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184 | How Emma Cowsill Built a Neurodiversity Coaching Business in 8 Months (While Getting Diagnosed Along the Way)
Episode 18427th August 2026 • Women in The Coaching Arena • Joanna Lott
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What if eight months from now, your coaching business looked completely different from the one you’re imagining today?

When Emma Cowsill started her business, she was also making sense of her own ADHD diagnosis and, more recently, an autism diagnosis. In this conversation, she shares how she stopped shrinking herself, found a way of building a business that works with her brain rather than against it, and quickly expanded from 1:1 coaching into neurodiversity consulting, organisational work and collaborations.

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00:00 - From Masking to Business Owner

03:15 - Finding Her LinkedIn Rhythm

06:00 - Structure Without Restriction

07:30 - Doing the Scary Thing

10:15 - The Daily Outreach Habit

11:20 - Building a Neurodiversity Business

15:20 - Deep Nurture and Collaboration

This episode is especially valuable if you’re starting or growing a coaching business and want permission to build it around your strengths, energy and way of working, rather than forcing yourself into someone else’s version of entrepreneurship.

Trust yourself, stay curious and keep taking the actions that allow your business to evolve alongside you.

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Jo:

Emma, I looked up our starting point together, which was on your

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onboarding form, and you wrote the

words, "Done shrinking into versions

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of myself I don't recognize anymore.

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Decades masking, exhausting,

and soul-destroying."

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Tell me what was going on

for you when you wrote that.

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Emma: So when I wrote that, I was just

starting obviously with your program, but

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I was also just setting up my business,

so it was something that was brand new.

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It was a huge turning point for

me because I had always prior to

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that worked in other businesses.

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I'd always been in corporate roles

and Love doing it despite what, what

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that sort of, couple of sentences

sounds like in that onboarding form.

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But actually, I really found a

really great rhythm with coaching

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and leading people that I absolutely

love doing and then I applied that

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across operations and transformation.

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But I also absolutely exhausted

myself doing it, and it's only

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getting answers much later in life.

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two years ago, I got my ADHD

diagnosis, and actually last

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month, my autism diagnosis.

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So still looking for answers and

still getting more information.

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It isn't a, a sort of one and

done, but it really helped me.

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You can only see the connections when

you look backwards, can't you, and rather

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than when you're in the thick of it.

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But, looking back and connecting

those dots, I could see why I believed

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there was a certain version of

success, and God, did I go for it.

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I absolutely went for it.

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I was very ambitious.

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But the way that I did that cost

me so much in terms of my energy.

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I would go a million miles an hour for

work, and then I'd crash at the weekend.

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I couldn't really hold down

sentences or, manage much more than

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that, and it took a lot out of me.

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And I think part of the reason I wanted to

join the program was I have learnt that.

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And whilst that is a period of my

life that was very, very difficult

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because of that cost, I wouldn't change

it because I am where I am because

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of it and I learnt so much from it.

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And that's not just the things that I

know how to do, but also the people I

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know and the network that I have and

the connections that exist for me.

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So if I'm gonna build my own business,

that's really exciting, but we all

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know ourselves that you default to

your normal behaviors, don't you?

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Your habits and routines and, I wanted to

do it properly for want of a better word.

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Like, how do I make sure that I learn

from someone who has built a very,

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very successful business, take the bits

that, you know, I think copy with pride

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and adapt the bits that maybe would be

slightly different for me and that's

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why I wanted to build the business and

start the program at the same time.

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Jo: I'm shocked that it's only

been, what, eight months or so

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since you started your business.

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You have done so well in terms of gaining

engagement, for example, on LinkedIn,

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building your relationships with people-

Tell me more about how you have done that

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? Emma: I think I have a

natural curiosity for things.

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Or rather, I'm either

into something or I'm not.

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I don't really have a happy medium.

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Like, I've only got two speeds as well.

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It's 1,000 miles an hour or

it's absolutely horizontal.

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And I can go all in on something.

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And wanting to understand

more about people.

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Who else is doing what I'm doing?

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Who's doing it, but doing it

in a slightly different way?

