Dare To Be Brave with Joy Foster

Freedom. Whether it’s time or financial freedom, we’d all love to live our lives with more free time and money in the bank. 👌🏼 But too many of us are stuck with our noses to the grindstone, thinking a never-ending cycle of eat, sleep, work a gazillion hours, repeat, is the only way to achieve this. 🤯 So we called up Lois Cox, a TechPixie who has created a business that allows her to work flexib...

If your relationship with money feels a bit like the Nemesis Reborn ride at Alton Towers, we’ve got something to help you hit the brakes on your financial roller coaster. 🎢 Our chief TechPixie Joy Foster is here with a fly solo episode that offers a few top money tips and tricks usually reserved for participants in our Money Mindset Masterclass. 🧠 And the good news is that if you’ve ever wondere...

Say the word ‘brand’, and what pops into your head? Amazon? Apple? Coca-Cola?   How about you and your business? 😱 For TechPixie Julia Heffer, thinking about you and your business as a brand from the outset is the key to success. In fact, building an authentic brand is a business fundamental and goes way beyond a logo and a great-looking social media feed.  Get your branding right, and you’ll put...

‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ 🌈 It’s the question every kid gets asked at some point, an invitation to dream about the life you could live – and sometimes, it’s the start of something special. At 10, Carolyn Hayter was told fashion design could be a route for her creative talents. However, after marrying young and starting a family, buying a house and making it home ignited a passion...

There’s a crisis in Fairyland 😰 But never fear because The Wobblies are here to save the day. 😃 These tooth fairies in training are the brainchild of Denise Fishburn and are the realisation of a dream that began 25 years ago. So we’ve invited Denise onto the podcast to reveal how these super fun characters came to be and how they’re now the foundation for an exciting new business. 🙌🏽 Here’s wh...

Stucksville. It’s a place no one wants to be.  But unless you’re super lucky, you’ve probably had a moment in life when you weren’t sure what you should be doing next. 😕 For Kay Holdsworth, this moment arrived after the emotional rollercoaster of a spell in hospital with her son. And when anxiety took hold, Kay not only felt lost but like she was surviving, not thriving. As Kay says, she was in s...

To paraphrase Reese Witherspoon, who started her hugely successful production company in her 40s, you should bet on yourself because you are your own best lottery ticket. 🎫 This is especially true in a job market as volatile as the British weather right now. So when TechPixie Paula Campion Skerry came to us and said she was super keen to show her fellow TV execs exactly how to navigate an industr...

Want to know what it takes to be a successful social media manager? 💡 When Lucy Johnstone started our Social Media Management Certification programme, she wrote down a number she wanted to earn each month. So we were super chuffed when Lucy started smashing that number out of the park having become an Insta Ninja. Her expert Instagram skills have seen her attract 8 clients to her social media man...

If you’ve become a parent, you’ll know how tough it can be to juggle a career with the demands of a family. 🤹🏽‍♀️ That’s why we need more women like Louise Webster in the world, who is on a mission to empower women by helping mums find balance and purpose in their lives beyond the school run. It’s a mission that’s taken her to Downing Street and seen her put pen to paper to write a book full of...

Be more Taylor Swift. Good advice for life, right? 💯 According to our new Insta Ninja Emma Leatham, the princess of pop’s approach to Instagram is something we should all get on board with. Because while trying to keep up with the changes and understand how the platform’s algorithm works can feel like patting your head and rubbing your tummy while hopping on one foot, Tay-Tay’s connection and eng...

Want to know what’s hot and what’s not on Facebook right now? You need to heed the advice of our social media marketing sage Vee Roberts. Because Meta loves to mix things up, and has already announced a major change to Facebook Groups that is a potential mare for users of third-party apps (such as a scheduling tool, for example). Luckily, Vee has heaps of advice to ensure you can do more in 2024 d...

Crikey! 😲 With over 1 billion active users and 20 changes to the platform dropped already this year, we love that LinkedIn is making waves. But if you’re already thinking, ‘I barely have time to wash my hair let alone keep up with LinkedIn’s tinkerings’, we’ve got you covered. Marianne Avery, our very own LinkedIn coach, has done the hard work of deciphering what’s hot and what’s not on LinkedIn...

Step away from the cat videos for a minute. 🐱 Because while we all love a good chuckle at cats or kids doing something cute, this podcast episode could be just what you need to grow your YouTube or TikTok channels this year. Yep, we’ve invited Aby Moore, our resident YouTube, TikTok and Social Media Management Certification Coach, back into the hot seat to spill the tea on the biggest YouTube and...

