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 126: On Changing Careers, Setting Boundaries, and The Importance of Listening to Your Body - An Interview with Rebecca Jansma from space grace & style
In this interview episode, Fiona talks to Rebecca Jansma, founder of space, grace & style - an interior design studio based in Melbourne. Rebecca shares her journey before she started the business, switching careers, how she set boundaries with clients, and the importance of listening to her body.
Episode 125: Google Product Recommendations That Are Good For Your Small Business
In this quick tip episode, Fiona recommends five Google products (you may not know yet) that can be good for your small business. Listen now to find out what they are and how you can use them for your business.
Episode 124: 5 Ways For Small Business Owners to Get Unstuck When Brainstorming & Creating Content
In this coaching episode, Fiona talks about the moments when she has a problem preparing content for My Daily Business Coach. Listen now to learn her five tips to get unstuck without the hassle of creating content all the time.
Episode 123: How the Start, Stop, Keep Activity can help you find clarity as a Small Business Owner
For this quick tip episode, Fiona talks about the Start, Stop, Keep activity for your business’ marketing strategies, Find out which among your marketing activities you need to keep, what new strategies to start implementing and what needs to stop. The Start, Stop, Keep activity can also be applied in other areas of your business.
Episode 122: Creating a purpose-led business with friends and surviving a pandemic, An Interview with Belinda Galloway and Bree Hankinson of The Windsor Workshop
For another interview episode, Fiona talks to the wonderful people behind The Windsor Workshop, Belinda Galloway and Bree Hankinson. Listen now to learn more about running the business with a friend and how Bel and Bree stayed motivated despite the challenges of lockdowns in Australia.
Episode 121: Recycling and Repurposing Your Content For Small Business Owners
In another quick tip episode with Fiona, she talks about how repurposing old can be a good strategy for small business owners to apply in their business. She also shares what to expect when joining the next batch for her Marketing For Your Small Business Course And Coaching Program.
Episode 120: Top 10 Marketing Mistakes That A Lot Small Business Owners Make
It’s a coaching episode where Fiona talks about the top marketing mistakes she sees small business owners make for their marketing strategies. Listen now to find out what the top 10 mistakes are and how her course, Marketing For Your Small Business, may be able to help you!
Episode 119: Brand Building and Money Making Marketing Types for Small Business Owners
In this quick tip episode, Fiona gives an overview of the two types of marketing for a small business owner - brand building and money making. She also shares what to expect when you join her 8-week online course - Marketing For Your Small Business. Listen now to find out how to join.
Episode 118: How To Build Resilience and Create Meaning in What We Bring Into Our Homes: An Interview with Ryan Klewer of Plant Charmer
Fiona talks to Ryan Klewer, the man behind Plant Charmer about why plants are important to him, how plants can help everyone build mental strength and resilience and how he switched careers from graphic designer to owning an interior design studio.
Episode 117: What Are You Struggling With? A Key Question for Small Business Owners
In this quick tip episode, Fiona shares how asking questions helped her career as a journalist and working in marketing and brand roles, and how it has also helped her in preparing content and helping her clients.
Episode 116: Top Tips for Writing Blogs, Posts, Articles and Books For Your Small Business and/or Brand
For this coaching episode, Fiona talks about her experience as a writer and her advice on how to write blogs, articles and books for your small business and/or brand. Listen now as she shares her top tips.
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.