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Effective Entrepreneurs - SET BETTER MARSTA GOALS™ : TAME YOUR SQUIRRELS : BE MORE EFFECTIVE!!

Effective Entrepreneurs - SET BETTER MARSTA GOALS™ : TAME YOUR SQUIRRELS : BE MORE EFFECTIVE!!

By Heather Barrie

Heather Barrie welcomes you to the Effective Entrepreneurs Podcast to share FIKA (coffee, cake & conversation) with inspirational business owners who talk about their journeys & goal strategies - leaving you with hints, tips & strategies to set better MARSTA Goals™, tame your squirrels & become more effective in a changing world. We focus on how making small sustainable changes, working effectively and mastering your goal setting processes are all essential to enable you to evolve and thrive and earn your worth! Contact for a chat via LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherbarrie1/
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Effective Entrepreneurs - SET BETTER MARSTA GOALS™ : TAME YOUR SQUIRRELS : BE MORE EFFECTIVE!!Sep 08, 2022

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How harnessing AI for marketing can enhance your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

How harnessing AI for marketing can enhance your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

Today, Heather chats with Alex Ryan, Marketing Guru about how we can harness the power to AI to improve our strategy, content, understanding of data and so much more, in order to be more consistent with our marketing output. The more confident we are in the content and the consistency, the bolder we can be with our goals, targets and strategies!

Mar 25, 202444:07
HOW understanding and improving your business processes and innovating enhances your Goal Setting and Achievement MARSTAry - Series 2

HOW understanding and improving your business processes and innovating enhances your Goal Setting and Achievement MARSTAry - Series 2

Today, Heather chats with Lucia Desperati about processes!!

Lucia is a problem solver who combines creativity, tech and problem-solving to help businesses and people find solutions and innovation.

This episode will enable you to look at why it is so important to have effective processes in your business that ultimately enable you to set and achieve bolder goals as you have the right stuff in placeto work towards YOUR version of success!


Feb 29, 202443:48
 HOW bringing looking at your WHY from a very innovative perspective enhances your Goal Setting and Achievement MARSTAry - Series 2

HOW bringing looking at your WHY from a very innovative perspective enhances your Goal Setting and Achievement MARSTAry - Series 2

Today, Heather chats with Eduardo Beltran about your WHY – but not as we know it. 

Eduardo is an Internet Marketer, a TEDx Speaker & an entrepreneur and an expert in creating a dynamic digital nomad lifestyle!

This episode will enable you to look at your WHY through a new lens using his ION acronym – and we also talk about steps to take if you’re keen to be a digital nomad in the future!

Feb 26, 202440:30
HOW bringing fun, laughter and play into every day enhances your life and your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

HOW bringing fun, laughter and play into every day enhances your life and your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

Today, Heather chats with Em Stroud about Clowning, laughter, fun and more!

Em is the Spark of Laugh. Think. Play. Em is a Clown, a Speaker, an Author, a Podcast Host and a Corporate Clown Coach….. Em also has an alter ego, Barbara, who podbombs the podcast – perhaps more later…..

This episode will make you laugh and think and will remind you how to play!!! And as an aside, Em and I bonded in our first chat over the love of the word yummy and we had a conversation about zebras!

Feb 12, 202443:28
How aligning your brand, your values and your strengths, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

How aligning your brand, your values and your strengths, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

Today, Heather chats with Rebecca (Becs) Duffy about brand and identity – both personal and business!!  As both a copywriter and coach, Becs is passionate about helping others realise their dreams and potential, whether that's through strengths coaching or through her editing and publications business.  She talks us through how to use brand to create the invitation to look further and for us to stand out in crowded marketplaces. 

We also look at the book The Hero and the Outlaw to understand brand identity too! Here is a link to the pic of the archetypes that we reference….. https://images.app.goo.gl/ujQiXytp5vw73hUx7


Feb 09, 202439:34
 Understand HOW to cope and adjust when we get derailed to enhance your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

Understand HOW to cope and adjust when we get derailed to enhance your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

In today's MARSTA Goals™ session, Heather chats with Liz Smith – she works with leaders who strive to make their mark and leave a legacy to be proud of - those leaders who want to enhance their lives and have the courage to be liked! We talk about what happens when we get derailed from the actions that we feel we need to be taking to achieve our goals…. And how we can cope and adjust when this happens!

