Dare To Be Brave with Joy Foster

Try this Money Mindset brain prime and change the way you think about money for the better.  But before you do, you might want to listen to Episode 164 . In it, Joy Foster talks about how important it is for women to become financially independent and how you can put an action plan in place to help you achieve a more secure financial future. And it all starts with this brain prime. Tune in first t...

Raise your hand if you’ve ever said these words: 💰 “Money doesn’t matter that much to me.” 💰 “It’s not about the money.” Maybe you grew up in a house where your parents said ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ or ‘save your pennies for a rainy day’, or perhaps money wasn’t really mentioned at all. What you hear, think and feel about money is your money story, which, if you’re like most women, might ne...

If you find yourself at the top of the stairs wondering what you’ve gone up them for or you’re struggling to introduce friends you’ve known for years at a party, don’t worry! You don’t need to call Hercule Poirot to crack the case of the missing ‘little grey cells’. It’s simply the menopause doing what the menopause does best: creating havoc. 🤯 But if knowledge is power, one woman is determined t...

Rewind 20 years for a moment. ⏪ Britney and Justin broke up, everyone was talking about the Atkins diet, and a study dropped that would taint the perception of HRT for years to come. In fact, the scare it caused continues to be felt today, with plenty of women putting hormone replacement therapy on the ‘not for me’ pile. If that’s you, this week’s podcast guest is not here to try and persuade you...

Menopause. Until recently, it felt like it was brushed under the carpet. Sure, another drenching from night sweats and the befuddlement of brain fog might have been mentioned among friends, but it has been conveniently filed under ‘women’s problems’ by pretty much everyone else. But like a hot flash, menopause is finally creeping up to the top of the agenda (shout-out to Dr Louise Newson and Davin...

The online marketplace has made it waaaay easier to share your product or service with the world. But whether you’re selling yoga mats (namaste) or your services as a coach (yay!), you want to make sure you stand out from the crowd. Need a helping hand? It doesn’t matter if you’re sticking on a pair of brave pants and diving your first launch or your 500th, there is a formula to online launches th...

Who do you rely on for support? You know those moments when the self-doubt is creeping in and you’d rather do anything than post on social media? As humans, we can let the voice in our heads talk us out of anything. But when you’ve got hundreds of peeps cheering you on, it’s way more difficult to beat yourself up about a situation. So when Grace Mekomou had her own ‘arghhhh’ moment in her hair bus...

Whenever we have the opportunity to spend time with Eric Collins, it’s always GOLD. So when the venture capitalist and champion of underrepresented entrepreneurs rocked up at the Joy Book Club to discuss his new book We Don’t Need Permission: How Black Business Can Change Our World, we knew the chat was going to be one we would want to share on the podcast. But, wow! This episode is EPIC. The expe...

‘You don’t know what you don’t know’ is a phrase we often hear at Techpixies. And it’s because you might come through our door wanting to raise your profile through social media, but what you actually need is: 🤔 A mindset that will give you the confidence to use the tech skills we teach 🤔 A network of support that believes in what you’re doing and wants to help you achieve your goals 🤔 Virtual...

Benita Triffitt arrived at TechPixies wanting to learn social media and channel her fear of it into fun. But she soon discovered that upskilling in social media was only part of the puzzle in helping her thrive again. 🙌🏾 It’s been in our DreamBuilder® Program that Benita has made some major wins, and after looking at her health and welling, love and relationships, vocation and creative expressio...

If you’ve got a woo-woo-ometer, the mere mention of words like ‘vision statement’, ‘holding space’ or ‘DreamBuilding’ may have the needle heading for the red zone. But what if we told you that focusing on what you would love and making it a reality isn’t just pie-in-the-sky thinking? Take Rubyna Sheikh. She arrived at TechPixies not perplexed by what getting clarity on her future meant, but she ke...

For many women, life often gets in the way. You can be motoring along in a career, and then kids arrive, or looking after an elderly parent takes over, or illness interrupts your flow. And before you know it, a few years out of a career you loved stretches into more than a decade. Then one day, you realise that you want to do something for yourself, but even just the thought of getting back to wha...