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And, who's very, very similar to me?

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Who's completely different to

me, and how can I understand

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different things that they do?

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And it just gave me a really

interesting playground to mess about in.

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And I think anyone who gets their,

content strategy or how they wanna show

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up right first time is an absolute hero.

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Most people I speak to just say, " it

takes me some time to find that rhythm,"

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or like you say, test and learn.

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You'll put something out and

it, it's absolute tumbleweed.

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And then you'll write something took

you about three seconds to do, and it

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was more just sort of, "Blah, here are

my views on why it's really annoying

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when it's dead hot," and absolutely

kicks off because there's something

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in it that people really connect with.

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And I don't think that's something that

the algorithm can predict or can sort out.

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I think that comes from-

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How things resonate with people and

how you phrase it, , it's your version

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of, of what you're saying, isn't it?

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I've also got to admit that there's…

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I've spent days on LinkedIn and, and

couldn't tell you what I've done with it.

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I think that there needs to be a balance,

and I think that's one of the things I've

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definitely found helpful with w- being

able to spend time with other coaches.

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We were having a sort of little, like,

accountability group catch-up, and I

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just went, "I'm getting really, really

sort of stressed with, spending time

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on LinkedIn " and she went, "Oh, I just

post them and never check them again."

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I'm like, "I love that."

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Jo: Yeah, I forgot you were

in a group with Barbara.

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Yeah, she's amazing, and it's so good,

isn't it, to hear another perspective-

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Yeah … because you're so in your head,

you think that that's the only way.

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It's like today I had two other

podcast interviews, and both of them

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thought that these were prep calls.

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I'm like, "Do you think I'm

the type of person to prep?"

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We're going for it straightaway.

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So what did you find

helpful about the program?

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Emma: The thing that drew me

to it was access to your brain.

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Your blueprint of- what you did, how

you did it, what you learn, and I

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know you're constantly refining it.

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I think it should always be like that

because, you learn new things, and

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you've also got a load of other people

in there that you can learn things

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from yourself as well, which I think

is the beauty of having that community.

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You can find millions of videos and

how-to guides on, setting up a business

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and specifically, you know, a coaching

business, and I think sometimes

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it's good to get lots of opinions.

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But also, I think sometimes it's good

to have a consistent line through it

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that then you can, adapt and tweak

and sort of pull things around.

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It was also really helpful because my

brain is wired for novelty, so the things

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that I think are exciting I will jump to.

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And every so often I'd realize,

okay, that's great, I'm on step

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six, but I've missed four and

five, so I'm gonna need to go back.

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So just having that structure

and that reminder meant that I

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could pull myself back to it,

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and you're going, "Have

you done these other bits?"

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And I'm going, "No.

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No, I have not.

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I have not done that at all.

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Right.

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I will go back and do that."

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So yeah, I think that, that was the first

thing for me that- is just a gift to be

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able to get someone's insights like that.

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Jo: And my favorite memory of

you was doing your first LinkedIn

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Live with Daisy, because you

just reminded me of me so much.

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Like, I could see it in your face.

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You were going, "What am I doing here?"

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But the most amazing

thing is you did that.

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So tell us more about that sort of

what probably was scary at the time.

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Well, you tell us.

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Emma: So we, we all, I think there

were maybe sort of 10 of us, went,

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"Oh yeah, let's do a LinkedIn Live.

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Like, that'd be great fun."

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And Daisy, bless her, took on, "Right.

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I'll go away and organize it."

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And I came back the morning of to find

a message from Daisy that she'd sent to

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me on the Wednesday evening saying, so

looks like it's just you and me, Emma.

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Hope that's cool."

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And I was like, "Oh, okay."

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But then I thought, "Oh, what's

the worst that can happen," apart

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from looking like a complete idiot.

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But, I just thought it'll be fun,

like, we're talking about what we know

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and what we're doing , and actually,

it turned out to be great fun.

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Daisy and I just carried on talking for

ages and, yeah, really, really enjoyed it.

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So yeah, nerve-wracking, but

again, ADHD, we love a deadline.

