A Facilitator's Journey: Real Life Stories Episode 28: The Challenges and Rewards of Building a Business
This episode is about running our own businesses, redefining success, being a solo mum, asking for help and what IS the difference between a B2C and B2B business model??
Carla Miller is a women's leadership coach, creator of the podcast Influence & Impact for female leaders, author, and trainer.
Kirsty talks to Carla about her journey of leaving the charity sector and starting her own business as a solo parent. The themes that come up include the challenges of balancing parenting with entrepreneurship, why asking for help is hard, and the need to stop comparing ourselves to others on Linkedin.
We talk about how we both balance B2C and B2B models within our businesses and why we choose to operate both models when it is evident that we find one harder than the other to navigate.
- The decision to leave the Charity Sector and Start the Business
- The Financial Realities of Coaching and Building a Business
- Marketing Strategies and Challenges
- Carla's Experience as a Solo Parent
- Balancing Parenting and Entrepreneurship
- Redefining Success and Making Choices
- Asking for Help and Being Realistic
- Reflecting on the Meaning and Purpose of Life and Business
- Balancing B2C and B2B
- Finding Joy and Fulfillment
- Quick-fire questions
My invitation to you is to grab a cuppa, join me on the pink seat, and tune in your ears.
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A Facilitator's Journey is a podcast that looks at how you run your business as a facilitator or trainer.
You started this work because you have a passion that you want to share with organisations. However, there is the small detail that you are now running a business and this requires a whole other set of skills and knowledge.
Join me, Kirsty Lewis, Founder of School of Facilitation, as I interview trainers and facilitators about how they manage their businesses. I will explore how people run their finances, price their work, scale up, scale down, decide to retire, market themselves, manage clients, and much much more.
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