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A Brilliant Gamble
by Blaire Palmer
Do you struggle with work life balance? Are you excited to get out of bed and work on something you truly love, that feeds your creativity and passions and that allows you to make an impact? Or do you feel success in one area of your life requires sacrifice in another? Well, work doesn’t have to be this way.What if you didn’t have to sell your soul, compromise your values or forgo professional success to achieve work life balance?Join former BBC journalist, best-selling author and digital nomad Blaire Palmer and her guests as they share inspirational, honest and real conversations. A Brilliant Gamble is a great resource for those seeking real-life advice and insight based on the actual experiences of people just like you who are re-thinking how to balance work, life and self. Learn practical strategies that will help you design a blended life - integrating work, family and self - to create a work life you love. You’ll hear inspiring interviews with entrepreneurs, creatives, leade
Episodes
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Going inside to go outside, with Silvina Marchisio
This will be the last A Brilliant Gamble podcast for a while. As you may know I run another business specialising in leadership coaching and I speak about the future of leadership. Recently my Mum became ill and this, combined with running my other business, being a single mum, home educating and...
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Imposter Syndrome, with Leah Steele
Do you get that little voice in your head that tells you you aren’t good enough, no one likes you, you don’t fit in….or any number of other delightfully undermining jabs? My guest today, Leah Steele, is the expert in Imposter Syndrome. A sufferer herself through her years as a lawyer she…
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Declaring a personal climate emergency, with Zoe Cohen
In just under a month, the next wave of Extinction Rebellion protests begin around the UK and elsewhere (w/c 7-Oct). Whether you’ve already been involved or you have other ways of responding to the climate crisis, the question many of us ask is, how can we, as individuals and as owners of small...
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Taking a year off, with Phil Quinnan
It’s September and many of us are thinking “Why does the holiday have to end?”. Well, maybe it doesn’t. On today’s show I speak to Phil Quinnan who stepped off the hamster wheel, not to start a business, but to take some time to reflect and reconnect with himself and his family in the Italian...
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How to be a Virtual Assistant, with Catherine Gladwyn
Catherine is a best selling author, VA and VA trainer. Virtual Assistance is one of the fastest growing professions today for people leaving the 9-5. VAs are administrators who work by the hour for small businesses. Increasingly they have specialisms - social media management, bookkeeping…
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How should you spend your working day?
How should you spend your day when you work for yourself? Of course, there is no such thing as a typical day when you run your own business (which can be a problem for you if you’re used to structure!). But given that your time is largely yours to organise it’s useful to be intentional about what...
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Failure… but in a good way!
On today’s show I’m talking about failure… but in a good way! Folks - failure is normal. Most of what happens when you take a Brilliant Gamble is failure. It’s just a part of the process of change. And I want to share with you a different way to think about failure and how to incorporate failure…
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Websites 101, with Matthew Eldridge
Are you putting off building your website? Is it half done? Have you done it but you’re not happy with it? Today’s show is here at the rescue! I’m talking to Matthew Eldridge, Owner and Head Geek at Melt Creative Ltd and this episode is Websites 101! I don’t want you to have any excuses to stall…
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Kick In The Creatives
Creativity is hugely important to developing that sense of balance that so many of us are looking for. And women are particularly bad at this - men spend an average of 4 hours 29 mins a week on sports, hobbies and computer games versus women who spend about 2 hours 29 minutes. What?? And that’s…
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Galloping Catastrophe, with Jennifer Kennedy
What happens when your blog goes viral? And what about when your blog is something as personal as your experiences of the menopause? Jennifer Kennedy knows! Her blog is only 18 months old but she has to date, nearly 35,000 readers... and she balances that with a full time job as well. Like so…
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Doing the deep work, with Edina De Jong-Hodzic
We often think that we’re working up to a big change, that the hard part is making that change happen. So we spend years planning how we’re going to leave our job with the hope that, once it finally happens, we’ll be living the life of our dreams. But the more I talk to you guys and reflect on…
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How to stay connected when it’s all going wrong
You might has seen I did a Facebook Live over on our A Brilliant Gamble Facebook Page, which I then shared in the Corporate Escapees Facebook Group (!) about an experience I had a couple of weeks ago when I had some quite negative feedback to an email I sent. However, the feedback really woke me...
