Powering Productivity

The Powering Productivity podcast shares real conversations with micro business leaders, neighbourhood coworking operators, and community builders who are leading with heart.It’s not about glossy success stories, it’s about the juggle, the invisible load, and the small shifts that help us keep moving forward.What you'll hear:🌿 How to keep energy steady when you’re carrying a lot💛 Ways to build sustainable, people-first hubs and businesses🔍 Honest reflections from leaders navigating change✨ The magic is in combining clarity with strategy - people-first, values-led, and sustainable.

Powering Productivity is a business podcast hosted by Suzanne Murdock, with 45 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Suzanne Murdock hosts Powering Productivity, a business show with 45 episodes published.

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  Powering Productivity

  What Small Business Really Looks Like: Voices From the Inside

  Jan 7, 202611 minS0

  <p>Welcome to this special episode of Powering Productivity, created in celebration of Small Business Saturday and our place in the UK’s SmallBiz100.</p><p>Over the past few years, I’ve had the privilege of sitting with founders, freelancers, independent coworking operators, community leaders and small teams, all people who've shared their truths with such honesty and generosity.</p><p><br></p><p>What struck me, time and time again, is how similar their stories are, not in the details but in the heart of them.</p><p><br></p><p>Again and again, our conversations returned to the...

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  S4. Ep12. Leading With Heart: The Emotional Realities of Coworking Leadership, with Lucy McInally

  Dec 4, 20251h 2mS4

  <p>What it really takes to run a coworking space without running yourself into the ground.</p><p>From the outside, running a coworking space can look beautifully simple: open the doors, fill the desks, host a few events and “let community happen”.</p><p>But for most independent and local operators, the reality is far heavier and far more human.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode of Powering Productivity, Suzanne is joined by Lucy McInally - a content strategist and writer who works with coworking brands and flexible workspace operators across the UK and Europe, and who also...

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  Episode #11

  S4. Ep11. Scaling With Heart: How Mantle Grew to Eight Locations Without Losing Their People-First Culture

  Dec 3, 202533 minS4

  <p>What does it really take to scale a coworking business without losing the soul of what made it special in the first place?</p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode of Powering Productivity, I’m joined by Jo Hart, who has been at the heart of Mantle Space’s growth from a single serviced-office centre to eight thriving locations across the South East of England.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jo’s story isn’t flashy or polished, it’s real.</p><p>She’s worked her way through every layer of the organisation over the last 14+ years: front-of-hou...

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  Episode #10

  S4E10 Quiet Strength: How Introverted Founders Build Community, Cashflow & Belonging in Neighbourhood Coworking, with Melissa Richards

  Nov 26, 202539 minS4

  <p>What does it really take to build a thriving neighbourhood coworking space as an introverted founder especially when you’re juggling cashflow, confidence, and community in equal measure?</p><p>In this episode of Powering Productivity, Suzanne sits down with Melissa Richards, founder of Buick Mackane, a vibrant creative coworking, meeting and event space in the heart of Newbury.</p><p>The conversation is honest, warm, and deeply relatable for anyone running a small hub or micro business especially those balancing people-first values with real-life energy and capacity.</p><p><br></p><p>✨ Quote from the episode:</p><p>“I neve...

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  Episode #9

  S4 Ep9. Where work meets belonging: The quiet power of rural coworking, with Maria do Ceu Bastos

  Oct 13, 202548 minS4

  <p>What if the future of work isn’t in glass towers or city coworking chains but in small, rooted hubs where people feel they belong?</p><p>In this episode of Powering Productivity, Suzanne is joined by Maria do Céu Bastos, founder of NOWHERE Desk - a rural coworking hub in Portugal that’s become a lifeline for freelancers, founders, and her local community.</p><p> Together, they explore how rural coworking is redefining connection and belonging not just for those who work there, but for the people who nurture these spacesevery day.</p><p><br></p><p>✨ In this...

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