Dare To Be Brave with Joy Foster – Details, episodes & analysis

What do you do if you’ve been out of work for a while, especially if your confidence is in freefall because you feel too old for the job market?

Sarah Glassey says she felt like she wasn’t just in a pickle after being out of work for nine months, but “stuck in a whole vat of pickles in a factory”. And with the stress and some major ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) making their presence felt – “I’m too old,” and “I don’t have the right skills” – life was not going Sarah’s way. 😬

So, how did she turn things around?

Here’s why you need to tune in
Sarah didn’t just lean into adding social media skills to her CV to land herself a new job. She discovered a whole heap of tools – including one from a 1980s advert for a chocolate bar and another from the film Cocktail – that have given her back her sense of self-worth and helped her get promoted.

Here’s what to listen out for:

[02:50] The stress of not knowing what to do next.

[06:50] Looking at things differently.

[10:31] What to do when you don’t have all the skills for a job.

[18:34] How do you go after a promotion?

[21:54] Do a skills inventory.

[24:30] How are you talking to yourself?

[27:10] The power of 5,4,3,2,1.

[28:54] Coughlin’s law.

[35:15] Are you too old or not too old yet?

So, if you’re stuck in a rut and don’t know what to do next or want to get back to work in a role you love, this episode is for you. ▶️▶️▶️

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For details of links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

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What have you done recently outside your role as a partner, parent or professional? A guilt-free activity that is purely about having fun and leaves you saying, “I can’t believe I just did that”?

If you’re like most women, chances are you are prioritising everyone but yourself.

But author Eve Rodsky believes that carving out time to explore the gifts, talents and interests that make you you is a necessity if you want to live a happier, more fulfilled life.

But how do you do that, how do you communicate that to those around you, and how do you get over the guilt and shame? 

Here’s why you need to tune in
In this interview from the archives, Eve unpacks what a Unicorn Space is and describes her own failed attempt to find one using a Post-It note during the pandemic. She explores the communication styles of our CEO Joy and her husband Tim to demonstrate how you can have high cognition, low emotion conversations that let you implement boundaries and systems to ensure you have time for what Eve calls ‘daily flourishing’.

Here’s what to listen out for:
[01:00] What is Unicorn Space about?

[04:04] What is a Unicorn Space?

[08:33] The ‘Unavailable’ Post-It note.

[10:33] There is a formula for thriving.

[14:14] What is your communication style?

[21:26] What is your partner’s communication style?

[27:35] How do you communicate with yourself?

[35:09] Is Unicorn Space only for the privileged?

So, what will you do outside your role as a partner, parent or professional? Email us at support@techpixies.com and let us know. ▶️▶️▶️

For details of links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit TechPixies.com

Love our podcast? Leave a review and get hold of our Quick Start Podcast Guide.

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

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How do you go from having a paralysing fear of being on camera and hating the thought of being on social media to managing successful social media campaigns, hosting webinars and implementing marketing strategies for clients?

All within 15 months. 😲

Thanks to our trio of transformational training programmes and teaming up with other talented TechPixies, Carolyn Boddington has crushed her crisis of confidence and is now hitting milestone after milestone as a fractional CMO (chief marketing officer).

What’s so incredibly powerful is that Carolyn says she doesn’t recognise the person she was when she started TechPixies. Not only that, but she feels like she’s becoming the person she’s always wanted to be.

Want to know how she did it? 🙋🏼‍♀️

Here’s why you need to tune in

💡 Gain insights: Hear Carolyn’s key takeaways from her training.

💡 Be inspired: Learn how she’s slaying her business goals and working with people she never imagined 15 months ago.

💡 Get top tips: Walk away with essential marketing strategies for your own business.

Here’s what to listen out for:

[01:49] Becoming the person you’ve always wanted to be.

[03:48] The milestones Carolyn’s achieved in just 15 months.

[07:48] Working with other TechPixies and replacing in-house social media teams.

[10:38] Key takeaways from TechPixies’ programmes.

{16:55] What should you be doing to market your business?

[21:44] Who are the coaches in Business Beyond Social?

