Episode 66

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23rd Sep 2021

Recovering After Technical Difficulties, with Colleen Biggs, Ep. 66

Colleen Biggs is an inspirational speaker, business growth coach, author, and founder of Lead UP for Women. She is based out of East Mesa in Gilbert, AZ, and offers business growth coaching for female entrepreneurs. Her organization also has a magazine as well as a twice-weekly podcast and other events happening on a regular basis, in person as well as with women coming from several countries and meeting together online.

Colleen has been working from home now for 18 years and, like many entrepreneurs, has had to learn how to be her own tech help, learning new skills as well as troubleshoot her own technical difficulties. In this episode, Colleen talks about her recent experience with having her computer factory reset and the painful experience of realizing that not all files were backing up to the cloud as she thought they were and having files recovered off of her computer but then dumped all into one folder. We talk about backing up documents and some of the humbling lessons we've both experienced as we each had a similar experience this past week with needing to get caught up to speed again with everything after wiping our computers and starting fresh again. Although we've both been working from home for some time, it's sometimes easy to get comfortable and stop doing the important maintenance required to keep computers running.

Colleen just released a new book called Step into the Spotlight to Expand Your Influence and Attract the Right Clients, available on Amazon for Kindle.


You can find Colleen in the following places:

Website: https://colleenbiggs.net/

Leadup for women: https://www.leadupforwomen.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leadupforwomen


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Yes, I Work From Home
April Malone interviews people who work from home
Yes, I Work From Home is a community where people share stories about their work-from-home journey. April Malone is the host and interviews a wide variety of people who work from home in different capacities. Guests include entrepreneurs, freelancers, teleworking employees, and those managing a home-based business or remote team. April and her guests discuss how they started working from a home office, some of the challenges they've faced, benefits, and tips and tricks that might help others. Interview guests will talk about why and how they work from home, what they do, who they help, and how they balance work with household responsibilities. They'll also talk about how they manage staying connected with colleagues, clients, and work to maintain healthy habits and a social life. Listeners will be informed about upcoming WFH community events and hear about helpful physical products, digital tools, and services that April and her guests feel are worth recommending.

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April Malone is the founder of Yes, I Work From Home and the host of this podcast. She is an adult educator who helps people improve their work-from-home situation by cultivating a community of sharing and accountability for people who work from home. April has worked from home for 12 years in a variety of roles including as an employee of a major health organization, running an online store selling physical product, and she spent two years as a full-time online ESL teacher. April is in the USA and is originally from the northern state of Minnesota known for its lakes, mosquitos, and brutal winters; but she now lives with her husband and three children in Arizona, where the desert summers are incredibly hot but the winters are lovely.