Alchemy & Action (formerly Wellpreneur): Nature-based Personal Growth for High-Achieving Women

Today's guest, Tom Asacker, is an author, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur. I met Tom earlier this summer and we had an interesting conversation about his new book The Business of Belief. If you're familiar with coaching, you'll recognize many of these concepts - especially how people's decisions and actions are motivated by their underlying beliefs.

While Tom is not actually in the wellness industry, his message of understanding belief is relevant for us as coaches, marketers, and entrepreneurs. In this episode, we talk about how understanding our audience's desires and beliefs is the key to bringing them on as customers/clients, motivating them, and ultimately motivating ourselves.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• How to use belief to motivate yourself as an entrepreneur, and motivate others
• How you can use what you learned as a coach for marketing your products and services
• How to inspire your customers/potential clients to want to work with you
• Why trying to sell to as many people as possible will not bring success
• What you need to understand to get your clients to follow through

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links:

https://wellpreneur.com/e32-business-belief-tom-asacker/

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Do you have a corporate job, while you're starting your health coaching or wellness business on the side? It's easy to get stuck into "counting down the days" until you can go full time in your own wellness business. But instead of wasting those precious days at work - what about using your corporate job to help grow your new business? This week's guest shows us how he managed to combine his health coaching business with his day job, to great benefit.

Start Your Health Coaching Business with a Day Job

Lawrence Mitchell is a health coach and full-time marketing executive, and he loves his corporate job. Lawrence was quietly building his business, Raw Energy, on the side until he found a way to merge and leverage these two parts of his experience. Now Lawrence runs corporate wellness programs within his day job, in addition to working with private clients and growing his own online wellness business.

In this interview, Lawrence shares how he built his wellness business, how he's able to manage everything with limited time, successfully creating a wellness program at his company, and strategies for making a wellness program compelling to the corporate market.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Strategies for presenting a wellness program to your company in a compelling way
• How and when to reveal your part-time wellness business at your corporate job
• How to merge and leverage your “double life”
• How to delegate tasks so you can build a business while keeping your busy day job
• Resources that will help you keep organized and manage your side business

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links:

https://wellpreneur.com/e31-corporate-job-and-wellness-biz-with-lawrence-mitchell/

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You know social media is a great way to grow your wellness business and find clients - but how can you use it effectively, without spending all day online?! That's one of the most common questions we get here at Wellpreneur, so I've invited Holly Worton, the founder of Socially Holistic, to join me this week to talk about simplifying your social media strategy.

We're discussing social media tips and strategies for health and wellness coaches, yoga teachers, personal trainers, nutritionists and other holistic therapists. If you're just starting your wellness business, you're likely doing everything yourself - so there's no way you can be everywhere online - instead, you need to focus. We'll talk about that today.

Holly's business is Socially Holistic, where she works with heart-centered entrepreneurs on building an authentic business. She specializes in social media, so she's a great guest to give us the scoop on how to keep social media from becoming overwhelming.

The discussion with Holly will focus on which platforms you should be on, how to avoid wasted time and effort, measuring our success, and automating the process.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• How to pinpoint the right place to put your energy into social media
• The best tools to help you engage and interact with your followers
• Twitter automation tips to help you easily provide great content
• A step-by-step process to help you identify your ideal client, and where to find them
• A realistic way to measure your social media success

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links:

https://wellpreneur.com/e30-simplify-social-media-holly-worton/

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Naturopath Caroline Cain is “The Freedom Seeker's Business Mentor” and in today's interview she'll not only tell us how she found her own freedom, but some great tips on how you can find it for yourself.

Caroline is a trained naturopath, a business coach, a mother, and she's managed to make her business entirely location independent. In the beginning of her career, like many of us, she fell into the trap of evenings and weekends before learning to set boundaries. Today she'll explain how she successfully manages her time, allowing her to spend ample time with her family and cut her work week down to just 25 hours.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• how she created her very unique, location-independent business
• how she chunks her time and schedules her day
• tips on setting priorities for your business
• how to set boundaries so that your business doesn't take over your life
• why you need a mentor/coach
• how she balances entrepreneurship and motherhood

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links:

https://wellpreneur.com/e29-time-management-and-location-independence-caroline-caine/

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This week's episode is a little different and was inspired by one of my coaching sessions and my recent three-week digital sabbatical. I'll be talking to you about my own business this time: running two sites, managing my time efficiently, and how I manage to keep my sanity!

I'm going to share how I run my own businesses, which includes two websites with newsletters, a podcast, social media, courses, client sessions, speaking engagements, and so on. I'll give you an overview of how I schedule my time out to maximize my productivity and keep from getting overwhelmed. And of course, I'll offer lots of tips and recommendations that you can try in your own business too!

What you'll learn in this episode:

• What a digital sabbatical is and why you should take one
• Grouping tasks to increase productivity and eliminate procrastination
• Efficient social media practices
• How to make time for self-care and creativity
• Why it's essential to have enough "CEO Time" in your business

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links:

https://wellpreneur.com/e28-productivity-and-schedules/

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Erica Mather is our first yoga teacher on the show! Although teaching yoga is traditionally thought an in-person service, Erica was able to translated her skill into several remotely offered services.

