Dare To Be Brave with Joy Foster

Have you listened to Episode 140? In it, Joy Foster talks about the power of the subconscious and how limiting it can be if you believe you are not worthy, you are not loved or you are not safe. But there is a technique that if repeated over 67 days has the capacity to change the way you think. It will be a game-changer for your confidence. Tune in first thing in the morning and last thing at nigh...

Is this you? You’ve gone to post on social media, but you’ve stopped because you felt: 😟 The caption wasn’t quite right 😟 The picture needed tweaking 😟 Worried about what comments you might get Welcome to the world of ANTs, my friend. 🐜 Those Automatic Negative Thoughts that pop up whenever you go do something that feels out of your comfort zone. But what if there was a way to replace thoughts...

Do you need help working through the messy middle? 🙋 It’s that moment when you’re working on something – perhaps a goal, your dream, your business or your social media – and you know where you are now and where you want to be, but you’re caught in the messy middle trying to figure out the how. How do I get to where I want to be? It’s a position Joy Foster, our chief TechPixie, is in right now. So...

Are you leveraging your social media for maximum impact? That’s the question our chief TechPixie Joy is tackling in this week’s episode of the Sparkle and Thrive podcast. Well, that and a nifty little thing Joy likes to call the Minimum Viable Social Media Posting Plan. If you’re in business, you’ll already have come across a gazillion buzzwords – CRM, KPI, ROI. You can’t move for them, FYI 😂. Bu...

If your feelings about live video are similar to Dracula’s sentiments about sunlight – best avoided – you’re going to want to sit back and tune into this week’s special episode of the Sparkle and Thrive Podcast. Recorded from Berry, our chief TechPixie’s campervan, parked somewhere just outside Glastonbury, Joy is joined by a woman whose name you’re going to want to remember. Because it won’t be l...

Joy Foster, our chief TechPixie, is a pretty keen sportsperson. She’s married to an Olympic Gold-medal winning rower, so it makes sense she’s into rowing too. And sure enough, Joy has a gold medal from Henley Women’s Regatta to her name. But Joy will happily tell you that her medal win was a collective effort by her team and her coach. And there isn’t a medallist or trophy-winning sportsperson ali...

Imagine going all-in on a business, committing full-time, and only six weeks later finding yourself fully booked and having to take on extra help. 😲 For Lee-Anne Brown, our guest on the podcast this week, this was precisely the scenario she found herself in after launching her business, Citrine VA. Although Lee-Anne happily confesses that she’s not sure how this situation happened, you know she’s...

Imagine if Apple had been called Steve Jobs Technology Solutions or Tesla had been named Elon Musk Electric. 😲 No offence to Steve, but we’re not sure Apple would have topped quite as many cool brand lists without its iconic name and branding. What you call your business and your vision for it is something you want to nail from the start. Will it just be you, or are you going for global dominatio...

Waking up every day and feeling like you’re making a difference, doing a job you love and working with brilliant clients. It’s the dream, right? For Sarah Bronnert, this isn’t a dream, it’s her reality. And as you’ll discover in this week’s episode of the Sparkle and Thrive podcast, she’s totally nailed the social media management game. Here’s why you need to tune in After losing her job as a musi...

Have you thought about becoming a social media manager? Perhaps you’ve wondered what it takes to become one. Or maybe you’re just curious to know what an SMM gets up to all day. Well, we’ve got the insider gossip from TechPixie Maria Collins. She’s a successful social media manager who says that when she’s not in meetings with her clients, you’ll find her putting the pedal to the metal on her Pelo...

Can a social media network change your life? “Oh, come on! You’re having a giraffe.🦒 How can social media possibly change my life?” you might think. But it can, and it does. We see the power that social media has to change lives every day here at TechPixies, and it’s the same for this week’s guest on the podcast, Mildred Talabi. She’s a LinkedIn visibility coach who has used LinkedIn to build a b...

Are you starting from scratch on social media? If so, you’re gonna wanna take a look at Katie Townsend’s Instagram account @katietownsendgardendesign. 🌱 Her colourful feed is a plant-filled paradise, with green-fingered tips dished out via vids and reels and posts featuring Katie’s cockapoo Snoppy thrown in for good measure. Gorgeous scroll-stopping imagery ✔️ Useful tips to share ✔️ Adorable pet...

