The Capable Collective Podcast

In this episode I talk to Kerstin Martin, a Squarespace expert and educator about making the most of your website. Kerstin believes in a heart-centered approach to business: providing great service and delivering high quality content and training. She has designed and launched over 80 websites and is the creator of the Eule Planner , an analog planner specifically designed for digital entrepreneur...

In this episode I talk to Niamh Crawford-Walker, a content strategist and coach all about getting started with Instagram Reels. Niamh has successfully coached radio presenters, authors, freelancers, female founders, those working to take their side-hustle to their full-time gig and those transition from employee to business owner.  You can find out more about Niamh on her website www.hashtagg...

I would love to chat with you about how to get content together for your website, especially when you're first getting ready to launch or maybe doing a big overhaul.  I want to talk to you about everything you need to pull together...get organized before you start. So, why is it important to get organized before you kick off a website project?  To start with the obvious, it saves time. I...

Sophy Dale is absolutely brilliant nd she's got such a warm personality! We talked all about how to create content that has empathy and connects. And Sophie is just brilliant at this.  So a little more about her Sophy Dale is a copywriter business coach and messaging strategy. Who works primarily with online business owners, helping them find the right words to the right people. Sophy believe...

Kiara Davis is a content strategist and a digital agency owner who's passionate about helping DIY entrepreneurs and purpose driven business owners show up confidently online in order to skyrocket their businesses to the next. Behind the brand, she's a multi-hyphenate with an array of passions and interests. In this episode, we talked about how to strategize your content more and get really clear a...

Eve Earley has nearly 50 years of work experience across industries as varied as legal accounting manufacturing and the counseling professions. Her earliest experience delivering change management programs was that Motorola. Grounded in the techniques, which went on to become six Sigma which was in development there. Since moving to Ireland in 2008, she has worked with startups, founded a social e...

Shari Medini and Karissa Tunis are the coauthors of Parenting While Working from Home. A monthly guide to help parents balance their careers, connect with their kids and establish their inner strength. They are also the co-owners of the popular parenting, adorethemparenting.com, with six kids between them and over a decade of work from home experience. They love sharing strategies that help fellow...

In this episode I chatted with Miriam Tocino, all about cycle tracking and working with our natural menstrual cycle. She lays out exactly what it looks like for her to work throughout the 4 phases of her cycle and how she's used this method to help her thrive in her work as an author! Miriam is former architect, turned software developer and programming teacher. As a result of her recent motherhoo...

Sasha classes herself as a writer, doubter and doer, even though she's been writing in some form from the age of eight, she only started calling herself a writer last year and rebellious act against herself, doubting nature. She's an avid journaler and lover of words who wants to use them to challenge the negative narratives that women can have about themselves. In this episode, we discussed how h...

We are here today with Mel Wiggins. If you've been following me for any amount of time, you'll see that Mel and I's worlds are really intertwined. It started when I was working as a VA, she hired me as a virtual assistant and then I joined her community Assembly and since then we've gotten even more melded into each other's businesses and lives. And I'm really excited because Mel just has such a w...

Carla McGreevey is a yoga teacher who specializes in healing trauma through breath and movement. Carla is a former exercise addict who worked as an account manager for Bacardi who had a deep aversion to the idea of yoga, who then quit her full-time job with the mission to make the power of this ancient practice, widely known, accessible, and relatable to modern day people. Yoga connects you to the...

Marsha Powell, is the founder of belly view UK, a London-based girls, charity that equips girls and young women with a support network skills and competence to make informed choices about their future, committed to the development and social mobility of young women. This HR professional uses all her transferable skills, knowledge and experience. From her 15 year career and the city and her masters...

Cassie is a social media strategist, consultant and workshop facilitator, and she works with busy business owners to simplify their social media strategy. Cassie believes in creating sustainable strategies that work with your lifestyle, not ones that have you chained to your phone. I loved recording this episode with Cassie because she shows us what's possible. She's created her entire business ar...

I am so excited for you to listen to this episode. Rachel is just a fountain of calm and just the peacefulness of nature seems to emanate out of her. So I'll tell you a bit about her. Rachel is the founder of Rooted Wings, a nature based business that seeks to gather and connect people to themselves, each other and the land we live on through nature, connection, holistic living nature education fo...

What do you want more time and energy for? This is something that in my previous life, as a tech virtual assistant, I dealt with all the time, it was one of the first questions I asked my clients when I was trying to figure out how I could assist them in making their lives easier. It's something I still ask members of The Capable Collective all the time. What do you want more time and energy for?&...

I wanted to end this season with a couple of solo episodes. Just me and you talking about the things that I know the most about in my professional expertise that I think will really help you. And obviously one of the things I know quite a lot about as websites. I design and build custom Squarespace websites for a living. And one of the reasons that I've chosen Squarespace is because it's so user-f...

Today we have one of my favorite entrepreneurs, Ashley Gartland. Small business mentor and coach Ashley Gartland helps service based businesses streamline so that they can scale sustainably and build a business that makes the life and the lifestyle they desire possible. She runs her six figure business in 30 hours a week, leaving her plenty of time to enjoy the good stuff in life - like trail runs...

Today we have another brilliant business woman that I've made a connection with over on Instagram.  Her name is Shannon Baker and Shannon is a podcaster and business systems coach who helps busy women with service-based businesses, create systems to automate the time consuming tasks required to run a business so they can work more efficiently. And have more time for what matters most.  S...

Welcome back. So I am super excited about today's guest. Susie and I have been following each other on Instagram for a really long time. And have been really good cheerleaders for each other in business. We have a lot of really overlapping ideals, but very different experiences and expertise.  It's interesting because. I live over here in Northern Ireland, which is technically part of the UK...

We're here today with Shunta Grant. She is absolutely incredible. She has created an amazing system for helping women to simplify their days and get more enjoyment and fulfillment every day, while still getting the stuff they need done to move the needle forward towards their goals. So I think that that is something that I find so incredible.

Today, I want to talk to you about the road to the Capable Collective or what I'm calling the road to the Capable Collective. A lot has brought me here. A lot has made me want to invest my time and money and energy into creating the Capable Collective. Because I think it's really important.  So let's dive in. 

That's why The Capable Collective was created. Because I have a vision for a space - where women run business in the integrative way that comes so naturally for us. And we all thrive while doing it. Because there is a desperate need for us to push away from the hustle culture. That exists in digital business. Because there needs to be an informational hub where the curtain is pulled back on the me...