When is the best time to get started with your new idea, product, service or business?

It seems that sooner is better than later.

That’s the experience of female tech entrepreneur and SupaPass founder, Juliana Meyer.

Often we find ourselves needing to plan or have all of the right things in the right place before we get started with an idea but that’s, in many cases, the wrong thing to do.

In this short action episode we explore the benefits of getting started on your new idea sooner and before you are ready.

Click here to listen to the full interview with Juliana.

Click here to experience the Inspirational Creatives app on Juliana’s tech.

Juliana Meyer is an award-winning entrepreneur as well as highly qualified and experience musician and engineer.

Today, her small software and technology company, SupaPass, is making big changes in the way that artist, musicians, podcasters and creatives of all kinds connect with their audience and super-fans.

In this episode, we explore Juliana’s fascinating backstory as a musician growing up in South Africa and how her own frustration turned into an opportunity creating a brand and platform that’s been recognised as one of the top 6 most progressive companies in the tech sector.

Juliana’s technology allows anyone to create a subscription based business to connect with their audience and community using a high quality website or app of their own.

Her technology provides an environment for creatives and fans to share their energy and ideas together.

Hear how SupaPass has grown from strength-to-strength having won numerous innovative business awards including Best European and Best UK Startup.

You can experience the Inspirational Creatives podcast using Juliana’s technology here.

Have you ever found yourself working hard in your business, doing your creative work, but not getting the results that you want?

In this short action episode we discuss the importance of being clear on who you serve and why.

Featuring the wisdom of communications expert, Lucy Eckley, from The Leading Story podcast, you’ll hear why identifying who your ideal client is critical to your creative work and business to get the results you are looking for.

In this episode, Build Your Brand Story founder, Lucy Eckley, shares her own journey from corporate career to communications consultant and how she helps people to day to create outstanding brands.

Hear how Lucy helps her clients organise their creative business and brand.

And how you can gain clarity and confidence with your brand and business by starting with your audience.

We discuss why everyone has an interesting story and how Lucy gets to the essence of who people, and their businesses, really are.

Listen to Lucy’s new podcast The Leading Story here.

They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results…

But what if you’re not getting any results at all?

If you’re stuck and struggling to complete a task or project, try this…

In this short action episode, artic explorer, podcast host and executive coach, Sue Stockdale, shares her wisdom helping us to refocus towards completing our goals, aims, projects and ambitions; no matter what it is that’s stopping us.

What Sue teaches us may surprise you…and it’s all to do with a shift in mindset and perspective.

Sue Stockdale is the first British woman to have skied to the magnetic North Pole.

Having been introduced to the world of coaching working with pioneers such as Sir John Whitmore, Sue brings executive coaching and new leadership thinking to charities and nonprofit organisations amongst many; with the aim of addressing some of the greatest humanitarian and environmental challenges of our time.

As well as carrying out a number of pro-bono activities as a coach, co-founder and podcast host for Access to Inspiration, She has a successful corporate career behind her, working with British Gas and also having worked with the United Nations.

More recently, I’ve had the pleasure to work with Sue on a number of projects including the Coaching in The Workplace virtual conference podcast, earlier this year, for the Association for Coaching.

Hear how Sue raised money and qualified to be the first British woman to reach the magnetic North Pole and what her that experience, and her life experience, has taught he so far.

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Which markets and communities are you interested in serving?

What is it you are planning to offer?

And what is it that people need in those communities that they aren’t getting yet?

In today’s short action episode, Paul and Emily, creators of the Parent Guide to GCSE membership community, share their lightbulb moment when they spotted a gap in a market they were already familiar with.

You’ll also hear Neil Foley, from the Business Growth Club, about why it’s important to do a bit of research to find out if the gap that you’ve spotted has a market in it.