Fireside
182 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsShort, explorative chats on topics and questions around creative work and life.
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Abandoning "Value" and Figuring Out Who You Are Online - Blog Post Omnibus
March 01, 2024 07:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBWelcome back to Fireside. Today’s episode is a blog post omnibus, where I share the blog posts that I’ve published the previous month. In this episode, I cover three blog posts written in January and February, talking about some behind-the-scenes from my rebrand, embodying more than what is portrayed online, and the relief of not having to be a leader in my online space. In this episode I talk about: All the figuring out that I’ve done and am still doing about the new Kayte Ferris brand T...
Identifying Unhelpful Patterns In Your Work
February 23, 2024 07:00 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBHello and welcome back to Fireside. Today I’m beginning to share what it’s like to work within my Finish With Confidence programme, and in these episodes I’ll take a deeper dive into some of the things asked by the last cohort, and, of course, my responses. Today we’re covering those unhelpful patterns and cycles you begin to notice within yourself that hold you up, or hold you back. Interrogating the pattern and cycle Observing parts of the cycle neutrally Actively anticipating patter...
How To Find Your Secret Sauce (Or Not)
February 16, 2024 07:00 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBHello and welcome back to Fireside. Today I’m going to be talking about something that has stirred a lot of thinking in me: secret sauce. What I mean by this is the ‘thing’ that makes us successful online, and particularly on that app we can’t help but love-hate: Instagram. The ways in which Instagram has changed, and what it’s meant for ‘growth’ The beauty in the absence of strategy Embracing creation, and showing up, and infectious joy For links and resources discussed in the show, see...
The Big Overwhelming New Thing
February 09, 2024 07:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBHello and welcome back to Fireside. Today is a topic prompts very much a ‘been there, know that’ feeling for me, because if there’s one thing I’ve always done, it start big, new, overwhelming things. Whilst that is part of the fun of it, there are a few ways in which you can approach it to make your redirection easier, and more easily attainable. That’s what I’m talking about in today’s episode. Not underestimating the limiting power of the ‘box’ you’ve put yourself in Mourning your old vi...
Shame And Creative Tools
February 02, 2024 07:00 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBHello and welcome back to Fireside. This is an episode about creativity and also about shame. In it we explore the root of shame around the ways in which we feel creative, and how to perhaps look at it differently. What I talk about in this episode: How you view your creativity Embracing new ways to tap into your creativity Interrogating your shame Carrying on in spite of your shame For links and resources discussed in the show, see the full show notes. Kayte on Instagram Subscribe t...
Getting Curious About How You Feel (About Goals)
January 19, 2024 06:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBHello, and welcome to Season 2 of Fireside. I’m back a little earlier than expected due to a very interesting January-themed question that I received, and it’s all to do with goal setting - or the lack thereof! In this episode I talk why I personally enjoy goal setting, why you may NOT feel the need to set goals (or not in the New Year sense, anyway) and about getting curious about what you actually need and feel. How the goals I’ve set have changed over the years Why I enjoy goal setting ...
Intentions, Goals & Word of the Year 2024
January 02, 2024 06:00 - 10 minutes - 9.25 MBIf 2023 was concluding the last chapter of my life, then 2024 is the turning over into the next one. Almost every aspect of my life is completely different now than it was a year ago, and at this point I have no idea what’s going to happen with all these new plot points and locations nor where the story is going to go. But then, as I was writing that sentence, I remembered: I’m the author. I decide what happens in this next chapter. What I talk about in this episode: What I hope to embody ...
2023 Review: The "Rock Bottom" Year
December 27, 2023 06:00 - 9 minutes - 8.81 MBWhat I talk about in this episode: What hitting a perceived ‘rock bottom’ actually felt like How this year has felt in relation to the future How 2023 has helped me become a person in the world For links and resources discussed in the show, see the full show notes. Kayte on Instagram Subscribe to my newsletter!
Burn Out & Changing Names - Blog Post Omnibus
December 01, 2023 06:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBWelcome back to Fireside. Today’s episode is a blog post omnibus, where I share the blog posts that I’ve published in November. It’s also the last episode of Fireside for this season, and for this year, so now seems as good a time as any to share with you something exciting that you can see in 2024. What I talk about in this episode: How I recognised that I was on the brink of burnout The self reflection processes that helped me recognise that burnout was at the door How to bring yoursel...
