Dare To Be Brave with Joy Foster

If you’re trying to build a business without a social media presence, it’ll probably feel like you’re trying to scale Mount Everest. To launch any successful business today, you must be on social media. You need it to help you grow your mailing list and get your offer out into the world. So when Joy Foster sees women quitting social media and never getting their businesses off the ground because o...

If you’ve ever felt the fear of putting yourself on social media, you’ll totally relate to Kate Bird’s story. Before TechPixies, Kate wasn’t really on social media and felt hamstrung by an industry where credibility is everything (and you can lose it in a heartbeat). 😨 Intent on creating a movement for change, Kate decided to feel the fear and do it anyway, creating a podcast on decolonising deve...

Sometimes, we just want things to be easy. Whether it’s pressing option 1, then 3, then 5, then star, then hash, then spending hours on hold waiting to speak to a human or trying to pay for parking via an app that won’t recognise your number plate, tech that’s supposed to help make life easier can feel anything but. 🤯 It’s why TechPixies has been on an eight-year mission to make social media simp...

If you’ve tried to return to full-time work after having a baby, you’ll know what a struggle the juggle is. Pulled in 50 million different directions, you’re left wondering how long it’ll be before AI can create a clone of yourself so you can be in two places at once. 🤖 Or you feel so much like the walking dead you become one of the 85% of women who leave their jobs after having children. 🤯 But...

Two years ago, seeing a cancer story on TV left Dawn Taylor in tears. But she is in a much stronger place now. So much so that she’s ready to share her story and wants others to know it’s possible to sparkle and thrive after a breast cancer diagnosis. ✨ On 1 October 2023, Dawn launched her personal brand photography business and will see out the month by celebrating 5 years clear from breast canc...

What do you do when you feel like you’ve lost yourself? 😟 Especially when ill health has kept you out of the workplace for more than a decade and your drive and ambition have been sapped. Katie Robson is proof that even though prolonged illness can rob you of your sparkle, it can also light a fire of raging desire for life. And once Katie was well enough, she wasted no time pursuing her dream of...

Imagine as a seven-year-old waving goodbye to everything you knew – your friends, your toys, your dog, your education – to set sail in a wooden-hulled schooner on the pretence of recreating a voyage undertaken by Captain James Cook. Life at sea might initially sound exciting, exhilarating even. But a dream can quickly become a nightmare when it involves the jeopardy of sailing west to east across...

Four years ago, Mildred Talabi was recovering from a month-long stay in hospital having been diagnosed with a brain tumour. And like most major life events, it forced her to take stock… of everything. Today, Mildred is living life LARGE. 🔥 She runs a hugely successful business teaching women how to create visible and profitable personal brands and businesses through the power of LinkedIn. And she...

If saying the word bookkeeping is enough to have you diving back under the duvet, or letters like P&L and HMRC bring you out in a cold sweat, you need Emma Middleton in your life. An an accountant and bookkeeper, she’s a number cruncher – she eats numbers for breakfast and finds finances fun (we know! 😂). But Emma knows that not everyone feels the same, so she’s on a mission to make it super...

“If the sign of success is the number of failures you have, I’m well on my way to success.” - Joy Foster Every good business owner is like one of those Weebles. However hard you try and knock them down, they’ll always spring back up. And if you’ve ever wondered what it takes to set up and run a successful business, strap yourselves in! This is undoubtedly the most raw and open episode Joy Foster h...

Cassie O’Hanlon is the queen of the pivot. 🔄 A major health scare and the death of her father initially proved to Cassie that her future as an English teacher no longer lay in the classroom. But when the third strike – the pandemic – arrived to disrupt her 1:1 tutoring business, she knew she needed to pivot online. It’s a move that opened the door to a world of possibilities and had Cassie asking...

Being a parent isn’t always plain sailing. 🚣🏽‍♀️ Some kids will be rushing back to school to coo over how many bottles of PRIME they’ve been able to snag over the summer hols or show off their new air up water bottle (anyone else been pestered for this yet?), while others will be pulling the duvet over their heads wishing school wasn’t a thing. 🛌🏽 And if you’re on the receiving end of a child...

