RE: The Podcast

In this chunk's - and 2021's - penultimate episode, we thought we'd have a bit of a sentimental one reflecting on the year gone by, and look at what it brought us and how we felt it went. Then, we thought we'd look forward to 2022, and what we're hoping it will bring! Plus, for each half we took a prompt from the Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022 journal from Project Love (out now.)  Grab your tickets...

It’s been a long couple of years for us business owners -- the elf-employed if you will! We're SO proud of everything you’ve achieved and with that in mind, we’ve decided to throw a party for small business owners who want a chance to relax and unwind with the people who well and truly GET it. So join us, Rachel Waring & Ellie Kime, alongside our pal Alice Benham, fellow business owner and podcast...

With Black Friday (and Black Thursday, and Cyber Monday, and all the crew) just round the corner, you might be thinking about your sales strategy. Discount codes, money off, slashed prices - these are all the traditional ways big businesses advertise on Black Friday. But is this the way it has to be for small businesses too? We chat about the pros and cons of Black Friday, as well as some alternat...

We're huge fans of Nina & Recess Living, so we had pretty high expectations when we interviewed her - which she absolutely smashed! We could have chatted all day (and it probs felt like we did - sorry Nina) about her approach to self-care for creatives, mindfulness, and 'meditation for do-ers'. If you're the kind of person who finds it hard to sit still but knows they need to spend time relaxing,...

HARK! What's this? Is it a bird, is it a plane? No! It's FINALLY an episode on enthusiasm from Ellie?!  To celebrate the launch of her VORACIOUS magazine Kickstarter campaign, The Enthusiast herself thought she'd chat about how to stay enthusiastic about your business. When you do what you love, it can be easy to think your enthusiasm will always be there - and then if it wanes slightly (whic...

Can you hear Rachel's squeals from here? Because it's BRAIN STUFF TIME! This week we're delighted to be chatting to Daniel Aherne, founder of Adjust Services, whose mission is to start the Neurodiversity conversation in every workplace. They focus specifically on ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia & Dyspraxia, but this episode is a must listen for everyone on how to work with your own brain, and how to make l...

Today we're joined by the wonderful Aiza, founder of Studio Coya, to discuss rebranding - how do you know when it's time? How do you go about it? What's the difference between a refresh and a full rebrand?  Plus Aiza brought alllll the food metaphors (bring snacks!) and Rachel used the word "squeeze" about 250000000 times. ENJOY!

WE'RE BACK! And, just like The Lonely Island, we're on a BOAT. We were thrilled to record this episode on The Boat Pod in Little Venice, where we were really leaning into the fresh start feeling of this time of year. New podcast block, new quarter, not-quite-new season BUT new weather as the temperature drops - so we decided to apply a little back-to-school vibin' to our businesses!

And an update as we take a slightly earlier than planned month off from the shopoddypoddy. 

TODAY we had an absolute treat talking to Katie Phillips, a coach & trainer specialising in helping business owners combat, come back from, and ultimately prevent burnout. With personal experience of burnout, from the minor to the major, Katie helps ambitious but stressed people protect their brilliant brains. Whether you've burnt out before, you're on the brink of it now or you know it could be r...

Live video has many formats: instagram lives, facebook lives, workshops in real time, and more. It's such a powerful tool for your business, but for so many business owners it can feel absolutely terrifying - so how can you get over the fear & get started on it? We chat through our tips and what's helped us from the early days (of nearly accidentally showing our bum on camera) to now (going live w...

Ellie's pushing ahead with her self-coined JFDI July - so warning, there's swearing from the very titular top of this episode! And today we thought we'd talk more about the whole idea of Just F'ing Doing The Thing. Why do we having to-do lists bursting with items that we simply cannot tick off? Why do we avoid doing the little things that we know will make us feel better? How can we try and get in...

