MindStyling for Entrepreneurs: Recent Episodes
Dr Becky Sage and Amy Armstrong
MindStyling for Entrepreneurs showcases leaders who aren’t afraid to push the boundaries. We join hosts Dr Becky Sage and Amy Armstrong as they interview a diverse range of entrepreneurs who’ve cut their own path to success. Our top-tips episodes will distill some of the techniques that people running their own businesses use to get through the challenges and celebrate the successes in a healthy and sustainable way. We give you the tools to start "MindStyling" for yourself, we invite you to subscribe and try out our MindStyling tools as you build a successful future, whatever that means for you. Finalists in the BBC Radio 5 live, Rachael Bland Podcast Award and Creative Impact Awards
In this Top Tips episode, Amy and Becky reflect on Janine Matho's top tip to entrepreneurs, to stay human as you grow, and share your human stories.
We talk about:
- Crafting your identity and narrative as a founder of a new business
- The shift from the identity a corporate title bestows on you, to being an entrepreneur free to define your own identity;
- The art of painting a compelling picture of something that doesn't exist yet;
- Practising and getting comfortable with sharing our authentic stories;
- Listening to as well as telling stories in order to grow.
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About Janine Matho and ExponentialChangemakersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jmmatho
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exponentialchangemakers/
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Website:https://exponentialchangemakers.com/
McKinsey's Women in the Workforce 2022 report confirms that the "broken rung" of the career ladder for women remains at the first step up to manager. For every 100 men promoted to their first manager role, only 87 women are promoted, and only 82 women of colour are promoted.
In this episode, Dr Becky Sage and Amy Armstrong hear from Janine Matho, about how she is leading ExponentialChangemakers to address this critical gender gap. It is a special episode for us, not only because this is an issue close to our hearts, but also because Becky is one of Janine's co-founders.
ExponentialChangemakers is the only global private membership network focused on connecting and supporting women in the first 10 years of their careers.
We discuss:
- The scale and impact of the career dropoff for so many women;
- Why this may be happening and how it can be addressed;
- How important it is to make your strengths visible to both yourself and your employers;
- The power of intent for both career design and life design.
Reflecting on Janine's transition from high-flying corporate leader to early-stage founder, we note:
- The difference between intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship;
- How to survive corporate burnout; and
- The necessity of transitioning to new ways of working in order to drive business growth from a pre-seed pilot to seed capital and beyond.
Are you an entrepreneur who started their career in the corporate sector? Have you experienced burnout? Or perhaps you struggle to identify and communicate your strengths, or are a woman early in your career rethinking your career ambitions. We would love to hear from you. Please connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter using the links below and subscribe to The MindStyling podcast.
About Exponential ChangemakersWebsite:https://exponentialchangemakers.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exponentialchangemakers/
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About Janine Matho:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jmmatho
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Supporting resources:
'Women in the Workplace 2022' report by McKinsey & Company
'Visible Strengths' by Mary Mosope Adeyemi
On this Top Tip, Amy and Becky reflect on Vic Forrest's powerful top tip to take a break and be kind to ourselves.
We reconnect and remind ourselves of:
- The importance of making space for ourselves, in order to help ourselves to keep going, to boost productivity, insight and capacity for wisdom.
- To remember it is the responsibility of a leader to role model this positive behaviour for the sake of our team and our business.
- How taking regular rest breaks is an often forgotten but critical factor of success.
We ask ourselves and listeners what is one small thing I can do to create space for myself today?
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VIKA Books Website: https://vikabooks.com
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We would like to apologise for the variable quality of sound in this episode.
Self-described dyslexic bibliophile, design geek, entrepreneur, and mother, Victoria Forrest is an award-winning graphic designer specialising in book, brand and XR design for The Arts. As founder of VIKA Books, Victoria works at the cutting edge of book design.
In 2022, Victoria won InnovateUK’s Women in Innovation Award as well as D&AD Future Impact. She’s also Great British Entrepreneur of the Year for Creative Industries and one of the UK’s TechWomen100.
We discuss:
•The contradictions and tensions in being a creative entrepreneur
•The importance of taking time away to gain perspective
•An overlooked language: British Sign Language and the beauty of learning it
•Tips for slowing down and the power of breath
About Victoria Forrest:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriaforrest
VIKA Books Website: https://vikabooks.com
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In this week's Top Tip episode, Becky and Amy reflect on Nithya Prabu's recommendation for entrepreneurs and leaders to:
- Be really clear of your values, purpose and goals;
- Make sure your goals track directly back to your purpose and values; and highlights that,
- "If your goals are important enough on a spiritual level, the rest are just details."
We discuss:
- How goals should reflect purpose, and purpose be driven by values; and how all too often espoused values aren't reflected in an entrepreneur's or company's behaviours and actions.
- The importance of thinking through practically how your values play out in your business.
- How scaling a business can sometimes result in a mismatch between a founder's values and their team's interpretation of these.
- The power of reflective writing and how it can help you shift your perspective and thinking to build your self-esteem, resilience, and ultimately your wealth.
- How much fun goals are!
Nithya has published a range of books, including motivational poems. From her 2017 collection 'Lionness on Fire', Amy reads the opening to,
'The Universe and You'
You are not inferior.
You're not negligible.
You are not an excuse.
You are exclusive.
You are significant to this world.
You are an answer to the prayers
of this universe, for a purpose
which you and you alone
can accomplish.
The universe wants you,
desires you, demands you
to be here.
That, my love, is the reason
why you are here
in the first place.
Forget what others have
to say about you.
Fall in love with you,
submit yourself to the universe
as it tries to work its way
through you.
We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we have. We would love to hear your experiences with values, purpose, goals, reflective writing and any other distinctions you have taken from this podcast. Please connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter using the links below; and subscribe to The MindStyling podcast and newsletter.
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About Nithya Prabu and Lurnable Ltd.
http://nithyaprabu.com/ - discover more of Nithya's poetry and insights
https://www.lurnable.com/ - on a mission to enable international students to make the right educational decisions
Supporting resources:
In this episode Amy references 'Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less' by Greg McKEown. (2014, Virgin Books).
Nithya Prabu is the founder and Managing Director of Lurnable, a data-driven education technology company focused on delivering bespoke international student services.
Nithya describes herself as a misfit and a rebel, who has always been an entrepreneur. At the same time she is a published poet who has written over 1,200 motivational poems.
In this warm and wide-ranging conversation, Amy Armstrong and Nithya explore:
- What it means to be an entrepreneur.
- Authentic leadership - you do not have to be cutthroat to be a leader, you can be emotionally connected and vulnerable and be successful.
- Productivity, flexible working, and learning from generation z employees.
- Nithya's deliberate choice to rise above challenges which scare her.
- How Nithya has learnt everything she knows about life and running a business from sport.
- The power of writing to make sense of ourselves and the world.
About Lurnable
http://nithyaprabu.com/ - discover more of Nithya's poetry and insights
https://www.lurnable.com/ - on a mission to enable international students to make the right educational decisions
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In part two of our MindStyling End of Year Special, Amy chats with Becky about her decision to leave Interactive Scientific in 2019. We reflect on:
- The gifts and challenges of being a start-up CEO
- The unsustainable frenzy of a constant sprint
- Saying no to bad behaviour and toxic relationships
- How do you know when it's time to walk away?
- Is a graceful landing possible?
For Becky, a trusted mentor, supportive Chair, and compelling Vision Board played important roles in helping her to bring to a close her time at Interactive Scientific, and open the door to a raft of new opportunities. Which of these are playing a positive role in your life at present? How have endings brought you gifts over the past year?
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As 2021 draws to a close, MindStyling enjoys two end-of-year special podcasts, reflecting on the gifts in endings.
In part one, Amy Armstrong and Dr Becky Sage catch up with Nathalie Alpi to reflect on the acquisition of Cookies HQ. We discuss:
- Pivoting and purpose
- When pressure is unsustainable and change is necessary
- The value of sleep!
- Creating space for opportunity
- Navigating an exit with values intact
- The challenge of redundancies
- Reconnecting to joy and purpose at work each day
We ask, how can you create hope for yourself in 2022?
If you would like to hear more about Nathalie's experiences, enjoy our first interview with her published on 31 August 2020: 'Nathalie Alpi: Relationships are at the core of everything we do' https://themindstylingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1032514/5174497
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Guest: Nathalie Alpi
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In today's Top Tips episode, Amy and Becky reflect on Kerstyn and Suzi's warning:
"Don't kitchen-sink it: keep it simple. It's all about the problem."
We muse how easy it is as entrepreneurs and instinctive innovators, to try to do everything, and be everything, to everybody. Instead we think about:
- How to say no, and prioritise effectively.
- Finding the sweet spot where the needs of your customers, the needs of your audience, and your own needs overlap.
