Fireside

In today’s episode I am just thrilled to be talking Sasha Glasgow of Frank and Feel - writer, doubter, doer. Sasha is one of my favourite writers on Instagram and to be honest I just wanted an excuse to have a conversation with her -  but what a conversation it was. We talk about how she started out with an intention to be a candle brand before heeding the call of the words, the empowerment of sha...

Hello and welcome to Episode 102 of Grow with Soul. Today is a Q&A episode, with a focus on motivation, focus, and how things work out. Some of the questions I'm answering are ones that we didn't quite get to in the 100th episode, and they're slightly more personal ones, and there are some others which you submitted on Instagram, which are about being able to focus, and a lack of motivation. Let's...

Today is a coaching episode with Mariana Gomes a writer and founder of Ok What’s The Next Step. Mariana started her website after feeling a lack of creativity in her life and wanting to connect to others in a similar place. In this episode we talk about how to get more people to find you when you don’t have a large Instagram following, trusting the process while being pro-active, finding ways to s...

100 episodes feels like a big deal for someone with trouble sticking to things and always coming up with new ideas, so I wanted to do something a little celebratory. Today, I am being interviewed by my good friend Lawrence Toye. As well as having the auspicious honour of being the first man on the podcast, Lawrence is a personal development coach who facilitates events and festivals, and also know...

Today I want to talk about time. At the beginning of every year I do a survey, kindly filled out by my newsletter subscribers and some of my Instagram audience. This year I took all the responses to the question ‘what is your biggest challenge’, and I could see that the word used the most as a challenge was ‘time’ - it’s something we’re clearly all feeling acutely at the moment. This is why my fir...

Today is a coaching episode with Kimberly 國子 Taylor-Pestell an artist and illustrator who has been selling greetings cards and paper goods both directly and wholesale for three years. Like so many businesses, Kimberly was forced into a pivot in 2020 and has been running virtual creative retreats and finding a lot of joy in it. Now she wants to work out how to better integrate her reactive pivot...

Today I wanted to look at value. The truth is that ‘value’ is more multi-layered than it at first seems - there is the identifying it, the believing it, and then the applying of it. Understanding your value is not just important for your marketing going forward, but really knowing and believing in your value can also help to highlight the right direction for you and where you can best serve others...

Hello and welcome to episode 96 of Grow With Soul. Today is a coaching episode with Agnes Becker of We Are Stardust. Craving less time in front of a computer and more mud in her life, science communicator Agnes started We Are Stardust as a way to bring to life the wonder of science and nature through prints and greetings cards. She now finds herself at a place where she wants to grow the business...

Hello, and welcome to episode 95 of Grow With Soul - and to the first episode of 2021! Today’s episode is in two parts. The first part of this episode is a recording of my Goals, Intentions and Word Of The Year blog post, unsurprisingly sharing what my goals are for this year and where my focus is - after sharing my End Of Year Thoughts like this I found be a really lovely and intimate way to shar...

For the last three years I have published an End Of Year Review. They have always been some of my favourite things to read and my favourite things to write – a chance to share everything that happened behind the scenes that made up the whole year. This year, however, is a little different. This year there are too many untied loose ends, too many still misplaced hopes and too much not processed tha...

Today is a coaching episode with Katie Ford-Thomas of Fen & Field Magazine. Katie grew Fen & Field from an idea sparked from a documentary to a fully fledged print magazine in a year, and now, two issues in, finds herself at the point of needing to level up. Having grown an Instagram following and newsletter audience organically, she’s now feeling stuck of how to move it all forward and broaden th...

Today I have lots of your questions that you submitted on Instagram that I’m going to answer. It is perhaps a sign of the times that there seemed to be a trend of uncertainty through all your questions - just a hint of worry and feeling stuck - so I hope today can be a comforting episode that gives you a few new jumping off points. I’m covering overthinking, email sequences, decision-making, chann...

