Business, Babies and Bossing It

Georgina Lee-Jones is a brand storyteller who brings businesses to life with creatively crafted stories.Before starting her business Simple Matters Media, Georgina was an award-winning BBC Documentary Producer/Director and journalist for 15 years working on primetime network television programmes, including Crimewatch and Panorama.She’s passionate about the power of great storytelling. in this episode, she talks to us about building compelling narratives to help brands effectively engage with their customers, internal teams and investors.

In this episode we’re talking about sales. If you’re running your own business you may be feeling that sales seem to be getting harder. People are taking longer to make decisions and it’s giving you a twitchy bum - and not the good kind! It’s not you, the sales landscape is shifting, and if there’s one thing we know it’s that we need to pivot and change quickly to survive. We explore what’s changing and how we can shift our mindsets to understand the psychology of our prospects, so we can survive and prosper!

Authenticity is a hot topic but how many of us know, or trust who our authentic self is? And how do you be successful by just being yourself? What can you do if you’re unsure of what makes your original, or even why being original is such a great thing, and what steps can you take to start that discovery process?

Are you sick of watching other peoples instagram lives with envy, wondering how the f**k they do what they do?What if we could persuade you that the only difference between you and them, is their ability to switch up the word “no” for “yes”!When our planned podcast guest was a no show today, we guessed that nerves had gotten the better of her, which got us talking about how fear of judgement and impostor syndrome can negatively impact the opportunities that are presented to us, and how social media has left us all feeling vulnerable to mass criticism and ridicule. But Cass saying “YES” to an opportunity 2 years ago landed she and Jess as part of the cast of a recently aired Amazon Prime TV Show (eeek!), so spoiler alert, the moral of this week is ALWAYS do what scares you most and no matter how it works out, you’ll never have to live with regret.

B2B marketing consultant and mentor, Jade Tambini candidly shares her struggles with mental health leading up to and after the birth of her first child. While working through her own personal challenges, Jade was also building her own business and first set it up 6 months before becoming pregnant. Often asked “why on earth would you do that?”, she answers confidently and without hesitation or doubt that the flexibility of being her own boss has been game-changing throughout the peaks and troughs of motherhood and “the best thing she has ever done.

Are you feeling held back from building your business because the thought of building a team fills you with dread? Have got that phrase ‘more people, more problems’ running around in your head? Or maybe you feel drained and frustrated by the personal relationships in your life? This episode we’re explaining why CULTURE IS A STRATEGY and why we should take everything we learn about building teams and tribes and apply it to our personal lives. Who we surround ourselves with matters.

Entrepreneur and mum of three, Steph Douglas founded Don’t Buy Her Flowers in 2014. She'd just received eight bunches of flowers when she had her first baby and it made her realise new mums didn’t need another thing to take care of. Don't Buy Her Flowers has now expanded to gift baskets for all occasions, from corporate presents to birthdays and bereavement. Turnover hit £2.5 million last year but, in this episode, she's super honest with us about just how difficult juggling a company and home life can be.

Let's change our relationship with time. As busy mums building businesses and balancing careers, we’re often guilty of looking at time from a scarcity point of view. We always say things like ‘I don’t have enough time, or I haven’t got time to do that or I wish I had time. Or you’ve even said to others, ‘how the fuck do you do it?’, thinking they’ve found some magic wand to slow everything down and do everything and have it all. So we’re going to explore some of the ways we’ve learnt to become intentional with our time, be unapologetically selfish about who we give our time to and cut out the drama, so we can focus on becoming who we want to be.

Recently we’ve both been working on levelling up as we’re both going through some changes and transitions in our lives and in business. At times like these, we always head back to basics, to map out where we want to be, who we want to become and when we want to arrive. So in this episode, we want to share with you how we take those fleeting hopes and dreams that you might never think are possible, commit them to paper and map out a clear pathway, with defined steps to point you in the right direction. Let’s start turning dreams into reality.

This episode, we’re talking about Luck Vs Design. How dangerous is the word luck and at what point does it become a bad word? Do we contribute our success to luck instead of owning our decisions and celebrating when we’ve made amazing things happen?