RE: The Podcast

Today's episode is a juicy one with our resident Pinterest Fangirl Rachel letting us in on all the latest updates on the platform, advising how we can implement their advice and top tips, and helping make Pinterest work wonders for our businesses. You can sign up for Rachel's Pinterest training here

(Sorry, couldn't resist!) Today we're having a chinwag about Instagram Reels. Now they've had a good few months' settling in period, we thought we'd discuss how we've been finding them - what's been working for us? What's not? What have we liked about them? (Plus, we talk all about Rachel's legit viral reel - which she'll be mortified to see me mention here, but by the time she sees it will be pub...

IT'S HERE! IT'S FINALLY HERE! We have been asked so many times for an episode on pricing and by JOVE we finally have it, with the wonderful Steph from Innovate and Thrive Co. Steph specialises in Business Design and helps businesses run as effectively as possible, which is not limited to but in no small part related to pricing yourself properly. Follow Steph @innovateandthriveco and find her at in...

Today is a big ol' warm hug of an episode, with a big ol' warm hug of a person, Sophie Cliff The Joyful Coach. At a time when we could all do with a bit more joy in our lives, we chat what it means, some sustainable ways to find it, and how to prioritise it. We also ask Sophie for her insightful thoughts on our old nemesis work life balance. We love love loved chatting to Sophie and hope you do to...

New artwork who dis?! We're bringing something slightly different to you with this episode, team, but we hope you'll love it equally! This week, we're having a pretty honest, warm and open conversation announcing some exciting changes to the way we do the podcast; and we wanted to let you in on not only what they're going to be, but why we're doing them. It sounds administrative on paper, but in r...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Now, we wanted to kick 2021 off with an episode that signified the new start, but didn't ram it down our throats in a way that none of us have time or need for. Enter Jazz, founder and chief babe at Babes on Waves, who walked us through her approach to goalsetting. Remarkable in its approach and revolutionary in its impact, we absolutely LOVED learning about it & implementing it! f...

Back in the blissfully unaware December of 2019, we decided on our 2020 words, the ones that would embody our intentions for the year going forward. This was THE YEAR.  Apart from...well, we all know the rest. For our final, wine-fuelled episode of the year, we thought we'd take a look back at how those words of the year went, why we're not committing to any words of the year for next year, a...

We've probably mentioned instagram stories in all of our episodes in one way or another, but this week we're deepdiving on them. What are they? What are they good for? And most importantly, how can you switch them up and use them to not only boost your biz but to have some fun with as well? Alongside general chat about why they're so great, we've got 21 prompts for them too, to help you get starte...

Though it's not something you probably set out to have, we all use and flex our creative 'voice' everyday; our own stamp on the world that makes something unmistakably ours. But how do you find one that feels right? We chat through some ways you can explore your own creative voice plus a weird but ultimately wonderful deepdive into Rachel's obsession with the Millennium Dome - 3 seasons in, and we...

As the famous song goes - 'tis the season to start panicking as a small biz owner for one reason or another, fa la la la la la la. We spoke to Katie, the founder of glorious stationery, homewares & party studio Oh Squirrel, about managing Christmastime as a small business owner. She's a seasonal seasoned pro, so we chatted about how to look after yourself when things are both busy and when they're...

How many times a week do you feel you wish you could just do x, but feel that you can't just decide that? How often do you crowdsource your decisions, when you know deep down what you want them to say? How often do you look anywhere but inside for an answer?  Giving yourself a permission slip is a phrase that's gaining popularity all the time, and with good reason - it comes from the genius t...

This week we're thrilled to have wedding business strategist and author Faye Cornhill on to talk about the lies that she often hears wedding business owners tell themselves, and, crucially, how to move past them. Mindset is a word that's co-opted far too often, so we loved delving a bit deeper with Faye and thinking about the narrative we're actually telling ourselves a lot of the time - and givin...

It's only taken me 3 seasons to get a One Direction themed episode! I kid, I kid. This week we're discussing 10 little things that we often put off but that can make such a big difference to our daily lives as a business owner. And by we, we really do mean us - this will not be a preachy attack on Living Your Best Life, as we deeeefinitely need to take our own medicine with this one too!  Wha...

