Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast

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116 - 2021 Year-End Review and 2022 Preview Jan 27, 2022

Show notes

If you want to write or record your own Year-End Review you can follow our simple format we’ve used for years:

What went well? Feel free to share life and business moments (plus anything fun, like “Classic Movie Night” or any other traditions/experiments during the year).

What didn’t go well? Life, business, or just keep this section short if it doesn’t serve you.

Next year's preview! What are you focusing on? Looking forward to? Plans/goals you hope to hit? This section is super fun for the following year's review.

If you do create a Year-End Review, feel free to send it our way, we love checking them out!

🍿 Movie discussed: No movies discussed (again) this week

More goodies from us:

Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

115 - The storm before the calm Jan 20, 2022

Show notes

In this episode, we go over the final things we had to do before making our big move into full-time travel. We go over selling the remainder of everything we own, talk about a few logistical challenges, and where we ended up financially after all the eBay, OfferUp, and Garage Sale-ing.

We also dive deep into a heavy conversation about Caroline’s current emotional state. We get into the grief of a big transition (or two), talking about a big identity change, and lots of thoughts and feelings tied to how we show up in our families of origin.

🍿 Movie discussed: No movies discussed this week

More goodies from us:

Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

114 - How can we make this easier? Dec 16, 2021

Show notes

In this week’s episode, we do a feelings check-in. How’s everyone feeling about our nemesis Omicron? How’s everyone feeling about the remaining tasks to do? How’s everyone feeling who is finishing a third round of shingles?

Then, we take you on an adventure through our Garage Sale AND the UN-Fine Art Sale (which is still going until December 17 — just 9 pieces left for sale as of recording!) We break down exactly how both of these two projects went, including the emotional roller coaster we each went on to make them happen.

Hope you enjoy another update on this huge life change we’re diving into! Also, #teambunkbed or #teamtrundlebed??

👩🏻‍🦰🌍👨🏻‍🦲 WAW Countdown: 29 days!

🍿 Movie discussed: In Bruges ❌and Single All The Way

More goodies from us:

Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

113 - Embrace the chaos Dec 09, 2021

Show notes

Everyone deals with chaos at one time or another and there’s no perfect way to get through it. One thing that helps us is to not try to fight it and instead to embrace it.

Caroline getting shingles for the third time? Sorting through 300+ pieces of one-off to sell? Gearing up for a garage sale to sell the majority of our things? And a bunch of other smaller decisions to make thrown in? What chaos??? 😂🙈😂🙈

Hopefully, this episode doesn’t stress you out, and instead, shows you how we work through these tougher and more difficult seasons of life!

👩🏻‍🦰🌍👨🏻‍🦲 WAW Countdown: 36 days!

🍿 Movie discussed: Noelle

More goodies from us:

Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

112 - We've entered... the stressful season! (2022 travel update) Dec 02, 2021

Show notes

We are fully aware that this big life change is something we chose, so the emotions we’re feeling are self-imposed. However, much like starting your own business, or growing your family, or moving across the country, etc, even if you’re making that choice those big life events can still be (and are!) hard.

This episode is a bit of an emotional check-in where Jason ACTUALLY has some emotions - gasp! 😱 After going on an emotional journey with both of us, we get into some nitty-gritty items like selling a portion of our stuff on eBay, getting ready for two garage sales, and of course creating a Plan B for the start of our trip if covid (Omicron) has other thoughts.

That and more in this big WAIM Around the World (WAW) travel update.

👩🏻‍🦰🌍👨🏻‍🦲 WAW Countdown: 43 days!

🍿 Movies discussed: None this week

More goodies from us:

Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

111 - How long could you survive in the wilderness? Nov 25, 2021

Show notes

We have 11 questions we grabbed from the game OpenUp! These weren’t pre-selected and we simply picked them at random while recording to make it fun and authentic.

