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Information and inspiration for building a business with integrity and soul.
10 Website Mistakes That Might Be Impacting Sales
“If you think math is hard, try web design.”~ Trish Parr You thought having a website would lead to sales but the truth is, it's not. In this piece I share common website mistakes I see business owners making time and time again when it comes to selling their...
Is This Stopping You From Taking Action?
“Being detached allows us to stay balanced and free from the anxieties that arise from success or failure.”~ Pundarika Vidyanidhi Das I want to talk to you about something that comes up in my client calls all the time. The struggle to take action on important...
Five Things To Include In Your Next Launch
“The future depends on what you do today.”~ Mahatma Gandhi I want to share with you my 5 of my favourite launch activities, just in case you are planning a Fall/Autumn launch. With launch season (as I call it) coming up, now is the time to be thinking about our launch...
Why I Favour Long Form Content Over Social Media
“If you aren’t having fun creating content, you’re doing it wrong.”~ Ann Handley I think I’m probably in the minority as a business coach who doesn’t push my clients to spend time hustling on social media. Not because I don’t value social media, I certainly do but...
Where My Clients Come From
“All things being equal, people will do business with — and refer business to — those people they know, like and trust.”~ Bob Burg I want to share with you where my coaching clients come from in the hope that it gives you some insight on where to focus your attention...
5 Elements Your Freebie Needs To Be Successful
“Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment. Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them. The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.”~ Bob Burg (The Go Giver) I want to...
How To Create Your Ideal Business Schedule
“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.~ Annie Dillard One of the very first things I ask all new clients about is their working schedule....
The 5 Strategies I Use To Beat Procrastination
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.”~ Spanish Proverb The dictionary definition of procrastination is this: The action of delaying or postponing something. If you’re anything like most business owners I know, you’ve experienced procrastination. Most likely...
The Exact Formula I Use to Price My Offerings
“If you're not worried you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.”~ Roy Williams Ethical and accessible pricing is super important to me. So much so that I get told regularly that I don’t charge enough for what I offer. I love it when that...
The 5 Strategies I Use To Beat Procrastination
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” ~ Spanish Proverb The dictionary definition of procrastination is this: The action of delaying or postponing something. If you’re anything like most business owners I know, you’ve experienced procrastination. Most...
Ignore Red Flags At Your Peril. A Cautionary Tale
“Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.” ~ Sylvia Clare I want to share with you a personal story about the worst thing that has happened to me in over 12 years of working online. I’ve decided to share it so that I can...
Who Do You Need To Become In 2024?
“Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are.”~ Jim Rohnn Sometimes our inability to achieve our goals comes from a lack of skills or knowledge but often, we actually know what it is that we need to do but for some reason, we simply don’t do it. Why is...
My Top Tips To Start Off The Year Strong
“Slow and steady wins the race.”~ Proverb I want to share with you some of my top tips to start the year off strong and by strong I don’t mean from pushing yourself hard. What I’d actually love is if you could find a way to ease yourself into this New Year much like...
8 Ways To Grow Your Audience
“So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time."~ Seth Godin The cold hard truth is that you can’t succeed in business if...
The Fear Is Real
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as teh bold"~ Helen Keller There are a number of ways and places that fear shows up for solo business owners. As micro business owners, we’re not just responsible for...
Getting Back On Track
“You never fail until you stop trying.”~ Albert Einstein It’s my firm belief that there are certain things in business that require a certain level of consistency in order to support your business growth. Creating valuable content for your audience on the regular is...
Finishing The Year Strong
“It’s not where you start — It’s where you finish that counts.” ~ Zig Ziglar I don't know about you but it's around this time of year that I start to get excited about the promise that the next year holds. It would be oh so easy for me to write this year off already,...
How I Handle Pre-Performance Nerves
“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”~ Nelson Mandela I want to share with you a few things I do whenever I feel nervous about “performing” in my business. That might be teaching a class, doing a live video, being...
Stop Copying Other Business Owners
“Whatever you do, be different — that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.”~ Anita Roddick As a business coach and more importantly, as a business owner, I’m pretty obsessed...
