Your Simple & Spacious Business: Recent Episodes
Jen Carrington
I’m Jen Carrington, an online business guide and I’ve spent the past eight years building and running my own simple and spacious business and supporting hundreds of my clients in theirs too. In this show I’ll be diving into the ways we can bring more simplicity, ease, joy, and intention to our work - through both the nitty gritty practical shifts and all of the mindset shifts that comes with running your own business too.
This podcast isn’t here to tell you how to build and run your business, instead I want to support you to build and run your business in whatever way truly works best for you.
This is my last day of work before I sign off for my summer sabbatical and I feel something close to that giddy excitement that I used to feel as a child before the school holidays of knowing that there’s an abundance of open space ahead of me to spend however I wish to each day.
And my body is so ready for this break.
To just be Jen the human for the summer, not also Jen the business owner.
In today’s episode I share a little more about my plans for my summer sabbatical, how I made it possible to take this time off, and hopefully some encouragement for you if your body is ready to slow down and rest this summer too.
I’ll be back in September ☀️
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
How I’m taking 4 months off from my business this year 🗓️
Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.
Join me over on Substack.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
One of my big goals for this year was to redefine what launching my group program gets to look and feel like in my business.
After four years of doing three enrolments a year and putting a whole lot of energy into the warm up and launch window I knew that my body couldn’t sustain that anymore.
And not just that, I also just felt really done with that type of approach to launching.
I wanted it to feel way simpler, much more low-lift, and gentler on my nervous system too.
So I decided to really slow down and soften my sales cycles this year.
To do six mini low-lift enrolments instead of putting pressure on just three times a year to reach my sales goals.
To sell to smaller segments of my email list and prioritise the waitlist most of all.
And to opt-out of the narrative that we need to churn out more content, build more hype, and create more urgency to make enough sales to sustain our business.
In today’s episode I share how my mini enrolments have been going so far this year, all of the numbers and sales, what I think has been supporting these sales cycles to gently thrive, and encouragement for you if you’re craving a slower, gentler, more low-lift approach to selling in your business too.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Find out more about YS&SB and join the waitlist for an invitation to the next enrolment - doors open again just to the waitlist next week on Thursday 9th July!
Join me over on Substack.
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Rarely a week goes by where I’m not talking about pricing with my clients and YS&SB members.
It’s both a really practical and emotional topic in our business.
Practically our pricing is just what we charge for the work we do and how we design our offerings in a way that makes it sustainable and profitable for us to deliver them.
But emotionally it can trigger a whole lot of feelings and fears.
Fears around, who will pay me this? And am I allowed to charge this? And what about the people who can’t afford this? And am I even good enough to be paid this? And will I be able to make enough sales at this price point?
And I’ve navigated this messy middle in my own business recently too as I made the decision to increase the sliding scale tiers for my group program after the next enrolment in July.
In today’s episode I dive deeper into all the thoughts and feelings behind this pricing decision and some encouragement for you if you’re currently feeling stuck on what to charge or how to give yourself permission to increase your prices so that you don’t abandon your own needs in your pricing.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Find out more about YS&SB and join the waitlist for an invitation to the next enrolment in July.
Join me over on Substack.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
If you ever feel like there are markers of success and growth that you have to hit to feel good enough in your business, today’s episode is for you.
Because it’s okay to have a slower season in your business to honour the needs of your life.
It’s okay to adjust your workload to make space for other priorities.
And it’s okay to gently dial things back up again too whenever that may honour your desires and goals.
Our business can bend alongside us and be something that grounds and supports our life instead of consuming it and dictating our days.
So if you feel torn between what you truly desire in this season and the goals that you think that you should be pursuing instead, I hope today’s episode can ground you back into what is most aligned for you.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.
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One meaningful piece of content a week.
That’s the foundation of my gentle marketing plan for this year.
To carve out the energy, space, and time each week to sit down and create something that just feels like a meaningful dispatch from one human being to another.
So much noise online right now is telling us that we need to be churning out content for business growth.
That we need to please algorithms, hook attentions, and that if we can’t keep up with that pace then we should outsource to AI and let that create our content for us instead.
But in all of that noise I think we can lose sight of what actually builds, grows, and sustains a business: resonance, connection and trust.
In today’s episode I share some encouragement for why you don’t have to churn out more content to support your business to gently thrive and how I’ve been supporting my business to make steady sales, reach new hell yes people and continue to build resonance, connection, and trust with my existing readers and listeners too without pushing myself past my capacity.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
It has now been four years since I first opened the doors to my group program Your Simple & Spacious Business in April 2022.
Four years since I built a whole new foundational piece of my business model and redefined what my work gets to look like and brought a whole lot more spaciousness and flexibility into my business too.
And for today’s episode I want to share with you the biggest lessons I’ve learned from running and selling this program, what’s supported it to gently thrive over the past four years, and why you never have to feel stuck in any one version of your business that isn’t truly working best for you.
I also share how much money YS&SB has made since 2022 and how building and running this program really changed everything for me in my business.
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Join us inside Your Simple & Spacious Business before doors close on Friday 22nd May + the 1:1 bonus ends on Tuesday 19th!
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Do I regret making my group program a lifetime offer? 💫
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
Whenever I come across business advice that I’m deciding whether or not if it’s relevant and supportive for me and my work I ask myself two questions:
Do I have their day? And do I want their day?
Because the real question isn’t: will this strategy or approach work?
But instead, will it actually work for me?
Over and over again I come back to the reminder that our day is the whole damn point.
Because that’s the beating heart of a simple and spacious business: doing work we enjoy, spending our days and weeks at a pace that feels good to us, and where we are making enough money to sustain our life too.
In today’s podcast episode I share more about why our day is the whole damn point and how we can root into that as our guide whenever we feel lost, overwhelmed, or overstimulated by all of the noise of what we should and could be doing next in our business.
Links:
Join the waitlist for Your Simple & Spacious Business before doors open again on Monday 🌸
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
My business hasn’t always been this simple & spacious.
