PR Made Simple

This week Pippa Goulden is joined by Emma Post, co-founder of NE Family Law and a Resolution accredited specialist family solicitor and mediator with 18 years' experience. Eighteen months ago, Emma joined Get Known with no idea where to start with PR. The six-week sprint gave her the foundations: her positioning, her plan, and a clear sense of what PR was actually for. From there she spent si...

Two years ago PR expert Pippa did a talk that changed everything in her business. Not because of the talk itself, but because of what she did before it, during it and after it. Two years on and Pippa is looking back at the impact that talk - and getting out of her own way - has had on her business.  The £40k revenue impact, the sixth Get Known cohort, Get Known Live in November, none of it exists...

PR Expert Pippa Goulden is back after the summer and hitting September at full speed. In this episode she takes you behind the scenes of her own PR strategy for Q3 and Q4, what she is actually doing, why she is doing it and what you can take for your own business. And whether you have a launch coming up or not, this one is for you. Because the opportunities you want in 2027 start with the work you...

August has felt a bit meh. And PR strategist Pippa Goulden is willing to bet she is not the only one. In this episode Pippa gets honest about what happens when high achieving women slow down, why the antsy feeling is not a sign something is wrong and what she has actually been building in the background while the content hamster wheel has felt heavier than ever. This one is for the founder who is...

This week PR expert Pippa Goulden is joined by Lauren Mucklow, co-founder of What She Said, a growth ecosystem supporting female service-based business owners from solo founder right through to scale-up.  Lauren joined Get Known (Pippa's six-week signature PR sprint) and has since become a member of her DIY PR membership, so this episode is a proper look at what it's actually like to do...

Forget brat summer. This year it is the summer of the sheep. Small biz PR expert Pippa Goulden has been watching something happen across social media that has been making her genuinely twitchy. The Yap challenge. Butter yellow content. Social media templates taking over everyone's feeds. And a growing sense that everyone is starting to look, sound and say exactly the same thing. In this episo...

Mills Gray is a business strategist, NLP practitioner, speaker and author of The Rebellious Leader. She helps successful women build businesses that create more capacity, more predictable income and less dependence on them as the operating system. In this episode Pippa and Mills talk about her brand new book (out this week!) the PR behind it and why doing things the way you think you should rarely...

It's July. Which means in PR land, Christmas has already started. Pippa has been doing Christmas PR for over two decades and this will be her sixth Xmas inside The PR Set. In this episode she is not giving you the standard checklist. She is telling you what actually makes the difference between the founders who look back on Q4 feeling proud and the ones who wish they had started earlier. In t...

We are halfway through 2026 and if PR has been sitting on your to do list since January, this episode is your wake up call. In part two of this two part series, small biz PR expert Pippa Goulden gets practical. This is the going forward episode. The one that takes everything from last week's reflection and turns it into a real plan you can actually act on. In this episode: Why summer is actua...

Six months into 2026 PR Expert Pippa Goulden is taking stock of what she is seeing across the founders she works with, and the picture is clear. The ones getting real results are not the ones who have cracked the algorithm. They are the ones building authority intentionally and strategically. In this episode, part one of two, Pippa shares what is actually working right now, the real results happen...

In this episode PR expert Pippa Goulden talks about the passive visibility trap that so many female founders have fallen into and something that she has been watching build for month.  Visibility has become the buzzword everyone is chasing, but most people are doing it passively, waiting to be noticed, hoping for introductions, asking the room for contacts instead of taking direct, proactive actio...

Carly Corrigall is a personal trainer and coach for women in midlife. A former solicitor, she made the leap into fitness after her own experience with the gender health gap postpartum and has built her business around women who want to feel strong, capable and fit in their 40s and beyond. She is also one of Pippa's DIY PR members and has built an authority ecosystem that genuinely works for h...

For years PR expert Pippa Goulden thought confidence was a byproduct of doing PR work. The nice thing that happened after the results came in. Preparing for a talk on visibility and confidence made her realise she had it completely the wrong way around. In this episode Pippa shares why confidence is not the destination but the thing that grows through doing the work. And why waiting to feel ready...

A common question is how you measure the impact of PR and in this episode small business PR expert Pippa deeps dives into the data, as well as the non-tangible impact that's harder to measure but makes it so worthwhile.  In this episode we cover:  - The real tangible results PR has created for Pippa's clients and members, from Liberty stockists to £40k keynote talks to John Lewis Christm...

This week PR expert Pippa Goulden takes you through what happened when one of her 1:1 Accelerator clients was contacted by two major journalists in the same week. She didn't pitch them. They came to her.  Pippa shares exactly how it happened, what it took to get there, and what it means for you. In this episode: Why strategic PR builds momentum even when you can't see it happening  What...

Small business PR strategist Pippa Goulden tackles the word that stops founders in their tracks: Storytelling and reframes what it actually means in the context of PR and authority building. In this episode: Why storytelling doesn't mean oversharing or being dramatic The real reason PR doesn't work, and how storytelling is usually at the heart of it How to work out what stories to tell (...

Small business PR strategist Pippa Goulden tackles the one thing she sees holding founders back more than anything else: not knowing what they want to Get Known for. In this episode: Why this isn't just a beginner problem, even six and seven figure founders struggle with this What unclear positioning is actually costing you The mindset that stops founders putting a stake in the ground (and wh...

Most founders think more PR equals better results. It doesn't. In this episode Small Biz PR expert Pippa Goulden breaks down why unfocused PR wastes your time, your money and your confidence,  and how two simple questions can transform your entire approach. In this episode: Why spray and pray PR never works (and why agencies do it anyway)  The two questions that should sit behind every PR dec...

Small business PR strategist Pippa Goulden shares her Q1 reflections: what she's seeing working in her own business and in the businesses of the founders she works with, and what that means for the rest of 2026. In this episode: What's not working anymore, and why doubling down on it isn't the answer Why playing the long game is the strategy that's actually paying off right now...

Think you don't do PR? Think again. In this episode Pippa makes the case that most established founders are already doing PR -  they just don't know it, aren't calling it that, and definitely aren't making it work hard enough for them. In this episode: What PR actually is (and why it's nothing like what most people think) The PR activities you're probably already doin...

The last few episodes we've talked about what's holding you back. Today we're flipping it. Because PR and authority building IS working -  and I've got the evidence to prove it. In this episode Pippa dives into what's actually changing for the founders who are making PR a core part of their growth strategy. Not the theory. The real, practical business impact-  that goes fa...

How I turned two strategic PR opportunities into months of authority, content and credibility (and how you can do the same) Most people think PR is one and done. You get press coverage, you post about it, you move on.  But the founders getting the best results from their PR? They're doing something completely different. In this episode I'm sharing two real examples from my own business —...

Your Authority Gap - What Your Clients Are Really Looking For (Before They Buy From You) Your ideal clients aren't making buying decisions from your Instagram anymore. They're doing their research. They're deep diving. They're looking for proof you're the real deal. In this episode, I share what happened when I needed to sort my dodgy back - and the full vetting process I...

If you've ever wondered whether doing the work on your PR actually makes a difference to your business, this episode is your answer. Nicola Pye is The Leadership Coach and People Person who works with founders and senior leaders of purposeful businesses. After 20+ years at EY she set up on her own and has had a pretty incredible year, launching her own thought leadership initiative The Purpos...

In this episode Small biz PR strategist Pippa Goulden looks at the key thing that's holding you back from positioning yourself as a go-to expert in your industry and building your authority.  In this episode: Why the real barrier to authority isn't credentials or strategy - it's internal What it's costing you every week you don't position yourself as THE expert The shift t...