After teaching for several years, Erica decided she wanted more freedom and flexibility in her career, and started with a series of yoga videos before discovering that group teleclasses, an online course and even business classes for other yoga teachers were much more popular with her customers.

Erica and I talk about how creative thinking can help even "in person" businesses expand into online. Erica shares how she was able to use her skills to create unique online services. She'll also go into thinking strategically about who your customer is, and how to give them what they really want.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• What she learned from her first online venture
• Unexpected difficulties in coming up with online services
• How to find your ideal client, and create a program specifically for them
• Creative ways in-person businesses can grow online
• What customers SAY they want vs. what they really want.
• How Erica stays balanced and healthy as an entrepreneur

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links:

https://wellpreneur.com/e27-taking-yoga-online-erica-mather/

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Julie Gray is a holistic time coach who is here to help us optimize our time and energy. She's going to share with her best tips on making the most of our time and managing our email!

In today's discussion, Julie explains why time management doesn't have to feel restrictive, and how intuition and a holistic approach can help us avoid getting overwhelmed with everything we have to do in our business. She'll also help us with some specific strategies that will keep emails from taking over our lives.

We'll also talk a lot about procrastination, tuning into your body, and finding the right blend of work-life balance for your lifestyle.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• What holistic time management really means
• How to manage your time without feeling restricted
• How to keep from drowning in email
• How to use your time more intentionally
• What Julie really thinks about “work-life balance”
• How to look at procrastination differently
• How to tap into your intuition to help manage your time better

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links:

https://wellpreneur.com/e26-take-control-time-julie-gray/

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On the show today I'm talking with herbalist Melanie St. Ours from Psyche and Soma. Melanie is very forward-thinking and innovative in taking her herbal medicine practice online to reach a larger audience - worldwide. It's easy to see how we can do coaching online - but what about practitioners who have a more 'in person' type practice? How can they move their practice more online? Melanie shows us how.

Melanie has found that her patients get even better results with her new method than from her traditional face-to-face sessions. Her unique business approach includes skype sessions, using online tools, and packaging her services differently. Melanie also runs an online women's health group program, and has a podcast to educate people on herbal medicine.

Melanie will share what's worked for her herbal business, why she took her practice online, and how she gained confidence in her new method.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• How Melanie gets great—if not better—results from her online clients
• Ideas for alternative packaging of services
• How she's adjusted her practice to suit virtual appointments
• How her business doubled after going online
• How she gained total confidence in the effectiveness of her unconventional approach
• The steps you need to take if you're thinking about taking your practice online
• That you can make money in herbal and holistic practice, and still feel good about it
• That case studies, checkpoints, and measuring results are critical when changing your methods

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links:

https://wellpreneur.com/e25-herbalist-melanie-st-went-online-doubled-business-got-better-patient-results/

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This week's guest is Janey Lee Grace, the “Queen of Holistic Living.” She's well-known radio and TV personality in the UK, who has also become an advocate for natural beauty.

With her expertise in media and understanding of the holistic market, Janey works with health and wellness entrepreneurs on media training and how to communicate and prepare for interviews.

Janey has seen so many guests with a great message come on her show, but without the proper preparation for the interview the message gets lost or the interview is dropped. Her mission is to help people learn the necessary communication skills so the world is able to benefit from the information they share.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• What led to Janey's passion for holistic living
• Common mistakes she sees entrepreneurs make
• Why “if you build it they will come” thinking can fall short
• That it's your duty to spread your knowledge to the world, so you must learn the necessary skills
• Why preparation is key for interviews, and how to do it properly
• Why you must be visible within your brand as a health and wellness entrepreneur
• Tips on public speaking
• How Janey stays healthy and balanced in her personal life

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links:

https://wellpreneur.com/e24-maximizing-media-coverage-janey-lee-grace

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On today's episode we have KC Baker, whose mission is to help unleash to power of women's voices. Through teaching women how to overcome their fears and limitations and communicate effectively, they can get their message out and see their business thrive.

So many of us hold ourselves and our businesses back by succumbing to fears of public speaking, or even self-doubt about the message we're trying to share with the world. So today KC is sharing some tips on getting really clear on our message and connecting to our purpose because as we all know, good communication can make all the difference in making an impression on people and even making a sale.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• How to become a more powerful, inspiring public speaker
• The importance of overcoming your internal blocks, fears, and putting your message out there
• Tips from KC on how she built her business online
• That business success requires more than brilliant, great content plus passion
• Why “crafting your message” is an art, and can make all the difference
• How to find internal validation in what you have to say
• How to transform public speaking “fear” into helpful energy
• Why committing to a higher purpose will help you in your communication, and how to do it
• How to have more presence and charisma when communicating

This episode originally aired on The Wellpreneur Podcast.

Get the full show notes with links:

https://wellpreneur.com/e23-overcoming-your-public-speaking-blocks-with-kc-baker/

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