Delve into the business aspect of facilitators and trainers. Featuring interviews with professionals discussing topics such as finances, pricing, scaling, marketing, and client management. New episodes fortnightly.
Saying No, Finding Balance after Burnout & Redefining Success in our Business
As facilitators, trainers, and business owners, we often find ourselves saying “yes” too much, overworking, and stretching our own boundaries—sometimes to the point of burnout. In this episode, I sit down with Beth Cougler Blom, learning designer, facilitator, and podcast host, to have an honest conversation about what it means to run a business without running ourselves into the ground.
Strategy, Facilitation & Finding Clients
This episode is a live getting to know you session. Faris and I didn’t meet until I hit record and this is very much a raw conversation as we talk about our businesses, the challenges of loneliness in facilitation, the impact of social media, and the importance of emotional intelligence in business.
Money is Sexy: The Pricing Conversation
This episode is all about money and pricing. Listen if you want to stretch your thinking!Laura Payne-Stanley is a Success Management Consultant and a Coach. She works with private individuals as well as corporates and small businesses to enable them to create and live the life they want.In this conversation, Kirsty and Laura delve into…
Navigating the Business of Facilitation and Training
This episode is about the pro’s and con’s of being an associate/sub-contractor vs having your own clients, pricing, and the power of niching. Murray Cowell is a man on a mission to support facilitators, trainers, and coaches in developing themselves and their businesses. He has years of real-life experience of running training and facilitation businesses,…
Consultant or Facilitator? The impact of our language and words
In this conversation, Kirsty and Chris delve into the intricacies of habit formation, they explore the nuances of language in consulting versus facilitation, the challenges faced in client interactions, and the common hurdles in growing a service-based business.
The power of persistence during times of change
This episode is about Annette’s journey from being a corporate trainer to establishing her own business in facilitation and training during the pandemic.
Developing a Positive and Confident Mindset in a Freelance World
This episode covers a multitude of topics from being self-employed to doing business in America, highlighting the importance of setting clear expectations and boundaries with clients. Zita Tulyahikayo is a hypnotherapist, Systemic Constellator, coach, and facilitator. She has always been self-employed which I found fascinating as so many of us start in an organisation. Zita…
SOFest November update
Welcome to this short episode of A facilitator’s Journey. Today is a SOFest update covering how the early bird launch went, some thank yous, and future plans. Let us know if you are coming to SOFest, I can’t wait to meet you in the field ____ A Facilitator’s Journey is the podcast that looks at…
Building a Business Through Connection and Curiosity
This episode is about the importance of our network as we develop and grow our businesses, finding people who we connect with in an authentic way and who we want to spend time with talking about our business, our deepest thoughts and ideas. Lisa Partridge is a communication skills specialist with a passion for walking.…
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…