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 115: Time and (E)motion - Giving Yourself Space and Consideration As A Small Business Owner
In this episode, Fiona talks about allowing yourself to get some space and consideration when dealing with different emotions as a business owner - whether it's receiving sad messages or complaints from customers.
Episode 114: Unconventional paths and how to start a side-hustle: An Interview with StartUp Creative's Kaylene Langford
Fiona and Kaylene Langford talk about their vulnerabilities, having wonderful support despite going through fear, Kaylene’s journey in writing this book and how she started as a business coach.
Episode 113: How Can You Make Your Business Goals Visible?
In this Quick Tip episode, Fiona talks about the importance of having visual cues to remind small business owners of their business goals? Listen now as she answers questions such as, ‘How visible are your goals?’ and ‘What do you need to tweak in order to do that?’
Episode 112: 10 Lessons Fiona Killackey Learned From Her First Year In Her 40’s
Fiona recently celebrated her 41st birthday, so for this special episode, she talks about the 10 important lessons she learned during her first year in her 40’s. Whether it’s about finding your real friends who will celebrate your wins or knowing the importance of having hard conversations, listen to what wisdom she can share after turning 41.
Episode 111: Age Is Just A Number: A Short Reflection on Birthdays, Growing Older and Feeling Young-At-Heart
It’s a special Quick Tip episode as Fiona gives a short reflection on her 41st birthday about growing older yet maintaining to feel young at heart. Hear the poem she recommends everyone to listen to about how age is just a number.
Episode 110: Saying Hello to Collaborations With People and Artists All Over The World: An Interview with Jenny Nguyen of Hello Human
In this episode, catches up with a friend from New York - the inspiring Jenny Nguyen, founder of Hello Human. Throughout their chat, they talk about collaborating with different people around the world, finding the good in any bad situation people are in, and the importance of finding what values to go with for every small business.
Episode 109: Planning Your Financial Year: What Are Your Goals, Strategies and Tactics?
In this quick tip episode, Fiona talks about the end of another financial year. Have you reviewed yours already? Listen now as she talks about setting new goals, strategies and tactics for the coming financial year.
Episode 108: Creating A Better User Experience: 5 Things That Should Be Happening On Your Website for Your Small Business
In this quick tip episode, Fiona talks about the end of another financial year. Have you reviewed yours already? Listen now as she talks about setting new goals, strategies and tactics for the coming financial year.
Episode 107: Do You Let Expectations Take Away Your Enjoyment As A Small Business Owner?
If you’re someone who has high expectations, this is an episode you need as a reminder to enjoy the process and celebrate the small things in your business without expecting too much.
Episode 106: Reimagining What's Already There, Staying Intentionally Small and Looking at Your Numbers, An Interview with Elise Heslop of Plyroom
In this small business interview episode with Fiona, she talks to Elise Heslop, founder of Plyroom, about staying intentionally small as a business and how reimagining what’s already there helped her manage her business for 8 years (and counting).
Episode 105: Are You Right For Your Potential Customers?: How The Evaluation Stage Improves Your Sales and Brand Loyalty
In this quick tip episode, Fiona talks about the evaluation stage of the buyer cycle and how it helps small business owners improve their sales and increase brand loyalty.
Episode 104: How To Cultivate A Supportive Community Around You As A Small Business Owner
In this coaching episode with Fiona, she gives us a reminder about the importance of cultivating crews and she also talks about the benefits of joining group coaching programs.
Episode 103: Why You Need To Always Put Your Best Effort In Everything You Do As A Small Business Owner (and Taking A Minute to Stop)
In today’s quick tip episode, Fiona shares a lesson she learned about ghost outfits and why it’s important as a small business owner to put one’s best effort always, even if it means taking a minute to stop before making decisions.
Episode 102: How To Establish A Product-Based Business with Loved Ones and Working with International Suppliers - An Interview with Becca Stern and Jess Stern, Co-Founders of Mustard
In this episode, Fiona talks to sisters and co-founders of Mustard, Becca and Jess Stern, about how they established a product-based business that employs international suppliers.
Episode 101: How Small Owners Can Check Their Engagement Rate on Instagram and Be Strategic With It
In this quick tip episode with Fiona, she shares a tool she uses to check how her Instagram is doing in terms of engagement and how she can use this to gauge what strategy works for her and which ones do not.
Episode 100: Ten Important Lessons Small Business Owners Can Learn From Producing A 100 Different Podcast Episodes for My Daily Business Coach
Fiona talks about the 10 things she learned after producing a hundred different podcast episodes. From embracing imperfections on the production to having fun in marketing, Fiona shares the top lessons she’s learned so far from making this podcast what it is now.
Episode 99: How To Manage Your Time By Limiting The Number of Hours You Use Social Media Apps Such As Instagram
In this quick tactic tool, Fiona shares how she only spends 30 minutes on Instagram so that she can have more time to focus on her family and her business.
Episode 98: How To Start and Grow One of The Most Successful Podcasts in Australia, An Interview with Sophie Walker, Founder of Australian Birth Stories
Fiona talks to the founder of one of the most successful podcasts in Australia - Sophie Walker from Australian Birth Stories. In this special (post-Mother’s Day) interview, get to know how Sophie started her podcast focused on women sharing firsthand their stories of childbirth in Australia and overseas.
Episode 97: What Are The Challenges In Your Business Where Things are Overly Complicated and How Can You Fix Them?
Fiona talks about encouraging everyone to stop and think about the mini little wars we create in our business. Are you making things way too complicated than they ought to be?
Episode 96: 5 Things To Think About Before Having Another Child or Raising A Child While Running A Business
In this episode, Fiona talks about the 5 things every small business owner needs to consider when having another child (or raising a child) while running a business.