Making Time For Sacred Work
November 24, 2023 08:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBWelcome back to Fireside. Today’s episode is about time management but it’s also about the work we want to keep sacred - this means ring fencing your time, and doing what’s necessary to carve out that space in which deep work to happen. What I talk about in this episode: Creating stronger boundaries around deep work What dropping everything teaches people about what they can expect from us Working through discomfort to ring fence your time Introducing themed days to your working process...
Keeping Going When You Don't Have Faith
November 17, 2023 06:00 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBWelcome back to Fireside. In today’s episode I’m talking about trust, faith and keeping going, often when you feel like you don’t believe in what you’re doing. I mention my own ongoing experience with keeping the faith, and what you can do when you’re just not feeling it. What I talk about in this episode: My own experience with keeping the faith Approaching things with curiosity in the face of disbelief Celebrating the small wins Believing that the end point is worth it For links and ...
How To Get Over Resistance
November 10, 2023 06:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBWelcome back to Fireside. In today’s episode, I’m talking about resistance to doing the work: acknowledging the resistance, working out what it’s protecting us from, and what a robust approach to working with it might look like. What I talk about in this episode: Developing a working relationship with your resistance How to recognise your resistance ‘levelling up’ Seeing what our fear is protecting us from Using an experimental approach to do the work For links and resources disc...
Self-Management, Disappointment and Marketing Basics - Blog Post Omnibus
November 03, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBWelcome back to Fireside. Today is a blog omnibus episode, in which I share the blogs I published in October, bringing them freshly to you, or giving you a new perspective on them. In this episode I cover my realisations about self management, the reactions within me that not winning a writing prize provoked, and the marketing basics that I managed to forget for a while. What I talk about in this episode: Learning the hard way about how to manage myself when there was no one to tell me ...
Pivoting - Creating Space Not Solutions
October 27, 2023 05:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBWelcome back to Fireside. Today is another episode about pivoting, and this time we’re covering the messy middle of a pivot. In this episode, I’ll be using experience gained from my own pivots, as well as insights from coaching I’ve received, to advocate for pivoting from a place of security, safety, and abundance, not from a place of panic and desperation. Pivoting can be fun - I promise! What I talk about in this episode: The discomfort of pivoting away from work that no longer aligns ...
How To Share Yourself & Your Thoughts
October 20, 2023 05:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBWelcome back to Fireside. Today I’m talking about…talking! Specifically in the online sense, as inspired by a question I received recently about tackling the ‘imposter syndrome of talking about life, mental health, growth, passions and joys’. In this episode I cover profundity, storytelling, and communicating your truth. What I talk about in this episode: Speaking when you want to be heard online, but don’t know how to say what you want to say Enoughness The pressure to be profound Sett...
Never-Ending To Do Lists
October 13, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBWelcome back to Fireside. Today I’m talking about the never-ending-ness of to-do lists. This includes how I manage my time now, and how to structure what you need to do in a way that means it doesn’t get forgotten (and actually gets done!) What I talk about in this episode: Your expectations of yourself, and whether you’re holding yourself to impossible standards Why your ‘master list’ might be a problem How to manage my own to-do list Creating your own structure around the way in which...
360 Degree Pivot & Day Job Reflections - Blog Post Omnibus
October 06, 2023 05:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBWelcome back to Fireside. Today is a blog post omnibus episode, which means I get to read you the blog posts I published last month. This time, I’m talking about the natural way I’ve pivoted back to where I started, and what I’ve learned from 2 months of my day job. There’s also a reminder about Finish With Confidence, my new accountability container. What I talk about in this episode: How my pivots have ended up coming full circle How working one-to-one has been a natural format to pivot...
Starting, Finishing, Committing
September 29, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBWelcome back to Fireside. Today is an episode in which I explore commitment, starting, finishing and basically getting stuff done! This was prompted by a question I received on procrastinating, and I’m delving into the two answers that should support you in finishing with confidence… What I talk about in this episode: The fear of finishing stopping you from getting started Identifying and rationalising your fear Reframing your procrastination as part of the process The structure spectru...
Starting To Pivot - What Not To Do!
September 22, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBWelcome back to Fireside. In this episode, I’ll be offering my thoughts on pivoting your business, and what I wish I’d done to make shifts within my work easier to navigate. We talk about the feelings you might be having about changing what you do, and when (and how) to start making the change. What I talk about in this episode: What I wish I’d done when I pivoted The timing of a pivot Investigating your doubt around pivoting The purpose of your pivot For links and resources discussed ...