I used to be overbooked, undercharging, and deeply burned out in my work each week.
It’s taken a whole lot of intention, patience, and experimentation to design my business to work best for me and I’m so damn grateful to have built a working life for myself that feels aligned with my capacity and the daily life that I want to be living.
There are five key decisions that have supported me to build, run, and sustain this simple and spacious business of mine and in today’s podcast episode I dive deeper into each of them and offer up some lessons learned if they can support you in your own simple and spacious business journey too.m
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Join the waitlist for Your Simple & Spacious Business
Recent episode about my 8-10 hour workweek
Do I regret making my group program a lifetime offer?
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is how much de-centering my business has been one of the most supportive decisions I’ve ever made in my working life.
Don’t get me wrong, I am so damn grateful for my business and so devoted to doing my best work for the wonderful humans I get to walk with each week.
But I’m also not obsessed with my work, or endless growth, or defining my self-worth by how much I get done each week.
We get to build businesses that orbit our life, not the other way around.
And we get to do this whilst also running businesses that sustain our life financially and give us space to do work that we find meaningful and fulfilling too.
One of the ways I do this in my business? By taking regular time off throughout the year.
This year I’m taking 15 weeks off from my business and in this week’s podcast episode I’m sharing more about how I make this possible and some encouragement for how you can build more time off into you schedule too.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.
Join me over on Substack.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
I received an emailed recently from someone asking if I outsourced any tasks to a virtual assistant in my business as they just couldn’t believe that I was able to sustain my business in just 8-10 hours a week.
And their question makes sense.
My workweek isn’t the norm.
But as I shared with them, apart from my husband editing my podcast episodes each week there is nothing else that I outsource in my business.
8-10 hours a week is truly what my workweek looks like whilst continuing to make a steady and thriving income in my business.
I’m also not outsourcing any of my work tasks to AI (everything I write, create and share with you is and always will be human made).
In this week’s podcast episode I dive deeper into the specifics of what my workweek looks like, the decisions I’ve made to make this possible, and some encouragement if you’re currently craving more spaciousness and don’t believe that it’s possible for you.
Does it take time, patience, curiosity, and one brave decision at a time to make this possible?
Of course.
But we don’t have to stay stuck in a version of our business that asks us to abandon our humanness to sustain our work.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.
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For my first podcast episode of the year back in January I shared all about planning for 2026 when we don’t know what our capacity will be.
I entered this new year with so much clarity around my creative desires, for the mini book of essays that I want to write and self-publish, for the first draft of my novel that I want to chip away at this year, and the app my husband and I are working on together too.
And I also knew that I would have to be okay with the messy, imperfect, and beautiful road that I walk down as a human who lives in a chronically ill body.
Because the gap between my creative desires and my capacity can feel so huge some days.
In this week’s podcast episode I recorded a catch up from Q1 in my business and creative work; I share how business is feeling really good so far this year and what’s working well and how I’m adjusting my mindset and approach to expanding what my body of work can be this year too as I continue to slowly work on my creative projects.
More than anything, I hope this episode helps you feel less alone if you’re also navigating a gap between your desires and your capacity too and that you know that it’s possible to bridge the gap between where you are now and where you truly wish to be next in your business and creative life without sacrificing your joy, peace, and wellbeing in the process.
Sometimes we just have to be okay going at a slower, gentler, more flexible pace.
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Find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business + join us inside whilst doors are open this week 🌼
Read my Substack essay: Move gently & stay the course
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Four years ago when I first built and launched my group program Your Simple & Spacious Business I made a very gut driven decision to price it as a lifetime offer.
Instead of needing to continue to renew and pay to keep access to all of the resources, coaching, and community inside members pay just once and then continue to get access at no extra cost.
Do I have any regrets? No.
Even though I know I’d make more money if existing members had to continue to keep paying, and therefore need to do less marketing to welcome brand new members in each year, I’m so glad that I priced the program this way.
But does that mean that I recommend this pricing structure to everyone else? Not really.
And would I do it again for a different offer? I don’t think so.
In today’s podcast episode I dive deeper into all of this and share all of my feelings, thoughts, and lessons learned from pricing an offer this way and why it’s the best worst business decision I’ve ever made.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Find out more about YS&SB and join the waitlist before doors open again next week.
Join me over on Substack.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
Living with two chronic illnesses means that I have many routines, structures, and boundaries that I rely on in my business so that I can continue to sustain my work and income whilst also honouring the daily realities of living in a disabled body.
I talk a lot about the ways I’ve designed my business model and offers to work best for me and to be a space where I’m able to do meaningful work with my clients and customers and today I’m getting a little more granular and sharing with you five routines that support my simple and spacious business each week. I share:
🗓️ How I plan my workload a quarter at a time
📝 How I use weekly time blocking
🌿 Why I never work on Wednesday’s and Friday’s
🌼 My marketing Monday’s
🌸 And how I offer asynchronous 1:1 coaching each workday without feeling overwhelmed
My hope is that today’s podcast episode can spark some ideas for ways you can build routines that support you to gently thrive in your business each week too.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.
Join me over on Substack.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
I’ve found that we talk a lot about growth as small business owners but not enough about actually sustaining these businesses of ours for the long run.
Because longevity has always been my goal, not the endless pursuit of more, more, more.
Sustaining the energy, devotion, courage and creativity that my business asks of me has been essential for me in my work ever since I started my business 12 years ago now.
It’s how I’ve been able to stay committed to doing my very best work for my clients and customers and continue to sustain steady sales in my business thanks to strong word of mouth, testimonials, and sustaining a gentle marketing plan too.
So today I’m sharing the ways I’ve supported my business to sustain a client workload for over a decade now, from the ways I’ve designed my offers, to how I protect the space I need to hold space, and why downloading my brain was one of the best decisions I’ve made and more.
