The Women In Business Radio Show

We were joined in the studio by two new women in business start-ups. Kimberly Smith who started her salon equipment sales and beauty company off the back of her previous business and award-winning Young Entrepreneur, Kelly Culver, who set up her own social media consultancy after finishing her apprenticeship.

We pick their brains for what went well, what didn't, their advice on social media and the all-important task getting those first clients in through the door.

There are more articles, ideas and connections at https://thewomeninbusinessradioshow.com - plus free shoutouts for your events!

For Linda Garcia, a Business Consultant who specialises in productivity, her life has changed drastically, and for the better, since she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

At the time of her diagnosis and treatment she was employed, and after her experience made the decision to leave her job and set up on her own as a consultant.

We hear her story, what happened, what worked, what didn't, what she learned along the way and of course we got her to share the secret sauce she uses with her clients to turn their productivity on its head and get some real results.

Along the way we have a book recommendation, social media and business growth tips.

There really is life during and after breast cancer. In fact, life can go in unexpected and unimagined directions. Listen in to hear 3 women in business guests tell their stories, explain where they are now, how their businesses have started and developed.

Our guests on the show today were Mary Huckle, Personal Trainer; Davina Steel, founder of Gluten free bread producers Mannavida and Joanna Butler owner of Tutordoctors in Berkshire.

We also explore some tips and ideas for dealing with the side effects, both physical and mental, whilst juggling your business life.

This is the first of a series of programmes and initiatives to help women who are dealing with Breast Cancer to connect, start and grow their business.

If you would like to take part in the future, there is more information on this page as well as a short form you can use to register to take part.

https://thewomeninbusinessradioshow.com/business-after-breast-cancer/

For Jude Adams, being diagnosed with ME proved to be a turning point in her career as a singer-songwriter, taking her to brilliant and greater projects; launching her album with a cohort of musicians and going on to win funding and awards.

Plus, she did all of this after she started singing for the first time when she was 50 years of age.

An inspirational story for any of us of that age who may be wondering if 50 is too late to be starting something big and new - it definitely isn't!

Plus, we have her PR Consultant Penelope James in the studio sharing how PR can contribute to your success.

As it's the beginning of October we also have our start of the month Spiritual Business Insights for October at around 10 minutes into the show.

If you head over to the website, there are also additional resources from this particular episode, such as a transcript of the Press Release and details of the tools of the week from the show.

Visit us at https://thewomeninbusinessradioshow.com

There's nothing quite like getting insider tips on Twitter from the head of Twitter in Europe. Thanks to Bruce Daisley for sharing his insights on the platform and how it should be used for business. If you're not already using Twitter, tune in to find out how to get started and get traction in your business.
However, the real cream off the top of the milk that comes out of this show is Bruce's ideas, resources and insights about how we can work less and produce more. He recommends a couple of books to get take us a little further and of course, we can tune into his podcasts as he interviews the key thought leaders in the field of happiness and work culture.
So often as business owners we focus on the busy busy busy activity of inputs and outputs, which can convince us we’re achieving stuff, whilst the real measure of success lies in true outcomes. Giving ourselves permission to take breaks is key to successful business and a happy life, but sometimes it just isn't that easy to switch off. If you would like to get off the hamster wheel of activity so you can do less without feeling guilty then Bruce’s Eat Sleep Rinse Repeat podcasts may give us the hard evidence we need to appreciate how less action alongside focused work is a critical tactic for success.

In today's show, we welcomed Desislava Dobreva, an international branding specialist and founder of BaddAss Brand Squad (http://www.badassbrandsquad.com/). And she's just a bit different to the norm!

If you're thinking you've heard everything there is to possibly hear about branding, this show may well have a couple of little surprises for you.

As I'm sure you can imagine, as a business radio show, we spend a lot of time talking about branding with our guests, but Desdobrava came up with some ideas we'd not come across.

If you've been into branding for a while or taken a really deep branding dive, then, of course, there are going to be concepts covered that you've run into before.

What we enjoyed was the different slant, the different way of thinking and approaching branding you, or branding your business.

Branding is probably the simplest and most complicated topic for your business - and yes, we know that doesn't make sense - what Desdobrava gave us was a different way of looking at it; simple questions you can ask and answer to help you nail your branding and a really good place to get started if you've been struggling or not even started yet.

Oh boy, this was one hell of a show! You may notice it's a bit shorter than usual (that's because of our host, Sian Murphy, had terrible trouble with the knobs. Add onto that a call in from the USA and phone issues - you get the picture. But we've cut all of that out so all you get to listen to is when we finally get Belladonna Riso live into the studio.

Belladona is one of the most fascinating guests we've had on the show. A Real Estate Agent managing a branch and a cohort of staff, she decided to step back to where she started out - as a sales rep. Of course, she also has her own business and to top it all off she's a witch.

Listen in to hear about the power and process of making radical business decisions, using your intuition in life and business and we also touch on how to manage the perceptions of corporate clients when you also do something a bit woo-woo on the side - as in fact so many of us do!

Finally, we mention the art of Iching and bringing that to business. We really do only touch on that, but hope that Belladonna will do regular readings for our business community

Have you ever had big ideas? Perhaps you thought your big dreams were just that - dreams. Pie in the sky? For someone else but not you.

Tune in to hear Liu Batchelor of LVB Creative with some tactics for how anyone can turn their big ideas into action and reality.

A lively show with our usual top and tail elements of Tool, Book and Social Media Tip of the week.

It's just impossible to nail down a particular thread for this show beyond it being social media tips, ideas, how to use it for business, how to grow your business and on and on.

Our guest is Lucy Hall, founder of Social Day (a nationwide event happening at venues all over the UK) and more recently Kickstart media, a new event aimed at women in business to fill the gap in their digital knowledge, revealed by a recent UK Government poll.

We hear a little of Lucy's story, how she grew her business, some tactics for quick branding and of course the usual social media tips which just fly out of Lucy from all angles.

Enjoy and take action!

Listen in to find out how Gemma Sharpe shifted from her corporate career in HR, battled breast cancer and turned what she learned about building her own confidence into a business programme helping other women to do the same.

Gemma started her business Lordene Learning to help women and developed her own 5 Pillars of Resilience and Wellbeing which she shared with us live on air.

And what is RAW ?

"Feeling good and functioning well, with the strength to deal with difficult situations, cope with challenges and adapt to change"

This is one of our favourite interviews - Gemma is a real pro, a qualified coach and clearly knows her corporate stuff as well - but there was no jargon, no cliched hackneyed old coaching terms. She turned her troubles with cancer into a truly inspirational journey of one woman launching her business to turn her life around, and the life of those she works with.

We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed having Gemma in the studio with us.