Hosted by Dr Brenda Hector MBA, this podcast provides relatable and accessible advice and inspiration from successful business women who have been there and done it before you. This podcast is where you can • hear their stories • share their successes • learn their challenges and how they overcame them • receive the advice they have for businesswomen aspiring to success • find out what they think needs to change • discover how we can bring about that business revolution Only 1 in 3 UK entrep ...
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Overcoming gender barriers in the automotive industry
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Elaine Arthur of QA Vehicle Solutions in a conversation with Brenda Hector shares her experiences and insights on overcoming gender barriers in the automotive industry, creating a supportive work environment, and networking for business success. Elaine discussed her personal journey, the importance of treating staff like family, and emphasized the …
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Instilling an entrepreneurial mindset at a young age
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Brenda Hector and Denise Pitot of The ActionCOACH Foundation discuss the importance of instilling an entrepreneurial mindset in young people and nurturing their business ownership skills. They emphasize the need for access to childcare, funding, and visibility for female entrepreneurs, as well as the value of ActionCOACHes in helping owners become …
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Worry less and trust yourself, everything will work out with Maya Vertigans
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"If this won't matter in 5 years, don't spend long on it now" great advice from the founder of Planner Bee VA Services Maya Vertigans always knew that her fate was to be a business owner so she started straight out of university. In this episode, she talks to Brenda Hector of ActionCOACH about her journey and shares the message she would give to he…
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Keeping it in the family with The Property Girls
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Caitlin Mackenzie and Jenny Soutar are serial entrepreneurs, sisters-in-law and 'The Property Girls'. Jenny describes herself as accidentally a business owner but as they tell their story it's clear that she has found her purpose. The Property Girls provide a comprehensive holiday let management service within 25 minutes of travel from Blairgowrie,…
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Using the soft approach to improve hard environments with Karin Ovari
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Karin Ovari of Safety Collaborations explains how culture, communication and leadership can save money and lives in dangerous environments.Bởi Brenda Hector
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There are only so many hours in a week. Scaling up with Ronnie Krupa
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Ronnie Krupa is a tutor supporting pupils and students in various subjects through school, college and university. Realising that her time is finite, she has launched Walron Ltd, a tutoring agency to scale the service. Ronnie shares her learnings, challenges and goals for the future with Brenda Hector.…
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How to grow a tight-knit, high-performing team with Laura Mearns
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Laura Mearns of Northwood North East chats with Brenda Hector about her journey as a business owner, growing her tight-knit high-performing team and the juggle of business and personal life. Her biggest tip for making it work...rest and recuperate when you need to.Bởi Brenda Hector
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How to balance self-employment and family life with Rachel Fyfe of Tartan Competitions
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Rachel Fyfe of Tartan Competitions shares her entrepreneurship journey with Brenda Hector. Being self-employed has enabled Rachel and her husband to achieve a work-family-life balance. Bởi Brenda Hector
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Go be amazing you talented human! with Lorraine Malcolm of House of Hair Aberdeen
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"Go be amazing you talented human!" is the mantra for success and personal growth at House of Hair in Aberdeen. Founder and Creative Director Lorraine Malcolm shares her story, her passion for making her customers feel good and her team feel empowered comes across loud and clear in this interview with Brenda Hector of ActionCOACH. Its not been a sm…
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The importance of supportive womens networks with Karen Smith of BWC Aberdeen
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Karen Smith of BWC Aberdeen is in the spotlight with Brenda Hector. Karen shares her career journey from unqualified office junior to senior executive, director and shareholder, and solopreneur. A skilled communicator, salesperson and coach, Karen shares her advice for creating a high-performing sales team. 'People buy from people' and the best sal…
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Make Your Customers Your Biggest Supporters with Catherine Shearer
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If you love cycling or mountain biking in some of the most remote and untouched wildernesses on the planet but, you're in need of an experienced guide, then Catherine Shearer, CEO at H+I Adventures can help you top that adventure! Now "15 years deep" into a prosperous business, she and her husband continue to craft life-affirming MTB and E-MTB adve…
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Live For Today Plan For Tomorrow With Dineo Ledwaba-Chapman
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Join me as I sit down with Dineo Ledwaba-Chapman. She is an advocate for women’s wealth and financial well-being. As a specialist financial planner, she helps professional and entrepreneurial women Live For Today and Plan For Tomorrow.Bởi Brenda Hector
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Your business will only grow if you do with Gillian Fowler of Usana Mindset
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Transformational life coach Gillian Fowler shares her inspiring story of overcoming serious injury and becoming a business owner. Find out about the collaboration between Gillian and Brenda, and join the 6-week Programme: HEREBởi Brenda Hector
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Discrimination in the workplace with Danae Shell
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Today we have Danae Shell the Co-founder and CEO of Valla with us on Scale Her Up. Danae shares her business story and we talk about getting investors or grants for your business. She will also talk about discrimination in the workplace and what you should be doing as an employer, as well as what to do when looking for new people to join your busin…
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Helping your business with Maggie Gorman
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This week I have Maggie Gorman the Business Support and Development Director at Ceteris (Scotland) Ltd with me on Scale Her Up. Maggie has an abundant history in business and is here to share her story. She shares some advice for starting and growing your business, tips to deal with a fluctuating economy and what you might do when selling your busi…