Today is a coaching episode with Lucy Moakes of Lulubell Tents. After growing an events business for five years, the events of 2020 provided Lucy with the opportunity, and necessity, of pivoting and starting up the shop venture she’d been thinking about for two years. Today we talk about how that experience has been emotionally and practically, talking about how to think about adding new things to...

When you have a problem in your business, whether that's with getting going or making a big decision, we want the magic answer and a system to follow, not to have to turn inwards. The Inward Attainment Map is the best of both worlds, providing a structure to help you work out the answers you need. In today’s episode, I wanted to talk through the Inward Attainment Map methodology and how you can st...

Today is a coaching episode with Lynne Davies-Crane, a coach living and working in tune with nature. Lynne officially started her business earlier this year, and while she has booked a few clients she doesn’t feel like she’s gaining traction or building community, and knows she’s over-relying on Instagram. In this really practical episode we talk about how to position your content to help people f...

Today I’m talking with Cait Flanders, the author of The Year of Less and the new book, Adventures in Opting Out . I wanted to get Cait on the show because she really represents a way of doing things differently and writes around taking aligned control of your life. Today we talk about all sorts of things, like taking not-perfect steps into self-employment, the realities of being a self-employed au...

Today I want to talk about launching, whether it’s a new service, digital product, or physical product. I know there are many podcast episodes and resources out there about launching with all the tips and tricks about how to have a massively successful launch. But I know that they can feel a little out of reach or out of touch. I’ve listened to podcasts where someone talks through the step by step...

Today is a coaching episode with Kelsey Mech, a therapist working online and in-person in Canada. Kelsey’s business has grown and matured exceptionally quickly, and she now finds herself a little burnt out, needing to make things more sustainable and wanting to get a bit more of the joy and excitement back - a feeling I know well. In this episode we talk about pivoting a business model and balanci...

Today I’m doing a deep dive into one of the things I’m asked about most often - identifying your ideal customer. This is one of those things that you know you’re supposed to do, you know it will crack a code for you and help you to know what to do next, yet you always feel like there’s a secret you’re missing and you’ve not quite got it right. If this is something you want to uncover a little more...

Today is a coaching episode with Charlotte Holroyd of Creative Wilderness, a designer who creates branding for conscious and ethical businesses. Charlotte has grow her design studio to a full roster of design clients, but with a few hectic years under her belt and the purchase of a camper van, she’s craving a way to reduce her client load and have her business enable a more remote style of working...

Lately, I’ve been working on my thought leadership. Working on these things hasn’t been something that I have ever really done consciously. I think it’s been fair to say I’ve been in a test and learn mode - being confronted with problems from clients and students and coming up with ways to help those problems, and those ways, when they work, become subsumed into the canon of things I know how to h...

Today I’m in conversation with Sara Tasker, who you will undoubtedly know and love as the business and Instagram brain behind Me & Orla and podcast and book Hashtag Authentic. After the release her book last year, Sara went off the grid for months and re-emerged with a brand new programme different to what she’s done before - and I have been dying to know exactly how that came about behind the sce...

A week or so again I did an Ask Me Anything on Stories, and a question that came up more than once was “how do you find your niche?”. I found I couldn’t quite put into a couple of paragraphs what I think about niching, and as a few people had asked I thought it might be worth doing a podcast episode on niching - so here we are. I think niching is something that comes up over and over again in your...

Today is a coaching episode with Bex Massey, the founder of Bramble & Fox, an online hygge store. After a brief hiatus, Bex is putting the shop lights back on and is struggling with managing her time around her family and knowing where her precious time and energy is best spent. In this episode we talk about creating processes and rhythms in the business, how to radically prioritise tasks, perfect...

Today I want to talk about self-trust. I have jumped into some many decisions and ideas without it ever occurring to me to check whether I actually wanted to do them - and as a result I’ve felt stuck and sad that my business reality doesn’t live up to my business daydreams. Because it is supposed to feel better than this. The pressure, the worry, the actions taken out of panic or uncertainty, the...