Welcome to Running in the Dark - a podcast about business, health and everything we normally leave unsaid.
Hosted by Katherine George, an entrepreneur and multi-award-winning social media marketing expert living with Sjögren's Disease, Season 1 shines a light on the unseen, unspoken, and often unexpected challenges of running a business.
Season 2 is about running a business when your health doesn’t always work with you.
Sometimes we're thriving.
Sometimes we're adapting.
It's bloody difficult.
But we do it anyway.
This season is all about honest conversations with people building businesses and careers while living with chronic illness, disability and other health challenges.
We talk about the things that we don’t normally talk about; fatigue, flare-ups, difficult decisions, adaptations, ambition, guilt, clients, teams, boundaries and trying to keep things moving when your body has other ideas.
These aren’t stories about overcoming illness.
They’re conversations about building a life and business alongside it.
Host Katherine shares crucial insights into unexpected financial challenges business owners face and how to prepare for them.
14 Aug 2025
EP.16 Beware of Client Creep
Host Katherine explains how to effectively manage client requests that extend beyond the original scope, preventing unpaid extra work.
7 Aug 2025
EP.15 Redefining Resilience with Lyssa-Fêe Crump | Career Success Beyond the Diagnosis
Lyssa-Fêe Crump discusses redefining resilience while balancing career success with PoTS, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and Narcolepsy in this interview with Katherine.
31 Jul 2025
EP.14 Running a Business with Sjogren's Disease | An Interview with Katherine George
Katherine George shares her experiences of running a business while managing Sjogren's Disease, revealing the impact on her agency in this interview.
24 Jul 2025
EP.13 Remember Why You Started
Katherine discusses the importance of entrepreneurs remembering their initial motivations for starting a business, emphasizing its crucial role in maintaining focus and drive.
17 Jul 2025
EP.12 Take A Break
Katherine discusses the critical need for business owners to take breaks, set boundaries, and prevent burnout to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
10 Jul 2025
EP.11 You can fall out of love with your business
Katherine shares her personal journey of experiencing disillusionment with her thriving business, revealing how she strategically reignited her passion and overcame work-related anxiety.
26 Jun 2025
EP.10 Don't let anyone else's poor organisation stress you out
Katherine discusses how business professionals can manage client projects when customers reappear after disappearing, providing strategies to avoid stress and maintain control.
19 Jun 2025
EP.09 40 Hours is Enough
Katherine shares her experiences with entrepreneurial burnout and how she now manages her work-life balance to maintain a sustainable 40-hour work week.
12 Jun 2025
EP.08 People Will Ignore You
Katherine discusses the inevitability of being ignored, even as an expert, and shares strategies for effectively navigating this challenge.
5 Jun 2025
EP.07 Sometimes People are Dicks
Katherine shares her perspective on navigating difficult professional relationships and handling challenging personalities in the business world.
29 May 2025
EP.06 Your Life Doesn't Stop
Katherine shares her early entrepreneurial experiences and discusses the importance of showing up to work despite personal challenges, offering insights for new business owners.
22 May 2025
EP.05 Your Job Will Change
If you love what you do and you’re fantastic at what you do, for many the natural next step is to specialise and start your own business. In this episode, Katherine shares the realities of turning a job you love into a business and, crucially, how your job will change as your business grows.
15 May 2025
EP.04 What if the customer is wrong?
The customer is always right... Except for when they’re wrong. But how do you handle this as a business, especially if you offer advice or services? Katherine draws upon her experience in business to share what she does in this situation and how to manage those tricky conversations with clients.
8 May 2025
EP.03 Start Small & Scale
If you’re launching a new business, the one thing you can guarantee is that you’ll be offered a barrage of advice. But not all advice is equal, as Katherine explains. In this episode, she shares the merits of starting small, investing in yourself and scaling up as you grow.
1 May 2025
Work Life Integration
The pressure to achieve that elusive work/life balance is one that all business owners will recognise. In this episode, Katherine shares how she combats this mythical idea with a more realistic work/life integration, and how it doesn’t have to be all work and no play as an entrepreneur.
24 Apr 2025
EP.01 - Getting Paid
Ensuring you are getting paid by clients can become a massive issue for small businesses – it's difficult to maintain positive client relationships when chasing payments. Katherine shares her advice and the key, but very simple tactic that helped her master this problem as a growing business.
24 Apr 2025
About Me
Who is Katherine George, and why has she created the Running in the Dark podcast? Katherine has been an entrepreneur since 2014 and over the years, through the highs and lows, she has learned that running a business is, well, actually really hard. But no-one talks about it. Katherine is here to drop the bravado and will be talking about all of the things you should be told before you start a business, as well as sharing her advice along the way.
11 Apr 2025
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