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Like otherwise you will just sit and

perfect for hours and hours and hours.

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Jo: Exactly.

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And I remember you saying that you

enjoyed learning that you find it easier

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to speak out loud than write perhaps?

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Emma: The content creation I was finding

either came really, really easily or you

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get in that sort of analysis paralysis of

perfecting and does this sound like me?

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And, and part of that I think definitely

is from years and years of masking

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and not wanting to be misinterpreted.

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And I would have spent ages, you

know, perfecting a pack that was gonna

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go out or an email that was gonna

go to, lots of senior stakeholders,

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and what have I written that could

possibly be misconstrued in a way

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that I didn't mean to come across.

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And I've definitely carried some of

that through in writing, and I can

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write the whole thing and just go,

"What am I actually … so what?

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Like, what do I want it…

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and it can just take me a lot of

refining, whereas I find when I talk,

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it flows, but also then I know if I want

to go back and amend something, you can

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still clarify quite quickly and on the

spot, and I definitely preferred that.

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And the other thing is I think

it gets a bit more of you.

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I'm sure you can see this, like, I

wave my hands around when I- I'm quite

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expressive when I talk, whereas you're

… Like, a post is quite flat, isn't it?

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It's, you know, words on a page.

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So I think both have meaning and purpose,

but I definitely prefer speaking.

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It feels much more fluid to me.

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Jo: And in terms of the ADHD then and

business, that can obviously also be

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a challenge because there's so many

exciting things we could be doing.

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But one thing you did was set

yourself five comments, five

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connections, five DMs every day.

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How did you make that stick,

or have you made that stick?

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Emma: So I have to find

something that's really visual.

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So I've got, like a notepad on here that's

like an A3 one that I was marking off.

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I do this an awful lot with my clients,

getting started is the hardest thing, so

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make it the smallest possible commitment.

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And actually, even on a day that you

feel rotten, if you only do one of those

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things, that is still better than nothing.

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And again, bit like going to the gym,

if I tell myself I'm only gonna go for

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10 minutes, I will stay for an hour

'cause I'm there by then, aren't I?

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So, that smallest, lowest bar I find very,

very helpful to just start the habit.

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Jo: So you came into the program thinking

one-to-one coaching, and you have done

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quite a few other things since then.

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Tell us a bit more about how your business

has evolved, or where you're at now.

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Emma: Yeah.

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I came into it knowing and being actually

quite comfortable with the what I do now

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might be completely different in 6 to

12 months, and I'm all right with that.

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I think you can't possibly know

all the things, and sometimes

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they evolve for the right reason.

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But I went on to do the exec coaching.

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They were real excited that they, we

don't have anyone who specializes in

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neurodiversity, like this would be great.

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We're, being able to cover that,

and that's what I went to go and do.

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And it's grown into so much more.

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I loved going over to…

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I- i've got a lot of family in Wirral, but

being able to go and have conversations

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with teams who are genuinely interested

in just wanting to know more and wanting

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to do the right thing, but not make

a mistake and, I totally get that.

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I've been a manager.

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I've, worked with HR and I know as

both being a neurodivergent employee

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and manager and senior leader, like,

feeling like you need to know all

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the answers is really, really hard.

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And you don't, 'cause no one expects

you to know more than most doctors do,

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so you don't need a medical degree.

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But there's definitely something

in helping businesses demystify

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neurodiversity, and that's something

I'm really, really passionate about.

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Because otherwise you end up with

unmanageable thousands of reasonable

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adjustments and requests because people

know more about it, and they want to,

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quite rightly want to make sure that

they can show up in the best way.

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And actually, I found that my

background in lean transformation

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came in really well there, because

let's not think about individuals.

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It's absolutely right for your

one-to-one conversation about

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how we support you as a person.

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But if you think of it broader as

systemic design, inclusive design for

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everyone, if you're going to change

something for one person, why wouldn't

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you look at it for someone else?

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Because working from home

helps me because it reduces

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overstimulation, less distractions,

unless it's the dog barking.

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But, why wouldn't you do that for a mother

so that she can go and do the school run?

