S2 Episode 1: Abigail Mills - Rose & Thistle Social Ltd.
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Release Date: 08/27/2025
S2 Episode 1: Abigail Mills - Rose & Thistle Social Ltd.
Crap to Kick A** Coach Podcast
Welcome to Season 2! It's all about Marketing. Telling your story. Using what you've got. And starting exactly where you're at now. I f you’re looking for insights into social media marketing and some Instagram breakdowns - then meet Abigail, you’ve come across a profile you need on your LinkedIn feed! Abigail Mills is a social media manager, mentor, and director of Rose & Thistle Social Ltd. Her passion is sharing as much of her knowledge and experiences as possible with service providers and social media managers across the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world. She is also a guest...
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S1 Episode 6: Abi Sea of X-Ray Messaging
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Abi Sea is a copywriter who helps coaches and mentors attract brilliant clients and make more sales through X-ray Messaging. With nearly 30 years in communications (and a talent for getting to the heart of what people actually do), Abi specializes in messaging that cuts through the noise without sounding like everyone else. She's the creator of the BLITZ framework – a positive psychology approach that helps business owners grow their businesses without feeling fake, bland, or pushy. When she's not helping clients turn their expertise into profit, you'll find her...
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Chris has 25 years’ experience in and around the coaching world. First, training and coaching for Dale Carnegie in the US and UK, then in sales and delivery leadership roles in outplacement and career coaching organisations. His current role is Global Marketing Lead for transition and coaching solutions at Randstad RiseSmart, while also being on the verge of completing his ICF coach accreditation. Chris saw the value of coaching following two layoffs in the early 2000’s, where he had career coaching. Since then, he has always thought being a coach would form part of his career at...
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S1 Episode 3: Geoff Ketterer - CEO and Co-Founder of Rev Boost Recruitment
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S1 Episode 2 with Ashley Leeds: Nobody Knows Who I Am. How Do I Tell People Who I Am?
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S1 Episode 1: Anna Payne - When Sales Is Not a Dirty Word!
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Anna Payne is a sales expert, business growth strategist, author, and speaker. Her refreshingly simple, feel-good approach to sales, focusing on integrity, value, and long-term relationships, is revolutionising the results of her clients. If you’d love to sell more in your business, but find a lot of the traditional sales training out there off-putting ot-dated and awkward, Anna’s your woman. Sales is not a dirty word Everyone can be good at sales, here’s how… In this energising and practical session, sales expert Anna Payne will help you cut through outdated...
info_outlineWelcome to Season 2! It's all about Marketing.
Telling your story. Using what you've got. And starting exactly where you're at now. I
f you’re looking for insights into social media marketing and some Instagram breakdowns - then meet Abigail, you’ve come across a profile you need on your LinkedIn feed!
Abigail Mills is a social media manager, mentor, and director of Rose & Thistle Social Ltd. Her passion is sharing as much of her knowledge and experiences as possible with service providers and social media managers across the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world. She is also a guest speaker for online communities and panellist who loves educating people on social media marketing and her business journey as a business owner under 30.
Abigail helps busy service-based businesses get in front of new eyes so that they can make more money with less hours spent on social, giving them time to focus on the other areas of work that they actually enjoy. 🌹 Here’s what Rose & Thistle Social is doing in this space: Social media management - Our done-for-you service where we work in collaboration with businesses across the UK and the Rest of The World to provide high-level social media management.
Education and Consultancy - Business owners can provide their employees and themselves with education about social media marketing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigailmills97/
https://www.instagram.com/roseandthistlesocial
Timestamps:
[1:40] How the heck did you get into marketing?
[8:05] Professionals do the work of marketing that tends to go viral and reacts quickly, for the rest of us it takes time!
[9:15] What are some of the biggest mistakes people make?
[11:10] Give us the idiot’s guide to Instagram Stories
[12:30] How do you move to the DM’s which is next in the process?
[16:55] What happens after DM’s?
[19:40] If a client want to use a different platform how does that work?
[22:45]What is the difference between marketing and selling?
[29:30] Articulating the transformation piece, do you have a system for that?
[31:45] Avoiding the tagline trap
[33:00] Where to next? And the 8 principles of Dubai [
35:30] Our final existential question