The Riff Raff Podcast

The Riff Raff Podcast

By Elizabeth Plouffe, Sydney Elaine Butler, Maddy Dever and Paul ColemanBusinessHealth & FitnessMental HealthCareers
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The Riff Raff Podcast episodes

  • Across the Desk: Where's Your Logo?
    I find it REALLY hard to stick to one subject. Partly because I read like a lunatic and partly because I have undiagnosed, treated with coffee, shiny things ADD. What I do find is that I tend to pick up on the little details that most people miss. That's how 30 or more was born. 30 and counting tips and hints about opportunities to fix or try out something new in communicating about your business.
    I kick off talking about where your logo should be. Sounds silly but are you sure it's up to date on the millions of profiles and websites you might have set up to promote your business with? Are you taking advantage of 1 simple hint that takes minutes to set up and provides passive advertising every time you send an email?
    If you've got 5 minutes, I've got 30 or more ways to get you communicating better :)
    7 min
  • Across the Desk: Noodling, Negotiation and Next Steps
    If you're a woman and you've ever had to negotiate anything that involves money, you likely either paid too much or got paid to little. It appears to have something to do with biology. Men? Not so much. They apparently can negotiate like a surgeon. I'm thinking it's time we all had a little bit of medical school when it comes to negotiating.
    On this episode of Ballsy in Review, we touch on noodling (that's thinking not drawing) and how both negotiation and noodling affect our next steps.
    18 min
  • Future Looks Good: Values and Amazement in Autism
    Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, your business life and your personal life hit a patch of nirvana. Most times, as an entrepreneur anyway, your business life kicks the stuffing out of your personal life. Late nights. Missed dinners. That kind of thing.
    I took a chance last year while trying to help my son, who is on the spectrum, and reached out to an organization to offer my services. Why? Because it had been too damn hard to find them and I was tired of it being hard. That decision to volunteer turned in to what is one of my most rewarding client relationships.
    Take a listen and learn more about how connecting your core values to business decisions can lead to unexpected bonuses AND learn about http://itsaneurodiverseuniverse.ca/index which is an amazing event I get to be a part of.
    18 min
  • Across the Desk: Are You a Stubborn Jackass Too?
    You hear the guru's spouting the catch phrase, "what's holding you back?" Once you find that out, your life and business will be as close to nirvana (not the band, though that would be cool) as is humanly possible.
    Or you could be a stubborn jackass, not ask for help and struggle along like a lunatic for months. Which I did. Until now.
    Today we touch on the power of getting the right coach, how that can lead to breakthroughs for your business and provide relief for your tired solopreneuring brain. And if you are also a She-Hulk, then here are some tips for finding your Wonder Woman and kicking nirvana's ass.
    19 min
  • Across the Desk: Experimental Mindset
    What does it mean to you if someone says, "why don't you try this experiment with your business?" Does it immediately make parts of your anatomy pucker? Or does it give you a bit of freedom to try some things you wouldn't have tried if they weren't experiments? If that option to hypothesize, test and measure with minimal risk wasn't there?
    That's what we discussed last night at Women in Tech / Ballsy. The experimental mindset and the permission to fail. To understand that trying new things for your business is essential for moving forward and that the metrics don't have to be tied to your bottom line.
    Maybe the experiment builds a better team. Maybe it opens up new product ideas. Maybe the next time someone suggests an experiment you pucker just a little less and in fewer places. I'd say that's a success wouldn't you?
    16 min
  • #124: Across the Desk: Meet Paula Boyd from The Lighthouse Cottages and Camping
    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave the world behind for 3 months and just live in paradise? Not the shiny, BS lives you see on Instagram where you too can earn 5 bazillion while sitting on the beach. Nope. This is a true escape while still earning a living bringing all the best of yourself to the job every darn day.
    Meet Paula Boyd, who with her husband John, owns and operates The Lighthouse Cottages and Camping. We're coming to you from one of the only natural sandy beaches on Bear Lake in the Georgian Bay area. If your not jealous yet, just wait ;)
    22 min
  • Across the Desk: Intuitive Businesswoman by Judy George
    I firmly believe that all entrepreneurs owe themselves the favor of investigating in to personal development. Quizzes and tests and conversations with people who know more than you do about the business of being you.
    Delving in to they why's and how's of your personality, brain patterns and work habits can only help to make you better at what you're trying to do. To that end, I'm a bit of a personal evaluation junkie.
    This week on Wise Words, I go back to a golden oldie with Judy George's Intuitive Businesswoman.
    26 min
  • Lodestone Logic: Navigating Your Way Through Events
    Learn more about how having the right event data can make the most of your marketing and events budget !
    Why is this important? Case in point:
    A large company THOUGHT they were spending their events budget and attending / participating at over 400 events. Turns out it was only 120. Yikes!
    Tracking your own data and knowing the best events to attend, sponsor, showcase at and speak at is one the best ways to stop wasting money !
    32 min
  • Across the Desk: Execution
    Did you know that execution comes down to 3 main things? People. Strategy. Operations. Not those on their own but how the leadership abilities in charge of the organization engage with those three components.
    Is your leadership style to delegate and then completely step away? Yikes. Are you a micromanager who builds distrust and angst within your team. Oy vey. Or do you take the time to have real conversations, give honest feedback and encourage debate and idea generation. Yeah!
    Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan deliver a book on leadership and how it impacts an organization's success or failure on project execution. We're talking a few thousand dollars to a few billion per project. Either you have what it takes or need to learn it quickly if you want your organization to succeed.
    With this book in your tool kit, I think you've got a better chance of less butt-covering, more authentic engagement and an even greater chance of becoming a better leader.
    22 min
  • Sneaky Shit Explores Body Language
    Ursula the Sea Witch knew what she was talking about. In the absence of our real voice, our body language will reveal many things we might not expect.
    Subconsciously you could be leveraging your assets or you could be influencing decisions being made about you without even realizing. Those assets can be problematic when you aren't aware of what they're up to.
    Eye contact, your chin up, stance, what plane are your hands in and staring someone down when you thought you were just paying attention. All of these can add up to more sneaky shit than you realized ...
    38 min

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This channel is dedicated to all things neurodivergent: employment, skill building, creativity, connecting and more. Why? Because the people in most of the podcast episodes have lived experience…

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