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She's got more flexibility then.

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You can make sure that you don't need

to choose between one or the other.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I think just being able to have that

conversation and that sort of permission

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to, what are the non-negotiables and

what are the things that you could change

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if you could, and let's look at those.

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Jo: Yeah.

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So what has changed in your

business then, thinking back to,

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the beginning of this year, roughly,

when you started your business?

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What's different now?

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Emma: What's different now is that

I have that mixture of B2C and B2B,

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and- I really enjoy that variety.

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I do also think you very quickly get

to a limit with one-to-one clients.

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One-to-one coaching is incredible

'cause you can get to a depth.

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You know, you kn- you

know people really well.

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But there is a limit to how much you

can do and how many clients you can have

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on at the time to make sure that you're

giving them the best version of yourself

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and you're not stretched too thin.

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So being able to do more stuff that

is one-to-many is also really, really

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valuable and, and means that, you can

still have that impact and still have

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that, opportunity for one-to-one.

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, I think as I'm looking for what

does:

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model, I'm really, really interested

in how do I make that happen?

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'Cause I think that's

your propensity to scale.

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I wouldn't wanna lose the one-to-one

because I really, really do enjoy that

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level of detail, and I think still

other opportunities come from that.

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But also being able to have that

strategic thinking partner for,

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right, what is the thing we're

gonna focus on and change that?

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Just feels really valuable work.

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Jo: Yeah.

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Emma: There was a session you did on deep

nurture that I think really helped how

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I thought about social media and posting

and, I think that visibility and showing

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up piece is really, really important.

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But without the right intention and

without the right balance, it can

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very quickly be quite exhausting.

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And that really made me think about, okay,

well, where are my areas of deep nurture?

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Where am I really, really

investing in those connections?

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And whether that's podcast, guesting and

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email marketing and, different areas

that I can have that deeper connection.

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That was really, really helpful.

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It also made me think about I have got

so many like rich, valuable connection.

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Not rich as in wealthy, although I'm

sure they are, but rich as in quality

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connections already existing, that

I think there can be a, temptation

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to just keep making more connections

and growing and meeting more people.

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And that is helpful to a point, but

actually if you've got people that

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you've started to build really good

relationships with, where are your

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collaboration opportunities in there?

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And I think that's the thing I'm really

excited for, to go deep with some

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of those over the next few months.

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We're looking at doing coaching sprints

that combines my sort of cognitive

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frameworks and operational focus,

neurodivergent friendly, so works

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for even the scatteriest of us, but

will work for everyone, and then her

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marketing strategy and execution.

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And, just really excited about that

because we've already had quite a lot

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of interest in it, but it's really nice

to sometimes work with other people on

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things because we spend so much time,

like you say, in our own echo chamber.

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Jo: Yeah.

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And you were a real community

person in the group.

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So tell us more about the community

aspects or the relationships

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you've built within the program.

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Emma: Yeah, it's lovely to meet

so many people at different

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stages of their business and

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There's something really,

really nice about going into, an

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environment where everyone's h-

everyone's so happy to help people.

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There's no trying to get one up on other

people or, you know, there's a quote,

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"We all do well when we all do well."

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Like, there's enough

for us all to go around.

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And I think that freedom of sharing

that's not without, I'm not gonna give

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away my, you know, my trade secrets.

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Everyone's just so willing to just

go, "Oh, have you tried this?"

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Like, did that and I made a right mess

of it, but, you know, I can t- I can

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show you what I learned," type thing.

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And it's that sharing and humility

without ego that just makes it such

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a lovely place to be, because I know

straight away whether or not I can

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be myself in a, in an environment,

and whether or not I am comfortable

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showing vulnerability or weakness,

or where I've messed something up.

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And I think unless you've got

that psychological safety to just

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go, "I've completely stuffed…

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I, like, I don't even know h- where to

start with this," or, "I've made a real,

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real mess," that's where you learn.

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That's where you get the most growth.

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And I think not having that, the

opposite is really dangerous.

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That's when people stop.