Whatever your business model, my hope is that this episode holds some space for you to explore what sustaining the energy, devotion, courage, and creativity your business asks of you looks like for you too 🌼
Links:
Join me for next week’s workshop: Marketing Without Performance & Persuasion
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
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Over and over again my clients have been telling me: I want launching to feel simpler, more easeful, more low-lift.
Either big, intense launch plans have exhausted their body and nervous system in the past or they’ve avoided selling altogether because what they think they have to do feels super out of alignment for them.
And I get it, because I’m right there with them too.
As I shared in my last episode I’m leaning into much softer sales cycles this year and so far it’s feeling really good.
If old school launching advice and being told that you have to go big, build hype, and create more, more, more sales content and take up more space than feels sustainable for you is holding you back from creating sales cycles that support you to reach your financial goals, I recorded this week’s podcast episode for you.
In it I share six gentle alternatives to go-big-or-go-home launch strategy that I hope can crack open some fresh ideas for how you can sell this year in a way that resonates and connects with your hell yes people and actually feels fun and sustainable for you to bring to life too.
Links:
Join me for next month’s workshop: Marketing Without Performance & Persuasion
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
One of my goals heading into this year was to redefine for myself what launching and sales cycles get to look like in my business, especially for my group program Your Simple & Spacious Business which I sell multiple times a year.
Sales were a little slower at times last year but doing bigger launches also just wasn’t feeling good for my nervous system and capacity anymore either.
And so much of the advice I saw last year in response to many people’s launches not working as well as they used to was to do more: build more hype, create more urgency, build more volume and virality, more, more, more.
And I’m just not interested in extracting from myself to sustain my business or to feel like it’s my job to perform or persuade in my work.
So when I was mapping out my sales cycles for 2026 I decided that I what I want to experiment with this year are mini enrolments rather than big launches, to take the pressure off each launch, and to embrace lower-lift sales cycles rather than feeling like I have to go big and push myself to do more, more, more.
In today’s podcast episode I share more behind the scenes of how I’m embracing softer sales cycles in my business this year and all of the behind the scenes of this launch, why I only sent sales emails to a 5th of my email list, and what I think supported this first mini enrolment of the year to gently thrive and reach my goals.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.
Join me over on Substack.
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As a society we celebrate fast growth, pushing through, and overcoming whatever obstacles are in our way.
Yet over and over again I see my clients truly crack open gentle momentum and growth in their business journey - and actually have the capacity to sustain that growth - when they are brave enough to honour their needs in the process.
When they go at their own pace, when they opt-out of the growth-at-all-costs mindset, and when they tend to their nervous system every step of the way.
I’m a chronically ill parent and there’s no way I would have been able to sustain my business for over a decade now without deeply honouring my humanness in my work.
I have a mantra: our needs are the answer, not the obstacle.
They’re how we can feel resourced and rested enough to actually sustain the courage, experimentation, and devotion to doing our very best work that running our own business asks of us each week.
So in today’s podcast episode I share more about what it’s looked like to see my own needs as the answer and not the obstacle in my business and some encouragement for how you can do the same too.
You’re not alone if you need a whole lot of space to tend to the needs of your life, body, and mind in your business. I’m right there with you, needy and refusing to be ashamed of it.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and come and join us inside before doors close this week on Thursday 5th 💫
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A wonderful human left a comment on one of my Substack essays recently that inspired today’s episode. They shared:
“I’ve spent the last few years reclaiming my identity from coaches and gurus I purchased courses upon courses from. I was so desperate to find the answer to unlocking success… along the way, I completely lost myself. I’ve been slowly but surely finding myself and rebuilding confidence”
I think that there is so much gentle power in reclaiming our entrepreneurial inner compass in our business.
In redefining the hierarchy in our mind of who knows best what our business needs to thrive.
And I think outsourcing the leadership of our business and believing that someone else knows better than we do is such a dangerous way to not only disconnect ourselves from our own inner wisdom but also lead us down an entrepreneurial path that probably isn’t built to truly work best for us.
In today’s episode I walk you through five simple steps to reclaim your entrepreneurial inner compass if your head feels really noisy right now from everyone else’s noise and if you’re doubting your own entrepreneurial instincts and craving deeper intuition in your work.
Links:
Over on my Substack: But what if I don’t want to be a personal brand?
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and join the waitlist before doors open again this week.
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
I have been the breadwinner for my family for over a decade now, which has at times felt so empowering and at times also felt like a whole lot of responsibility on my shoulders too.
After five years of mostly being a stay at home dad and retraining to be a software developer, my husband started a full time job last October so heading into 2026 I now have the option to earn a little less this year in my business if I want to.
I’m still the higher earner and probably will be for quite a few more years to come but I am no longer responsible for almost all of our financial needs and long term goals and my nervous system was honestly so ready for this.
So in today’s episode I’m sharing some very in-the-moment thoughts, feelings, and reflections on how it feels to be able to earn less money this year if I want to and all of the big messy feelings that’s brought up for me too.
And most of all I hope this episode can encourage you to know that how much you earn in your business isn’t the most interesting thing about you in your work and that your financial goals don’t have to exist in response to anyone else’s.
Links:
Over on my Substack: I don’t want to be the breadwinner anymore
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and join the waitlist before doors open again next week.
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
A conversation that I have over and over again with the wonderful humans I work with is encouraging them to know and trust that marketing gets to feel way more simple in their business.
I have been marketing my business online for 12 years now.
12 years, hundreds of clients and customers, thousands of email subscribers and social media followers, and over a decade of sustaining my business financially without doing anything that I don’t want to do to reach my sales goals.
There is so much noise out here telling us what our marketing plan has to look like.
Expert after expert telling us what we should be doing to reach our sales goals and sustain our business.
It’s a lot and for those of us who crave slower, gentler, more spacious businesses it goes completely against our needs to feel like marketing is a place where we have to perform and persuade and extract from ourselves energetic resources that we don’t actually have available to give in our business.
So in today’s episode I’m sharing with you a calmer and more human approach to marketing in 2026 and some questions that I find so clarifying when it comes to rooting into intention with our marketing plans. I also share some behind the scenes of what I’m prioritising and experimenting with in my marketing this year too.
