Hello! Today is the first episode of our new guest co-host episodes and I am beyond excited for you to listen to this conversation with my friend Sasha. To be honest, this episode has caused me a bit of a headache because we covered so many different and sprawling things that I had no idea what to name it, so you will just have to trust me that it is so much more than what's on the tin. What we talk about in this episode Rejecting the career ladder Doing the thing that keeps the lights on to do ...
Sep 24, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 118
Welcome back to a slightly revamped and refocused Grow With Soul. In the last episode I hinted at the changes that were to come, and you will have already seen the new artwork and heard the new jingle so you’ll know that something is afoot. Today I thought that I’d expand a little more on what exactly it is I mean by “work in life”, as well as introduce you to my wonderful new guest co-hosts who you will start to hear from next week (we’ve already recorded a couple of the conversations and they ...
Sep 17, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 117
Hello, and welcome to episode 116 of Grow with Soul. I was writing this episode sitting in the sun on the wall outside my house as the UK neared the end of a nearly 2 week heatwave. This episode should have reached you last week. If I was being 'good' and 'professional' there wouldn't have been a week gap in between episodes, I would have got it out on time. But instead I had a week off to enjoy the sun, enjoying the garden, racing through two books, deadheading the roses, and swimming in the se...
Jul 30, 2021•10 min•Season 1Ep. 116
Hello, and welcome to episode 115 of Grow with Soul. Today, I'm catching up with Kathryn Ho, a coach who helps untangle self doubt to bring creative dreams to life. When we first met Kathryn back in episode 28, she was just about to start her coach training, she was figuring out how to combine her coaching services with her art practice, and feeling like a little bit of a fraud. The last two years have seen Kathryn organically journey to find her flavour of coaching, understand and deal with her...
Jul 16, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Hello and welcome to episode 115 of Grow With Soul. Almost everyone I know is in a kind of limbo right now. Whether it’s where they’re going to live, what they’re going to do, who they’re going to be, what their next steps are, there is this sense of not quite being the old them and also not quite being the new them either. That’s how I feel right now too; I have restarted this episode three times already because I don’t quite know what to say, being neither the old podcast host or the new podca...
Jul 09, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Hello and welcome to episode 113 of Grow with Soul. Today I am catching up with Sarah Fraser who, when we first met her back in episode 44, was just in the beginning phases of setting up her book editing services alongside her day job as a teacher. Over the last 2 years, Sarah has been on a hell of a journey, discovering that the big picture of book editing was actually completely draining her and was really heavy, and she's now pivoted into a completely different kind of business. We talk about...
Jul 02, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 113
Hello and welcome to episode 112 of Grow With Soul. When I did the last Q&A episode somebody sent me a DM with a question that I forgot to include in the show, but felt that we could probably devote an episode to it in itself. The question was about resistance: “How do you deal with resistance? When you know exactly what you need to do, but somehow you just can’t do it. All the fears kick in and you freeze. Does it happen to you?” What I talk about: Recognising the symptoms of resistance Ope...
Jun 25, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Hello and welcome to episode 111 of Grow with Soul. Today I'm catching up with Jane Lindsey of Snapdragon Life, who we first met back in episode 19 of the podcast. At that time Jane was at the very beginning of scaling back her six figure product business. 3 years later, she no longer has a team, and she is focused on her lifestyle membership. In this conversation we dig into so much juicy stuff! So we talk about money, setting up your business for creative freedom, truly aligning with your valu...
Jun 18, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Hello and welcome to episode 110 of Grow with Soul. As you all know from episode 106 on pivoting a few weeks ago, I am doing a lot behind the scenes at the moment to shift, well, pretty much everything in my business. The structure, the focus, and my own understanding of what my job role is and what I actually do. I've never done this before, but today is a short episode, sharing with you what I also shared with my newsletter subscribers last week, which is kind of an update on where my thoughts...
Jun 11, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Hello and welcome to episode 109 of Grow with Soul. Today I am catching up with Kara Leigh Ford, who was the very first coaching episode on the podcast way back in July 2018. The last three years have seen Kara grow and develop her business model to include not just making her pottery, but also teaching her courses, hosting a membership and writing a book. It's also seen her come up against challenges in the emotional experience of running a business too. Today we talk about how and why the chan...
