The Disobedient Business® Podcast

In this week's episode, we welcome Ellie Swift who is Pippa's coach, fellow @bycacademy grad, and all-around marketing wonder.⁠ We talk to Ellie  about how her and Pippa have established a very disobedient coaching relationship and touch more on what you might want to look for when researching for a business coach yourself.What does a disobedient coaching relationship look like? One where the coach is not held out as The Answer, where the client is empowered and confident to push back, to be sovereign in their decision making, and more.⁠⁠We wanted to have this conversation with Ellie as she and Pippa very much have this relationship and we also know that this is not always the case, that icky stuff goes on in these relationships and we wanted to get into what this could look like where you get both results through being supported by a great coach AND you retain your integrity and values - so when something is a "no", then it's a bloody NO! LINKSWhere to find Ellie:Website:https://www.ellieswift.com/Podcast:Shine Online with Ellie Swift: http://ellieswift.com/podcast/ Instagram: @elliehswift Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

Welcome to the trailer episode of The Disobedient Business® Podcast where Pippa and Lucy explain the exciting things to come in this new project.  Check out The Disobedient Business Co. on Instagram!Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

Welcome to The Disobedient Business® Podcast, in our very first [awkward AF] episode we'll be introducing the podcast, and what the fuck Disobedient Business® is. LINKS:Get your ticket to the Create Your Disobedient Business® Manifesto workshop here.Sign up for the waitlist for the Disobedient Business® Mastermind here!Website: disobedientbusiness.comInstagram: @disobedientbusinessco   Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

In this episode, we go deep into Pippa's origin story (every good superhero/villain has one, right? 😈) and she tells us all about her journey into coaching, how The Disobedient Business® Co came to be, and how being disobedient actually unlocked everything!Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

In our third episode Pippa and Lucy discuss the imaginary rulebook of all things business [aka monumental douchebaggery]  and why we want to set it on fire 🔥From shitey marketing tactics to sacrificing people for profit, we dig into some of our biggest peeves that we're all liable to slip into from years of social conditioning from...you guessed it...the bloody patriarchy. Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

In this episode, Pippa teaches Lucy all about manifestos (Google may have been involved but you know, #facts). Lucy is pleased to say they've come away with some intimate knowledge of manifestos and wtf they are and the purpose they can serve in our businesses. Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

In this week’s episode, we have a treat for you! We welcome Sas Petherick to the podcast. Sas is a Master Coach and Founder of Self-belief School and the Self-belief Coaching Academy. Sas hosts the Courage + Spice podcast where she teaches evidence-based approaches and proven coaching tools to help you transcend your self-doubt.As Pippa and I both know Sas well it’s fair to say we went a little off topic in this episode, so we’re setting the rule book on fire early on, as this week we are bringing you a two-part episode!This first part is loosely titled “Online Business, Over Functioning and the woes of Coaching Industry” – in part two we get stuck into Community and Friendships in business and find out which one of us is not a joiner in and why.In this first part we discuss with SasWhy the idea of an inner critic is reductionist and an unhelpful way to heal your self-doubt.Overfunctioning, overgiving and overperforming in all the ways.The fact that Sas and Pippa both LOVE and value coaching so highly and also discuss all that is wrong in the messaging and positioning in the industry - especially when this just makes us doubt ourselves more!LINKS:Where to find Sas Here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saspetherickWebsite: https://selfbelief.school/Podcast: https://selfbelief.school/podcast/Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

