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 75: 8 Highly-Recommended Business Books That Give Really Good Insights and Lessons For Small Business Owners
In this short tip episode, Fiona shares the books she recommends every small business owner should read to help them grow their businesses.
Episode 74: On Running A Purpose-Led Business: How Onegirlstudio Connects with the Local Community Through Brand Collaborations and Championing Australian Makers
Fiona talks to Lijean Beier, founder of Onegirlstudio, an Interior Design Consultancy, web-store and real life shop in Brisbane’s western suburbs. In their chat, they talk about giving back to the community (where shop profits are donated to Outback Futures and Onegirl), doing brand collaborations with Australian makers and managing motherhood while running a business.
Episode 73: Five Quick Questions to Work Through When It Comes to Potential Mindset Blocks That You Might Have
While it’s easy to say that we can change our mindset on how we approach things, certain blocks stop us from achieving them. In this quick tip episode, Fiona shares the five questions to help you assess what your potential mindset blocks are.
Episode 72: Why Giving A Performance Review for Yourself can Help Running A Small Business
While some may think being their own bosses doesn’t require them to assess their performance in running their businesses, Fiona shares why it still matters.
Episode 71: Small Business Tip: How to use accountability when Setting Personal and Business Goals
Fiona shares how she’s keeping herself accountable to the goals she has set this year and how you can too!
Episode 70: Why it's sometimes important not to have a plan B and other lessons from artist turned furniture designer and maker, Sean Woolsey of Sean Woolsey Studio
Sean Woolsey of Sean Woolsey Studio shares his journey of transitioning from art to furniture, following his passion, starting a business and his parents’ influence on his creativity.
Episode 69: Small Business Owners’ Tip: How To Improve Your Posture Using A Simple Reminder App
Do you find yourself having bad posture because of your work setup? If so, you will find this podcast episode super helpful! If you’re interested to improve your posture and health overall, then listen now as Fiona shares her tip on how she becomes mindful about her posture as she works from home.
Episode 68: How Small Business Owners Improve Their Strategic Marketing By Choosing The Right Marketing Channel For Them
Fiona gives questions to ask yourself to help you find out which marketing channel works best for you and which ones aren’t necessary for your business.
Episode 67 Small Business Tips: How Business Owners Can Work Through Having Difficult Conversations
Fiona shares what her brother – a psychologist in Melbourne – advises everyone to do to make difficult conversations happen despite our fears of hurting others or our businesses.
Episode 66: On Breaking Up with Friends – An Interview with Dr. Hannah Korrel, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Author of How to Break Up With Friends
Fiona talks to Dr. Hannah Korrel, Author and Clinical Neuropsychologist about the importance of having good supportive friends and why we need to break up with the toxic ones.
Episode 65: How To Find The Right Email Addresses To Contact for Collaborations and Invitations
In this quick tip episode, Fiona shares the tool she uses when looking for the right person to email if you're going to go after sponsorship, partnerships or collaboration.
Episode 64: How To Use The Eisenhower Matrix To Prioritise Important and Urgent Tasks in Your Small Business
Fiona talks about a really important framework that will help you decipher what you should be working on and could be working on this year versus the work that are not urgent and important at all using the Eisenhower Matrix.
Episode 63: Why Small Business Owners Need To Create A Reviews Page For Clients' Testimonials
When asking for testimonials and reviews from clients and customers, you need to guide them on which pages to go to and how to add a review. It’s time you build a reviews page.
Episode 62: On Starting A Business at A Young Age and Making Alliances with Other Business Owners in the Mental Health Profession with Natasha Ace of Private Practice Alliance
Fiona has a chat with one of her closest business friends, Natasha Ace, owner of Private Practice Alliance, where they talk about starting a business at 21, the importance of education and why making alliances make business owners stronger together.
Episode 61: What are The Habits That Help You and Which Ones Hinder Your Productivity and Progress?
Fiona shares what she does during a coaching session with clients - listing down which habits help you and which ones hinder your productivity and progress.
Episode 60: 2020: What did you learn and what will you leave behind?
In this special episode, Fiona shares her top questions to help you reflect what you’ve learned and how you can make 2021 a better year for your business.
Episode 59: “I’m Not Good at It…Yet.” – A Small Business Owner’s Mindset on Why It’s Important to Keep Improving
In this quick tip episode with Fiona, she shares a good business lesson she learned from her son - the importance of using the word “yet” and why we need to shift our mindset to keep improving in our business.
Episode 58: Fun, Bold, Vegan and Cruelty-Free: How I Scream Nails Successfully Moved from a Service Business to Build An Online Product-Based Business
Listen to today’s interview as Fiona talks to Celia Cecchi, founder and director of I Scream Nails - an Australian made vegan, cruelty free, high quality nail polish about how her interest in nail art led to starting a successful product-based business that expanded quickly to the US.
Episode 57: Small Business Tips - Creating Playlists To Get Inside The Mindset of Your Ideal Audience
Fiona shares how she gets into the minds of her ideal audience to know what they want to hear whenever she prepares content for them - creating a playlist on Spotify is highly recommended!
Episode 56: 5 Tips To Practice Self-Care and Prioritise Yourself As A Business Owner
As we start to plan our goals and map a new strategy for 2021, Fiona reminds all small business owners to prioritise themselves in the coming year. Listen now as she shares her 5 tips to practice self-care which not only benefits your well-being, but also your business.