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Embracing Embodiment with Eryn Johnson Oct 22, 2020

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This week, I’m thrilled to introduce you to Eryn Johnson. Eryn is a breathwork facilitator, tarot reader, and Reiki Master based in Fishtown, Philadelphia. She is also the host of the Living Open podcast for mystics and seekers.

Eryn is here to school us on embodiment! She shares her journey from yoga teacher to reiki practitioner and breathwork facilitator, and explains why embodiment has become the center of her life’s work.

Eryn rejects the idea that emotions preclude professionalism, and talks about the balance of being tender while holding space for her clients’ tenderness. We talk about centering humanity in our work, the vulnerability of trying new things, and letting go of what no longer serves. Eryn shares the ways she takes care of herself through fear and stays centered on what works in her business.

Join me this week as Eryn reminds this air sign about the importance of feelings and coming back down to earth.

SHOW NOTES

1:45– What is breathwork? (CW: non-explicit reference to assault)

9:41– What does it mean to embrace embodiment?

19:54– Resilience: Teaching your body to believe what you know.

30:30– Being tender while holding the tenderness of others.

36:08– COVID, quarantine, and business.

Living Open Podcast interview with Sarah Chappell

Free 8-minute breathwork meditation

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Living Open Podcast

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“Episode 127: Embracing Embodiment with Eryn Johnson”

Choose Your Own Adventure Oct 15, 2020

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Can we take our business seriously and still be playful with it? What does exploration look like when we are seeking to build stability?

As I completely upgrade the Holistic Business Academy’s core content, I am reflecting deeply on the foundational understandings of business that drive me and my methodology. I keep coming back to this:

There is no One Right Way.

Capitalism tells us that our revenue is more important than our joy. My holistic business model tells us that well-being is complex and individualized, and THAT is what I am all about.

Ultimately, my business methodology is Choose Your Own Adventure, and that is what I teach in the Holistic Business Academy: critical thinking, intuition building, and timeless strategy. So, as I work to upgrade HBA’s content to be even more clear and more supportive, I want to spend an episode exploring this foundational idea of choice.

In this episode, I walk us through the benefits and limiting factors of four distinct business models. I talk about why critical thinking and self-trust are just as important as strategy. I show you how to build a business model that allows for flexibility as you come to better understand your needs.

Join me this week to seek adventure, and stay to celebrate my birthday with a magical offer!

SHOW NOTES

2:06– Clarifying a unique perspective on the foundation of business.

7:47– Modular, nonlinear, and intuitive business.

17:34– Choose your own adventure!

25:37– Learning to trust yourself.

29:19– Four business models, their opportunities, and limiting factors.

Special Birthday Offer!

How to Impact More People Without Working Crazy Hours

Launch Incubator

Episode 122: Lessons from a Year of HBA

Episode 120: The Three Pillars of Holistic Business

Episode 112: Selling Like an Actual Human

Episode 81: Starting to Scale Your Business

“Episode 126: Choose Your Own Adventure”

Be a Better Boss with Tatiana O’Hara Oct 08, 2020

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Tatiana O’Hara is a team operations coach that helps successful yet overwhelmed online business owners create the structure needed for their team and daily operations, so they can focus on scaling faster. Using the corporate world as her training ground, Tatiana is an expert in what makes a team function and is absolutely brilliant in supporting business owners becoming effective leaders.

Y’all, I’m gonna be honest: working with Tatiana changed my life, and I couldn’t be more excited to share this conversation with you.

Tatiana is here to tell us how to have the hard conversations needed to make sure everyone on your team is having a good time! In this episode, Tatiana shares the common problems she sees in hiring, team management, and delegation. She schools us on why tools sometimes matter more than soft skills when it comes to being a Good Boss, and emphasizes that operations are the foundation for good leadership.

Tune in this week to learn how to check your own BS as a business owner and hear Tatiana soothe my fears about micromanaging!

SHOW NOTES

6:00– Common problems in leadership.

10:48– Company culture: breaking toxic corporate culture in our own hiring.