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Supporting women in business with Andrew Wright
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This week on Scale Her Up I have Andrew Wright, The CEO and co-founder of SmartPA. He talks about his story and Empowering women. In its time, SmartPA has provided free training to over 30,000 women that didn't have access to any. So come join us and see what you can do to help build up the numbers of women in business.…
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Equality in the Workplace with Jago Brown
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This week on Scale Her Up I have Jago Brown from Lead5050 and Equality Starts at Home with me on the podcast. Jago talks about his personal life, and what we can do to help bring about equality in the workplace. We will also talk about flexible working and how you can manage a busy schedule with your home life. Jago's links: https://www.lead5050.co…
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Work Life Balance in your business with Catherine, Laura and Catherine
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This week on Scale Her Up we have 3 guests. Catherine McManus, Catherine Livingstone and Laura Smith from Wylie & Bisset LLP are with me to talk about their experiences as women in the workplace. As well as this we will also discuss work-life balance in your business, motherhood while working, and communicating with clients.…
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This Week is a First for the Scale Her Up Podcast, we have a male guest! Brad Walsh Is the creator and host of the Empowerography Podcast. Empowerography is a platform that enables women to share their stories and successes with the world. So, this week Brad talks about his journey, his platform, and we discuss what we can all do to help women in a…
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Marketing yourself through videos with Diana Muzzall
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This week I have Diana Muzzall from Jotolio Photography and Video Marketing Confidence. She talks about her experience of running her business for 22 years and what she has learnt along the way. She also shares some tips of what you can do to help you with making and marketing your videos, as well as some of the things you can expect to see when st…
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Bridging the enterprise gap with Gillian Martin
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This week I have Gillian Martin, an MSP for Aberdeenshire East in the SNP. She is the founder of the Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire branches of Women for Independence and is on the podcast today to talk about the enterprise gap in Scotland and the UK, her experience in running a business and what we can do to help bring change to the current gender gap in …
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Crafting Culture for your business with Nicola Davidson
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This week on the Scale Her Up podcast I have Nicola Davidson from Optimul and The Success Formula Academy. We talk about Creating a good work culture for your business and employees, dealing with burnout and about her newly launching Business The Success Formula Academy.Bởi Brenda Hector
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Tackling Business as a team with Laura Friedl-Hirst
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This week on Scale Her Up I have Laura Friedl-Hirst, Managing Director and Principal Consultant at LFH Regulatory Limited. We talk about her journey as a business-woman, the importance of her team to her business and some tips for people looking to start and grow their businesses.Bởi Brenda Hector
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Building towards an independent business with Claire Middlebrook
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This week on Scale Her Up I have Claire Middlebrook of Middlebrooks Business Recovery & Advice. We chat about managing a team, the flexibility of working on your own business and selling businesses.Bởi Brenda Hector
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Confidence Talking to Customers with Wendy Harris
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Wendy Harris from Making Conversations Count LTD is with me this week on the podcast. We talk about conversing with customers, and telemarketing, as well as her story of becoming an entrepreneur, and how she balances running her business and living her life. Making Conversations Count: wagassociates.com…
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Publishing your business with Adriana Alvarez
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This week Adriana Alvarez joins me on the podcast. Adriana is the CEO and Founder of AMA Publishing where she teaches women how to start highly profitable publishing companies. Her goal is to create 10,000 female owned publishing companies by 2027. She talks about how she got round to stating her business, personal challenges she dealt with and how…
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Abi Clark is here from MISS - Miscarriage Support to share her story of starting and running a non-profit organization. She talks about some of her struggles along the way, learning to delegate more in her team and plans for the future. Abi's Social https://www.linkedin.com/in/abi-clarke/ MISS - Miscarriage Support https://miss-support.org.uk/…
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The microphones are turned, Wendy Harris interviews our host Brenda Hector
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To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of The Scale Her up Podcast, our host Brenda Hector has the microphones turned on her this week as Wendy Harris from ‘Making Conversations Count’ podcast asks her about the route to entrepreneurship and Business coaching. Brenda opens up about her biggest business challenge which is her personal battle through pe…
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Finding your voice in business with Anne-Lise Kadri
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This week I am joined by Anne-Lise Kadri, a woman who switched her career to her hobby after working as a teacher for over 20 years. She Talks about how her experience as a teacher has helped her to coach other voice actors and use timetabling to manage her work week, as well as what you can do making the switch and how others could benefit .…
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Hypnotic Healing with Rebecca Wiener McGregor
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This week I am joined by Rebecca Wiener McGregor, a consulting hypnotist certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists. She talks about how practices such as meditation and mindfulness can free you from your woes in your entrepreneurial journey. Join me this episode for some inspirational and eye-opening tips and insights to help you on your journe…
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The importance of personal finance in your business with Kaitlyn Carlson
