The Successful Collective: Recent Episodes
The Successful Collective
Dealing with feeling lonely, competition and other challenges all small businesses face!
If you want support in running your small business and a team of like minded women backing you our Business Bubble sign up is open!
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There are some common challenges all small businesses face! Join us for a chat on how we overcame them and what you can do to work around them!
How to thrive, not just survive in your business!
How your business support your living your best life? How can you enjoy running your business and thrive from it?
Overcoming self doubt in business!
Are you second guessing decisions? Wondering if you can grow your business? Lacking in self belief?
This episode will help you overcome those barriers and move forward! If you want more support day to day, join our thriving Business Bubble community!
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Why is it so vital to have a safe space to be vulnerable as a business owner? And what effect does this have on businesses remaining open past 3 years?
What is the Business Bubble?
Who is it for?
Is it right for you?
What happens after you sign up?
Marketing your business on a budget and the most unique ways you can do it differently!
Mariessa and Jules chat about advice they've been given that they wish they hadn't followed and what they would do differently
Building my business isn't my no.1 priority!
Can you still have a successful business if it's not your no.1 priority?
What is the Business Bubble?
What would be our careers if we had to change?
What do you like best about each other?
What if you feel like you want to quit?
Quit a product?
Quit a service?
Quite a business model?
Or just quit being in business altogether?
Jules turn in the hot seat while Mariessa ask her about her biggest business regrets and lessons!
In this episode Jules asks Mariessa some challenging questions about her time in business!
Does it matter how much passion you have for the product? Will that make people buy in? How do you know if a product is worthwhile?
Is entrepreneurial spirit in built or can it be taught ?
What are the qualities of an entrepreneur and can you learn this or is it a natural talent?
How do popular brands build and retain loyalty?
Our thoughts on Peloton!
How to make your brand unforgettable!
Do you have to be positive to be successful?
What if you tend toward the negative?
Does this impact your success?
Can you be in business with friends? What about giving friends discounts and 'mates rates'?
It's ok if you don't know! Let's chat about how not knowing is sometimes the catalyst to driving your business forward and what you can do when you don't know what to do!
What's the difference between problem solving and decision making?
How do we approach challenges effectively?
Developing as a business owner!
Who is applies to?
When you need to consider it?
Is is applicable only to big businesses?
What is people pleasing?
How and why to stop doing it!
How is people pleasing different from excellent customer service?
Are you spending time planning and never putting the plans into place?
Do you not plan at all?
How do you strike the perfect balance between planning and action?
What are Success Strategy Sessions?
Who are they for?
What do they do?
How do you book them?
What's the difference? Why it matters that we work ON the business!
The importance of strategy and direction!
How is your perception of failure and of other peoples businesses holding you back?
What can you do to reframe this?
Who can you lean on for support?
What you can do when you just don't know what to do!
A topic people often shy away from but it's essential to a successful business!
We chat about the role money plays, how important (or unimportant it is) and how you can be more effective with your money!
What is The Successful Collective membership?
Who is it for?
What's included?
Why do I need it for my business?
Why do the beliefs you have about yourself matter?
How do they effect success?
How do you change these beliefs?
Do you know what your personal core values are?
Do you know what your business values are?
How do you find them and how can we use them to audit our lives for success?
Are your limiting beliefs and assuming the worst, standing in your way of success?
How do we change that?
What can you do to flip your mindset and create success?
Chatting about the 3 most important things that have kept us in business!
For each of us, the 3 vital elements that have kept us in business for the last 2 decades!
"I sold my business" how to make tough decisions!
How to make tough decisions!
When do you know what's right?
What process should you follow?
What can you do to keep customers coming back time and again?
How to you retain the customers you have now and why is this so important?
Do you need to be ruthless to succeed? Can you be kind and successful?
What does it take to be successful if being ruthless doesn't sit well with your values?
Mariessa and Jules share their biggest business mistakes! Everything from cashflow to recruitment to people pleasing!
How does fear of failure hold us back?
Mariessa and Jules discuss their "biggest failures"
What do you do after a failure?
Are you letting your ego hold you back?
How do we come back from a failure?
Live your brand!
What is your brand?
How do you create a brand?
People buy people!
How to successfully market your business and stand out from the crowd.
Should you share your story?
Chatting about work life balance.
How do we define it?
Is it possible to have as a business owner?
Our top tips to achieve it!
Chatting about imposter syndrome in business, what it means and our advice to overcome it.
Also defining success, we talk about personal and professional measures of success.
Who we are; meet Mariessa and Jules.
How we started in business.
The challenges with launching a business.
Why we started The Successful Collective