15:18– Tips for first time hires and team restructuring.

34:32– Learning how to let go of crucial tasks.

Freebie: Task Matrix
Tatiana’s Guide to Tough Conversations

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Instagram
Facebook

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“Episode 125: Be a Better Boss with Tatiana O’Hara”

October Energy Reading Oct 01, 2020

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Welcome to October! The month of Samhain when the veil thins, the days grow shorter, and we are ushered into the dark half of the year.

This month, the cards are calling us into this between space. It’s another month of all-reversals, which brings our attention to the work we have done and the work we are resisting. Whether we have completed a project, or have washed our hands of a situation that doesn’t serve us, we have finished with something, but we are still waiting for the path ahead to be clear.

How do you handle the liminal space? Do you rush through it? Do you look around and copy what everyone else is doing? Or do you accept it, sit in it, and let it show you who you are becoming?

Tune in this week for our cards guidance through the veil and for some classic Sarah fantasy/sci-fi nerdom!

SHOW NOTES

1:06– Energy of the Month: Moon reversed. The in-between.

11:34– Action of the Month: Page of Pentacles reversed. Be curious.

18:55– Release Work of the Month: Emperor, reversed. Be Flexible.

22:15 Outcome of the Month: King of Swords reversed. Be Responsive.

The Dragon Riders of Pern

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“Episode 124: October Energy Reading”

Queer Witchcraft and Anticapitalism with Anna Joy Sep 24, 2020

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Y’all, this week I am so pumped to introduce you to The Queer Witch! Anna Joy is a millennial queer witch who creates space and visibility for trans, nonbinary, and queer members of the witchcraft community. Anna Joy has also been coaching other witches on how to run their own successful online business since 2019.

In this episode, we talk about creating the content that we want to see in the world. Anna Joy shares their experience of looking for knowledge and community as a queer witch and how it lead them to running the successful podcast and membership program they felt was missing!

We discuss the nuance of being anti-capitalist entrepreneurs and our journeys in overcoming the fear of having “enough”. We go deep in money-shame and pick apart the myths of professionalism and hierarchy when it comes to running a business, crafting content, and creating jobs.

Join us this week to queer your idea of money magic and learn about the concept of “pleasure-oriented hiring”!

SHOW NOTES

4:43– Creating the content you want to see: podcasting!

10:52– Consistency and trauma awareness in business.

19:50– Hiring and getting help for your business.

25:05– Money and anti-capitalist business values

Boya lapel mic
The Tending Year

Connect with this week’s guest, Anna Joy:
Website
The Queer Witch Podcast
Instagram
Ebook

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“Episode 123: Queer Witchcraft and Anticapitalism with Anna Joy”

Lessons From a Year of HBA Sep 17, 2020

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Happy Anniversary, HBA!

Can you believe that it’s been a year since I first launched the Holistic Business Academy? I sure can’t. When I first rolled it out last fall, I could never have imagined what this year was going to hold. I wasn’t “ready” and I had never done something like this before. Yet, here we stand and I just couldn’t be more proud.

So, this week on the podcast I am taking you through all the big lessons I have learned in my first year of running a membership site. I want to share all the things I am so glad I did, all the things I’m learning I need to do differently, and what it takes to keep the humanity I cherish in a scalable business.

Join me this week, as I get real vulnerable with my revenue numbers and even more excited about my goals for HBA.

SHOW NOTES

3:59– How I set us up for success.

9:58– My day-to-day work as the owner of a membership site.

16:04– Not everyone likes me and that’s ok!

26:59– The reality of scale: More help, please!

45:52– The Seven Figure Mindset and my goals for moving forward.