Giddy up, friends, because this one is preeeetty giggly. In amongst punishment lasers, our brand new game Bald or Not Bald and other such delights, we get down to the (famously unfunny, some would say) topic of blogs. We've covered blogging before, but this time we zoom in on how to come up with titles for them, so that you're not just sat at your desk, looking at a blank page, thinking..."what no...

When we tell you we got SHIVERS in today's episode, we mean full, hairs-standing-to-attention-on-the-back-of-our-neck shivers. And that's because we had our lord and saviour Lucy Sheridan on to talk all things using instagram authentically and successfully. We know, we know, instagram is a topic that everyone likes to throw their twopenneth into - but Lucy's Good Gram course is an expert breath of...

Rebecca Kimberley is a trained therapist, and psychological Life Coach and - true to form - she basically changed our lives in this episode. We wanted to go deep on goalsetting, which has become such a buzzword now that we wanted to set the record straight - why we fall short on goals sometimes, how to avoid doing that, and crucially how to look after your mental health whilst still going for goal...

If we worked in a start-up, we’d probably have this scheduled in the diary as a “post-mortem” - but we don’t, so we haven’t. Rachel recently did a big ol’ launch for her Pinterest group training Ignite, and we thought it might be useful to chat through what she did during the launch process, how the launch itself went and what she learnt from it. If you’re planning a launch in the future, or you’v...

We don't say this often because we can't tell you how to live your life, but you might want to get your pens and paper out for today's ep chums, because Vix was on FIRE. We chatted all about creating valuable content for your customers old and new, what the metrics that matter are - spoiler alert, it's shares + saves - and how to balance this all with having a good aesthetic. We also chatted about...

Our first guest of Season 3 is the inimitable Natasha Johnson, Malaga-based wedding celebrant, co-founder of The Celebrants Collective, editor of Engaged and Ready and former BBC journalist and broadcaster! (So you KNOW the info was golden, the soundbites precise, and the audio clarity - dreamy.) We talked all about marketing with authenticity, and how to do it throughout the whole journey - how t...

(Return of the pod) come on / (Return of the pod) oh my God / (You knew that we'd be back) HERE WE ARE! It's September 2020, it's season 3, and The Business Proposal Podcast is back. We're sliding back into your life with an episode catching up with each other and with ourselves, and we also chat about the new service we introduced this summer - The Content Proposal! We chatted to nearly 20 small...

Just a little check in from us to say - we're off on our summer holidays! By which we mean we're staying firmly put in our respective flats in London until we can be reunited, which we will do by running slow-mo into each other's arms, preferably on a heath. It's me, it's Ellieeeee, I've come home now (etc). Season 2 has been a blast, and we wanna thank each and every one of you for listening, and...

This week we wanted to re release our episode with Nova Reid, Tedx speaker, anti-racism activist and writer, from last summer. It's got some really great actionable ways to do anti-racist work within your own business, in addition to the anti-racism work we're all committed to doing daily.  ____ Does your business showcase a commitment to diversity like it non-negotiably should? We spoke to d...

Today, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests occurring globally, we’re taking part in the #podcastblackout. This means that instead of our usual episode, we will be reading out the names of the black people killed by police brutality in the UK and the US. It is exceptionally important that we, as white people, keep working through to work towards being an ally; working on becoming anti-ra...

FINALLY IT IS HAPPENING TO US, RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACE - We're talking about Trello! You'll have heard us wang on about Trello before - in fact, maybe we should do a Trello count - because we use it all the time to organise our time (and lives!) It's genuinely changed how we can run our businesses, and so we today we run through what it is (a project management tool), why Ellie used to hate it...

This week's guest is the wonderful Emma Phipps, founder of Beau Tie. She's one of our favourite small businesses both in the industry and outside of it, because she really helps draw you in and make you feel like a part of it. With 8 years of handmaking in the bag, she's got a lot of experience to share; plus, she dealt with every small business' nightmare: one day, she lost her instagram account...