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Today I am answering a couple of your questions submitted on Instagram earlier this week. I’ve grouped together a couple of questions that all had a similar feel: knowing what you want and making it happen. So we are talking about manifesting, knowing if your goals are the right ones, picking yourself up after disappointment, choosing yourself and your dreams and dealing with challenges. There are some juicy questions in here, so let’s dive in. What I talk about in this episode: The role of priv...
May 28, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Hello and welcome to episode 107 of Grow With Soul, and welcome as well to a new short series on the podcast, which is going to be released every other episode over the next couple of months, called Coaching Catch Ups. So, what I'm doing is having conversations with previous Coaching Episode guests to see how they're getting on. Today I am joined by Jane Badu, founder of We Are Nomads, an online interiors store inspired by travel. Jane and I last spoke back in March 2019 on episode 33, at which ...
May 21, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 107
Hello and welcome to episode 106 of Grow With Soul. Today I want to talk about pivoting, and specifically getting going with a pivot. A common theme of my conversations over these first few months of 2021 has been re-routing, pivoting, changing things up, shifting. It seems that the last year has, naturally, had many of us reassessing what we do, and not only wanting to make our businesses more stable but also wanting our lives to be different. I seem to be having less and less conversations abo...
May 14, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Hello and welcome to to episode 105 of Grow With Soul. Today we have our first returning guest to the show, Nicole Antoinette, who you may remember from episode 62. Given everything that has happened in the last year, Nicole and I wanted to talk about having change and flexibility at the core of your business, rather than it being something you have to do reactively. Today we talked about how to build around an approach rather than a thing, the three questions Nicole asks when she’s thinking of ...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 105
Today I am sharing some thoughts around the work, the work, and the work. So these are the three different things that we think and we talk about when we talk about work. When there is a disjoint, a misalignment, or just a general demotivation, we tend to go looking for the big solution in the entirety of our work, instead of pinpointing which type of work is actually causing the problem. In this episode I'm going to describe the 3 types of work, how to identify which one is the problem, and als...
Mar 19, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 104
In today’s episode I am just thrilled to be talking Sasha Glasgow of Frank and Feel - writer, doubter, doer. Sasha is one of my favourite writers on Instagram and to be honest I just wanted an excuse to have a conversation with her - but what a conversation it was. We talk about how she started out with an intention to be a candle brand before heeding the call of the words, the empowerment of sharing the truth of your feelings, the impact vs the aesthetic of a journaling practice and our approac...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 103
Hello and welcome to Episode 102 of Grow with Soul. Today is a Q&A episode, with a focus on motivation, focus, and how things work out. Some of the questions I'm answering are ones that we didn't quite get to in the 100th episode, and they're slightly more personal ones, and there are some others which you submitted on Instagram, which are about being able to focus, and a lack of motivation. Let's dig in... Here's what I talk about in this episode My thoughts and feelings on what I would cha...
Mar 05, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Today is a coaching episode with Mariana Gomes a writer and founder of Ok What’s The Next Step. Mariana started her website after feeling a lack of creativity in her life and wanting to connect to others in a similar place. In this episode we talk about how to get more people to find you when you don’t have a large Instagram following, trusting the process while being pro-active, finding ways to show up when you’re shy and letting what you do be at the heart of your promotion Here's what we talk...
Feb 26, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 101
100 episodes feels like a big deal for someone with trouble sticking to things and always coming up with new ideas, so I wanted to do something a little celebratory. Today, I am being interviewed by my good friend Lawrence Toye. As well as having the auspicious honour of being the first man on the podcast, Lawrence is a personal development coach who facilitates events and festivals, and also knows me from actual real life rather than the internet, so I knew he would do a great job. We had some ...
Feb 19, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Today I want to talk about time. At the beginning of every year I do a survey, kindly filled out by my newsletter subscribers and some of my Instagram audience. This year I took all the responses to the question ‘what is your biggest challenge’, and I could see that the word used the most as a challenge was ‘time’ - it’s something we’re clearly all feeling acutely at the moment. This is why my first Make It Better workshop of this year is going to be all about time, and as I’m preparing for that...
