Welcome to The Content Club pod, with your host Jess Bruno! Today we’re continuing our series speaking with small business owners living with chronic illnesses.

Yasmin owns Yil Printworks, a home decor brand founded in 2020, focusing on unique, bold, and psychedelic decor. Yasmin has lived with chronic migraines for 2.5 years, which has massively impacted how she runs her small business.

Tune in to learn more about:

• Chronic migraines and Yasmin’s long journey of diagnosis and treatment.

• Differences between Western treatments and Chinese medicine when treating pain.

• The mental, physical, and financial toll of managing constant pain.

• How frustrating it can be when people don’t understand chronic pain and take normal life for granted.

• Yasmin’s plans to go abroad in 2025 as her treatments improve her migraines, after years of not being able to take any trips.

• Yasmin’s advice to aspiring small business owners and the importance of trial & error.

Yasmin is a real G, and we hope you enjoy this open and candid chat!

Follow Yasmin on Instagram @yil.printworks and TikTok @ yilprintworks, and check out her website if you’re in the market for some funky home decor: https://www.yilprintworks.co.uk/ 

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Welcome to The Content Club pod, with your host Jess Bruno! We’re continuing our series interviewing small business owners living with chronic illnesses.

In today’s episode, we’re chatting with Lucy Howell, who lives with Graves' disease, fibromyalgia and other autoimmune conditions.

Lucy is a virtual assistant who helps parents and podcasters with their business tasks, podcast promotion, and Pinterest marketing.

As a working mum herself, she understands that parents face different challenges than other business owners, and so wants to make their lives a little bit easier.

Recognising that everyone is unique with specific needs, she prioritises a personal approach, because, come on… when has one size fit anyone?!

Tune into this episode where we cover:

• Lucy’s long journey of piecing together her health issues and finally getting her diagnoses.

• Jess and Lucy discuss how scary it is to suffer heart palpitations alongside other unknown health conditions in your early twenties.

• The frustration when people and workplaces don’t understand or take autoimmune diseases as seriously as other medical conditions.

• How Lucy transitioned from being a dental nurse to running her own business after her newborn son was diagnosed with the same condition.

• How easy it is to develop an opioid addiction to help cope with chronic pain, and the symptoms that arise when you try to come off them.

• The challenges Lucy faces when creating content for her business, including time constraints and impostor syndrome.

• How AI tools have been helpful for Lucy in coming up with content ideas.

This was such a gorgeous conversation with Lucy, and we hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!Follow Lucy on Instagram @howellvirtual and check out her website for Admin and Podcasting services at https://www.howellvirtual.co.uk/

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Welcome to The Content Club pod, with your host Jess Bruno! We’re continuing our series interviewing small business owners living with chronic illnesses. In today’s episode, we’re speaking to May James, who lives with ME/CFS.

May James is an award winning global business consultant, trusted advisor and speaker that helps entrepreneurs to scale their businesses sustainably. May also runs a preloved fashion recycling business, is the host of the Honest Business Podcast, and champions living fully in the everyday. 

She works daily with rapidly growing businesses to expand their revenue, team and impact via proven strategy and leading expertise. Her outstanding and consistent results are down to her distinctive, no-BS approach of driving success and transformation. 

May has built a community of thriving women around the world who are armed with the tools to excel in business and live a fulfilling life. Her refreshing and honest approach to empowering ambitious women to feel more confident on their entrepreneurial journey is unrivalled.

Tune into this juicy episode to learn more about:

• May’s first business, her background in sales, and how her chronic illness impacted the early stages of her work life, leaving her 70-80% bedbound.

• How May structures her day, puts up boundaries, and made strategic hires to help her manage both her life and her business.

• Value -based pricing vs. hourly rates, and why it’s important to not undervalue yourself as a small business owner with a chronic illness.

• The importance of strategy and understanding the purpose and desired outcome before creating content.

• How strategic planning and setting realistic expectations can help entrepreneurs overcome challenges and stay resilient in the face of uncertainty. 

• Small ways you can sell every day in your business, and May suggests making a commitment to selling every day for a year to change your business and life.

• Figuring out how to prioritise friendships, family relationships and work/career, and how it's okay that those priorities change over time.

May is an absolute boss and an inspiration, we hope you love this episode as much as we did!Follow May on Instagram @may.james_ and check out her podcast Honest Business: https://podfollow.com/honestbusiness

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https://jessicabruno.co.uk/the-content-club/

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Your feedback helps us continue providing content that empowers small business owners.