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I want to start off today with two words for you: GOAL SETTING.

 It seems like an easy enough process. You write a goal down on a sticky note. You put it on your wall so that you can look at it every single day and be inspired about what you're working towards. 

 But then five months later, that sticky note has gone missing. It is lost in the shuffle. You have no idea what direction your business is going in. 

Oops! 

This is one of the reasons that goal setting is often a practice that does not work for most people. We tend to only do it once a year and then completely forget about it. 

 That's why in part four of the Your 2024 Gameplan series, we are going to approach goal setting differently, so that you can create goals you'll actually follow through on.

Let’s dive in.

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What would it look like if 2024 was the year that you outsmarted the hustle? The year you didn't have to work 24/7 in order to have a successful business. 

I hear from so many women business owners who are just working crazy long hours. 

 They're doing everything behind the scenes themselves, and then it feels like they're always putting out fires because there's always another emergency they have to deal with. 

 Boss - panic is not a business strategy. 

 If your business is constantly in emergency mode, it might be because you're running it by default instead of by design. You're always reactive instead of being proactive. 

 When you learn to run your business by design, everything changes. Things begin to run like clockwork.

 That’s why in part three of the Your 2024 Gameplan series, we're going to consciously design a business that works FOR you in 2024.

 Let’s dive in.

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All too often I find amazing business owners who are fighting burnout simply because they're spending every moment worrying and thinking about their business. 

 And with everything we've experienced over the last few years, many of us are starting to feel that burnout. We're starting to feel just this general exhaustion. We haven't had very much fun. It feels like there's always something going wrong in the world, and it starts to really weigh on us. 

 So I'm here to tell you that no matter what might be happening in the world, we can still intentionally build out our dream life while we are growing our dream business, especially if we just take a moment and get clarity about what we want to be experiencing right now. 

 In part two of the Your 2024 Gameplan series, we’re continuing to create your 2024 game plan by designing your dream life for 2024. 

 We're going to life proof your business by getting clear about what you actually want to be doing, feeling, having, and experiencing in 2024.

Let’s dive in.

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Boss - we are in the home stretch of 2023 which means the Christmas season is just around the corner. For us business owners though, we are already thinking ahead to our big dreams for the new year. 

So before you make those plans thought and start scribbling out your goals for 2024 over your morning coffee or your festive cocktail, it's important that you don't just look ahead, but that you also take some time to reflect on your progress this past year in your business. 

 I know that the last few years have been a challenge and so many of us just want to move forward and to have that fresh start already so we can stay focused on those big dreams, big goals, big plans. 

 But one of the reasons that so many business owners don't reach their goals is they come up against the same obstacles again and again that cause them to work harder than needed in order to break through to that next level of success in their business.

 That is why I'm so excited because starting today, I'm going to share with you a 5 part series called Your 2024 Gameplan. 

 Over the next 5 episodes, we’re not only going to walk through the same strategic planning process that I personally have used for nearly a decade - but that I have also been sharing with hundreds of women entrepreneurs to help them create a solid and strategic action plan for the year ahead. 

 By the end of these five short episodes, you'll walk away with a 12 month gameplan that breaks down exactly what you need to be promoting in your business, what you need to be marketing, and what you need to be selling in order to have the profits that you're looking for each and every month. 

 It's time to turn those big business dreams into a profitable reality. I hope you are so excited!

 Let’s dive into part one.

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Welcome to the fifth and final instalment of “The Path to Predictable Income” series!

Over the past few episodes, I have walked you through the first four steps to help you create steady, consistent income in your business, so you can get out of the feast or famine cycle for good.

Now we’re wrapping up the series with the final part of the puzzle.

If you're anything like me, there comes a point in your entrepreneurial journey where your business needs to support you, needs to support your family, needs to support your lifestyle, if you're going to stick with it. 

We all got through those startup stages in our business where we knew it was going to be a learning curve. We knew it was gonna take a while to figure things out and to get those paying clients in the door. 

But once you're further along and you know this is what you want to do full-time for a long time, your business needs to pay you a real salary.

No one loves to run a business that isn't actually supporting the entrepreneur running it. 

That's why in this episode, we're going to talk about how to create that game plan to make sure you have predictable income over the next 12 months.

We want to make sure you have a real game plan for how you're going to move forward and design that predictably profitable business and actually plan for predictable income.

 

Let’s dive in.

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Welcome to the fourth instalment of “The Path to Predictable Income” series!

Over the next 5 episodes, I am going to walk you through 5 steps to help you create steady, consistent income in your business, so you can get out of the feast or famine cycle for good.

Let’s do a little pop quiz…

 Number 1: Have you ever found yourself just hustling, hustling, hustling in your business? 

 Number 2: Do you ever feel like you're doing all the things to bring in new paying clients and customers, but you're just not seeing the results? You're just not getting in those potential clients who are ready to work with you and happy to pay? 

 Well, if your experience as a business owner has been inconsistent clients and inconsistent cashflow, then I want you to tune into today's episode.

 We are going to talk about the biggest leak that might be happening in your business that prevents those dreamy prospects from turning into sales. 

 This is going to be such an eyeopener if you have been really struggling to have clients and sales come in the doors of your business each and every month. 

 If you feel like you have been doing all the things and you're just not sure why it's not working, I want you to know this is actually a really simple thing to fix once you understand what's happening.

 Let’s dive in.

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Welcome to the third installment of “The Path to Predictable Income” series!

Over the next 5 episodes, I am going to walk you through 5 steps to help you create steady, consistent income in your business, so you can get out of the feast or famine cycle for good.

Today we are going to talk about how to burnout proof your business. 

This is so incredibly important to me and I know that it is a hot topic with female business owners, especially because we have so much going on in our lives. 

If you’ve ever experienced business burnout, raise your hand - I know I am not alone in this and this is such an important conversation.

In this episode, I'm going to share a little bit about why I am so passionate about this topic and then I’m going to walk you through 5 questions you can ask yourself, and exercises you can work through to help you burnout proof your business. 

I’m excited for this one so let’s dive in!

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Welcome to the second instalment of “The Path to Predictable Income” series!

Over the next 5 episodes, I am going to walk you through 5 steps to help you create steady, consistent income in your business, so you can get out of the feast or famine cycle for good.

 Have you ever found yourself with a family emergency, something that needed your immediate attention and suddenly you had no choice but to completely rearrange your calendar? 

 Or maybe you just wanted to enjoy a few weeks without worrying about your inbox or your clients. 

 You love the idea of being able to take a week or two or more off throughout the year in your business, but the same problem exists which is this: if you're not working, you're not getting paid. 

 I know this is something that's incredibly common, especially for those of you who are value-led service providers. Maybe you're a coach or a trainer or a teacher and you're running your business by offering one-on-one work with clients by offering services. 

 While that is an amazing first step, it can create a bottleneck in your business where if you're not working, you're not getting paid.

 So in today's episode, I want to break down a simple strategy that can start to free you from this time-for-money trap that is pulling you back from being able to take sick days or holidays and help you start thinking more strategically about your business.

 Let’s dive in.

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Welcome to a brand new series here on the podcast called “The Path to Predictable Income”!

Over the next 5 episodes, I am going to walk you through 5 steps to help you create steady, consistent income in your business, so you can get out of the feast or famine cycle for good.

Here’s something that a lot of my clients and students, when they first start working with me, they have in common.

They say: “I've taken training after training after training, and it feels like I'm constantly shifting direction, I’m going round in circles and as a result, I'm just not getting where I want to go.”

Have you ever felt that way? 

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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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