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Do you have to be a dazzling outlier? with Rebekah Bostan
On this week’s show I’m talking to Rebekah Bostan who responded to my survey on midlife expectations and experiences of work. Brought up during apartheid in South Africa, making a difference is in her genes. Her mother ran an illegal mixed race school, bringing children from Soweto to learn at a...
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Should You Ever Work For Free?
I had a great discussion over elderflower cordial the other day with fellow business ladies about our relationship with money and, specifically, whether you should ever work for free. Most people who run their own business today create a lot of free content, they blog, they create free downloads,...
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Make Money from Podcasting, with Debbie Arcangeles
There are two things everyone wants to talk to me about - my trip last year with my daughter and dogs and whether they could do it too AND how to start their own podcast. This week I’m talking to podcaster and digital nomad, Debbie Arcangeles about both of these! Debbie makes money from…
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Being Fierce, with Eleanor Beaton
The whole power dynamic changes when you step out of corporate life and in to entrepreneurship. No matter how much influence you had before you left or how much of a wallflower you were, once you’re on the outside you need to be heard and seen. In this episode I talk to Eleanor Beaton, an award...
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Get the money in first, with Blaire Palmer
On today’s show it’s all about getting the money in. There are lots of things to keep yourself busy when you run a business and many of them are important. But unless you set aside time to do the activities that get the money in you’re going to find yourself back in a 9-5 job. I learnt these...
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Driven Woman, with Miisa Mink
This week's guest is Miisa Mink, Founder and Chief Doer at DrivenWoman – an accountability club for women who want to achieve their goals and dreams - and the creator of Festival Of Doers. Miisa has worked with hundreds of women who want to change their lives and in our conversation, she not only...
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122 Are you really ready to quit your corporate job?
On this week’s show I’m sharing 10 good reasons to leave your corporate job. Maybe leaving corporate life isn’t your only option – you could stay within corporate life but change company, change working hours, changing to working remotely, change career but stay within big business... How do you...
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121 Funny Business, with Marc Hogan
If you’ve got itchy feet there are lots of ways to transition out of your current job in to something you’d love a lot more. But I’m not sure whether the best way to do it is to take a bet! Today’s guest, Marc Hogan, took a £1 bet that he couldn’t put on a one hour show at the Edinburgh Comedy...
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120 Flexible working, with Ursula Tavender
Not everyone who leaves their corporate job to start their own business does it entirely out of choice. A significant number of people feel self employment is their only option because the conventional workplace doesn’t work for them. Today’s guest, Ursula Tavender, couldn’t find a job that that...
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119 Living from the inside out, with Talita Ferreira
People leave their corporate jobs for all sorts of reasons. And sometimes the choice is either to go for the ultimate top job of CEO in a large corporation or get off the hamster wheel altogether. Talita Ferreira was Chief Finance Officer and Chief HR Officer of BMW UK and BMW Financial Services...
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118 Finding your starving crowd, with Tim Tavender
Your career path isn’t always a straight line. And the job that you do now or are thinking of doing next might not have even existed when you were having your meeting with your career’s adviser all those years ago! This is one of the reasons we get itchy feet. We see an alternative way of…
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117 Resilience, with Nicki Bass
Nicki is a former Army Officer who spent 17 years developing people in conflict zones around the world and now runs courses to help people develop their resilience. There are so many ups and downs in life and it can sometimes feel like you don’t have the strength to carry on, or even get started....
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116 Business Models
It’s all very well knowing you don’t want to carry on working and living the way you do right now. But it’s not always clear what you should do instead. If you’re unsure what to do when you escape the rat race one place to start is to think, not about what you want to DO, but what business model...
