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Woman Who Chat – How to start your speaking journey with Sandra Garlick MBE Today I’m chatting all about starting your speaking journey. Speaking is great for boosting your visibility. We all have to start somewhere and in this podcast I share how to start small with a conversation, and build up your confidence to speak to larger audiences. I also share some of my early speaking disasters as well...

Woman Who Chat – Taking on your first employee with Rachel Collar Today I’m chatting to Rachel Collar, founder of the Haus of HR. Rachel, who calls herself a HR Rockstar with a career in HR which spans over 23 years , has chatted with me in a previous episode where we learned all about her journey and how Lady Gaga inspired her business name. Make sure you listen to her story. In this episode, we...

Today I’m chatting to Julia Leask of Leask Advisory Solutions. Julia is an FD, CFO, Coach, Speaker and Author helping innovative businesses with strategic financial planning. We chat all things financial. All too often, we work in our business but don't get a grip of the financials, especially the cash flow. Julia shares some useful tips that you can implement straight away. Connect with Julia: Li...

Today I’m going to introduce you to Michelle Leivars, the Female Business Mentor, who spoke at the Woman Who Inspires Online Network this month on a topic of Resilience. In this episode, Michelle shares her story of resilience in an honest, and very powerful way. It’s emotional, it’s raw, and I’d like to thank Michelle for allowing me to share her story so openly. Michelle feels that if her story...

Today I’m chatting to Dr Tracy Rea, founder of Talent Transfer, Author, Coach and Chair of the Board for Parkour UK. In this episode, Tracy and I chat all about Resilience and Tracy shares some of her insights and top tips.   I really enjoyed chatting to Tracy who is really knowledgeable about this topic. It’s well worth a listen, and I hope you enjoy it too. You can find out more about Tracy Rea...

Today I’m chatting to Abbi Hoxleigh, founder of Little PR Rock Marketing and Author of Credibility Confidence: How to Leverage PR as a Start Up. In this episode, Abbi and I chat about PR, Marketing & Communications. Abbi has established her personal brand over the last few years and helps her clients get seen through PR. She helps business owners become digital trailblazers. Abbi talks about A...

Today I’m chatting to Award winning Andrea Rainsford, founder of SEO Angel and The Consistent Income Club. In this episode, we chat about how Andrea was diagnosed with ME and subsequently suffered a stroke at just 32 years old. She shares how she literally fought back, went to University, and set up her own business… on her own terms. Andrea is such an inspirational, resilient, and determined woma...

Today I’m chatting to Award winning Shelley Wilson, Writing Mentor for women, and International multi-genre Best Selling Author. In this episode, as well as chatting about books, werewolves, and campervans, we chat about how Shelley dreamed of writing as a child, then when she hit her 40s she started blogging which led to her first publication ‘How I Changed My Life’, which is still her best-selli...

Today I’m joined by Angie Simmons of Growth Development Foundation   We chat about Personal Development, her undated Journal ‘How am I feeling today?’, and Angie shares lots of tips you can put in place right now. Angie shares her story, the setbacks she’s faced losing her brother and her Mum, and how she has turned her mental mess into her message. She now shares her knowledge with her clients an...

Today I’m joined by Claire Cahill, of Accendo Coaching and Training.   Claire is a an award winning executive confidence and leadership coach. She loves working with busy stressed-out leaders.   In this podcast, we chat all about perfection and about being good enough. We also talk about procrastination where Claire shares insights into her own way of working and about her two sons. She also share...

Today I’m going solo and talking all about entering Awards. I bust those Awards myths, look at the barriers that prevent you from entering, as well as the huge benefits you can gain from putting yourself forward for Awards. Entering Awards, even if you’re not a Winner, can give you a huge boost of visibility and you could become a role model who inspires others. I also share my own experiences of...

Today I’m joined by Sarah Sarkies, who helps small business owners flourish online. She’s the founder of Mulberry Design (link below). Sarah shares her journey and how she started her own business building websites. She shares her lightbulb moments, and how the encouragement of one person at school inspired her to follow her passion into a male-dominated world. We chat around why it’s good to have...

Today I’m joined by Dawn Owen, a zero BS Coach, and the Founder of High Vibe Live (link below). I’ve wanted to introduce this topic for a while and couldn’t think of a better coach to have this discussion with. Dawn and I chat, have a few mini rants, and talk about the coaching journey. Dawn coaches around mindset and energy, and uses her business experience to help her clients. We talk about why...

Today I’m joined by Louise Dillon, Armadillo Social Louise won a Woman Who Achieves Award in 2022. In the first part of this two-part special Podcast, Louise shares her journey into business with her digital marketing agency. Louise is celebrating her 10th Business Birthday this year. With a background in Television with Sky TV, Louise now specialises in the strategy behind business marketing and...

Today I’m joined by Rachel Collar, Founder of the Haus of HR. Rachel shares her journey into self-employment role and why she set up her HR business following a life event. Rachel a ‘HR Rockstar’, also calls herself the HR interior designer of business and shares how her business name was inspired by Lady Gaga. She loves to be ‘super busy’ and as well as her HR business, holds a number of voluntee...

Today I’m joined by Clair MacKenzie of the Best You Coach. Clair is a Life, Health and Weight Coach. She has coached 100s of women from all over the world and helps women (plus a few men too) with their weight loss mindset. We had a great chat all about how Clair started her business as a result of losing her own weight through a different approach to weight loss using life coaching. She now uses...

Today I’m joined by Nicky Armstrong, Founder of Your Business VA   Nicky shares her journey into business and how she helps help coaches and consultants deal with the challenges they face when trying to navigate the tech world.   She describes herself as a ‘wing-woman’ for your business and Nicky, along with her team, deal with the overload that often bogs us down.   We also chat about how the pan...

Sit back and relax whilst you listen to Sandra talk to Claire Roberts-Molloy in this episode!

Sit back and relax whilst you listen to Sandra talk to Ann Girling in this episode!

Come and join us for a special episode where you get to enjoy a keynote presentation from Abbie Hoxleigh, Little PR Rock Marketing (Media & Communication) from one of our recent Woman Who Online Events. Hope you enjoy the talk and the show!

Come and join us for a special episode where you get to enjoy a keynote presentation from Angie Simmons from one of our recent Woman Who Online Events. Hope you enjoy the talk and the show!

Sit back and relax whilst you listen to Sandra talk to Sian Hill in this episode!

Sit back and relax to this episode of the Woman Who Chat where Sandra talks to Michelle Leivars from The Soap Sponge Company!

Sit down and enjoy a chat with Sandra and Jean Hamilton-Ford. Hope you enjoy this show!

Welcome to Woman Who Chat. On this episode, our host Sandra Garlick sits down with Tracy Rea from Talent Transfer. We hope you enjoy the show!