla bills!).

• Holly's top tips on how to get started with video
• Why video is a journey
• How to leave room for natural stuff to happen
• The fine balance of being prepared for your video
• Why it's so important to be concise

From Start to Star: An Experience in Video Confidence.

A fully immersive experience in video confidence taking you from total newbie to business superstar in 15 days flat! Talk about an extreme makeover.

You’ll build the confidence you need to start making videos that will take your business to the next level.

• Amy Porterfield
• Amy Schmittauer

• Website
• Freebie
• YouTube
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Pinterest
• Instagram

[R2B 92] How to Get Started With Video for Your Business, with Holly Gillen http://wp.me/p3507p-35m #podcast

I'm pretty sure I first discovered today's guest, Lisa Lister, last year when someone mentioned her to me. Since then, I've been following her online. I love how she makes talking about your "lady landscape" fun and funny, and not boring and scientific. I'd read books on the subject of tracking your cycle to make the most out of each phase, and I found it really hard to get into. I'm so excited to introduce today's guest, because I know you'll find her super interesting and loads of fun.

Lisa Lister is a author of Code Red: Know Your Flow, Unlock Your Monthly Super Powers + Create a Bloody Amazing Life. Period. a menstrual maven and creatrix of the SHE Flow protocol - yogic feminine movement, body stories and ancient menstrual health practices - dedicated to helping women crack their lady code and love their lady parts.

• How contraception can silence our inner wisdom
• The four superpowers you have as a woman
• Which part of your cycle is your "get shit done" phase
• How to know your flow and chart your cycle (and how long you need to do this)
• The best time of the month for public speaking and expressing yourself

• Cycle Repair Kit
• Code Red

• SHE (you'll understand when you listen to the episode)

• Website
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram

[R2B 91] How Tracking Your Cycle Can Help Your Business, with Lisa Lister http://wp.me/p3507p-35m #podcast

I'm so excited to have the fabulous Denise Duffield-Thomas on the show this week! I am a HUGE fan of Denise: she's one of my top three favorite women entrepreneurs who totally inspire me. So it's with great pleasure that I've got Denise on the show to talk about how to overcome your money blocks.

Denise Duffield-Thomas is the money mindset mentor for the new wave of online female entrepreneurs. Her best-selling books “Lucky Bitch” and “Get Rich, Lucky Bitch” give a fresh and funny road-map to create an outrageously successful life and business.

Denise helps women release their fear of money, set premium prices for their services and take back control over their finances. Denise is an award winning speaker, author and entrepreneur who helps women transform their Economy-Class money mindset into a First-Class life. Find her at www.LuckyBitch.com

• Denise's top tips for overcoming your money blocks
• How money blocks are formed early on in life
• Why you need to look at the downsides of being wealthy
• How to look at your money memories
• Why Denise did not want to be the "money girl" and why she struggled with it

• Leonie Dawson
• Oprah

• Denise's free pricing workshop
• How to get one chapter of her book for free
• Lucky Bitch Bootcamp

• Website
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Free Gift

[R2B 90] How to Overcome Your Money Blocks, with Denise Duffield-Thomas http://wp.me/p3507p-34K #podcast

I'm so excited to have talented batik artist Victoria Dresdner on the show for this week's episode! I love how she's created a thriving online business around her artwork, which is gorgeous batik clothing. We originally connected in Leonie Dawson's Amazing Biz + Life Academy, and I've been hoping to get Victoria on the show for a while.

In this episode, she completely opens up with total vulnerability about how she moved on from an abusive relationship to create the business she has today.

Victoria Dresdner discovered batik in the early days of her travels to the west coast. Her first sales started at craft fairs and music festivals, and her most favorite, the parking lot scene at Grateful Dead concerts. For this freestyle batik artwork she is 100% self taught. Once Victoria tapped into creating batik art, there was no turning back, and she has been pursuing it intently ever since. Victoria discovered Etsy in 2008 and she has an established shop with great reviews set up there.

• Victoria's top tips on how to build an online business for your artwork
• How Etsy changed everything for Victoria's business
• The two online tools that grew her business online
• How taking her business online tripled it
• How videos feed Victoria's need for expression and connection

• Etsy
• Shopify

• Website
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Pinterest
• Youtube

[R2B 89] How to build a thriving online business for your art, with Victoria Dresdner http://wp.me/p3507p-34O #podcast

I originally met Lisa online, and when I checked out her website, I was instantly hooked: she calls herself the High Priestess of the Woo. I immediately knew she was someone I wanted to chat with. I love what Lisa does, and I love how she blends her super practical business side with intuitive readings and spirit guides. She's got a very holistic approach to business, and I'm very excited to have her on the show!