Links:
Join my free library where you can dive into my 100 Hell Yes People toolkit.
And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and join the waitlist before doors open again at the end of January.
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
I feel more clarified at the start of this year than I have in a long while.
Or perhaps, more than clarified, I feel like I am in deeper dialogue with my desires and creative curiosities than I have been in recent years.
There’s a mini book of essays that I want to write and self publish, an app that I’m building with my husband, a novel idea that I want to get lost in - all whilst gently sustaining my business and doing my very best work for my clients and customers too.
And also… I’m still a human who lives in a chronically ill body, I’m a parent, and I’m also just a deeply introverted human who doesn’t thrive at a go go go pace.
I have no idea what my capacity will be this year - 2025 was a very low capacity year for me with lots of health challenges, and as I enter this brand new year with creative desires, a business I want to continue to nourish and sustain, and a simple daily life that I like to fill with walks, reading, and naps whenever I need them too, I am balancing both gentle devotion to my creative desires and an acceptance that I want and need to honour my own humanness and capacity and pace every step of the way.
In today’s episode I share more about my desires and creative projects for the year ahead and a simple process for moving towards your own desires and intentions for your business and creative work this year whilst honouring your humanness, your needs, and your capacity inevitably shifting too.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.
Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.
Join me over on Substack.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
Does anyone else feel like you’re just not the same person you were at the start of the year?
That’s exactly how I’ve found myself feeling as we start to wrap up this year and slowly enter a brand new one in just a few weeks.
So for my last podcast episode of the year I’m just sharing a very candid and personal voice note from me to you sharing how I’m processing 2025 and all of the ways it has changed me and I also share some encouragement for you if you’re also finding yourself navigating a season of deep transition and evolution too.
Links:
Get the end of year coaching session recording sent straight to your inbox.
Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.
Join me over on Substack.
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com
Last week I logged into IG, archived a decade of posts, and uploaded a nine grid to be a simple landing page for my business.
In today’s episode I share why I did this and take you on a walk down memory lane as I share why IG has always been a side character in my marketing plan, how I have grown my audience online without relying on social media, and why my vision for my marketing plan for this next season doesn’t include IG at all.
If you’re feel exhausted by the pressure to dilute your marketing plan to please an algorithm or are just in need of a mini pep talk to do marketing in a way that works best for you and your creativity and capacity, this episode is for you.
Links:
Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day - including my toolkit called 100 Hell Yes People if you’re craving deeper guidance on reaching your hell yes people in your business in a way and at a pace that feels aligned, creative, and sustainable to you.
Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.
Join me over on Substack.
Listen to Amelia’s podcast that I mentioned: Off The Grid.
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Do you ever feel utterly exhausted by all of the strategic business advice you navigate on the internet? By all of the ways you could be growing your business? And by how inaccessible so much of it feels for the capacity you actually have for you work?
Today I’m sharing with you how I opt-out of business strategy that isn’t accessible for my capacity or in alignment with how I actually want to be experiencing my business and two gentle questions you can ask yourself to figure out what you actually want to work towards in your business and what pace you want to move towards those goals and desires at too.
If you want business to feel calmer and more clarified for you in this season and more attuned to your capacity and humanness, today’s episode is for you.
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Sometimes life throws us unexpected curveballs and laughs at all of our best laid plans and forces us to adapt and adjust in ways we couldn’t have prepared for.
That’s exactly where I’m finding myself right now - adjusting to the fact that my vision for this season looks nothing like I thought it would due to navigating some new health challenges.
In today’s episode I share the messy middle behind the scenes of the past couple of months of my life and business, the three questions I asked myself to ground into acceptance and clarity in this season, and some encouragement for knowing you’re not alone if you’re navigating a season of your life and business that looks different to what you first hoped and planned for too.
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In today’s episode I share the behind the scenes of recently updating the pricing structure of my group program, why I’ve created a concession tier, and how I’m experimenting with a 1:1 tier too. If you love to hear the messy middle behind the scenes of someone else’s business this episode is for you.
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In today’s episode I have a pep talk for you all about why prioritising your needs in your business is an essential piece of the puzzle of making your income goals your reality and actually sustaining them in the long run too.
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I’m back after a 7 month hiatus to share with you why designing a part time business model for ourselves is how we can bring more simplicity, spaciousness, and flexibility into our business - and how we can do this without compromising on our income goals too.
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As I prepare to open my group program YS&SB for enrolment for the 8th time this month, in today’s episode I’m sharing five ways that I’m experimenting with this upcoming launch and breathing some fresh energy and life into the process.
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In today’s episode I share a pep talk for not spiraling if sales are slow in your business and share a recent example of selling a workshop in my own business where sales were very slow at the start.
This episode is here to normalise the highs and lows of sales in our business and a reminder that we’re not alone if sales are slower for a season or an offering in our work.
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In today’s episode I share why I still believe in the magic of long-form content in my business and why writing newsletters and recording podcast episodes is still where I prioritise the majority of my marketing energy in my work. I share why I’d rather reach less people at a slower and gentler pace rather than trying to hack an algorithm and people’s attention spans, and why I trust this approach to marketing as it’s served me very well for a decade now.
I’m hosting a workshop on Tuesday 24th September to support you to revitalise your marketing plan 🖥
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Hello 👋🏻 I am back from my 4 month break from this podcast and sharing with you how it felt to lose my business mojo, what I did to support it to come back (spoiler alert: I let myself rest a lot!), why longevity is my goal in my business and why losing my business mojo at times is just part of that, and some upcoming episode topics I want to record for you soon too!
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In today’s episode I share with you why it’s so powerful to define and stay connected to our own version of what a simple and spacious business looks like for us and some of the specific ways I’ve done this in my own business journey too, from not building a team or a business model that requires thousands of paying customers a year to keeping my simple and spacious workweek as my guiding anchor and more.
