Unsquashed

Connect All Your Dots

If your marketing makes you yawn or yell - this is for you. My guest Kate Chidzik has over 20 years as a marketeer as well as a lifetime of being a human! She shares her unsquashing journey and some powerfully simple reframes around your approach to marketing - being visible.  Connect you with your audience. Connect your strengths with your approach. Connect with supportive people. Connect your dots.
 
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Find out more about my communication and confidence coaching services as well as my unsquashing mission (the book, the TEDx) at trishalewis.com.

The Power of a Portfolio Career

Is having a portfolio career less impressive than putting all your eggs in one basket work-wise? If you are doing more than one freelance job or part-time job - are you just 'messing around' rather than being a serious and valuable business ower or employee?  If you are fighting to pigeon hole 'what you do' - listen to this! I offer a fresh perspective on the 'eggs in many baskets' route - and a way of making sure you are not just being squashed by the 'should trap' of 'this is the only way to do it'! 
With the encroaching Tsunami of AI - this might be exactly the right time to be diversifying - and I offer a perpective that will have you doing this proudly.
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Enjoy the episode and subscribe. Please take time to leave a review on your favourite platform to help spread the word if you find this podcast informative, motivating, enjoyable or simply 'calming'!
Find out more about my communication and confidence coaching services as well as my unsquashing mission (the book, the TEDx) at trishalewis.com.

Digital Wellbeing Check Up

If your relationship with social media feels draining listen to this episode! For those who need to be visible on social media for business but you don't feel in control - a must listen! My guest Sam Flynn will guide you calmly through this condundrum.  She is a Digital Wellbeing coach and social media trainer and understands this tension between healthy curiosity and visibility and time-sucking digital burn out.
In this episode we bust some myths and gain calm perspective. AND you will get practical tips on:
 
Social media time management
Digital Detox - the non- dramatic way
Smart phone v Desktop options
Encouraging a more positive 'feed' 
Avoiding what Sam calls 'Doom Following'.
 
Connect with Sam Flynn on LinkedIn 
- and connect with me there too!
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Enjoy the episode and subscribe. Please take time to leave a review on your favourite platform to help spread the word if you find this podcast informative, motivating, enjoyable or simply 'calming'!
Find out more about my communication and confidence coaching services as well as my unsquashing mission (the book, the TEDx) at trishalewis.com.

Be Nice to Yourself - Try This

In this solo short episode I share a simple self-affirmation tactic to use when you are beating yourself up over 'failure'. The thing that didn't go well might be trivial but you are flooded with an illogical sense of being utterly useless.  It could be a technical glitch on a LinkedIn Live or you might have stumbled over some words in a presentation.  It could be sports related - as in my story that you will hear.  The thing is - I found a way of stopping the mind body fight flight flooding - and in this episode I share this very simple tactic.

Make marketing enjoyable by doing it your way

Do you flinch at the very word - marketing? As a solopreneur do you find it an utter bore to market your business? Does it all feel a bit icky? My guest Lenka Koppova has a way to flip your marketing hate into marketing joy! Lenka calls herself - the marketing therapist!
She brings a very human touch to marketing - based on tons of expertise and experience and knowledge of the way our brains work! In the episode
we talk about -
Fear of failure
Listening to eperts more than our gut!
Using our authentic self to connect with our potential clients.
Doing it your way!
Connecting on LinkedIn.
Being creative about your approach to social media - your way!
Lenka gives some very practical tips and busts a marketing myth of two. Love her expression - 'Stop shoulding all over yourself'!
Connect with Lenka on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenkakoppova/
or her website: https://lenkakoppova.com/
 
Enjoy the episode and subscribe. Please take time to leave a review on your favourite platform to help spread the word if you find this podcast informative, motivating, enjoyable or simply 'calming'!
Find out more about my communication and confidence coaching services as well as my unsquashing mission (the book, the TEDx) at trishalewis.com.

What is this Podcast About?

A tiny tempter! What is the mission of the Unsquashed Podcast? Who is it for - and why might it help?  What do I mean by 'Unsquashed'? 
 
If you want to find out more about unsquashing - head to this page on my website!
Stay curious and unsquashed - happy listening.
All episodes are available in video form on my YouTube channel 
 
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Check Your Motivation

How often to you check your motivation for doing what you are doing? Are you doing it for the validation of others or is it more SELF-imposed motivation? In this episode you will explore this and other 'climbing to business' transferable lessons.  
Filmed on location at Parthian Climbing Southampton - the perfect motivational background! My guest is the very down to earth, natural storyteller Lewis Roberts - known as 'The Chubby Crimper' - find out why. 
 
Follow Lewis on Instagram @chubbycrimper
 
My favourite quote from the conversation:
"You've done something that was difficult for YOU!" (emphasis on the 'you')
 
A Lewis concept that I loved unwrapping:
'Disconnect from expectation'.
 
Enjoy the episode and subscribe.  Please take time to leave a review on your favourite platform to help spread the word if you find this podcast informative, enjoyable or just 'calming'!
 
Find out more about my communication and confidence coaching services as well as my unsquashing mission (the book, the TEDx) at trishalewis.com.
 

Menopause and the Confidence Squashers

Menopause affects us all and my guest Sarah Wilsher is on a mission to stop it being a taboo subject.  No more hot flush or losing the plot jokes and ridicule - this is a part of evolving and doesn't have to be embarrasing!  Sarah starts us off with a powerful example of the massive confidence crisis she experienced at work - and takes us on a positive journey with lots of practical tips.  A listen for those experiencing hormonal shifts and those who want to support them.
 
Menopause and more – the conversation on YouTube
Sarah Wilsher tells us a little about her work.
I’m a mid-life and menopause coach and I provide training into businesses to raise awareness about the menopause and the impact it can have not only on the people losing the hormones, but on those around them too.  I explain how simple but effective support mechanisms can stop knowledgeable and experienced talent from leaving the workforce. I am passionate about changing the narrative around menopause and breaking the taboo so that no one else spends years of their valuable life wondering what on earth is happening to them…just like I did.
Follow Sarah on LinkedIn
Sarah’s website is here.
Her Facebook support group is called Caution! Menopause at Work.
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How do I sell without being salesy?

You don't like marketing yourself - I get it.  But you need to attract clients and be visible to grow your business. A dilemma that we explore in this episode. My guest is Gus Bhandal -  a marketer with over 25 years of experience, and the founder of The M Guru - a digital marketing agency which specialises in helping business owners with LinkedIn training and strategy.  We talk about trust and the art of selling without selling - and bust some myths about being all over social media.

Personal Branding the Introvert Way

We will all meet confidence and joy squashers along the path of personal branding. For introverts, most routes to self-promotion feel draining and darn right dreadful!  But it doesn't need to be this way - you can be true to you and truly seen.  In this episode, Introvert Impact Coach Fifi Mason explores personal branding from the perspective of an introvert - and how to be visible to the right people without losing your identity or getting lost down a hole of 'should traps'.
 
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