Being Multi-Passionate Renaissance Women
September 15, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBWelcome back to Fireside. Today’s episode is for those who find themselves inspired by, and doing, so many things, they can’t (and don’t want to) pin it down. I talk about why I’m no longer so sold on the idea of niching down, and how to approach your different interests and offerings in a way that makes sense to the way you work, and to your audience. What I talk about in this episode What we mean by renaissance women When to refine things down, and when to embrace the various elements o...
Being Chaos & Art vs Business - Blog Post Omnibus
September 08, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBWelcome back to Fireside. In today’s episode, I’m introducing my new feature: blog omnibuses, where I share with you some of the recent blog posts that I’ve put out into the world. Today I talk about embracing my own magic within my business, what happened when my to do list was blown all the way off course, and seeing what’s possible when it comes to marrying my craft with making money. What I talk about in this episode The different business models that I found myself torn between Doing...
Making A Start
August 31, 2023 05:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBWelcome to the first ever episode of Fireside. I’m so excited to once again be drawing up a chair, getting cosy, and joining you each week at whatever stage of your journey into creative working and living that you find yourself. In today’s episode, I talk a little bit about the journey I’ve taken thus far, the spark and eventual stoking of Fireside and what it aims to be, and how it’s going to flow going forward. This segues nicely onto the topic of starting things, so, I’ll be talking abo...
Grow With Soul Is Becoming Fireside
August 22, 2023 12:12 - 2 minutes - 2.11 MBWhat to expect from this new podcast, Fireside.
The End of Grow With Soul
October 21, 2022 05:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBAs you can tell from the title of this episode, today is the last episode of Grow With Soul. I don’t really know what to say after that. It feels like I need to say everything at once. I know some of you have been listening from the very beginning and some of you have only more recently found the podcast, and I imagine you may have feelings of some description around this news. Today, I thought I’d tell you how and why I came to this decision, show you the thought process, and hopefully leav...
Energetic Working 101
October 14, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBToday I’m doing a quick crash course in energetic working, or working according to your energy levels not in spite of them. I know energy is often a topic that people are interested in, and I’ve spent a lot of time over the last two years getting to know how my physical and mental energy works and changing the way I work, and the entire rhythm of my business, to work alongside those patterns. In this episode I’m talking about how I’m defining energetic working, how to get started with planni...
How I Get Ideas
October 07, 2022 05:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBToday’s episode is all about having ideas. I think we really worry about having ideas - we worry when we’re not having them, and we worry whether they’re “right” when we do get them. Being blocked and in an idea rut is a lonely, scary and frustrating place to be, so today I thought I’d talk to you about how I get ideas - about the kind of mindset I’ve cultivated, and the kind of activities and questions that always help me spark something. What I talk about in this episode: Remaining open ...
"This Is Why" - Experimenting with Human Design, with Annika Roberts
September 30, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBToday’s episode is a deep dive into getting started with Human Design with Annika Roberts. Annika and I met in a group coaching programme with Madison Morrigan, and I was always dumbfounded by her depth of knowledge about human design and how nuanced it made her view of herself and the world. I wanted to get her on to talk about what Human Design is and how to get started with it, as well as how to start using it - but we ended up with much simpler answers than I’d imagined. What we talk ab...
4 (Unexpected) Work Habits To Break
September 23, 2022 05:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBToday’s episode is four pep talks on four of the things that become bad habits in our work. They are all things that I have done, and all things that people I’ve worked with have done too. This isn’t meant in a shame-y way; these are just the grooves we slip into in our work, that even serve us for a time, but which eventually stop us having a happier, calmer work life. I’ll talk about over-committing yourself, sticking to the plan, following the rules and making things mean something. There...
A Beautiful & Replicable Creative Process
September 16, 2022 05:00 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBToday I’m excited to share with you a lot of thoughts I’ve been having about process; about the creative process, about working process, about processes that are beautiful and pleasurable and that work. This thinking came about after an August that didn’t go to plan, so we’ll talk about that, and then get into the nuts and bolts of defining process, describing my own beautiful and replicable process and get into thinking about process as a practice for grounding into a generative life. What...
Taking Enjoyment Seriously with Sasha Glasgow
July 29, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBToday I am catching up with Sasha to talk about our work in life as we enter the summer season. We talk a lot about the difference between having a hobby business and side hustle, and why that’s not a bad thing, taking enjoyment seriously, monetising, freeing up the pressure and finally finally ditching the Instagram rules. We also talk about Sasha’s summer of fun, and the commitment to be here enjoying life. This is the last episode for a couple of weeks as I take a break for August, but we...