Feb 05, 202441:20
HOW we communicate and say what we mean as an impact on your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

HOW we communicate and say what we mean as an impact on your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

In today's MARSTA Goals™ session, Heather chats with Klementyna de Sternberg Stojalowska – Klem is an experienced Copywriter, Author, Content Writer and Brand Voice Guardian - we'll be exploring how you can get under the skin of your messaging that will enable you to be correctly use your marketing energy and grab the right attention and engage effectively, which enables you to do the RIGHT activities to achieve your expanded and more yummy goals.....

DM me for the downloads mentioned at the end!


Feb 02, 202435:34
How do we communicate our needs when we are non- neurotypical entrepreneurs, enabling us to enhance our Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

How do we communicate our needs when we are non- neurotypical entrepreneurs, enabling us to enhance our Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

In today's MARSTA Goals™ session, Heather chats with Alice Reeves who is a branding & marketing genius for bold businsses and the proud co-founder of Joyfully Different - THE learning and community hub for neurodivergent entrepreneurs. Tune in to this episode to find out about neurodivergence and entrepreneurship. We chat about productivity, communications and all other things about setting and achieving the right goals and working the way that works for WHO we are….

Jan 29, 202440:27
How to be resilient and Dream BIG, start small, NEVER GIVE UP, to enhance your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

How to be resilient and Dream BIG, start small, NEVER GIVE UP, to enhance your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

In today's MARSTA Goals™ session, Heather chats with Jess Roper, 2 times English Kick Boxing Champion. Now retired from the sport  and building a great profile as a motivational speaker, Jess she has worked in 92 schools, with over 20,000 students to inspire future champions, and the resilient leaders that the world needs. 

Tune in to this episode to find out about setting the right goals and how to we work with our mindset and dreams to achieve your vision of success!

Let’s set great goals, achieve them and repeat the process when we Dream BIG, start small, NEVER GIVE UP!

Jan 26, 202435:57
How nailing your Niche, with Clarity, Confidence and Credibility, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

How nailing your Niche, with Clarity, Confidence and Credibility, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

In today's MARSTA Goals™ session, Heather chats with Sanae Floyd – the coach who helps coaches position themselves and to nail  their Niche, with Clarity, Confidence and Credibility in order to attract dream clients with more ease.

Regardless of size of your business, whether you’re selling high-ticket or more generalised services, you're building a business that delivers a transformation and the better you can express that to the right potential audience, the bolder are the goals that you can set and achieve!

This is a fascinating insight into working out what we do for whom!

Jan 22, 202434:23
How building a great team (internal or outsourced) and culture, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

How building a great team (internal or outsourced) and culture, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

In today's MARSTA Goals™ session, Heather chats with Andrew Moseley, General Manager of The Grand, Brighton – a simple title for a very complex job! 

Andrew leads an incredible team, who he puts first - before his clients and delivery! An innovative and dynamic approach that delivers an great culture and award winning success.

Regardless of the size of your business, you're building a culture and the better your team and it's dynamic, the bolder are the goals that you can set and achieve!

This is a fascinating insight into a very different way of inspiring yourself and those around you to put team and inspirational goals at the heart of your business!

Jan 19, 202447:15
How being confident and knowing your story and your why, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

How being confident and knowing your story and your why, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

Today, Heather chats with Claire Rees - known for her appearance on Kevin McLoud's show some years ago - she now shines as a Welshwoman in Sweden as a tourism wizard and an activity provider (they have an awesome dog sledding business) as well as an expert in lifestyle investment and coaching and being a serial networker.... she is also my accountability buddy and good friend and having lived off grid in the Swedish winter, knows all there is to know about confidence!

Jan 15, 202437:43
How knowing if you really should write that book, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2
Jan 12, 202441:36
How having an understanding of the impact of neurodiversity on productivity, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

How having an understanding of the impact of neurodiversity on productivity, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

In this episode, I chat with Joseph K Muscat, a Neurodivergent advocate in the workplace. We talk about and how when it comes to being effective entrepreneurs, its super important knowing HOW our place on the nerodiverse/neuropypical spectrum will have an impact on how we’ll achieve the goals (productivity & leadership) and realise that it is an important contributor to the goals that we set!... We also look into the seriously positive contribution that our own and our team members' non neuro typical traits can make to our businesses and the goals that we set

Jan 08, 202443:11
How having a great marketing & sales processes in place, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

How having a great marketing & sales processes in place, enhances your Goal MARSTAry - Series 2