How I Start And Finish My Working Day
“Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren’t willing to be changed by the ritual, don’t do it." ~ Starhawk...
Five Possible Reasons For Your Failed Launch
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”~ Henry Ford In this blog, I want to talk about launching. Not how to launch, I have a workshop coming up on that. I’d like to shed some light on the possible reasons why launching may not have worked for...
3 Ways To Conduct More Loving Launches
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”~ Nicholas Sparks You’ve likely been on the receiving end of an annoying and spammy launch or two. You know the type, where we’re bombarded by emails laden with manipulation, using all the tricks in the...
5 Things I Recommend When Niching Feels Impossible
"The only time I see a niche working in a coach’s favor is when it emerges on its own"~ Steve Chandler I want to share with you my best advice for those of you who have been struggling with the issue of niching in your business. As business owners we've all heard the...
Mindset Lessons From A Five Year Old
“The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.”~ Denis Avey I want to tell you a cute story about my kid. One of our new family habits for 2023 is to go on a walk in nature every Sunday morning. The walk takes me about 40 minutes fast-walking and at...
The Most Important Skill For Introverts In Business To Master
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”~ Herman Melville I want to talk to you about a business practice that...
The Number One Business Question I Regularly Ask Myself
After years of trial and error and navigating periods of burnout, I’m delighted to report that I have a business model that really works for me. Not only does it bring in regular and sustainable income but it does so in a way that allows me to take time off when I...
What To Do If You’ve Lost Your Business Mojo
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”- Maya Angelou I’d like to talk to you about something that came up in a client session and how to make sense of it. What to do when we lose our business mojo or feel like we’ve...
Five Things I’m Doing To Start The Year Off Well
“If you believe you can change — if you make it a habit — the change becomes real.”~ Charles Duhigge I want to share with you five things that I’m doing to start the year off well. My hope is that they may inspire your own list of things that can support you to start...
My Word Of The Year (+ The Story Behind It)
“When we stop growing, we stop living and start existing."~ Warren Wiersbe This blog is a bit different, in that I’m not here to share a business strategy with you, more the personal story behind the word I’ve chosen as my theme for next year. My personal growth...
How To Cultivate A Strong Business Network
“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”~ Reid Hoffman I wanted to talk to you about building a solid business network so that you can feel less alone on your business journey as well as reap the...
5 Goal-Setting Mistakes To Avoid
“A goal without a plan is just a wish."~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I want to share with you 5 common mistakes we often make when it comes to setting goals for our business (or our life!). I share these in the hope that they’ll help you as you think about your own...
When It’s Time To Recycle In Your Business
“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.”~ Fred Rogers I want to talk to you about recycling in your business. What it is, why it’s important and when it might be time to start recycling in yours. My word of the...
The One Thing I Can’t Teach You About Business
“Life is a balance between what we can control and what we cannot. I am learning to live between effort and surrender."~ Danielle Orner In this blog, I want to talk about the one thing I can’t teach you in relation to growing a sustainable business. Let me start by...
Is It Time to Consider the Big Picture of Your Life + Business?
We are well into September and it’s precisely this time of year, as we near the end of quarter 3 and the start of 4, that I like to check in with my life and business to see if I’m on track to have the year I set out to have and more importantly to make sure that I am...
Balance Work Life
“Life is a balance between what we can control and what we cannot. I am learning to live between effort and surrender."~ Danielle Orner In this blog, I share with you my thoughts on work/life balance and a few practical strategies to better manage your business...
Why I Don’t Recommend Starting A Business To Most People
“If you’re starting something on your own, you better have a passion for it, because this is hard work.”~ Sallie Krawcheck, Co-founder of Ellevest In this blog, I share with you why I don’t recommend starting a business to most people who ask me about it. Given what I...
Are You Doing This Often Enough?
“A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.”~ Ron Willingham In this blog, I talk to you about something that so many of the business owners I work with struggle to implement — regularly letting your audience...
Celebrating Five Years Since I Launched This Business + 21 Lessons Learned
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”~ Winston Churchill On Thursday 19th May 2022, I celebrated 5 years in business as a business coach, around 8 years in business total (I was a Life Coach before that) and around 10...
