LIVE in Manchester, Sara Tasker and Laura Jane Williams in conversation
04/01/19 • 52 min
Things we talk about in this episode:
- Reading from Hashtag Authentic's introduction
- How I started out on Instagram by seeking beauty in an uncompromising environment
- My previous job, working in speech therapy for the NHSWhy communication is central in everything I do
- Why I believe it's ok to create a 'highlight reel'Why visuals are the best communication tool
- My chronic illness (dysautonomia), and how this impacts on my workWhat my average day looks like
- Spoon theory
- My initial vision in setting up my business, and my career path
- The need for a new wave of honest marketing and business
- Why I don't need a digital detoxHow to start out on Instagram from scratch (audience question)
- Why there will always be an Instagram community for you, no matter what your interest (audience question)
- My future dreams and ambitions (audience question)The importance of not being soley led by what your audience wants
- Who inspires me (audience question)Why going "off piste" in search of inspiration brings the best results
Links mentioned in this episode:
- My book, Hashtag Authentic
- My Instagram (@me_and_orla)
- Laura's Instagram (@laurajaneauthor)
- Our sponsor for the event, Mirabeau wine
- The rosé deliciousness scale
- Laura's writing courses
- POTS
- Spoon theory
- Ira Glass quote - The Gap
- Pet crows and ravens
- Tori Amos
- Ani Difranco
- Elizabeth Day - How to Fail podcast espiode Raven Smith
Get full access to Entre Nous at meandorla.substack.com/subscribe
Things we talk about in this episode:
- Reading from Hashtag Authentic's introduction
- How I started out on Instagram by seeking beauty in an uncompromising environment
- My previous job, working in speech therapy for the NHSWhy communication is central in everything I do
- Why I believe it's ok to create a 'highlight reel'Why visuals are the best communication tool
- My chronic illness (dysautonomia), and how this impacts on my workWhat my average day looks like
- Spoon theory
- My initial vision in setting up my business, and my career path
- The need for a new wave of honest marketing and business
- Why I don't need a digital detoxHow to start out on Instagram from scratch (audience question)
- Why there will always be an Instagram community for you, no matter what your interest (audience question)
- My future dreams and ambitions (audience question)The importance of not being soley led by what your audience wants
- Who inspires me (audience question)Why going "off piste" in search of inspiration brings the best results
Links mentioned in this episode:
- My book, Hashtag Authentic
- My Instagram (@me_and_orla)
- Laura's Instagram (@laurajaneauthor)
- Our sponsor for the event, Mirabeau wine
- The rosé deliciousness scale
- Laura's writing courses
- POTS
- Spoon theory
- Ira Glass quote - The Gap
- Pet crows and ravens
- Tori Amos
- Ani Difranco
- Elizabeth Day - How to Fail podcast espiode Raven Smith
Get full access to Entre Nous at meandorla.substack.com/subscribe
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Essential Wisdom for Working Women, with Otegha Uwagba
Things we talk about in this episode:
- Why Otegha left her career in advertising for freelance life
- Starting a business by following interests and opportunities, instead of by intent
- When your personal brand is your real self, and how this can help weed out inappropriate clients
- Not worrying about being liked by everyone - and not putting everyone else's needs above your own
- Reclaiming words like 'marketing' and 'entrepreneur', and the different ways to build a business that balance personal and commercial imperatives
- The changing metrics of businesses, and the things small business owners are nailing over bigger businesses
- How small businesses and entrepreneurs benefit from being more nimble and agile - an essential skill for the digital world
- How Otegha self-published her first book as a special project, through a Squarespace website, promoting it entirely by herself
- How the book got picked up by a publisher, and the transition from self-published to being represented by a bigger publishing house
- Otegha's upcoming book, a money memoir, and what we all need to talk about money
- Why we're all scared of talking about money, and the shame, guilt and baggage we all secretly carry
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Women Who -"a URL and IRL community for creative working women" (love this tagline!)
- Roxanne Gay - Bad Feminist
- Otegha's book, The Little Black Book: a toolkit for working women
- Otegha's upcoming money memoir, We Need to Talk About Money
- Dear Sugar's podcast episode with Oprah Winfrey
- Something I wrote for Stylist mag about how becoming the breadwinner changed my marriage
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