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115 Talking money, with Andy Hill
Money - It’s the big challenge for anyone who wants to create a better, more balanced life and do something for a living outside of the corporate 9-5. In fact, your feelings about money could be the biggest barrier to you even thinking about doing something else instead. That’s why I wanted to…
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114 Putting Yourself Out There, with Janet Murray
I spend much more of my time marketing myself and getting my name and expertise known in the world than I actually do coaching or speaking to audiences. And this might come as a shock to you if you’re still working a 9-5 or starting to run your own venture. Putting yourself out there doesn’t come...
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113 How to create a worst case scenario plan
It’s my first solo show for a while and I was inspired by member of the Corporate Escapees Facebook page to do an episode about making a Worst Case Scenario Plan. When you stand on the precipice of a big decision all the fears come bubbling to the surface. But they swill around in your brain in a...
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112 Slow Living, with Brooke McAlary
What is slow living? So many of us want to change our lives because we want more space for things we love, as well as a job we love. But life often seems too hectic to find that space, sense of peace or a feeling that we’re really able to enjoy what we have worked so hard to achieve. When Brooke...
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111 Go Hunt Life with Todd Nevins
Just because living life on your own terms might feel like a gamble, doesn’t mean you don’t try to minimise the risk! Todd Nevins is a Digital Nomad who travels full time with his wife and their dog, encouraging other people to do the same. In fact, he’s on a mission to get one million people who...
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110 Looking For Your Passion, with Dav Piper
I wonder how many of us fall in to a career, and then make a real success at it before we realise that it’s not working for us. Of course, that creates a whole new problem. What are you going to do next? Well, that’s the story for my guest today. Dav Piper is now a gardener. But until recently…
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109 Writing for a Living, with Joanna Penn
I’ve spoken to writers before on this show. A massive highlight for me was talking to Tom McLaughlin (Episode 85) about how he became a writer and illustrator for kids. But today’s guest helps people write for a living. FOR A LIVING! Joanna Penn (www.thecreativepenn.com) left the corporate world…
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108 What’s Your Excuse with Maxwell Ivey
Maxwell Ivey describes himself as the Blind Blogger. Born in to a carnival family, he became blind in his teens but has never let it stop him doing what he wanted to do. He’s now not only a successful businessman but an inspirational speaker, coach and podcaster, helping people follow their…
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107 Thinking of starting a business? With Phyllis Smith
It’s all very well imagining yourself running your own business as a way to escape the rat race. But what’s the reality? What skills will you need beyond the technical skills you’ve been mastering for the last 20 or 30 years? That’s why I wanted to talk to my guest today, Phyllis Smith. Former...
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106 The Princess of 42nd Street
Can you imagine seeing porn stars having sex in your backyard, or watching a topless waitress breastfeeding a kitten at one of your parent’s parties? Well, today’s guest lived that life. Romola Hodas was the eldest daughter of Marty (Martin) Hodas, aka “Times Square’s King of Porn,” the man who...
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105 Grit Girl, with Sunday Burquest
In 2012. Sunday Burquest was diagnosed with breast cancer. After multiple surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, and a bout with depression she discovered she was much stronger than she imagined and decided to follow her dream and ended up on the 33rd season of the Emmy award-winning reality tv show...
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104 Confessions of a Menopausal Woman with Andrea McLean
Welcome to a new season of the A Brilliant Gamble Podcast for 2019! I’m so excited to bring you my conversation with TV presenter and journalist, Andrea McLean, because there couldn’t be a better way to start the year. Not only is Andrea a huge presence on TV as co-host of Loose Women but she’s...
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103 Mike Robbins - Bring Your Whole Self to Work
I'm sure you've often thought about what makes you happy or perhaps wondered where happiness comes from? Most of us want to feel happy about our lives even if we’re not happy all the time. We want the same from our lives outside of work and the work we do. Today’s guest is Mike Robbins, thought...