In this week’s episode, we have a treat for you! We welcome Sas Petherick to the podcast. Sas is a Master Coach and Founder of Self-belief School and the Self-belief Coaching Academy. Sas hosts the Courage + Spice podcast where she teaches evidence-based approaches and proven coaching tools to help you transcend your self-doubt.As Pippa and I both know Sas well it’s fair to say we went a little off topic in this episode, so we’re setting the rule book on fire early on, as this week we are bringing you a two-part episode!If you haven't already listened to the first part yet, hop on back an episode as this is Part 2 - Community and Friendships in business.In this second part we discuss with SasNot being a "joiner in" and why that is part of protective self-doubtBeing in community with both likeminded people and people whose views differ to yoursEntering a group programme or community with an understanding of what you will get from it and give to it.The concept of being 100% you, 100% of the time!Holding space for communities like mastermind groups and the importance of the facilitator's self-belief and them being supported and their needs met outside of the group. LINKS:Where to find Sas Here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saspetherickWebsite: https://selfbelief.school/Podcast: https://selfbelief.school/podcast/Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

Our guest today is the brilliant and shapeshifting Vix Meldrew. Vix helps coaches, service providers, and course creators create engaging content on social media and in their programs so they can attract raving students and scale their time, income and energy.In today's episode with Vix we explore what we've glibly called “shapeshifting” to describe the fact that Vix has in the last 6 months burned her business to the ground and rebuilt it from scratch. Well maybe not scratch, but in order to find a business model and services that work both for her and for her clients, she pared it all back and went back to her teaching roots.Vix shares with us how it might look like an overnight change from the outside but how this was a gradual evolution over time, the fact that even as a seasoned and experienced business owner, she’s still shitting herself after 6 months but staying the course, how she’s managed the transition from focussing on Instagram to focussing more on course creation and much more.This is a fab episode and we bloody LOVE Vix’s business disobedience and not playing by the rules – especially how she’s taking on the online course industry and supporting folks to create courses people actually learn from AND finish.LINKS:Where you can find Vix: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vixmeldrew/Website: https://www.vixmeldrew.com/Vix's Podcast here.Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

🔥 Last call to grab your ticket to the Create Your Disobedient Business® Manifesto workshop on Thursday 21st July here 🔥Our guest today on the Disobedient Business® Podcast is the wonderful Julie Parker. In today's episode with Julie we explore what success looks like in our businesses, Julie's role as an "accidental rebel", the danger of coaches "lemming" along with the status quo and treading the well-trodden path and the stories we tell ourselves about what matters in our businesses and how we get to create a new disobedient path for ourselves.Pippa has known Julie for 6 years, so this is a fab episode with lots of laughing and some true gems of insight into defining your disobedient success and officially anointing Julie with the title of "Auntie Julie" for this day forth 😂.Julie Parker is the Founder of The Beautiful You Coaching Academy, Co-Founder of Priestess Temple School and a mentor, counsellor, coach, supervisor and guide for sacred leaders and space holders. She has trained thousands of life coaches from around the world to birth their soul businesses and has had a thriving counselling and coaching practice for nearly two decades. Julie is the host of the top-ranking Priestess Podcasts and also a devoted and practising priestess, committed to contributing to a world where presence, healing and social justice are honoured.LINKSWhere you can find Julie: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julesyparker/Website: https://juliesuzanneparker.com/Julie's Priestess Podcast here.Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

This week we get into the conversation that everyone in the world is having right now, but we're not seeing a whole lot being said out loud by business coaches, consultants etc. So we thought, "why not" as it's a conversation that needs to be had.Is it still the right time to invest in support for your business?What does this mean for things like pricing, styles of programmes etc?How do you pick where to invest and what support you need?We also share a bit of insight into some behind-the-scenes happenings and awkward AF conversations we've had at The Disobedient Business® Co. HQ around investment in the business and pricing when the world is...icky. We hope this episode gives a bit of perspective to our inner works and helps you if you're thinking about investing in your business right now, or maybe if you're creating something that is asking your clients to invest in you ❤️Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