Presence, Devotion, Ritual, Effort
July 22, 2022 05:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBOver the last few weeks I’ve been pre-launching The Cabin and writing a lot of content on the blog that really digs into some of the concepts we’ll be immersing in in The Cabin. In the last episode, how to be fulfilled, I super briefly covered the nine pillars, so today I’m sharing the four deep dives from the blog: Presence, Devotion, Ritual and Effort. What I talk about in this episode: Practicing presence How we’d behave if our life was someone we loved Our need for rituals Grounding...
How to Have a Fulfilled Life
July 08, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBClickbait episode title alert! This is not going to be an episode that’s going to tell you an exact formula for feeling fulfilled in the next 3-5 working days - but I think you know me well enough by now to know that wasn’t really going to happen. Rather, today I want to talk about what I’ve learned about fulfilment so far, giving you some jumping off points on your own journey. What I talk about in this episode: - An introduction to The Cabin - What fulfilment looks like - Relaxing into...
Have You Overcorrected?
June 24, 2022 05:00 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBToday I have a topic for you that has been coming up for me over and over again in conversations with friends, with people I work with, and in my own head: overcorrection. We know what it means to overcorrect in a car, but we do it in our decision-making too. We experience something as so painful, so frustrating, so unbearably uncomfortable, that we turn the wheel a full 180 in our efforts to get away from it. And sometimes that works. But often it leads us somewhere we don’t actually want t...
Longing Q&A
June 17, 2022 05:00 - 21 minutes - 30 MBToday is a Q&A episode with questions around longing and curiosity and what to do when things feel impossible. We have questions about getting started when things feel out of reach, openness, the hard in-between, what to do when work is all-consuming and how to stop going after the new and shiny things. What I talk about in this episode: Removing impatience and expectation to open up possibilities Just taking the first step - and then doing the next thing The struggle of the in-between ...
Fear of Failure vs Fear of Regret
June 10, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBIn the last Q&A episode I said something like ‘rather than failure, I’d be more worried about regret’. Quite often, I don’t know I think something until the words are coming out of my mouth, and that is a particular statement that has stayed with me since it tumbled out. I’ve been thinking a lot about using fear of regret as a tool, trickling it into my thinking and planning and prioritising, and today I thought we’d have a deep dive into this - the pros, the cons and whether it actually wor...
I Am Willing, with Sasha Glasgow
June 03, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes - 65.9 MBToday I am back catching up with Sasha in a very juicy, sunny episode. We talk about the fear of judgment around making changes or seeming chaotic and where it even comes from, we talk about coming to an objective place about what it is you really want and where we’re at as we approach the mid point of the year. We also talk a lot about resources, money, energy and how our perception of them is changing, as well as what we’re willing to do. In this episode we talk about: Sasha’s new chapte...
A New Name - The Evolution of my Work Pt. 3
May 27, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MBAnd now we emerge blinking into the new era. We have, over the last two episodes, talked about how Simple & Season started and grew into a business, and then the messy middle of deconstruction where it became less and less like a business. And that leads me to now, where I have a lot of pieces of things and am about to put them into a new shape. What I talk about in this episode: My relationship with control The freedom in saying what I actually do What my business model looks like now ...
The Messy Middle - The Evolution of My Work Pt. 2
May 13, 2022 05:00 - 20 minutes - 27.6 MBThis is part two in this series on the evolution of my work, and last time I told you about my motivations for starting out and the circumstances that pushed me into my first pivots. I left you just as 2020 was about to start, so shall we continue? What I talk about in this episode: The lessons in an unsuccessful launch The struggle of a long breakup, and its effect on work How I came to pivot the business The difference between ‘a business’ and ‘my work’ For links and resources discus...
In the Beginning - The Evolution of My Work Pt.1
May 06, 2022 05:00 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBI am writing this at my desk at home, in the second week of April and outside it is raining like it’s October. By the time you are listening, however, it will be May, and I will be in Lisbon, hopefully walking along sun-dazzled streets in a floaty dress. Although I will be writing on the trip, it now no longer occurs to me to take my podcasting equipment away with me, even though that is something I have definitely done before. So, for the beginning of this new season on the podcast, I’ve pu...
Separating Work From Worth for a Radically Content Life, with Jamie Varon
April 29, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBToday is a special episode with a conversation I’m so excited to bring to you. As you know, as a rule I don’t do interviews on Grow With Soul but I make exceptions for people whose work I find super interesting - and Jamie Varon is one of those people. After decades of never feeling good enough and always wanting to achieve more, Jamie began the process of unlearning so she could approach work and life from a place of peace, joy and radical contentment. Today we talk about her writing proces...
