Emma-Louise Parkes

The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast

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The Ambitious Introvert® is for founders and entrepreneurs who want to create  big results without burning through their energy.  Hosted by Emma-Louise Parkes, it's less “business tips”  and more like sitting down with a trusted mentor who actually gets the reality of building a business as an introvert. Through personal stories, honest insights, and conversations with entrepreneurial trailblazers, Emma-Louise offers the perspective and tools introverted entrepreneurs need to unlock fresh energy and momentum in their business. It’s not about chasing hacks or forcing extrovert strategies - it’s...

Author

Emma-Louise Parkes

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Business

Podcast website

www.emmalouiseparkes.com

Latest episode

Dec 29, 2025

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Episodes

Episode 130: Turning Your Passion into Profit with Suzie Agelopoulos 20.03.2023

On this week’s episode of The Ambitious Introvert Podcast® I’m joined by Suzie Agelopoulos. Suzie is an AirBnB coach and business mentor - in a nutshell, she helps people make money with AirBnB! Suzie is definitely more on the extrovert end of the scale, but I really wanted to share her story with you because she’s quite literally turned her passion for travel into a (very) profitable business. Su...

Episode 129: Energy as a Strategy with Jo Sweeney 13.03.2023

In this week’s episode of The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast I’m delighted to be joined by Jo Sweeney, Energy Expert and Leadership Mentor. Jo has been in business for over 10 years and has created a unique framework for supporting her clients in translating their energy into a strategy. This allows them to quantum leap, not just in business, but in all areas of life. During our conversation, Jo sha...

Episode 128: The Introvert's Guide to Chat GPT for Business 06.03.2023

If you’ve been online in the past couple of months, you’ll have seen someone talking about ChatGPT. There’s a divide between people who are raving fans vs. others who are worried about what it means for creativity - so I thought the tool would be the perfect topic to talk about in this week’s episode. Wherever you land on the ChatGPT debate, it’s safe to say that the tool itself and AI in general...

Episode 127: February Behind the Scenes Roundup 27.02.2023

Welcome to this week’s episode of The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast, where I’m sharing a roundup of what’s been going on behind the scenes in February. I’m actually recording this a week before the release date, so consider this a three quarter roundup of the month so far! I’ve had a very content-heavy start to the month, including batch recording solo and guest podcast episodes, and I’ve also been...

Episode 126: Cultivating a Success Mindset Early in Business with Kate Carter 20.02.2023

In the first guest episode of the year I’m delighted to be joined by Kate Carter, Mindset Coach and Business Mentor who supports new entrepreneurs with anxiety and mindset hurdles. Kate will be my co-coach in The Ambitious Introvert Academy® and I’m so excited to have her supporting the group! Kate loves to help brand new entrepreneurs with their mindset, which makes her the perfect coach to compl...

Episode 125: I Wish I Had This When I Started my Business... 13.02.2023

Today on The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast I’m looking right back at the beginning of my online business journey. While I’ve been in the process of refining The Ambitious Introvert Academy® one of the statements I’ve used as a guiding compass is ‘I wish I had this when I started my business’. As it turns out, there are a few things I wish I *didn’t* have, too! As always I hope you’ll find this epis...

Episode 124: How I Think About…..Being An Ambitious Introvert 06.02.2023

Welcome back to the ‘How I Think About……’ series on The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast, where I share my behind the scenes thought processes around key themes in my business. So far I’ve covered Mindset, Marketing, Investing and Social Media, and today I’m sharing How I Think About……Being An Ambitious Introvert. Seeing as my entire business is designed to support ambitious introverts, this episode h...

Episode 123: January BTS Business Round Up 30.01.2023

We’re taking a break from the ‘How I Think About…..’ series this week - instead I’m sharing a behind the scenes round-up of my business this month. I’ve had positive feedback when I’ve recorded episodes like this in the past so I’m excited to share what’s been going on in my business in the first few weeks of 2023. These episodes will cover what I've been working on, anything I've change...

Episode 122: How I Think About… Social Media 23.01.2023

Welcome to the fourth instalment in the ‘How I Think About…..’ series on The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast. In this mini series I’m sharing my thoughts in an organic, stream-of-consciousness way, which I hope will help you see that there’s no one right way of doing things! In fact my thoughts on all the topics so far have hugely changed since I first started in business, and it’s these thought proc...

Episode 121: How I Think About… Investing 16.01.2023

Welcome to the third episode in the How I Think About….. Series. This week I’m sharing my thoughts on investing, specifically related to investments in our businesses. There’s a LOT of educational content online showing us how to do XYZ, but we don’t often see the thought process behind the actions online business owners take. But it’s actually the thought process that gives us the changes and bre...

Episode 120 : How I Think About… Marketing 09.01.2023

This week’s episode of The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast is the second in the ‘How I Think About…..’ series, and today I’m sharing my thoughts on Marketing. I haven’t always had a great relationship with marketing, but I now consider it a gateway to working with clients I love to support. If you’ve ever felt not entirely in love with it either, consider this episode not only permission giving, but...

Episode 119: How I Think About….Mindset 02.01.2023

Welcome to the first 2023 episode of The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast and the beginning of a special series of episodes called ‘How I Think About….’ So much of my own growth during my 4 years in business has come not from what I’ve done or what someone else has taught me, but the way I’ve changed how I think about something. These How I Think About…. episodes will be an unscripted look at the thou...

