This week Lucy is flying solo - eek! This episode delves into the essential aspects of tech and operations for new or new-ish business owners. Building on the conversation from the previous episode with Dom Marshall, this episode focuses on whether a new business needs a website and tips for smoothing out the process. We offer advice on balancing tech needs without the overwhelm, emphasising that initial business focus should be on acquiring the first few clients through personal connections! We...
Jun 04, 2024•33 min
Welcome back to another exciting episode of the Disobedient Business Podcast! This week, we're diving deep into the world of website creation for early-stage businesses. Pippa is joined by the wonderful Dom Marshall from DMARZ Designs, an expert in SquareSpace and UX design. Together, they discuss everything from the pros and cons of building a website in your business's first year to the practical steps and middle grounds for those just starting out. If you've ever been hung up on selecting fon...
May 28, 2024•42 min
What's this episode about? In this episode of the Disobedient Business Podcast, host Pippa Parfait dives into the challenges and realities of sales and marketing for new service-based business owners. She chats about the all too common "ick" for sales and marketing, emphasizing that effective strategies do not have to feel too sales-y or inauthentic to you. Pippa shares insights on the difference between marketing and sales, the importance of visibility, and offers practical advice for the folks...
May 21, 2024•41 min
What's this episode about? In this episode of The Disobedient Business Podcast, Pippa hosts a conversation with Ellie Kime, a personal branding copywriter specialising in helping small business owners articulate their value. Diving into the theme of 'Throwing out the ick elevator pitch, and introducing yourself in all your brilliance,' this episode is packed with advice for newbie business owners, particularly those building service-based businesses, navigating the early overwhelm of presenting ...
May 14, 2024•38 min
What's this episode about? In this playful episode of the Disobedient Business Podcast, we dive headfirst into the exhilarating world of solo entrepreneurship, specifically zooming in on service-based business ventures. We're all about shattering the mould, tossing 'business as usual' out the window, and embarking on a journey to build utterly unique and integrity-packed businesses. Together, we tackle the vital need to trust ourselves over any cookie-cutter advice and steering clear of the drea...
May 07, 2024•31 min
Welcome back folks! We are b-u-z-z-i-n-g that Season 4 is starting NEXT WEEK (that's Tuesday 7th May) 🥳 Join Pippa Parfait, The OG Disobedient Biz Coach, and guests while we get into all things from marketing, copywriting, building a disobedient business and MORE! This season will travel through all (well, as many as we can do in a season) aspects of running an online service -based business and is a must listen for any new business owners starting out in this wild online world! Build a badass ...
Apr 30, 2024•2 min
In this cheeky little podcast episode of ours, we have a good old chinwag about the pearls of wisdom Siobhan Fisher dropped on us about of what sets apart building a gaggle of followers from nurturing a proper community for those plucky small businesses. We're having a chat about how a community is all about getting stuck in and having a proper back-and-forth, while an audience is more about sitting back and soaking it all in, using social media as an example. And blimey, do we get into a spirit...
Mar 12, 2024•34 min
In this episode we welcome the wonderful Siobhan Fisher to the pod to talk with Pippa about your audience and your community, the pros and cons of each and how to go about building them! Siobhan is a marketing magician and brings her wealth of knowledge from years working with the 'big dogs' in the corporate world to support the 'little fish' in the small business pond. Don't forget to join us next week where Pippa and Lucy dive deeper into this meaty topic. 🚨 BIG NEWS YOU GLORIOUS HUMANS 🚨 Di...
Mar 05, 2024•44 min
Bet you didn't wake up this morning thinking "I need to hear Lucy attempt to sing Chicago the musical on a podcast" but alas, that's what we're giving you! This animated episode is brought to you by Pippa and Lucy talking about their thoughts on all things affiliate marketing, capitalism, restaurant-running and tech. There's ✨opinions✨, singing, laughing and knowledge abound on this auditory adventure so buckle in, keep your appendages inside the vehicle and enjoy the journey. Oh, and the film L...
Feb 27, 2024•35 min
Wow wow wow, we are so excited to be bringing this episode with Alex Okell into the world! Alex and Pippa talk about affiliate marketing, a lil' bit about why you might want to have an affiliate scheme in your biz but mostly all about doing some affiliate marketing to incorporate another revenue stream to you biz and doing so without being a knob and compromising your integrity. Don't forget to tune in for part 2 next week where Pippa and Lucy will get deeper into in about their relationship wit...
