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

How we think in our Solo Business generally often always falls into one of two cognitive comfort thinking camps. Some of us enjoy working among the big bigness of the big picture and picking the direction and destination. Some enjoy the diving into the detail taking the big picture and making it really real. We have a choice. We can stay in our lane. Or, we can learn our comfort zone and enough of...

Let’s have a little fun with playing with a popular ‘mindset’ — (specifically, part of the Money Mindset) — tis always a little fun to look a set mind in the face and wonder what is fixed and fused and what is open to another view. Here we slip from selling to buying and by doing so move what we see from the back-of-business to look at our Solo Business from the lens of a buyer out front. You are...

Small Business and Solo Business are labels lobbed about with little thought in our business conversations. And, it is this little thought out thinking that we can now realise a real opportunity to lean on and leverage these labels to do some of the heavy lifting in our front and back of business thinking. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get ac...

It is simple, buildings are built for a purpose, and while that purpose may change with future custodians, the walls are where they are, the floors are fixed, and ceiling keeps everything contained and concentrating on meeting that business purpose . A Solo Business needs more set structure. The idea of fixed flexibility kinda feels more like flapping in the business breeze to make something alrea...

So many Solo Businesses start from the self selected label of being a solopreneur (a nod to stepping out of the ever crowded crowd of entrepreneurs and being chuffed where all is done by one ). Here we expand on the existing and open an option to a knowing know of when to name yourself a solopreneur and when to shift the focus to your Solo Business. This is where you having a strong sense of self...

In the context of conversations in business, scale says ‘more’ to many. What is commonly confused is the tendencies to talk to size being about headcount, assuming that more people means more capacity, more capability, more more to do more, to be more. Now some will trust when there is more, and they are right, there is a time when you need more business bums in seats to hold and have confidence i...

The funny thing about taking what works in big business and popping it to play a part in Solo Business that sometimes it looks a little very different. Here we draw the focus to a frame of connecting your Solo Business to resources through specific relationships, specifically those relationships assigned to exisiting business role names. In this conversation we work with business roles as a bridge...

We are putting forward the idea that maybe the middle can be less messy or muddy and16 be more magic with the clarity cleared up when working with a couple of key Business Role Lenses, specifically the Manager and Director. Through a real world example we share an application of how the Manager and Director can both connect and correct working in Solo Business. Some lenses feel more familiar, whil...

Business role lenses are so light and so little they are easy enough to pull out in our days and ways. Growing on what we are already knowing about Business roles Lenses, we keep going growing. Really leaning in to learn what we can learn, what we can leverage, and where it can lead us (on and off track). The point is in the persistent practice of pulling out the aligned lens for you to direct, de...

In big business layered layers of levels make sense. It makes sense to move the deciding, directing, and doing to be done on different floors (metaphorical and actual). In medium and small business these levels work too. In Solo Business…not so much. Here we continue to grow the idea into Solo Business ways and days where ‘all can be done by one’ by building in the Business Role Lenses. Same level...

Groan, another game changer 🫩 Bear with, maybe this one really is 🙃 Remember a couple of convos ago where we dared utter aloud the idea that ‘all can be done by one’ in Solo Business and said it again that we can work towards ‘all done by one’ as a normal norm by shifting your knowing of a business day away from what you may know, or is normal for the many, and instead of filling out the day to...

Knowing your Solo Business Niche is only the beginning…working out where in your days and ways you actually use your Niche to navigate what we do, to indicate what we need to (and do), and to extricate us (from what we really don’t need to be doing 🤭). Yes, your Niche names who you do and what you do for/with them. And yes, your Niche ties you to that something bigger than your business. Your Nic...

Knowing your solo Business Niche is one thing, saying it aloud is another. We are forever meeting our needs in every decision, every doing, every ‘darn it', why won’t you just work already!’ The funny thing they do not tell you about meeting our needs…we are amazing at meeting them in the most not great ways in our days. That’s not the point pained to provoke here — we are not the type to say be b...

From the beginning we are encouraged to talk about our Solo Business aloud. While this suggestion is not paired with being particular who you share with, that is another conversation. Here we tap into the talking talking that can let anyone who knows to notice where you and your Solo Business growth are at, where you are going, and a hellava lot about who you have be talking to where you have been...

From the moment we say aloud that we are beginning a business, there is that assumed assumption littered and layered into each well meaning question and queries to learn more before you know. Before you know what you do. Before you know who you do it with (or for). Before you know part you want to play in a picture that is far from painted and ready to be viewed aloud. Knowing this knowing, even w...

Niche and networks are two terms tossed about the common business conversations like confetti sprinkling the assumed assumption everyone has them and uses them. Now, the former is truer than the latter and the latter is certainly alive and living, but the two together…not often so. Here we put forward the idea of not being driven (by what you can give) but of driving (designing what you give and g...

Hello and Welcome 👋 You're invited to join our growing convo about separating the Solo Business Structure from the Small Business bucket. Just by talking about it here we're taking the first steps to see the Solo Business Experience to being to stand out, to be stand lone, and to be something kinda truly special. In this conversation we're growing in what we're knowing by circling back and clicki...

Wanna know the number one way to sell yourself short in Solo Business? It’s easy, just set your vision to a short view (a give away is that your business is mentioned in the vision wording words). Go bigger! Go beyond your business! Go beyond your market, your industry! Stuff ‘em, go bigger! Go so big you are beyond the boundaries of being told what you do and how you do it. Instead see the lines...

It is funny, everything that begins ends, everything that starts stops, everything that is already was. Yet, when it comes to business, the conversation about consider closing is kinda taboo almost like if we say it out loud that we may make it happen. Yeah. Nah. From experience, the funny thing is that as soon as it is said aloud it plays the part it needs to play. For many Solo Businesses, it is...

There are some parts in solo business where this is the same as that and this can do the same thing as that… strategy and strategic direction is not in this category. When it comes to strategy and strategic direction , one is moving and the other is the stable stability that keeps the Solo Business playing a part in something bigger. Where you will have one strategic direction , you can have many...

Time is one of the most valued and valuable resources in a Solo Business. Something that is learnt often always the hard way and without knowing until it is known is that a work day does not equal a calendar day. Here we suggest a suggestion to shift the view from designing your work ways and days from the time you have to the time you actually need to work based on your actual Solo Business needs...

You are invited to consider an idea of an idea, specially why you may want to be clear on your beliefs and how you can use your values to grow trust. Working with the words we actually use, we can make to small changes that can grow what we know bigger than what we know now. In this conversation I draw a line to separate and support construct to stand strong on its own side-by-side. We clear up th...

Update: You may notice that the description below feels put together and has a strong sense of self. You are right! We pull this front of mind as listening to this first conversation you may feel the feels of the sense of self being out of sorts and leaning towards being more like ‘unsure of self. You are right! You see, we (Kathy and Little Language Matters*) knew we had to begin to grow what we...