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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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