The Most Effective Way I Know To Connect With Your Ideal Client
“Until you understand your customers — deeply and genuinely — you cannot truly serve them.”~ Rasheed Ogunlaru In this blog, I tell you about the best way I know to connect with your ideal client and the business benefits of doing so. That way is audience research and...
The Best Way To Get Repeat Customers + Referrals
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”~ Bill Gates I want to talk to you about something that many business owners overlook in their business and what you might be missing out on as a result. In order to maximise your chances of having...
5 Pieces Of Sales Advice I Choose To Ignore (+ Why)
“Trust is like love. Both parties have to feel it before it really exists.”~ Simon Sinek I want to share with you 5 pieces of mainstream sales advice that seriously bug the hell out of me. I’m pretty sure you’ll recognise most of these and maybe you already sense that...
Why I Don’t Recommend Coaching Packages (+ What I Do Instead)
“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”~ Sara Blakely In this blog, I’m going to talk about coaching packages, why I don’t do them or recommend them and what I do...
How I Structure My Working Day As a Mother and Solopreneur
“A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.”~ Peter Turla If, like me, you’re feeling a little bit overworked and under rested, then my hope is that this topic will be useful for you. I want to share with you one of...
10 Practical Ways To Minimise Business Overwhelm
dded"Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you."~ Dr. Stephen R. Covey In this blog, I’m sharing 10...
How To Cover Your Vacations When You Are A Solopreneur
"There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither."― Alan Cohen Something that I’ve had to work at over the years is how to keep my business ticking over whenever I do take a break from work. In the early days of my business, I either...
10 Income Generating Activities To Try Out In Your Business
“If you want your income to grow, you too must grow.”~ Idowu Koyenikan In this blog, I want to talk about “income generating activities”, what they are, how you identify them and some specific activities you can do to bring more money into your business this year....
What I Do When I Don’t Feel Like Working On My Business
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' ~ Mary Anne Radmacherost What I’m not talking about in this blog is not those days when you’re just feeling a bit demotivated, we all have...
Are You Paying Enough Attention to Your Business Model?
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”~ Bill Gates I don’t know why, but “business model” is not something I see talked about all that often when it comes to building a sustainable online business, but...
Is Your Business Visible Enough?
“The power of visibility can never be underestimated.”~ Margaret Cho Visibility is a topic, much like marketing, that can feel quite anxiety inducing, especially for the more introverted amongst us but it needn’t be so. In this blog, I want to share with you two...
A Story About Generosity In Business
“Shifting your focus from getting to giving is not only a nice way to live life and conduct business, but a very profitable way as well.” ~ Bob Burg In this blog, I want to share with you a story about generosity in business. Generosity is one of the fundamental...
Is Accountability An Inside Job?
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt In this blog, I’m going to talk about accountability. As a coach, it’s a topic that...
How Your Work Is Received Is Not Up To You
“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection” ~ Mark Twain In early 2021, I ran my first ever paid for online workshop. For the longest time, I had in one way or another been talking or thinking about offering online classes. However, until that point,...
4 Business Areas To Focus On In 2022
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt In pulling together the curriculum for my group mastermind, I’ve identified 4 key areas of your business to work on over the coming year. In this blog,...
The Invisible (+ Sometimes Painful) Side of Business Growth
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ~ Thomas Edison I can’t begin to tell you how many conversations I’ve had with business owners who are feeling deflated, discouraged and like they want to give...
10 Things That Support My Content Creation Habit
In this blog, I share the tools and strategies I’ve adopted over the years to facilitate a consistent content creation habit for my business. I hadn’t fully appreciated, till I started to really think about it, just how many things I have in place to make the delivery...
The Difference Between Strategies, Tactics + Tools
“The best marketing strategy ever: Care.” ~ Gary Vaynerchuck. I want to share with you my thoughts on the difference between strategy, tactics and tools when it comes to marketing your business and why I think the distinction is important. Let me start by saying that...
The Secret To My Consistency
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius I believe that showing up consistently is one of the key components to business success and also one of the hardest things to do. This is what I have learned about being consistent in both...
