Mistakes That Made Me
Mistakes That Made Me

Mistakes That Made Me

Eman Ismail

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Mistakes That Made Me is the podcast that asks extraordinary business owners to share their biggest business mistake – so you know what NOT to do on your road to success.

Join Eman Ismail as she chats to some of the smartest minds in business about how to push through failure and accept it as an important and necessary part of building a business.

Because it turns out: your biggest business mistake often leads to your biggest lesson and then your biggest blessing.

Recent Episodes

When to create a paid product, the 'freelancer' debate & subcontracting with Steve Folland – Extended Interview
JUN 3, 2025
When to create a paid product, the 'freelancer' debate & subcontracting with Steve Folland – Extended Interview

Today, Steve's answering questions about –

  • When a podcaster can take the leap and build a paid product/service
  • The calling yourself a 'freelancer' vs 'business owner' debate
  • Steve's process around subcontracting and hiring other freelancers to work on projects with him


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34 MIN
Putting all your (client) eggs in one basket with Steve Folland [OBG]
MAY 22, 2025
Putting all your (client) eggs in one basket with Steve Folland [OBG]

When Steve Folland’s *only* client let him go, he’d just quit his full-time job to go all in on his audio and video editing business.


Being jobless and clientless couldn’t have come at a worse time. Steve’s wife had just gone on maternity leave and they had a brand new (4-month-old) baby – plus an older child too!


In this Oldie But Goodie convo, Steve – also the host of the ‘Being Freelance' podcast – shares his entrepreneurial journey, how he diversified his skills and services, and what he learned from his biggest business mistake.


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104 MIN
Falling prey to new ideas with Caroline & Jason Zook [OBG]
MAY 6, 2025
Falling prey to new ideas with Caroline & Jason Zook [OBG]

This might be my favourite episode of Mistakes That Made Me 😍 (An oldie but goodie!)


Caroline and Jason Zook are two creatives who are full of ideas. They’re the founders of Wandering Aimfully – the UN-boring coaching program for intentional online business owners – and Teachery: a software platform for creating and hosting online courses.


After more than a decade of online entrepreneurship, they found that constantly creating and launching new ideas is exhausting. They figured there had to be another way.


In this episode of Mistakes That Made Me, the Zooks describe how putting less energy into new ideas and more energy into refining existing ideas has created two reliable, profitable, and intentional businesses for them.


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89 MIN
32 of my favourite things (for my 32nd birthday 🥳) [OBG]
APR 22, 2025
32 of my favourite things (for my 32nd birthday 🥳) [OBG]

It's my (33rd) birthday week! So, I'm re-sharing the super popular birthday episode I published last year for my 32nd birthday. (An oldie but goodie!)


Tune in to hear me share 32 of my favourite (business and personal) things... from business hires, podcasts, software/tools to mentors to TV shows and more as I celebrate another trip around the sun 🎉


Thanks for listening!


Note: this episode was recorded in 2024.

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The challenge of growing your business slowly with Belinda Weaver (Extended interview)
APR 8, 2025
The challenge of growing your business slowly with Belinda Weaver (Extended interview)

If you loved my first interview with Belinda Weaver back in 2022 (Going and Growing Too Slow), join us for this unedited extended interview (recorded in 2024) where we continue our conversation about growing your business slowly and intentionally.


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