21 episodes

The Courageous Collective is a monthly podcast that celebrates diverse women business owners, who dare to do things differently. Created by comms expert and copywriter Rupa Bharadva (http://www.rupabharadva.com/)) and branding specialist Vardeep Edwards (http://www.thebrandingfox.com/)), the podcast will feature conversations with female founders from diverse backgrounds. Each episode will focus on the stories behind the founders' businesses; their fears and challenges; how they've overcome them; how their roots and backgrounds have influenced decisions; their inspirations; and what they're yet to achieve.Rupa and Vardeep created this podcast after noticing a big gap in magazines, at events and on podcasts. There are few women 'like them' represented in these spaces, despite there being many diverse women business owners!The creative pair decided to take matters into their own hands. They've created a podcast platform to champion diverse female founders and celebrate their achievements.Contact: thecourageouscollective@gmail.com for more information.

The Courageous Collective Rupa & Vardeep

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The Courageous Collective is a monthly podcast that celebrates diverse women business owners, who dare to do things differently. Created by comms expert and copywriter Rupa Bharadva (http://www.rupabharadva.com/)) and branding specialist Vardeep Edwards (http://www.thebrandingfox.com/)), the podcast will feature conversations with female founders from diverse backgrounds. Each episode will focus on the stories behind the founders' businesses; their fears and challenges; how they've overcome them; how their roots and backgrounds have influenced decisions; their inspirations; and what they're yet to achieve.Rupa and Vardeep created this podcast after noticing a big gap in magazines, at events and on podcasts. There are few women 'like them' represented in these spaces, despite there being many diverse women business owners!The creative pair decided to take matters into their own hands. They've created a podcast platform to champion diverse female founders and celebrate their achievements.Contact: thecourageouscollective@gmail.com for more information.

    #021 Charelle Griffith - Creative Marketing And Being More You

    #021 Charelle Griffith - Creative Marketing And Being More You

    In today’s episode, we meet Charelle Griffith, a Chartered Marketer, who works with coaches, consultants and service-based business owners to take the overwhelm out of their marketing.Charelle shares her journey from studying dance at university to finding her passion in marketing. Her first marketing job was for HMV, sending emails to millions of customers every week. Now she helps her clients to make their expertise shine online, consistently create content and ultimately build a business t...

    • 42 min
    #020 How to market your creative business

    #020 How to market your creative business

    In this episode, we chat about one of our favourite topics… marketing!As small business owners, we know just how crucial marketing is for running a business. But juggling all the different aspects of a business can make it tough to give marketing the time and attention it deserves.We chat about:The difference between marketing and salesThe common myths about marketingSome of the challenges women of colour may face in marketing their businessesLots of tips to market your business on a shoestri...

    • 54 min
    #019 Soma Ghosh - Empowering Career Happiness

    #019 Soma Ghosh - Empowering Career Happiness

    We’re back with a new episode of The Courageous Collective!Today, we meet the woman bringing career happiness to many. Soma Ghosh is an award-winning career advisor helping young people and professionals develop their careers. She began advising professional women who were burned out and unhappy at work in 2016.Soma is the host of the popular podcast Career Happiness, where she shares advice and meets with experts to discuss how to be happy in your career.We hope you enjoy this episode! Soma ...

    • 47 min
    #018 Why you need a personal brand

    #018 Why you need a personal brand

    Today on the podcast we are talking about personal branding. What is personal brand? Should you have one? And how do you get started?We share examples of women of colour who have strong personal brands and discuss why as business founders personal branding can can help build community, find people to collaborate with and increase the visibility of your business.Win!!!We have some exciting news!! You can win a 90-minute session with us, Rupa and Vardeep, the co-founders of The Courageous Colle...

    • 40 min
    #017 Mo Kanjilal: Making work better

    #017 Mo Kanjilal: Making work better

    Today’s episode is a chat with Mo Kanjilal, co-creator of multi award-winning diversity and inclusion company, Watch This Sp_ce. Mo shared valuable insights into her experience of establishing a business during the pandemic, navigating the sudden transition to remote work, and addressing the inequalities that surfaced during this time. We delved into Mo’s strategies for marketing her business, particularly how public speaking has contributed to the the business’s growth. She also shared her j...

    • 27 min
    #016 The power of PR for creative business founders

    #016 The power of PR for creative business founders

    We’re diving into PR (public relations) in today’s episode. PR is often seen as being expensive and only for big businesses but we’re here to tell you that founders of businesses of any size can gain PR. In this episode, Rupa Bharadva, my podcast co-host and copywriting and PR pro, will be sharing her advice, tips and tricks. With over 20 years of experience working in communications and PR roles, Rupa has a lot of valuable insights to give you. She will bust the myths surrounding PR and shar...

    • 59 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

Bhairvi Vyas ,

Inspiring

I came across this yesterday from a live instagram and I’m so hooked. This podcast is brilliant and as a Graphic Designer myself who had to struggle to get to where I am today I feel amazing to hear I wasn’t the only one. Would definitely recommend this podcast and the host makes you feel so calm.

Digitalbrummie ,

Brilliant!

A very motivational podcast - I cannot wait for the next season!

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