Whether you’ve been out of work for a while or have suffered a health crisis like Carolyn and are feeling nervous about the path ahead, come and see what’s possible when you put yourself first.

Press play for more now and start your transformation today! ▶️▶️▶️

Love our podcast? Leave a review and get hold of our Quick Start Podcast Guide.

For details of links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com

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If you’re a woman from an ethnically diverse background and have faced the metaphorical ‘computer says no’ when it comes to your job hunt, you’ll know that the playing field is far from level.

Yes, it’s difficult for women in today’s job market, but it’s especially tough for women who aren’t white, and studies across the board are enough to make you wonder why change is going at a snail’s pace. 🐌

The Fawcett Society’s Sex and Power Index 2022, for example, found that just 8% of the FTSE 100 CEOs are women and none are women of colour. Meanwhile, Runnymede’s Broken Ladders report found that 75% of women of colour have experienced racism at work, and 52% have experienced discrimination in the recruitment process. 🤯

This might be 2022, but we’re a long way off equality and fair play in the workplace.
 
In true TechPixies spirit, however, we’re not ones to look at an issue and not try to find solutions. So we’ve called on a woman we know can help: career coach Padma Knowles. And, as usual, she’s dropping a whole heap of helpful advice.

Here’s why you need to tune in
Discover how AI impacts the recruitment process and hear what you can do to increase the chances of your cover letter and CV getting through the screening process. Learn why you should ask companies questions about their diversity split at your interview and why Xero deserves a shout-out. 🙌🏾

Here’s what to listen out for:

[01:30] You’ll be shocked by this statistic.

[02:47] Padma talks about her experience of having an Indian name.

[03:25] What role does AI play in the employment process?

[05:15] Should you change your name as actors do?

[07:57] How can you increase the chances of your cover letter and CV getting through to the next stage?

[12:39] What can you do if you’re getting interviews by not getting the job?

[15:07] Hear Padma’s final top tip.

🗒️ And if you need some additional help,  head to TechPixies.com where Padma has provided a list of recruitment agencies that specialise in finding work for people from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

🗒️ You can also grab Padma’s handy 7 Essential Steps to Career Success Guide.

Love our podcast? Leave a review and get hold of our Quick Start Podcast Guide.

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com

Thanks for listening!

What makes a great entrepreneur? It’s a BIG question for a BIG episode. 🥳🎉🥳

Yep, it’s time to get the bunting out and let off a party popper (or two!) because the TechPixies Sparkle and Thrive Podcast is celebrating its 150th episode with a dream guest. As a woman who blazed a trail for women in tech, she’s one of our heroes, and we’re still squealing with excitement that we got to spend some time with her.

Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley needs no introduction. She’s a tech pioneer who has used her wealth to help those with Autism lead long, happy and healthy lives, and at 88, Dame Stephanie is still thinking about what she can achieve next. She’s so not done yet. 🙌🏽

Here’s why you need to tune in
Focusing on her brilliant memoir Let It Go, this episode delves into the meaning of letting things go and why Dame Stephanie has tried to follow this as a guiding principle in her life. We cover kindness in companies and why women, in particular, are needed in the world of tech. We ask whether you can have it all and how you can overcome the challenges that come your way.

And as Dame Stephanie is one of our greatest entrepreneurs, you'll want to tune in at about 17.5 minutes to discover if you identify with any of the entrepreneurial qualities she mentions.

Ready to be blown away?

Here’s what to listen out for:

[00:30] Hear a quick overview of Dame Stephanie’s story.

[04:51] Learn the meaning behind Let It Go.

[11:00} Can you balance it all?

[17:40] What is entrepreneurship?

[22:10] Why is technology so powerful?

[25:46] Dame Stephanie shares her happiest memory.

[28:19] Learn more about Dame Stephanie’s work around Autism.

[32:29] Learn why women need to get into technology.

[34:50] At 88, there’s still more Dame Stephanie wants to achieve.

[36:23] What will kindness do for the workplace?

[38:38] How do you overcome challenges?

