TechPixies is an award-winning CPD Accredited social enterprise helping women to upskill with Social Media, MailChimp and WordPress. Since 2015, we’ve helped hundreds of women return to work, change careers and launch businesses leveraging modern technology.
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Recognition for our work…
DIGITAL COURSE OF THE YEAR
The DigitalWomen Awards in association with Natwest Business and the Federation of Small Businesses celebrate women working in digital and digital business from their amazing community and beyond who are doing the most incredible work in the digital space they operate in, those who are making the right moves and going beyond and above what is usually expected. The awards were open to women working in digital and entrepreneurship and entrants go through a rigorous judging process by their esteemed panel.


2018 Startup of the Year
WINNER


2017 Female Startup of the Year
WINNER

2016 Women’s Champion
HIGHLY COMMENDED

2016/17 ‘Grow it’ Award
WINNER
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My lockdown running buddy. This is my beautiful daughter Heidi. The past few weekends, she has built up her running stamina and we can now do 70 minute runs together.
For those of you who know me, you know I am a certified neurocoach (TM). I have been using neurocoaching techniques to change long standing thoughts and habits that have held me back from accomplishing my goals. One of my blocks has been running consistently!!
I started brain 🧠 priming in April of 2020. Here’s a bit more about brain priming if you have never heard of it...
1) Brain priming is a recording that you create and record on your phone and listen to every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to bed.
2) Brain priming is effective in 75% of people.
3) Brain priming is NOT a set of affirmations.
4) Brain priming helps you to re-wire a thought that is blocking you from moving forwards with evidence your brain believes!!!
5) Brain priming takes 67 days to work effectively.
If you are a TechPixie, you know that we now teach brain priming in our strategy module.
You can brain prime literally anything! Here are just a few of the brain primes I have worked through the past 10 months:
💪 I am good enough
🏆 I am worthy of success
👩👧👦 I am a good Mum
👰♀️ I am a good wife
🏃♀️ I am self-disciplined
💰 I control money, money doesn’t control me
If you could brain prime anything, what would you prime? Tell me in the comments...
#techpixies #bebraveandsparkle #neurocoaching #neurocoach #tp67daychallenge
Certified Neurocoach (TM) via @drshannonirvine
✨ This is Padma from @mabellaengagement and she is a TechPixie. ⠀
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✨ Padma joined TechPixies during the first lockdown of 2020 after business was slowing due to the effects of the pandemic on the companies she worked with. She knew she would need to pivot her offering so she invested in our Social Media Magic course to update her social media skills which enabled her to successfully market her new venture. And (wow!) what an incredible journey she has been on since then! ⠀
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✨ Padma had been volunteering for @smartworksrdg and after joining TechPixies she started running online career advice webinars to raise funds for the charity. She quickly discovered that she really enjoyed the online community and teaching aspect & realised there was a new business idea there.⠀
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✨ Padma now offers online career success workshops. She helps women to make successful career changes by equipping them with both the mental and physical tools to land their dream job quickly.⠀
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✨ Padma echos many of TechPixies values in her work and if you are keen to work on your own values then Padma can definitely help you uncover yours.⠀
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“TechPixies has given me confidence, clarity & reminded me of who I am. You have made me believe in myself again & ultimately, I improved my social media skills but more importantly you helped me get out of my own way and start a new business - which is my true passion.”⠀
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✨ If you want to take action to start looking for a career that will make you leap out of bed & start loving Mondays again then head over to @mabellaengagement where you can sign up for Padma's FREE 5 day Career workshop starting THIS THURSDAY. It will help you get clear on your transferable skills, strengths & values, as well as help you create a CV that stands out. There are special coaching upgrades available including a 121 coaching bonus for TechPixies - don’t hang about, this is one not to be missed! ⠀
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✨ If, like Padma, you’d like to upskill in all things social media join us for our 4-part FREE training series starting on 1st February (link in bio to register) ☝️⠀⠀
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✨ Have you had to pivot your offering in the last year? We'd love to hear. Let us know in the comments 👇
🏆 It’s Monday! New Week, New Goals, New #WINS - Let’s celebrate them all!! ⠀
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🌟 Take note from Dame Stephanie (@damestephanie_) and enjoy your small successes this week.⠀
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😊 We know that it’s not always easy and many of us suffer from self doubt or can feel like we don’t belong, or that any success we have is just luck or as a result of ‘faking it’. You are not alone! ⠀
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✨ Around 70% of us will experience signs & symptoms of impostor syndrome at least once in our lives. And it can affect you whether you are starting out in business or you are a highly successful entrepreneur such as Dame Stephanie Shirley. ⠀
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🌟 Dame Stephanie is a woman who really did ‘fake it to make it’ due to sexism in the male-dominated business world she threw herself into when she created her software company ‘Freelance Programmers’ in 1962. She used the name ‘Steve’ on all company correspondence when she realised that letters signed in her own name were being ignored. ⠀
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😊 She was a pioneer of flexible working and working from home, enabling women to return to the workplace after having families to achieve that ever desired work/life balance.⠀