Be warned: if you're not into the woo, there's a lot of it in this episode. :)

Lisa Wechtenhiser of PracticallyIntuitive.com works with intuitives, soul-preneurs and healers helping them expand their gifts and build a solid business so they stop giving their gifts away for free and make a real impact in the world. She’s an intuitive herself and a blindingly clear channel to Guides and Teachers in Spirit who are pretty awesome business advisors themselves.

Lisa believes that it’s not enough to set up a site and wait for clients to find you. If you want to offer readings or healing work as a business, you have to blend the spiritual with the mundane. In other words, you won’t get far without a solid foundation upon which to do your soul’s work.

Lisa’s expertise comes from over 30 years helping financial advisors build their business as well as her own at Practically Intuitive. Known for her warmth, just the right amount of tough love and her ability to get you out of overwhelm and into action fast, Lisa gets the world of Woo and the world of business and can help you manage them both too so you create a business that supports you while you support others!

• Lisa's top tips on how to blend the spiritual with the mundane in your business
• Who are your guides, and where do they come from
• How to blend messages from your guides into real life actions
• Why you need to deal with your own stuff

• Angella Johnson
• Jenny Shih
• Oprah

• The Business of Intuition Facebook group

• Website
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

Program: What’s Possible Kickstart (www.practicallyintuitive.com/possibility)

Wonder what you could do if you trusted yourself 100%? Find out in this fast but deep dive into what’s available when you step into that knowing. You’ll come out with a plan, action steps and a lot more confidence about where you’re going with your business.

[R2B 88] How to Blend the Spiritual and the Mundane in Your Business, with Lisa Wechtenhiser http://wp.me/p3507p-32I #podcast

I first discovered today's guest online. I'm not sure whether it was a Facebook ad, or someone mentioned Tami's Solopreneur Equation on Facebook, but I was instantly intrigued (I love profiling tools and quizzes of all kinds). I completed all of the questions, and received the response: Creative Visionary. Now, I already knew that I was a Creator in the Wealth Dynamics, and I'd come up as a Creator/Creative on other profiling tools before. But what I loved about this was the brief video that came with the description of my profile type. It felt like Tami was speaking exactly to me! I'm so excited to have Tami on the show this week to talk about how to play to your strengths.

Tami Smith is the Founder of The Dawning Point and an advocate for entrepreneurs in emerging work. She is the creator of a free self-assessment called “How are you actually wired to work?” Her work involves becoming conscious of innate strengths and designing work to play to those strengths.

• Why you need to ask yourself the question: Am I just doing what I know how to do and what I've always done?
• Tami's top tips on how to play to your strengths as an entrepreneur
• Why you can't avoid emerging work (and what that is)
• How to activate your weak spots
• Why you need to pay attention to how you produce your best work

• Sally Hogshead

• Website
• Twitter
• Facebook

In 2014 Tammy interviewed 90 solo-entrepreneurs to crack the code of the (Solo) Entrepreneurial Equation. The (Solo) E-eQ conversation uncovered a way to understand ourselves as the creator of our business, why we want what we want, and why we get stuck.

There is a way to create better experiences for ourselves and our clients. It requires paying attention to our strengths and developing our business around the things we are naturally great at. It sounds too simple and maybe even contrary to what we've been taught around best practices. This isn't about outsourcing or The 4-Hour Work Week. For most people outsourcing isn't an option in earlier phases of business. We have to have a certain level of traction before we start outsourcing or building a team. The question I wanted to answer was “how can I make my business work without a team and without outsourcing?”

The work Tammy does has developed into a short-course called “Playing to Your Strengths” which brings clarity around innate strengths. The course is a facilitated process that quickly points you in the right direction. The main ingredient is becoming conscious of your zone of genius and how to recognize when you are in and out of your strengths.

[R2B 87] How to Play to Your Strengths, with Tami Smith http://wp.me/p3507p-343 #podcast

I'm pretty sure I first discovered today's guest, Joanna Hennon, in Leonie Dawson's Amazing Biz + Life Academy. We got to know each other online, and I really love how her business has evolved into something that's so uniquely hers. I'm very excited to haver Joanna as a guest today.