📚 If you'd love a signed copy of Let It Go, email lynn@steveshirley.com. All proceeds go to Autistica, the charity Dame Stephanie founded to research and campaign for breakthroughs in Autism.

Love our podcast? Leave a review and get hold of our Quick Start Podcast Guide.

For details of links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

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Whoa there! If you’ve arrived here without listening to Episode 148, you’ll want to do a Craig David and re-re-wind. Because we’ve got a whole lotta social media superpower action for you to catch up on (and no one should miss seeing Joy in a silky pink cape).

In Part 1, Joy covered the first 3 social media superpowers you need for social media success. In this episode, she’s back with 3 more superpowers (and we’re pretty sure Superman would be proud of these If he’d used social media at the Daily Planet).

We’re talking:
 
🦸 Social media speed and agility

🦸 Market magnetism

🦸 Mailing list magic

Here’s why you need to tune in
If you want to discover how a sunflower can help you work out how social media works in 2022, if you want to hear about the Foster Foundations and Joy’s 6s for social media success, AND if you want to learn how one TechPixie totally smashed it when it came to converting her followers into mailing list subscribers, you know what to do. ▶️▶️▶️

Here’s what to listen out for:

[01:34] How does social media work in 2022?

[05:51] Learn the Foster Foundations for social media success.

[12:01] Discover Joy’s 6s to help you determine what and when to post.

[14:32] Hear what TechPixies is really about.

[20:41] Why the sales are in the mails.

Love our podcast? Leave a review and get hold of our Quick Start Podcast Guide.

For links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com

Thanks for listening!

There’s a reason Joy is dressed in her daughter’s pink satin cape for this week’s episode, and it isn’t because she’s off to audition for a role at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
 
At TechPixies, we don’t need a magic wand to turn women into social media superheroes; we give them the tools they need to tap into their superpowers. And in this episode, Joy is taking you through the first 3 superpowers you need to be a social media success:

🦸 Shed your social media invisibility cloak

🦸 Tap into your enhanced future vision

🦸 Fine-tune your network navigation

Here’s why you need to tune in
You’ll hear Joy talking about how important it is to be visible on social media and why we ‘done not perfect’ will become your new life-changing mantra. You’ll learn how to discover your why so you can gain clarity on what you want to use social media for, and you’ll hear about the network matrix, which is perfect for working out which networks you should be on.

Here’s what to listen out for:

[01:09] Are you wearing an invisibility cloak?

[05:37] Discover superpower number 2 and use it to work on your why.

[10:23] Joy reveals the third superpower.

[20:53] What are the different ways to post on social media?

[27:59] What would you love to do on social media?

See you for part 2 next week covering the 3 other social media superpowers.

And remember, our Social Media Summer School is open for enrolment. Our proven step-by-step social media accelerator will give you the tools and strategy you need to create a social media presence that builds your brand and your confidence so that you’re ready to make the impact you want in this world. For more information, head to TechPixies.com

Love our podcast? Leave a review and get hold of our Quick Start Podcast Guide.

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com

Thanks for listening!

You jumped out of bed this morning (ok, if you’re like us, there’s definitely no leaping going on until you’ve had a coffee), and how did you feel about the day ahead? Excited about cracking on with that work project? Or a bit meh about firing up your computer?

We spend too much of our lives at work not to be doing something that lights us up, so if you feel like you’re meant for more and haven’t found your dream job yet, Joy is about to rock your world.

Here’s why you need to tune in
It’s time to stop looking at job descriptions and thinking ‘well, I haven’t got that skill so I’m not going to apply’, and instead start getting in the zone and leaning into a job you would love. And this week’s episode is packed full of practical advice to help you do just that. You’ll be encouraged to think through what you love to do, given tips to help you overcome the blocks that stand in your way, and be able to take a 5-point test to discover if your dream job really is for you.

Here’s what to listen out for:

[03:34] What does the word manifest mean?

[08:05] How does AI impact recruitment?

[14:27] Overcoming the 3 Ds.

[19:58] Get in the right vibrational tone.

[25:14] Do the 5-point test.