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💻 This week our TechPixies are learning all about LinkedIn and during their life coaching sessions they will be discussing how many seem to suffer with imposter syndrome when it comes to this platform. Many find LinkedIn the most daunting platform due to its professional nature, and we often hear our students say that they feel like they don’t belong. But this platform can be the most critical to help build a freelance and business network for anyone looking to return to work or start a business. Get those brave pants on and dive into this week's learning TechPixies - we’ll see you over on LinkedIn!⠀
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✨ And if you’d like to work on banishing your imposter syndrome and upskill in all things social media join us for our 4-part FREE training series starting on 1st February (link in bio to register) ☝️⠀
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🥳 Here at TechPixies we are big believers in celebrating your small wins. We’d love to hear yours - let us know in the comments below so we can celebrate with you! 👇 Banish that imposter syndrome and let’s #WIN together this week! 🏆
Who else is excited out our star highlighters!?!?! Comment with your favourite excited emoji 🤩
#techpixies #bebraveandsparkle
💛 Meet Maria or @socialmedia_maria as she is known here on Instagram (and to some of the locals after they saw her reel supporting the local town).⠀
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✨ Maria studied with TechPixies during the first lockdown to add the latest social media skills to her previous marketing experience and, with the support of the TechPixie community and life coaching from @youcomingalive, it gave her the push she needed to start her own consultancy.⠀
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💛 From her initial Instagram posts back in May 2020 she has now helped many small businesses get the most from their social media providing them with platform audits, training or full social media management.⠀
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✨ “Joining the TechPixies course was transformational for me. I had worked for many years in marketing but had taken a few years out to move house and bring up our children. When I signed up for the course I had no idea that just a few months later I would have a thriving business, great up to date expertise and some wonderful new friends. The TechPixies community certainly helped me stay positive throughout lockdown and 2020.”⠀
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💛 Recently Maria has donned her brave pants and started a series of lunchtime lives, talking to other inspirational women in business. She admits that showing up on her own social media and going live is the part of the job that she finds the most difficult “like most people with small children and a busy life I often don’t feel ‘camera ready’” but after being challenged to ‘get out there and show up’ she has done so and is now regularly inspiring other women on her feed.⠀
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💛 We have loved being part of your journey Maria and cannot wait to see where it takes you in 2021. 🌟 Thank you for joining us and for being such a valuable part of the TechPixies community. 🧑🤝We raise a glass 🥂 to you and celebrate your success with the obligatory @techpixies dance 💃🏽⠀
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🌟 Like Maria do you find showing up on your social media hard or are your brave pants firmly on in 2021 and you are showing up regularly? Let us know in the comments below 👇⠀
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#TechPixies #BeBraveAndSparkle
We can’t be the only ones who have been putting this song on repeat recently?!⠀
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The song ‘I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free’ served as an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement in America in the 1960s and was recorded by Nina Simone in 1967 on her Silk & Soul album. The song gave hope to people of colour living in turbulent times. Now, it would be very wrong of us to make any comparisons between the struggles faced in those times with now… but the message of hope is universal and if we all need anything right now it’s a little bit of hope!⠀
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✨ To those who are feeling a little lost or alone or rather overwhelmed right now, we are here for you! This week @youcomingalive will be discussing overwhelm in her TechPixie life coaching sessions, tune in!⠀
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✨ And whether you are a TechPixie, or one of our followers, engage with us and join our supportive community this lockdown, reach out to one another and give each other some extra motivation to reach your goals (even if they have had to shift lately). ⠀
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✨ Let’s give each other a Monday morning motivational boost and tag a friend (or two!) in the comments below to let them know that you are here for them, thinking about them and that they are doing a fabulous job! 👇 ⠀
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✨ Please do share to your stories if you think your followers would like some TechPixies Monday morning motivation. 😊 Let's spread some joy and positivity.⠀
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#TechPixies #BeBraveAndSparkle #NinaSimone #mondaymotivations #mondaymotivationalquote #mondaythoughts
Joy Book Club
📖 Whilst we are all at home maybe there will be time to catch up on some of those books you’ve been wanting to read?
📚 We read some brilliant books in 2020 as part of Joy Book Club and we are kicking off 2021 book club with another fabulous book ‘Believe. Build. Become: How to Supercharge Your Career’ by @debbiewosskow and @annakristinajones, cofounders of @allbright.
📖 And you can join us on Thursday 14th January, 11am for an author Q&A with Debbie Wosskow (link in bio to sign up to Book Club ☝️).
✨ WIN ✨
We have a copy of this inspirational book to give away!
If you’d like to be in with a chance to win:
✨ Like this post and follow @techpixies
✨ Let us know in the comments below why you’d like to win it
✨ For an extra entry tag a friend who you think would also like this book (you could pass it onto them once you have read it!) and may like to join Joy Book Club. Each name is one extra entry. Do as many as you like!
The competition closes this Friday 8th January at 10am and we will select one winner from the comments below. The winner will be announced on Instagram and contacted directly via social media for address details. UK entries only and this competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by Instagram.