Have fun asking these questions with your friends, family, partner, or just answering them on your own:

If you had a hairy spot on your body that you could NEVER shave and that would grow forever, where should that spot be?
Do you feel that life has been generally fair or unfair to you?
Do you eat food that’s past the ‘best by’ date? Explain.
Have you ever told a friend you were interested in more than friendship, and gotten turned down?
How well do you think you could keep an important secret if you were subjected to torture?
What’s the largest age gap you would consider when choosing someone to date/marry?
Would you go commando for one year for $10,000? Why or why not?
What is the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
Would you be willing to flash a stranger? (*At FlashCon, a conference we made up for people who like flashing other people)
How long do you think you could survive in the wilderness without help or supplies?
If there were no electronics (TV, smartphones, i-anythings) what would you do for fun?

👩🏻‍🦰🌍👨🏻‍🦲 WAW Countdown: 50 days!

🍿 Movies discussed: Red Notice and Love Hard

More goodies from us:

Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

110 - You are not a machine Nov 18, 2021

Show notes

We’ve learned so much in recent years that not everyone has the same circumstances, opportunities, or physical/mental abilities to work at the same pace. We’ve tried to shift our online biz messaging to remove any mention of a certain pace or amount of money being deemed as “good.”

What matters is that YOU define the pace and the amount of money/work that YOU can do that’s right for YOUR life.

There are so many external pressures to be more productive but maybe we’re not realizing our human-ness isn’t meant to be so productive? Maybe it’s okay to work a bit less, spend more time away from our businesses, and enjoy life without feeling guilty? Maybe it’s okay if our pursuits (esp biz ones) take wayyyy longer to get to our personal milestones we set based on our specific individual circumstances?

We hope you enjoyed this discussion this week and if you have any thoughts to share, feel free to send an email to hello@wanderingaimfully.com.

👩🏻‍🦰🌍👨🏻‍🦲 WAW Countdown: 56 days!

🍿 Movies discussed: Scream 4 and Shang-Chi

More goodies from us:

Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

109 - No right way to transition from clients Nov 11, 2021

Show notes

This week, we’re sharing our experiences about moving from client-based businesses to running digital products (or really anything non-client biz related). The BIGGEST point we want to hit home is that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to moving away from clients.

It might take you a year, and that’s okay.

You might need to save up 6-months savings to feel comfortable, and that’s okay.

There might be clients you want to keep and it’s not actually a full transition away from clients, and that’s okay too!

We’ll share helpful tips we’ve learned and hope they can help you if you’re currently stuck at this point in your biz journey.

👩🏻‍🦰🌍👨🏻‍🦲 WAW Countdown: 66 days!

Dad Thrillers article (h/t Chavelli): https://maxread.substack.com/p/90s-dad-thrillers-a-list

🍿 Movies discussed: Scream 3 and Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

More goodies from us:

Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

108 - Focusing on the input, not the outcome. Nov 04, 2021

Show notes

This week, we’re sharing an idea that James Clear popularized in his book Atomic Habits. You can read more about his Systems vs Goals excerpt here.

We talk through how the idea of focusing on your input instead of the outcome can drastically change how you feel about the tasks you need to do consistently (posting on social media, writing an email newsletter, working with clients, etc).

🍿 Movies discussed: Scream 2 and Happy Death Day

More goodies from us:

Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

107 - Lessons from 3 weeks of travel Oct 28, 2021

Show notes

The past 3 weeks haven’t been a perfect dry-run of our full-time travel adventures we’re embarking on, but they showed us a handful of lessons we wanted to share here on the pod.

We discovered a way we hope to avoid being slapped in the face with plug-in air fresheners. We learned that someone 👩🏻‍🦰 has to sleep on a particular side of the bed. We figured out that a dining room table with a dedicated charging station was an absolute must-have. 👨🏻‍🦲 shares his nerdy coffee routine for all you #CinnamonRollerCoffeeLovers.

Those lessons and a whole bunch more are shared this week. Hope you enjoy and are ready for a lot more full-time travel content as we get ready to depart in January!

🍿 Movies discussed: Scream and Dune

More goodies from us:

Feel like you might be experiencing a business roadblock? Let us help you get un-stuck with our free quiz - wanderingaimfully.com

Build and sell your online course using our easy-to-use and friendly course platform - teachery.co

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