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102 Building Family in to Your Business Plan with Madeleine Lambert
It seems to me that most change isn’t initiated by us but thrust upon us or dropped in to our path. If you’ve had an interesting life up to this point and want that to continue, you’re probably someone who grabs those unplanned opportunities and runs with them. Today’s guest is entrepreneur...
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101 Putting People First with Mark Williams
I spend much of my time inside big business. As a keynote speaker and coach for leaders I’m very familiar with the ways large organisations operate and the universal challenges that they face against a backdrop of a world changing faster than ever before. For years I’ve been trying to help those...
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100 Help Me, with Marianne Power
Do we ever really change? I’ve spent 20 years attempting to help individuals and companies to grow and develop so the concept that people are capable of change sits right at the heart of that. If we don’t ever change, what have I been doing all this time?! Of course, we do change. Life changes…
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99 Escape Velocity, with Lee Feldman
Lee Feldman is a force of nature. Down to earth, humble and funny, he's also a guy who thinks and acts BIG. He was pivotal in revolutionising how major companies used their websites back in the late 1990s, is more recently the founder of THNK Vancouver. His latest project is to create Bicycle...
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98 Renting Your Job or Owning It, with Mark Fritz
Most of us work with people and it tends to be the people stuff that makes work brilliant and awful. If you’re having problems at work most likely they are people problems. This is why, of course, so many people are looking to change their job or change their company. But what if you take…
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97 Running towards Joy with Ali Soleil
On this week's show I'm talking to award winning Women's Advocate and Empowerment Coach, Ali Soleil, about embarking on adventures in your 40s and 50s. Ali is the host of the F Years Podcast and helps women in mid-life to go from fed up to fabulous. In this conversation we talk about living out…
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96 Do A Day – An interview with Bryan Falchuk
Today's show is another archive show – my interview with Bryan Falchuk. Bryan is the author of a wonderful book called "Do A Day" in which he explores why we get stuck in bad habits and how to break those habit... for good! Whether you're stuck in a rut in your work, with your health and fitness,...
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95 The Good Life Project, with Jez Rose
There's a lot of talk in business about engagement and employee satisfaction and "leaders" spend a great deal of time (and money on leadership development courses) trying to work out how to get a more "turned on" workforce. Join me this week for a great archive episode! Behaviourist Jez Rose is a...
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94 Pressing Pause
We are in! We moved in to the smallholding last week and are starting to get used to being settled after so many months on the road. It’s very strange to put things in a cupboard knowing you won’t have to take it all back out in a matter of days! Moving house and starting a new lifestyle can be...
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93 Big Bangs and Daily Bangs
Some changes are easy to make. There will be adjustments you want to make to your life – big or small – that seem GIGANTIC to other people but, to you, they’re a walk in the park. But other changes...boy! These ones are tough! I’ve been pondering what makes certain changes harder than others and...
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92 The Third Act Belongs to You, with Suzy Walker
When I first became a coach in 2000 I was one of the first wave of coaches in the UK. Generally young, successful women who’d come from the corporate world, we saw coaching as a way to help people move forward in their lives and make conscious choices about how they wanted to live and how they...
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91 Stress - My Unfinished Business
There’s rarely an opportunity to reflect between the end of one project, adventure or experience and the next. So when the opportunity arises we should take it! What did we learn from our last experience and how can we take that forward to the next one? And what “Unfinished Business” is there –...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Do you struggle with work life balance? Are you excited to get out of bed and work on something you truly love, that feeds your creativity and passions and that allows you to make an impact? Or do you feel success in one area of your life requires sacrifice in another? Well, work doesn’t have to be this way.What if you didn’t have to sell your soul, compromise your values or forgo professional success to achieve work life balance?Join former BBC journalist, best-selling author and digital nomad Blaire Palmer and her guests as they share inspirational, honest and real conversations. A Brilliant Gamble is a great resource for those seeking real-life advice and insight based on the actual experiences of people just like you who are re-thinking how to balance work, life and self. Learn practical strategies that will help you design a blended life - integrating work, family and self - to create a work life you love. You’ll hear inspiring interviews with entrepreneurs, creatives, leade
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