#techpixies #BeBraveAndSparkle #joybookclub #believebuildbecome
#bookclubsofinstagram #businessbooks #recommendedreads #bookclubbook #mindset #mindsetiseverything #mindsetmatters #biggoalsbigdreams #womeninspiringwomen #womeninspirewomen #womenempowerwomen #womensupportingwomen #womensupportingwomeninbusiness #womeninbusinessrock #changingwomenslives #inspirationalwomen #socialmediatraining
How are you all this evening?⠀
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🏠 With a new lockdown upon us it is time for our TechPixie community to do what it does so well and come together, connect, engage, encourage and support each other through this time. More than ever we may need to draw upon our Monday Mindset sessions from @techpixiejoy and some Wednesday Wisdom from the brilliant Teresa @youcomingalive (join her tomorrow live on zoom or for a lunchtime catchup in the Facebook group)⠀
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🏫 And for those now doing the work/homeschool juggle see the link in our bio for the guide we produced last year packed with top tips for home learning put together by the wonderful Lisa, @lisa.mellis.art (an ex-teacher with over 15 years experience)⠀
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✨ Many of our TechPixies have already been sharing some top tips for working from home, homeschooling, lockdown baking / gardening / crafting / exercise - if there is something you want to do you can be sure there is a TechPixies who knows how to do it!! Keep an eye on our stories and don’t forget to use #techpixies or tag us so we can share your ‘surviving lockdown’ posts with our community.⠀
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😊 Community, friendship and support will see us through (with some TechPixies Social Media Magic along the way!) - reach out and connect. We can do this together, even though we are apart.⠀
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🏠 Do share any stay at home tips, advice, ideas, activities, recipes below… we’d love to hear them all! ⠀
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✨ You’ve got this TechPixies!!⠀
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#techpixies #bebraveandsparkle
🌟 Good Morning TechPixies!⠀
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✨ We are diving right in as we kick off the first Monday of the year with our Instagram module.⠀
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👋 Welcome to all those new TechPixies who are joining us for the first time (do come and say hello!) and “hello old friends”. We are so excited to welcome you all here for some more TechPixies Social Media Magic!⠀
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🌟 We hope you all had a wonderful festive break and are now refreshed and ready to get stuck in to all things Instagram this week. ⠀
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✨ TechPixies this is your year to sparkle and thrive!⠀
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🌟 We asked about your New Year's resolutions and 2021 goals in our last post, but what is your one big goal this week? 👇 Let us know in the comments below 👇⠀
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#techpixies #BeBraveAndSparkle #mondaymorning #mondaymotivation #mondaymindset #newyearnewgoals
Weekly Tips
[Episode 71] Level up your LinkedIn profile with Beth Kirk’s brilliant top tips and 2021 LinkedIn trends lowdown
20/01/2021
LinkedIn. It’s a bit like Marmite, right? Some people love it, while others run a mile from it 🏃. Why? Because, until you get your head around it, LinkedIn is the one network guaranteed to give you the jitters. You hop from profile to profile, and before you know it, you’ve got a nasty case…[Episode 70] What’s going to be fab on Facebook in 2021? The awesome Angie Hiscott, our Facebook guru, gets out her crystal ball and gives us her top tips
12/01/2021
If you’re a TechPixie, you’ll be familiar with Angie Hiscott’s awesomeness (Angie has a mug that says ‘Awesome Angie’ gifted to her by Joy, our founder. So it’s official: she’s awesome). Not only is she the community manager for our Facebook Groups here at TechPixies – answering queries, dishing out tips and advice, and generally…[Episode 69] Wow, don’t miss this! Sophie Bradley, our Instagram coach extraordinaire, reveals the Instagram trends you need to know in 2021
06/01/2021
Woo-hoo! It’s a new year, and that means a fresh new start and a whole new set of goals and objectives, right?! Ok, so confession time: we might have already fallen off the wagon when it comes to a resolution we made around chocolate biscuits (🤦), but we’re raring to go here at TechPixies HQ.…[Episode 68] Dream big in 2021 🚀. Julie Garner, owner of three businesses, reveals the incredible story of how her vision board came true!
30/12/2020
Your thoughts are powerful. No, not the kind of thoughts you have in the shower about what’s on your (never-ending) to-do list! We’re talking the kind of thoughts you have right at the beginning of every TechPixie journey – the ones we ask you to pop onto your vision board. When Julie Garner joined TechPixies…[Episode 67 – BONUS] She sells crochet kits, she does workshops, and she’s even been on TV! How TechPixie Carol Ibbetson turned her passion into one cool business
23/12/2020
You know Christmas has come early when we give you not one but two podcast episodes to enjoy in a week! And our bonus episode is an absolute Christmas cracker. In a matter of months, TechPixie Carol Ibbetson from Cool Wool Designs has set up a website, added craft kits to her online shop, and…[Episode 66] Career-changer Charlotte English tells us about the incredible power of craft and the success she’s enjoying as a funky maker
23/12/2020
You return to work after maternity leave, get settled into the inevitable juggling act, and then you’re faced with the prospect of redundancy. You decide it’s the perfect time to take a career break to raise your child, and then, boom! Before you know it, the years have crept by, and you’re sat there with…