How do you differentiate yourself in a crowded market? And how do you ensure your potential customer understands who you are and what you stand for? For book coach Ann Sheybani, one of the best ways to tell your customers more about you (and get them to open their wallets to you) is in the pages of your own business book. 📘 But before you get too excited as you remember the rush of seeing your na...

You take time out to fulfil the dream of becoming a parent and love it. 💕 But in the time you’ve been dashing about becoming pals with Peppa Pig, the world moves on, and suddenly, the route back to work feels like climbing Everest in your flip-flops. For Ella Hoyos, a seven-year career break left her confidence, self-esteem and sense of worth in the gutter, replaced instead by a major case of ANT...

Your message is waaaay more important than your fear of putting it out there. 💪🏽 So if the idea of sitting at a mic telling the world what you think is enough to bring you out in hives, we know just the man to help change your perspective. Podpreneur Alex Chisnall hosts the brilliantly titled Screw It Just Do It podcast (listened to in more than 180 countries) and has helped heaps of entrepreneu...

Ooh, this episode is juicy! Our chief TechPixie Joy has been doing social media longer than social media’s been around (true fact. She went to the school that inspired Mark Zuckerberg to create ‘The Facebook’). And in a world that likes to move faster than a sailfish, it’s reassuring to know that a few golden nuggets of social media have stood the test of time. But because we know what it’s like t...

Unless you’re very lucky, the path to happiness in life is usually a little squiggly. Ok, let’s get real! Sometimes the path can be as winding and bendy as Mr Tickle’s arms, can’t it? And if you’re in a job that doesn’t light you up, it can feel like you’re stuck in quicksand. If you can relate, you’ll love Louise Bailey’s story. As a student in one of our first cohorts, Louise is a TechPixie OG a...

⭐ Trigger warning: this episode discusses workplace bullying and stillbirth. If you are affected by any of the issues raised, please head to your website for details of organisations that can offer support . Redundancy, the death of her parents, moving house, menopause, and a lifetime of mental health issues created a perfect storm for Jo Fentiman. And after picking herself up after a breakdown l...

From losing a business she loved in the pandemic and dealing with breast cancer to finding a new business opportunity and helping her transgender son come out as his authentic self, Lorraine Croom has achieved heaps in the past couple of years. In fact, if you need some motivation to slay the second half of the year, pop this podcast in your lugholes over a lunchtime wander, and you’ll get your mo...

If your view of a company board of directors is a load of men sitting around in suits talking stats, this is exactly why Sarah Pierman from Dymanic Boards is on the podcast this week. 🕴️ She’s on a mission to show women the benefits of becoming a board member, whether as a non-executive director, a charity trustee, a company secretary, chair of a subcommittee, a senior independent director or even...

Getting in the right headspace goes a long way to helping you get to where you need to be. But how do you become the master of your thoughts so they work for you, not against you? How do you get out of your own way? Well, there’s a formula for that. 👏🏽 And trust us, even if the word formula is enough to make you want to put your head back under the duvet, this is super simple to follow. It’s jus...

If you’re between 45 and 55, chances are life is throwing you the odd curveball or two. The classic scenario is waking up in the middle of the night and throwing off the duvet because you feel like you’re sweating your way through the Sahara Desert. But if you’re also experiencing heart palpitations, joint pain, dry eyes, weight gain, brain fog, anxiety or even depression, you’ll know that perimen...

If you’ve ever read a job description and had to run off to a dark room (you know what we mean! You find your dream job, read the criteria and decide you don’t meet it all, so don’t bother applying), this episode is for you. 🤯 Because if you want to go from where you are now to where you’d love to be, there is a small but oh-so-mighty word you can use to help you get there. Just ask Jane Hyde. Sh...

Are you codependent? How can you tell if you’re in a codependent relationship? And what even is codependency anyway? 🤷 All questions the brilliant Maria Wybrow tackles in this eye-opening podcast episode. Because if you seek the approval of others as a fixer, rescuer or people pleaser, place your self-worth in the hands of others and perhaps even compromise your values and integrity in the proces...

⭐ Trigger warning: this episode deals with the loss of a child and the resulting mental health challenges. If you are affected by any of the issues raised, check out the links at TechPixies.com of organisations that can offer support. Going through a bereavement is a challenging time for anyone, but experiencing the loss of a child can be particularly painful – especially when that pain is compou...