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 159: Don't Be The Fly In The Window in Your Small Business

Running a small business will never be easy, and we are often met with several problems. Our mindset dictates what we see in life and in the problems we encounter. In this quick tip episode, Fiona talks about stepping back and think about the solution instead of giving up with a losing mindset.

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Episode 157: When Are You Scheduling Time to Learn?

So often we don't schedule the time to learn or we buy these courses, and we don't schedule the time to actually commit to them. In this quick tip episode, Fiona talks about setting aside time to learn new things for your personal life or even for your small business.

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Episode 156: How Much Brand Work Have You Done?

How much brand work have you done? Do you have a business or are you building a brand? In this coaching episode, Fiona puts the focus on branding and why it is more than just having a logo and a style guide.

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Episode 155: Do You See Other Businesses as Collaborators or Competition?

Fiona talks about the possibility of seeing other businesses or brands as collaborators instead of competition. Whether it happens or not in real life, Fiona encourages small business owners to shift one’s mindset to see the good in what other businesses do and how the possibility of working together can be beneficial to your business as well.

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Episode 154: From Idea to Product, How Adam Jelic Turned MiGoals Into Australia's Leading, Empowering, Stationery Brand

In this interview episode, Fiona talks to Adam Jelic of MiGoals about how he went from having this idea to getting this stuff made. They also discuss how to start and develop a business when perhaps not everyone around him believes in what he was doing or thinks it was going to work, and the importance of finding balance in earning money and sticking with one’s values.

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Episode 152: 10 Books To Inspire You After A Tough Year

In this coaching episode, Fiona shares 10 books that helped her throughout her business journey (and that she recommended to others as well). Listen now to learn which ones you’ve already read and which ones you want to order next.

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Episode 150: Building A Sustainable Modern Brand in A Traditional Industry and Finding the Right Team, with Tartan Blanket Co. CEO and co-founder Emma MacDonald

Fiona has a chat with Emma Macdonald, founder of Tartan Blanket Co., about bringing a modern approach to the traditional Scottish tartan blankets, how to create a great culture, how to do things differently, and how to look after the planet when you're creating a product-based business.

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Episode 147: Use Instagram? Listen to this.

In this quick tip episode, Fiona discusses a recent challenge she had on Instagram and a tactic she is now using - regularly - to prevent losing anything from the social media platform. If you use instagram in your business, or even for personal reasons, this is a must-listen episode.

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Episode 145: What's your strategy?

In this quick tip episode, Fiona discusses the difference between a strategy and a tactic? Listen now to differentiate the two and how you can prepare your vision, your goals, your strategy, and your business tactics.

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Episode 143: Why QUITting can be OK

In this quick tip episode, Fiona talks about a framework she thinks can be helpful to those who are planning to quit something - whether it's their business, work, or a project they are working on. Listen now to learn what QUIT is.

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Episode 142: Diversity and Inclusion: An Insightful discussion with Winitha Bonney OAM, Thought Leader, Author, and Founder of #ColourFULL

In this interview episode, Fiona has a chat with Winitha Bonney, Australia's first and foremost thought leader in the advancement of people of color and in building anti-fragile cultures of inclusion and allyship. Learn more about Winitha's advocacy and work, her book - #ColourFULL: How Women of Colour can become powerful leaders that transform the world, and her thoughts on timing and creating a for-profit business.

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