Feb 20, 2024•41 min
If visibility has always felt performative, and "growing your audience" makes you want to take a shower... this episode is for you! Join Pippa and Natalie for this episode to discover how you can lead with integrity, grow your impact by speaking on podcasts. We dive into... 🎙️ who podcast guesting is an amazing fit for, and what growing your business through podcast guesting can look like 🎙️ how to create your unique speaker topics, your way 🎙️ Natalie's 80/20 'rule' of pitching - it takes pi...
Feb 13, 2024•40 min
Welcome to part two of our episodes about niching. In this episode Pippa and Lucy talk niching from a The Disobedient Business® Co. perspective following on from the great episode with Pippa and Liz Goodchild from last week. In this ep we talk about; Lucy's experience with niching Niching as a protective behaviour ADHD and niching When niching might actually be helpful And if you haven't already, make sure you go back an episode and listen to Part 1 with the wonderful Liz Goodchild. 🚨 BIG NEWS ...
Feb 06, 2024•30 min
In the first of our two episodes about niching we welcome Liz Goodchild to the podcast for a fun conversation unpacking the major preoccupation service-based business owners seem to have about niching! Spoiler; if everyone's saying that we 'should' be doing something we're probably going to have some...opinions on the matter 😈 Join us in the next episode where Lucy and Pippa dive into niching from a The Disobedient Business® Co. perspective and delve into the goodness from this episode with Liz...
Jan 30, 2024•38 min
Woohoo baby, we're back 😎 Season 3 of The Disobedient Business Podcast will be hitting your feeds next week, on Tuesday of course because, duh. We are buzzing to be bringing the pod back after a long hiatus and we've shaken some things up and revamped the format a lil' bit to keep things fresh. Have a listen to the fun changes coming your way and let us know what you think! Our group programme The Disobedient Business® Mastermind is now enrolling - check it out. Visit our website at disobedient...
Jan 23, 2024•4 min
So this is a bit of an odd lil' episode... We are excited to share with you the latest scoop from the Disobedient Business Podcast and how we're making some changes to the show's format. Brace yourselves, folks, because the show will now be serialised with eight episodes released weekly, followed by a break of four to six weeks. But wait, there's more! Each series will focus on a different department of the business such as Sales, HR, Marketing etc following Pippa's Department Model. How cool is...
May 04, 2023•17 min
This week Lucy flies solo (we know 😬 deep breath folks) and discusses some of the things that folks wished they knew when they started their podcasts. We asked our community for help with this one so a big thank you to everyone who contributed their stories and lessons they'd learned journeying into this weird and wonderful world. Lucy references a lot of things in this episode so be sure to check out Episode 34 and Episode 35 before diving in to this episode if you haven't already. They also m...
Apr 04, 2023•29 min
On this week's episode we talk hero content, content pyramids, AI, Indiana Jones, robot uprisings and raindrops - it wouldn't be a Disobedient Business Podcast episode without a few segues in there now would it? Furthering our conversation last week about alllllll the reasons why you might want to start a podcast, we look at how that podcast can help your content strategy and potentially make life a whole lot easier. You can see a handy graphic beautifully made by someone who is not us here . We...
Mar 28, 2023•27 min
In this episode Lucy and Pippa pontificate on podcasts; do you want one, "should" you want one, why might you want one? It nicely brings together in a warm and embracing hug a lot of the topics we've discussed recently including; being yourself to attract your 'ideal client', thought leadership, politics, having a voice and how you like to show up in your business and engage with your audience. Is starting a podcast on your 2023 vision board? Is podcasting something you've been curious about but...
Mar 21, 2023•27 min
Pippa talks to Deanna Seymour about fixed grids, 9 grids, 12 grids, grid magazines... we're still not sure exactly what to call them. This year, we at The Disobedient Business® Co. finally got our fixed grid up and running as well as reorganising our Highlights on Instagram and we are loving it! WTF is a fixed grid? It's where you generally archive all your old IG grid posts and in their place put a gorgeous 3x3 or 3x4 grid that is a catchy and eye grabbing story about who you are, what you do a...
Mar 14, 2023•45 min
In this episode Pippa talks to Katie Skelton about the weird and wonderful world of LinkedIn. Pippa ditched LinkedIn years ago and the idea of returning gives her the tingles and not in a good way. Can what was an icky corporate bro-y platform now be used to foster connection and sales in the small biz/ 'solopreneur' space? Well, apparently so! Katie informs us there are, in fact, actual humans in their whole human-ness on LinkedIn and you can make some seriously cool connections as well as garn...
