A podcast that genuinely helps you start & scale your creative small business
This twice-weekly podcast aims to help small business owners with everything they need to start, grow and scale sustainably their own creative small business. Below you can listen to every episode of the My Daily Business podcast.
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Episode 46: Creating Stories through Contemporary Indian Creative Culture : How Indian Goods Company provides ethical pieces that quash stereotypes
In this interview episode, Fiona has a chat with Vatsala Murthy from Indian Goods Company. They talk about the challenges she has had to overcome building a business in an industry - retail - that she wasn’t hugely experienced in while sharing stories about contemporary Indian culture and art through their products.
Episode 45: Small Business Tips - A great FREE online tool for helping you master digital marketing for your business
Find out why Fiona suggests you check out Google Digital Garage - an online platform that teaches everyone lessons about SEO, digital marketing, content and anything else small business owners may find useful.
Episode 44: Investing in Yourself As A Small Business Owner: Do You Have a Training Budget?
In this coaching episode with Fiona, she wants to remind us how important it is that we always invest in ourselves - by attending training sessions, enrolling in courses and constantly reading helpful materials.
Episode 43: Asking For Feedback: Identifying Your Strengths and Weaknesses as a Small Business Owner
Fiona shares how asking your colleagues what you’re good at and which area in your business do you need to improve on will help you be better at what you do.
Episode 42: On Starting a Business in New York, Switching Careers in Your 30s and Going Back Home to NZ to Establish A New Career - an Interview with Paul Darragh of BEMODERN
In this special interview, Paul and Fiona discuss how Paul started his career, moving from New Zealand to Australia and eventually travelling to New York and work for a decade before deciding to establish a new career as a painter and artist.
Episode 41: Small Business Tips - How to humanise your business and build connection and community on Instagram and other social media
It’s time to make an instant connection in your DMs! In this quick tip episode, Fiona shares with us a very simple tip she uses on platforms like Instagram to make the connection with her audience more genuine and help strengthen relationships using voice messages.
Episode 40: How to take time off in your business. Eight Practical Steps To Actually Make It Happen
Need to take time off? Listen to this coaching episode to learn the key 8 steps you need to follow to take time off from your business with confidence!
Episode 39: A free online tool to help combat content blocks and brainstorm content ideas
Learn how you can use AnswerThePublic for your content planning so that you have something valuable to talk about on your next social media post, blog or campaign!
Episode 38: How To Start A Business Inspired By Your Heritage with Dinzi Amobi of ULO Australia
Fiona invites Dinzi Amobi of ULO Australia as this week’s guest and they talk about switching careers from being a lawyer to running a small business that sells homewares, children and women’s clothing with prints inspired by her African heritage.
Episode 37: Business Lessons From My Late, Great Father
In this very special tip episode, Fiona honors her late father by reminiscing and sharing what her favorite lessons from him were that she still applies to her business today.
Episode 36: Systems and Processes: The Seven Steps Every Small Business Owner Needs To Do To Set Them Up
In this coaching episode, Fiona guides us through her steps in ensuring that a business’ systems or processes are set up properly.
Episode 35: Owning Up To Your Own Mistakes in Business and Creating Your Own Fool Me Twice Checklist
In this tip episode, Fiona discusses the importance of owning up to your mistakes and shares how you can avoid doing them again by preparing your own ‘Fool Me Twice’ checklist.
Episode 34: Why Small Business Owners Need To Take Risks and Be Kind - An Interview with Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Genevieve Bailey
In this fun interview episode, Fiona talks to her good friend, Genevieve Bailey, the award-winning filmmaker behind wonderful documentaries such as I Am Eleven and Happy Sad Man. Genevieve shares her journey when she started creating her films and her thoughts on the importance of going after your gut and why we all need to be kind not only to other people, but to ourselves as well.
Episode 33: Three Free Marketing Activities Every Small Business Owner Needs To Do
It’s another Tip Tuesday for small business owners and if you need help with marketing, then listen now as Fiona shares three free marketing activities you need to do.
Episode 32: 10 Simple Yet Effective Tips To Get More Clients and Customers For Small Business Owners
In this coaching episode, she shares her top 10 tips that she recommends every small business owner must do to achieve their goal of consistently gaining new people who would want to avail any of your services or products.
Episode 31: Tips for Small Business: Do You Believe Everything Your Brain Tells You?
In many situations, we find ourselves overthinking without knowing the other side of a story, thus affecting our mindset and how we deal with our circumstances.
Episode 30: Working through economic downturns and tips for staying motivated in retail with Chris Crouch of Happy Valley
Fiona discuss how Chris Crouch has successfully managed different kinds of businesses, and how he has managed to keep Happy Valley afloat during a pandemic.
Episode 29: Tips for Small Business - Celebrating Your Wins As a Small Business Owner Even in Covid-19 Lockdown
In this quick tip episode, Fiona shares her experience when she made a mistake in one of her emails and how she learned to celebrate her wins instead of being too focused on her mistakes.
Episode 28: Money Matters: How Small Business Owners Can Survive and Thrive Through Their Financial Goals
In this coaching episode, Fiona shares her thoughts on why it’s important to assess how much money you should earn to survive and thrive. Listen now as she talks about why money discussions can be awkward (for some) but completely necessary for a small business owner’s growth.
Episode 27: Are national days just a marketing ploy or can they actually help you plan content in your small business?
In this short tip episode, Fiona shares how national days can be a fun way for business owners to market their products and eventually create good conversions. Which one do you think will you be celebrating with your business soon?