Ever wondered what it would be like to join the Disobedient Business® Mastermind - then this episode is for YOU?!A bit of a change for this episode as Pippa is hosting and inviting her support coaches (and partners in crime in the Disobedient Business® Mastermind) to chat about their roles and experiences with the mastermind. We’re very excited to welcome Siobhan Strode, Word Witch and copy coach extraordinaire and usual podcast co-host, Lucy Parfait, Systems and Tech Strategist and Disobedient Business® Mastermind Community Manager to the podcast!We take you behind the scenes of the Disobedient Business® Mastermind and talk about how we support our clients and what it’s like to be inside the mastermind.Lucy and Siobhan share their business journeys so far, their experiences of the mastermind, their respective roles, and how we support all our amazing masterminders.We LOVED recording this episode and we’re sure you will feel that from listening. Especially listen out for a hilarious audio-only version of “rock, paper, scissors” which is what all good podcasts should include!If you haven’t already signed up for the Disobedient Business® Mastermind – send us a DM today on Instagram or book in for a chat with Pippa here! Where to find Siobhan:Website: https://www.thissisterscribes.com/Instagram: @thissisterscribesOur group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

Our guest today is our incredible client and Disobedient Business® Masterminder, Laura Leigh Chapman. Laura has been branded the “Comms Legend” by her clients. She helps creative business folk clearly and confidently communicate, to create awesome connections with their people, while being exactly who they are.Laura believes in breaking down old employment 'rules' of professionalism, bringing the fullness of your personality and character to your work, and showing up just the way you are, in all your messy, flawed awesomeness.She has over 17 years of experience working in communications with businesses large and small. Laura combines mentoring, training, and strategy, working with people on all aspects of communication strategy - from the roots of your values and vision and the foundations of your messaging, right through to where and how you show up, who you’re talking to, putting it all into a plan and sharing it with confidence.Laura shares her experience of developing her business from having a solid and established way of working with “big business” and taking this breadth of knowledge to develop her communications framework that she now works with in big and small businesses alike. She talks to us about her journey with the mastermind, leaning into difference and nuance and what being in a community of such badass humans looks and feels like.We also talk through why Laura joined the Disobedient Business® Mastermind, what she’s gotten out of the first year (and plans to get out of the second year 🎉) and what she would say to someone considering joining a mastermind this summer.Laura has achieved some truly remarkable things in the last year, and apart from fantastic financial results, has also found ways to rest, set boundaries, and set the groundwork for some pretty amazing things to come. Laura, generously, chalks up a lot of that success to the support and guidance she has inside the Disobedient Business® Mastermind and her achievements are a testament to the commitment and time she invested in showing up throughout the mastermind, while also finding ways to fight the patriarchal drive to “do more and push through”. Amazing!The doors are currently open so if you haven’t already signed up for the Disobedient Business® Mastermind – send us a DM today on Instagram or book in for a chat with Pippa here!Where to find Laura:Website: lauraleighchapman.com/Instagram: @lauraleighchapmanOur group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

This week we have a little break from the norm as this is a solo Pippa episode riffing around launching and the five things nobody tells you about all the shiny launches you see that seem to be so easy and so very successful 🙄.Pippa talks about funnels and pipelines (reluctantly using those phrases), having a system, experimentation and more. It's chocka full of both interesting takes on launching and seriously helpful tips for your next launch.The doors are currently open so if you haven’t already signed up for the Disobedient Business® Mastermind – send us a DM today on Instagram or book in for a chat with Pippa here!Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

Today on the Disobedient Business® Podcast we’re exploring what we’re calling our “Disobedient Business® (non-method) Method”.  It’s the not-so-secret way that we work with folks in the Disobedient Business® Co and it’s as close to a signature method as you’re probably ever going to get from us.Another solo episode from Pippa where she shares insights into what the Disobedient Business® non-method Method looks like, what the four components are, and why we advocate for a non-method method in the first place. The Disobedient Business® (non-method) Method is the antithesis of a framework, a system, a blueprint, or a 10-step formula (🤢).The doors are closing on Wednesday 7th September for the Disobedient Business® Mastermind – send us a DM today on Instagram or book in for a chat with Pippa here!Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