- The power of mastery and getting really good at one key area of focus
Amy asks, when you say yes to one idea, what are you saying no to? The 3 P’s can help you refine your focus and clarity on how to organise your resources:
- Projects: What projects do you need to abandon or postpone? What meetings will you no longer attend? What resources do you need to divert to the yes?
- People: What expectations do you need to manage? What relationships will be affected?
- Patterns: What habits do you need to break? What old stories or dated ambitions you need to update? What beliefs about yourself do you need to let go of?
Finally, Becky flags the importance of taking others with you, and nurturing relationships when you implement change.
Do you share our tendency to 'kitchen-sink' it? How do you get clear on what to say yes to, and therefore say no to, too? We would love to hear your thoughts and experiences. Please rate, review, and subscribe to The MindStyling podcast and newsletter.
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About MeeToo, founded by Kerstyn Comley PhD and Suzi GodsonWebsite: https://www.meetoo.help/how-meetoo-works
Kerstyn Comley PhD and Suzi Godson, soon to be PhD are co-founders of MeeToo, an app that allows people to talk anonymously about difficult things with other people of a similar age or experience. The MeeToo mission is to provide mental help to everyone, everywhere by delivering pre-moderated, anonymous digital peer support which is effective, accessible, cheap, safe and scalable.
Co-CEO Suzi Godson has been The Times sex and relationships columnist for 16 years and her books have been translated into fifteen languages.
Co-CEO Kerstyn Comley has twenty years experience in development, product and business management. Before starting MeeToo she founded a successful IT consultancy and co-led a project to open a new Free School.
We discussed:
- Lean methodology and misconceptions around what an MVP is
- The value of going slow whilst you still can
- Getting impact investment
- How writing a book helped their business
- Mental ill health and the impact of COVID on their business
About MeeToo:Website: https://www.meetoo.help/how-meetoo-works
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In this episode Becky and Amy reflect on the criticality of Heather Lyons' Top Tip: "Hire really good people."
No business leader would dispute the value of this; for founders, great hires are particularly important. We muse on the common pitfalls around hiring for start ups.
We emphasise the value of hire slow and fire fast:
- The wrong people can be extremely distructive, especially for small teams.
- Don't be scared to ask too much: get clear of what you are looking for.
- Don't assume others won't be as excited and motivated by the business' mission as much as you are.
- Get training and support in how to hire and how to manage well.
- Factor in time to build strong team foundations and nurture team growth.
- Take care not to feel obliged to give early supporters a share of the business or take a salaried role.
- Get creative with short contracts initially focused on discrete packages of work with clear KPIs.
- Importantly, take the long term view and work back from your vision for the business: design an organisation that allows you to be in your zone of genius!
We would love to hear about your experiences with hiring. Please connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter using the links below; and subscribe to The MindStyling podcast and newsletter.
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About Heather Lyons and Blue Shift CodingWebsite: https://blueshiftcoding.com
Heather Lyons is the co-founder of Blue Shift Coding, a company on a mission to empower young people to be more than tech consumers, to be digital creators!
Heather originally trained as an architect, but had always worked in technology as a user experience (UX) designer.
In 2013, Heather was approached by some mums who were keen for their children to learn to code. Heather had been teaching computer-based design at university level in London and had children of my own. She was also passionate about empowering children to create with code as opposed to simply consuming technology through yet another device. With this in mind, she set about teaching code. Their first term started with eight children in her garden! Those eight children all re-enrolled and they soon started running after-school clubs at a nearby girls’ school.
Now Blue-Shift offers online classes, after school clubs, holiday camps and private tuition to lots of young people who are getting excited about being tech creators
- How important it is to gather evidence for your product
- Opportunities to design better education
- How she helps her team avoid burnout
- Building the right team and the value of a company scorecard
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In this week's Top Tips episode, Becky and Amy celebrate Kate Dimbleby's Top Tip:
"Ask yourself questions. Keep talking to yourself because you'll find some really interesting answers. Ask is that true?"
As business leaders, an ability to step back and understand the context within which we are making decisions is invaluable for our personal and business' growth.
Reflective Practice gives us the tools to gain perspective. We ponder how to reflect effectively:
- Where you are on the blame continuum? Are you assigning all fault to yourself for things which have gone wrong , or are you blaming everyone but you?!
- In a lean culture, learning is a metric for success: move away from blame towards lessons learnt.
- Move from being reflective to reflexive - take into account possible unconscious biases, and underlying assumptions.
- Consciously create a positive environment which supports good quality thinking.
- Check in with yourself: ask if your negative thoughts about yourself are really true? Take care to focus on what's working well.
We discuss Rolfe's simple three step model to support reflection which moves you forward. Ask:
1. What? What was I trying to achieve? What happened? What were the consequences? What patterns, habits, strengths, weaknesses have I demonstrated?
2. So What? What does this teach me? What does this imply? What other knowledge could I have brought to this situation? What resources could I have used? What could I have done differently?
3. Now What? What do I need to do to improve things? What broader issues need to be considered? What do I need to work on and learn about? What shall I do differently going forwards?
Move from big picture reflections, to the critical next step. Keep asking those questions, positively and pragmatically!
We would love to hear about your reflective practices and how you enable yourself to keep moving forwards. Please connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter using the links below; and subscribe to The MindStyling podcast and newsletter.
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About Stornaway.io and Kate Dimbleby
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Kate Dimbleby, co-founder of Stornaway.io has been working for 25 years as a producer, performer, singer, songwriter, teacher and facilitator. She has recorded 6 albums and has toured the world with theatrical music shows, working with world-class musicians, writers and other artists to tell stories about women's voices.
Kate has developed a structure for writing and developing her ideas to allow for maximum creative freedom and flexibility particularly live on stage. This has informed the creation of the story map and writing tools for Stornaway.io - a ground-breaking interactive filmmaking platform that she launched in May 2020 with her husband filmmaker and technologist Ru Howe.
Stornaway.io's drag and drop authoring tools enable creators in Entertainment, Business, Learning and Agencies to easily craft and pre-vis compelling interactive video stories for delivery to websites, social media, VOD platforms and YouTube!
We discussed:
- Moving from the music industry to a tech startup
- Getting out of the building
- Reaching out to people we know
- Shifting cultures as you shift to different markets
- Waiting for the right time to target you market
About Stornaway.io and Kate Dimbleby
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In this week's Top Tip episode, Becky and Amy reflect on Alison Wood's Top Tip to add "in your opinion" to any advice you are given. She urges us to remember opinions are not facts. You get to collate opinions and decide what to do with them.
Becky and Amy reflect on:
- The importance of getting clear about your core purpose, big vision, and the steps on the journey.
- The value of strategic objectives, and your thematic goal - i.e. your number one priority right now*.
- The courage required to say yes to your core purpose and no to everything else.
- The power of trusted advisors, and how to build that trust between you.
- The risk of overwhelm when well-meaning experts are bombarding you with diverse and contradictory advice.
- Learning as a critical metric of success throughout the business lifecycle.
We enjoy the idea of experimenting with the house-rule of 'one in, one out,' to help remind us to be mindful of which advice we take on and allow to influence the direction of our business.
What's your approach to protecting yourself from the key ideas others want to introduce to your space? How do you decide which to say "yes" to, and "no" to everything else? We would love to hear your experiences and insights. Please connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter using the links below; and subscribe to The MindStyling podcast and newsletter.
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In today's episode, Amy and Becky reflect on Sam Woodham's top tip, to never underestimate your unique perspective. "If you're lucky enough to have an idea, don't let it go. Give it a go."
We discuss the challenges of how to stick with an idea, and persist against the odds as you transform it from just a niggle in your head into a service or product that people love and want to buy.
As an entrepreneur doing something not done before, in a way not done before, validation is unlikely to come easily.
We ask how to:
- Make peace with feeling uncomfortable when self-doubt is rampant.
- Make decisions based on objective information not just personal interpretation.
- Operate from the positive, intellectual part of the brain where you can make sophisticated decisions, rather than your limbic system designed to protect you from pain at all costs.
We reflect on:
- The Five Why method of root cause analysis: ask "why?" five times, to drill down to the core issues behind any set-backs or challenges.
- The importance of building self-awareness so that you can identify when you are being triggered negatively.
- The five BASIC social needs of humans: Belonging (B), Autonomy (A), Status (S), Integrity (I) and Certainty (C).
- Not to quit on a bad day: wait until you've had a really great day, and make the decision then.
- Schedule time to reflect on any persistent concerns, and consciously create an environment that will support you to do your best thinking.
We would love to hear your experiences of persevering through challenges to make your ideas a reality. What has worked for you? What have been your hardest battles? How do you make the peace and space to listen and act on your ideas? Please connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter using the links below; and do subscribe to The MindStyling podcast and newsletter.
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Alison Wood is the founder of Lilypads, a social venture which aims to ensure menstruation is not a barrier to education through the sale of affordable reusable sanitary pads and provision of menstrual health education.