YS&SB is open for enrolment until Friday 24th May
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In today’s episode I share a three-word approach to defining our vision and desires for our business - my three words are simple, spacious, and steady.
I walk you through how you can define your own three words and how they can ground you into clarity and intention in your work.
YS&SB is open for enrolment until Friday 24th May + today (May 15th) is the last day to get the 1:1 coaching bonus.
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After taking a month off from this podcast I’m back today with a little catch up to share where I’ve been and what I’ve been working on and what I’m prioritising in this season of my business too.
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I recently published a piece on my Substack called: dear small business owner: it’s okay to have fluctuating income.
It’s a topic I wish we talked about more as small business owners - the natural highs and lows and ebbs and flows of entrepreneurship and normalise that income growth isn’t always linear (and that maintaining our income instead of always chasing more, more, more is a beautiful choice too!)
So in today’s episode I’m expanding on that piece a little and sharing with you the lessons I’ve learned about navigating fluctuating income in our business and my overall mindset when it comes to money and business too.
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In today’s episode I bring you behind the scenes on this first quarter of 2024 and share with you all of my highs, lows, joys, and struggles in this new year so far.
I share what I’ve been working on, what’s been going well, what’s been challenging, and what I’m planning on working on in Q2 too.
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In today’s episode I’m sharing with you the audio from a coaching session inside my group program, Your Simple & Spacious Business, all about pricing your services and offerings with intention.
I shared free access to this in this week’s simple and spacious digest, the weekly newsletter that I send to my email community on Monday’s, where I share some behind the scenes about how I price my 1:1 containers in my business - you can read that newsletter here if you’re not a subscriber (and you can subscribe here if you want to be!)
If you ever feel stuck on how you can price your services and offerings in a way that feels good and sustainable too, this coaching session is for you.
You can also watch the video version and grab the slides and workbook this way too.
And come on over and join me on Substack if you’d love to read some interviews with some awesome business owners choosing a slower, gentler, more spacious approach to business too.
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After 60 episodes I’ve decided to switch things up a little and move this podcast to Substack. In today’s episode I share why I made this decision, what my vision is for this show moving forward, and how I’m hoping this decision supports me in my goal of reaching 100 yes hell people in my business this year.
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For today’s episode I sat down and recorded a recap of my recent enrolment of my flagship group program, Your Simple & Spacious Business.
I share how I approached the launch, how I honoured my capacity through my marketing plan, the breakdown of when sales came in throughout the launch, and how I held my nervous system through what I’m calling ‘the five day desert’ too.
I also share my thoughts and ideas for launching YS&SB moving forward this year and, more than anything, my hope is that this episode can encourage you to know that you are allowed to launch and sell your offerings at a gentle and sustainable pace without burning yourself out in the process.
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After ten years of sending a weekly letter every Monday to my email list I have decided to switch things up and experiment with a new newsletter format in 2024.
In this episode I share the behind the scenes of this decision, why it’s okay to switch something up in your business even when it’s ‘working’, and I share some questions to hold space for you to root into your intention with your own newsletter too.
If email marketing is a priority for you this year and you want to feel re-energised with your content plan I hope this episode can encourage you to do exactly that.
And Your Simple & Spacious Business, my group program for online business owners who want to bring more freedom, joy, and intentional growth in your work and life is open for enrolment until Friday 9th February and this is the last time to join us inside before the price increases for 2024.
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Have you ever heard of the ‘1000 true fans’ framework?
It argues that instead of needing a customer base of millions, entrepreneurs and creators just need 1000 true fans to run a profitable and thriving business.
In my own journey I’ve always reframed this as hell yes people (the word fans gives me the ick) and in this episode I’m sharing why I’m prioritising reaching 100 hell yes people in my business this year (and why I’m focusing on 100 instead of 1000) and how I’m planning on doing so too.
If you ever feel utterly overwhelmed by marketing strategies and ideas and you just want to approach supporting your business to thrive in a really gentle, human, and sustainable way, this episode is for you.
Your Simple & Spacious Business, my group program for online business owners who want to bring more freedom, joy, and intentional growth in your work and life is now open for enrolment until Friday 9th February and this is the last time to join us inside before the price increases for 2024.
There’s also an awesome 1:1 bonus available if you join us inside by Friday 2nd February. You can find out more this way if you’re ready to never do business alone again
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Launching is such a big part of my business and a key piece of how I reach my income goals throughout the year.
But launching can also feel like A LOT. A lot of work, a lot of taking up space, and a lot of nervous system activation too.
After a decade of launching in my business and all of the highs and lows along the way, this year I want to embrace a gentle, human, and sustainable approach to launching and in today’s episode I’m breaking down exactly what I want that to look like this year.
If you often feel overwhelmed by all of the launch strategy and advice out there too this episode is here to give you permission to do it in a way that works best for you.
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In today’s episode I share some encouragement as we embark on a brand new year in our business and why one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned after a decade in business now is that every year of entrepreneurship is a leap of faith. If you’re feeling a little overwhelmed at the start of this brand new year, I recorded this episode for you.
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In today’s episode I share with you how I’ve been prioritising nervous-system care in this season of my business and the simple daily habits that have been supporting me to find more calm and presence each day.
Hold Yourself Through It mini guided journal
How I’m rooting into a sense of safety in this season of my business
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In today’s episode I bring you into the behind the scenes of how I run my business in just 8-10 hours a week and the intentional decisions I’ve made to make this my reality too.
My hope is that today’s episode can encourage you to shape your workweek in a way that truly works best for you too even if what you desire goes against workweek ‘norms’ too.
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In this final episode of my launch diary I share:
- A full recap of how the launch went
- Celebrating having a great launch whilst keeping it very gentle and low-key
- How offering a sliding scale is feeling sustainable for me with this offer
- Reflecting on how I haven’t been focusing on audience growth this year
- How launching YS&SB last year completely changed my business
- My reflections on how I want to navigate YS&SB launches moving forward
- My curiosity about experimenting with an evergreen sales sequence for YS&SB
- My plans to create some lower-ticket digital products over the next year
- Wrapping up this launch diary
p.s: Due to a technical issue the audio for this episode doesn’t have the same sound quality they usually do - a big apology for that!
