This week Julia and Vicky respond to a question posted by someone wanting to know what they should do about their feelings of being out of control with their business - How can they get things back in order before these lose the plot?

Simple answer:  Yes you can.

Is it easy?  No

But in this weeks podcast Julia and Vicky talk through the issues from both the personal and professional perspective and dish out a load of tips to help.

We had a great question this week from a man who has financed a project a plane ride away that is not firing on all cylinders.  He asked us for our opinion about the best ways for him to get things back on track.

So here it is......

We had a brilliant question this week from someone who is looking for a business partner.  Should she follow her gut which is giving our danger signals or be more analytical in her decision making?

Julia & Vicky start with the flippant answers and then get down to some quality thinking about how to go about hooking up with someone in business.  And yes - there are a lot of dating parallels.

Julia & Vicky asked some networking contacts what questions they had which they would like answered.  And the first one was brilliant -"How can I stop people from dropping out when they find out about my prices?"

So that is what we talked about!  This one is packed full of our thoughts and tips on how to make your sales process about so much more than the money.

Enjoy!

And is you would like to know more about the Sales Demon Dare we discuss in this episode, here is the link: https://www.be-astute.co.uk/vanquish-demons/vanquish-sales-demons-taster

Don't know about you, but over Christmas some feelings of anxiety crept in.  It seemed like a great subject for our first podcast of the year - working out what is real and what is imagined.  And more importantly, how to get rid of these really annoying emotions.

This week Vicky and Julia are chatting with outsourced Business Development Expert, Penny Cox about the joys of doing something crazy later in life, and why mindset is the key to making a success of your business.

Penny has just sold her house and moved her business to Spain.  She is having a ball so it was great to catch up with her to find out why she decided this was something she had to do......

Disability Activist, Speaker, and Film Maker Dee Reilly is our guest this week - talking about the impact being written off at school has had, and the journey to overcoming that. 

We found Dee's visit to be inspirational and educational - hope you do too.

Sues Duncan is our guest this week and she is a real powerhouse in the Apprenticeship world - and highly opinionated with it!

We discuss Apprenticeships versus University as a choice for young people, innovation - or in many cases the lack of it in the sector, and why being able to describe what excellence looks like is so important for driving up standards.

I had an enormous amount of fun, hope you have almost as much listening to us.

Listen to Bill & Julia Stock discuss what is fabulous about working together - and what the challenges are in running a business with your partner.