The Hustle and Glow Podcast with Francesca Alexander

Hustle and Glow Podcast is about the entrepreneurial journey. Being your best self with an online or small business is always challenging and exciting. In our new unapologetic approach with people, planet, and profit in mind, we discuss social changes affecting the new way of social media marketing. Together we rise up in empowerment and entrepreneurialism activism. This is Hustle and Glow with Francesca Alexander

The Hustle and Glow Podcast with Francesca Alexander is a business podcast hosted by Francesca Alexander, with 57 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Francesca Alexander hosts The Hustle and Glow Podcast with Francesca Alexander, a business show with 57 episodes published.

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  Episode #17

  Episode 17: The Business Was Growing, But Was I?

  Sep 28, 202621 minS11

  The Business Was Growing, But Was I? A business can be doing better on paper while your actual life gets smaller. More clients. More revenue. More responsibility. More people needing something from you. And somehow less space to think, create, travel, rest, change direction or even remember what you wanted the business to make possible in the first place. In this episode, Francesca Alexander looks at the uncomfortable gap between business growth and personal growth . Because those two things do not automatically happen together. You can become better at delivery while becoming less creative. You can build a stronger company while becoming more tired. You can increase revenue while losing freedom. And you can spend so much time becoming the person the business needs that you stop asking whether that person still feels like you. This episode explores what happens when the business starts expanding faster than the life around it, and why growth should create options, not just more obligations. In this episode: Why revenue growth can hide personal stagnation The difference between a bigger business and a better life How founders disappear behind delivery, admin and responsibility What to measure besides revenue Why energy, creativity, confidence, health and freedom count too The danger of scaling a business you do not actually want to live inside Why the next stage may be about assets, IP, media, systems and reach, not simply more client work The question every founder should ask before trying to double the business If the business doubled next year, would your life become better or just busier? That is the question underneath this episode. Because a growing business should expand your life, not quietly consume it. Find more from Francesca at: Social Global Grind: https://www.socialglobalgrind.com Hustle and Glow: https://www.hustleandglow.com Francesca: https://linkin.bio/francescahustles Francesca Alexander is the founder of The Intelligent Marketing Studio at Social Global Grind and the Hustle and Glow Network, a business community for founders building with intention across Auckland, New Zealand and Los Angeles, California. She hosts the Hustle and Glow Podcast, a long-form conversation series on marketing, identity, community and what it actually takes to build something real. If this episode helped you, share it with someone who needs it. That is how good information travels.

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  Episode #16

  Episode 16: Your Calendar Is Telling on Your Business

  Sep 21, 202629 minS11

  You can tell yourself you built the business for freedom. Your calendar may have a very different opinion. In this episode, Francesca Alexander looks at what your schedule is really saying about the business you have created. Not the business you describe on your website. The one you are actually living inside. Who has access to you? What gets moved first when the week gets busy? Where does your own creative work sit? Is your health protected, or is it still the easiest thing to sacrifice? Francesca also introduces the idea of looking at business through four ledgers: money, time, energy and identity . Because a business can be growing financially while quietly taking more from the other three. This episode is about Life by Design, but not in the glossy, colour-coded-calendar sense. It is about whether your business actually fits the life you say you want. A packed calendar can mean things are going well. It can also mean everyone else has access to you and nobody has questioned the arrangement in years. In this episode: Why your calendar may be more honest than your vision board The difference between being busy and being well designed Why client work will take every hour you give it How other people’s urgency starts running the business The four ledgers: money, time, energy and identity What Life by Design looks like in a real working week Why freedom is visible in the calendar before it is visible in the bank account Read the companion article and take the 60-second calendar quiz: https://www.socialglobalgrind.com/your-calendar-knows-youre-overwhelmed-before-you-do Find more from Francesca at: Social Global Grind: https://www.socialglobalgrind.com Hustle and Glow: https://www.hustleandglow.com Francesca: https://linkin.bio/francescahustles Francesca Alexander is the founder of The Intelligent Marketing Studio at Social Global Grind and the Hustle and Glow Network, a business community for founders building with intention across Auckland, New Zealand and Los Angeles, California. She hosts the Hustle and Glow Podcast, a long-form conversation series on marketing, identity, community and what it actually takes to build something real. If this episode helped you, share it with someone who needs it. That is how good information travels.

