As a business owner, you battle uncertainty daily. Will you make enough money? Will you lose clients? Are my team happy? Whilst I’ve always felt stress can almost be fuel for success, the stress involved with running a business can be detrimental to your mental health and the success of a business.
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After pouring our seed investment into our idea, we were working hard to execute it. But our excitement to launch a global beauty search engine from scratch was met with a seemingly endless number of bugs in our software. Every time we fixed one problem with our app, five more appeared, each one more impactful than the last.
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Rob takes you through what's been happening over the last two months, his new role and the key focus points to drive any business forward.
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With 42 years of experience in the banking industry, I have had first-hand experience of how women struggle to grow in male-dominated industries. I excelled as an Assistant VP, ultimately winning Woman of The Year. I produced a workshop which was attended by over 200 people. This workshop inspired me to launch my own consultancy when I retired. I help other women by looking at their business plans, teaching them how they can perform best, performance management and skill training.
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It may be hard to believe but systematic breathing exercises can really turn our lives around. In 2015, I was at a dead end. I was suffering physically and emotionally yet refusing to believe the diagnosis made by doctors. I was looking for an alternative to medical drugs and to my lifestyle full of bad habits.
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Opening an online store has been an entirely new path for me. It has been an exciting and intense learning process yet not without bottlenecks and doubts. Below, I share my insights on the process and lessons learned I experienced throughout the entrepreneurship path.
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Nevsah is an Internationally Renowned Breath Expert, Spiritual Leader, the Founding President of the Breath Coaching Federation and the national representative of the International Breathwork Foundation, and Author of nine bestselling books.
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Everyone takes different career paths, whether you discover your passion early or later it doesn’t matter. I never saw myself as the sort of person to attend university and get a degree in something I wasn’t so sure about to support my career.
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From starting a business at a very young age, I have gone through a massive learning process that has enabled me to build a business from the ground up without having any prior business experience nor in the industry that we operate in. From initial concept, tech platform infrastructure to recruitment to employing our first team member, sales, operations, marketing, accounting, relocating offices and streamlining processes to help our scale up. I have had to be involved at some point in every part of our business.
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Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are the lifeblood of the UK economy accounting for 99.3% of the private sector and providing 60% of all employment. When it comes to growing your business, investing in your staff is a core ingredient to making it successful. And yet many SMEs struggle to recruit the very best people in to their business.
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Please let me introduce myself. My name is Neale Hayward-Shott; I’m married to Heather and have three children, the eldest of whom, Felicity, has learning disabilities. Fliss, I never actually call her Felicity, had her 30th birthday last year, is happy and content with her life and has achieved far more than the prognosis that we were given following fits shortly after her birth...
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From a young age, I always knew that I wanted to be able to make my own decisions for my future and to inspire people, so being my own boss was always on the cards. It was important to me to have the freedom of choice and to be able to know that I would not have to depend on someone else's vision and future. I also started a business because I wanted to be able to empower and inspire more people that being an entrepreneur is possible.
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Back in 2004 when I started my first web shop, I imported hair care products and offered them to my customers in the Netherlands where I then lived. Since then, my journey as a business owner has gone through so many stages and phases and has transformed drastically.
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Cities around the world are progressing towards a new future with a growing urban population which accounts for 54%. This number is projected to be 66% by 2050, which means that world cities will be home to more than six billion people in the coming decades. Environmentalists, Authorities of World Forums across are pushing their best to educate citizens to save a better future.
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Hello my name is Vicky Shilling and I’m a wellness industry business coach, helping entrepreneurs grow inspiring and sustainable wellness businesses. But I didn’t always do this. For the first decade of my career I worked in the music industry – working with classical music orchestras and by the end of that time, taking them on international tours to countries like China, Argentina and Iceland.
Today it is not enough to ‘sell’ by demonstrating your expertise, today you have to be a Master Communicator. You need to understand not only what your clients, customers and prospects need from a business point of view but also from a personal perspective.
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Starting a successful business can be pretty scary. In fact, research has shown that startups are more likely to fail than succeed these days. But as hard and scary as it may be to start a business, growing it can be even more daunting.
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Marie Meskheli, Female Beauty Entrepreneur and Founder & Creator of Delfy Cosmetics shares her journey on how to create a successful international cosmetics brand...
We can all have a rough night’s sleep. Tossing and turning through into the early hours, your difficulty at dropping off is exacerbated by knowing how tired you’ll be the next day. Those painful, sleepy days in the office are a reality we all have to experience – but how damaging can it be if it becomes a habit?
