This will be the last A Brilliant Gamble podcast for a while. As you may know I run another business specialising in leadership coaching and I speak about the future of leadership.Recently my Mum became ill and this, combined with running my ot

Imposter Syndrome, with Leah Steele

Sep 17th, 2019 48m 29s

Do you get that little voice in your head that tells you you aren’t good enough, no one likes you, you don’t fit in….or any number of other delightfully undermining jabs?My guest today, Leah Steele, is the expert in Imposter Syndrome. A suffere

Declaring a personal climate emergency, with Zoe Cohen

Sep 10th, 2019 59m 16s

In just under a month, the next wave of Extinction Rebellion protests begin around the UK and elsewhere (w/c 7-Oct). Whether you’ve already been involved or you have other ways of responding to the climate crisis, the question many of us ask is

Taking a year off, with Phil Quinnan

Sep 3rd, 2019 46m 24s

It’s September and many of us are thinking “Why does the holiday have to end?”.Well, maybe it doesn’t. On today’s show I speak to Phil Quinnan who stepped off the hamster wheel, not to start a business, but to take some time to reflect and rec

How to be a Virtual Assistant, with Catherine Gladwyn

Aug 27th, 2019 49m 14s

Catherine is a best selling author, VA and VA trainer.Virtual Assistance is one of the fastest growing professions today for people leaving the 9-5. VAs are administrators who work by the hour for small businesses. Increasingly they have speci

How should you spend your working day?

Aug 20th, 2019 29m 59s

How should you spend your day when you work for yourself?Of course, there is no such thing as a typical day when you run your own business (which can be a problem for you if you’re used to structure!). But given that your time is largely yours

Failure… but in a good way!

Aug 13th, 2019 21m 56s

On today’s show I’m talking about failure… but in a good way!Folks - failure is normal. Most of what happens when you take a Brilliant Gamble is failure. It’s just a part of the process of change. And I want to share with you a different way t

Websites 101, with Matthew Eldridge

Aug 6th, 2019 56m 11s

Are you putting off building your website? Is it half done? Have you done it but you’re not happy with it?Today’s show is here at the rescue!I’m talking to Matthew Eldridge, Owner and Head Geek at Melt Creative Ltd and this episode is Website

Kick In The Creatives

Jul 30th, 2019 52m 19s

Creativity is hugely important to developing that sense of balance that so many of us are looking for. And women are particularly bad at this - men spend an average of 4 hours 29 mins a week on sports, hobbies and computer games versus women wh

Galloping Catastrophe, with Jennifer Kennedy

Jul 23rd, 2019 48m 57s

What happens when your blog goes viral?And what about when your blog is something as personal as your experiences of the menopause?Jennifer Kennedy knows! Her blog is only 18 months old but she has to date, nearly 35,000 readers... and she ba

Doing the deep work, with Edina De Jong-Hodzic

Jul 16th, 2019 50m 17s

We often think that we’re working up to a big change, that the hard part is making that change happen. So we spend years planning how we’re going to leave our job with the hope that, once it finally happens, we’ll be living the life of our drea

How to stay connected when it’s all going wrong

Jul 9th, 2019 21m 59s

You might has seen I did a Facebook Live over on our A Brilliant Gamble Facebook Page, which I then shared in the Corporate Escapees Facebook Group (!) about an experience I had a couple of weeks ago when I had some quite negative feedback to a

Do you have to be a dazzling outlier? with Rebekah Bostan

Jul 2nd, 2019 44m 11s

On this week’s show I’m talking to Rebekah Bostan who responded to my survey on midlife expectations and experiences of work.Brought up during apartheid in South Africa, making a difference is in her genes. Her mother ran an illegal mixed race

Should You Ever Work For Free?

Jun 25th, 2019 34m

I had a great discussion over elderflower cordial the other day with fellow business ladies about our relationship with money and, specifically, whether you should ever work for free.Most people who run their own business today create a lot of

Make Money from Podcasting, with Debbie Arcangeles

Jun 18th, 2019 56m 19s

There are two things everyone wants to talk to me about - my trip last year with my daughter and dogs and whether they could do it too AND how to start their own podcast.This week I’m talking to podcaster and digital nomad, Debbie Arcangeles a

Being Fierce, with Eleanor Beaton

Jun 11th, 2019 56m 27s

The whole power dynamic changes when you step out of corporate life and in to entrepreneurship. No matter how much influence you had before you left or how much of a wallflower you were, once you’re on the outside you need to be heard and seen.

Get the money in first, with Blaire Palmer

Jun 4th, 2019 24m 15s

On today’s show it’s all about getting the money in.There are lots of things to keep yourself busy when you run a business and many of them are important. But unless you set aside time to do the activities that get the money in you’re going to

Driven Woman, with Miisa Mink

May 28th, 2019 46m 45s

This week's guest is Miisa Mink, Founder and Chief Doer at DrivenWoman – an accountability club for women who want to achieve their goals and dreams - and the creator of Festival Of Doers.Miisa has worked with hundreds of women who want to cha

122 Are you really ready to quit your corporate job?

May 21st, 2019 33m 8s

On this week’s show I’m sharing 10 good reasons to leave your corporate job.Maybe leaving corporate life isn’t your only option – you could stay within corporate life but change company, change working hours, changing to working remotely, chan

121 Funny Business, with Marc Hogan

May 14th, 2019 1h 12m

If you’ve got itchy feet there are lots of ways to transition out of your current job in to something you’d love a lot more. But I’m not sure whether the best way to do it is to take a bet!Today’s guest, Marc Hogan, took a £1 bet that he could

120 Flexible working, with Ursula Tavender

May 7th, 2019 1h 4m

Not everyone who leaves their corporate job to start their own business does it entirely out of choice. A significant number of people feel self employment is their only option because the conventional workplace doesn’t work for them.Today’s g

119 Living from the inside out, with Talita Ferreira

Apr 30th, 2019 57m 36s

People leave their corporate jobs for all sorts of reasons. And sometimes the choice is either to go for the ultimate top job of CEO in a large corporation or get off the hamster wheel altogether.Talita Ferreira was Chief Finance Officer and C

118 Finding your starving crowd, with Tim Tavender

Apr 16th, 2019 1h 8m

Your career path isn’t always a straight line. And the job that you do now or are thinking of doing next might not have even existed when you were having your meeting with your career’s adviser all those years ago!This is one of the reasons we

117 Resilience, with Nicki Bass

Apr 9th, 2019 56m 8s

Nicki is a former Army Officer who spent 17 years developing people in conflict zones around the world and now runs courses to help people develop their resilience. There are so many ups and downs in life and it can sometimes feel like you don’

116 Business Models

Apr 2nd, 2019 32m 19s

It’s all very well knowing you don’t want to carry on working and living the way you do right now. But it’s not always clear what you should do instead. If you’re unsure what to do when you escape the rat race one place to start is to think, no