Every Business Counts
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Money and numbers have driven businesses for centuries.This focus is changing.21st Century organisations are focusing on how they can follow their purpose and make and impact and a profit.In this podcast Lyn Man explores how engaging with your business numbers can help you to understand whether the story your organisation is telling, is the story you want the world to hear, and how these numbers can amplify the impact you want to make.It is time for each company to show up in the world as a sustainable organisation and for the drivers of money and numbers to support them to do this. Because every business counts.
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022 How to Build Emotional Intelligence and Resilience
October 28, 2020 14:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBBuilding Emotional Intelligence and Resilience helps us to optimise our performance and health. In times of constant connection, uncertainty and change having the tools and awareness to help us do that will support us in delivering our own vision. In this episode Daksha Patel shares her insights and tips on the benefit of increasing both your emotional intelligence and resilience and how to do so. During the conversation we talk about: · What led Daksha to realise the importance o...
021 Transforming Leadership in Challenging Times
October 21, 2020 15:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBChallenging times require different leaders and Mark Henderson believes businesses now need regenerative leaders to help them adapt to the changing times and regenerate the society and planet we live in. During our conversation Mark and I talked about: · What Mark wished he had known when he founded Ecoliving – as well as what he was glad he did not know. · The changes do needed in business leaders of the future. · What make a sustainable and a regenerative leader. ...
020 The Benefit of Having Difficult Conversations
October 14, 2020 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBDo you avoid difficult conversations hoping they resolve themselves? This week I explore the cost of avoiding difficult conversations, the benefit from having them and how to prepare for them with my guest Nicole Posner. During the conversation we look at: · What is classed as a difficult conversation & why we avoid them. · Where we, as business owners, encounter difficult conversations. · The cost to the business of not having difficult conversations. · The...
019 The hidden cost of how we work
October 08, 2020 14:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBIs how you work a hidden cost to your business? A cost for which there is no monetary exchange, but there is a cost after all due to low productivity, motivation, poor health etc? In this episode I share my experience of overworking and how I came to realise the importance of creating a sustainable business that works for you, your team and the business. · What I see as a hidden cost to business – how we work · My personal journey in work and how it led to the realisatio...
018 Go Beyond the Financials to Move Beyond Green
October 02, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBHow do you move beyond green? As we face a changing environment and look to move towards net Zero businesses are facing challenges. Today my guest Paul Adderley talks about how businesses can create a resilient business by looking beyond the financials. During the conversation we look at: · The inspiration behind Beyond Green. · How optimising resources supports businesses business. · Key ways businesses can optimise resources. · Risks that arise from not ...
017 Getting your Resources to Work for you
September 25, 2020 19:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBAre you optimising your resources and are they moving you towards your purpose? These are 2 things this episode asks you to think about. In doing this it looks at: What are the resources of your business? What is the risk and potential impact of not managing these resources? The opportunities that exists from managing resources and looking at waste - both yours and other businesses. The opportunities of the circular economy. Mentioned in this episode: Jo Salter and Where does it come f...
016 Know Where it Comes From
September 16, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBDo you know where everything that makes up your product or service comes from? Are you aware of the societal and environmental impact? This is something I got to explore with this weeks guest Jo Salter. During the conversation we look at: · What inspired Jo to become involved in founding and consulting for ethical businesses. · How running a business ethically gives customers peace of mind and why transparency and the story being told is an important part of this. · S...
015 Mobilising your Money for Good
September 09, 2020 13:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBAre you giving your money purpose? In this episode I am speaking with Louise Wilson, co-founder and Managing Director of Abundance Investment. During the conversation we look at: · What inspired Louise to create an alternative solution to traditional investment. · How the system of finance supports and protects itself rather what is important to society as a whole, and we need to make fundamental changes to how it works. · What Abundance does to democratise finance; th...
014 Cash Flow Challenges
August 26, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBThere is no one challenge that every business faces as regards cash flow. In this episode Katie Hurst and Sue Jackson share what they see as some cash flow challenges businesses face and provide insights as to how to overcome these. In this episode we look at: · The importance of a strategic plan and building reserves in the business · The difference between profit and cash · The importance of the balance sheet in understanding your businesses financial strength ·...
013 Knowing your Cash
August 19, 2020 13:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBDo you know your cash? Cash is an important resource in both our business and personal lives. It is cash which allows us to buy and sell goods and services. So, knowing the amount of cash we have helps us in making decisions and managing it as a resource. In this episode we look at: · What knowing your cash means · Why we should know our cash · How the knowledge of our cash helps us · What stops you looking at cash · Calculating cash flow and what i...
012 Building Strong Foundations
August 12, 2020 15:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBIn this episode I speak to Alisa Barcan, Financial Coach and Consultant, who helps people rewrite their financial stories. During our conversation we look at: · What inspired Alisa to become a financial coach. · The biggest challenges people face when dealing with money. · How the 4 Cs model can help people become more financially confident. · The importance of both financial and personal resilience for you and your business. · Self Worth and how we need ...
011 The Meaning of Money
August 05, 2020 12:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBWhat does money mean? Money had a physical and an emotional meaning for each of us. It’s physically allows us to buy and sell things, and at the same time there is an emotional element for all of us. In todays episode we explore: · The root of the word money · How money evolved within our societies · The use of money for power and control · That money has become a basic need in the western world · The emotional element of money · How to b...
010 Harmonising the Heart of Sustainable Business
July 29, 2020 13:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBIn this episode I speak to Tabitha Jayne, founder and Lead Coach at EarthSelf, the earth’s leading Nature coaching and mentoring organisation. During our conversation we look at: · What does putting the earth at the core of your business mean? · How the systems and processes that exist within an organisation are a reflection of the humans within the organisation and the importance of psychological safety in organisations. · The fact that wellness is an integrated par...
