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It’s (not) A Big Thing: A Podcast for Solo Business

Join us as we find ways in our working days to shape and settle into operating as a solo business to be simple enough. Enjoy.

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45 | How clarity can become something we feel in our business thinking.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

45 | How clarity can become something we feel in our business thinking.

So often we’re told and promised clarity as something that is doable and done in business, and yet, for someone like me who needs to feel a feel for it to be real, clarity still felt like just an ideal idea. In this conversation you’ll hear a recounting of feeling clarity come together and how it’s already lighting the way forward. Enjoy.

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44 | How preparing business reports can (actually) grow the way we work in solo business.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

44 | How preparing business reports can (actually) grow the way we work in solo business.

Here you get to see a little way that has a big say each working week. Sharing a small knowing that was backed up by preparing the Monday morning reporting (aka the Weekly Report), which has a real-time influence in the business ways of working while navigating new and unknown tasks (e.g., working through the first campaign experience).

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43 | How ai is forcing the revisit to business models...and why it's good news for solo business.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

43 | How ai is forcing the revisit to business models...and why it's good news for solo business.

So it sounds strange until it doesn’t. Here, in this conversation, we share the connection that’s forcing businesses of all sizes to look at where they play their part in a bigger picture. The best part is that in solo business we don’t have to wait. Instead, we can choose to lean in and learn what we need to learn about ourselves and others to choose how we play our part from here. Enjoy.

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39 | Don't buy from us yet.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

39 | Don't buy from us yet.

It sounds weird and yet it works, as all the best ways work here. This conversation is actually not that weird when you hear the thinking behind it. Here we’re sharing the thinking by asking you not to buy the resources that (actually) resource solo business…yet. Enjoy.

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38 | How having 'thinking structures' supports navigating out of overwhelm.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

38 | How having 'thinking structures' supports navigating out of overwhelm.

Sharing a super normal solo business moment that we’ve prevented from growing into a molehill or mountain to be more doable. This conversation is for when you want an example of how you can work with your own thinking to get in and out of overwhelm and on your way to getting it done. Enjoy.

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35 | There's no buffer in Solo Business, so it's best to do "the work" along the way.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

35 | There's no buffer in Solo Business, so it's best to do "the work" along the way.

Being only ourselves in a Solo Business means we’re without a buffer, and the solo business roles’ lenses are there for us to make sense, not others. So, with no buffer and without blame, we’ve weathered β€œthe work” that needed to be done in the person part of the business, and we’re all the better for it on the other side. Enjoy.

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34 | How Solo Business Roles bring balance to the pressure to perform.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

34 | How Solo Business Roles bring balance to the pressure to perform.

Here you’re welcome to sit in on our start of the week Solo Business roundtable, where we share who’s up to what so that everyone’s aware of what’s happening where. We also open up the fixed footprint to ask an ask for additional resources as needed. Enjoy.

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33 | Introducing an update from all the Solo Business Roles.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

33 | Introducing an update from all the Solo Business Roles.

While we’ve come a long way from our stumbling start in the podcast (aka finding our voice), the podcast still requires more resources than we would like to have as part of our Solo Business design so that we can keep playing our part in resourcing Solo Business β€” so we keep iterating…we’re letting you in our a weekly Solo Business roundtable. Enjoy.

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32 | Why calendar quarters are (actually) working for Solo Business.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

32 | Why calendar quarters are (actually) working for Solo Business.

In this conversation we look through the lens of the Solo Business Director (SBD) to move closer to sharing a little more detail, specifically, the primary focus of the Solo Business Q1 and what we will be releasing to (actually) resource Solo Business.

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31 | Starting the Solo Business year with big (enough) thinking.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

31 | Starting the Solo Business year with big (enough) thinking.

Meeting with our Little Language Matters* Solo Business Owner (SBO) lens, we share a little look at the vibe we’ve been picking up as the calendar clicked over from Jan to Feb. In short, the vibe has a growing sense of knowing where the business is going. Enjoy.

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30 | Two truths and three hopes for (actually) simplifying Solo Business.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

30 | Two truths and three hopes for (actually) simplifying Solo Business.

We’ve continued to define and refine our part to play by contributing value to the space and place of Solo Business. In our brief catchup, we invite you to listen lightly to find the feels for what we know now and how it will echo across everything from here. Enjoy.

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29 | Solo Business Director's End of Year Update
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

29 | Solo Business Director's End of Year Update

In this conversation we share with you parts of a fellow Solo Business that only has you and your Solo Business front of 🧠. Here we share with you a sense of growing knowing of finding one’s feet in Solo Business through really looking at what we have been reporting, we let slip what we really think of the business mindset frame, and we give a little insight into what is coming up in the new year.

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28 | An update during our Solo Business regroup.
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

28 | An update during our Solo Business regroup.

The point, the purpose and promise of this conversation is to be just one example. Yes we mention the resources we are working on to grow the normal norm of Solo Business (actually) feeling resourced and resourceful, but like the words we are using here, it has everything and nothing to do with us.

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27 | Update from the LLM*'s (Solo) Business Director (Lens)
Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters* Kathy Rast, SBO in Little Language Matters*

27 | Update from the LLM*'s (Solo) Business Director (Lens)

We bring forward the idea that Solo Business life has the potential to be more practical and play a bigger part by suggesting it is time to retire that outdated pain pointed out in every service sales page that Solo Business life is lonely.

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