Strings To Your Bow

About Strings To Your Bow

Welcome to Strings to Your Bow — the podcast that celebrates the real stories, unexpected turns, and unique skills that shape self-employed life. I’m your host, Chloe Weatherhead — virtual assistant, support expert, and founder of Andiamo Business Assistance, where I provide tailored small business support to freelancers, founders, and the self-employed. Each week, I sit down with inspiring guests to explore the personal experiences and professional lessons that have added ‘strings to their bow’ — those transferable skills, passions, or turning points that have fuelled their journey. Whether it’s about launching a business, pivoting careers, or finding purpose through challenge, this podcast is about honest conversations, useful insights, and celebrating the power of lived experience. If you're self-employed, thinking of making the leap, or simply love hearing how people turn their stories into strengths, you're in the right place. No jargon, no fluff — just support, connection, and inspiration, one conversation at a time.

Publisher

Chloe Weatherhead, Andiamo Business Assistance

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Aug 2025

Latest episode

30 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Oct 2026

   Chris Scott-Thomas: Start Before You’re Ready: Clarity, Confidence and Business Lessons

   In this episode of Strings to Your Bow, Chloe chats with Chris Scott-Thomas, co-founder of Clarity, about business mentoring, honest conversations and why the problem a business thinks it has is often not the real problem at all. Chris shares how a long career in technology and consultancy led him towards mentoring founders and helping business owners get clearer about what is really holding them back. The conversation explores values, culture, feedback, recognition, difficult conversations a...

2. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Russell Goldthorpe: People Skills, Personal Values and Building a Life Around What Matters

   In this episode of Strings to Your Bow, Chloe sits down with Russell Goldthorpe, a Halifax-based telecoms and sales veteran who has spent over 30 years in the industry and run his own businesses for much of it, to talk about the moment that changed how he thought about work for good. Russell explains how watching his dad get made redundant at forty, after two decades of loyalty to one company, became the reason he set up his own business: to never be beholden to anybody, and to never miss a s...

3. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Rebecca Hopwood: Clear Massages, Strong Values and Building a Business That Fits Your Life

   In this episode of Strings to Your Bow, Chloe sits down with Rebecca Hopwood, founder of UB Media and the Hive Academy, to talk about the pandemic pivot that changed her career, and the honest reality of building a business behind the polished version people see online. Rebecca set up UB Media in September 2020, after lockdown gave her an unexpected glimpse of what life could look like without an hour-long commute eating into time with her three-year-old son. She talks candidly about the guil...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

403

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

74

Social presence

91

YouTube

66

Engagement

0

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