10 Things I Want You To Know About Email Marketing
“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.”~ Katharine Hepburn In this blog I share 10 ideas about email marketing that will hopefully dispel some common myths about this business practice, as well as give you some ideas to inspire your own email marketing...
Why + How to Slow Down the Sale
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”~ Lao Tzu In this blog post I talk about slowing down the sale. Both the importance of it and some practical ways to do it. It’s important to note that what we’re talking about here is, in the main, the kind of...
Five Things I Ask All New Clients To Do
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ~ Abraham Lincoln After opening up a number of new coaching spots on my calendar, resulting in having several first sessions with new clients. It dawned on me that it might be...
How To Start Enjoying The Sales Process
“Sales is not about selling anymore, but about building trust and educating.” ~ Siva Devaki I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by authentic business coach, George Kao. Now if you’ve known me for any length of time, you’ll know that I am a huge fan of...
How To Tap Into A Consistent Flow Of Inspiration
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”~ Pablo Picasso Now, if you know anything at all about me, you’ll know that I believe that consistent content creation is a wonderful way to grow your business. As a Business Coach then, it’s no surprise that...
Trucking Through The Downswings
“I believe there’s a natural ebb and flow to our weeks and months. Sometimes we’re up, everything comes easy and we have an abundance of energy. And sometimes it’s a huge struggle to even work one hour per day.” ~ Niall Doherty This piece is titled after a blog post I...
Are You Willing To Think About Marketing Differently
“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued.”~ Brené Brown Lately I’ve had a phrase that keeps playing in my head and I’m feeling called to share it: You don’t get paid to do your marketing, you do your...
How To Reach Even More People Without Burning Yourself Out
In this article I share the best way to reach a wider audience and how to do so without burning yourself out. Yes you might have guessed that I am talking about content again but bear with me. If you're anything like the many business owners I've coached, you fall...
Stop Asking For The Sale (And Do This Instead)
“A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.” ~ Ron Willingham Let me start by sharing the fact that I've built both my current and former businesses without ever "asking" for the sale inside of a conversation...
Seven Ways to Start Leaning into ease
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”~ Anne Lamott One of my words of the year for 2021 is E A S E. (The other in case you are wondering is Health). The more we get into this year, the more I'm realising that in...
Taming Tech Overwhelm – A Guide to The Essentials
“Discover the tools to build your own vision.”~ Mary Anne RadmacherI know how overwhelming tech can be when it comes to setting up your business. It seems like there are a million and one tools we need to buy and learn how to use and with so many different options the...
How To Get Your Business Out Of The Feast And Famine Cycle
“Sales is an outcome, not a goal. It’s a function of doing numerous things right.” ~ Jill KonrathIn this post, I wanted to talk to you about something I haven’t seen talked about too much online, but that is actually very common, especially amongst the kind of...
How to Practice Generosity in Business Without Burning Out
“Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They’re compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.” ~ Brené Brown Given how often I talk about serving and giving in the context...
Creating Your Next Client
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”~ Peter DuckerYears ago, when I worked with a Business Coach for well over a year to set up my Life Coaching practice, there were two things he repeated to me regularly. Clients are created not attracted. And No...
How Willing Are You To Get IT Wrong?
In this blog post, want to talk to you about audacity. In particular, your willingness to take surprisingly bold risks when it comes to your business. Something I see time and time again, is bright and capable business owners, failing to really move the needle...
Ten Bold Moves I’ve Made in Business
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”~ E.E. CummingsIn this blog post I share with you 10 bold moves I’ve made over the past 10 years in business, each of which I believe have contributed to the success I am enjoying today. All too often, when...
The Missing Piece When It Comes to Business Growth
“Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the “give” part.” ~ Bob Burg Do you ever feel like there is a part of the business building puzzle that you just can’t seem...
To Niche Or Not To Niche
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.” ~ Rainer Maria RilkeWhether you pronounce it nitch or you pronounce it neesh (and for the...
