200 episodes

Coffee and Converse is for lifestyle entrepreneurs who are over the trendy tactics and ready for successful strategies to fast track their business and lifestyle goals.

Hear from successful lifestyle entrepreneurs revealing their best strategies on all things business models, metrics, and making business work for them. We’ll deep dive into future-proofing and planning, focusing on the most impactful moves and the foundational fixes that most businesses need and miss.

If you’re building a business to support your life instead of living to build a business, this is the show for you.

Coffee and Converse is brought to you by Diane Mayor — an openly nosey, self-proclaimed business nerd, who, after 15 years behind the scenes in banking, now helps service-based entrepreneurs build the lifestyle businesses of their dreams.

Coffee and Converse Diane Mayor

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Coffee and Converse is for lifestyle entrepreneurs who are over the trendy tactics and ready for successful strategies to fast track their business and lifestyle goals.

Hear from successful lifestyle entrepreneurs revealing their best strategies on all things business models, metrics, and making business work for them. We’ll deep dive into future-proofing and planning, focusing on the most impactful moves and the foundational fixes that most businesses need and miss.

If you’re building a business to support your life instead of living to build a business, this is the show for you.

Coffee and Converse is brought to you by Diane Mayor — an openly nosey, self-proclaimed business nerd, who, after 15 years behind the scenes in banking, now helps service-based entrepreneurs build the lifestyle businesses of their dreams.

    The Simple Secret To Sustainable Success

    The Simple Secret To Sustainable Success

    Creating complexity is easy, but delivering the same results more simply how you create sustainable success 
    In This Episode
    Why you should have simplification on your plan for 2024How to figure out if you need to simplifyWhat to ask to figure out where and how to simplify
    Links
    To read the transcript or explore other episodes go to dianemayor.com/243

    • 12 min
    The Friends Over Funnels Approach To LinkedIn With Miranda VonFricken

    The Friends Over Funnels Approach To LinkedIn With Miranda VonFricken

    If you've always thought of LinkedIn as a little stuffy, too corporate, or not the most social of the social medias, you need to hear this
    Miranda VonFricken walks you through why she loves LinkedIn the most and how she leverages it for relationship marketing, not lead generation.
    Key Takeaway
    Treat LinkedIn just like your other social media platforms - engage with other people’s posts, share those selfies, and show up as you.
    We talk about
    The vibe on LinkedIn right nowWhat not to do on LinkedInCreating LinkedIn showsDo this first - make your top pop!The bare minimum for getting results
    Links
    To read the transcript, grab the resources and explore other episodes go to dianemayor.com/241

    • 41 min
    5 Things Black Friday Can Teach You About Business That Aren’t Sales And Marketing

    5 Things Black Friday Can Teach You About Business That Aren’t Sales And Marketing

    If you can just step back from the marketing and watch how people behave, it's like a free masterclass in business principles. 
    In This Episode
    How your buying behavior affects your businessWhere you need to consider seasonality moreWhy customer acquisition impacts customer retention and referralsHow one thing you’re ignoring can have a significant impact on your decisionsWhy Black Friday is a masterclass every CEO should take
    Links
    To read the transcript or explore other episodes go to dianemayor.com/141

    • 15 min
    The Business of Thinking About Business with Cat Paterson

    The Business of Thinking About Business with Cat Paterson

    How you think is influenced by every part of your life and it influences every part of your life so maybe it’s time to rethink what you think
    Cat Paterson walks you through why what and how you think can pave a pathway to success or keep you stuck in place in life and business.
    Key Takeaway
    Belief systems are just thoughts that we keep on thinking again and again.
    We talk about
    What are thinking patternsWhat are the building blocks of our thinking patternsHow can we change our thinking patternsHow can we leverage collective thinking patterns in our teamsHow to prepare your team to change the way they think
    Links
    To read the transcript, grab the resources, and explore other episodes go to dianemayor.com/240

    • 33 min
    Beware Of The End Of Year Hype

    Beware Of The End Of Year Hype

    This time of year can be filled with opportunity or filled with bad decisions - you choose.
    In This Episode
    The decision you need to make now to save yourself time and money down the lineThe decision only you can (and must) make before someone make its for youHow to listen to yourself instead of the hype
    Links
    To read the transcript or explore other episodes go to dianemayor.com/239

    • 5 min
    Stop Planning For Perfection

    Stop Planning For Perfection

    Make planning a useful tool for 2024 not a simple box check exercise.
    In This Episode
    Why planning is so importantWhy just choosing a number is bad for businessThe real secret sauce behind planningThe key thing to remember as you build your plan
    Links
    To read the transcript or explore other episodes go to dianemayor.com/238

    • 6 min

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Fabulous podcast!!

Diane is a great host & brings so much value to her show!

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