Fireside

Today I am answering a couple of your questions submitted on Instagram earlier this week. I’ve grouped together a couple of questions that all had a similar feel: knowing what you want and making it happen. So we are talking about manifesting, knowing if your goals are the right ones, picking yourself up after disappointment, choosing yourself and your dreams and dealing with challenges. There are some juicy questions in here, so let’s dive in.

Hello and welcome to episode 107 of Grow With Soul, and welcome as well to a new short series on the podcast, which is going to be released every other episode over the next couple of months, called Coaching Catch Ups. So, what I'm doing is having conversations with previous Coaching Episode guests to see how they're getting on. Today I am joined by Jane Badu, founder of We Are Nomads, an online interiors store inspired by travel. Jane and I last spoke back in March 2019 on episode 33, at which point she had less than 100 Instagram followers, and was just starting out in her business. Today we discuss growth, take stock of how following her values continues to see her true, and how she's redefining the way she approaches social media.

Hello and welcome to episode 106 of Grow With Soul. Today I want to talk about pivoting, and specifically getting going with a pivot. A common theme of my conversations over these first few months of 2021 has been re-routing, pivoting, changing things up, shifting. It seems that the last year has, naturally, had many of us reassessing what we do, and not only wanting to make our businesses more stable but also wanting our lives to be different. I seem to be having less and less conversations about growth at all costs and more and more about how work slots into a more truthful and fulfilling life. And for many of us, these feelings naturally lead us to needing and wanting to pivot.

Hello and welcome to to episode 105 of Grow With Soul. Today we have our first returning guest to the show, Nicole Antoinette, who you may remember from episode 62. Given everything that has happened in the last year, Nicole and I wanted to talk about having change and flexibility at the core of your business, rather than it being something you have to do reactively. Today we talked about how to build around an approach rather than a thing, the three questions Nicole asks when she’s thinking of making a change, dealing with discomfort, and also how Nicole as introduced accessible pricing into her business.

Today I am sharing some thoughts around the work, the work, and the work. So these are the three different things that we think and we talk about when we talk about work. When there is a disjoint, a misalignment, or just a general demotivation, we tend to go looking for the big solution in the entirety of our work, instead of pinpointing which type of work is actually causing the problem. In this episode I'm going to describe the 3 types of work, how to identify which one is the problem, and also provide some ideas and solutions to each one. If you have a feeling that something's not quite right but you're not sure why, then this one is for you.

In today’s episode I am just thrilled to be talking Sasha Glasgow of Frank and Feel - writer, doubter, doer. Sasha is one of my favourite writers on Instagram and to be honest I just wanted an excuse to have a conversation with her - but what a conversation it was. We talk about how she started out with an intention to be a candle brand before heeding the call of the words, the empowerment of sharing the truth of your feelings, the impact vs the aesthetic of a journaling practice and our approaches to getting out of our brains and into our bodies.

Hello and welcome to Episode 102 of Grow with Soul. Today is a Q&A episode, with a focus on motivation, focus, and how things work out. Some of the questions I'm answering are ones that we didn't quite get to in the 100th episode and they're slightly more personal ones, and there are some others which you submitted on Instagram, which are about being able to focus, and a lack of motivation. Let's dig in...

Today is a coaching episode with Mariana Gomes a writer and founder of Ok What’s The Next Step. Mariana started her website after feeling a lack of creativity in her life and wanting to connect to others in a similar place. In this episode we talk about how to get more people to find you when you don’t have a large Instagram following, trusting the process while being pro-active, finding ways to show up when you’re shy and letting what you do be at the heart of your promotion

100 episodes feels like a big deal for someone with trouble sticking to things and always coming up with new ideas, so I wanted to do something a little celebratory. Today, I am being interviewed by my good friend Lawrence Toye. As well as having the auspicious honour of being the first man on the podcast, Lawrence is a personal development coach who facilitates events and festivals, and also knows me from actual real life rather than the internet, so I knew he would do a great job. We had some questions submitted from Instagram and the newsletter which were all so deep and juicy and I’m so grateful for your investment in asking them - as you can guess we went off on tangents and didn’t get to every single question this time but I will circle back to any we missed in a later episode. In this episode, we talk about lessons learned from burnout, moments of knowing, what the future holds and how I’m prioritising the stuff of life.

Before we get into it, I also wanted to tell you that I’ve put together a little commemorative ebook to celebrate today as a gift for you guys for sticking with me (or for joining if today is your first episode!). 100 Ways To Grow With Soul is a compilation of every guest’s answer to the final question, how do you grow with soul in your work and life, as well as some of my favourite quotes and a few musings and tips from me. If you’re already subscribed to my newsletter you will already have your copy in your inbox, but if not go to simpleandseason.com/gws100 to get yours.

Today I want to talk about time. At the beginning of every year I do a survey, kindly filled out by my newsletter subscribers and some of my Instagram audience. This year I took all the responses to the question ‘what is your biggest challenge’, and I could see that the word used the most as a challenge was ‘time’ - it’s something we’re clearly all feeling acutely at the moment. This is why my first Make It Better workshop of this year is going to be all about time, and as I’m preparing for that workshop I thought that in this episode I would share some of the methods and resources that have been crucial in me changing my thinking about, and ultimately reclaiming, my time.