[28:45] Why you have to befriend fear.

[29:37] Your network is your net worth.

[37:04] Hear Joy’s manifestation story.

[43:12] Think about how much you love your life.

So, it’s time to ask yourself: what would you love?

Love our podcast? Leave a review and get hold of our Quick Start Podcast Guide.

For links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com

Thanks for listening!

If you’ve ever felt like you’re facing the same battles in life, again and again, you’ll love this episode of the Sparkle and Thrive Podcast.

Not least because Joy’s mashing up the airwaves with her usual brand of savvy advice and thought-provoking nuggets with one of the most popular peeps in our community, 🌈
In the past, Juliet Addenbrooke has been the first person our students would hear from. A calming voice and a willing ear, who’s always ready to pen a handwritten note on cards made by her kids to welcome newbies to the TechPixies tribe.

Today, she’s our resident life coach, and is on a mission to help women realise that they need to unconditionally love themselves, just as she has through her time at TechPixies.😍

Here’s why you need to tune in

Tune in for guidance on everything from why life is a spiral (and what you can do about it) to working out which values matter to you most (and why this is important). You’ll also love Juliet’s take on celebrating difference and why it represents an opportunity for discovery.

Here’s what to listen out for:

 [07:09] What were the early days of TechPixies like?

[08:52] Juliet discovers her calling.

[12:17] Why life is a spiral.

[15:02] Juliet reveals her greatest learning from her time at TechPixies.

[18:55] Why values matter.

[26:06] How Juliet is helping others transform their own lives.

[28:49] What feeling like an outsider teaches you.

[35:44] How Juliet got to a ‘I can do this’ place with her life coaching.
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

▶️▶️▶️ Tune in now and drop us a line at support@techpixies.com if you’d love to know how TechPixies can help you and how we support LGBTIQ+, 60+, BAME and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
 
Love our podcast? Leave a review and get hold of our Quick Start Podcast Guide.

For details of links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com

Thanks for listening!

Nicci Take has a pretty interesting perspective on business life.
 
She spent 45 years as a man running a business and raising her kids – happily revealing that her role as a father has been the most important job in her life – before embracing her authentic self as a woman. ⚧️ ⚧️

There is so much to unpack in Nicci’s story that this episode will make you laugh, make you think, and give you a truckload of tips on everything from parenting to sales. Because Nicci is both a highly sought-after sales/deals coach and a stand-up comedian, as well as a super successful CEO and entrepreneur (you’d wish you’d had her as your boss, for sure).

Here’s why you need to tune in
Hear how Nicci changed the culture of her business with feminine thinking and why this is the key to successful sales. Learn how you can negotiate with a teenager to tidy their room (yep, it IS possible 🤣), and why TEDSPIE will be the most useful management/coaching technique you’ve heard in ages.

Here’s what to listen out for:

[03:16] Nicci shares a lifelong pain.

[12:19] Nicci talks about her unique perspective on business.

[18:35] Why the future of sales is feminine.

[27:33] Discover Nicci’s most difficult sell (it won’t be what you expect)

[32:23] Why Nicci sees things differently.

[40:35] The power of pulling versus selling.

[42:14] Don’t tell your kids what to do. Give Nicci’s tip a try instead.

[51:17] How to show your support for the LGBTIQ+ community.

[57:52] Why we don’t need more assertive people in business.

[01:02:43] What is TEDSPIE and can it help you as a coach?

And if you’ve thought about adding your pronouns to your social media profiles and emails and haven’t done so yet, you’re about to get a new take on why they’re so important.  🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

▶️▶️▶️ Tune in now.

Love our podcast? Leave a review and get hold of our Quick Start Podcast Guide.

For links and resources mentioned in this episode, please visit TechPixies.com

Want to transform your life?

💪 Discover how to leverage social media with our 21 Day Social Media Confidence Challenge.

🚀 Take your social media to the next level by watching our Social Media Masterclass.

🌈 Enjoy a super quick shift in your mindset with our 12 Day Design Your Dream Life Challenge.

Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com

Thanks for listening!