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“When you're the face of your business, but you're a shy person - it's so hard to reconcile those two things,” Rachel Smith, Founder of Rachel’s List

“When you're the face of your business, but you're a shy person - it's so hard to reconcile those two things,” Rachel Smith, Founder of Rachel’s List

FromUnemployed & Afraid


“When you're the face of your business, but you're a shy person - it's so hard to reconcile those two things,” Rachel Smith, Founder of Rachel’s List

FromUnemployed & Afraid

ratings:
Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Jan 21, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Multiple passions can mean multiple businesses – so how do you do it, and be able to pivot with each as they grow?
The answer could boil down to balancing both your professional and your personal growth efforts, but as always there’s more to the story.
In this episode you’ll hear from the incredibly warm Rachel Smith who is successfully building multiple businesses by ensuring her measures of success are relevant, and flexible.
She’s widely known as the founder of Rachel’s List a jobs board for freelancers, but as you’ll hear she has plenty more super engaging business feathers in her cap.
In the sharing of her business building story, where we really get into both the practical and the personal journey of it all, you’ll hear about:

Following a childhood interest into a lifelong career, and not being afraid to keep following its pivots
Working through the retrospective build of an accidental business as it grows
Some handy insights into pitching your writing to publications
How to effectively work with your team of freelancers and how it differs to on-books staff members
Experimenting in your small-business marketing to sometimes amusing outcomes
The role your confidence growth plays in your business approach
Monetizing multiple business streams at different stages
And the impact of podcasting in the marketing of your business and in nurturing new parts of yourself in the process

Business growth is equal parts professional and personal - we’re here for it all to inspire you to feel seen, supported, and excited to grow the business of your unique dreams.
Some notes from the episode…
Give the episode of Unemployed & Afraid with Alexandra Senter a listen HERE
Check out Source Bottle for contributor sourcing [and contributing to stories]. 
And make sure to connect with Rachel’s work via:
RachelsList.com.au
Thecontentbyte.com [The Content Byte Podcast]
Thecontentbytesummit.com.au
Lettertomyex.com
You can find the conversation transcript at unemployedandafraid.com.au/episodes.
And don’t forget to follow Unemployed & Afraid on IG , Threads and LinkedIn
Join our Facebook Group
And show your support for this independent podcast and small business by shouting your host a cuppa at buymeacoffee.com/unemployedpod
You can reach your host on email kim@unemployedandafraid.com.au on IG on LinkedIn
or via unemployedandafraid.com.auSupport the show by shouting me a cuppa (or 2): https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unemployedpodSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Jan 21, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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This weekly podcast explores what it’s like to be starting your career over, with the people who’ve done it. In conversation, we tackle the messy middle of changing your life - how it feels to drop the identity of whatever came before and step into a brand new you – with, or without a plan.  Your host is Kim Kerton (hi!) the creator behind the handmade ceramics and plant-based recipes of Good Side of the Bed, a writer, marketer, yoga teacher, sea-changer, rev-head and pug mum. Before all that, Kim spent over a decade in the commercial media business. She decided to walk away, got unemployed and afraid, and here we are. This podcast is for the brave people who want to start over but are feeling the fear - maybe putting off starting because the end isn’t clear - and for those who find themselves right in the middle of the whirlwind. Whether by choice or by push, starting over is scary, Unemployed & Afraid is your tribe on the pathway through change. Follow for episode updates, and connect on Instagram @unemployedandafraid You can find the show notes at kimkerton.com.au/podcast