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In this fifth episode of my launch diary I bring you behind the scenes of the halfway point of my current enrolment of my group program Your Simple & Spacious Business and I share:
- How the launch is going so far at this halfway point
- How I’ve honoured my humanness most of all through this enrolment
- How I’m rooting into a deep sense of safety and ease through this enrolment
- Why I’m feeling so grateful for my own simple and spacious business through this launch
- Some behind the scenes of the sales emails I’m sending through the rest of this launch
Your Simple & Spacious Business is open for enrolment until Monday 23rd October - find out more and join us inside this way
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In this fourth episode of my launch diary I bring you behind the scenes of the first four days of my current enrolment of Your Simple & Spacious Business and share:
- How the launch is going so far
- How I’ve supported my nervous system through the emotional rollercoaster of launching so far
- The mindset I’m rooting into through this enrolment
- What I’m prioritising through the rest of this enrolment
Your Simple & Spacious Business is open for enrolment until Monday 23rd October - and today is the last day to get the 1:1 coaching bonus! Find out more and join us inside this way
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In this third episode of my launch diary I share with you:
- What I’m working on this week as I prepare to open the doors for enrolment
- How my inviting, not selling philosophy is shaping my approach to this launch
- How I’m deciding on bonuses for this launch
- How I’m supporting myself through pre-launch anxiety and overwhelm and my mindset going into this launch
Find out more about YS&SB
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In this second episode of my launch diary I share with you:
- My inviting, not selling philosophy in my business
- How I’ve mapped out my gentle launch plan for this upcoming enrolment and what I’m prioritising most
- My gentle approach to pre-marketing for this launch
- My plans for the early-bird window for this enrolment
- Why my email list is my core marketing channel through a launch and my plan for emails through this upcoming launch
- My question mark around whether or not I’ll show up on social through this enrolment
- What I need to feel organised and ready for this launch and why I want to prioritise having fun and enjoying it too
Find out more about YS&SB
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As I gear up for the next enrolment of YS&SB in a few weeks I want to bring you on the journey with me and share how I’m embracing a very simple and low-key approach to this launch and share all of the messy-middle moments as I navigate them each week.
In today’s episode I share:
• Why I’m doing this launch diary
• Some behind the scenes on what I’m launching, how I’ve launched it in the past, and how it usually sells too
• The gap between traditional launch advice and our capacity for that workload
• How a 5th launch of a program feels very different to the first
• How and why this is going to be a very simple and low-key launch
• How I’m feeling as I’m about to embark on this launch
• The things I will be prioritising most
• What you can expect from this launch diary
Find out more about YS&SB
Get my free deep dive kit to support you to bring more freedom, ease, and intentional growth into your business sent straight to your inbox
Listen to my other podcast Letters From A Hopeful Creative
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In today’s episode I’m sharing what it’s looked like for me to show up for my business this past year whilst also navigating some really challenging health circumstances and what has supported me to continue to run my business at a slower and gentler pace.
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In today’s episode I’m sharing the five question I ask myself to sense-check through whenever I’m navigating business advice.
These questions support me to stay in my own lane, steer clear of advice that isn’t truly aligned with my goals for my work and life, and avoid the overwhelm that can come with all of the noise out there and my hope is that they can support you to do so too.
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As I ease back into creating marketing content again this week after my summer sabbatical I’m sharing with you today in this episode the simple marketing system I’ve been using for close to a decade now in my business that has supported me to be consistently booked out with hell yes clients and reach my income goals in my business.
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In today’s episode I’m sharing how and why I’m embracing a slower and gentler approach in my business this summer, why I’m taking a break from this show, and some encouragement to prioritise your needs in this season of your business too.
Your Simple & Spacious Business is now open for enrolment until June 5th
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After experiencing burnout in my business due to asking more of myself than what was truly sustainable for me within my containers, I decided to do things very differently when I built my flagship group program, Your Simple & Spacious Business, last year and in today’s episode I sharing how I’ve built a really hands-on and valuable group program in a way that’s very sustainable for my to deliver each week too.
My hope this episode can encourage you to build and deliver your offerings in way that’s energetically sustainable for you too.
Your Simple & Spacious Business is now open for enrolment until June 5th
I have been thinking a lot lately about financial accessibility within my business as it has been feeling out of alignment that my work is only available to people with access to certain financial resources to invest into my higher-ticket offerings.
In today’s episode I share some of the ways I’m exploring creating more financial accessibility within my business in this season, from creating lower-ticket offerings to experimenting with a sliding scale pricing model for my flagship group program and more.
YS&SB opens for enrolment soon on Monday 22nd May
Everything I do in my work is all about supporting fellow business owners to build a simple and spacious business for themselves but there is a key caveat I think it’s important for me to make: a simple and spacious business isn’t a perfect business.
Building more ease, joy, and flexibility into our business model doesn’t mean that we won’t have some weeks or months where we feel a little overstretched, or that we won’t navigate challenging clients and customers or that we won’t have experiments that don’t turn out as we hoped that they would.
In today’s episode I share how I define an imperfect simple and spacious business for myself and I share an awesome free resource to support you in your business journey too.
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When I look back over my most impactful and meaningful business growth over the past decade, four key pieces of the puzzle come to mind: consistent content creation, collaborations, word of mouth, and committing to the time meaningful business growth asks of us.
I share more about each of these in today’s episode and encourage you to explore how they could be impactful in your business too.
How I can support you in your business
Letters From A Hopeful Creative
This is a season of my business where I want to embrace breathing some fresh life and energy back into my marketing experiments in my business.
In today’s episode I’m sharing the ways I’m experimenting with revitalising my marketing in this season and my hope is that it can spark some inspiration for ways you could feel more inspired and energised in your marketing experiments in this season too.