This week on the Disobedient Business® Podcast we welcome Nicola Salmon as our special guest to talk about fat bodies and anti-fatness in the online business space.Nicola is a fat-positive fertility coach and author of “Fat and Fertile”. She helps fat folks navigate getting pregnant in a weight-obsessed world and advocates for change in how fat people are treated whilst accessing help with their fertility. Nicola uses her unique fat-positive framework to support people in finding their own version of health without diets, advocate for their bodies, relearn how to trust their bodies, and believe in their ability to get pregnant.As three fat humans, with a decent dose of neurodiversity thrown in, we explore our experiences in the business world as humans in fat bodies and how this impacts everything from how we are perceived, how we show up, feeling safe in the online space, and more. It's a fascinating conversation!Where to find Nicola:Website: nicolasalmon.co.ukInstagram: @fatpositivefertilityOur group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

This week on the Disobedient Business® Podcast we welcome Sadie Tichelaar as our special guest to talk about the rebel magic of rest & play and this one is a fab episode - get your pens at the ready as you're going to want to take notes!Sadie is a mischief muse whose calling is to inspire overtired, overworked folk to explore the rebellious magic of rest & play as an antidote to hustle culture and toxic productivity. Combining the unlikely power combo of her project management background and a love for all things mystical, she practices a form of practical magic to support clients embrace both their light and their darker side. Sadie wields her magic through 1-2-1 work as well as group coaching and sacred circle work.As three humans that are all very prone to overwork, all having burned out at least once, this conversation is deep and personal and also so very practical - there's a reason that Sadie talks about practical magic as she IS practically magic!Where to find Sadie:Website: https://www.thiscuriouslifecoaching.com/Instagram: @thiscuriouslifecoachingJoin Reconnect with Sadie here.Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

In today's episode, Pippa and Lucy are riffing on the latest launch of the Disobedient Business® Mastermind. What went well, what they'd do differently and how being a bloody human has a tendency to impact the things that we do.Tune in to find out what's exciting us, the lessons we learned, and why nationwide shortages of something can impact a launch 😉.Our group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

This week on the Disobedient Business® Podcast we are joined by the wonderful Janelle Wehsack our special guest to talk about being multi-passionate - is this something "for the kids" or is this for us midlifers too? As luck would have it we had a millennial on board (shout out to Lucy repping for everyone under 30), so we had a great conversation which we don't think went in the direction that any of us thought it might.Janelle Wehsack is a life, self-belief, and style coach who also happens to have 30 years experience - and counting - in the corporate world. In her coaching practice, Janelle employs her signature coaching framework that combines clarity, mindset, and action to support professional women to dance with their self-doubt, get clear on what they want, build their confidence and take real action. Why? So that they can build self-styled lives and careers full of excitement and happiness and reach their full potential.All three of us had plenty of views on what it means to be "multi-passionate" and how that has showed up in our lives and business - some of them are going to surprise you!Where to find Janelle: https://www.janellewehsack.com/Website: Instagram: @janelle.wehsackOur group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco

This week on the Disobedient Business® Podcast we are joined by the wonderful Philippa Robinson, our special guest, to talk about productivity, when and why is it toxic and WTF is all this about nervous systems that we keep hearing about all over the online business space?Philippa studied law at university and she spent most of her career exploring the UK, subconsciously seeking "home". She settled in the beautiful city of Bristol where she now lives with her husband, two teenage sons, and Bob the dog.During her own personal transformation, through healing childhood trauma and learning to love and live for herself, she arrived at her soul mission to guide people to be the truest versions of themselves because she believes that is the greatest gift we can give ourselves.Note: we do touch on addiction briefly in this episode so if that can be a painful topic for you, you may wish to give this one a skipperoo.LINKS:Where to find Philippa Robinson: Instagram: @safeandsupportedcoachingWebsite: www.safeandsupported.co.ukPodcast: www.safeandsupported.co.uk/podcastOur group programmes The Disobedient Business® Minimind and The Disobedient Business® Mastermind are now enrolling - check them out. Visit our website at disobedientbusiness.comCome say hi at hello@disobedientbusiness.com Come and chat on Instagram at @disobedientbusinessco