Nordic Mum Podcast

This episode I have wanted to do for a long while. But I wanted to wait  until my son had finalized his first first year in school here in Australia. In this episode I talk about the differences about schools in Finland and in Australia. I talk about the age kids start, how long are their school weeks, do they get school work, what about teachers? How do you become a teacher in Finland, what is free in the Finnish school system (and there is few things that are ) and what I would hope Finnish schools would take on board from Australia. I know that every country has their cultural beliefs and customs but I wanted to share to those mothers out there who are struggling to understand their local system and those who are just interested to hear how school is done in other countries how my home country Finland have set up the most amazing education system copied and talked around the globe.  I talk about -What age kids start school -Is there any homework for the kids? -What is the concept of Finnish School? -What

Living a healthy happy life is directly linked on the way we are feeling about ourselves and what food we consume. I really wanted to talk to Belinda Byrnes about diet changes on how these can help you feel better. Belinda has background on personal fitness training and she has studied nutrition and naturopathy. She got interested on more holistic approach to health and well being once her skin condition got helped by naturopath.  I was intrigued on why we are not listening our bodies? Why we feel the way we feel after eating certain food groups. Why vegan diet is so popular? What about smoothie bowls are they really as healthy they seem in pictures ?  Belinda was able to myth bust some of these issues and give examples on what you should have on a happy healthy diet. We covered: -Understanding a Vegan diet -Smoothie bowls, are they as good for you as they look like? -What is healthy diet?  -What changes you can do to fuel your energy? Follow Belinda on https://Www.instagram.com/belindabyrnes_nutrition https

When you start your business do you know that its going to be a success? Not necessary as sometimes you just need to try a new thing to see if it works. That is exactly how Roberta Fairbanks started Stylish Kids Pop Up Store back in 2015. This Instagram catalog of decorations and mum and bub wear soon become an Instagram sensation. Roberta grew  @stylishkids_australia  account to over 47 thousand followers making 70K to 180K per month on sales for mompreneurs who were participating the catalog. The Instagram account has since then evolved to a Stylish Magazine  that displays stylish deco, homes and amazing brands and Roberta has big plans for her future in 2019. Roberta and I talked lots about Instagram and how this has fueled her business to the point that she had been able to take a break every year to travel back home Brazil and work remotely from there. In this episode we cover -Instagram strategies to that you can implement in your business -Collaboration and how you can have win/win for your business -C

Do you have an idea of an business? Not sure what direction you want to go? Or too many business ideas and you just don't know how to start your own business? My next guest knows all about setting up your own business. She has done it few times herself and runs a million dollar Business Jump helping mothers to make their dreams reality and setting up their own businesses comfort of her own home. Natasha is mother of two and she started  Business Jump 2015 after she was fired from her corporate job when returning to work from maternity leave. She has been very open and honest with her struggle with Post Natal Depression and how she has burned out by the demands of being a mother and running a successful business. I have been following Natasha and her journey for a while and was excited to have her in my podcast to tell more about her journey. We covered tips on starting your own business  -Keeping things simple when starting -Importance of mindset getting it right before you start -Automation of processes in

Karly Nimmo is the queen of podcasting. She has worked in this industry for over a decade as voice over artist and then as a podcaster. Even prior she worked in radio so holding a mic and talking is second nature to her. We talked about her journey so far, and she shared her best tips about podcasting, her journey with mental health and being a mum. She is passionate advocate for you having your voice and be creative and express yourself through art and her new podcast that is out now in iTunes Make Some Noise is based on the idea that creativity can be used helping people with mental health illnesses. If you are a podcaster starting your journey this episode gives you insight on how Karly has carved a living out of something she loves. Connect with her in instagram.com/karlosophies facebook.com/karlynimmo facebook.com/groups/karlynimmo/ or Speak Up Show Up facebook group for podcasters. You can follow me on NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nordicmumpodcast/ NORDIC MUM FACEBOOK: https://www.fa

When you transfer from one business to another. Talking to Tash Guthrie about her business journey while being a mother of two and teacher and living in the country NSW. She is a work/life harmony strategist for mums in business and the creator of The Time Creator a popular and unique work/life planner for ambitious women. Tash works specifically with ambitious mums to #PlanHardLiveEasy to achieve their big life and biz goals and manage the multi-faceted demands of modern motherhood, without the chaos. She was pregnant with her first child when her water broke while middle of event she had organised and continued working (talking about super women). She describes her normal day to day life and how fitting in her job and business can be draining.  Her interview is full of tips about how to organise your life around kids and work and balance it right. She is looking for the next adventure and you can follow tash on below handles to see what she is up to next. You can find Tash at www.tashguthrie.com.au or on so