Simone Grace Seol’s Garbage Post Challenge
My Substack
Hold Yourself Through It mini guided journal
Whenever I start to feel stuck in the daily grind of business and a little disconnected from the joy and energy and flow that I desire in my work I find it really helpful to ask myself: how can I prioritise joy in my business right now?
Because joy may sound fluffy but I actually think it’s one of the most impactful things we can prioritise in our business and in todays episode I’m sharing five ways I’m doing exactly that in my business right now.
Choose More is open for enrolment until April 9th
If this is a season where you want to bring to life new income streams in your business but you’re unsure how you’re going to actually find the time for it alongside your current workload, I recorded this episode for you.
How I replaced my client income in one year deep dive
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Entrepreneurship is a wild ride - the trade off we make for the freedom and autonomy we find in being our own boss is accepting the uncertainty that’s along for the ride.
If you find that your nervous system is often activated through the highs and lows of running your business, I recorded this episode for you.
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Over the past year I have made a big evolution in my business model to more 1-to-many income streams and have been able to reduce my client workload for more spaciousness and flexibility in my schedule too.
I’ve been experimenting with creating 1-to-many income streams ever since my first year in my business in 2015 and I’ve learned so much from all of my experiments and mistakes along the way and in today’s episode I’m sharing the the three biggest mistakes I’ve made over the years and how they taught me the most important lessons I needed to learn too.
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I feel like I’ve lived so many different lives in my business journey so far since I started this wild ride back in 2015.
My life looks so different in so many ways than it did back in 2015 and throughout every different season of my business journey so far this one core intention has stayed the same: to do this work in a way that works best for me as a human being each day.
In today’s episode I take a walk down memory lane and share with you how my version of a simple and spacious business has evolved over the years and share all the different lives I’ve lived in my business journey so far.
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Do you ever feel like everywhere you look you’re being bombarded with the noise that six figures is the ultimate sign of success as a business owner?
In this episode I share why I believe that our financial goals don’t have to exist in response to everyone else’s. Because true alignment is being all in on what we truly desire, no matter if it impresses or makes sense to everyone else.
If you’re ready to pursue financial goals in your business that truly feel like a hell yes for you, whether they’re ‘six figures’ or not, this episode is for you.
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After years of supporting hundreds of clients to move through burnout and overwhelm in their client business, in today’s episode I’m sharing the five client business bottlenecks I’ve navigated myself and supported many of my clients through too and how you can move through them if you’re stuck in one (or more) of these too.
If you want to bring more spaciousness, ease, and simplicity into your client workload, this episode is for you.
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If you’re currently desiring more spaciousness in your client workload, more ease and flexibility so that you can continue to do this work that you love in a way that works best for you as a human being too, in today’s episode I share six ways that you can do exactly that.
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In today’s episode I dive into the specifics of how I integrate my needs as an introverted human into my business, from the ways I shape and deliver from my offerings to how I structure and organise my workweek and more. If you’re a fellow introverted business owner, this episode is for you.
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In today’s episode I share the lessons I’ve learned about prioritising energetic and financial growth in my business over the past decade and how important it is to be intentional in choosing the growth that matters most to us in each season that we’re in.
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In today’s episode I share the biggest lesson I’ve learned from my journey of moving from burned out service-provider to a simple and spacious business owner.
If you’re ready to bring more spaciousness to your business and more income growth without increasing your working hours, this episode is for you.
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After almost a decade now of supporting hundreds of clients to bridge the gap between where they are now and where they want to be in their business journey I’ve seen time and time again that there are four key things we all need to build, grow, or pivot our business and I’m walking you through each of them today.
If you’re unsure of how you’re going to intentionally move towards your goals this year this episode is for you.
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For my first podcast episode of 2023 I’m sharing with you my six business intentions guiding me as I embark on this brand new year ahead in my work. From my marketing intentions, to my mindset around balancing motherhood and business, to carving out more CEO time in my work and more, my hope is today’s episode can share the behind the scenes of what I plan to prioritise this year and encourage you to define your own business intentions for the year ahead too.
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In today’s episode I share with you the behind the scenes of what’s been happening in my life the past month, how a recent health crisis derailed my plan for my autumn enrolment of Your Simple & Spacious Business and how that derailment didn’t actually negatively affect the overall result of the launch too.
Everything I share in today’s episode is why I’m so passionate about building simple and spacious businesses that hold space for our humanity so my hope by sharing this episode with you today is that you know you’re not alone when you navigate challenging seasons too and that your business can still thrive along the way.
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I recently a launched a new 1:1 offer that’s delivered in a way that I’ve never done so before in my business - with a deep dive video presentation instead of 1:1 calls. It was a little scary to package my work up in a fresh way so it’s been really meaningful so far to receive such beautiful feedback from these clients on how this new offer supports and encourages them in their business.
In today’s episode I want encourage you to think a little outside of the box with your offers too if you want to expand how you deliver your work but are afraid to do things a little differently to your industry norms. If you were throwing out the rulebook, what kind of offers would you bring to life next in your business?
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Fluctuating business income is probably one of the hardest parts of being self-employed - there’s no guarantee of a pay cheque each month and it’s inevitable that we all will navigate slower seasons and months along the way.
In today’s episode I want to share with you three ways you can generate cash flow during slow seasons of your business - these are the ways I’ve found be the most effective for me and so many of my clients too when things are feeling slow.
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For today’s episode I’m sharing with you what my workweek currently looks like as someone balancing business, motherhood, and health struggles each week.
People are often surprised when I tell them I only work 8-10 hours a week so I hope this gives you some behind the scenes insight of how I navigate my working weeks and how I’ve built them to work best for me too.
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I’ve recently rebranded and redesigned my website so I thought I would share some of the changes I’ve made and why I made those decisions too - hopefully this can give you a little behind the scenes if you’re wanting to refresh your website in this season too.
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This is my last week of my summer sabbatical so I thought I would catch you up a little on the highs and lows of the past three months and how I’m feeling as I prepare to dive back in with my awesome clients from next week too.
