The EXP Pod: Recent Episodes
Robyn MacMillan
The EXP Pod is a podcast for anyone out there who is interested in entrepreneurship, building a business or discovering the truth around growing a startup.
They are short, but memorable episodes, as we are all incredibly busy taking over the world.
Let's do this.
Welcome to "Got Something To Say!"Brought to you by The EXP Blueprint, we delve deep into the stories of extraordinary businesses making waves in their industries. Every episode is a new journey into the heart of impactful businesses and the marketing strategies that put them on the map.In this episode, we're thrilled to feature two remarkable guests: Cornelia and Sayalee. Each of these visionaries will share the inside scoop on their outlook, illuminating how they harness the power of marketing to stand out in a crowded marketplace.A little about our Guests and Just People...Cornelia Schmidt was born in 1967 in Lugano, Switzerland. Started as a hobby photographer at a young age taking pictures of nature or friends. In 2000 she moved to Sweden and 2 years later she started her photo studio in Göteborg. For the past 10 years, she has worked mostly with portraits.JUST PEOPLE was born in 2012 by a coincidence after a successful photo session with 59-year-old Joakim. Since then her photographic Life changed completely. Suddenly she was not taking Pictures of only bodies but now souls. Sayalee was born in 1988 in Pune, India. She has lived in multiple cities in three countries and is now in Sweden since 2019. She is an architect by education, and a hobby photographer (@sayochau) who is assisting Cornelia at the moment. Discover more about them at www.justpeople.se
Experience - An event or occurrence which leaves an impression on someone. In the context of marketing and customer service, the term "experience" refers to the overall interaction that a customer has with a company, product, or service.These magic moments are what cause someone to purchase or work with you. Welcome to our first podcast of the year!
Valentina Fermanelli, PhD, helps Christian-raised female entrepreneurs let go of the shame, guilt, and sense of unworthiness so that they can unapologetically claim their desires and get what they want.
Part of her mission is also to help ambitious women let go of the difficult emotions or limiting beliefs that keep them from being present and fully committed to their goals.
If you feel that somewhere in you, you are holding yourself back and you want to smash that block, have a chat with her. :-)
“Valentina helped me recognize where my energetic blocks were and taught me how to release them through tapping and visualization. I felt much lighter and rejuvenated after the session " Lauretta Zucchetti, sales coach
“How freeing to walk into my week feeling like I can conquer the world AND having the strategies of what to do when those thoughts creep in again. " Kimberly Graham, Personal Financial Coach
"I just came out of a first session in Tapping with Valentina and wow. I am flying, she literally put wings on my head. Everything feels possible now." Cornelia Schmidt, photographer
Reach her on your favorite platform: Fb: https://www.facebook.com/valentina.fermanelli.754/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/valentina.fermanelli/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentina-fermanelli/
We wish we had been in a bar!
In this episode we talk about why we all ended up as business owners in Sweden and a little about our journey to where we are today.
You also get to meet Jen, a wonderful human who has one of our offices within The EXP Hub!
Have you ever met someone over the internet?
I did! And he wasn't a catfish!
One of the joys of social media is that you can connect with people on a much wider scale, and that is how we met Stan from UNDO IT.
I promise I didn't swipe right....
Have you turned it off and on again? Are you sure it is plugged in!
In this episode we have a wonderful Guest!
Stan from UNDO IT! A glorious outsource IT support solution and a great human!
In this episode we talk about his business and his approach towards supporting you with your IT solutions.
www.undoitsupport.com
We all want to be seen and heard, and as a business owner this is something you need to recognise.
The way to my heart is through the candy you offer me.
This episode is all about how you should be taking the time to recognise those around you and how best to motivate them and support them.
I am a firm believer, that as a business owner that employs individuals and works with outsource partners, that we should all take the time to get to understand each other to have a seamless and positive relationship.
As humans one of our biggest desires is to be seen and heard, and this is also really important within the workplace.
Give me your lunch money, can you just do this extra thing?, this is important though....
One of the best things I have ever decided for myself is that I don’t play with bullies.
Now you may think that this is very simple, and something that we all do anyway... but actually there are many bullies within our networks that dont fit the standard stereotype, and we let them stay within our circles for far too long.
Like Mr and Mrs Smith, but less cool, with more bickering....
In this episode we will talk about what it is like to be in a relationship and own a business together.
If you didn’t know me and george are engaged and co own The EXP Blueprint, where provide a innovative solution for business development and marketing in Gothenburg.
Owning a business together is something that we always talked about, and then the planets did align and all of a sudden it was happening.
New Year, New Who? Are New Year's resolutions the most positive way to bring in the new year.... I don’t think so...
Instead of resolutions we should be focusing on setting goals, tangible goals, that you can break down and move your vision or business forward with!
Resolutions are airy fairy promises that we never keep...
This episode is one I'm sure every business owner can relate to, the moment you took the plunge, pulled the trigger and said “It's now or never”
So how do you go from your regular 9-5 to your new 24/7?
Do you take your trade with you? Or just the tools you developed while working in that role?
You will never be perfect, nothing will ever feel finished, and there is always something else to do. So just do it.
Easier said than done, I know, don't come for me.....
But we are discrimination machines, and what I mean by that is that we are destined and programmed to always find the tiniest flaw within an idea or plan, and then this coupled by the fact we are all cucumbers with anxiety it can stop us in our tracks when trying to move forward.
In this episode I talk about some of the ways I try to move forward with imperfect action, and why this is important!
Quick.... Run....
It’s time to shift down a gear and change direction, it’s time to be more agile, it’s time to push forward instead of retreating..... it’s time to rally dig deep and power through.
The constant movement and changes within a business, or product development or idea creation can give you motion sickness. It takes a lot of caffeine, stamina and whatever you personal vice is (I dont Judge) to maneuver all of the side blows and adaptations we must go through.
The last couple of years have been even more exhausting, with us having to make bigger changes, be more agile and pivot harder than we have ever had to before.
In this podcast I talk about some of the ways we supported businesses to continue to thrive during lockdown.
Did you just sneeze? Have you been tested? Let’s not plan anything just yet....
Sound familiar?
The World Health Organization declared the COVID outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
And as we are now going into 2022 we are still seeing severe effects of this within many business sectors, education and our personal lives.
So of course, starting a business in April 2021 was an amazing idea.....
We also decided to create a business in another country......
We Like It Thicc...
It is me again, Robyn from The EXP Blueprint talking today about why you can’t spread peanut butter too thinly, and this is now my metaphor for encouraging those around me to not over promise, or try to over deliver.
Ok, if peanut butter isn’t your thing it could be chocolate spread, butter by itself, gravy on your roast dinner....
When you spread yourself too thinly you end up not being able to give enough of yourself or energy or creativeness to the things that can really help you or support your goals or end vision.
New Pod, Who This?
You know what really annoys me?
(You will discover that this is many things...) but the point I am making here is that it is really annoying when the term business owner, entrepreneur or startup are glorified and made to seem like a visionaries dream and the hard parts are excluded or brushed over.
So I decided to create The EXP Pod.
The EXP Pod is a podcast for anyone out there who is interested in entrepreneurship, building a business or discovering the truth around growing a startup.