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Today’s topic is a little bit personal…

This won’t come as a big surprise to you, but sometimes I can be TOO strategic - I like lists, I like things to be in a certain order and I like to just follow the plan. 

So this means I love plans, I love color coding, I am just a really extreme type A person… so incorporating fun and going off script can feel super awkward and stressful for me.

My mindset coach is always reminding me that because I’m so logical I forget to believe in magic and so I thought this would be a great conversation for us to have as we wrap up Q3 and head into the last quarter of the year. 

Because when I do infuse fun and magic and playfulness, that’s when I usually have the biggest breakthroughs and I hope that you can too. 

Here’s the lowdown of what we’re going to cover:

- My personal experience with infusing more fun and magic into my business

- Some journal prompts to help you start to implement this

- A few tangible action steps for you to round this up (because I know you love those!)

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Welcome to episode 5 of the Boss Your Q4 series!

Today we’re wrapping up the series with a short guided audio and affirmation pep talk to help you start Q4 in the best way possible. 

This is WAY out of my comfort zone, I have never done anything like this on the podcast before… but I thought this was the best way to end our series getting you all prepped and ready for Q4.

This is part of the Boss Your Q4 series specifically, but it’s also perfect to listen to anytime you need a pep talk from yours truly. 

Ideally I want you to be sat down and really present listening to this because I want you to feel some of the things I’ll be saying to you.

I promise this will be 5 minutes of your time you’ll be so glad you spent taking that time for yourself and your future.

I would also encourage you to have your journal by your side so that after you’ve done this meditation, you can write down how you felt or anything that’s coming up for you immediately. 

So get ready to feel a shift and with that said I will lead you gently through this guided audio. 

Come back to this whenever you need a pep talk and have an amazing day ahead.

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Welcome to episode 4 of the Boss Your Q4 series!

Over 5 episodes, I’m going to be coaching you on finishing 2023 strong, strategising the rest of the year and me basically trying to help you as much as I can!

So far we’ve talked about how to boss the rest of 2023 with a successful strategy, how to take advantage of the seasons when content planning, and how to plan for an epic Black Friday

That brings us to the fourth installment of this series in which we are going to be talking all about taking time off.

I always have at least two weeks off at Christmas and one question I get asked a lot is: how do I plan for that? How do you take that amount of time off when you are the CEO of your business? 

So this week on podcast, we are talking about how to plan holiday time off as business owners. This is a non-negotiable for me, throughout the year but especially in December. 

And this is the thing as the boss of your business, you are the business owner, you make the rules, you make the schedule. So there are these seasons throughout the year that we get to plan for to take time off. 

Whatever that looks like for you throughout the year, I want to give you the context and thought process that I go through when I am planning to take these bigger amounts of time off, so you can plan for them too. 

Let’s dive in.

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Welcome to episode 3 of the Boss Your Q4 series!

Over 5 episodes, I’m going to be coaching you on finishing 2023 strong, strategising the rest of the year and me basically trying to help you as much as I can!

So far we’ve talked about how to boss the rest of 2023 with a successful strategy and how to take advantage of the seasons when content planning.

That brings us to the third installment of this series which is going to be all about how to prep for Black Friday. 

Spoiler alert: I highly, highly, highly recommend planning for this ahead of time. 

In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about different ideas, different ways to promote and different things that you can put on sale for Black Friday.

A lot of these ways that I’m going to share with you are so fun and creative and I'm excited to see what you come up with. 

But beyond that, we're gonna talk about how to prepare for this event in your business PLUS how to get your audience ready for it too. 

So grab your notebook and let’s map out your Black Friday plan.

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Over 5 episodes, I’m going to be coaching you on finishing 2023 strong, strategising the rest of the year and me basically trying to help you as much as I can!

For the second installment of the series, we're talking about how to prepare seasonal content in your business.

When it comes to seasonal content, there's so much that can be done and there's so much fun that we can have. So we don't want to be rushing around at the last minute to whip up graphics, to think about promotion and to think about how to leverage the season at hand for our marketing.

That’s why I want to plant the seed during this Boss Your Q4 series so you can get the wheels turning, get inspiration, and plan in advance - so by the time the holiday season gets here, you have a plan.

You know what you want to do, you know what you want to promote, you know what you want to say, and it all ties together perfectly.

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Welcome to the Boss Your Q4 series!!!!

Over the next 5 weeks I’m going to be coaching you on finishing 2023 strong, strategising the rest of the year and me basically trying to help you as much as I can!

Now, I get that we are at the end of August, but let me tell you - this is the time to be thinking about Q4. 

You don’t want to be thinking about these things in October and November when you are rushing to execute, rushing to plan, rushing to strategize, you feel like you've lost a grip on your goals, you're trying to slow down for the holiday season. 

That's not the vibe. You want to make sure  that you're looking at these things with enough space and looking at them ahead of time so you can really plan and set yourself up for success. 

So to kick things off with the first episode in this series, I’m going to share with you the things that I encourage you to look at for this point in the year.

This is going to allow you to see what’s going on, what’s already planned for the rest of the year and anywhere we need to reevaluate, readjust, and re-strategise.

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In just a month and a half, we will be getting down to the last 90 days of 2023. 

So I wanted to ask you a really important question: are you winding down or are you ramping up? Here's what I mean by that. 

For some of us, we get to the end of September and we've already decided that the year is pretty much over - the festive season is just around the corner. We’re busy taking part in festive fun or taking kids to all their activities. It's just easier to go with the flow than to focus on your big goals.

 But in today's episode, I wanted to talk with you about why right now is the perfect time to start ramping up and laying the foundation for 2024 in these last 90 days of the year. 

We dive into:

• Why smashing Q4 gives you a head start on the new year

• 3 ways you can simply and effectively make the most of the remaining few months of the year

• The biggest mindset shift you can make when it comes to finding more time 

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A plan only works if you work the plan, but what if you're struggling to stick to the plan? What do you do when the plan goes completely out the window? 

Relatable, right?

 Sometimes we're dealing with personal challenges that disrupt our business. Sometimes we have to navigate external challenges that we can't control. Sometimes… it’s both. 

 A boss knows that the key to sustainable success is a combination of being focused and flexible with the strategic plan that they have put in place. 

So in this final instalment of the Unsexy Secrets to Sustainable Success, I'm gonna be sharing with you how you can be both focused and flexible as you navigate new challenges in life and business. 

 

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Let’s talk about the B word - BURNOUT.

Burnout is a massive problem for women entrepreneurs. 

Let's face it, we're not only starting and growing businesses, but we're also raising families, and caring for ageing parents. We're doing so many different things on top of growing this business.

But one of the key reasons burnout is such a massive problem for women entrepreneurs isn't just that there's so much to do… it's that we don't always have a clear plan for how we are going to show up and run our business. 

Here’s how to strategically plan and create a month-by-month profit plan for 2024.

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