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Today’s episode is for you if you know you want to create a 1-to-many offer in your business but you’re not sure what type of offer to bring to life. I walk you through four different types of 1-to-many offers and how you can choose between them and my hope is this episode can spark an idea for what offer you may want to bring to life next.
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Today’s episode is for those of you who are feeling burned out right now in your client business. I share with you my own experience of navigating this in my own business, how I supported myself through this, and my encouragement for you to find more ease, space, and freedom in your business moving forward.
Because the good news is that you don’t have to stuck in a business model that isn’t truly working for you anymore and that you get to move forward in whatever way and at whatever pace truly works best for you.
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In today’s episode I’m walking you through five signs that you’re ready to diversify your income streams in your client business so you can bring more ease, spaciousness, and intentional growth into your work.
If you’re a client based business craving more freedom and breathing room in your business this episode is for you.
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In today’s episode I’m sharing with you the three different types of 1:many offers we can create as a client based business to diversify our income streams and bring more spaciousness into our business.
If you’re a client based business hoping to diversify and scale your business this year my hope is that this episode can hold space for you to explore which type of 1:many offer you want to bring to life next.
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In today’s episode I’m sharing with you some very intentional shifts I’ve made over the past year to bring more simplicity and spaciousness into my client work that are allowing me to take a three month sabbatical this summer from clients.
My hope is that this episode can encourage you to explore ways you can reshape your business to work better for you if you’re craving more space in your work right now too.
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In today’s episode I’m sharing with you five journal prompts to dive deeper into your money mindset in your business - as this is the topic I see come up over and over again for my clients and for myself too in my own business journey.
My hope is that they can hold space for you to explore how you can root into more trust, optimism, and confidence in your business even with the fears and anxieties that we all navigate along the way too.
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In today’s episode I’m walking you through four selling roadblocks I’ve supported my clients through over the past eight years - from being afraid of annoying people, to the fear of people not buying, to the fear of selling having to be sleazy, and then finally the overwhelm of not actually being sure how to sell.
My hope is this episode can support you if you’re stuck with selling in your business right now so you can move forward with more confidence and clarity in your work.
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In today’s episode I’m walking you through three steps to simplify your customer journey so that you can simplify what ‘marketing’ can look like for you in your business and clarity on what to focus on next too.
And remember: embrace that marketing is a never-ending experiment, but the more you get stuck in the more you will discover what your business needs most to thrive.
In today’s episode I’m sharing with you five pieces of ‘good’ advice that I choose to opt-out of in my business as they don’t feel in alignment with my values in my work.
My hope is that this episode can encourage you to give yourself permission to opt-out of any ‘good’ business advice that doesn’t feel aligned for you too.
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In today’s episode I’m sharing with you my mindset as I prepare to go into a two week launch period for the first enrolment of my new flagship group program, Your Simple & Spacious Business.
If you’re soon to be embarking on a launch in your business I hope this episode can support you to embrace a mindset rooted in optimism, fun, and experimentation too.
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In today’s episode I’m walking you through the three S’s, a tool I love to help us clarify what kind of season we’re in and what our business actually needs right now to be supported to thrive so that we don’t lose time doing the things that won’t actually truly move the needle in our work.
Tune in to discover whether you’re in a season of stabilising, sustaining, or scaling and how best to support yourself to move forward in this season of your work.
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In today’s episode I’m walking you through a recipe for writing a sales page that is simple, effective, and human too. I’ve been consistently booked out for almost a decade now in my business and my offer has had many evolutions over the years so I have had a lot of experience at this point writing sales pages that sell.
As I say in this episode, this is not a step-by-step blueprint for you to follow as the perfect sales page formula doesn’t exist. But if you really struggle with creating sales pages for your offers I wanted to share my approach with you today to hopefully be a jumping off point in developing your own.
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In today’s episode I’m walking you through five steps to help you bring more simplicity and spaciousness into your offerings in your business. This process has been a key step in building a business that truly works best for me and I’ve seen it been so impactful for my clients over the years too.
If you want to welcome more ease and space and impact into the work you do in your business, this episode will hopefully support you in doing exactly that.
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In today’s episode I’m walking you through how to build your own booked out business pie so that you can build more stability, space, and ease into your work.
Because it will never be just one thing that books you out consistently in your business, it’s a unique blend of multiple pieces in your business all working together for the same end goal: a spacious, impactful, and financially thriving business that works best for you.
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In today’s episode I’m sharing with you three mindset shifts I’ve found really empowering for both myself and my clients whenever we’re feeling stuck in scarcity, fear, and self-doubt in our business.
If you’re ready to show up with more trust, courage, and focus in this season of your business, I’ve recorded this for you.
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In this episode I’m diving deeper into our enough number and our ideal workweek, and how the intersection of the two is the very heart of a simple and spacious business.
If you’re feeling stuck on how to build and run your business in a way that makes the income you want to make while also working in the way you want to be each week, this episode is for you.
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In today’s episode I’m walking you through ten questions to dive deeper into your simple and spacious business foundations, so you have these as your anchor and guide as you move forward and bring more ease, space, and intentional growth to your work.
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Welcome to Your Simple & Spacious Business, a podcast to support you to find more ease, space, and intentional growth in your work.
For this first episode I’m taking you on a little walk down memory lane and sharing my simple and spacious business journey so far, from starting my business at 22 years old, burning out, burning out some more, and how I’ve reshaped and rebuilt my business over the past 8 years to truly work best for me.
Because building a simple and spacious business isn’t always easy, there isn’t a set blueprint to follow. It’s often a messy and winding road of figuring out what our business needs to thrive and what we need to thrive alongside it too. I hope that by sharing a little of my journey so far it can encourage you to know more simplicity and spaciousness is possible for you in your work, and in the episodes ahead to come I’ll be diving deep into how we can make this possible too.
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I’m Jen Carrington, a creative business guide and I’ve spent the past eight years building and running my own simple and spacious business and supporting hundreds of my clients in theirs too.
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