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That's when businesses shut down, because

someone's got stuck and there's n-

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either not knowing where to go for help

or not knowing how to ask, and that's

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the opposite of what you want, isn't it?

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Jo: And so many business owners are

ADHD and running businesses, So tell

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us more about how you handle all

of the shiny objects that come up.

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And lots of people do ask that within

the program of like, "I'm ADHD.

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Will I be able to manage?"

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Emma: I think there's definitely an

awful lot of ADHD business owners

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and there's that nature, nurture.

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Is it people that are naturally drawn

to one thing or they just couldn't

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exist in a corporate environment?

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So come hell or high water, they

found a way to make it work.

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But I think the thing for me

is there is no silver bullet.

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There is no right or

wrong answer, I'm afraid.

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But you've got to find what works for you.

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And I know that's the easiest

thing to say and the hardest thing

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to do, but it's paying attention

to the when does this feel fun?

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When does work feel like, "I can't

believe I make a living do this"?

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Do more of that stuff.

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The other stuff that you feel that real

resistance to, is it a skills gap that

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you can fill or can you outsource it?

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Can you get something to

automate it a ways that you

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never need to think about it?

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Or actually, is that when you invest in

a VA or a, marketing expert or something

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else, do you get your own coach?

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Because I think there's always a, a

great need to, if you are going to

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coach, to have coaching yourself.

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And listen to those things.

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So I don't tend to have

calls before midday.

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My morning is my golden time.

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That's when I get stuck into stuff,

problem-solving and fixing, and

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I have client calls or, speak

with other people after lunch.

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If I do it the other way, then I feel

like I start the day behind, and I've

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done it before and I just know that that

doesn't work for me, and that's okay.

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No one's telling me I have

to do it a different way.

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That's my choice and

that's what works for me.

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So I think find those things.

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Find that golden time and find the

things that feel like dossing, that

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you can't believe that you actually

get to make a living do that and

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be able to do more of those things.

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Jo: And it just reminds me of

you using the word playground

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at the beginning of this call.

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So I do find you do have to find the play

and the joy in what you're doing, and

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experiment and feel a bit lighter with

it, which I've definitely seen you do.

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Tell us more about how you've had

the courage to do those things.

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Emma: Networking is not

something I do very easily.

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I would normally have been the person

sort of hiding round the side or

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looking for someone that I know.

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So to walk into a room of people

I don't know is my idea of hell.

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In some ways it is a little bit

easier online because you're

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kind of all face-to-face and, on

your little screens and whatnot.

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But I have to find things that, bring

me joy and if I go and it was a terrible

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experience, then I won't go again.

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But I'm looking for where

I can see myself, where I

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can learn from other people.

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Sometimes it's not looking for the

clients, it's looking for people

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who can connect you to other people.

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And as I say, I've, found people,

again, with great generosity, who

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can just go, "Oh my God, like, I know

five people I can introduce you to.

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Send me your details and,

like, let's catch up."

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And again, I think it's going into quite

big networking events, I'm probably not

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gonna follow up with all of those people.

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But even if there's two or three

that we go away and we have a further

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catch-up and that then develops

into something else, it's not

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trying to spread yourself too thin.

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Looking for the things that really

feel like a good connection, and

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either something very aligned with

what you do or very different that

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you would like to know more about.

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Jo: Yeah.

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So if someone is listening and maybe

they are in their job or thinking about

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starting a business, what advice would

you give to that person looking back on

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where you were maybe eight months ago?

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Emma: To have a really good think

about what it is that you want to do.

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Sometimes that's blank page stuff and,

if I could do anything, what is that?

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Like your big sort of wish list

of, what would it look like?

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Where would I live?

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What would my day look like?

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And plan that perfect day and week

because I think definitely, myself

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included, and I know quite a few people

who have moved from corporate to running

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their own business, you start with

the desire to have complete freedom

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and to do things exactly as you want.

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But you very, very quickly default

into the pattern that you used to have.

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Do I always need to be

at my desk at this time?

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Can I go to the gym in

the middle of the…

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Like, those things that you want

to do, you have to start doing them

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from the start because there's never

some magical period where everything

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lines up and all of a sudden you cut

your hours in half or what have you.