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  Episode #15

  Episode 15: The Combative Client Is Usually Not the Problem

  Sep 7, 202633 minS11

  The Combative Client Is Usually Not the Problem There was a time when I would have told you a combative client was simply a difficult client. Experience changed the diagnosis. In this episode, Francesca Alexander breaks down what actually sits underneath most tense client relationships: unclear expectations, moving briefs, missing communication, vague approvals, pressure around revenue, and the moment a conversation about marketing quietly becomes a conversation about trust. This episode covers why some clients arrive already carrying the damage of previous agency relationships, why the brief is not admin but protection, why the client has deliverables too, and why communication is how you keep the room. Francesca also looks at the difference between data and defensiveness, what to do when somebody is trying to relocate a wider business problem onto marketing, and why contracts need to describe reality rather than fantasy. There is also a harder part of the conversation: when better documentation, better communication and better process are no longer enough. Sometimes the relationship is simply over. And sometimes the most professional thing you can do is leave the room without setting it on fire. Because there is a cost attached to emotional chaos, and businesses are strangely reluctant to put it on the spreadsheet. Find everything at https://linkin.bio/francescahustles Join the community at hustleandglow.com and click on Network to find upcoming Hustle and Glow events, workshops and founder sessions. For done-with-you and done-for-you marketing support, visit socialglobalgrind.com and hit the Find Your Path button. In about sixty seconds, you will know exactly how we can best support your business. The Hustle and Glow Podcast is hosted by Francesca Alexander, founder of Social Global Grind, The Intelligent Marketing Studio, and the Hustle and Glow Network. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss one. If this episode helped you, share it with someone who needs it. That is how good information travels.

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  Episode #14

  Episode 14: On Our Knees Is One of the Smartest Business Books of 2026

  Aug 31, 202623 minS11

  On Our Knees Is One of the Smartest Business Books of 2026 What happens when the thing that made you successful is the thing you now need to let go? That is the question sitting underneath Regena Thomashauer’s new book On Our Knees, and it is why Francesca Alexander thinks business leaders should be paying attention to a book that will probably never be shelved in the business section. In this episode, Francesca takes you inside Mama Gena’s launch at House of Yes in Brooklyn, where dancers, goddess mythology, public rage, erotic movement and women literally dropping to their knees became something much more interesting than a book event. Underneath the theatre was a founder talking openly about what happens when success becomes unsustainable, when identity becomes tangled with the thing you built, and when continuing is no longer the most intelligent choice. This episode explores why failure gives you permission to stop but success often does not, the difference between resilience and endurance, why the founder herself is part of the operating system, and what business culture gets wrong about control. Francesca also looks at the idea of the “underworld” as part of the business cycle, why destruction and creation are often consecutive stages, and what happens when the numbers say continue but your life says stop. At the centre of the conversation is one question most business books avoid entirely: how do you recognise when something has completed its purpose, even when it is still working? Pussy: A Reclamation was about desire. On Our Knees is about what comes after reclamation, when desire changes and the woman who built the thing has to decide whether she is still inside it. That is not failure. That is intelligence. Find everything at https://linkin.bio/francescahustles Join the community at hustleandglow.com and click on Network to find upcoming Hustle and Glow events, workshops and six-seat founder sessions. For done-with-you and done-for-you marketing support, visit socialglobalgrind.com and hit the Find Your Path button. In about sixty seconds, you will know exactly how we can best support your business. The Hustle and Glow Podcast is hosted by Francesca Alexander, founder of Social Global Grind, The Intelligent Marketing Studio, and the Hustle and Glow Network. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss one. If this episode helped you, share it with someone who needs it. That is how good information travels.

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  Episode #13

  Episode 13: Cambridge Analytica, Can It Happen Again in 2026?

  Jul 28, 202623 minS11

  Cambridge Analytica, The Silicon Poppy, and Why Discernment Is the Skill of 2026 In 2016 a company most people had never heard of used psychological profiling and micro-targeted advertising to influence an election. The technology that made it possible has not gone away. It has gotten smarter, faster, and significantly harder to detect. In this episode Francesca Alexander breaks down exactly what Cambridge Analytica did, why the conditions that enabled it are more sophisticated now than they were a decade ago, and why the women opting out of AI fluency are the ones most at risk from what is being built right now. This episode covers the OCEAN psychological model and how it was used to engineer fear rather than manufacture lies, the connection between the Silicon Poppy and civic vulnerability, why talking about politics in community is not divisive but necessary, and a five question discernment checklist you can use in four minutes before you share anything. Also in this episode: what happened at the first Hustle HQ Fluency AI agent build session, why six seats changes everything about how people actually learn, and how to find your seat at the next one. The Eventbrite link for Hustle HQ Fluency is in the show notes. First Wednesday of every month. Wynyard Quarter, Auckland. Fifteen dollars. Six seats. Find everything at https://linkin.bio/francescahustles Join the community at hustleandglow.com and click on Network to book your seat at Hustle HQ Fluency, our monthly six seat workshop for founders who want the download without the overwhelm. First Wednesday of every month. Wynyard Quarter, Auckland. Fifteen dollars. For done-with-you and done-for-you marketing support, visit socialglobalgrind.com and hit the Find Your Path button. In about sixty seconds, you will know exactly how we can best support your business. The Hustle and Glow Podcast is hosted by Francesca Alexander, founder of Social Global Grind, The Intelligent Marketing Studio, and the Hustle and Glow Network. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss one. If this episode helped you, share it with someone who needs it. That is how good information travels.

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