RE: The Podcast

Sound the returning guest klaxon! Nerrisa Pratt is back on the pod. We first had her on as the founder of creative PR company Untld Project, but today she's come back as serial crafter, sewist, and founder of the Bargello Edit. We had a really wonderful chat with her all about the creation and publication of her book (oh yeah, did we mention she has a craft book? *Nails emoji*), how she uses craft in her life, and the boundaries she's putting in place as an industrious multi-hyphenate in big bad 2022. We talk about the importance of your own space, showing up authentically, and using what you've got. 

Follow @nerrisapratt

& check out @thebargelloedit

Whether you grew up on the business book fodder of the 90s and 00s or the Buzzfeed quizzes of the 00s and 10s - we're all gluttons for finding out our personality types. We share our results from 4 different personality tests, and discuss the valuable insights for our business that we got from each - as well as the limitations of what they offered us.

Take the tests yourself and let us know what you get!

Sparketype test

16 Personalities

The Enneagram

Keirsey's Four Temperaments

Happy New Year! 2022, here we, here we, here we go...

Before we kick off the new year proper, we wanted  to take a moment to reflect on 2021 and the Small Bizmas Party we hosted in December alongside our brill small biz pal, Alice Benham. 

Today the 3 of us are listening to the wins you recorded for us at the event, and taking some time to celebrate everything YOU achieved in such a challenging year.

Thanks so much our amazing guests - we can't wait to see where 2022 takes you!

https://www.huckletree.com/education/alpha
https://www.huckletree.com
https://www.instagram.com/huckletree/

https://www.thebigredbox.co

For the FINAL episode of 2021, we thought we'd hand the decision making over to you! Last week we asked for your subject requests, and lovely listener Hanna asked us to talk about some of the instances when our perspectives on something totally shifted over time. We talk about starting new, scary projects, talking to camera, presenting in workshops, slimming offerings down, going back to learning, organising ourselves and more: basically, some of the most seismic things that have changed for us in our entire business lives! 

Grab your tickets for Small Bizmas here!

In this chunk's - and 2021's - penultimate episode, we thought we'd have a bit of a sentimental one reflecting on the year gone by, and look at what it brought us and how we felt it went. Then, we thought we'd look forward to 2022, and what we're hoping it will bring! Plus, for each half we took a prompt from the Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022 journal from Project Love (out now.) 

Grab your tickets for Small Bizmas 2021 here

Plus, please email us [email protected] to suggest next week's episode topic - the final of this year!!! - by Monday 22nd November

It’s been a long couple of years for us business owners -- the elf-employed if you will!

We're SO proud of everything you’ve achieved and with that in mind, we’ve decided to throw a party for small business owners who want a chance to relax and unwind with the people who well and truly GET it.

So join us, Rachel Waring & Ellie Kime, alongside our pal Alice Benham, fellow business owner and podcaster who lives and breathes small business ownership, for an evening of food, drink, music, activities, a Big Fat Quiz Of The Year (with prizes!) and, above all, just great vibes. How does that sound?

Tickets are limited and available now! 

You can find all the info and grab your ticket with the link below 

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/smallbizmas/

and if you want to get involved as a supplier, please let us know here:

https://forms.gle/QAksfaxDnEJb383m7 

This party is being thrown as a collaboration between Starting The Conversation and The Business Proposal Podcast.

With Black Friday (and Black Thursday, and Cyber Monday, and all the crew) just round the corner, you might be thinking about your sales strategy. Discount codes, money off, slashed prices - these are all the traditional ways big businesses advertise on Black Friday. But is this the way it has to be for small businesses too? We chat about the pros and cons of Black Friday, as well as some alternatives you might want to try instead (if you want to opt in at all, that is. If you want to opt out - we totally understand too!)

We're huge fans of Nina & Recess Living, so we had pretty high expectations when we interviewed her - which she absolutely smashed! We could have chatted all day (and it probs felt like we did - sorry Nina) about her approach to self-care for creatives, mindfulness, and 'meditation for do-ers'. If you're the kind of person who finds it hard to sit still but knows they need to spend time relaxing, you're gonna love this episode and all the gems of wisdom Nina brought to it! 

HARK! What's this? Is it a bird, is it a plane? No! It's FINALLY an episode on enthusiasm from Ellie?! 

To celebrate the launch of her VORACIOUS magazine Kickstarter campaign, The Enthusiast herself thought she'd chat about how to stay enthusiastic about your business. When you do what you love, it can be easy to think your enthusiasm will always be there - and then if it wanes slightly (which is totally natural) it can be really scary. So how can you keep that fire burnin'?

You can preorder VORACIOUS here!