   Are you ready for your kids to return to school. The holidays are nearly over and I don't know about you but I am kind of keen for he holidays to be over and normality to commence ! I have decided to be more organised this year with my son and here are six tips on how to make your return to school easy and what you can do differently. The lunch boxes, the meal planing, what and how to make the lunch boxes ready  and those after school activities. My list of things could  be endless but I wanted to share my tops tips that I am determined to change this year. Listen in and let me know what you thought and give us a review in iTunes.  You can follow me on NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/nordicmumpodcast/  NORDIC MUM FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/NordicMumSusanna  NORDIC MUM PINTEREST www.pinterest.com.au/NordicMumPodcast

Moms can code is start up by Erica Peterson where she teaches mothers on how they can code. I was so intrigued when I came across Erica that I had to have her in my podcast to talk about her career, why coding, what obstacles she has had on her career as a woman in very male dominant business. We also talked about the maternity benefits or lack of them in US and how this has fueled her passion to empower women to learn a new skills and start their own businesses. Erica was really honest about her life in male dominant businesses and how she has encountered on first hand on how prejudice men can be on workplace. If you want to learn how to code you can follow Erica on https://www.momscancode.com/ https://twitter.com/momscancodePGH/ https://www.facebook.com/momscancode/ You can follow me on the following social media channels. NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/nordicmumpodcast/ NORDIC MUM FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/NordicMumSusanna NORDIC MUM PINTEREST www.pinterest.com.au/NordicMumPodcast

Have you set goals for your business this year? What are they? Have you shared them? Do you think you have too many? I cover all this and more in my podcast about business goals. I cover SWAT analysis on how you can make sure your business goals are set correctly for the new year. I talk about SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Retainable and Timely) goal setting. I cover SWOT ( Strengthen, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis for you business. Benchmarking yourself against your competitors and doing analysis of your market. Stay tuned to this goal setting exercise that will get you out of the gates correctly for the new year growing your business as you are getting those goals done. You can follow me on the following social media channels. NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/nordicmum/ NORDIC MUM FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/NordicMumSusanna NORDIC MUM PINTEREST www.pinterest.com.au/NordicMumPodcast

Ever thought how nice it would be trying different jobs when you are not really clear on what you want to do? Bec Fisher did exactly that. Bec is a teacher and have been stayed at home mum with the kids when she decided that she wanted to find her passion and what better way than trying out jobs exactly 40 of them, and she did it all on the year she turned 40. I must say that talking to Bec was like chatting to a long lost girlfriend, we talked about home, kids husband and the lot. She was very candid that how the experience had shifted her focus on life and how she hopes to use this experience to find her thing. You can follow her website and https://www.instagram.com/@4040experience and her website is http://4040experience.com.au/ https://www.facebook.com/4040experience To keep up with me you can find me on https://www.facebook.com/nordicmumsusanna https://www.instagram.com/nordicmumpodcast

End of year is a great way to look back of what you have achieved in business and in life. It is also good time to relax and get away from the day to day of running your business. I talk about what you can do to minimize the amount of stress during holidays, having a happy and content Christmas with your love ones. Reducing the amount of toys and presents you get to your kids. Less is more I say. Kids want you and your time for Christmas not another play station game. Christmas can be stressful if you allow it to be, but it can be great time to just chill out and read that book you have wanted to read (Michell Obama Becoming, recommend ) and have a glass of wine and let the year pass. To keep up to date with me head over to: NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/nordicmum/ NORDIC MUM FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/NordicMumSusanna NORDIC MUM PINTEREST www.pinterest.com.au/NordicMumPodcast

Today I have lovely Caroline from Avidiva.com.au joining me talking about motherhood and running your online business from your spre bedroom. We talk the reasons on why she started her online business, her testing the products on her babies, how she carved niche on the sustainable, eco friendly baby market. How she has been growing her business using online, social media platforms. What tips she has for you if you want to start your own business? Caroline have given a code for you to purchase her Teething Survival Kit NORDICMUM for 10% off teething survival kits plus a free retro TV teether. What is her new product Teething Survival Kit and where you can find her. You can follow Caroline on : www.facebook.com/avidivababy www.instagram.com/avidivababy www.avidiva.com.au

My five tips for how you can leverage FREE PR for your brand and it does not need to costs you anything. I get it you are in shoe string budget. But PR does not need to be so hard. You just need to be savy on how to found the right opportunities for your brand and use different platforms and be ready to put yourself out there. I cover 5 top tips on what you can do to get your brand out there. We talk about writing, articles, pitching yourself to jurno, what social media platforms you should be using, how to leverage on your brand message and why. I also talk about collaborations and how you can achieve these and what type of brand collaborations are out there. To stay tunes with Nordic Mum Podcast head over to : NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/nordicmumpodcast/ NORDIC MUM FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/NordicMumSusanna NORDIC MUM PINTEREST www.pinterest.com.au/NordicMumPodcast