009 Creating a Giving Culture
July 22, 2020 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBIn this episode I am speaking to Masami Sato, founder of B1G1. During our conversation we look at: · The inspiration behind B1G1 and how travel opens you to different cultures and experiences. · How living in the natural cycle of nature creating abundance is much simpler. · That we can all find a way of giving that works for us and that there is no end to the creativity within business to change the world. · The benefit of creating a giving culture and lesso...
008 The Power of your Impact Story
July 15, 2020 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBIn this episode I am speaking to Kat Luckock – Social Entrepreneur Coach and Impact Strategist. During our conversation we look at: · The importance of having a good impact story and starting with your why when you introduce yourself · What makes a good impact story · The elements that create a good impact story · The benefits of measuring your impact · How you can measure your impact · How money stories can have an impact in your life and bus...
007 Business as a Force for Good
July 08, 2020 16:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode I am speaking to Steve Pipe, accountant, entrepreneur and author. His most recent book is ‘Our Time to Rise’. During our conversation we look at: · Businesses can be a force for good & evidence shows there is no trade-off between impact and profit. · The growing growth of focus on kindness, community and what is important to us during COVID-19 lockdown. · How we are currently at a fork in the road and the route we take – back to the old way of doing thi...
006 Grow with Purpose
July 01, 2020 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.23 MBBusiness can follow a purpose and make a profit. They can do both and grow and thrive. In this episode we explore 2 elements of purpose which help businesses to do that: Its purpose for being and working with purpose. In this episode you will discover How purpose led businesses are growing faster than those which are not. The impact of being purpose led on employees and on customers How you can weave purpose into your business What helps businesses to grow purposefully The import...
005 Can Accountants save the Planet?
June 25, 2020 00:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBIn this episode I am speaking to Jane Gleeson-White, author of Six Capitals. During our conversation we look at; · The issues caused by focusing on short-term profit, · How parts of our business and its ecosystem are currently not valued and how looking at all six capitals can help this. · The impact of traditional corporate structures and how benefit corporations etc. offer an alternative. · How educating children and students on Six Capitals can change how...
004 3 Keys to being a Sustainable Business
June 22, 2020 20:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBWhat does having a sustainable business mean? To me there are three key elements to being a truly sustainable business: It is sustainable for the planet, for those who work within it and it is economically sustainable. In this episode we look at: How a you understand the impact your business is making in the world, both positive and negative. Going beyond our direct impact to look at all our suppliers. How being a home based online business does not mean you are not having a negative imp...
Make friends with money and numbers
June 20, 2020 08:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBThe stories we have heard about money and business can impact how we engage with our business. Our experiences with numbers impacts how we look at, or not, our business numbers. Our mind is powerful and by becoming aware of the stories we are telling ourselves we can start to change them to ones which support us. Listen and see is any stories jump out at you. In this episode we look at: How beliefs and experiences lead to the stories we tell The power of the mind when focused on purpos...
003 Make friends with money and numbers
June 20, 2020 08:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBThe stories we have heard about money and business can impact how we engage with our business. Our experiences with numbers impacts how we look at, or not, our business numbers. Our mind is powerful and by becoming aware of the stories we are telling ourselves we can start to change them to ones which support us. Listen and see is any stories jump out at you. In this episode we look at: How beliefs and experiences lead to the stories we tell The power of the mind when focused on purpos...
000 Every Business Counts Trailer
June 20, 2020 07:00 - 9 minutes - 6.28 MBDiscover what inspired Every Business Counts, what Every Business Counts means and a little bit about Lyn Man, the author.
002 How to know the story your business is telling
June 20, 2020 07:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBDo you understand the story your business is telling? Historically this was understood through it's accounts and these and the information we use have evolved over the years. Now it is time to go beyond the accounts and look at what else tells the story your business it telling the world. In this episode we look at: · Why you have to start with being clear on the story you want to tell. · The importance of measuring what is relevant to your business. · 5 areas...
Every Business Counts Trailer
June 20, 2020 07:00 - 9 minutes - 6.28 MBDiscover what inspired Every Business Counts, what Every Business Counts means and a little bit about Lyn Man, the author.
How to know the story your business is telling
June 20, 2020 07:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBDo you understand the story your business is telling? Historically this was understood through it's accounts and these and the information we use have evolved over the years. Now it is time to go beyond the accounts and look at what else tells the story your business it telling the world. In this episode we look at: · Why you have to start with being clear on the story you want to tell. · The importance of measuring what is relevant to your business. · 5 areas...
001 The power of knowing your business' story
June 18, 2020 09:00 - 14 minutes - 9.67 MBIn this episode I ask the question ‘do you know the story you want your business to tell?’ and explore how knowing this helps you and you business so you can go beyond profit and lead by purpose and impact. During the episode we look at: · What makes up the story you want your business to tell · The importance of knowing its purpose, values, impact and vision · How a clear purpose supported centennial organisations · How knowing the story helps your busi...
The power of knowing your business' story
June 18, 2020 09:00 - 14 minutes - 9.67 MBIn this episode I ask the question ‘do you know the story you want your business to tell?’ and explore how knowing this helps you and you business so you can go beyond profit and lead by purpose and impact. During the episode we look at: · What makes up the story you want your business to tell · The importance of knowing its purpose, values, impact and vision · How a clear purpose supported centennial organisations · How knowing the story helps your busi...