It is clear that the forefathers of India had a strong vision - to create a country where we could all live together with dignity and respect. This leads me to review a longstanding question: “why India has developed into a patriarchal society?”.
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Nicola was born in Jamaica in 1973 but, after divorcing her husband, came to the UK with her family in 2001. As the eldest daughter, Nicola found herself having to take on a lot of responsibilities. Nicola was determined to make something of herself so she went back to college and studied legal studies.
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Hi, I'm Caroline, the founder of Herbaceous Blends. We make loose leaf, naturally caffeine-free herbal tea blends. I'm also extremely caffeine intolerant, which means herbal tea is my only hot drink of choice. Even before my caffeine intolerance kicked in, I'd been drinking herbal tea for years.
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The role of females in society and the process of tearing down outdated views is happening faster now than ever, but how is this affecting women in the workplace? The old-fashioned ideals of men and women being designated very different roles are long gone, and the need for change when it comes to career equality and closing the gaps is of strikingly clear.
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Growing up she was fascinated by fashion, design and luxury and would scour magazines to feed her appetite for the beautiful. Often she saved all her school lunch money to buy imported magazines from the West. Even at that age she was fascinated by clothing and noticed beautiful accessories, like a well-made shoe or a decadent luxury handbag.
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I’ve been thinking about how much our sales process has evolved recently to get to where we are now. So I’m basically just giving away all my secrets!
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While working for others I always felt there was something missing. I continuously thought of ways in which their company could be more productive and profitable, so I think starting my own company was inevitable.
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John Newbigin OBE shared his thoughts on the power of regional creativity and the creative economy.
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Is there a problem with the agency pitching model? Rob takes you though his problems with it and some potential fixes!
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Rob takes you through the most recent 'process' updates at Frogspark, which mainly revolve around expectation setting. Setting the right expectations from the outset sounds simple, however it's actually difficult to achieve. But why is it so important?
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People are the greatest asset in a business. Taking care of their health makes business sense.
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I was inspired to focus on the field of diet and nutrition because I like to be able to help people to change the way they live their lives. I work in a unique way combining Nutritional Counselling with Health Coaching to ensure that my clients not only know what steps they need to take but how to put the steps into practice in a way that works specifically for them.
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My love for wine stemmed from an early age, I was born and raised in Ealing, West London to Italian parents, as with many who moved over in the 50's my father brought with him the tradition of producing a family wine each year, importing grapes from his native Campania.
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As you grow, it's important to take into account the added costs and how that affects your service/product pricing. You can't do that without data!
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This week Rob dives into "trust" - why trust is one of the most important factors in business. Trust within the team, and trust with your customers - find out how trust can change everything for you!
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This week Rob goes through a small event that eventually led him to restructure his entire role within this business. This is all focused around how to spend your time in order to get the most value!
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Have you ever had a challenge in your life? It was a sunny day outside. I suddenly heard a big bang inside the courtroom; it was the sound of the judge hammer giving the verdict: My mother won the custody dispute and the verdict was not accepted by my biological father’s family...
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Rob gave a PechaKucha talk at Mainframe in Derby on 23rd January 2019. PechaKucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images. Check out Rob's talk in today's podcast all about what it's like running a creative agency!
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Rob goes through the impact of a particular decision that needs to be made within the business. He then goes on to explain an effective 7 step decision making process which should make your life as a business owner a little bit easier!
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“With the ceiling firmly still intact and women still fighting for equality is it no wonder some women are fighting back, but not in the way we think.”
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I have always been passionate about nursing; from my early days in primary school, I never thought of doing anything else. I joined the nursing profession in my native Trinidad & Tobago and moved to London in 1990. I began work in the UK at a Continuing Care Home for older people and enrolled at the Royal College of Nursing...
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Rob travelled to London this week to give one of his customers feedback. Is it ever ok to tell your customers how to work, or should you always work around them? This podcast will really highlight the importance of open & honest communication...
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We all have the power to believe in ourselves. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Henry Ford was right when he said: “Whether you think you can or that you can’t, you are usually right”. As a Life Coach and Mentor, who works in the areas of self-belief, confidence and personal development, allow me to share a few simple steps to help you become more confident and have greater self-belief.
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In this episode, Rob takes you through the top three podcasts he is listening to right now to get inspiration. He also touches on some books he’s read recently that gave him actionable changes to be implemented at Frogspark!
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