Do you crave simplicity & spaciousness as a busy business owner & parent? Me too! 

Today's guest, Gemma Gilbert, is a down-to-earth & successful business coach, ex-teacher, and mother. She's built a successful business that works for her, giving her the spaciousness & balance in her life that she longed for when she was working in the corporate world. I had so much fun hearing her story. 

Here's what we talked about: 

• Winter morning dog walks & why mittens are superior to gloves!
• Gemma’s niche: a flagship evergreen group coaching model 
• Gemma’s story, from teaching to corporate, and how becoming a mother changed her priorities
• Coaching skills and how they don’t help you grow a business
• Choosing a niche when you don’t feel you have any particular expertise
• How Gemma grew her business as a new mother, and then realised it wasn’t what she wanted
• Gemma on her current offerings Amplify & Weeks That Work
• Creating balance & focus, as a mum with a business
• Betty on reading novels again after being obsessed with personal growth
• Betty asks Gemma about her experience at Summercamp
• Gemma on Satish Kumar and simple living 
• Gemma on her experience of speaking at Tad Hargrave’s London workshop last year 
• Meeting people you have only previously met online
• Gemma on feeling less confident in group environments
• Knowing when to NOT offer your opinions 
• Gemma on picking ONE THING to grow your audience
• Half-arsed social media and when to run ads
• The golden era of Facebook & Facebook Groups & the algorithm changes 

Find out more about Gemma at : https://www.gemmagilbert.com/

Learn how to scale one evergreen group programme to 10K+ months without exhausting launches: download Gemma's free workshop series

From Betty: Being in business means being visible. Being ethical in business means not using dodgy tactics, of course, but also being authentic in how we present ourselves ~~

The trouble is… Many of us carry wounds around being seen, accepted, and celebrated as the individual we are.

Left untended, these wounds divide our will, i.e. we end up with conflicted desires:

Part of us wants to be visible to grow our businesses, but another part of us is absolutely dead set on staying well and truly within the shadows… Becuase that's where it's SAFE.

…whether that means literally hiding under the duvet (I've been there 🥸),

...mega procrastination & self sabotage

…or pretending to be someone we are not, so as not to stand out (I've also been there 🤫).

The push & pull can be utterly EXHAUSTING.

But the good news is, it's relatively quick & easy to fix, once you access the level of the subconscious mind, using a modality such as hypnosis.

Come to my free 90 min workshop on 4th June 2025 and I'll teach you how you can set yourself free from past hurts, and leap confidently in the direction of your dreams.

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