“Warning! This could seriously change your life.” This is the line Fiona Sinclair comes out with when asked about her TechPixies’ experience, and we love it so much we think we might just pinch it as our new slogan. 😂 Because Fiona’s life has had quite the turnaround. She hasn’t just hung up her cleaning cloths to pursue a career as a copywriter; she’s also replaced a lifetime of internal negativ...

How did a pair of Nikes help Sharon Jones get her foot in the door of her first job? And how did that lead to her current role as head of digital innovation at The King’s Fund? If you’re looking for some advice on a career in digital and the steps you need to take to make it happen, you’ll want to carve out some time to listen to this episode. Because while you could fire off a gazillion CVs in a...

If you’re a woman from an ethnically diverse background and have faced the metaphorical ‘computer says no’ when it comes to your job hunt, you’ll know that the playing field is far from level. Yes, it’s difficult for women in today’s job market, but it’s especially tough for women who aren’t white, and studies across the board are enough to make you wonder why change is going at a snail’s pace. 🐌...

What makes a great entrepreneur? It’s a BIG question for a BIG episode. 🥳🎉🥳 Yep, it’s time to get the bunting out and let off a party popper (or two!) because the TechPixies Sparkle and Thrive Podcast is celebrating its 150th episode with a dream guest. As a woman who blazed a trail for women in tech, she’s one of our heroes, and we’re still squealing with excitement that we got to spend some t...

Whoa there! If you’ve arrived here without listening to Episode 148, you’ll want to do a Craig David and re-re-wind. Because we’ve got a whole lotta social media superpower action for you to catch up on (and no one should miss seeing Joy in a silky pink cape). In Part 1, Joy covered the first 3 social media superpowers you need for social media success. In this episode, she’s back with 3 more supe...

There’s a reason Joy is dressed in her daughter’s pink satin cape for this week’s episode, and it isn’t because she’s off to audition for a role at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.   At TechPixies, we don’t need a magic wand to turn women into social media superheroes; we give them the tools they need to tap into their superpowers. And in this episode, Joy is taking you through the first 3 sup...

You jumped out of bed this morning (ok, if you’re like us, there’s definitely no leaping going on until you’ve had a coffee), and how did you feel about the day ahead? Excited about cracking on with that work project? Or a bit meh about firing up your computer? We spend too much of our lives at work not to be doing something that lights us up, so if you feel like you’re meant for more and haven’t...

If you’ve ever felt like you’re facing the same battles in life, again and again, you’ll love this episode of the Sparkle and Thrive Podcast. Not least because Joy’s mashing up the airwaves with her usual brand of savvy advice and thought-provoking nuggets with one of the most popular peeps in our community, 🌈 In the past, Juliet Addenbrooke has been the first person our students would hear from....

Nicci Take has a pretty interesting perspective on business life.   She spent 45 years as a man running a business and raising her kids – happily revealing that her role as a father has been the most important job in her life – before embracing her authentic self as a woman. ⚧️ ⚧️ There is so much to unpack in Nicci’s story that this episode will make you laugh, make you think, and give you a truc...

Last year, we posted a picture of Lisa, our head of brand, with her wife Jenny on their wedding day. It’s a joyous image, a celebration of the concept that love is love. 💖🏳️‍🌈 (Well, actually, Lisa and Jenny follow the philosophy of love laid down by Xena: Warrior Princess. More on that about 4 minutes into the episode. 🦸‍♀️) It’s become one of the most popular images on our Facebook feed (whoo...

Marriage, motherhood and work. You don’t need us to tell you that it can feel like you’re constantly trying to beat the world record for juggling (it’s 11 balls, just so you know). But if you’re finding the juggle is a struggle and you’d love some help navigating it, this podcast episode is for you. Because Joy has decided to do something a little different this week and record a raw, honest accou...

We bet you’ve been in a situation where you’ve said yes to something only for a whole heap of ‘what ifs’ and ‘shoulds’ to creep in. But if you say yes and intuitively it feels right, you should (😀) listen to your gut and go for it. It’s a lesson our chief TechPixie Joy learnt recently, and in this podcast episode, you’ll hear her talking about who she chooses to lean on when the going gets tough...

Social media might be the starting point of our training courses here at TechPixies, but transformation is the result. Through powerful coaching sessions, we see our students’ mindsets change during our training as we help them get to a place where they believe there is a solution to every problem and an answer to every question. We show them how challenging situations can become a heck of a lot e...