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Business in Bloom

Anna Dunleavywww.annadunleavy.com
Business in Bloom - a mindful business podcast. Honest conversations about the ups and downs of running your own business. So whether you're well on your way of becoming a successful business owner, or you're dreaming of quitting the 9-5, this podcast is for you.
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Episodes

65: Energy healing with Jane - The Crystalised

Today’s guest is the lovely Jane of The Crystalised. I first met Jane when she came to one of my monthly meet ups for creative women in business, and we’ve kept in touch ever since. Jane is a reiki practitioner and sound healer, and I’ve been joining in with Jane’s Urban Magik events every New Moon. It’s a beautiful mixture of meditation and sound healing, and I couldn’t recommend it highly enough! Things we talked about: Connecting with your intuition The power of reiki Crystals and how they ca...

Jul 08, 202045 min

64: Creating A Powerful Morning Routine

Welcome to Episode 64! Today's topic is creating a powerful morning routine - why you might want to have one, the science behind grounding ourselves before we start work, and how you can create your very own powerful routine that works for you! For full podcast show notes, head on over here: www.annadunleavy.com/podcast To read more about powerful morning routines, head on over here: https://www.annadunleavy.com/blog/powerful-morning-routine

Jul 01, 202017 min

63: Starting a magazine with Caroline Rowland

Today’s guest is the lovely Caroline Rowland - the founding editor of 91 Magazine, which is a gorgeous interior and lifestyle print magazine. We chat about Caroline’s journey to becoming an editor, how 91 Magazine was born, and Caroline shares her tips on pitching to online and print publications, too - which is something that I know a lot of small business owners often struggle with. For full show notes, head on over to www.annadunleavy.com/podcast You can find Caroline here: Instagram: https:/...

Jun 24, 202032 min

62: My Lessons From Lockdown

In this week's mini episode, I talk about my lessons from lockdown - both life and business lessons, and the things I want to take forward as we begin to return to some form of normality. - Making time for play - Routines and practices to help us cultivate an abundant mindset - What's really important in life and how we can centre our work around these things For full show notes, head on over to: www.annadunleavy.com/podcast

Jun 17, 202013 min

61: Working in flow with your cycle with Claire Baker

Today’s guest is Claire Baker - Claire is a period coach, working with women to help them understand their cycles better and use that knowledge to their advantage. This is a topic I’ve been exploring personally for some time, and I’m excited to bring this knowledge into my coaching practice, too. Claire talks us through the four seasons of your cycle, and explains what it really means to live in sync with your menstrual cycle. For full show notes, head on over here: www.annadunleavy.com/podcast ...

Jun 10, 202047 min

60: Finding opportunity in adversity with Jo Hooper

Season Six is all about finding opportunity in adversity, recorded between week 5 and 6 of UK lockdown during the global pandemic, I chat to female business owners about how they have adapted their businesses, and how they have found opportunities during these changing times. It’s my hope that you’ll find little pieces of inspiration within each conversation - from how we approach our working lives, to the journey within that this time has encouraged many of us to take. Today's guest is Jo Hoope...

May 12, 202026 min

59: Finding opportunity in adversity with Pri Kruijen

Season Six is all about finding opportunity in adversity, recorded between week 5 and 6 of UK lockdown during the global pandemic, I chat to female business owners about how they have adapted their businesses, and how they have found opportunities during these changing times. It’s my hope that you’ll find little pieces of inspiration within each conversation - from how we approach our working lives, to the journey within that this time has encouraged many of us to take. The things we talked abou...

May 11, 202022 min

58: Finding opportunity in adversity with Jessica Berry

Season Six is all about finding opportunity in adversity, recorded between week 5 and 6 of UK lockdown during the global pandemic, I chat to female business owners about how they have adapted their businesses, and how they have found opportunities during these changing times. It’s my hope that you’ll find little pieces of inspiration within each conversation - from how we approach our working lives, to the journey within that this time has encouraged many of us to take. Today I chat to Jessica B...

May 08, 202023 min

57: Finding opportunity in adversity with Sarah Robertson

Season Six is all about finding opportunity in adversity, recorded between week 5 and 6 of UK lockdown during the global pandemic, I chat to female business owners about how they have adapted their businesses, and how they have found opportunities during these changing times. It’s my hope that you’ll find little pieces of inspiration within each conversation - from how we approach our working lives, to the journey within that this time has encouraged many of us to take. The things we talked abou...