In this episode, I chat with Rob Dicks about his deep knowledge of funnels, CRM systems and processes and how he works with businesses to streamline and automate their sales and marketing processes to make it easy to attract, track and manage customers. In refining these processes for ourselves and having confidence in the steps that move customers through the customer journey, we can enhance our goal MARSTAry skills as it enables us to take more action to achieve more and be on a more effective and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey


Jan 03, 202449:56
How understanding how letting go of your fears and the expectations of others, enhances your Goal Mastery - Series 2

How understanding how letting go of your fears and the expectations of others, enhances your Goal Mastery - Series 2

In this episode, I chat with Andrea Smith about her story and the fears and cultural expectations have shaped her life and also how self awareness and growth have enabled her to move beyond her fears and encourage others to do the same and how we can all use these shifts to enhance our goal setting and achievement skills and enable us to proceed on a more effective and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey

Sep 04, 202329:04
How understanding the difference between covert and overt goals, enhances your Goal Mastery - Series 2

How understanding the difference between covert and overt goals, enhances your Goal Mastery - Series 2

In this episode, I chat with Janet about her insights into the obvious overt goals that we’re setting and the underlying covert goals that might be helping or hindering achievement of the objectives that we’re setting to enable us to proceed on a more effective and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey

Aug 31, 202332:45
How understanding your capacity and resources, enhances your Goal Mastery - Series 2

How understanding your capacity and resources, enhances your Goal Mastery - Series 2

In this episode, I chat with Ian Grieg about his insights into how we need to be aware of our resources and how to build our capacity in the modern business era.  This enhances our goal setting and achievement skills to enable us to proceed on a more effective and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey

Aug 10, 202340:37
How understanding your WHY (and what that is), enhances your Goal Mastery - Series 2

How understanding your WHY (and what that is), enhances your Goal Mastery - Series 2

In this episode, I chat with Dr Chris about his insights into the history of our WHY (it didn't all start with Simon Sinek!) and how historically it's driven us. We also explore how knowing your why in the modern business era can enhance our goal setting and achievement skills and enable us to proceed on a more effective and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey


Aug 01, 202328:36
How becoming a Habit Master, enhances your Goal Mastery - Series 2

How becoming a Habit Master, enhances your Goal Mastery - Series 2

In this episode, I chat with Tom Godfrey about his 5 minute planking journey and how we need to become habit masters - by both developing new habits and releasing old ones , in order that we can set better goals and proceed on a more effective and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey

Jul 27, 202337:07
How acknowledging & reflecting on where we are, enhances Goal Mastery - J.E.D.I. Series 2

How acknowledging & reflecting on where we are, enhances Goal Mastery - J.E.D.I. Series 2

In this episode, I chat with Laura Toop about how we need to acknowledge where we are through reflection and more, in order that we can set better goals and proceed on a more effective and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey

Jul 19, 202328:24
How Knowing Your Strengths enhances Goal Mastery - J.E.D.I. Series 1

How Knowing Your Strengths enhances Goal Mastery - J.E.D.I. Series 1

In this episode, I interview Margaret Barrie on how understanding your innate talents and strenghts (and how this differs to your skills!) can enhance your ability to set better goals and get to grips with the cocktail of actions required to achieve them!

Jul 13, 202324:53
We thrive when we disrupt and find our own entrepreneurial way!
Nov 14, 202223:04
Is a membership model the best way to grow my biz??
Oct 12, 202226:55
Trusted Time Management Traits - Be super productive and a more effective entrepreneur!
Sep 08, 202226:00
Confidence and Courage in the Swedish Wilderness

Confidence and Courage in the Swedish Wilderness

This podcast was inspired by Fika - conversations over coffee in Sweden - and whilst in Sweden recently, I got to interview the fabulous Claire Rees (contact details are below) and hear all about her amazing journey and how that inspires her work both on her own businesses and how she works with clients..... and in case you recognise the story, you may have seen her on that Kevin McCloud series on Channel 4 a number of years ago!!!

We sit outside and talk about taking risks, the challenge of comfort zones, our own confidence and about her amazing journey!

The sound is a little muffled at times as we recorded it (randomly) beside a lake!

Listen and be inspired!

PLEASE connect with Claire here....

https://www.facebook.com/welshsweden

https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairerees




Aug 26, 202225:13
Laughter and the Business of Laughter!!
May 14, 202125:22
Lisa Moore is Fit for Moore!
May 08, 202127:35
In Conversation with Claire Johnson - Be the best version of yourself!
Mar 29, 202124:19
Creating A Business that Sustains You Financially & Emotionally!

