Small Business Lifestyle

Managing and understanding tax when you’re running a small business can be a minefield. As we head into the middle part of the year, we are joined by Samuel Burmeister, a register BAS agent and the founder of Tall Books.

Angela Heise has spent her whole life dedicated to understanding the ‘why’ behind human behaviour, to then be able to help people improve their life and relationships by better understanding themselves and others. She joins us on the Flying Solo podcast to talk about her work as a professional leadership and emotional productivity coach.

Do you feel like your business adds value to your life? Hopefully your answer to that question is a resounding YES. If it was anything less than ‘yes’ then you have some work to do in terms of defining and articulating your vision, mission and values. Business strategist Nada Jamal and Martha Travis, a human resources consultant share their insights.

Michael Griffiths, founder of the Million Dollar Referral Network has helps small business owners generate 100 clients in 12 months without spending a cent on paid ads.

Clubhouse: Is the latest social media offering here to steal our time and wreak havoc on our productivity, or worth investigating? Kate Toon, author of your 7 First Days on Clubhouse Guide, reveals all...

Beatties Quality Furniture, a small business based in Nambucca Heads, New South Wales focussed on building a strong online presence during COVID and are still reaping the rewards 6 months on.

How often have you caught yourself in a stream of ugly thoughts directed at yourself? It usually happens when things aren’t going well but can also strike when things are going well. In this episode, Anne McKeown, an NLP practitioner and empowerment coach for women says learning to change the script in our head has a powerful impact on the way we do business and life in general.

It’s no secret we were all glad to see the end of 2020 and with a brand new year in our sights many of us are keen to expand on the lessons we learnt about running our small business. Today’s guest David King, founder of family confectionary business “Sticky” is one such small business owner and he joins us on the podcast today to share some of key lessons he learnt last year and how they’re impacting his plans for moving into the future.

Women are responsible for spending more than $28 trillion per year; and they're entering the small business market at 3 times the rate of men. Marketing and partnerships strategist Katrina McCarter sheds some light on the true impact of these statistics and why your business needs to attract more women in 2021.

Nutritionist Therese Cullen has created an online wellbeing course, Feel Fabulous by Friday. In this episode she shares some of the simple daily changes we can make to our diet to help us feel great, faster.

How do you recognise how to speak to people, in the way they want to be spoken to, even before the conversation starts? It's all written in their face, says Alan Stevens founder of The Science & Art of Reading People.

Erika Kramer went from not even being able to afford a loaf of bread to making over half a million dollars in 2020 from her business as a confidence coach. She shares some incredible insights into her own personal story and reveals why overcoming our confidence issues can propel us forward in life, love and work.

It can be easy for small business owners to "do what we've always done" because we think we're saving time… but that's not such a great thing when it comes to managing our data, says Anthony Sapountzis, co-founder of Aeiron Technologies.

Jodie De Vries and Emma Scott of The Brand Brigade describe themselves as serial entrepreneurs who have taken everything they’ve learnt building multi-million dollar businesses to help other women take their brand and business to the next level. In this episode they share their insights and shed some light on the real impact that brand building can have on the lasting success of your business.

2020 has taught our community so many lessons about running a small business. One of the most essential has been a greater appreciation and understanding of our customer. Shardae Mazzeo, head of people and culture at Creative Cubes.Co shares how it's done in their business.

Side-hustles have boomed in 2020. Just how you make money from them though is exactly like any other business and largely down to how you market it! Think Bespoke founder, Karen Hollenbach, a LinkedIn expert says LinkedIn actually has a very important role to play in growing your little business.

Given the challenges of this year, we’re all looking for ways to maximise the performance of our business without spending a fortune. Facebook have a range of terrific free business tools to help us perform at our best. Melinda Petrunoff, Facebook director of small and medium business for ANZ talks us through the 4 most crucial.

Around 30% of our small business first community have created an ecommerce or digital platform for their small business since the start of COVID. Google's Chris Royale talks us through how Google Shopping can help boost our sales.

Georgia Sullivan from Google joins the podcast to share some great tips on how to use the free tools on the internet to connect with consumers when they are searching for what you have to offer.

Tom O'Connor, a Digital Strategist in the Small Business Team at Google shares his tips for how we can best show up online as small business owners and get more customers.