It's (not) A Big Thing: A Solo Business Podcast

Just a heads up, it’s a long one, so maybe go ahead and speed it up to x1.25 and listen lightly (i.e., while walking or pottering about doing something else). The format and flow of this conversation is one that’s super normal for an SBO talking out and making sense aloud to feel clearer and more connected to something specific. Here you can hear some reflections relating to the recent (first) cam...

Following the closing of the first campaign experience, where we introduced and brought front of mind the idea that we can achieve balance across our life and work and we can have more say within the way we balance by way of working with simple thinking structures (check out the video podcast to see The Work Life Balance Model* intro series). Here you’ll hear the fatigue and the forward momentum s...

This conversation is a simple one, it’s one of asking and asking the repeated ask of, ‘What’s the point?’. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthing.substack.com

So often we’re told and promised clarity as something that is doable and done in business, and yet, for someone like me who needs to feel a feel for it to be real, clarity still felt like just an ideal idea. In this conversation you’ll hear a recounting of feeling clarity come together and how it’s already lighting the way forward. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this...

Here you get to see a little way that has a big say each working week. Sharing a small knowing that was backed up by preparing the Monday morning reporting (aka the Weekly Report), which has a real-time influence in the business ways of working while navigating new and unknown tasks (e.g., working through the first campaign experience). The importance of sharing the thinking behind this core busin...

So it sounds strange until it doesn’t. Here, in this conversation, we share the connection that’s forcing businesses of all sizes to look at where they play their part in a bigger picture. The best part is that in solo business we don’t have to wait. Instead, we can choose to lean in and learn what we need to learn about ourselves and others to choose how we play our part from here. Enjoy. And, fo...

Heya. As we share layer 2 of the Work Life Balance Model * we share a little of what initially inspired and continues to inform and influence the build and application of the Work Life Balance Model *. Enjoy. 🔗 👇 Watch The Work Life Balance Model* (Layer 2) on: * littlelanguagematters.com.au - https://littlelanguagematters.com.au/-video-podcast/simple-enough-in-solo-business/2-the-work-life-bala...

Heya. In this conversation we’re kicking off our first efforts of concentrating our resources to a single focus (aka our first campaign), here, we begin the build of peeling away the complexity of the blurred lines between the parts in and out of running a solo business to open up the space that’ll support the clarity to come. Enjoy. 🔗 👇 Watch on: * littlelanguagematters.com: https://littlelangu...

This conversation is a combined lens of all the roles working together to get the last little steps to be stepped to cross a finish line. Here, we let you in a little on the real-time experience of navigating, creating and delivering a campaign (aka a single focus with a concentrated effort for a specified time). Here we also let you in on the unknown decisions that had to be decided and left us d...

It sounds weird and yet it works, as all the best ways work here. This conversation is actually not that weird when you hear the thinking behind it. One could say that it appears unset, unsettled, and unready to have confidence in what we’re growing with you here. In the past you would have been more right than you think, but not today. Today we meet you with a sound and solid set of skills, knowl...

Sharing a super normal solo business moment that we’ve prevented from growing into a molehill or mountain to be more doable. This conversation is for when you want an example of how you can work with your own thinking to get in and out of overwhelm and on your way to getting it done. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus ep...

In this conversation we’re sharing the days following working with our trusted specialist. This experience is shared for the pure purpose of a normal norm in what we have experienced in knowing that some things are only known when they’re known. Looking through our SBO lens, we share the sense of finding our own way it can work with the hope, trust, and belief that one or more parts ring true for...

In the past, the moment before the meeting of working with a specialist in our business has felt like going to the dentist. Those feels of being questioned and challenged on our day-to-day behaviours 😝 Not today 🥳 Today, we’re meeting with a fellow Solo Business specialist who’s helping us to do something specific (one of those things out of our wheelhouse). In this conversation we (specifically...

In this conversation we share a moment of a moment that has made us (really) look at the way we’re working in Little Language Matters *. Speaking from the lens of the Solo Business Owner (SBO), we share a sense of how what one could reasonably assume is the bread and butter of a business but (totally) blindsided us (specifically me, Kathy) this week 😝 Being only ourselves in a Solo Business means...

Here you’re welcome to sit in on our start of the week Solo Business round table where we share who’s up to what so that everyone’s aware of what’s happening where. We also open up the fixed footprint to ask an ask for additional resources as needed. The purpose of sharing aloud what’s already a normal norm in our Solo Business ( Little Language Matters *) is to offer example on example on what it...

While we’ve come a long way from our stumbling start in the podcast (aka finding our voice), the podcast still requires more resources than we would like to have as part of our Solo Business design so that we can keep playing our part in resourcing Solo Business — so we keep iterating. We’re trialling a familiar format of a whole of business meeting, and instead of just bringing you the view from...

In this conversation we look through the lens of the Solo Business Director (SBD) to move closer to sharing a little more detail, specifically, the primary focus of the Solo Business Q1 ( spoiler, it’s all about setting up the year from here! ) and what we will be releasing across the year to (actually) resource Solo Business ( another spoiler, we’re working with the Business Model to make do more...

Meeting with our Little Language Matters * Solo Business Owner (SBO) lens, we share a little look at the vibe we’ve been picking up as the calendar clicked over from Jan to Feb. In short, the vibe has a growing sense of knowing where the business is going. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit itsnotabigthin...

We’re welcoming you back through the lens of our Solo Business Owner (SBO) because it’s at this time of year (January) where the SBO focuses the focus and feels for the year we’re yet to (actually) realise. During the most recent (traditional) business break between the last and the new years, we’ve continued to define and refine our part to play by contributing value to the space and place of Sol...

In this conversation we share with you parts of a fellow Solo Business that only has you and your Solo Business front of 🧠. Here we share with you a sense of growing knowing of finding one’s feet in Solo Business through really looking at what we have been reporting, we let slip what we really think of the business mindset frame, and we give a little insight into what is coming up in the new year...

We are sharing a little behind a Solo Business during an extended regroup. In this convo you will hear how each Solo Business Role is now actively active in Little Language Matters* while potentially picking up all the warming vibes woven into the words at work here. The point, the purpose and promise of this conversation is to be just one example. Yes we mention the resources we are working on to...

Focus Welcome back to our regular regulars and welcome to our new regulars. Recently we stopped sharing in our regular schedule — we stopped both with purpose and on purpose. In this conversation we share an update. As we do here, we do the thing we are talking about while talking about the thing we do (yes, language lets us be in both places at once). Here we share an update from the lens of our...

There are those moments that we all know from time to time where we find ourselves in old ways and days and undoing all the good grown before now — this is one such moment in one Solo Business. For a minute we have found those lazy conversations creeping into the room. Moving us to the type of conversations we already know, that have grown all their big grows and are now settled and set in where t...

In this conversation we offer you not any one way for you to business your Solo Business. Often ‘what works’ in your Solo business comes from the delivery layer in your systems, strategies, or services/products. Sure, there are templates to trace to get started, to do it the first time, to grow it into your own. And then there are ways in your days that are already working, that need not change, b...

Have you ever been in those conversations and you think are you in sync, you are talking the same talk, and later learn you were so far off you just have to laugh out loud. Confession, we are very totally all human here and we too have been talking to ‘scaling’ and ‘growing’ being interchangeable, and to a small degree we have been right 😅 Annnnnnd in the same breath, we have been missing out on...