Stay ConnectedHealers are often drawn to this work because of their own histories and emotional pain. the only way to thrive and avoid burnout while we help others heal is to do our own healing.
On this podcast, Annie Schuessler-Zam talks to all kinds of healers as they share vulnerable stories about pain, healing and growth.
Do you have a healthy relationship with your business? Or is it sometimes toxic and abusive? Have you recreated old unhealthy patterns into your business? Nicole Lewis-Keeber is an expert on how trauma impacts business and how to heal it. When I looked at my own business through this lens, I realized I had been unconsciously setting up some damaging habits. For example, I was sometimes setting myself up to try to please everyone. Even though I would never tell others to do this. I was sometimes doing things I no longer wanted to because...who was I to say I wanted to make a change. Listen as we talk about how and why Nicole created a VIP one-on-one service for entrepreneurs and how she's getting her message out to entrepreneurs everywhere. She's opening up a very important conversation and I'm glad to share it with you.
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Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/98
How do you sell a program? Make a dream list. Make a list of the people you'd love to work with and invite them. Meet Maddi Rundle, a master yoga instructor, therapist, and entrepreneur in Ontario, Canada. In this conversation, we talk about how Maddi co-created a training program for yoga instructors and a year-long online course. You'll hear how Maddi has grown her programs without doing all the stuff she saw other people doing online. She has pushed past fear and other people's rules to create a business she's in love with.
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Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/97
Ali Shapiro is the host of the podcast Insatiable and the founder of the program Truce with Food. She created a unique framework for helping people transform their relationships with food and life. Listen to Ali developed her framework and built her thriving business. You'll hear that Ali is committed to helping her clients achieve radical and lasting change and that the decisions she makes in her business are all aimed in that direction.
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Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/96
Ali Shapiro is the host of the podcast Insatiable and the founder of the program Truce with Food. She created a unique framework for helping people transform their relationships with food and life. Listen to Ali developed her framework and built her thriving business. You'll hear that Ali is committed to helping her clients achieve radical and lasting change and that the decisions she makes in her business are all aimed in that direction.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/96
This week I'm talking to Lisa Danylchuk, founder of The Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery. She's an author, psychotherapist, yoga teacher trainer and entrepreneur. You're gonna hear how Lisa's business has developed organically from her drive to help more people with the Yoga for Trauma movement. We can learn a lot from listening to how she went from leading in-person trainings to creating her online training program. She'll also talk about why she created in-person retreats around the world. Listen in particular to how Lisa leans into the value of persistence. Persistence is one of the most important and perhaps under-rated keys to success in your business.
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Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/95
Today we are talking about in-person retreats. If you've ever run an in-person retreat or considered adding in-person retreats to your business, you're going to love this conversation. Rebecca talks about why in-person retreats are such an important part of her business, some mistakes she and others have made in running retreats, and some things she does to make her retreats such life-changing experiences. We'll also talk about the retreat Rebecca and I are co-leading at the end of April 2019, Signature Heart & Soul Retreat.
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Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/94
Joe has discovered a new, more introverted way to be an activist within his business, therapy sessions, and teaching work. He finds that the more open he is about his identities and his experience, the more helpful he is to others. Listen as Joe talks about the gender journey he's experienced in the past couple of years and how his personal experiences have expanded his leadership as a therapist and an educator.
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Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/93
Mercedes was tired of seeing a lack of diversity at professional conferences. She had respect for the celebrated leaders in the field, but she also saw a need for new voices. She decided she needed to do something about it, and in just a few months, Mercedes founded the Diversity In Parenting Conference. Listen to the incredible growth she's had during this process. You might not be putting on a conference, but you've got your own brave moves to make. Where is YOUR voice needed? Listening to Mercedes talk about her deep mindset work will help you get moving too.
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When you embrace your role of entrepreneur, you can open up to ideas that may bring you much more money, freedom, and fulfillment. Listen as I go over my favorite three concepts that empowered entrepreneurs use to create and run their businesses.
If you own your own business, you already ARE an entrepreneur, but you may not think of yourself that way. Here are 3 concepts to integrate into your ways of doing business.
Concept One: Rock Your Business Model
What it means:
Your Business Model is the combination of offerings you get paid for in your business. (Not to be confused with a Business Plan.)
How you can start using this concept:
Brainstorm what kinds of offers you might want to add to your business.
Start with this list:
Workshop, Online course, Group coaching program,
Individual coaching program, Digital product, Group
therapy program, Membership community, Retreat, Group
practice or therapy center, Something else you'll cook up.
Concept Two: Test Ideas Early
What it means:
Before you invest a ton of time, money or energy into an idea, even if it seems like a GREAT idea, you should test it. Create a minimum viable product or minimum viable service. See if anyone wants it, get feedback so you can improve it, and then create the next iteration. Creating an offer is always an iterative process.
How you can start using this concept:
Let's say you want to create a multi-lesson course with curriculum. Start by running a workshop and teaching only part of the material. Teach it live. Sell it to a small number of people. Notice what works, ask for feedback, and see whether people get the outcome you were hoping they'd get. If you can't sell it to anyone, you know you've got to make some adjustments and then try again.
Concept Three: Have A Content Strategy
What it means:
Your content is the stuff you create: articles, social media posts, videos, podcast episodes, insta stories, all of it. Content strategy means having a goal for what you want your content to achieve and a plan that informs what you create, where you deliver it and when you offer it.
How you can start using this concept:
Decide who your content is for and what you want them to do (which involves paying you). Create the form of content that comes most easily to you. Brainstorm all of the things your future client or customer needs to hear in order to be ready to take action. Start creating content!
Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/91
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