Joanna is an intuitive guide and a channel. She helps (mostly) women to connect with their intuition and spiritual side, and access the wisdom they already have at soul level. This makes their actions in life aligned with their soul’s intention, and makes everything flow more smoothly. Visit www.createyourworld.me to learn more and get a free 10-step course on connecting with intuition.

• Joanna's top tips for connecting with your inner wisdom
• The easiest way to start getting in touch with your intuition
• How to connect with your guides even if you're not woo-woo
• The many ways you can apply this guidance

• Karina Ladet
• Ruby Toad
• Leonie Dawson
• Jo Gifford

• How I came out of the channelling closet blog post
• Create Your World Facebook group
• Colette Baron Reid, Wisdom of Avalon cards

• Website
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• Twitter

[R2B 86] How to Connect With Your Inner Wisdom, with Joanna Hennon http://wp.me/p3507p-32I #podcast

I first discovered today's guest, Joanna Penn, back when I launched my Tribal Publishing business in 2012. She was clearly one of the top names in self publishing, and I've been following her ever since. If you've ever thought of writing a book, either fiction or non-fiction, you'll want to follow Joanna via her blog and her social media profiles. She shares a wealth of information about both writing and marketing your books.

Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author of thrillers, as well as non-fiction for authors. Joanna is also also a professional speaker and entrepreneur, voted as one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013.

Joanna's site, TheCreativePenn.com, helps people with information and inspiration on writing, self-publishing, book marketing and creative entrepreneurship.

• Joanna's top tips for how to make a living with your writing
• Why you need to trust in emergence: a story will emerge
• How to know if it's the thing for you
• Why you shouldn't get hung up on length (and what to go for instead)
• How long it took Joanna to build a successful platform and community

• Christiane Lagarde
• Angela Merkel
• Arianna Huffington
• Gillian Flynn

• The Tim Ferriss podcast, Arnold Schwarzenegger episode
• Joanna's podcast
• Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn
• Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
• AuthorEarnings.com
• Steve Scott's Self Publishing Questions podcast

• Twitter

• Website
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• Goodreads

• Website
• Facebook
• Google+

[R2B 85] How to Make a Living With Your Writing, with Joanna Penn http://wp.me/p3507p-33G #podcast

I first heard about today's guest, Sarah Lloyd-Hughes, back when I was in Toastmasters, battling my own public speaking demons. I think that was also about the time that her book was released. I've had her on my list of women I wanted to invite to this podcast, and after I recently saw her speak at Corrina Gordon-Barnes' You Inspire Me meetup, I realized that I needed to get her on the show to share her tips on public speaking.

Sarah Lloyd-Hughes is a popular speaker on confidence and inspiration, an award winning social entrepreneur, founder of Ginger Training & Coaching and author of “How to be Brilliant at Public Speaking” (Pearson).

Featured in the TEDx series of public speeches, Sarah is an energetic, original and deeply authentic speaker who works with professionals and entrepreneurs to help them communicate with courage. She has successfully taught thousands of people across three continents. As a speaker on confidence, Sarah builds inspiration in her audiences, whatever their experience levels. She challenges and supports them on the journey to become passionate, authentic and inspiring communicators.

In her speaking and courses, Sarah teaches that to become a more influential communicator doesn’t involve pretending to be someone you’re not – instead you must understand and unleash the six qualities of an inspiring speaker that already live inside you.

A CTI Trained Co-active coach and practicing Buddhist, Sarah suffers from a life-long obsession with the hunt for the full potential of human beings – a theme which weaves itself enthusiastically through her work.

Deep inside, Sarah is really a frustrated artist. As consolation, she adds a personal touch to her books, speaking and training by illustrating them with her unique and charming ‘Doodles’.

• Sarah's top tips on how to be an inspiring public speaker
• How LinkedIn got her a book deal and a literary agent
• Why it's so important to have a network if you want to be published
• How to focus on your inner qualities, not your outer behaviors, when speaking
• Why you need to be willing to stick out

• Ken Robinson
• Simon Sinek
• How to Be Brilliant at Public Speaking

• Website
• Twitter
• Facebook

[R2B 84] How to Be Brilliant at Public Speaking, with Sarah Lloyd-Hughes http://wp.me/p3507p-32P #podcast