In this episode I talk to Niamh Crawford-Walker, a content strategist and coach all about getting started with Instagram Reels.

Niamh has successfully coached radio presenters, authors, freelancers, female founders, those working to take their side-hustle to their full-time gig and those transition from employee to business owner. 

You can find out more about Niamh on her website www.hashtaggoals.org and follow her on Instagram @niamhserena

This podcast is presented by Ellie McBride from Calibrated Concepts. It was produced by Emily Crosby Media.

I would love to chat with you about how to get content together for your website, especially when you're first getting ready to launch or maybe doing a big overhaul. 

I want to talk to you about everything you need to pull together...get organized before you start. So, why is it important to get organized before you kick off a website project? 

To start with the obvious, it saves time. If you have everything together from the start of the project, you don't waste times hunting down the right thing. Or getting off-brand or getting distracted, but more importantly, if you've taken some time to pull together all the elements I'm going to share with you today... it's going to be so much easier to create a cohesive, gorgeous design. 

Sophy Dale is absolutely brilliant nd she's got such a warm personality! We talked all about how to create content that has empathy and connects. And Sophie is just brilliant at this. 

So a little more about her Sophy Dale is a copywriter business coach and messaging strategy. Who works primarily with online business owners, helping them find the right words to the right people.

Sophy believes that empathy can be a business owner's unfair advantage, enabling them to get right inside their ideal client's heads and create an emotional connection. So that potential clients feel seen, heard, and understood stories and words are at the heart of all of her. 

A lifelong bookworm. Her background is in publishing and the arts world where she worked with writers, including Margaret Atwood, Ian Rankin, and Lionel Shriver, Sophy's experience as an editor, it gives her an edge and drawing out her clients' stories, seeing connections and narrative arcs and helping them find the best ways to express who they are and what they do in a way that will connect with their ideal clients.

Kiara Davis is a content strategist and a digital agency owner who's passionate about helping DIY entrepreneurs and purpose driven business owners show up confidently online in order to skyrocket their businesses to the next. Behind the brand, she's a multi-hyphenate with an array of passions and interests.

In this episode, we talked about how to strategize your content more and get really clear about what you're creating.

Eve Earley has nearly 50 years of work experience across industries as varied as legal accounting manufacturing and the counseling professions. Her earliest experience delivering change management programs was that Motorola. Grounded in the techniques, which went on to become six Sigma which was in development there. Since moving to Ireland in 2008, she has worked with startups, founded a social enterprise and catalyze connections among Changemakers and reformers and social enterprises, SMEs, and micro businesses.

Her career spans two global recessions. During the first, she was employed to outplace senior and C suite corporate employees made redundant in the early eighties. In 2009, she founded empowering change and applied those skills and supporting startups among the many reluctant entrepreneurs coping with the aftermath of the 2008 crisis.

Shari Medini and Karissa Tunis are the coauthors of Parenting While Working from Home. A monthly guide to help parents balance their careers, connect with their kids and establish their inner strength. They are also the co-owners of the popular parenting, adorethemparenting.com, with six kids between them and over a decade of work from home experience. They love sharing strategies that help fellow parents minimize the overwhelm while trying to juggle it all. 

In this episode I chatted with Miriam Tocino, all about cycle tracking and working with our natural menstrual cycle. She lays out exactly what it looks like for her to work throughout the 4 phases of her cycle and how she's used this method to help her thrive in her work as an author!

Miriam is former architect, turned software developer and programming teacher. As a result of her recent motherhood, she's passionate about making computers more accessible, friendly, and easy to understand for young children and encourages them to become curious about what technology is and how it works.

Sasha classes herself as a writer, doubter and doer, even though she's been writing in some form from the age of eight, she only started calling herself a writer last year and rebellious act against herself, doubting nature. She's an avid journaler and lover of words who wants to use them to challenge the negative narratives that women can have about themselves.

In this episode, we discussed how harnessing the power of self-expression and being a rebel journaler can help you be more inline with your own seasons and needs in life.

We are here today with Mel Wiggins. If you've been following me for any amount of time, you'll see that Mel and I's worlds are really intertwined. It started when I was working as a VA, she hired me as a virtual assistant and then I joined her community Assembly and since then we've gotten even more melded into each other's businesses and lives.

And I'm really excited because Mel just has such a wealth of wisdom. She's so soulful and peaceful in the way that she brings her information and her insights. So I'm really excited to dive in and have you guys hear all about setting boundaries, trusting ourselves and making space for rest. 

Carla McGreevey is a yoga teacher who specializes in healing trauma through breath and movement. Carla is a former exercise addict who worked as an account manager for Bacardi who had a deep aversion to the idea of yoga, who then quit her full-time job with the mission to make the power of this ancient practice, widely known, accessible, and relatable to modern day people.

Yoga connects you to the deep intelligence of your breath and body whose depths of intelligence science is yet to fully understand by connecting to ourselves. We can live authentically with deep connection. And remember we belong, which empowers us to live happier, more fulfilled lives. When Carla started yoga at 28, she didn't know anything about herself or what made her happiest.

She didn't know about her passions. She hated her body. And couldn't feel any sensations in our body. She felt so disconnected from herself and second-guessed herself constantly. The yoga and meditation helped her with how she felt. And she learned to love and take care of herself.