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Kaitlyn Carlson, the founder and CEO of Theory Planning Partners, is with Brenda this week to chat about her journey as a Financial Advisor and entrepreneur. She shares some tips for your running your business as well as the benefits of having a financial plan.Bởi Brenda Hector
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Why Personal Health is important for business success with Dr Monika Gostic
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This week I have Monica Gostic, an award winning nutrition coach and scientist in to talk about how building your personal health can help with managing your business. Links : www.monikagostic.com www.instagram.com/healthnfitness_coach/ www.facebook.com/DrMonikaGosticBởi Brenda Hector
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Building Businesses with Ciara Stockeland
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Ciara Stockeland talks about how she has built businesses throughout her life and tips for what you can do when building your business to help you become a successful entrepreneur. Links: www.ciarastockeland.com www.theboutiqueworkshop.com www.linkedin.com/in/cstockeland Instagram: @cstockeland @joinboutiqueworkshop…
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The importance of your Personal brand with Lisa Clunie
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Lisa Clunie of Thrive Studios talks about her journey as a businesswoman and why your personal brand is important to your business.Bởi Brenda Hector
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Its a family affair with Sarah Harley of Margaret Duffus leasing
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Sarah Harley discusses her journey as a businesswoman, taking over from her mother and working alongside her husband. As a lettings agent in Aberdeen, through global economic crises, oil price crashes and a pandemic, she certainly knows that "success through hard times is very satisfying"Bởi Brenda Hector
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Networking your way to becoming an award winning businesswoman with Hannah Lloyd
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Hannah Lloyd shares her top tips to becoming the most connected person in the area, and being a finalist in the Association of Scottish Businesswomen Awards (Spoiler: she only went and won it!!)Bởi Brenda Hector
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Using the Law of Attraction to become Wildly Wealthy with Sandy Forster
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Australian single Mum and entrepreneur Sandy Forster shares her journey to becoming wildly wealthy. You can connect with Sandy using her social media links below Facebook Page: Https://www.facebook.com/Sandylforster/ Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/LawofattractionprosperitysecretsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sandylforster/ Ab…
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Using the Profit First system to grow your business with Susan Crichton
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Susan Crichton from SJC+0 is an accountant with novel perspective. In this interview she shares her journey as a businesswoman as well as how the book Profit First by Mike Michalowicz and becoming a Profit First Practitioner has transformed her business and those of her clients.Bởi Brenda Hector
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Winning business on LinkedIn with Stacy Edghill
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Stacy Edghill of Hibiscus Media and Events shares her top tips for using LinkedIn in business. Stacy gives some of her best advice from the highly successful LinkedWin training coursesBởi Brenda Hector
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Becoming a female tech founder and supporting other businesswomen with Kate Stott
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Kate Stott of Beauty Booker, Female Tech Founder, Scottish Businesswoman of the Year 2019, Beauty Entrepreneur of the Year 2019. Founder of Most Innovative Hair & Beauty App -UK 2020 shares her experiences of building her tech business and supporting other business women in the beauty industry through challenging times…
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Decluttering your home and business with Rosie Barron The Tidy Coo
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Rosie Barron is a professional organiser and declutterer who homeschools her 4 children, looks after her 8 horses and runs her own business. In this episode we discuss the challenges of women in business and the synergies and similarities between coaching and decluttering.Bởi Brenda Hector
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The journey from Ladette to £Million plus business owner with Judith Thorpe of Thorpe Molloy McCulloch
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Judith shares her journey from the heady days of girl power in the 90s to juggling motherhood and running her own £multi-million businessBởi Brenda Hector
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Make yourself a little bit famous with Penny Haslam
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Former BBC TV Presenter Penny Haslam shares the business benefits of raising your profile and great tips on how to do itBởi Brenda Hector
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Transitioning the family business with Claire Forbes of Response Consultants
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Claire shares what it was like working with her father and how she took over the business reinsBởi Brenda Hector
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Business growth in Biotechnology with Dr Caroline Barelle of elasmogen
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A fascinating insight into medical research businessBởi Brenda Hector
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How Nicki Young of Mummemojo helps mums and businesses to navigate maternity leave and returning to work
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Nicki Young spotted an opportunity and built her business around it.Bởi Brenda Hector
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Building a multimillion pound tourism enterprise with Freda Newton of Jacobite Cruises
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Freda Newton shares her challenges and successes in the Scottish tourism industryBởi Brenda Hector
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Family Business Success with Hannah Powell
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Hannah Powell of Perrywood Garden Centre and Nurseries Ltd shares her experience of owning and running a business with her parents and siblings.Bởi Brenda Hector
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Age is not a barrier to business with Rosee Elliott The Image Whisperer
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Rosee Elliott The image Whisperer shares her journey to entrepreneurship and tips for for confidence and visibility in businessBởi Brenda Hector
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Customer service is the route to business success with Julie Wagstaff of ActionCOACH UK
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Julie Wagstaff shares her journey to top of franchising in the UK and the ultimate accolades in customer satisfactionBởi Brenda Hector
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