Creating A Business that Sustains You Financially & Emotionally!

Heather Barrie welcomes Claire Byrne to share Fika - in today's conversation from the cafe we talk about coaching, goals, how to correct your path to the path that builds your business and excites you and your team.

Claire is a chartered accountant, with more than 20 years’ experience in fast paced, growing businesses with a wealth of experience in many business areas including people management, goal setting and strategy, systems and processes, accounting, payroll, coaching and negotiating  - experience which she can apply to your business. 

Claire combines coaching and consulting so provide whatever it takes to make the changes your business needs to be the best it can be and loves to find problems and solve them to enable businesses and their owners to THRIVE.

Get in touch to find out more by connecting with Claire on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-byrne/

Mar 19, 202122:43
Disrupting the Recruitment Space and Women in Tech!!

Disrupting the Recruitment Space and Women in Tech!!

Today I share Fika with Janine Miles CEO and Founder of Quengi.  Please bear with slight sound issues......

Quengi - (misspelt in the podcast!) is the first human supported chat assistant for the recruitment Industry. It is set to shake up and radically change the recruitment sector forever, bringing it bang up to date with other industries that have already benefited from AI based Digital transformation.

Is a virtual chat assistant on steroids, which meets the candidates needs for communication and a personal touch during the recruitment process. While also streamlining  the recruiters processes freeing their time to focus on value adding activities, such as client relationships & business development

Quengi was formed by 3 women  in 2020 who want to make a difference to people's lives through disruptive innovation. They have a combined experience of 50+ years in STEM & technology.

Feb 18, 202122:23
Confidence and Burnout
Feb 16, 202130:26
Trusting your Heart and Finding your Confidence
Dec 07, 202023:36
SMART Happiness and being positive in a crisis!

SMART Happiness and being positive in a crisis!

Today, I'm in conversation over a cuppa with Mike Armstrong - serial networker and the all round positive guy in the shades from Wales!  We talk about his great SMART philosophy for Happiness in life and business....

Dec 05, 202023:03
How to be an Entrepreneurial Rebel

How to be an Entrepreneurial Rebel

Today, I share Fika with Cordelia Kate, founder of The Rebellious Business Network... we talk big plans for 2021, why we need to rebel and also, we discuss custard!  Join us for another random and inspiring chat and learn about how you can be rebellious and have it ALL!

If you want to get in touch with Cordelia - this is where she hangs out!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/rebellious.business.network


Dec 01, 202025:33
Time to Press Reset

Time to Press Reset

Over Fika today, I chat with Louise Power - diversity and inclusion consultant, social entrepreneur and radio show host - we talk opportunities, diversity of thought, how isolation is isolating us from the diverse input of everyday life.....

Please connect with Louise on LinkedIn... https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisepower100/

Nov 13, 202022:38
The Accidental Educationpreneur!
Nov 13, 202023:55
Positive self talk and how to contribute positively to the world.....

Positive self talk and how to contribute positively to the world.....

The AEIOU of how we engage with ourselves and others....  An inspiring and random conversation with Author, Trainer, Coach, Videographer, Lex McKee...

Here's more about my fab guest Lex.......
I don't have any customers any more - I have colleagues - collaborators in a noble quest to make a difference. This is expressed through B1G1.com - where every service or product sold triggers a positive impact around the world. My 2020 Vision is to pay forward 50% of the profits of my business - business for good.

Author: "The Accelerated Trainer."
Trainer: I train trainers AND teams. Trainers are mentored to create an asset-rich business; teams are trained to boost productivity and how to deliver a positively memorable customer experience.
Broadcasting: I'm a YouTuber and Podcaster all on themes that make you enjoy more abundance in life.

You can make a difference... would you like to chat about this?
07990015489

Nov 02, 202022:51
Becoming a Digital Nomad

Becoming a Digital Nomad

Today, I share Fika with Emily Milsom who shares her positive tales of being a digital nomad and gives you some great ideas on how to carve out time for yourself to enable you to thrive!

"Emily is a connector, writer & entrepreneur, who is launching an Inner Wellness Community around self-learning. She lives as a digital nomad exploring the world & is writing a young adult novel, called 'Deikos'. Emily loves to spend her time staring at the ocean & often sings out loud randomly."

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/emilythejoyfulnomad/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eammilsom/

Oct 23, 202020:22