Winter Review and Spring of Devotion with Sasha and Cait
April 01, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBToday is an end of season bonanza with both Sasha and Cait joining me to talk about our winters and how we are going into spring. We talk about rejecting career paths, control, the practising of devotion, fun and lightness, uncertainty, fitting a new shape and the need to buy new clothes. We also share our favourite reads of the last three months. This was such an interesting and thought provoking conversation where we all took away deeper questions we want to ask ourselves, and we hope you ...
Projects & Productivity Q&A
March 18, 2022 06:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBToday is a Q&A episode where I’m answering questions submitted by you on Instagram all about projects and productivity. I’m covering rediscovering drive after burn out, procrastination, time blocking, structure, and overcoming fear to do the thing you want to do. In the survey I did a few weeks ago, many many people said they were struggling with actually doing the thing they really wanted to do - whether that was starting it, keeping it up, or calling it finished. So, I am working on a pra...
Love, Control, and What Do I Want Right Now, with Cait Flanders
March 11, 2022 06:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBToday I’m chatting with Cait from her new home where all the writing was going to happen. We talk about whether the writing is, in fact, happening, and how Cait balances a lightness in her projects with the need for financial security. Mostly, though, we talk about love. Cait wrote a newsletter about embarking on a year of love and so today we talk about our experiences of this as single women - we talk about growth, about control, about friendship, about self-respect and ultimately about ch...
Reflections on a Launch
March 04, 2022 06:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBToday I thought I’d share with you a bit of a review of the Mapping launch - what happened, how it went and my insights and feeling about it in general. I feel like launching is one of those things that can consume us if we let it. We can drown ourselves in all the launching advice there is out there and we can build these huge walls of expectation that we can’t ever scale. Launching so often can feel like a make or break moment in our businesses. So today I wanted to talk about my launch ju...
To Routine or Not To Routine, with Sasha
February 25, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBToday is, shall we say, a low energy episode with Sasha. We were both feeling a little meh about things, and decided to talk our way to why that was. We touch on surrender, the seasons, go into morning and night time routines - and do you need them - big picture vs day to day, and also all the word play around being and having confidence. Life is tiring, so come be tired with us. What we talk about in this episode: Listening to our bodies Having confidence How we feel about morning and ...
How To Manage Energy
February 18, 2022 06:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBEnergy is a fickle thing that is hard to pin down or systematise - we know whether we haven’t or we don’t, but beyond that it is mysterious. Unlike time, which has books after books after podcasts after articles written about it, energy seems to get lumped in with sleep and nutrition and other topics rather than stand alone. But without an understanding of energy, you can’t live and work and play. I’d go so far as to say that energy management is just as crucial as time management. In this...
Flow State, Thriving, and Becoming Yourself with Cait Flanders
February 11, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MBToday I’m catching up with Cait who is now in the same time zone after her transatlantic move. We talked about becoming yourself again after a huge change, having curiosity instead of panics about your work, the connection between thriving and a flow state and whether it’s possible to have one without the other. What we talk about in this episode: - Getting to know yourself as you evolve - Invisible growth - Ways in which we approach our time - Surviving vs thriving and turning to curiosit...
12 Pep Talks About Fulfilment
February 04, 2022 06:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBOver the last three years, in increasing intensity, I have been thinking, writing and living about fulfilment. How does happiness happen? What stops us living true lives, enjoying our lives? And all that thinking and writing and living has converged into Mapping, my new programme which has opened today. Mapping is the the most distilled version of everything I know and have experienced about finding fulfilment, and today I wanted to give you some of that inside information. I will be taking ...
From Survival to Space - Appreciating What It's For with Sasha
January 28, 2022 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBToday I’m back with Sasha for our first update of 2022. Since we last spoke, Sasha has changed jobs, and also had some realisations about how her ability to turn her hand to anything was a way to keep herself small and in survival. We also talk about not overcommitting ourselves, self definition and job titles limiting the scope of our work, as well as new year feelings, bringing the lessons with us, and words of the year. What we talk about in this episode: The power of 'for now' Slow g...
Making Change - Change You Want and Change You Don't
January 21, 2022 06:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBWelcome back to Grow With Soul, and this first episode of 2022. Thank you so much for coming back and listening in and supporting the show. Today I wanted to talk about something that is as fitting in January as it is any other month: change. The only thing we can guarantee is change. Sometimes it happens fast, sometimes it is glacial; sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad, and sometimes it feels bad but is actually good. Sometimes it’s within our control, and other times it is thrust up...