Episode 118: End of Year Business Tidy Up - What can you clean up ready for 2023? 26.12.2022

As a minimalist at heart, I LOVE to keep things as simple as possible. This is true of my personal life AND my business, and at this time of year when things start to wind down I take the opportunity to have a good old spring clean. In today’s solo episode (and the last of 2022!) I’m sharing some of the things I do at the end of the year to start fresh for 2023. I hope you find a few things in thi...

Episode 117: Embracing your Natural Sensitivity with Jessi Michel Agadoni 19.12.2022

We’ve been speaking A LOT about mindset and business strategy recently on the show, so I’m delighted to change the focus slightly this week to a more physical aspect of sensitivity. Today I’m joined by Jessi Michel Agadoni, who specialises in helping natural sensitives create authentic calm in their bodies - helping them cultivate the grounded, sustainable energy they uniquely need to do powerful...

Episode 116: Fighting Anxiety as an Entrepreneur with Katrina Aronson 12.12.2022

This week’s episode is on a topic that was requested by an audience member around 9 months ago - how to run a business when you have anxiety. As I don’t suffer from anxiety myself I wanted to speak with an entrepreneur who did, so I’m delighted to welcome my guest Katrina Aronson to share her perspective on the subject. Katrina is a business coach who helps her clients run and grow their business...

Episode 115: Taking Back Your Time with Reese Spykerman 05.12.2022

How many ‘must-use’ productivity hacks have you tried? And how many have worked? If you’re anything like me, you will have worked through A LOT of different time management strategies. And if you’re in the ‘why doesn’t this work for me?’ stage, this week’s episode of The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast is a must listen. I spoke to Reese Spykerman about taking back your time, and there are some incred...

Episode 114: Mindset, Manifestation and Toxic Spirituality 28.11.2022

This week on The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast I’m addressing a topic that I’ve seen become pretty toxic in some circles online - the spiritual messages we see around creating a positive mindset, particularly related to manifestation. I’ve been practicing manifestation knowingly for 13 years, but had actually been doing it without realising for a lot longer! I 100% believe that your mindset is an e...

Episode 113: How to Speak and Stand Out as an Introvert with Laurie-Ann Murabito 21.11.2022

One of the many misconceptions about being an introvert is that we’re all quiet and shy, but if you’ve listened to this podcast for a while you’ll KNOW that’s not the case. This week’s guest is proof that even if you do consider yourself as shy, that doesn’t need to be your identity forever! Laurie-Ann Murabito describes herself as a reformed painfully shy girl who accidentally became a profession...

Episode 112: Creating the 'Wrong' Business & the Importance of Profit with Megan Yelaney 14.11.2022

The common narrative in the online space is all about growing your business - but what if you actually want to go the other way and scale DOWN? In today’s episode I’m going behind the business with coach Megan Yelaney. Megan helps her clients establish their unique brand voice in the online space using what Megan calls her ‘unique coaching method’. One of the reasons why I was so excited to talk t...

Episode 111: The Money Mindset for Business Growth with Amanda Joyce Weber 07.11.2022

In today’s episode I’m joined by Amanda Joyce Weber, a mindset and sales coach who helps entrepreneurs shift their mindset to create more sales with ease. I started out as a money mindset coach and I still LOVE talking about it to this day! Money mindset is something I help all my clients with, and it’s such an important piece of work to do. When I knew I wanted to have an episode on the mindset b...

Episode 110: What ideal client actually means (& what it doesn’t) 31.10.2022

In today’s solo episode I’m talking about something that on paper seems quite simple but in practice can be misunderstood, and that’s the concept of ‘ideal clients’. Like many of the topics I talk about on The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast, the idea for this week’s episode came from a recent call I had with one of my own clients. I hope you find this behind the scenes conversation helpful for your...

Episode 109: Protecting Your Business with Sarah Waldbuesser Esq 24.10.2022

This episode of The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast is one that is so important for entrepreneurs and so overlooked.  When I trademarked The Ambitious Introvert®, so many of you reached out and said, wow, it looks really official. It does give that perceived credibility, and it looks really great.  But there is SO much more to protecting your business and protecting your intellectual property than it...

Episode 108: Make Your Message Synonymous with Your Name with Michelle Mazur, Ph.D. 17.10.2022

Welcome to this week's episode of The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast. You know you need it, but you might not know how to go about it - this week we’re talking all things messaging! I’m joined by Dr Michelle Mazur, who will help us not only demystify everything to do with messaging but also give us a really simple way of distilling it down and actually applying it to our own business.  Are you...

Episode 107: Help, I’m Overwhelmed with Woody Rini 10.10.2022

This week’s episode of The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast will hit home with so many of you, because it’s based on a word that comes up with every single client I work with. It’s appeared on every single application I've ever had to work with me, and it's one that I use myself a lot, and that is - overwhelm. So I can't think of anyone better to speak to than Life Coach and Author Wood...

Episode 106: Why Coaching is Hard (And what that’s Ok) 03.10.2022

Welcome to this solo episode of The Ambitious Introvert® Podcast, inspired by question a client asked me a few weeks ago: “Why does coaching sometimes feel amazing? And then it sometimes feels so hard?” And as someone that has coached a lot of clients and worked with many coaches myself, I completely understood what she meant! This feeling of coming off some calls feeling like I can conquer the wo...

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