She created Lilypads after learning that schoolgirls in Kenya were exchanging sex for sanitary pads, to remain in education. Through an innovative business model Lilypads subsidises their work internationally through the sale of a pad in the UK, this enables them to support girls most in need.
We discussed:
- Why investment isn’t always the best route
- How to take advice mindfully
- Taking risks in order to build a purpose led business
- How to block out the noise
- The value of having a vision you can believe in
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About LilypadsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilypads.uk/?hl=en
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Samantha Woodham is an award winning family law barrister. With Harry Gates she co-founded The Divorce Surgery, which turns the traditional model of bitter adversarial legal proceedings on its head. Their unique model offers one lawyer for one couple, at a fixed fee many, many times lower than the average cost of legal proceedings.
The Divorce Surgery has won a raft of awards as a result including Winner of the Financial Times Intelligent Business award, The Lawyer Awards for Best client service innovation, Lexis Nexis Legal Awards, and Legal Innovation Awards. This year, Citywealth has made Samantha their Powerwomen Champion of the Year Gold 2021, and most recently she has won a Women in Innovation award as an entrepreneur tackling society's challenges.
We discuss:
- Transforming traditional narratives to remove the stigma of divorce and re-frame it in a positive light;
- High stress moments of speaking in court vs. live on BBC News and how to manage fear of public speaking;
- Maintaining your mental health in an intense, emotionally driven work environment where conflict is rife;
- The value of compartmentalization and balance for good mental health;
- The power of purpose and how it's those things which make you smile and want to get up in the morning which are what job satisfaction is all about.
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About The Divorce SurgeryInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedivorcesurgery/Twitter: https://twitter.com/DivorceSurgery
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In her interview with MindStyling, Deborah Coughlin, founder of Method X gives a rallying call to women, challenging us all to value ourselves professionally at a higher rate.
In this episode, Amy and Becky recognise the gender pay gap is as critical an issue for entrepreneurs as it is for large corporate employees:
- Research in 2018 revealed that self-employed women in America earn 28% less than self-employed men.
- Another study shows men freelance creatives charge on average 47% more than women.
We reflect on the importance of a positive, empowered money mindset for entrepreneurs. Looking at how limiting beliefs ingrained from birth can hold us back, and what we can do to overcome them, we discuss:
- The risk of conflating ‘I’m not worthy’ with the fee you charge.
- How money means different things to different people: values and beliefs around money tend to be deep-rooted.
- How money works as an amplifier, enabling you to be more of who you are and do greater things than you’d be able to do otherwise.
- The importance of raising the right level of investment to enable your business to fulfill its optimum potential rather than just scrape by.
We ask who are you to stay in the way of you? We discuss how to move from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance and growth and recommend you:
- Ask for what you need, not what you can get by on.
- Price according to value added, not at an hourly rate.
- Ask for help from skilled mentors if you are working on shifting your mindset.
- Accept new behaviours around money will be uncomfortable at first. Keep practising, keep learning, and lean into the experience. Celebrate your wins!
Please share with us your experiences around money: is this an area of strength for you, or is it still a work in progress? Perhaps it's an skill set you really struggle with? We would love to hear your thoughts. Please share your insights and experiences with us on Instagram, LinkedIn Facebook and Twitter using the links below.
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About Method X and Deborah CoughlinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/deborahcoughlin/
Website:https://www.methodxstudios.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/methodxstudios/
Deborah Coughlin is the founder of Method X, an organisation that is creating scalable prevention of poor mental health for the mass market. Her mission is to democratise good mental health, and end the mental health poverty gap.
Deborah is a creative innovator and entrepreneur who often subverts the usual way we look at things. She's a creator of stories, products, communities, and business. They're all designed to empower. In addition to everything else she's done, Deborah has presented for The Guardian, BBC and Radio 4.
We discussed:
- Disruption and creative problem solving.
- The power and importance of talent diversity within a team.
- The value of incubators, and Deborah’s transformative Zinc incubator experience.
- Shifting from deep discomfort with money and a poverty/scarcity mindset, to raising pre-seed funding of £400,000 in the midst of the pandemic.
- Creating something out of nothing when you feel passionately it needs to exist; and the risk of building unsustainability rather than scale into the heart of a project.
- Human being as well as human doing, and how to make taking care of mental health part of your team's business routine.
- How can you be outspoken? How do you get down to your authentic voice?
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About Method X and Deborah CoughlinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/deborahcoughlin/
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Website:https://www.methodxstudios.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/methodxstudios/
Helena's Top Tip is that there is no silver bullet out there. Rather success is all about consistent force in one direction.
In today's episode, Amy and Becky reflect on the importance of this insight, and how:
- Searching for your silver bullet can distract you from doing the crucial work.
- It is the accumulative impact of all of your actions which turns the flywheel of your business: the individual action is responsible for your results becomes impossible to determine.
- Alignment of your team in its understanding of your vision, values, behaviours, and objectives is crucial for your flywheel to start to move and gather momentum.
- The flywheel effect was first popularised by Jim Collins in his iconic book, 'Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't.'
We invite listeners to reflect on their personal or business' flywheel. What are your drivers of momentum and how do they work together?
Amy adds in the powerful questions from the playbook set out by Patrick Lencioni in 'The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business.' What are your answers to:
- Why do we exist?
- How do we behave?
- What do we do?
- How will we succeed?
We'd love to hear your insights and reflections. How does the flywheel play out in your business? What else can you do to increase your focus of energy in one consistent direction? Do let us know using the social media links below.
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About TrueStart Coffee and Helena Hills
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In the second part of our interview with Helena Hills from TrueStart Coffee.
We dug deep into how the TrueStart team invested every penny they had to rebrand and ensure that the visual representation of the brand was truly reflective of the values, vision and energy that they wanted to convey.
This unleashed a whole new trajectory for TrueStart and the team.
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About TrueStart Coffee and Helena Hills
Instagram: https://www.truestartcoffee.com Website: https://www.truestartcoffee.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truestartcoffee
Helena Hills is the founder of True Start Coffee, we talked about so much that we decided to split this episode in two.....
Next episode coming soon.
In this episode we focused on the value of positive energy and ADHD. In part two we discuss rebranding and learning as you go when you build a business from scratch.
TrueStart is feel-good coffee that exists to spread massive positive energy
It is a Multi-award-winning challenger coffee masterbrand with vibrant, clean, healthy coffee for every occasion, at it’s core it is an ethical family business that puts people first.
As well as being an energetic ethical CEO, Helena is extremely passionate about the importance of championing neuro-diversity
We discuss:
☕Positive emotions and how to harness them
☕The power of “clean coffee” (for those who aren’t allergic to caffeine)
☕How it started in a field in Taunton
☕ How ADHD doesn't mean someone needs fixing
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About TrueStart Coffee and Helena Hills
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This week, Amy and Becky sit down to share stories and ponder on the challenges and wonders of finding and doing what comes from the heart. First though, we start with the complexities behind Keri's rallying cry - 'you are not your circumstances.'
We reflect that:
- Perspective and understanding of our circumstances can support us to shake off being defined by the constraints we face.
- How the question, "what's stopping you?" can throw a light on limiting beliefs and give us the choice to step beyond them.
Becky invites Amy to reflect on her career journey to find purpose, from advertising, to television, to adult education and EdTech, to her current eleven year preoccupation with 'what helps humans shine?'
Purpose can be found in many places, and there's not just one answer for each of us. It could be in one or many areas. Perhaps in:
- a sector that resonates;
- a skill set that you love;
- a hobby rather than a money-earning venture; or
- an outcome you are passionate about.
Research shows that our core motivations for work are not focused on salary, but rather the opportunities for:
- Mastery;
- Autonomy; and
- Purpose.
Perhaps it is this 'MAP' which can help us plot a route out of our circumstances.
Do you agree? Is this your experience? Please share your stories with us using the social media links below. Are you managing to do what comes from your heart? How have you managed to grow beyond your circumstances? What helps you shine? We would love to hear from you.
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About Keri Andriana and Amschela
Website: https://amschela.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Amschela
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amschela/
Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/amschela-ltd/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amschela/
Keri Andriana is a multi award winning handbag designer, CEO & Founder of UK affordable luxury handbag brand Amschela. Following the loss of her 15 year legal career, Keri also experienced a relationship breakdown which resulted in the loss of her family home. Homeless, with two children the brand was created as Keri pondered on what to do next.
Since launching in 2017 the brand has become a celebrity favourite and has appeared at London Fashion Week to The BAFTAs, and has caught the eye of high-end magazines, featuring as a Style Obsession for 2018; Vanity Fair UK (March 2018 Issue), Tatler, British GQ and cited by the coveted fashion bible; British Vogue (June 2018 Issue) as ‘one to watch’ in its Designer Profile pages.
Keri was named as a Fashion Award 2020 Nominee as a leader of change. Other noted nominees were Rihanna, Naomi Campbell and mainstream luxury fashion houses such as Gucci & Louis Vuitton. In her spare time, Keri enjoys working with disadvantaged young persons seeking to enter the fashion industry via mentoring and internships within the brand.
