The Beauty of Our Dreams: Recent Episodes
Dee Safieh
Hi, my name’s Dee and through the beauty of our dreams we are going to navigate the journey from employee to self-employed to business owner extraordinaire. Empowering you to find balance in your life, fund your lifestyle with your passion and ultimately have more time with your loved ones. Each episode will give you actionable tips on how to deal with the issue covered.
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Throughout this season I have asked my guests to recommend books and podcasts. And here they are. And they are amazing!
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Let me talk you through some essential oils and crystals that might help you stay motivated and focused in your business throughout the year.
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Today we have the amazing Valerie Wong, Pinterest strategist, talking to us abouthow to use Pinterest for our business.
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I am so pleased to be joined by lifestyle blogger Sareta Fontaine, and we are going to discuss how amazing it is that when you work for yourself, you can just change the direction of your business if it is no longer suiting you. If your financial or lifestyle needs change because of illness, sickness or just because you want to life your life differently, you can do what Sareta did, for example, and go from make up artist to soap maker to blogger!
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It is no exaggeration to say that reading The Empath's Survival Guide changed my life. And now I am fortunate enough to interview its author, Judith Orloff MD. Here she talks to me about her new books, Thriving as an Empath and The Empath's Empowerment Journal, her upcoming retreat, and what is means to be an empath entrepreneur.
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I am ecstatic to be joined by Michele Dashwood of Dance in to Your Power Workshops- Cerridwens Brew Space & Aura Sprays. She’s going to be talking about using some of your senses and movement to help with stress relief and productivity. And she is going to talk us through one of the visualisations she uses during her workshops!
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I am super excited to welcome back Tracey Pretty from Miss Pretty London. Some of you might remember her from the Season 1 episode Are you an Empath Entrepreneur?
We will be discussing the moon, which we are obsessed with, and how it affects us and our business.
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I am so happy to tell you I have got Michele from Heartfelt Illustrations here with me today to discuss the perfect logo and other branding tips.
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I am joined by the wonderful Emma Hands from Handserenity Holistic Health. We're going to be discussing self care and how Reiki can help you in your business.
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Welcome back for Season 2 of The Beauty of Our Dreams Podcast.
I want to talk to you about goal and intention, the difference between the two, how they interact and how to actually achieve your goals once you set them.
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Let’s look at breaking even and how it will influence how you decide your pricing. If you haven’t already, go back and listen to the Money Money Money episode, which will help you start to understand your figures.
And don’t forget to download the free worksheet for this episode in the show notes.
Many people skip the very, very important step of thinking about how much you actually need to earn to survive, how much you need to earn to live well, and what you're actually charging. Those are obviously connected. It doesn't matter if you've got a business that doesn't bring in enough to pay your mortgage. If it's going to give you more stress and anxiety than having a paid job with a regular income, then you might as well stay employed and working for someone else, right? To have that guaranteed security?
So today I want to talk to you about how these all are linked and how you can start working them out and thinking about them.
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It's important to note that this isn't an exhaustive list and it's also a no particular order. Not all of the things might be necessary for your business. It will really depend industry to industry, country to country.
What I want it to do here was start to give you a list of things that you might have to consider doing or thinking about if you want to set up a self-employed because I know a lot of you are dreaming of the day of working for yourself and not really sure about what it involves.
TIPS SUMMARY
- Go through all these steps and see if they apply to you.
- Brainstorm to see if you can think of any others .
- Listen to episode to about putting all this in a constructive to-do list.
- Research which of these freelancers you might want to hire sooner rather than later.
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In preparation, why don’t you go ahead and download this worksheet.
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I am joined by Jane Harrell of ‘Cause Digital Marketing to discuss what social media platforms you should be on and what you should be doing on them.
We're so lucky to have Jane with us. She's my social media guru, and she can be yours too. She has over 17 years experience in the field. She works in the pet industry a lot, and she works with social causes, so she's a really good egg and a wonderful human, as well as being the boss at all this content stuff. She's worked with Animal Planet, Victoria Stillwell, and she's even been featured in Time Magazine.
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I am going to go through this list of tech and what you can do with them and why they're awesome.