If you’ve ever watched hundreds of thousands of rubber ducks floating down the river in a thrill-a-moment duck race, you’ll know we Brits go quackers for rubber ducks. But why settle for a plain yellow duck when you could head to Shop4Ducks and get your mitts on one that looks like Albert Quackstein, sorry, Einstein? 😂 With a business this fun, it’s no wonder Karen Evans and her husband Andy are...

We probably all have a love-hate relationship with ads.😀 Some make us nostalgic: remember Tony and Sharon and their love of Nescafé Gold Blend? Or that laundrette moment for Levi’s 501s? Others leave us wondering if we have a creepy stalker following us about who knows more about us than they should. But one thing’s for certain, if you have something to sell, at some point you’re going to want to...

If we could bottle Yinka Ewuola’s wisdom we would. And we bet that after listening to this week’s episode, you’ll have so many lightbulbs going off that it’ll feel like the Blackpool Illuminations inside your head. 💡 Because we’re getting back to a topic that we know triggers a whole heap of emotions in women: money – specifically the stories we tell ourselves about money that stand in our way. S...

Beyonce might have belted out Run The World (Girls) way back in 2011, but more than 10 years on, and we’re still scratching our heads at the progress being made.  Because in the UK today, less than 2.9% of venture capital (VC) investment goes to women. If that wasn’t bad enough, less than 0.2% of VC investment ends up in the hands of black founders. Is that steam we see coming out of your ears? 🤯...

How many times have you jumped on Google today? A gazillion, we suspect. Because we don’t ‘search’ for anything anymore, do we? We Google it (how did we survive without it? 🤷). But if you’ve ever tried to get anything to rank in Google, you’ll know that all the SEO tips and tricks you can deploy make the process feel like you’re Harry Potter facing a battle with the Dark Lord. And while you’re bu...

Are you ready to take our LinkedIn Yellow Circle Challenge? Because Beth Kirk, our LinkedIn legend, is back on the mic with details of all the funky new features LinkedIn is releasing in 2022, including the brilliant new cover story video that creates a gold circle around your profile pic. (And, yes, we totally think it looks like a golden halo too. 😇) In 30 seconds, you get to tell the world who...

While the tech gurus at Facebook (sorry, Meta!), get busy building the Metaverse, back in the real world of school runs, Zoom meetings and meals in minutes hacks, some of us are still wondering how to make the most of the platform some 1.9 billion users like to engage with Every. Single. Day. 🤯 So we’re tickled pink that we know just the woman to guide us through the hottest happenings on what is...

Oof! Instagram was on a mission last year, wasn’t it? 🔥 2021 might have been the year that saw the world go into meltdown as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp had a little mishap (cue some hilarious reactions and memes on Twitter 😂), but when Insta wasn’t down and out, it felt like you’d just about get sorted with one feature only for another to arrive two minutes later. Head. Spin. 🤯 And if you...

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain Have you ever met anyone who followed their dreams and regretted it? 🤷 Even though the path to achieving their dream might have been long and winding, perh...

In the words of Gabrielle, “dreams can come true.” But making those dreams come true isn’t about having hope (sorry, Gabrielle); it’s about taking action. And we’ve got just the woman ready and waiting to help you do just that. Yep, Joy Foster, our Pixie-powered DreamBuilder extraordinaire, is back on the airwaves for part 2 in a nugget-filled podcast series, which aims to help you discover and ha...

Where are you right now? We’re not talking about whether you’re ploughing your way through turkey sandwiches in Oxford, Oban or Ottawa… we want to know where you are in your life right now.   Because it’s that time of year when we all sit around watching Jools Holland’s Hootenanny and start thinking about what we’d like our life to look like in 2022. And if you’re hunting for a bit of guidance, ho...

The holiday season can mean many things to different people: a Festival of Lights and eating latkes 🕎, sweeping out the old to welcome the new ⛤, Brussels sprouts and bad cracker jokes 🎄. And while it can be a time of joy, the festivities aren’t always ‘chestnuts roasting on an open fire’ vibes...especially in the face of another wave of COVID-19. So who better to guide us through it than Rev De...

We’ll always be fans of brands that love stars as much as we do! ⭐ But we’ll become superfans of brands that combine a love of stars with poppin’ colours and rockin’ messages. 💖 We’ve fallen head over heels for PomTiddlyPom and its creators Jess Christie and Han Walker. Because, as you’ll discover when you hit play on this week’s podcast episode, these big-hearted sisters LOVE making people happ...