May 07, 202029 min

56: Finding opportunity in adversity with Ilaria Petrucci

Season Six is all about finding opportunity in adversity, recorded between week 5 and 6 of UK lockdown during the global pandemic, I chat to female business owners about how they have adapted their businesses, and how they have found opportunities during these changing times. It’s my hope that you’ll find little pieces of inspiration within each conversation - from how we approach our working lives, to the journey within that this time has encouraged many of us to take. Today's guest is Ilaria P...

May 06, 202027 min

55: Finding opportunity in adversity with Sophie Cullumbine

Season Six is all about finding opportunity in adversity, recorded between week 5 and 6 of UK lockdown during the global pandemic, I chat to female business owners about how they have adapted their businesses, and how they have found opportunities during these changing times. It’s my hope that you’ll find little pieces of inspiration within each conversation - from how we approach our working lives, to the journey within that this time has encouraged many of us to take. Today's guest is Sophie C...

May 05, 202022 min

54: Finding opportunity in adversity with Millie Pargeter

Season Six is all about finding opportunity in adversity, recorded between week 5 and 6 of UK lockdown during the global pandemic, I chat to female business owners about how they have adapted their businesses, and how they have found opportunities during these changing times. It’s my hope that you’ll find little pieces of inspiration within each conversation - from how we approach our working lives, to the journey within that this time has encouraged many of us to take. We talked about: - How th...

May 04, 202027 min

53: Finding opportunity in adversity with Josephine Brooks

Season Six is all about finding opportunity in adversity, recorded between week 5 and 6 of UK lockdown during the global pandemic, I chat to female business owners about how they have adapted their businesses, and how they have found opportunities during these changing times. It’s my hope that you’ll find little pieces of inspiration within each conversation - from how we approach our working lives, to the journey within that this time has encouraged many of us to take. The things we talked abou...

May 01, 202025 min

52: Finding opportunity in adversity with Mary Baird-Wilcock

Season Six is all about finding opportunity in adversity, recorded between week 5 and 6 of UK lockdown during the global pandemic, I chat to female business owners about how they have adapted their businesses, and how they have found opportunities during these changing times. It’s my hope that you’ll find little pieces of inspiration within each conversation - from how we approach our working lives, to the journey within that this time has encouraged many of us to take. My guest today is Mary Ba...

Apr 30, 202028 min

51: Finding opportunity in adversity with Elle Lorean

Season Six is all about finding opportunity in adversity, recorded between week 5 and 6 of UK lockdown during the global pandemic, I chat to female business owners about how they have adapted their businesses, and how they have found opportunities during these changing times. It’s my hope that you’ll find little pieces of inspiration within each conversation - from how we approach our working lives, to the journey within that this time has encouraged many of us to take. I chat to Elle about gett...

Apr 29, 202024 min

50: Choosing How You Show Up

Episode 50, the last in this season, is all about ways in which we are showing up right now, whether that’s in our personal life or in business. “Serve the world by being you. When you trust and follow the simple path of things that light you up, and then lose yourself in the doing, you’ll light up the world without even trying”. How can you be showing up right now for yourself, before you show up for everyone else? How can you feed your own sense of wellbeing before tending to help others? Full...

Apr 08, 202024 min

49: Lean On Your Support System

Episode 49 is all about exploring ways in which we can tap into our support system and what that might look like for us! Cultivating a support network has so many benefits as a small business and I share some of my tips of how you can do that. Full show notes here: www.annadunleavy.com/podcast

Mar 18, 202013 min

48: Worrying about what others think

This week's podcast explores the fear we hold of what others might think about us and our creative business, and how this impacts how we show up in our business. Full shownotes here: www.annadunleavy.com/podcast

Mar 04, 202021 min

47: What is your money mindset?

This week's topic is all about money mindset, and our attitude towards money. Do you tend to talk about money in negative terms? What is your attitude to spending money? A money mindset is your unique and individual set of core beliefs about money and how money works in the world. It drives how you make financial decisions, and it can have a big impact on your ability to achieve your goals. We explore how we can bring a more abundant way of thinking when it comes to money, and exploring our mone...

Feb 26, 202023 min

46: Overcoming Self-limiting Beliefs

This week we’re chatting all things self-limiting beliefs - what they are, how to spot them, and how to find ways to move past them It’s a taste of the kinds of things we’d be working on together through coaching - and it’s not always easy. You have to be ready to do some deeper work if you want to shift those negative, self-limiting beliefs that you know are holding you back. This is not surface work - but I do think that it holds the key to so many of our problems when it comes to running a bu...

