Fika With Friends

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In this episode, I'm joined by the incredible Joe Brookes, founder of Banner Department. During this episode, Joe shares his experience of starting a creative business and the importance of letting go of "what ifs" and risk aversion along the way. From exploring his first failed foray into entrepreneurship to where he is today, this is an hon...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In this episode, I'm joined by Lauren Isles, the founder of Lauren Jane Coaching and a personal coach working with women. During this episode, Lauren shares the importance of finding your inner coaching voice so you can find more clarity, balance, and ease within your life. This episode is fantastic look at how you can make your business dreams a reali...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In this episode, I'm joined by the amazing Oakley Hardwick who runs Forest Flow CrossFit. During this episode, Oakley shares his business journey along with all the decisions, twists, and turns along the way. This episode is fantastic look at how you can make your business dreams a reality, overcoming challenges, getting clear on what you want, and giv...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. This solo episode explores the power of tiny topics. Tune in as I share how you can use tiny topics to establish yourself as an expert in your niche. I hope you enjoy the podcast — don't forget to subscribe, leave a review and share with anyone business friends who you think might love this episode. ----- Let's connect: Tasmin (aka your host): ⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In today's episode, I'm joined by Naomi and Louise, co-founders of Lucky Night Studio During this episode, we chat about the importance of building a personality-packed business and how you can add more personality to your brand. We also dive into the design-side of using visuals to connect with people over your vibe. I hope you enjoy the podcast —...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In this chatty solo episode, I'm taking you on behind the scenes of my business as I share the three main investments I made in 2023 to drive my business forwards. I hope you enjoy the podcast — don't forget to subscribe, leave a review and share with anyone business friends who you think might love this episode. ----- Let's connect: Tasmin (ak...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In today's episode, I'm joined by Lucy Nichol. Lucy is an incredible author, having penned several non-fiction and fiction books. During this episode, we chat about Lucy's experience as an author. Her latest book, "No Worries If Not" leads up to discuss tendencies to people please, how to stop staying sorry and the challenges of toxic...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. As another business year draws to a close, I wanted to use today's episode to give you a little reminder and some hope for your business. In this solo episode of the podcast, I'm chatting about uncertainty and how you can embrace it and use it to take your business down a new, exciting route. So, if your business year didn't turn out quite as y...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. On this episode, I'm joined by Rachel Harris, the woman behind the AccountantShe brand and co-founder of accounting practice StriveX that she runs with her husband James. Rachel is shaking up the accounting industry as we know it. In this episode, Rachel opens up about her money mindset beliefs, how she's building a people-first business, the power...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. This solo episode is diving deep into the fun topic of girl math with a consumer psychology twist for your business - price anchoring! Price anchoring is a powerful technique for helping your customers see the value in your product and service prices. So, in this episode I share some examples of ways you can use price anchoring for your business to help ge...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. Today, I'm joined by the wonderful Victoria Jackson, founder of The Manifestation Collective, author, and soulful business coach. In this episode, we chat all about manifestation, Vic's personal spirtuality journey, what it means to run a soulful business, and so much more. Tune in for a heartwarming episode that's bound to leave you feeling en...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In today's episode we are chatting about personal branding. There is a lot of personal brand talk on LinkedIn but I feel it portrays it in a negative light. So, I wanted to share how you can build a personal brand that feels authentic, rather than one that feels fake or forced. I hope you enjoy the podcast — don't forget to subscribe, leave a revie...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In today's episode were diving into the topic of AI as we discuss some of the downfalls of AI and why it won't take over human writers (yet). I also share some ways you can use AI to benefit your writing process as a business owner, which is great for those on a budget who still want some content support. I hope you enjoy the podcast — don't fo...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. Today, I wanted to chat about goals. More specifically, the power in starting stupidly small and slowly chipping away at your goals... rather than, being overfaced and doing nothing at all. I hope you enjoy the podcast — don't forget to subscribe, leave a review and share with anyone business friends who you think might love this episode. P.S. Sorry if...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. I took an accidental unplanned hiatus from the podcast. The truth is, life got busy, I got overwhelmed, and I needed to put down some of the balls I was juggling as a busy, burnout solopreneur. In this episode, I catch you up on life and share my strategies for what you can do when life throws curveballs your way. I hope you enjoy the podcast — don't f...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. Money shouldn't be a taboo topic, and it's a conversation, I'm always happy having. Learning how to increase your rates as a service-based business owner is valuable. So, in today's episode, I'm sharing six strategies you can use to increase your rates and charge more in your business. Some of these are strategies I've personally tr...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. I am passionate about burnout and, more to the point, I'm passionate about putting a stop to burnout culture. It isn't counterproductive to our success, health, and general lives. So, in today's episode, I'm chatting all about burnout, along with how to spot the signs, how to stop it, and why we need to wave goodbye to burning out for the s...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. After a mini and unplanned hiatus, I'm back with another episode of Fika With Friends! In today's episode, I wanted to share my top tips for getting started as a freelance. In this episode, I will walk you through the seven things I think every freelancer needs to know at the start of their journey. I would love to hear your thoughts on this topic,...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In today's episode, I'm joined by the amazing Ceel Lockley. Ceels is a business mentor and offer strategist for freelancers and the founder of Fiercely Freelance. Ceels and I chat all about her experience building a business she loves, the vulnerabilities of business ownership, and the identity crisis that ensues when discovering who you are outside of you...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In this episode, I'm chatting about the direction you're heading in right now and why it's okay to change direction if your current destination no longer serves you. It's a bit of a short yet rambly one but I hope you enjoy diving into my inner-musings and thoughts on a topic that's close to my heart when it comes to running a business that makes you happy...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. This short (yet hopefully sweet) episode is musing on the idea of being a beginner as I explore how being starting new hobbies, trying new things, and embracing that beginner mindset can be good for you and your business. I hope you enjoy the podcast — don't forget to subscribe, leave a review and share with anyone business friends who you think might love...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In this episode, I'm talking all about goals —  why I used to hate new year resolutions, how I learnt to love them, and how I set goals for my personal and business life. I also share some of my 2023 goals so you can see what habits and achievements I'm prioritising for the year ahead. I hope you enjoy the podcast — don't forget to subscribe, leave a...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In this episode, I am joined by Rebecca Broad, or Bex, who is a freelance social media manager and writer.  During this episode, Bex and I chat about her experience as a freelancer and how she builds a business that reflects her values. Bex also shares her tips for working more efficiently and chats about her journey so far as a digital nomad living a...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. As we near the end of 2022, it's time to hold space for the year just passed and make plans for the new year that lays around the corner. In this episode I will walk you through my end of year reflection and review, taking you through each of the questions I ask myself as I reflect on 2022.  You can use this episode to have your own end of year reflec...

Welcome to the Fika With Friends podcast. In today's episode, I wanted to discuss a topic that I'm really passionate about and that is fear. It's so easy for our fears to consume us and hold us back from achieving our goals. So, in this episode, I wanted to explore the other side of fear and how we can use our fear to drive us forward and help us reach new heights of success in our businesses and...