Three Lessons I’ve Learned Since Launching My Business
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”~ Mahatma Gandhi In this blog post I wanted to take some time to contemplate what I’ve learned over the last 4 years of building and growing my current business. I launched this...
Six Reasons to Make Content a Business Priority
“By dedicating yourself to a content rhythm, you’ll develop a consistent level of creativity and energy that flows into everything else in your business.”~ George KaoYou might already get that it pays to have a presence on social media, to publish a blog and/or to...
Five Stages Of Business Growth
Growing a business is a journey, it’s a transformative journey that has various stages of growth, through which, we need to pass until we reach our own personal definition of success. Each stage requires us to do different things and with each stage we...
Is Your Business Model Missing This Crucial Piece?
“That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.” ~ Simone de BeauvoirOver the past month inside the Conscious Business Mastermind, we've been looking at Business Models and how to create a sustainable one...
My 2021 Strategic Business Plan
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Now that we're in February, it's usually at this point that I can finally say that my business plan for the year is ready — even though I start reviewing and planning in December, I like to take...
Ten reasons why Your Content Isn’t Converting Into Sales
“It’s Not About Selling. It’s About Creating Value For Your Audience.”~ Jerry Allocca Whilst you’ll hear me extol the virtue of consistent content creation all day long, churning out content is not enough to see an impact on your bottom line. It goes without saying...
Learn From My Mistake
“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions are searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” ~ Maya AngelouAs I write this blog post, I’m...
Do Discounts and Sales Devalue Your Offering?
“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.” ~ Roy T. Bennett Given that January sales are right around the corner, I wanted to take this opportunity to look at whether or not discounts and sales...
Common Business Pitfalls To Avoid
“It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock. ~ Woody AllenThis blog post is for those of you who are earlier on in your business journey....
Five Ways To Demonstrate Your Expertise
“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.” ~ Werner HeisenbergImagine this. You’re a talented, but relatively unheard of artist who has created a stunning painting. You now have to sell it...
A Guide to Authentic Pricing for Conscious Business Owners
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”~Winston ChurchillIn this article I want to talk you about pricing. It’s something that confuses a lot of business owners and a topic that evokes a lot of strong opinions, read on for my response to...
How to Stand Out in a Crowded Marketplace
In this blog post I talk about something that I know many business owners struggle with. Whether you call it standing out, getting noticed or being visible, I want to share with you how to do it without compromising on integrity. I’ve always been a less is more kind...
How To Market Your Business Even if You Don’t Like Writing
“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued.” ~ Brené Brown We are told all the time that content is king and creating content is the best way to grow your business, so for those business owners who struggle...
Quit Doing This (For The Sake Of Your Sanity + Success)
“Strategy is thinking about a choice and choosing to stick with your thinking.” ~ Jeroen De Flander At the end of 2019, I gave birth to my second son. On the whole, his arrival went fairly smoothly. Having gone through it all before, the nappy changes, sleepless...
7 Ways to Uplevel Your Business in 2020
“No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level." ~ John C. Maxwell As we near the end of 2019, it's important to take some time to think about what you might do to uplevel your...
5 Business Foundations to Support Your Business Growth
“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” ~ David Allan CoeYou can't build and grow a business on shaky foundations. What I've found as a Business Coach is that people often come...
5 Essential Qualities Every Business Owner Should Cultivate
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” ~ Napoleon HillBeing successful in business is not simply about having the right strategy and tools to hand. If it were then way more people would be finding huge success both swiftly and easily,...
The Importance of Reconnecting to Your Big Picture
“Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we're really trying to accomplish.” ~ Robert CheekeIt's mid-September and it's precisely this time of year, as we near the end of quarter 3 and the start of 4,...
How To Prioritise Your Day-To-Day Business Activities
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” ~ Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWhen we have, what feels like, a million things to do and not enough time to get them all done, we often find it hard to see the wood for the trees. Add to...
5 Simple Ways to Conduct Audience Research
“One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.” ~ Malcom ForbesToo often we're so focused on trying to present a polished image to our people that we forget to ask them what it is they really need. In this post I talk about the importance of conducting...
