All Episodes
A Facilitator's Journey: Real Life Stories — 52 episodes
Episode 49: From Newsrooms to Workshops: Jo Cook's purposeful facilitator's path
Episode 48: The Importance of Community, Connection and Collaboration
Episode 47: The brutal truth: My first five years as a freelance facilitator
Episode 46: Summer Reflections: My Facilitator's Journey!
Episode 45: Navigating Neurodiversity in Business
Episode 44: Re-evaluating Success: From corporate to creative to scaling back
Episode 43: The Power of an Endurance Mindset in Business
Episode 42: Websites and SEO - What Every Freelancer and Facilitator Needs to Know
Episode 41: Navigating the Legal Side of Business with Lucy Wheeler
Episode 40: Me, my business and Neurodiversity
Episode 39: Balancing Being Yourself and Business
Episode 38: The Importance of Streamlining Operations and Processes in a Small Business
SOFest: Behind the scenes
Episode 37: Common Challenges Faced by Entrepreneurs and the importance of community
Episode 36: Saying No, Finding Balance after Burnout & Redefining Success in our Business
Episode 35: Strategy, Facilitation & Finding Clients – A Real Talk with Faris Aranki
Episode 34: Money is Sexy: The Pricing Conversation
Episode 33: Navigating the Business of Facilitation and Training
Episode 32: Consultant or Facilitator? The impact of our language and words
Episode 31: The power of persistence during times of change
Episode 30: Developing a Positive and Confident Mindset in a Freelance World
SOFest: November Update
Episode 29: Building a Business Through Connection and Curiosity
Episode 28: The Challenges and Rewards of Building a Business
Episode 27: Two heads are better than one: why run a business with a partner?
Episode 26: Defining my Version of Success as a Freelancer
Episode 25: From Peacecorp to Corporate; The story of an international facilitator
SOFest: The Why, The What (and the worries)?
Episode 24: The accidental profession: How DO we become facilitators?
Episode 23: Lights, Camera, Facilitate: The transition from Model and Actor to Facilitator
Episode 22: The Birth of School of Facilitation
Episode 21: Navigating Growth from start-up to scale-back
Episode 20: Prosperity Over Profit: Redefining our definition of Success
Episode 19: The Journey and Evolution of being an associate
Episode 18: The power of niching and how to do it
Episode 17: The evolving journey of a freelancer
Episode 16: If you build it, they will come: Creating a business on a solid pipeline (and PR)
Episode 15: Are you a business or a project shop?
Episode 14: I left because of a sandwich: from corporate to associate to B:Corp business
Episode 13: The trials and tribulations of freelance life.
Episode 12: Master the art of negotiating: essential skills and tactics for trainers and facilitators.
Episode 11: The power of two: creating good partnerships
Episode 10: The parallels between a romantic relationship and a business break-up! With Meg Bolger
Episode 09: Best we know the stuff we fail to notice! With Simon Kettleborough
Episode 08: 10 Days That Changed Everything With Leanne Hughes
Episode 07: The mindset of scaling a training business with Mark Cranstoun
Episode 06: Competition, Collaboration and Community With Myriam Hadness
Episode 05: How it all began! With Kirsty Lewis
Episode 04: How we scaled our Duck factory! With Catherine & John Nicholson
Episode 03: It's all about the money! With Rob Geraghty
Episode 02: Moving Towards Retirement With Meriel Swain
Episode 01: Conscious Decision-Making With Richard Stokes