We discussed:
Creating a secure future through creating a handbag line (with the support and motivation from her family;
👜 Career transitions
👜 Turning a passion into a business
👜 How a legal career has helped Keri become a successful CEO
👜 Letting your values drive your business decisions
👜 Walking in your purpose
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Website: www.beckysage.com
About Keri Andriana and Amschela
Website: https://amschela.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Amschela
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amschela/
Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/amschela-ltd/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amschela/
Do you have laser focus? This is Mel Rodrigues’ Top Tip for listeners.
In this episode, Amy and Becky consider the value of focus at a macro and a micro level in business, and how neither is necessarily easy to achieve. Sometimes it’s not even appropriate.
- Are you at the stage in your business cycle where you have sufficient information to be able to pursue strategic laser focus?
- Are money and impact to be found in the same place; or are they in entirely different directions, which is so often the case if you’re thinking disruptively or in an impact space.
- Is your team aligned or pulling in different directions?
Perhaps you at the early stage of a start-up where your very focus is on defining your focus!
- We refer to Eric Reis’ classic book ‘The Lean Start Up’ and ‘The Start Up Owner’s Manual’ by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf. In these learning is a key measure of success.
- The lean methodology can be your guide as you find your answers to what is the best business model, market and product for you.
We discuss the challenge of remaining on topic during team meetings, when ideas can come thick and fast.
- Research shows that when we are distracted by something, on average we take 23 minutes to return to the task we were originally working on.
- We recommend the use of an ideas list or ‘bucket’ to capture ideas on-the-hoof, to help you stay on topic.
- Amy outlines her prioritisation tool to help you identify which ideas to pursue quickly and easily. For each idea assess their impact and ease of implementation. Prioritise the high impact, high ease ideas.
- Amy recommends Greg McKeown’s book, ‘Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less’ and his interview by Tim Ferris. His core principle is decide on what matters most and say no to everything else.
How you manage to achieve laser focus? What helps? What doesn't?! Do you agree with our approaches? Do you have better ones to recommend? Please let us know using the social media links below.
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About Gritty Talent:
Website: https://www.grittytalent.tv
Twitter: https://twitter.com/grittytalent?lang=en
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/GrittyTalent/
Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gritty-talent/
Mel Rodrigues is Founder and Creative Director of Gritty Talent – a Bristol based company designing inclusive technology for the TV and Film sector to help bridge its talent gaps.
Gritty Talent is a Bristol based start-up, designing smart, inclusive technology for the TV and Film sector to help bridge its talent gaps.
The free app will be available to download by aspiring talent from late March 2021, and the industry will be able to use it to find exciting and diverse new talent from May onwards.
We discussed:
- Moving from the TV industry to being a tech entrepreneur
- The value of TedX and building ecosystems
- Reshaping skills for the tech sector
- Having long COVID and dealing with COVID whilst pivoting a start up at a very early stage
- Slowing down
- Having laser focus
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About Gritty Talent:
Website: https://www.grittytalent.tv
Twitter: https://twitter.com/grittytalent?lang=en
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Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gritty-talent/
In today’s episode, Amy and Becky reflect on this week's Top Tip from Heidi Gardner: Ask for help - it is what will grow your business.
This week, we decided we'd turn this into an action, and posed ourselves the very specific question:
“What can we ask for help with to maximise growth and impact?”
In our conversation about our conclusions for MindStyling, we talk about:
- How to engage better with our listeners?
- What makes a community?
- The importance of making space for insight: the power of switching off from tasks and noise and allowing our mind to percolate.
- How meditation or journaling can help us think through key questions.
- The value of breaking down our life or work into priority areas – perhaps using a wheel of life model - and posing the question specifically for the area which will make the most difference to you now.
We concluded that it is our listeners who we would most value help from at this stage. We would love to know from you what we could do to serve you all even more powerfully.
Please let us know what help you would value most from us to help you maximise your growth and impact, using the links below.
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Dr. Heidi Gardner is the founder of Science on a postcard and a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, focusing on efficiency of clinical trails. She started science On A Postcard to demonstrate that scientists are people just like everyone else, a diverse group of people from all kinds of backgrounds, beliefs and genders, and the diversity in characteristics only serves to improve the science that is done!!
Science On A Postcard started in 2017, with two postcard designs and an Instagram account.
Today there are over 100 different products for sale; you can buy enamel badges, lanyards, tote bags, notebooks and lots more science goodies. These products have been supporting fabulous causes, scientists and science enthusiasts all over the world.
We discussed:
- How Science on a Postcard is smashing stereotypes, creating a community and shining a light on bad culture.
- Going from the idea to establishing the business all in the space of a domestic flight;
- Optimising your working time and spaces to best suit your needs;
- How to have a significant side hustle whilst still doing a job you love;
- Spotting the signs of depression and managing it;
- Rebranding whilst maintaining the brand essence.
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In today’s Top Tip episode, Amy and Becky reflect on Jillian Kowalchuk’s advice to,
“You need to build yourself first”
Are you secure in yourself? Who you are? What you stand for?
Amy and Becky get under the skin of what this means in practice. How can we get more comfortable with trusting ourselves to make decisions, take action, and move through challenging times?
We reflect on:
- Self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence – what they are and how they interconnect;
- What it means to really esteem yourself;
- How self-confidence is about trusting yourself to grow and learn from your experiences;
- The importance of getting comfortable with our vulnerabilities and accepting our mistakes;
- The power of learning to frame moments of difficulty into questions which can connect us to our passion and purpose;
- The significance of storytelling to build relationships of value and influence; and critically,
- How to move from reflection through to action and impact.
When we are secure in ourselves – who we are and what we stand for – moving forwards with clarity and confidence becomes possible.
We would love to hear what you have found helpful in your journey. What have you done – what are you continuing to do – to help you build your sense of self and find the strength to keep getting back up when events knock you down? Please share your insights and experiences with us on Instagram, LinkedIn Facebook and Twitter using the links below.
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About Jillian & Safe & the Citywww.safeandthecity.com
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TEDx Talk:
Equality by Design | Jillian Kowalchuk | TEDxSquareMile
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Jillian Kowalchuk is an award-winning entrepreneur as the Founder & CEO of Safe & The City, using technology and data intelligence to design safety in digital and physical spaces.
She was given the Exceptional Talent in Technology by the U.K. Home Office, winner of JCI Contribution to Human rights and was listed as the Top 20 Women in Data in the U.K.
She sits on the Commonwealth Businesswomen Executive Team and the Department for International Trade’s Global Entrepreneurial Programme Female Founders Advisory Board.
Jillian is a TEDx speaker and business coach sharing her knowledge and experience of traveling to over 50 countries and breadth of knowledge on gender equality, tech4good, women in STEM to inspire and motivate others to take innovative action to solve meaningful problems.
Her own experience of being in an unsafe situation whilst walking in the city, led to the creation of Safe in the City.
We spoke about:
- The events that led to the founding of Safe & the City
- Violence against women, especially in the aftermath of Sarah Everard’s murder
- The connection between advocacy and entrepreneurship.
- Intersections between different issues
- Looking through the lens of a purpose-driven business
- How to build your community
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TEDx Talk:
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Dr Chen Davies' Top Tip urges us to remember,
“It is a marathon. You have to pace yourself…. Be patient - things will happen, when you try your best.”
In today’s episode, Amy and Becky reflect on how we can keep going, despite no evident results. We open with Chen’s reference to Chinese Bamboo, the fastest growing tree on the planet. Its seed lies dormant for years of watering and fertilizing before finally shooting through the earth, growing at an astonishing rate of 1.5 inches per hour in its fifth year of life.
How can founders and professionals keep showing up, even when results aren’t yet apparent?
Together we reflect on the four key areas which can help us all sustain a STAR performance. STAR stands for:
· Sustain sustainable behaviours
· Tune in and turn up positive thinking
· Activate your strengths and celebrate your successes
· Remember your relationships
We invite listeners to:
Keep an eye on the future. When growth comes, will you be able to respond or will you be just too exhausted? Ask “Am I healthy?” “Can I keep this up?”
Take care of your daily habits – sleep, exercise, eating well.
Create space for learning. A learning mindset can turn a tricky situation into something rich and meaningful, in turn fuelling growth.
We notice:
The power of moving from “I can’t” thinking to “How can I?” questioning.
How tuning into your strengths and successes – micro and macro – amplifies your positive thinking and capacity to do your best work (cf. Sean Achor’s excellent TED talk, ‘The Happy Secret to Better Work).
We remember:
How our relationships and care for the important people in our lives are so often at the heart of our purpose.
We ask:
Who are the people you are getting up for every day?
Please share with us your experiences of pressing on. How do you build your resilience and enable yourself to keep moving forward? We’d love to hear from you via the links below.