Trying to use social media without a strategy in place is like walking up Ben Nevis in flip-flops. It’s not impossible to make progress, but why would you want to make life difficult for yourself? And where do you start in creating a strategy that works? Especially when the pace of change in social media is quicker than a lizard on hot sand. 🦎 Fortunately, Joy Foster, our chief TechPixie, has dec...

If there’s anything guaranteed to shake you to the core, it’s divorce. For Tania Ross, it was utterly devasting, ripping away her career as a childminder, her home, and her mental wellbeing. 💔 Not that you’d know it to look at her today. Tania’s a purple-loving crochet queen who is smashing it out of the park as a copywriter, a peer educator supporting parents with neurodiverse kids AND a mentor...

If your Oodie or Hug n Snug is crawling to the washing machine because you’ve spent all winter hibernating in it, we’ve got the perfect replacement. Because, drum roll, please… TechPixies has launched its own stylish swag!!! 🥳 🎉💃🏼 Thanks to our pals Jess Christie and Hannah Walker, founders of hand-printed organic clothing brand Northern Brights, you can now get your mitts on a range of sweate...

Some days, wouldn’t it be great to be able to magic up a few extra hours? Especially when the juggle has gone properly Pete Tong, and there’s so much on your to-do list that you barely have time for a cup of tea (sacrilege). Esme Willis can relate. While her freelance role as a graphic designer gives her a degree of flexibility, she’s also running her late parent’s farm and has a gazillion jobs th...

How do you know when the time is right to do paid advertising? And how do you make a success of paid advertising when you’re ready to take the plunge? 🤷‍♀️ Fern Fuller has been on quite the journey at TechPixies (tune in to hear all her incredible wins), and she’s followed a clear roadmap to get her business ready for paid advertising. And it’s so good we wanted to share it. 🧭 Because no one wan...

🚫 “I never want to be on social media” 🚫 “I never want to launch a podcast” 🚫 “I never want to run my own business” Kirsty van den Bulk has said all of the above at some point in her life. And yet, after a squiggly career path that’s seen her appear in an advert for Heinz Baked Beans (it’s still out there, apparently), become an actor, work in retail and enjoy top jobs at some major tech firms,...

How do you achieve the life you love when the thing you want most isn’t something you can put a timestamp on? 🤔   This was the question that had Nicola Walsh in a spin. Because all the while she was focused on having another baby, she was putting other things in her life on hold. She needed to shift her mindset, and as one of the first to do our DreamBuilder® Program, she found a whole heap of to...

How do you make money doing something you love? Especially if you’re in an industry in which supposedly ‘only the lucky few’ make the £££. 💰 This was one question Lois Lelland was grappling with when she arrived at TechPixies. But having just recorded and mixed her debut EP, she was also struggling to know how to share it with the world. She thought social media might be the answer, but there was...

Doing something you love and getting paid for it – it’s the dream, isn’t it? 🌈 Catherine Speakman has taken her passion for the hidden corners of her home county of Dorset and her skill as a mapmaker (honed after working as a cartographer for the Ministry of Defence) and has, quite organically, grown a brilliant business. So whether you’re an avid rambler or someone who doesn’t know their moor fr...

Pants. Not something you’d imagine might give you the feel-good factor. But for our chief TechPixie Joy and pants champ Sarah Jordan of Y.O.U Underwear, pants should have a purpose. And they should be brave with a touch of sparkle. ✨ We’re always popping on our ‘brave pants’ here at TechPixies. But up until now, they’ve only ever been metaphorical (apart from appearing on a very cool fridge magne...

There’s a reason we call Paula Tadzik ‘Magic Tadzik’. And it isn’t just because whenever there’s a TechPixie in a tech pickle, she’s right there offering a helping hand. It’s because Paula saw redundancy after 17 years in the same job as an opportunity to make her dream of living and working abroad a reality. In fact, her vision was so clear that Paula and her family moved to the exact house she d...

Say the word ‘veteran’, and what do you see? An elderly gent with a lapel full of medals? 🎖️ As Kelley Austin, a former medic in the Royal Air Force, points out, you don’t immediately associate the word veteran with women. And that lack of visibility can be an issue, especially if you’re leaving a military career and wondering what the heck to do next. Because what do you do when you have to wave...