RE: The Podcast

Welcome to Season 5! For our first episode of the season, we wanted to revisit a topic we last discussed in spring 2019 - email marketing. What's changed since then? How do we look at email marketing now? How do we feel about it as small business owners vs consumers? We chat through it all!

Planning a launch is one of those things that looks SO shiny on the outside, you might have no idea what goes on behind the scenes. Luckily, we break it down for you in today's episode, inspired by Rachel's handy Launch Planner Template (coming soon!) So whatever you've got planned, whether it's a product or service, these steps will help you get started. (but don't worry - you can pick and choose...

If what you're searching for is an episode jampacked full of tips on how to hack TikTok and immediately go viral -- this episode might not be for you. But if you want an honest conversation between two small business owners who've been experimenting on the platform lately, then we think it'll suit you perfectly! -- This episode was sponsored by Adbot! Check out their Google Ads services at myadbot...

Today's guest is Stephanie Weekes, founder of @stephgetssocial. She's a freelance social media manager -- but what does that mean? We dug into her role, including what she can do for you - from shooting the content to checking analytics - and how it works, because we know so many people dream of outsourcing social media. We also talked about the joy of social media, keeping the 'social' aspect of...

One of the best things about this podcast (other than you, dear listeners) is that Rachel and I have opposite approaches to most things. The topic of today's chat is no different: when it comes to social media, Rachel prefers the energy of content creation around a launch, whereas Ellie much prefers the energy of content creating around more evergreen offerings. What's the mindset shift required?...

This week we're back with Part 2 of our lil deep dive into feeling like we might be addicted to work. (Haven't listened to Part 1 yet? Check out last week's episode!) In a 1:1 session with Chloe Slade, Chloe suggested Rachel trial a 4 hour working day; so that's what she did. Whether that sounds like your dream scenario and you want to know how she did it -- or it sounds like hell and you're grote...

Today we're diving straight in with Rachel's Holiday Epiphany (which was, interestingly enough, the alternative title for this episode...)  Have you ever thought that you might be addicted to work? We both have, for sure. And that's what we're talking about today: that gnawing, clawing anxiety you feel when you take a break or go on holiday. We chat through our experiences of it, and what we...

As the midpoint of the year will escape us due to the break, we thought we'd check in with our yearly intentions. How are we doing? What's working? What's not working so well? What have we learnt so far? What else would we add? See you in a month! In the meantime, you can buy VORACIOUS here , and sign up to The Spark here .

Kimba Cooper is a gamification specialist, who works with businesses to help them get results - ethically. If you don't know what gamification is, don't worry - she goes into it fully in the episode! But essentially, it's a fascinating motivation tool with so many applications in small business and general life too. If you want to see the world totally differently - press play!

Tumbleweeds in the sales department can be scary, and the default reactions can be panic and or despair. These are totally understandable reactions, but today we wanted to give you a helping hand with some other things to do when the going gets tough and sales are slow - think of it as a virtual hug, with some whispered advice too! 

Do you know your brand's tone of voice? Have you ever thought about it? Having an idea of your tone of voice can make it a lot easier to write content, copy, captions and more for your business, and it can even help your visuals too! Here's how you can find it...

In today’s episode, we have the absolute pleasure of chatting to Le’Nise Brothers, founder of Eat Love Move. As the author of You Can Have A Better Period (and host of the Period Story podcast), yoga teacher at Frame, and registered nutritionist, we knew we wanted to chat to her all about holistic health as small business owners (and, just as, human beings!) A huge part of what she talked about wa...

Today we welcome website designer and copywriter Alice Writes Copy to talk all things websites! Alice has a holistic approach to website design that blew our minds (in the best way). It was so good, in fact, that we nearly didn't edit this podcast in time to release it, instead very nearly choosing to just implement her wisdom on our own sites. But we didn't do that, because we love you!!!  A...

Ah, productivity - you're a cruel mistress. As two small business owners who love learning and getting the most out of every day, for so long we've been searching for productivity hacks that will finally allow us to perfect our day. But we've decided we're calling time on 'productivity' as we know it: and instead of focusing on maximising output, we're gonna focus on maximising input. Instead of d...

Content creation can be stressful at the best of times, but at the moment you might be feeling some definite ~ vibes ~ where it's feeling even worse!! Today we're chatting all about what to do when it feels like that: how to still show up for your business (if you want to), in a way that feels good for you (which is a must-do!) We talked to some of our brilliant podcast pals, including Vix Meldrew...

To round off the first podcast section of this year, we finished with one of our favourite people in the whole entire world: Sasha Glasgow from Frank+Feel. She's a writer and host of journaling workshops, and we had the pleasure of chatting all about journaling, morning routines, and how she looks out for the prompts and words that resonate. Sasha was frank, heartfelt, and brilliant - we hope you...

If you often look at the world of business coaching and advice, and think - but this just doesn't feel like it's ME - then we think you'll love this episode. As a gentle visibility coach, Suzy Darke helps women run soulful, tender-hearted small businesses that want to connect and make impact in a way that works for them. Suzy is full to the brim with brilliant analogies, permission slips, and wisd...

Today we're joined by lovely Laura Jane, of Laura Jane Illustrations & Hello Happee. We chat all about how a personal interest in self-care led to 270k people following her on instagram for her mindful creativity and illustration (spoiler alert: it's wholesome af.) But it's also real, and amongst other things she introduces us to her idea of restorative self-care and  energetic  self-car...

We know, we know. You can't believe your eyes! Finally, the episode about Profit First has finally landed! Well, just you wait til your ears get round to it...we hope you enjoy it! We've mentioned Mike Michalowicz's Profit First many a time on the podcast, but today we deepdive on how Rachel implemented it in her biz as a real life case study, and how it's helped transform her business finance. LE...

Say hello to today's guest, the wholesale wizard - otherwise known as Therese Ørtenblad, founder of Small Business Collaborative! If you're curious about whether wholesale would work as a next step for your small business, she has the answer. We chatted about what types of business suit wholesale best, how to get started, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls. Plus, why Therese thinks it's an idea...

Sound the returning guest klaxon! Nerrisa Pratt is back on the pod. We first had her on as the founder of creative PR company Untld Project, but today she's come back as serial crafter, sewist, and founder of the Bargello Edit. We had a really wonderful chat with her all about the creation and publication of her book (oh yeah, did we mention she has a craft book? *Nails emoji*), how she uses craft...

Whether you grew up on the business book fodder of the 90s and 00s or the Buzzfeed quizzes of the 00s and 10s - we're all gluttons for finding out our personality types. We share our results from 4 different personality tests, and discuss the valuable insights for our business that we got from each - as well as the limitations of what they offered us. Take the tests yourself and let us know what y...

Happy New Year! 2022, here we, here we, here we go... Before we kick off the new year proper, we wanted  to take a moment to reflect on 2021 and the Small Bizmas Party we hosted in December alongside our brill small biz pal, Alice Benham.  Today the 3 of us are listening to the wins you recorded for us at the event, and taking some time to celebrate everything YOU achieved in such a chal...

For the FINAL episode of 2021, we thought we'd hand the decision making over to you! Last week we asked for your subject requests, and lovely listener Hanna asked us to talk about some of the instances when our perspectives on something totally shifted over time. We talk about starting new, scary projects, talking to camera, presenting in workshops, slimming offerings down, going back to learning,...