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About LatchAid Website:https://latchaid.com
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/latchaid/
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Dr. Chen Mao Davies is the Founder and CEO of LatchAid. She holds a PhD in Computer Graphics and has over 15 years software R&D experience. She spent the past 10 years working in a world-class R&D team to create stunning Visual Effects for feature films including the Oscar & BAFTA award-winning Gravity and Blade Runner 2049.
Chen had a dream career but in 2015 when she had her son she had some personal struggles with breastfeeding. These struggles changed her life course and now she is using technology and innovation to revolutionize breastfeeding support.
- Being a visual person and why that is important for her product.
- Where the tipping point is when you decide to leave your day job before focusing fully on your business.
- What happened when she took a 9-week old baby into Cambridge Judge business school
- How to make the hard things enjoyable
- How to ask for help and reframe situations
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About LatchAid
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Caz Ike’s Top Tip was to learn how to be restful and relax your mind one short moment at a time.
In today’s episode, Amy and Becky reflect on their different responses to this perennial challenge, and invite listeners to get curious about what works best for them.
Together we reflect on:
- How to create stillness and peace, from simply switching off the noise, to sitting in silence.
- The value of others curating the space for peace for us through a class, versus the discipline often required for a personal yoga or mindfulness practice.
- The delight of giving oneself permission to pause and enjoy mindful activities for their own sake - from puzzles, to sewing, crafting and art. From reading, to exercise, journaling and more.
We note how our needs are so often seasonal, changing over time, and differing according to our circumstances and personalities.
We ask how can mindfulness help us as business leaders and entrepreneurs?
- How can being clear of the meaning and purpose of a task help us to step into the flow of the task?
- Why is it important to be prepared, and write our ideas down?
- Why do we have our best ideas in those moments of quiet and downtime?
- How do we harness and enhance our brain’s natural creativity?
We’d love to hear how you are able to be restful, relax your mind, and be in the moment. Please do share your experiences and top tips using the links below:
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About Caz Icke and SoleSenseWebsite: http://solesense.co.uk
This is the first episode in our series featuring the 2021/22 Innovate UK Women in Innovation award winners. More details about the programme can be found in the links below.
Caz Icke is a specialist Physiotherapist with over 13 years of neurorehab experience both in the UK and Canada, and is currently practicing at the Frenchay Brain Injury Unit in Bristol.
Caz founded SoleSense in 2018 in response to the chronic under-resourcing within the UK health system which often results in lack of therapy intensity for those that need it most.
SoleSense uses wearable technology to provide a digital rehabilitation platform, where real-time biofeedback is delivered to the user to enhance balance and gait performance outside of therapy contact time.
Caz has recently won one of the "Women in Innovation Awards' from Innovate UK and is set to develop her second prototype and prepare for multi-center clinical feasibility testing next year.
We discussed:
- The development of her business, which will enable more therapy, more quickly to more people who need neurorehabilitation
- Being a Women in Innovation winner
- Finding calm in her mind
- Finding a support system
- Building a business at a pace that feels right for you
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About Caz Icke and SoleSenseWebsite: http://solesense.co.uk
About the Women in Innovation Programme:
Website: https://ktn-uk.org/programme/women-in-innovation/
In this MindStyling Top Tips episode, join Becky and Amy as they reflect on Miisa Mink’s invitation to us all to ask, “What’s keeping me small?”
In line with Miisa’s urging not to rush the process, Becky and Amy ponder the questions beneath the question:
- Do I feel small?
- If so, when? What are my triggers?
- Why am I triggered?
- What is holding me back from making the impact I want?
We discuss:
- The brain science behind feeling small and the automatic stress responses of fight, flight, and freeze, as well as ‘please’, a learned stress response.
- How a perceived threat to our status fires up the same part of the brain as a threat to our physical safety.
- Recognition of the danger of black and white thinking, and the value of identifying the nuances of those situations which might cause us to feel and act small.
- We invite listeners to get curious about what it is that helps them to stop feeling small.
We talk about:
- The importance and impact of managing our thoughts positively - consciously connecting to our personal strengths, values and purpose.
- The power of perspective and decoupling the outcome of a moment from our sense of self.
- Our experiences of goal-setting and the value of meaningful milestones to beat overwhelm.
- How our feelings are often the last to change, as a result of a conscious shift to more positive, empowering thoughts and behaviours.
We’d love to hear about your experiences and reflections on this important topic. Please let us know using the links below:
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About Miisa Mink and DrivenWoman
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Join the DrivenWoman’s FREE Facebook group - Doers Tribe.
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Miisa's personal handle is: @miisamink on Instagram, Twitter and Clubhouse
Miisa Mink is an award-winning women’s empowerment activist and founder and chief doer at DrivenWoman – a fast-growing empowerment platform and a global community for ambitious women who want to achieve their goals and aspirations.
She’s a serial entrepreneur who started her career in marketing and branding, building a successful branding agency network for one of the world’s leading advertising giants. She has been involved in various start-ups as an investor, advisor and founder.
We discussed:
- The power of doing things the feminine way
- Demystifying the idea that success and hours worked are the same thing
- Embarking on journey's even when we might be uncertain
- How you tell the difference between your ego and your calling
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Join DrivenWoman membership and global community at www.driven-woman.com.
Join the DrivenWoman’s FREE Facebook group Doers Tribe to connect with other ambitious women and where Miisa regularly answers questions about finding your drive and stepping out of comfort zone to make your goals happen.
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Miisa's personal handle is:
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In this episode Amy and Becky reflect on the top tips from Olga Kravchenko of Musemio: “Just do it!” and “Don’t be afraid to follow up with people you haven’t spoken to in a while.”
Join us as we ponder how easy it is to get caught up inside our own heads, and let distorted thinking stop our instinct to reach out for support and feedback. We ask:
Are the concerns holding you back, true? Or are they just FEAR (“False Evidence Appearing Real”)?
Might your contact have been following you with interest, without you being aware?
Showing up consistently; asking the hard questions; being passionate, vulnerable and able to connect even when things aren’t perfect – these are all behaviours people respect and support.
So often your greatest supporters are invested in you, even more than your product or business.
Reach out – “just do it!” You’re likely to be pleasantly surprised at your reception.
We’d love to hear where you are on your journey and how you have navigated your fears and hesitations about contacting others for advice and support. Let us know what works for you and helps you, “Just do it!” using the links below:
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About MusemioSign up to the Musemio app here: https://musemio.com/download
Dowload the Musemio in partnership with Royal Museums Greenwich App:
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/moon-viewer/id1540937816
Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Musemio.MoonViewer&hl=en≷=US
To connect with Musemio, email info@musemio.com or add Olga on linked in.
Olga Kravchenko is CEO of Musemio, an award-winning virtual reality educational platform that brings culture to children in a way they enjoy the most - by playing.
The company’s vision is to make arts and cultural education accessible to every child across the globe. Musemio has received international recognition by winning numerous awards, being published in leading media such as the Financial Times & the Telegraph and working with leading cultural institutions around the globe.
In 2019 Olga was awarded Women in Technology Scholarship by Sky, recognizing her as an emerging leader in the technology sector. Apart from running an exciting venture, Olga has been actively involved in helping other early-stage entrepreneurs to start their business or transition into tech career.
We spoke about many of the challenges and opportunities of running a high tech start up including:
- Making culture engaging
- The power of curiosity
- How to be resilient as your startup matures and you have more people to support;
- Tips for helping you feel less stressed about presenting your work
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About Musemio
Sign up to the Musemio app here: https://musemio.com/download
Dowload the Musemio in partnership with Royal Museums Greenwich App:
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Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Musemio.MoonViewer&hl=en≷=US
To connect with Musemio, email info@musemio.com or add Olga on linked in.
Our guest and founder of Tortoise, Katie Vanneck Smith firmly believes that we can all do work that we believe in and enjoy. Her point is that we’re living the 100-year life so don’t spend it by doing something that you don’t love and doesn’t bring you joy.
Work matters to us, we have to recognise that. On this top tips episode we discussed:
- The tension between finding work you love and having financial security;
- Having psychological safety before we can get to fulfillment;
- The things that you have to go through before being able to get all that you are looking for.
We ask the question:
- Are you spending your time living someone else’s dream?
- Have you set off on one path but ended up somewhere that doesn’t align with your values?
- Can you find ways to enjoy your work even if you don’t feel like you are in the right place yet.
We think you can. Listen to our stories in this episode to help you turn up the joy factor in your work.
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**Tortoise Media
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Katie Vanneck-Smith is the Co-founder and Publisher of Tortoise Media with James Harding and Matthew Barzun. Tortoise is a slow media news platform that is committed to looking at what is driving the news and is built on a membership model that is inclusive and open - www.tortoisemedia.com
Prior to this new adventure as an entrepreneur, Katie was the President of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, where she led the company to over 3m subscribers, the largest number in WSJ history.
She has previously worked at the Telegraph Media Group and The Times, where, as Chief Marketing Officer, she was the architect of the newspaper’s early move to paid digital subscriptions.