Feb 19, 202015 min

45: Cultivating An Abundant Mindset

Cultivating an abundant mindset - abundant vs scarcity mindset and how we can practice to cultivate a more positive, abundant mindset in our businesses, and our lives A mindset is our attitude towards something, and we can adopt an abundant mindset, or a scarcity mindset, depending on our upbringing and our environment, and the people we surround ourselves with. It’s no wonder that there’s a saying ‘You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.’ Abundance mindset - believi...

Feb 12, 202026 min

44: Creativity, Mindfulness and finding joy in the simple things

Today's episode explores the topics of creativity, mindfulness and finding joy in the simple things. It's when we decide to pause for a moment, that we realise that there is so much more to be found in each moment, each encounter. Slowing down allows us to reconnect with our creativity and gives us the chance to be intentional about how we curate our days. For full show notes, head on over to: www.annadunleavy.com/podcast To find out how you can work with me, head on over to: www.annadunleavy.co...

Feb 05, 202024 min

43: Manifesting What you Desire

Manifesting what you desire So what is manifestation? It’s a term that’s been doing the rounds lately, and so I wanted to take the time to explore the idea of manifestation, what it is, and how we can make manifestation work for us. To manifest something, is to make it appear, to bring it forward, or call it in. Full shownotes: www.annadunleavy.com/podcast To find out more about working with me, head on over to: https://www.annadunleavy.com/coaching

Jan 29, 202026 min

42: Imposter Syndrome and how to deal with it

Imposter syndrome is something that comes up for almost all of us, at some point in our life. For some, it’s a constant feeling we have to battle with, for others, it comes and goes. Either way, it’s a term that’s becoming more widely used, particularly when it comes to female entrepreneurship. I did a little bit of research, and one of the definitions for imposter syndrome, is this: ‘the inability to believe that one’s success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one’s o...

Jan 22, 202020 min

41: Welcoming The Fear

As a business owner, you're bound to know what it feels like when fear comes knocking on your door. So often, I hear women talk about their dreams, but always putting them off 'until they're ready', until they have done x, y and z first, or until they feel 'confident'. The truth is, there'll never be the right time, and you'll always want to do something else before you feel ready to take a step. It's not possible to eliminate fear altogether, but we do have a choice about how we approach it. We...

Jan 13, 202013 min

Bonus episode: My three lessons of 2019

A bonus episode with three lessons of 2019. Owning and running a business can be a huge rollercoaster, and it's important to reflect back on the past year before moving forward. What are your lessons of 2019? What are your achievements? What didn't work, and why? If you'd like to find out more about the new group coaching programme I'll be running in January, you can find out more and register your interest here: https://fearlesshustlecollective.vipmembervault.com/teaser/courses/view/7

Dec 18, 201926 min

40: Business as a journey of self discovery with Kathryn Taylor

This week’s guest is none other than Kathryn Taylor. You may know Kathryn, as a brilliant photographer, who shares both her brand work as well as photographs of her beautiful family on Instagram. Kathryn is someone I’ve been exchanging DM’s with for some months now, but we haven’t properly chatted until now! We talk about Kathryn’s transition from her corporate career to running her own business, and having a strategic plan to making it work financially. We also chat about our personal journeys ...

Nov 20, 201956 min

39: Mentoring vs Coaching - what's the difference?

Today's episode is a solo episode where I explore the differences between mentoring and coaching, and the importance of trust and rapport in any mentoring or coaching relationship. To find out more about my coaching offer, head on over to: https://www.annadunleavy.com/coaching

Nov 13, 201921 min

38: Running a business as an introvert with Ruth Poundwhite

This week's guest is Ruth Poundwhite - a creative business mentor. I chat to Ruth about running two separate businesses, what it's like to be the face of your business as an introvert, how e-mail marketing bridges the gap to being visible in your business. Most importantly, we talk about what it's like to be the bread winner in your family, and the challenges that talking about money brings. You can find Ruth here: https://ruthpoundwhite.com https://www.instagram.com/ruthpoundwhite/ For full sho...

Nov 06, 201944 min

37: Setting Boundaries As Act Of Self Care

This week's episode is a solo chat about boundaries. During the Panel Talk event that I recently held, we talked about how having boundaries is an act of self-care and how boundaries can help establish healthy routines, as well as help with managing overwhelm. Join me on Instagram to tell me whether you struggle with setting boundaries in your own life, and your ways of dealing with it! www.instagram.com/anna_dunleavy

Oct 30, 201914 min
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