Feb 12, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Today is a coaching episode with Kimberly 國子 Taylor-Pestell an artist and illustrator who has been selling greetings cards and paper goods both directly and wholesale for three years. Like so many businesses, Kimberly was forced into a pivot in 2020 and has been running virtual creative retreats and finding a lot of joy in it. Now she wants to work out how to better integrate her reactive pivot into her existing business by approaching her retreats more strategically, streamline her content and ...
Feb 05, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Today I wanted to look at value. The truth is that ‘value’ is more multi-layered than it at first seems - there is the identifying it, the believing it, and then the applying of it. Understanding your value is not just important for your marketing going forward, but really knowing and believing in your value can also help to highlight the right direction for you and where you can best serve others with your business. Here's what I talk about in this episode: The theory behind value in marketing ...
Jan 29, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Hello and welcome to episode 96 of Grow With Soul. Today is a coaching episode with Agnes Becker of We Are Stardust. Craving less time in front of a computer and more mud in her life, science communicator Agnes started We Are Stardust as a way to bring to life the wonder of science and nature through prints and greetings cards. She now finds herself at a place where she wants to grow the business to be financially sustainable, but doesn’t want to be a greetings card factory - so is looking at ho...
Jan 22, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Hello, and welcome to episode 95 of Grow With Soul - and to the first episode of 2021! Today’s episode is in two parts. The first part of this episode is a recording of my Goals, Intentions and Word Of The Year blog post, unsurprisingly sharing what my goals are for this year and where my focus is - after sharing my End Of Year Thoughts like this I found be a really lovely and intimate way to share these kinds of thoughts. Then I’ll close out with a second part with a few thoughts on thinking ab...
Jan 15, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 95
For the last three years I have published an End Of Year Review. They have always been some of my favourite things to read and my favourite things to write – a chance to share everything that happened behind the scenes that made up the whole year. This year, however, is a little different. This year there are too many untied loose ends, too many still misplaced hopes and too much not processed that it just isn’t the right time to share my usual warts and all review. I did think, though, that I w...
Dec 20, 2020•25 min
Today is a coaching episode with Katie Ford-Thomas of Fen & Field Magazine. Katie grew Fen & Field from an idea sparked from a documentary to a fully fledged print magazine in a year, and now, two issues in, finds herself at the point of needing to level up. Having grown an Instagram following and newsletter audience organically, she’s now feeling stuck of how to move it all forward and broaden the magazine’s reach. We talk about alternative ways to use Instagram, getting granular with c...
Dec 04, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Today I have lots of your questions that you submitted on Instagram that I’m going to answer. It is perhaps a sign of the times that there seemed to be a trend of uncertainty through all your questions - just a hint of worry and feeling stuck - so I hope today can be a comforting episode that gives you a few new jumping off points. I’m covering overthinking, email sequences, decision-making, channel planning, and our old favourite, Why How What. Here's what I talk about in this episode: What to ...
Nov 27, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Today is a coaching episode with Lucy Moakes of Lulubell Tents. After growing an events business for five years, the events of 2020 provided Lucy with the opportunity, and necessity, of pivoting and starting up the shop venture she’d been thinking about for two years. Today we talk about how that experience has been emotionally and practically, talking about how to think about adding new things to what you do and working out how to talk to new customers. Here's what I talk about in this episode:...
Nov 20, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 92
When you have a problem in your business, whether that's with getting going or making a big decision, we want the magic answer and a system to follow, not to have to turn inwards. The Inward Attainment Map is the best of both worlds, providing a structure to help you work out the answers you need. In today’s episode, I wanted to talk through the Inward Attainment Map methodology and how you can start using some of the key milestones within it to start making progress in your projects and shift y...
Nov 13, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Today is a coaching episode with Lynne Davies-Crane, a coach living and working in tune with nature. Lynne officially started her business earlier this year, and while she has booked a few clients she doesn’t feel like she’s gaining traction or building community, and knows she’s over-relying on Instagram. In this really practical episode we talk about how to position your content to help people find you, locating your customer and their journey, and combining being a magnet and having people st...
Nov 06, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 90
