Collective Conversations: The Women in Business Podcast
Women in business, shooting the shit on all the ins and outs of running your own business. With a wonderful range of guest speakers joining us to unpack everyones individual experiences in their businesses, including the good, the bad and the ugly to help others wanting to start their own business with tips and advice.
With Christine Longworth, and Emily Grover.
Episodes
44 episodes
HR - It’s NOT just for big businesses
Join us for an insightful conversation with HR expert Amy Christophersen from Grounded HR, alongside guest host Jane from The Jane Edit. Amy shares her fresh perspective on human resources for small businesses, discussing everything from managi...
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48:53
Understanding Your Rhythm
In the first episode of the freshly rebranded Collective Conversations (formerly FAFO), Jane Ekholm returns to discuss neurodivergence in business, mindset, and the importance of understanding personal work rhythms. From tackling perfecti...
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51:16
Evolving & Growing: Welcome to Collective Conversations
An important announcement episode where the podcast team shares news about Rah stepping back from her co-hosting role and reveals the show's upcoming rebrand to "Collective Conversations: The Women in Business Podcast." The episode captures the...
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23:05
The Multipotentialite Advantage: Creating Success Across Multiple Fields
Meet Rebecca Lambert, founder of the Freelance Jungle and portfolio career pioneer, as she unpacks the art of building a multi-faceted career. From disrupting old systems to creating inclusive communities, Beck shares her insights on how to thr...
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43:07
From Kitchen Experiments to Slime Empire: Sophie's Story
Meet Sophie, the 20-year-old founder of Sophie's Slime Factory, who turned her childhood love of slime into a thriving business empire. Starting at age 12 with homemade recipes, she now runs a gorgeous creative space in Castle Hill with a team ...
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51:39
Multiple Streams of Income: Because Plan B Should Pay Bills Too
Ready to rethink how you make money in your business? Join Chris, Em, and Rah as they unpack the concept of pivoting - not just as a response to crisis, but as a strategic approach to building sustainable income streams. Inspired by Milly Tamat...
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35:33
Breaking your own glass ceiling
Ever wondered what happens when you stop limiting your business dreams? Meet Mo and Pat from Greer Films, who transformed their business from a home-based side hustle into a thriving studio space in regional NSW. In today's episode...
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41:43
Client breakups: Choosing yourself over money
Sometimes the hardest part of running a business is knowing when to walk away from clients. In this episode, we open up about our experiences of breaking up with clients for a bunch from reasons, like escaping challenging clients or re-focusing...
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49:09
The art of genuine connection
Meet Larissa Wright, a woman who manages to juggle four kids, multiple businesses, and still finds time to be everyone's biggest cheerleader in the business community. (And she recently won an award to prove it!)Larissa opens up about h...
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53:05
Running Multiple Businesses Through Grief: A Story from The Other Side
Content warning: Death of a husband, grief.Meet Cassandra Barrie - business therapist, empire builder, and the most refreshingly honest guest we've had yet.When life threw Cass the unthinkable - losing her husband while 30 weeks p...
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53:30
What to do when everything goes to shit in your business
There's no denying it - shit goes wrong in business. Whether it's getting locked out of your socials, losing clients, or having your whole world turned upside down (hello, pandemic), every business owner faces moments when everything goes to sh...
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31:04
What it takes to own the title of entrepreneur
Holy shit, today's guest is a fucking powerhouse! Meet Adrienne Donnelly, the reluctant 'ultimate entrepreneur' (yeah, we gave her that title and we're sticking to it).This badass runs multiple businesses like a boss, including Organise...
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46:24
Breaking Down Big Dreams into Achievable Business Goals
Holy shit, we're getting ORGANISED! Today we're diving into the mind-blowing concept of setting 100 smaller goals for your business (yes, you read that right - one hundred fucking goals!).Between Dotty the cat's attempts to steal the sho...
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51:13
Money talks: The non-boring guide to business finances.
Today we're doing something new and having a dude into our podcast - but trust us, David Rosenthal from Retinue Accounting is not a boring accountant. We're diving into the money chat that usually makes entrepreneurs want to hide under their de...
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50:39
Stop Winging It: Planning Your Best Business Year Yet
Today we're diving deep into why winging it in business is a recipe for disaster (we've been there and it sucks) and how our planning days and goal-setting sessions have saved our asses and actually helped us achieve some pretty epic shit. Get ...
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39:58
From 'Unemployable' to Unstoppable with Sarah Sydir
Today we're joined by the absolute legend Sarah Sydir, who turned being "unemployable" into a massive f*ck you to the system by building not one, but TWO successful businesses supporting people with disabilities to become their own boss. Sarah ...
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46:20
Our words of the year for 2025
It's the first episode of 2025! Today we're talking about our business goals - including how we're actually going to achieve them without losing our minds. Spoiler alert: it involves saying "no" more, getting our shit together with planning, an...
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38:25
27: The one that wraps up year
Today's episode is our 2024 wrap-up where we spill the tea on everything that went down this year. From launching this podcast (and somehow not swearing TOO much) to putting on our first conference and watching our businesses grow - we're cover...
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47:12
26: Microsoft Magic
Today we're diving into the Microsoft world with Marianne Tansley from Thrive Admin Services. Marianne's basically a wizard at turning Microsoft 365 from that boring software you kinda know into a total business superpower. We're talking way be...
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25: The one about finding your tribe
Today you're joining us on a road trip while discussing the importance of finding and building your business tribe. We're chatting about why going solo doesn't mean going it alone. We break down how having a solid network is basically business ...
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21:42
24: ADHD in Business
Today we're shooting the shit from Newcastle, 2 hours north of Sydney, and we've got Jane from The Jane Edit and Newcastle Virtual Assistants joining us. Jane gets real about her ADHD diagnosis and how she's not just surviving, but absolutely c...
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48:22
23: The one about the customer life cycle
Today we're banging on about the whole customer journey thing - you know, from that first "hey girl!" to keeping them coming back for more. We dive into all the bits and pieces that make up solid customer relationships (including our own stuff-...
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13:27
22: The secret weapon for any business - a Graphic Designer!
Today we're joined by graphic designer Elise from Elise Lola Designs. We dive deep into her journey and have a solid chat about the elephant in the room - Canva and its impact on professional design (spoiler alert: it's complicated!). Between f...
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