A Simple + Soulful Framework for Audience Growth
“The best content in the world won’t drive revenue if nobody sees it.” ~ AnonymousGrowing your audience is essential to the long-term sustainability of your business. Given that only a small percentage of your audience will ever buy from you, if you don't continue to...
Doing The “Edge Work” in Your Business
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” ~ Ralph Waldo EmersonIn this post I talk about the importance of being courageous in your business and share a few ideas on how you might lean into your edge with your work.Like all good...
10 Practical Ways to Activate Your Business Network
“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.” ~ Henry Melvill.”In this post I share with you 10 super practical and fairly...
Why I Don’t Do Discovery Calls + What I Do Instead
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” ~ Anne FrankIn this post I want to talk to you about discovery calls. For many of my clients, who tend to be service-based business owners such as coaches, healers and teachers, discovery calls are a common practice for...
How Long it Really Takes to Succeed in Business
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” ~ Bill GatesIn this post I want to talk to you about one of the biggest misconceptions (if not the biggest) I see in the world of online business. That is the time...
Conduct Your Mid-Year Business Review With 3 Simple Questions
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all" ~ Peter Drucker Last week saw the end of the first half of 2019. This week we began the second half of the year and what better time to do a 6-month review of your business. This...
Power Leaks – What They Are + How To Plug Them
“When we get comfortable with our own strength, discomfort changes shape. We remember our power.” ~ Jen KnoxIn this post, I talk about power. Not the corrupt or abusive kind (which in my opinion isn't truly power) but the kind of power that when exercised,...
Building Your Community With Integrity
“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” ~ Stephen R. CoveyI’ve built several communities over the years. My online life began back in 2011 with the birth...
The Art of Connection (An Interview)
"I believe that fostering authentic, human connections with like-minded people is the fastest, easiest and most heart-centred way for you to build your business." [09:44] Shifting the focus away from the numbers and more on the relationship side of things: "I...
What I Learned From Writing 30 Blog Posts in 30 Days
“By dedicating yourself to a content rhythm, you'll develop a consistent level of creativity and energy that flows into everything else in your business.” ~ George KaoI've got to be honest with you. There were times over the last month when I felt like this day would...
How I Structure My Working Day
“A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.” ~ Peter TurlaAt the end of last year, the call to simplify my business was loud and clear and I knew that if I wanted to see a boost in business growth at the same time as...
Why You Shouldn’t Wait for Inspiration to Strike
“Action isn’t just the effect of motivation, but also the cause of it.” ~ Mark MansonIf you know anything at all about me, you'll know that I believe that consistent content creation is a wonderful way to grow your business. There are so many benefits, I wrote a whole...
How to Stop Tying Your Self Worth to Your Work
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor RooseveltIn this post, I want to talk about fear. In particular some common fears we have around the value or worth of our work, which often stems from us tying our self-worth to our work. Last year,...
Getting Clear on Your Sales Strategy
“Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.” ~ Sean Stephenson I share lots of different strategies in my blog posts and weekly letters but in this post I want to focus in on getting clear on and really defining...
Why Freedom is Overrated
"The constant desire for more freedom ironically limits us in a number of ways. Similarly, it’s only by limiting ourselves — by choosing and committing to certain things in life — that we truly exercise our freedom." ~ Mark MansonFreedom. Such a loaded term and means...
How to Know If You’ve Stopped Being Authentic in Your Business
“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde Back in 2014, was when I got real about creating my own business. After years of talking about building a coaching business, I finally started to earn a living from my coaching and my first few years in...
A Conscious Approach to Client Creation
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ~ Maya AngelouWhat I'm going to share in this post can work for most service-based, conscious business owners, be they teachers, healers, wellness practitioners or coaches. But of course, my...
A Simple Tool for Content Creation
"Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.” ~ Eckhart TolleWhen it comes to creating content consistently, the biggest barrier many people face is coming up with strong content ideas and knowing what to write about. Couple with this a desire to...
Everything I Use to Run My Business
“The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.” ~ Benjamin FranklinAs a one-woman business, if there is something I can use to make my business life easier, I'll gladly take it. Over the years I've taken on numerous free and paid for tools to help me operate...
