In today's competitive market, service providers face the constant challenge of needing to stand out and build a loyal client base. Many feel awkward talking about their achievements, often forgetting their own awesomeness due to the busyness of daily life and wanting to avoid coming across as too “salesy”. Yet, sharing a brief story where clients can see themselves in your journey can create a powerful connection. We can practice weaving these types of stories into our everyday interactions and it is a key element in pivoting with confidence. This is what I sometimes call: The Power of the Subtle Brag.

The entire online coaching industry is at a crossroads and our planet is at a tipping point. As a longtime program director and curriculum developer working for other coaches and advisors, I saw individual business owners spending tens of thousands of dollars a year for online coaches, courses, summits, retreats, and workshops, in the hope of achieving the six- or seven-figure business they were promised. These entrepreneurs are looking to someone else, something else, to fix their business (Sound familiar? You’re NOT alone!) with an idea.

You probably have an example of a time where you invested money and felt like you didn’t get results. Without naming names, or laying blame, what do you think happened?

Might it be time to go with something other than simple “coaching” and to turn toward healing underlying behaviors and disrupting ingrained thought patterns and cultural conditioning so that you can make the impact you want to be making in this late-stage capitalist, whyte-body supremacist world?

Not everybody can just tick things off a to-do list in logical order (or even wants to do that in the first place). Some people work better with someone helping them build momentum and keep moving forward.

And, because of my background as a healer, when I work with someone like this over the long term, I can help them get curious about their beliefs (and shame) around the breakdowns, and help put new processes and support systems in place to make life and work better.

There are simple ways to shake the doom/blah/yeahbutts off and get back into your groove. Especially if you feel like no one ever manages to say the thing that gets you to unzip your fuckits for good

If I had a dollar for every time I hear “I’m overwhelmed” in a day, I’d be a pretty rich lady! Which is to say, It’s not just you (in case you were feeling that way)! Business owners, and especially business coaches, are up to their proverbial ears in To-Dos and most are unsure of how to decide what to do first, which things to keep/toss, or who to even listen to about how to make those hard choices on an ongoing basis. 

As I celebrate my 10th anniversary as a solo entrepreneur this year, I’ve realized that it’s time that I bring my wealth of knowledge and unconventional experience further into the public eye. A friend told me to work on the braggadocious arts, to be more obvious about what’s up with my coaching approach and why I say the “weird things”.

Most of us (perhaps all?) have those things that would shore us up, create abundance, or foster satisfaction… if only we could ever get them done. So many of the coaches I speak to each week say that they’re feeling badly about how inconsistent they are with (INSERT RELEVANT THING). Whether it’s social posts, emails, outreach, sales activities, tapping, networking, etc., many of these actions can feel like impossible tasks, and I’m here to tell you that it’s so totally not your fault.

Deep change and exponential growth take time — and I want to be with you for the long haul. You can transform your business (and your life) together with others, one step at a time in The Flow Alignment membership.

Y’all, so many times a day I clench up and close off and flip into “figure this sh@$ out mode”, soon as I’m hunched over keyboard or phone, my heart is closed off, I literally kink the hose and deny myself what is there . Blessedly, I can just as easily lean back, unkink, and open up. As many times a day as I need to.

A side benefit of being a client of mine is getting access to my editor's brain (if you want it). It's simply part of the eclectic collection of skills that are mashed together in my proverbial toolkit.

Even though I know, logically, that the reasons that we humans must learn over and over again how to reach out and ask for help is that we live in a patriarchal, late-stage capitalistic culture that over-values individualization and productivity, I am still taken aback by just how often our struggles are solved by landing solidly in our willingness to ask for assistance from another human.

It might look like on the surface we are just talking business, but most likely, we’re ALSO creating lasting healing and perspective shifts that will change you (for the better) forever.