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Definitely think get yourself a financial

runway, probably more than you think.

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If you can get 12 months expenses

saved, you are in a very good position

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because it takes that pressure off you.

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And I think just enjoy it.

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What are the things that you

would take from what you're doing

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now that you wanna replicate?

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What are the things you are good at?

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If you've ever done your CV the first time

over and you have to go, "What do I do?

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What do I know?"

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Like, what a-- that is an awful

thing to try and do completely

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afresh, but it's a really good

challenge to have a think about,

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what are all my transferrable skills?

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What are the things

that I could say yes to?

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Because like we've talked about,

what you start off doing might

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not be what you end up doing.

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So if someone says, "Oh,

would you be able to do this?"

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You can go yes.

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I can do that.

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Absolutely."

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Have a think about those.

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What do you do and know that fixes a

problem someone else would pay for?

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Jo: Oh, you summarized that perfectly,

and I think most people aren't really

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aware of that when they go into business,

that actually we're paid to fix problems.

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would you recommend the

program and if so, who to?

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Emma: Definitely to anyone who is

just starting out, but also, and I

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think again from the experience I

had with lots of other people in the

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program, it's not a one and done.

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It's-- you can come back

to this at any time.

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There's people in there that have been

running their own businesses for 20

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years and- still get so much value

out of it because it's not necessarily

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just about the business basics, it's

about the daily repeatable actions

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that make that business successful.

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But I knew I wanted to have something

from the start before I got six

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months into it thinking I can

wing it, and then going, "Oh, I'm

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gonna have to unpick all of this."

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I wanted to get that really

firm foundation from the start.

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Jo: Yeah.

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Totally.

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And you're so right.

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It genuinely is for anyone

at any stage of the journey.

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The stuff I teach is the stuff I need

to do at my stage of the journey,

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therefore, like, it's always moving.

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And I think in such a fast-paced world

with AI and just everything feeling

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like it changes so quickly, that we

just need to keep, finding new, exciting

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ways, keeping the joy, being curious,

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It's like we always

need to keep innovating.

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Emma: i- interesting point about the AI,

I think some people get really sort of

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hung up on it, but I don't think AI is

going to replace what we do anytime soon.

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It has a place in what we do because

it can be a useful tool, but what it's

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certainly shown me, definitely over the

last year, is that's when your human

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connections matter more than ever.

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Because the human experience is

messy and raw and very specific

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and very detailed, and those are

the things that people connect to.

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Those are the things that really

make something textured and

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interesting rather than beige.

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And That is where you're

going to stand out.

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It's also where you're going

to repel people, and you've

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gotta be all right with that.

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Jo: Yeah.

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And great way to finish, of like basically

be your messy- … imperfect self

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because you will pull in your people,

and that's exactly what you've done.

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So thank you so much, Emma, for

going on the journey with me.

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I hope you loved this

conversation with Emma.

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You can find her on

LinkedIn as Emma Cowsill

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Which is spelt C-O-W-S-I-L-L, and she

is an ADHD and neurodivergent coach for

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founders and leaders, and also does neuro

inclusion consulting for organizations.

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I hope you loved all of the

learning from Emma today.

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I particularly love how she was prepared

to go on the journey whilst, yes,

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wanting to know all of the things that

she needs to know, still being open and

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flexible enough to try her own ways.

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If you would like to join me

inside the Business of Coaching

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for a similar journey, then do

click the link in the show notes.

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If you scroll to the bottom of the page,

there is a short application you can

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complete so I can learn more about you.

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I will get back to you on whether the

program looks like a good fit for you.

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And like I always say, trust yourself,

believe in yourself, and be the wise

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gardener who keeps on watering the seeds

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Microphone (Samson Q2U Microphone):

Thank you so much for listening to this

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episode of Women in the Coaching Arena.

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I have a mess of free resources on

my website joannalottcoaching.com.

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That's Joanna with an A

and Lott with two T's.

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joannalottcoaching.com.

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And I'll also put links in the show notes.

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this episode useful.

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Share it with a friend and

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