How to Better Navigate the Lows
“The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.” ~ Richard CarlsonI’m sure everyone has days or weeks when everything goes to plan. When you seem to jump out of bed in the morning and have a spring in your step and a can-do attitude....
Five ways to get more consistent in your business
“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.” ~ Roy T. BennettI'm pretty sure that you've already heard (several times probably) just how important consistency is in your business. Just how necessary it is to show up in...
How to Minimize Overwhelm in Your Business
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” ~ Timber HawkeyeAs first glance, feeling overwhelmed is at once the bane and the burden of being a solopreneur. With so much to deal with, learn and deliver, is it any...
How to Create Powerful Agreements with Your Clients
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” ~ Alexander Pope If you offer 1:1 programs for your clients, you may have considered or been encouraged to have your clients sign a contract. It's not uncommon for coaches, for example, to have...
How to Simplify Your Business
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” ~ Hans HofmannI've always been a big believer in less is more, but when it comes to business building, it's so easy to get sucked into a mindset of more, more, more....
Authentic Outreach: What It Is and Why It’s Important
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” ~ RumiIn this post I want to share with you a key way to grow your service-based, purpose-driven business in a sustainable and conscious way. Alongside content...
Are These Two Things Aligned in Your Business?
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” ~ Michael PorterIn this post, I want to discuss the importance of alignment with you. It's a topic that comes up often in coaching sessions and one that I feel deserves a closer look. I'd love you to take a moment...
What Are You Prepared to Endure?
"Everything sucks some of the time.” ~ Mark MansonDo what you love and you'll never work a day in your life. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. Whilst I am fully aware of the truth that both of these quotes point...
How to Stay Accountable as a Solopreneur
"At the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves - our success is a result of what we do." ~ Catherine PulsiferWhenever I get on a call with someone I've never coached before, I always ask them what they think coaching is and what they are hoping to get from it?...
The Secret to Easeful Productivity
"In the relentless busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest.” ~ Wayne MullerI don't know about you but I've never felt comfortable with the term productivity. It all too often felt like a standard I could never quite reach and to do so...
An Essential Mindset Shift For Entrepreneurs
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." ~ Napoleon Hill In this post, I want to tell you a story about a woman I once coached. As you read the story, see if you can relate to her experience. It was a woman I hadn't spoken...
3 Books That Have Influenced My Creativity
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ~ Marcus Tullius CiceroBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert I loved this book so much. I read it years ago and still talk about it with people often. It's a book about creativity, which...
How Easy Is It for Your Ideal Clients to Find You
In this post I want to talk to you about how easy you are making it for your right-fit people to find and to buy from you and share some simple steps you can take to really improve your reachability. I've been listening to an amazing recording lately of a Marketing...
Four Marketing ‘Tactics’ That Erode Trust
"Trust is built when someone is vulnerable and not taken advantage of." ~ Bob VanourekAs conscious business owners it goes without saying that we want to cultivate trust with our audience. We want to be of service and have our clients' and customers' best interests in...
Conscious Business – What It Is and Why It Matters
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.” ~ Joseph CampbellWhat is conscious business? Put simply it's a business that puts people before profits. That puts impact above...
4 Ways to Turn Pro in Your Business
"When we turn pro, we give up a life that we may have become extremely comfortable with. We give up a self that we have come to identify with and to call our own." ~ Steven PressfieldIf you are struggling to see positive and financially sustainable results in your...
Why It’s Sometimes Necessary to Break the Rules
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." ~ Pablo PicassoAs a business coach, I'm often asked about the rules we need to follow in order to become successful in business. It's not uncommon for people to begin a question with "am I allowed...
The Importance of Having a Strong Point of View
"Point of view is you explaining what you do and why you do it the way you do it. It’s you explaining what your approach is and why you think it will work." ~ Tad HargraveHopefully you know what you do and who you help, but can you clearly articulate why you do what...
Why You Struggle to Create Content Consistently and What to Do About It
"Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time." ~ John C. MaxwellSo you know that content creation is important. You don't need convincing that it makes good business sense to consistently share meaningful...