We discussed:
- How she stood strong in the problematic culture of newspaper publishing in the 1990's and 2000s
- How she has developed her thick skin
- Why she was locked in a cupboard by her boss early in her career
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**Tortoise Media
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Polly Crook from The HOW People was straight to the point with her Top Tip:
“Find your passion!”
In today’s new episode, Becky and Amy reflect on what has helped them find and live their passion, and what has held them back.
Are you living a life that serves you most powerfully? Or is it one designed by Society and what your ego tells you is, or is not, the right path to follow? Why have you made the choices that you have?
We talk about how you might find your passion, and the value of identifying the key ingredients to your best life. Do you find constructing a Wheel of Life – or even a Pizza of Life! - helpful?
Or is Ikigai more meaningful for you? Helping you to find your sweet spot for life, where your passions and talents converge with what the world needs from you and is willing to pay you for.
What if the pursuit of being paid to do what you love, simply won’t fulfil your financial goals? What if you are doing something you love, but in a toxic work environment you hate? What if your clarity of thought is clouded with self-doubt, anxiety, or depression?
How can you clear the space for yourself to consciously design a life you love?
During our discussion we reference a range of excellent books, and even a video, to help you take practical steps, and give yourself the clarity to:
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start to move forwards
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say no to the things which aren’t working for you, and
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believe you can build a passion-filled life.
Our recommendations include:
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‘The Code of the Extraordinary Mind’, by Vishen Lakhiani
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‘The Passion Test’ by Janet Attwood and Chris Attwood
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‘What Colour is your Parachute?’ by Richard Bolles
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‘How to get a job you love’ by John Lees
We would love to hear what works for you. Let us know on social media using the links below:
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Host: Dr Becky SageInstagram: www.instagram.com/drbeckysage
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Website: www.beckysage.comLakhiani’s concept of BRULES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq3TG2CEiWw
In today’s episode we explore the Top Tip prescribed for us by Dr. Jo Watkins of the HOW People:
“One small change or decision every day”
Join Becky and Amy as they celebrate how a focus on one small change each day, or getting 1% better, can vanquish overwhelm and help defend us from the perils of perfectionism. We reflect on how continuous improvement builds momentum in business – and in sport.
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How does breaking a massive goal down into small steps help you?
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What are the metrics that work to power your success?
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Do you get the support you need?
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And how do you pace yourself in business, so you can keep delivering the high performance when it arrives?
During our discussion, we reference ‘Winning!’ by Clive Woodward (Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. 2004).
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This week we are speaking to The How People founders, Polly Crook and Dr. Jo Watkins
The HOW People connects teenage girls between 11-16 yrs to role models, mentors, coaching and community in a unique and exciting digital membership platform. The first of its kind in the UK, content is delivered via interactive live zoom calls weekly which are recorded and stored exclusively for the members in easy to use software.
We spoke to Jo and Polly about:
- How they turned “usual” models upside down to account for momentum and COVID
- Getting the Co-founder balance
- The habits that keep their energy going
- How they have kept teenagers connected during lockdown
- Having a winding road through your career
- How telling your story can help other people
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Cat Wildman from GEC gave us a Top Tip that we love.
“Never, never stop ever. So get knocked down, dust yourself off and try again, and just keep on coming on it. If it's something that you think about all the time, and it's a real passion in your heart.“
Becky and Amy discuss how they use their work ethic to push forward and be resilient. We talk about how you can never give up on the passion but get curious about the signs sometimes you might not be fulfilling your passion in the right way. There are so many ways we can fulfill our purpose sometimes we can get lost. Immense work ethic and passion have to be channeled well.
Our advice is to be wise. Be wise to both your strategy and your instinct (head and heart). So that when you get to where you want to be you show up as the person you want to be.
Where are you on that journey?
Are you close to giving up and you need motivation and support to keep going?
Are you pushing too hard in the wrong direction?
Let us know by connecting below.
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Amy and Becky talk about Nic Ponsford's top tip:
You are not going to have all the skills you need so build a support network around you.
Many of us are very independent, driven people and we have often been trained, through our upbringing to be very individual in our approaches to our work. This is an admirable trait, however, we are never going to have all the skills we need to make the changes that we want to make, so we have to get the right network around us and learn how to pull from them.
Some of the thing that can help us to do that include:
- Acknowledging that you can’t do everything
- Seeing the value of the community
- Being prepared to have healthy debate when you do bring others in
You don’t have all the skills you need, you need to draw from the community
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Recommended Video:
Forget the pecking order at work Margaret Heffernan
https://www.ted.com/talks/margaret\_heffernan\_forget\_the\_pecking\_order\_at\_work?language=is
We have been joined by Nic Ponsford and Cat Wildman, co-founders of The Global Equality Collective (GEC).
The Global Equality Collective, an app that gives leaders all the data, information and education they need to break their own new ground in gender equality and inclusion.
We discussed:
- How a business came out of a twitter account
- Building a platform, launching and piloting in lockdown
- How to balance high energy problem solver people with more grounded influences
- Gender equality in education
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Language is a powerful tool that we have at our disposal, allowing us to:
- Connect with others
- Build Rapport
- Develop an increased understanding
But when you are an entrepreneur or leader you are constantly having to interact with people who use very different every-day vocabulary.
In this episode Becky and Amy discuss the value of active listening, being brave enough to ask if you aren't sure, and the importance of thinking about language when we create inclusive environments.
Alison and KT spoke about being playful with how they look at language, get curious, and ask questions.
How does language affect your confidence and your role as a leader?
Let us know by getting in touch below.
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When was the last time you played? When was the last time you purposefully injected fun into your life ?
We talked to Alison Cryan and Dr KT Cooper, the co-founders of A&K’s Playground. They believe everyone can embrace play. You might just need a little helping hand to get started, and that is where they come in. Using intergenerational play, Alison and KT design and deliver creative and imaginative person-centred experiences encouraging people to become more open to play no matter how old they are.
We discussed:
- The importance of play at every age and stage of your life;
- How to inject play into your life;
- How Alison and Katie are creating a business out of play;
- Being a co-founder and how they make it work together;
- Why they chose to set their business up as a CIC (community interest company);
- How they pivoted during COVID.
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In today's new episode we discuss Amber Probyn, co-founder of Satis Urinal's Top Tip:
"Always Bring Your Own Tone"
Do you ever minimise your energy because of other people in the room?
If they are at a 4/10 don’t match them. If you are at an 8/10 - stay at an 8/10.
We talk about:
💪Curating environments that give you good energy;
💪Finding your super strengths and finding ways to help your strengths shine even brighter;
💪Being aware of the energy people need to get them on board and then to get them to your level
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We talked about the VIA free survey, which takes 10-15 mins to find your superstrengths:
https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths-via
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Amy and Becky are bringing their skills as educators in Cardiff and Exeter business schools respectively to discuss Hazel’s top tip about being careful who you bring with you on your entrepreneurial journey.
We started by talking about the topic of bringing people around you, which led us to think about:
- how we understand each other;
- how we design our teams;
- how to build and work in diverse teams and
- how to be mindful with the development of your team.
Some of our tips about building your team include:
- If you have identified particular skills or connections ALWAYS pay attention to the values fit tool.
- When you talk about values - make sure that you also talk about the behaviour associated with those values.
- Use the probationary period well.
- Manage behaviours as well as outputs
Join us on our social channels to ask questions about building teams and relationships to support your business or leadership role?
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Amber and Hazel chose to do a degree that included an Innovation module and, through that, they found each other and bonded around the issue of pee inequality. From that their company Satis Urinals was born.
We discussed:
🚽How they started their business
🚽The co-founder relationship, why did they decide to work together, what works and how do they keep it strong?
🚽What makes good innovation and entrepreneurship education
🚽How COVID and lockdown impacted their progress
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Fab broke down asking for help into three categories:
- Accountability and support
- Help with something we don't know
- Offloading
Amy and Becky discuss how to ask for help in different scenarios and how to overcome some of the common challenges of asking for help.
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Fab Giovanetti is an award-winning entrepreneur, supporting people making a positive impact through their marketing. She is known as the founder of Creative Impact, a collective of hundreds of creatives making a positive impact on others and the planet.
Through her community and her work at Alt Marketing School, she touched over 100,000 people from all over the world - she is a keen speaker, writer, and published author, as well as a guest lecturer across the UK.
Fab Giovanetti brought her trademark energy and positivity to MindStyling and we discussed:
- Portfolio Careers
- Redirecting her career vision from music writing to marketing
- Reclaiming your time
- Recharging your batteries ad working sustainably
- Getting out of your head
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Dr Pearl Jarrett Reminded us that we were more than enough, however, we don't always feel that way.
Amy and Becky discuss how to overcome our negative self-talk and find our own uniqueness and how to build the courage to uncover the diamond that is you.
When you are reflecting on a situation we would like you to try writing two lists:
- What went well?