Free Training: How to Impact More People Without Working Crazy Hours
Episode 120: The Three Pillars of Holistic Business
Your Dinner is Planned
Haley Burkhead’s Recurring Profit Program
Jasmine Star

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“Episode 122: Lessons From a Year of HBA”

Elemental Self-Care with Gabriela Herstik Sep 10, 2020

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This week, I am so excited to be talking with author, fashion alchemist, and fellow witch Gabriela Herstik! Gabriela is legitimately GLAMOROUS and reminds us that we can still reject standards of beauty, while embracing fashion, beauty, and artistry in clothing as everyday magic. With a new guided journal coming out, Gabriela has a lot …

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The Three Pillars of Holistic Business Sep 03, 2020

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Ever curious about what goes on behind closed doors over at the Holistic Business Academy? This week on the podcast, I’m taking an episode to share the basics of the framework I teach in HBA.

What does it mean to call a business “holistic”? What are the foundational steps of growing a business that supports you and your community? Why does business matter? More crucially: why is small business important in the context of all the big crises and change happening in our world right now? How do we apply these ideas in real, tangible ways that impact our experiences, our businesses, and our spheres of influence? I talk about all of this and more, as I break down the three pillars of creating and growing a holistic business.

Join me this week and take a step toward actualizing the business owner you want to be.

And if this episode left you wanting more, be sure to check out our free training, which will take you deeper into the HBA framework:

Free Training

SHOW NOTES

0:36– Understanding the importance of your business in the context of Big World Problems

5:11– Introduction to the three pillars of holistic business

7:39– First pillar: Become

19:14– Second pillar: Attract

26:11– Third pillar: Convert

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“Episode 120: The Three Pillars of Holistic Business”

September Energy Reading Aug 27, 2020

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September is a month of reversals, y’all. Literally every card! This month, we’re looking at what we have already done and what we are still resisting. It’s a wake up call, a celebration, a pause, and a calling in.

Are you over-consuming to cover shame and insecurity? Remember that consumption isn’t just for cake and Amazon. Sometimes it’s knowledge, classes, books, social media, and external validation, too! We have four months left of 2020, and it’s time to consider what we really want to do with them.

These cards remind us to pause, to take stock of what we have done, and celebrate everything we can think of. September calls us to community accountability and personal empowerment. It calls us strategy, instead of stagnation.

Tune in this week and remember the joy we are fighting for.

SHOW NOTES

1:30– Energy of the Month: 4 of wands reversed. Celebrate yourself

8:54– Action of the Month: Queen of wands reversed. Find your personal power.

18:24– Release Work of the Month: 3 of cups reversed. Personal agency in community.

25:35– Outcome of the Month: 7 of swords reversed. Strategy is magic.

How to Impact More People Without Working Crazy Hours

Craft Your Biz

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“Episode 119: September Energy Reading”

Crafting a Cohesive Business with Tenae Stewart Aug 20, 2020

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This week, I am so excited to introduce you to Tenae Stewart! Tenae is a professional witch, author, astrologer, and self-love and empowerment coach. She helps people discover how empowering simple witchcraft and rituals can be in their real, daily lives. Her first book, The Modern Witch’s Guide to Magickal Self-Care, will be released in October!

In this episode, Tenae shares the story of the Witch of Lupine Hollow and finding the threads that tie her work together into one business. She talks about her very exciting upcoming book and the process of pitching, writing, and refining her work into something so tangible. Tenae and I also discuss creating a cohesive vision for a business and how to form a model for it that is actually sustainable.

Tune in this week to get some major overlapping Aries energy and travel back to olden times: the days of Pinterest.

And if you loved hearing from Tenae, make sure to pre-order her new book with the link below: Book for Pre-Order

SHOW NOTES

1:50– Where Tenae started and how she created a cohesive business

6:45– The Modern Witch’s Guide to Magickal Self-Care

18:14– What is the difference between reading a book, taking a course, and actually working with someone?

25:10– Pinterest (yes, Pinterest), evergreen funnels, and the tools that drive sustainable business

41:28– Membership models, scaling, and The Starlight Coven.
The Starlight Coven

The Lavender and Lupine School of Magick

Daphna Romanoff

Connect with this week’s guest, Tenae Stewart:

Website
Facebook
Free FB Group
Instagram

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“Episode 118: Crafting a Cohesive Business with Tenae Stewart”

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