Bizzy Babes - The Podcast

In this episode we talk plans for our summer shindig and how we need your help!! We throw around the ideas we have and talk all the deets for our Cakes by Nancy x Land of Love summer party! Listen to find out who, what, where, when, why you should be getting involved! The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

In this episode we're bringing you BREAKING NEWS with absolutely zero facts courtesy of Nancy (mega sorry, but you'll get the gist of what's going on in the world). There's some big changes affecting us small businesses; increase in both national minimum wage and VAT thresholds. Nancy brings you the perspective of an employer who is VAT registered and Candice that of a business owner who is not yet hitting the VAT threshold and is considering making the jump to employing her first member of staff. The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

We've both been MEGA biz recently with Easter so we thought a good old catch up was needed! Tune in to this episode to find out what we've both been up to, how mercury in retrograde is affecting us both and the struggles of managing work life with every other commitments. The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

In this episode we discuss the changes we have made in our businesses and the positive/negative impact this has had. We look at why it's important to change up how we run our businesses to meet new trends and to combat external negative influences. The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

In this episode we talk about the advertising methods we use for our small businesses now but also aaaall the ones we've tried in the past which didn't actually appear to benefit our biz... that's right, we've all given out a freebie or two! The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

In this episode we wanna get you feeling the luuurve! Whether it's keeping the spark alive between yourself and your business, how to manage relationships with co-workers or how our family's support has evolved throughout the years. The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

Your two small biz babes are back and we're talking aaall things New Years rezzz's woo! In this episode we catch up on what we've both been up to over our Christmas break and have a good chinwag about how Jan 2024 is treating us. The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

PART 1 OF 2! We have THE most brilliant guest on this week.. Frazer Habershon from Frazer's Coffee Roasters!! Frazer provides the highest quality coffee in all the lands - Nancy won't be convinced otherwise - and is inspirational in the way he takes risks to build his business. The craziest thing about Frazer is he is completely self taught on all things business AND coffee (he even built his own coffee roaster, whaaaat!) So please, give this episode a listen and we're sure you'll find Frazer's journey incredibly interesting! The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

Join us on this week's podcast as we run through our current festive business antics, what it's like for a day in the life of Candice with Land of Love and we've both had a very drama filled week with two lil heroes saving our bacon ooft! The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

In today's episode we're catching up on what we've both been up to recently with work & life and it's the time of year when deadlines pile up all around us.. orders/bookings, social commitments, FINANCES aahhh help! The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

We thought we'd start getting you all in the Christmas spirit by bringing joyful festiveness to your ears (yes, we do sing Mariah's All I Want For Christmas soz!) with our first Christmas episode woo! Now in our line of business you start thinking about Christmas wayyyy back in bloomin' May so by this point we are in full Christmas tralalala mode! So we thought in this episode we'd chat about our Christmas plans for both ourselves and the businesses! We hope you enjoyyy! The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

Customer Service - if you stand around Nancy for too long she will end up engaging in a very passionate conversation about recent encounters of good or bad customer service - she's a really cool gal! In this episode we get really get into they key attributes of what makes up great customer service and the different ways we both provide good customer service both virtually and face to face. We also chat about why small businesses especially need to be mega on it with providing top notch customer service! The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

Land of Love is celebrating 4 years in the game wowee! So what better way to celebrate than dedicating this week's pod to all things LOL! We talk about Candice's goals and ambitions for the biz and her LOVE of manifestation which is mega interesting! The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

Most people have a love hate relationship with social media right? But how can you use social media channels effectively and are they really necessary when running a business? As two business owners who rely heavily on social media we discuss what channels we use and give tips on what we think is the best way to manage these channels. The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

This week’s podcast topic was chosen by YOU! (If you wanna be involved next time go follow our insta - @thebizzybabes) So here we are discussing business start ups/entering the market! We’re mega giddy for this because we LOVE knowing so many of you are interested in potentially taking the plunge into becoming a business owner woo!  We discuss how to prioritise the steps to starting up a business and what we regret doing when we first started our businesses. We are also introducing SMALL BIZ SHOUTOUT at the end of every episode where we give an incredible small biz a lil shoutout and tell you all about their business, how fun!! So if you have any small businesses in mind who you think deserve a shout out (obvs feel free to put forward your own biz) PLEASE let us know via Insta DMs with a little bit about the business. The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

So it's absolutely not like Nancy to need any excuse to talk about herself and the cake biz but it's the shop's second birthday so that's exactly what we're gonna do wahhooo! In this episode you'll hear some slightly questionable and maybe even shocking stories about both the biz and Nance herself but also her goals and plans for the future of CBN. She also gives advice for anyone thinking of starting a career in cakes and any regrets about the choices she made. The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

Okay okayyy, we may have both been silly sausages back in the day and would work until the early hours every night just to make sure we were getting orders completed! Are you guilty of this too? Be honest! But where were we going wrong and how are we managing our workload better today?  In this episode we talk about how we manage our time - both poorly and successfully! We discuss our typical week and how we allocate time for tasks/projects and our top best tools we use for managing our ever so limited time! The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

We're back with Part Two of our incred chat with Content by Emily! In this section we get to know how Emily started her business, how Emily manages her business along with three kiddos and her tips for anyone else thinking of starting a business in her industry. At the end we do a real fun lil challenge so stay tuned in for that heheh so sillyyyy! We hope you enjoy! Please be sure to like and subscribe xoxo If you fancy it go get involved on our Insta/Youtube too! @thebizzybabes The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

Omg guess what.. we have our first special guest in the building, yayyy! In this episode we'll be chatting to the lovely Emily from Content by Emily about all things brand strategy (don't worry, Emily tells us exactly what it means for us clueless peeps hehe) and content marketing. In Part One of our convo with Emily she delves into what services her business provides and how important and effective it can be! We learned so much! Stay tuned for Part Two where we hear how Emily manages the running of her business as well as her three children under four oooft whatta gal! We hope you enjoy! Please be sure to like and subscribe xoxo If you fancy it go get involved on our Insta/Youtube too! @thebizzybabes The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

Disclaimer.. unfortunately we are experiencing some technical issues around halfway into this episode so please bare with us but hopefully you can still enjoyyyy the episode!! In this episode we'll be looking at what risks we had to take when starting and running our businesses and what advice we can give if you're unsure on whether to take the leap!! We hope you enjoy! Please be sure to like and subscribe xoxo If you fancy it go get involved on our Insta/Youtube too! @thebizzybabes The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

In this episode we discuss what success looks like to us and if we consider ourselves to be successful. We dive into what our own goals for success are and ponder if having a successful biz is actually worth it!! Please be sure to like and subscribe xoxo If you fancy it go get involved on our Insta/Youtube too! @thebizzybabes The Bizzy Babes Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

Our first podcast episode, yayyy! In this episode we'll be introducing ourselves and sharing how our self employed journeys began! There's also a fun lil game to show you how weird and crazy we both really are heheh! We hope you enjoy! Please be sure to like and subscribe xoxo If you fancy it go get involved on our Insta/Youtube too! @thebizzybabes Bizzy Babes - The Podcast brought to you by Nancy & Candice. Two v v bizzy gals, navigating the self employed small biz life and bringing you guys along for the ride too. We'll be chatting the highs and lows of what it's really like to run a small business whilst providing ample of silly entertaining challenges too! We'll be chinwagging with other small business owners and getting you guys involved in the pod too. So buckle up and let your ears immerse themselves in Nance's slight lisp and Candice's cackle, lotsa luvvv!

Here's a little intro on what's to come! We hope you're as giddy as us! Bizzy Babes - The Podcast Brought to you by Candice & Nancy