- What could be even better?
Let us know how that worked for you by sending us a message on Instagram, facebook or twitter.
If you are struggling to be confident in your own opinions:
Start writing some lists:
- What is your favourite film/music/food etc
- What excites you?
- What gets you fired up?
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Welcome to season 2 of MindStyling. We have freshened up our look and we are starting 2021 with an interview to get you happy
Dr Pearl Jarrett is a Multi-Award winning Disruptive Changemaker and she is the Founder and Group CEO of The Jarrett Foundation.
In 2005 Pearl was diagnosed with Cancer. After winning the fight of her life, she decided to draw up a “Bucket List” of all the things she’s ever wanted to do, but either talked herself out of it or allowed others to talk her out of it. She decided that as she had been given a second chance, this was her opportunity to change the world.
Since then Pearl has been going down the list and achieving everything on her bucket list, she tells us more in this interview.
Pearl talks about
- Being uniquely you
- Playing to your strengths
- Overcoming those voices in your head that talk you out of doing what you want to do
- How sticking to your core values can lead to big opportunities.
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Thank you MindStylists for coming with us on the journey with us and our incredible guests this year.
To give back to you, after all your support, we have created a free downloadable pdf to give you calm and clarity:
https://mindstyling.group/calm-clarity-download/
So once you have listened to this short podcast, carve out 10 minutes for yourself to wrap up 2020 and look forward to 2021.
Our highlights have been:
- All the amazing people we have laughed with and learned from on this podcast
- Amy and Becky have enjoyed working together and learning from each other along the way
- The impact we have had on you - this is why we do it and your feedback is so valuable to us.
We would love to hear from you so please contact us through our social channels to let us know what you would like to hear more of and how you got on with finding calm and clarity with our free worksheet.
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Emma's Top Tip is to Love yourself first. When we give time for self love it enables us to show up better for everyone else.
Amy and Becky give you their approaches to self-love. What works (and doesn't work) for them. Including:
- SEE clearly:
- Sleep well
- Eat well
- Exercise well
- Move your body, even if it is just 5-minute morning yoga or getting out for a walk
- Amy's smoothie recipe which she uses to show her body the love it needs
- Good self talk
We discuss all these things in more detail so listen to the podcast if you want to know how to easily incorporate self love into your life.
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Yoga with Adrienne:
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Emma Mumford is an award-winning life coach and mentor, bestselling author, speaker, Law of Attraction YouTuber, and podcast host of the popular podcast 'Spiritual Queen's Badass Podcast'. Emma's work helps women step into who they truly are and fearlessly turn their dream life into an abundant reality using the Law of Attraction and spirituality.
We had the pleasure to talk to Emma about:
🌟 Money Mindset
🌟How to listen to your intuition
🌟Business Acquisition and what happens after you sell your business
🌟Overcoming anxiety and depression
and so much more.....
Don't forget to give us feedback from the episode and connect with us on all our social channels.......
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Amy Armstrong and Dr Becky Sage discuss a series of top tips that we were given by Joyann Boyce, founder of The Social Detail
She keeps a wall of Post Its to remind her of her own top tips and motivational quotes including:
✴️ What does DONE look like?
✴️ Consistency is the key to success
✴️ Done is better than perfect
✴️ Everyone online is lazy
✴️ People Thrive Here
Want to understand how those things work for us? As "recovering" perfectionists we had a thing or two to say.
Join us on social media to let us know how Joyann's Top Tip worked for you.
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Making inclusive marketing the industry standard
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Today's guest is Joyann Boyce an Inclusive Marketing Consultant and Founder of The Social Detail. The company works with SMEs within the technology sector to maximise their impact through social media. The Social Detail has worked with a range of organisations including the Coke GB, Adobe XD, SETsquared and Future Space. In her three years of running the agency, Joyann has placed data & inclusion at the heart of her approach to marketing, from idea to creation to reviewing and consumption.
Joyann is a fierce advocate for diversity and inclusion within marketing and tech. Seeing a gap in the stock photo market, she partnered with the SHIFT project to create a portfolio of diverse stock photography. The project was featured on the BBC.
She is currently a Data Fellow with the South West Creative Technology Network, researching how bias within data can be positively used to benefit marginalised groups. The fellowship is allowing her to connect her two passions for data and diversity by exploring the depths of data and machine learning. Her research shows that when dealing with AI, the primary focus has been on trying to eliminate any bias in it. Instead, she believes we can learn more about creating unbiased machines by flipping the bias in favour of marginalized groups and then comparing the outcomes.
We discussed:
💫 The Role that technology plays in exclusion and how we can turn it on it's head to create inclusion.
💫 Why it is important to understand your own biases and be transparent about the biases that you have
💫 Taking care of Mental Health
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Connect with Joyann Boyce
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Connect with The Social Detail
Making inclusive marketing the industry standard
Website: https://www.thesocialdetail.com/
Twitter: @thesocialdetail
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thesocialdetail/
Yasmin's top tip was to be kind to yourself, especially in relation to goal setting.
It is so important to "start where you are", with regard to goal setting, and accepting where you are is one way of being kind to yourself. Yasmin had to completely change how she defined success. Creating meaningful bite-sized goals that would drive her on to the next step.
We discussed:
💫 Small things we can do when the world feels out of control
💫 Finding the one thing that makes sure today is a good day
💫 How to do goal setting in a way that works for you.
And much more...
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We had the pleasure to talk to Yasmin Sheikh, founder of Diverse Matters. Diverse Matters which helps organisations empower their workforce to be disability confident. She worked as a lawyer in the City for 12 years before setting up her own consultancy. Yasmin also helps organisations become more inclusive thereby increasing profitability and improving the retention of staff.
Yasmin is also a multi-award winning international speaker, TEDx speaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uiu2ndZo8c), 2018 winner of the Asian Women of Achievement Awards, (in association with Natwest) for her work in tackling pre-conceptions about disability, LGBT and ethnic minorities, Vice-Chair of Lawyers with Disabilities and Council member at the Law Society. She also recently won Changemaker of the Year awarded by the Professional Speakers' Academy for her work in changing cultures in organisations.
We discussed:
💫 How to move on when unexpected and challenging things happen in your life
💫 How to make our workplaces more inclusive
💫 How to do goal setting in a way that works for you.
And much more...
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If we are ambitious and we want to see a positive change in the world, we must remember that we are not alone. There are whole networks of people that you can work with to create the future that you want to see.
THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE OUT THERE, YOU CAN FIND YOUR TRIBE!
What if your current tribe is not one that you have a value-connection with? How do we remove toxic people:
- Be conscious of your current situation - what do you need/want to change?
- Set your boundaries to protect yourself
- It is not healthy for anyone if you are in a "rescuer position"
Becky and Amy share their experiences of value networks and how we build them.
We discuss the challenge of building collaborative networks and how to overcome the fear of others who have the same goal. The common win-loose mentality of an entrepreprenuer can often work against us, collaboration and partnership is powerful when you have an alignment of purpose.
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**About Jaya Chakrabarti MBE and TISCreport.org
Website: https://tiscreport.org
Twitter:** https://twitter.com/tiscreport?lang=en
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Jaya Chakrabarti MBE is a passionate advocate for technology and corporate transparency for good, and was honoured with an MBE from the Queen in 2014's honours list. Following her MBE Jaya set her sights on tackling modern slavery using open data, setting up her social enterprise TISCreport.org.
We talked to her about:
- How to use failure to propel you forward
- What to expect when you get an MBE
- What Norm Entrepreneurship is and how to do it
- How she found her passion for fighting modern slavery
- How to work through anxiety and depression
- How to find our values network
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Char Lawrence's top tip is enough to get any of us up and moving.
I think that we all know what it is to feel energy bubbling up inside, a desire to do something. Char says when you feel, just do it.
Are you ready to satisfy that drive? What gets in the way of you acting on your desires?
We answer the question, how do you tap into the passion, purpose, and ambition? Sometimes we have that fire but we don't know how to satisfy it or act on it.
Sometimes your drive can get in the way of acting for your passion and purpose and send you off down a path that is based on somebody else's idea of success and gets in the
Maybe your purpose isn't about what you are going to do. Maybe it is about waking up, listening to yourself, and being your best self at that moment, on that day.
What matters most to you today?
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Char Lawrence, founder of the Mogul Minded Group and N9ne cosmetics spoke to us about how her incredibly popular magazine, The Mogul Minded Magazine, was born from her frustrations about not being able to get positive stories from the BAME community into the mainstream media.
She discusses how all her businesses began organically to address the needs that she had, from the hair care products created from her own natural hair journey, which was triggered by a comment from her daughter; to the events business that was set up due to the inaccessibility of other networking events.
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- How she has managed through 2020, reflecting on her growth and her frustrations
- How she is telling positive stories focused on people in the BAME community
- How faith doesn't have to mean the same as following a specific religion, but how having faith has helped her on her journey
- Positive mindset
- Being a do-er and how this helps her to keep pushing forward.
