Welcome to Community Pod
10:40- Growing your socials with confidence- Hannah
12:20-1:00pm - From Survival to Sustainable Success - Jan Roberts
1:10-1:50pm - Self-Care: Sustaining the Person Behind the Business - Whole Health Pathways
14:00 -14:40 - Live Q&A
14:50-15:30 - Making Peace with Your Social Media - Laura founder of Norfolk Retro
The Q&A returns to Community Corner.
This year our panel is made up of 3 incredible small business owners. Each with their own journey from corporate to becoming an entrepreneur.
This Q&A is perfect for those looking to carve their own path into the world of self employed. For those already running a business but feel:
The struggle of working alone
The desire to do it all
Burn out is inevitable or already there
That focus is elusive and balance impossible
That the to do list runs their life and there’s no escape
Come ask your burning questions in a safe space, where everyone around you feels the same, has been through it or is going through it too.
Live Q&A
Live Q&A NYF 23: Liv Humby
Live Q&A NYF 25: Gabriela Walker, Bobby Harrison, Hayley Southwood and Sarah Groves
Meet the Q&A Panel
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Your Host -Toni Jones
Founder of Shelf Help and Author of You: a beginners guide to self help
Toni Jones is a journalist, author and bibliotherapist who supports wellbeing through words. She’s the founder of the world’s first self-help book club - the Shelf Help Club - and has spent the last 10 years reading, doing and sharing self-help (including reading 1000+ self-help books herself).
She regularly interviews bestselling authors and wellbeing experts including: Marie Kondo, Steven Bartlett and Gretchen Rubin, and is on a mission to rebrand self-help as something to celebrate as well as to be done with friends.
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Laurie McAllister
Marketing Expert and Founder of Girl & Tonic
Laurie is a long-time marketing geek, leading marketing for The Lions’ Den, lecturing at Norwich University of the Arts and working on a few other lovely projects through her consultancy, Plenty Marketing. Now almost 10 years sober, she is an advocate for alcohol-free living, with a particular interest in wellbeing, behaviour change and creating spaces where people feel supported to make meaningful shifts in their lives.
She founded the blog Girl & Tonic, which attracted over a million views, and has been featured by the BBC, Stylist and other national media. Laurie is also a trained sober coach, hosts Virtual Sober Club for Sober Girl Society, teaches yoga and is a keen, if very average, runner.
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Farron Davis
Owner of Glass House Studios and Founder of The All Is Well Festival
With over ten years of experience in Creative, Marketing and Branding roles, Farron has worked in-house across a range of brands.
Alongside teaching yoga and freelance brand work, Farron lectures part-time on the Fashion Marketing and Business course at Norwich University of the Arts,
As founder of glasshouse studio, which began as a summer pop-up series before becoming a permanent fixture in the local wellness community.
Most recently, she curated her first wellness weekend, all is well, bringing together creativity, movement and connection through a thoughtfully designed experience.
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Leanne Whitman
Founder of Calm Studio and LW Wellness
Meet the Speakers
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Social media masterclass
Info coming soon - 10:40-11:20pm
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Jan Roberts
From Survival to Sustained Success - 12:20-1:00pm
Founder of Neuromind, Jan, will be speaking in the Community Corner about the realities of being a neurodivergent woman in business, including practical strategies for managing energy, reducing overwhelm, recognising personal strengths, and building more sustainable ways of working.
From classical ballet dancer to business owner, it hasn’t been a linear journey. Jan will be sharing some of the humour, challenges, and unexpected insights that have shaped that path, and hopefully offering reassurance that even when life feels like swimming against the tide, the very traits you may have struggled with can also become some of your greatest strengths.
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Rhythms of Self-Care: Sustaining the Person Behind the Business
Rhythms of Self-Care: Sustaining the Person Behind the Business - 1:10-1:50pm
Michelle Cheesbrough of Whole Health Pathways and Rebecca Leonard of First Light Nutrition are health and wellbeing coaches and co-directors of Integrative Holistic Health East CIC. Together, they deliver accessible health programmes built around four interconnected foundations of health: movement, stress regulation, rest and sleep, and nourishment.
Alongside the valuable skills involved in developing, communicating and promoting a business, this session turns attention to the person behind the work.
We often plan our businesses around tasks, deadlines and goals, but rarely around the rhythms that help us remain well enough to carry them.
Michelle and Rebecca will explore three questions:
What helps me return to balance?
What rhythm supports me?
What practice do I need to protect?Using reflective cards and a simple rhythm check-in, participants will consider the daily, weekly and seasonal patterns that support their energy, wellbeing and ability to continue doing work that matters to them.
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Live Q&A
2:00-2:40pm
Host - Toni Jones Founder of Shelf Help
Panel - Laurie McAllister , Farron Davis and Leanne Whitman.
Ask all the questions you have about being self employed, expect the honest answers, and experiential guidance.
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Making Peace with Social Media Marketing for your Business
2:50-3:30pm
Laura from Norfolk Retro shares simple, actionable mindset shifts to help you promote your business with confidence and authenticity. Come armed with all your burning questions as there will be time for a Q & A.