Are you tuned into your body and soul? Do you exercise and meditate to keep you zen with the world? I don't but I would like to hence I asked Vesna Hrsto who is a naturopath to come to my podcast and talk about tuning in with your body and mind. We talked about what is naturopathy, her journey and how from young age she knew what she wanted to do - to be a Naturopath. We talk about burning out and what it meant to Vesna, what symptoms you should be looking out for (yes I can put hand out I recognized myself), what you can do to support yourself to avoid burn out and help your self to live happy healthy balanced life. I truly enjoyed this chat with Vesna and the tips she was able to offer which I know you can implement to your life as a mother and entrepreneur. You can follow Vesna in www.vesnahrsto.com/ www.instagram.com/vesnahrsto/ twitter.com/vesnahrsto www.facebook.com/vesnahrstoN.D Follow up Susanna on NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/nordicmumpodcast/ NORDIC MUM FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/NordicMu

Hi am Susanna the Nordic Mum. If you have not yet figured from my funky accent English is not my first language. I wanted to re introduce myself and what I do, why I started this podcast, what to expect from every episode. So stay tuned and listen when I talk about myself (telling bad jokes as well) and how this podcast came about. You can follow me on the following social media channels. NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/nordicmumpodcast/ NORDIC MUM FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/NordicMumSusanna NORDIC MUM PINTEREST www.pinterest.com.au/NordicMumPodcast

Getting organic traffic to your website does not need to be hard. I talked to SEO expert Belinda Irvine about how you can improve your website functionality with few simple tricks and some of these tips you can implement right away. Belinda is experienced SEO and digital marketing expert who works from small businesses to multi national companies. She talks about back links to your website, what is their meaning, what role social media links have, does size of your pictures matter and what you can do about it among some of the tips we cover . I can honestly say that I learned a lots when Belinda did my website audit in my site and I know what there are limitations on what you can do yourself and when to get professional to have a look at it. To engage Belinda for your business visit https://belindairvine.com/ or follow her in Insta https://www.instagram.com/belinda.irvine/ or join her fabulous Facebook Group on https://www.facebook.com/belindairvineshineonlineseo/ To keep up to date with Susanna head over to:

I you dreaming about starting a podcast? Then don't dream anymore but listen the podcast that I have created for you. I talk about my journey with podcasting, why I started and mistakes I have done. This episode will help you if you are wanting to start a podcast, or have just started a podcast. Listen the mistakes I have done and ones that I have corrected ! Some of them are costly and I want you to avoid same ones yourself. To keep up to date with Susanna head over to: NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nordicmumpodcast/ NORDIC MUM FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/NordicMumSusanna NORDIC MUM PINTEREST https://www.pinterest.com.au/NordicMumPodcast

Do you feel overwhelmed? Things to do but not sure where to start? Keep forgetting those important dates? I had the please talking to Caroline Guillemain-Brunne who is owner and creator of Organise.Curate.Design. (OCD) Caroline starter her business from the need to help other struggling mothers and women out there who are overwhelmed with their to do lists. Her life assistant business is interesting concept and we talk about her typical day, what life assistant do where her clients are, how she helps people to arrange their days better using digital platforms in the process. She also gives her insight on what you should keep in mind if you are thinking about starting your own business or if already have your business. You can follow Caroline on https://www.facebook.com/organise.curate.design/ https://www.instagram.com/organise.curate.design/ or pop in to her website www.organisecuratedesign.com To keep up to date with Susanna head over to: NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nordicmumpodcast/ NORD

Anxiety is a common problem and at times we do not even know that we are suffering from it. I talked to Katherine Tate from Worry Warrior about her journey with anxiety, what are the common problems and misconceptions out there about anxiety. We also talked about boundaries as parents and business women we need to have in place to safe guard our mental health. Katherine and I also touched on social media and what effect is has young and old and how with some simple tricks you can protect yourself from burning the candle from both end. If you are finding yourself wondering what you can do to help yourself then pop into Katherine's Facebook group or follow her in Instagram for further strategies on anxiety. https://www.facebook.com/groups/worrywarrior/ https://www.instagram.com/worry_warrior/ https://worrywarrior.net/ To keep up to date with Susanna head over to: NORDIC MUM INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nordicmumpodcast/ NORDIC MUM FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/NordicMumSusanna NORDIC MUM PINTEREST

Do you want to be Financial Grown Up? My guest Bobbi Rebell is. She has written a book about it called How to Be a Financial Grownup: Proven Advice from High Achievers on How to Live Your Dreams and Have Financial Freedom. Bobbi also host Financial Grown Up Podcast, where she gives listeners actionable financial tips for them to integrate these to their lives. Bobbi is also a mother of three and we talk about parenting and running the show and how she ended having a media career and how her book was written based on face to face interviews, emails and phone calls. She recalls interviewing Drew Barrymore who was given advise from Steven Spielberg about finances, interesting ? Very much so! Check out and follow Bobbi in : bobbirebell.com https://twitter.com/bobbirebell https://www.instagram.com/bobbirebell1/ https://www.facebook.com/bobbirebell To purchase Bobbi's book head out to Amazon https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Financial-Grownup-Achievers/dp/1938548663 To keep up to date with Susanna the Nordic Mum head o