Expand Your Content Creation Comfort Zone with a 30 Day Challenge
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." ~ Maya AngelouI hope that Spring is making itself known to you wherever you are in the world. I'm feeling very blessed to live in Spain at the moment, where the sun is nearly always shining and a...
6 ways to market your business without feeling salesy
In this post, I want to talk to you about marketing, that "necessary evil" we all love to hate and I'm going to share with you 6 ways to market your business without feeling like a sleazy salesman. The deeper I get into my entrepreneurial journey the more I realise...
A Natural Approach to Growing Your Business (An Interview)
"I really, truly believe we need to eject ourselves from this dominant paradigm that says we always have to do more, be more and have more...and actually we need to slow down and come back to a more natural, sane, slow, thoughtful, methodical way of doing...
My 2019 Strategic Business Plan Laid Out
When it comes to my business plan, I'm super mindful not to fall down the trap of simply setting an unmanageable set of goals, in fact what I've spent the last few years refining, is a more strategic approach to my business planning, which allows me to focus...
Three Essentials Your Business Plan Must Include
It’s a brand new year and as such many of you are likely to have given some thought to business planning. You probably have a list of ambitious goals that you would love to achieve over the next 12 months and why not, the start of a new year is the perfect time to...
Why you hate sales & marketing (+ what to do about it)
Over the past few years of coaching women in business, I've met many brilliant and gifted business owners whose resistance to selling was crippling their business and their ability to grow. In this post I aim to shed light on where that resistance comes from and how...
The Most Important Action Many Business Owners Fail to Take
Let’s not mince words here. Starting a new business for the very first time can be fairly overwhelming. If you’ve never owned a business before, it can feel like you suddenly have to take on a multitude of roles, none of which you feel adequately prepared for. From...
6 Ways to Deepen Your Connection With Your Audience
If we’re to believe everything the marketers tell us, when it comes to growing our business, we’d be focused on the size of our audience far more than we would be focused on the people behind those numbers. Rather than deepening our connection to our audience, we’d...
7 Brilliant Women Share Their Best Advice on Creating Clients (Part 2)
[This is part 2 of a 2-part series on Creating Clients] In this 2-part series I asked 7 brilliant women to share their best advice on how to create clients in an authentic, rooted in integrity way. In part 1 of this 2-part series on creating clients, we heard from...
7 Brilliant Women Share Their Best Advice on Creating Clients (Part 1)
[This is part 1 of a 2-part series on creating clients] The first thing I would like to point out here is that this post refers to creating clients rather than attracting them. This is an important distinction. There are already a gazillion blog posts in existence...
Selling With Soul + Integrity (An Interview with Heidi Taylor)
"I believe that if you cannot have empathy for someone who is wanting to buy from you, then you're not going to reach them." [02:08] The distinction between transactional and relational sales. [3:19] On energy management: "Where are you leaking energy in places that...
Daily Rituals for Greater Clarity + Meaningful Productivity
Recently one of the women inside my Female Business Academy asked me to share my daily routine, as she had been struggling to find structure in her own daily business routine. As is often the way, I wanted to take some time to contemplate my answer so as to give her...
How We Sell Matters (+ Making an Ethical Move)
I don't know about you, but I am so over the manipulative and icky sales and marketing strategies that are rife in the online business world these days. Tactics like: manufactured scarcity creating a false sense of urgency that plays on our fear of missing out....
Alignment, Authenticity + Tactical Magic (An Interview)
"It's really important to come together. I think the female version of doing business is really about community and coming together and sharing resources and ideas so that we can all rise together." [02:03] Tactical Magic is about: "putting the magic and the...
Five ways to be more strategic in your business
Years ago when I was eagerly working my way up the corporate ladder and doing everything I could to rack up the skills and knowledge required for my next big promotion, I remember thinking, I'll know that I've made it, when I can add strategy to my CV. At the same...
A simple tool to get more done in less time
As entrepreneurs, many of us are running our businesses solo and as such, the one thing we all wish we had more of is time. But here's the thing, we only ever get 24 hours in the day and whilst you might be tempted to spend more hours in front of the computer to...