Keep this list handy and whenever you need to perform a new task, have a look and see if there is a bit of tech that might be able to help you do it better or faster.
And if you don't know how to do it, go on Upwork and get someone else to
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This is my first interview on this podcast and I'm so happy it's with my friend and owner of my absolute favorite store, Tracey Pretty. We're going to be discussing what it means to be an empath entrepreneur.
Tracey recently opened her boutique Miss Pretty on Church Street in Twickenham and we bonded over her gorgeous jewellery, candles and other items in her shop, as well as the fact that she's going through the process of acknowledging that she is an empath and what that means for her life and her business.
SUMMARY OF TIPS:
- First of all, you're not alone.
- If you are an empath, just accept it.
- Then learn how to combat the downsides and enjoy the positives.
- And listen to yourself.
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Today we are going to be talking about setting up some automations on your email platform, so that the people on your list get nurtured very specifically without you having to do the same work over and over again.
TIPS SUMMARY
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Segmenting your list.
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Set up a nurture sequence.
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Set up automations for your regular content emails, abandoned shopping carts, etc.
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There is a difference between working ON your business and IN your business.
Working IN your business involves the actual work for your client and all the stuff around that, invoicing etc.
Working ON your business is all the stuff that does not directly bring in money or isn’t directly for a client but needs to be done. This is the strategy part, the social media and website content, the money days, the promotion planning, etc
So my tips today are going to be different days or part-days I think you might want to consider blocking off in your diary every month to keep the customers coming in, to keep your accounts in the black and to keep your sanity in check.
TIPS SUMMARY
- Schedule content planning days
- Schedule money days
- Schedule promo and launches days
- Schedule self-care days
Bonus: Schedule any other days for tasks that you can batch together
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I know most of us hate hate hate looking at or thinking about our money situation. But when you work for yourself, it is even more important that you do, because no one else will.
This episode it a bumper edition with a whopping 6 number of tips!!
You don’t need to take on all of them. And definitely not all at once. But if you can try to go through one of these tips a month over the next few months, you will feel in much better shape financially.
TIPS SUMMARY
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Know your numbers.
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Allocate money for savings even if you are still paying off debts.
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Review your bills regularly.
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Review your credit cards.
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Review your credit score regularly
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Savings you barely notice, if at all.
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One thing many people these days struggle with is stress, and effectively combating it with self-care. Entrepreneurs, business owners, freelancers, etc are especially guilty of this.
And what is easy to forget is that self care is NOT A LUXURY. It is a necessity. It needs to be a priority.
IN SUMMARY
- Self-care is a priority, not a luxury. Schedule it in as such.
- Free writing is a great tool for helping you get to the bottom of what’s troubling you.
- Complete your self-care toolkit worksheet and keep it handy.
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One of the things that crops up time and time again with entrepreneurs is Impostor Syndrome.
This is the persistent belief that we do not deserve the successes that we achieve or that our skills and products aren't worth the money that we're asking for them. It's a belief that we don't know as much as we think we do.
Who are we to call ourselves experts and charge for our knowledge, et cetera, et cetera. Sound familiar?
Diagram of Impostor Syndrome.
TIPS SUMMARY:
- Remember everyone gets Impostor Syndrome. Even people you wouldn't ever, ever in a million years expect to have it.
- Identify it, name it and find ways to combat it.
- Remember that you have gone through so much worse than this.
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I want to talk to you about getting stuff out of your head into an effective to-do list system. Not only will you be more productive and focused, but clearing that headspace can help with your getting clarity and focus.
Check out the free download, this is the exercise I will be talking through.
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Welcome to my inaugural podcast. I would like to talk to you about the joys and struggles of making that journey from being an employee to entrepreneur.
Just like wedding planning or having kids, you might think you are prepared for leaving your job and setting up on your own, but you will never truly know the stresses (and the joys) of working for yourself until you actually take the plunge.
So I wanted to give you some actionable tools and tips (as I plan on doing for every episode) on how to cope with the unique challenges of working for yourself.
TIPS SUMMARY
- Peer support network
- Setting boundaries
- Dealing with your new financial situation
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