Mar 07, 2023•39 min
In this episode Pippa and Peta ponder on politics (that's a lot of P's). Peta shares her story with us and how she has come to weave politics back into her business in a big way having started out life wanting to be Prime Minister (there's still time #VoteForPeta). We talk about why keeping politics firmly on the table in our businesses is a good thing and how it doesn't need to be all or nothing - do what works for you friend! In today's climate more and more people are driven to purchase from/...
Feb 28, 2023•44 min
In this episode Pippa talks with the wonderful Keri Jarvis about running a feminist business and flying in the face of capitalist structures. Keri and Pippa discuss their journeys into feminism and how that developed with their businesses as well as the continuing journey of learning and unlearning and how to navigate that alongside cancel culture, self-doubt and the fear of rejection and judgement. Keri also shares what she's doing in her business right now to be as feminist and anti-capitalist...
Feb 21, 2023•44 min
In this episode Pippa talks all about thought leadership; what is it, why do it, who's doing it, why we like it. Often we are told to hide our voices, especially as women and people assigned female at birth and Pippa says no more! Be loud, be proud and be you because you is awesome 😍 [disclaimer; being a thought leader doesn't mean you have to be loud, just 'out loud' but more on that in the episode]. So are you a thought leader friend? Do you think you could be? As ever we'd love to hear your ...
Feb 14, 2023•20 min
In this episode of the Disobedient Business® Podcast, we have a little segue or detour if you will. Pippa is flying solo and sharing the 13 things that she really wants you, listeners of this podcast, to believe (and actively practice believing) to your very core. Why 13? Why not? We could have shared 50 or 100 but that would have been a super long episode, so these are the 13 that are front of mind from conversations with clients, in the Disobedient Business® Mastermind community, and in chats ...
Feb 07, 2023•19 min
In this week's episode we explore WTAF it means to be professional in your business. Many of us business owners have hailed from some sort of big business, public sector or corporate background and have brought with us all sorts of pretty ingrained ideas of what it means to Be Professional when running our own businesses. The trouble is, these ideas originate from a patriarchal, capitalist system, driven by competition and comparison. Whether or not you've ever worked in a big office for The Man...
Jan 30, 2023•41 min
We're back after a winter break and kicking off 2023 with a goodun! In today's episode, Pippa and Lucy explore what we mean by mini, micro, and nano offerings, and why you might want them in the ecosystem of your business in 2023! We explore what each type of offer could be, some ideas for the kind of things that would fit in each type, and walk through how we're using mini, micro, and nano offers in the Disobedient Business® Coecosystem this year. One of our micro offers this year is the Disobe...
Jan 24, 2023•33 min
As we roll into the end of the year and the Disobedient Business® Podcast goes on a break in a few weeks' time, in this episode Pippa is naming her predictions in the online business world for 2023. Pippa takes us through her 6 main predictions in 3 steps: 1) what is the prediction and what could it mean? 2) what are the opportunities? 3) what are we doing here at the Disobedient Business® Co to respond to these? If you're looking at your 2023 plans and wondering WTAF you will do next year, what...
Nov 29, 2022•26 min
In this week's episode, we talk to Helen Wallis-Dowling about her first few months in the Disobedient Business® Mastermind. Helen joined us in September 2022 having worked one-to-one with Pippa since December 2021 and wanted to share her experience with us. Helen is a Self-Belief coach with a passion for making coaching accessible to people from all walks of life. For over 25 years, Helen has worked with individuals and groups, and communities to realise their own potential and to use to change ...
Nov 22, 2022•32 min
He can fly He can fly He can TALK! In this fairly unhinged episode Pippa tries to talk all things Disobedient Business Mastermind and Lucy does absolutely everything within their Frosties-fuelled power to keep us off topic but with some epic moments of insight and wisdom because...duh 💁 Strap in folks...it's a weird one. Pippa also drops a reference to a previous episode, Investing in your business when the world feels like it's on fire - let's talk! So by all means head back and catch up on th...
Nov 15, 2022•29 min
In this week's episode, Pippa and Lucy explore the steps they take in the Disobedient Business® Co to plan out the year ahead. From financial targets to scheduling and planning in rest to offer ecosystems, this episode has it all. If you're looking for support planning your 2023 when things are feeling a bit shaky for business owners right now, we've got a workshop on 15th November that is just for you too! Only £29GBP grab your Disobedient Business® Planning for 2023 workshop tickets and all th...
Nov 07, 2022•32 min