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When your mind is running around in circles how do you stop it? How do you get out of your head?
Emily does something physical to stop her ever-whirring mind. For her, it can be anything, including taking a sledgehammer to her wall or putting up a shelf.
Becky has used exercise "almost like breathing" as a survival mechanism to switch off her mind and uses it as a buffer from work to bed.
Amy has to exercise before mid-day and she loves to walk.
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Dr John Ratey's book, Spark
We spoke to Emily Kent, co-founder of One Big Circle and serial entrepreneur.
We talked about:
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- The fun but unsustainable times of starting a business
- When to park a project that isn't right, right now.
- Building resilience into the plan
- Recruiting and nurturing staff
- Why it is important for the women and under-represented people to speak up
- How DIY helps Emily to run her business!
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This episode was recorded at the beginning of lockdown and it was our first remote recording so the sound is not as good as we would like. We have made it as good for you as possible and corrected the issues for future episodes.
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Ilham knew she had to break out of her shell in order to achieve her goals, so she did. Her tip for doing that is to do something competitive, such as playing basketball.
Amy and Becky discuss:
- How it is empowering to have strategies to build our inner strength and cofidence
- How basketball works for us
- How some of us find it easy and some of us find it hard to act even when we know we have a good strategy
- How the 4 broad neural systems can impact your natural responses to situations
- How important our foundations are
- How we are all unique in our environment
- How to build your support system and confidence if you have not got it yet
- Filling yourself up with good things
We discussed Dr Helen Fisher's work, more info here: http://www.beckysage.com/how-does-my-personality-deal-with-stress/
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BONUS EPISODE
Dr. Becky Sage talks about her experiences as a Women in Innovation award winner. This is a MUST LISTEN for all the innovative women in your life!
This episode is focused on the Innovate UK Women in Innovation award that has recently launched, however a lot of the answers apply more broadly so even if you aren't considering
Answering FAQs such as:
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Ilham Said has gone against the grain, being brought up to think that ambition is not something that sits well with being a woman. She has worked hard to overcome structural biases. She is a Middle Eastern, Muslim, Female Engineer and entrepreneur and she talks to us about how she tries to shrug off the labels and how she has learnt that ambition, drive and having goals are all traits that she is happy to have.
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Becky and Amy discuss Nathalie Alpi’s top tip. Nat told us how important it is to reach out to people to ask for help.
We discussed the value of networks for building relationships over a long period of time. We talked about learning and growing alongside a peer group, including
We also have a short discussion about building relationships as introverts, growing and learning. Nat set herself challenges and overcame them, getting rewarded by growing and developing.
If you are nervous or don't feel ready in some areas then in the areas where you are feeling more secure, connect to that. Nathalie is setting a great example, don’t play small, keep going.
Amy discusses the ideas behind Sean Acker’s infinite potential.
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We speak to Nathalie Alpi, co-founder Cookies HQ.
Key takeaways:
1. Organic growth can help you build a sustainable business AND have big ambitions
2. Working with your spouse takes work but can also be very helpful and rewarding, as long as you have good communication
3. Introverts have super powers
4. As a founder you are responsible for upholding your values - for yourself and for the company
5. You can overcome your introvert tendencies and Nat has a few top tips.
Listen to fins out what we have to say about these themes.
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Nat's top tip is one that we have found to be very important. When you are an entrepreneur or very driven by your work it can be very easy to put your whole self into it and to make your work your identity. That works fine when everything is going perfectly but it means that you can get very swept up in the ups and downs leading to mental health challenges and burnout. Having more than one priority can act as an anchor in a storm.
Amy and Becky discuss how this tip has worked for them and the methods they use to break down different areas of their life to help each one thrive.
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Nat Al-Tahhan is a designer, game developer, illustrator and recreational body builder. We talked to her about how she designed her life to work for her. We spoke about how we define success, how we create balance and how we see the signs of burnout.
We have marked this episode as explicit due to some expletives.
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You want something bad enough - it will come to you - it just might not come to you in the way you expect or want it to.
Katie's top tip is that there is always another way, in her case, she has been very focused on making her passion project a reality and turning it into a thriving business. She has done that and she attributes positive problem solving to it:
"I’m always looking for the solution in the positive and the positive in the solution."
Listen to Becky and Amy discuss Amy's top tip, we also talk about some of our own personal stories that we were reminded of during the episode.
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Katie Donovan-Adekanmbi was due to launch her new business BCohCo in April 2020, then COVID struck and everything changed. Katie talks about how she used it as a time to learn and grow. Very quickly what had seemed to be a huge challenge for the business became a perfect storm for collective learning, giving the business more opportunities.
BCohCo, stands for building cohesive communities and it provides learning, development and Consultation in: **DICE
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Jess' Top Tip is to find people who will call you out, whether that be friends or mentors. In Jess' case she needs someone when she is getting too "hyperactive". The key point is to develop relationships that are honest and not always putting rose tinted glasses on your scenario. This is something that takes time.
"You nurture a friendship then you can be honest, and mentors are very similar." Jess Saumarez
Becky and Amy discuss their experiences and give you insights on how to build your support system.
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Jess Saumarez, is a co-founder of Hedira and a serial entrepreneur. She has been in the start up space since leaving University.
We talk to Jess about how she's a "flyer" not a "fighter" under stress. We ask her how she has successfully found a co-founder and mentors (clue: she has never had to ask for mentors). She has a pragmatic approach to entrepreneurship, which we have learnt a lot from and we hope you do too.
SPOILER: just like Zara, Jess gets mistaken for a waitress at investor events. The issue is not with the women - it is with the conscious and unconscious bias in the industry.
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We discuss Shivani's top tip: Which uses her favourite basketball analogy
"The game isn't over until the buzzer goes off"
So if you are determined to reach your goal and you are still in your game then keep going.
We also get under our own skin and look at how we respond to stress. Becky talks about being "dopamine" triggered and how. that can be a bit scary because the feeling of adrenaline makes her "flighty". Amy gives some tips.
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Shivani Lamba, Founder, Brightlobe, was born in Sweden to Indian parents, moved to London then the States. By a very young age she was coding, then researching at the National Institute of Health at age 16. She attributes this to knowing at an early age that it was up to her "to make a life for herself".
Whilst working at the NIH, Shivani became interested in the long term impact of children being out of school, after a long journey the ideas around this become the educational games that she creates with the team at Brightlobe.
She discusses biohacking, optimising her physical and mental health and why she is remaining positive about the impacts of students being out of school due to COVID-19.
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Zara Nanu, CEO Gapsquare, told us that when she is facing barrier's or waining confidence she asks herself "what's the worst that can happen?". Is this something that works for us? Not always and not in all situations. Sometimes it is a great thing to ask yourself and can be the boost you need to move forward.
Dr Becky Sage and Amy Armstrong discuss if it works for them, and their clients, what the alternatives are and how we can create confidence for ourselves, whether it is for meeting with investors, big clients, presentations & performances, working with your team or dealing with challenges at home.
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When Zara Nanu, CEO of Gapsquare had children everything changed. Where there had been no barriers suddenly there were barriers.
Gapsquare was born from the question: is there a way to overcome those barriers together? As groups of women? Using technology and data to inform us of the disparity and to show us when improvements are made?
There is a fine balance to be had between going for her own dreams and being there for her children. Being in a start up is not exactly the easiest route to make change!
There is also a balance to be had between business development and technology. She explains how she overcomes the catch 22 of needing business to fund the product and having a product that is ready to sell.
In part one Zara introduces us to her vision and mission, the way she works with her team and the way she parents.
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Zara Nanu:
Zara Nanu, CEO of Gapsquare, has had her fair share of challenges, especially when it comes to finding investment as a woman. So her team have allowed the saying "Go Big or Go Home" to become a rallying call (even though it started as a joke).
In this episode we discuss the issues around the lack of diversity in tech, especially when it comes to building AI and some cringeworthy situations Zara has found herself in as a woman trying to get money from a predominantly male investment community.
Finally Zara shares her tip for staying resilient. Why don't you try it for yourself.
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In the summer of 2018 Dr Becky Sage, CEO Interactive Scientific and Amy Armstrong, her award winning clinical hypnotherapist and leadership coach had the same idea at the same time: Let's use podcasting as a way to tell stories of a diverse group of entrepreneurs and give our community of entrepreneurs the tips and techniques that help us to stay confident and resilient. We recognised that we were still hearing the story of "Superhero CEO's" usually white, cis, straight, men even though we were surrounded by a peer group with inherent and acquired diversity with a range of stories to tell.
When we were shortlisted for the BBC Radio 5 Rachael Bland podcasting award we record a background and now we are sharing with you.
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See what MindStyling is all about in the MindStyling Podcast trailer. Hear snippets from some of the diverse range of entrepreneurial voices that we will be featuring on The MindStyling Podcast, launching in June 2020.
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