A member of the Own It! Facebook Group offers this week’s focus: I’ve begun to notice that the majority of ads that get presented to me on YouTube are people talking all about how crap their life was, how they woke up after watching an ad “just like this one” and now have a life… Read More »
Write Club The Podcast | It’s Mental Health Week
It’s Mental Health Week and we discuss writers who suffered, as well as how mental health is dealt with in novels. Steph tells us about the research she did for “Lacking Grace” and we update each other on how our writing lives are going. Heather reads from her WIP and Nicola and Jackie Smith share… Read More »
Playing Hookey! Birthday Road Trip To Areopolis
One of the things I love most about being self-employed is having total control over my own diary. My brother Alex arrived from Australia for a few weeks, having just been made redundant from his high flying corporate job after 18 years at the same company. He’s already enjoying job and consultancy offers already, but… Read More »
Own It! 197 | Richard Pettitt: Surprising Your Clients
Richard Pettitt originally wanted to be a scriptwriter until Morning Pages reminded him how much he loves to make people laugh with his jokes, videos and cartoons/webcomics Oojo and Bink, Drizzle Cake and Think vs Say. He talks to Judith and Nicola about taking yourself lightly and both vow to do more of that, and… Read More »
Own It! 196 | Should I Grow My Business?
These new leads put Nicola in mind of growing her team again. Her sister, Sarah, expressed surprise. This gave Judith and Nicola their topic of the week – when is the right time/right circumstances to grow your business, if ever? Why would anyone do that? Which is better, working alone or with other people? … Read More »