Pretty much the last thing we did pre-p*ndemic last year was go to one of (then) she can she did's Midweek Mingles - and now, 16 months later, we had the pleasure of chatting to founder Fi on the pod. Since then, she's rebranded to can.did. ( well that rhyme is satisfying), in the process launching a networking platform that focuses on the power of honest conversations with the people who want to...

This interview was a loooong   time in the scheduling, and we're so so glad we finally got to sit down with the wonderful Gemma and Kelly from Songbird Sessions, and talk about what it's like to go into business with your best friend. We loved hearing all about how they started, what's made it work, and how singing prepared them for their next chapter together, plus how their story both refle...

Welcome to Season 4! Hurrah! GOD we're happy to see ya. We've clearly had a very reflective month off, as we return with a chat all about the cyclical and seasonal nature of owning a business. All inspired by a chat about how we need to stop beating ourselves up when we don't post on Pinterest/instagram, we talk about the natural cycles, structural cycles and more that are at play in entrepreneuri...

Not that we have an overinflated sense of self-worth, but with a month off looming ahead of us, this last episode is the equivalent of the Pyramid Stage's Sunday Headliner at Worthy Farm. Luckily, our brilliant guest today is more than worthy: Olivia Knight, founder of Patchwork, came to talk to us (virtually) about the concept of new business showers. Why don't we celebrate business milestones li...

In this episode, we thought we'd bring you behind the scenes of our branding and content creation shoot, which we're having done right now in real time! It's been something we've been dreaming of doing for a while, and today's the day - so we wanted to explain the inspiration, the logistics, and the planning that's gone into it...

Today we chat to self belief business coach Anna Dunleavy about limiting beliefs. It's a word we've heard bandied about on the 'gram so much recently - but what are they? And how do we cultivate self belief as business owners in the face of them?

YOU ASKED AND WE LISTENED! And selfishly thought about what we know *we* need, and boy the answer is Ella Nobre-Watts of Whimsicella. As a copywriter and social media expert, she noticed a gaping hole in the hashtag strategy of innovative, creative, forward-thinking businesses. So, she created a diverse hashtag database of over 2,000 (!!!). We chatted to her about general best practices with hasht...

Today's episode is for those of you who, like Ellie, are nosey about people's past jobs. We rattle through the positions we had before we got to today's point on our career journeys, and discuss what we can see that we learnt from each experience, with the beauty of time, space, and that ol' chestnut of hindsight. Though it may not have felt like it at the time, each job taught us a different less...

We had a HOOT chatting to Jess and Nat, the dynamic duo & ultimate dream team behind the award-winning Mac & Moore. At the start of this year they started a Clubhouse series called Creative Thieves, based on a Jim Jarmusch quote about authenticity, originality, and where we get inspiration from, and we loved that idea so much we wanted to chat about it. We may also have got exceptionally giddy at...

Over the years our relationships with our social media accounts have evolved - where once we were obsessed with likes, we're now slightly less attached to those vanity metrics, and prefer to focus on engagement because it's where the real community lies. Today we're talking through some different ways to maximise your presence on these apps and increase your engagement on social media - but we pro...

On the podcast before we've talked about how best to manage our time, but today we zoom out even further - on how to decide what to focus our precious hours on in the first place. Being a business owner is having to wear 25000 hats all at once, so which are the most important?! We chat through what we do to make sense of it all.

Hey friends! Did you miss us? We missed you FOR SURE. For the first episode back after our mini self-imposed break, we thought we'd check in with what you've missed (spoiler alert: nothing much, we're still in a pandemic) and some of the deeper mindset shifts we've dealt with in the past few weeks. Rachel analyses what her (very!) successful launch taught her to take forward, and Ellie muses on th...

I know we say this all the time but hoooo boy do we have a treat for you today. Today, we're joined by the wonderful Dominique from Dmarz Designs, a designer who specialises in strategy-driven branding, website design and handlettering for smaller businesses. Basically, Dominique is an expert in an area we have absolutely no idea about, but we desperately want to know more about - and she definite...