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Ready to build additional income streams or a business that gives you more freedom and money?
Discover how to ''craft'' the RIGHT business for your SELF-RELIANT AF alternative lifestyle without burning out or wasting time!
In this episode, you'll learn:
🪄 Why most creatives waste time chasing income ideas that don’t fit their lives
🪄 How to avoid the “shiny object syndrome” and start with the right biz + marketing models for you
🪄 What to look for when you hire a business coach or mentor to help you gain clarity on the right business + marketing model to suit your current and future lifestyle.
If you're dreaming of a more self-reliant AF lifestyle, this episode is your starting point.✨
Additional Things Mentioned In This Episode:
🪄🦢 Enroll in a SWAN Mentoring program on HEXOTICA.online: https://hexotica.online/
(Contact me directly for the SWAN Executive, Agency, & Vault)
🪄🎁 Download my FREE printable SWAN Transformation Marketing Strategy Guidebook to learn all the things you need to do to start and grow your online business in step-by-step, chronological order (with PIRATES!)
🪄🦢+ ☠️ https://swan.hexotica.link/
🪄💌 When you download the guidebook, you'll also be added to 'The Inner Sanctum', Hexotica’s weekly newsletter, and your front-row seat to every new podcast episode. https://swan.hexotica.link/
🪄 💫 Book a Clarity Kickstart Session with Christine: https://hexotica.online/contact
Feeling overwhelmed in life as well as your marketing?
Discover how lack of clarity—NOT having too much to do—is the real root of feelings of overwhelm.
Listen to this episode to learn how an identity-based strategy and focused marketing systems can help you reclaim your time, energy, and sanity. 🪄💫
I also share one requirement to being able to act on clarity, and three practical ways of clearing overwhelm on a day-to-day basis.
You'll be able to use these strategies in both your life and in your creative business.
🎁 Download my FREE printable SWAN Transformation Marketing Strategy Guidebook to learn all the things you need to do to start and grow your online business in step-by-step, chronological order (with PIRATES!) 🪄🦢+ ☠️
https://swan.hexotica.link/
When you download the guidebook, you'll also be added to The Inner Sanctum, Hexotica’s weekly newsletter, and your front-row seat to every new podcast episode. 🪄💌💫
Additional Things Mentioned In This Episode:
Blog Post: '365 Day Social Media Content Calendar Templates'
https://www.hexotica.com.au/learn-digital-marketing/365-day-social-media-content-calendar-templates/
Book: Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire by Dan Martell https://www.amazon.com.au/Buy-Back-Your-Time-Unstuck-ebook/dp/B09Y55GLXJ
Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown https://www.amazon.com.au/Essentialism-Disciplined-Pursuit-Greg-McKeown/dp/0804137382
Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: The Surprisingly Simple Truth about Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
https://www.amazon.com.au/ONE-Thing-Surprisingly-Extraordinary-Results/dp/1885167776
Poem Reading: All The Way - a Charles Bukowski Poem
https://youtu.be/k6_QUhUPrF4?si=k8izWd5Iciaey4_x
What To Do When You Feel Like A Failure can feel impossible to figure out when you're trapped in shame, procrastination, and constant self-doubt. If you've ever woken up thinking, "This isn't the life I wanted" or "I've ruined everything," this episode is for you.
In this episode of the Hexotica Podcast, you'll learn what to do when you feel like a failure, why your brain keeps replaying past mistakes, and how to rebuild your confidence one practical step at a time.
I'm sharing the 10 mindset shifts and practical strategies that helped me move from feeling completely stuck to intentionally creating a life of freedom and purpose. As an unconventional, neurodivergent Gen X creative, I know how easy it is to believe you're falling behind—but you don't have to stay there.
In this episode you'll discover:
🪄 How to clear the mental fog that's destroying your clarity
🪄 Why status anxiety keeps you feeling like a failure
🪄 How to stop procrastinating and rebuild self-belief
🪄 Simple actions you can take today to regain momentum
🪄 How to start creating a life of time, location, and financial freedom on your own terms
If you're wondering what to do when you feel like a failure, this episode will help you interrupt the shame spiral, challenge the stories holding you back, and start moving forward with confidence!
Ready to ditch the shame spiral and step into your Hexotic life of time, location, and financial freedom?
🎁 Download my FREE printable SWAN Transformation Marketing Strategy Guidebook to learn all the things you need to do to start and grow your online business in step-by-step, chronological order (with PIRATES!) 🪄🦢+ ☠️
https://swan.hexotica.link/
When you download the guidebook, you'll also be added to 'The Inner Sanctum', Hexotica’s weekly newsletter, and your front-row seat to every new podcast episode. 🪄💌💫
Additional Things Mentioned In This Episode:
🪄 Brené Brown's epic TED Talk on The Power of Vulnerability about how we deal with shame and self-forgiveness: https://youtu.be/iCvmsMzlF7o?si=DPjr5m-ZZ_coT3u0
🪄 Blog Post: My ‘Exotic Life’ Manifesto And How it Helps Me Outgrow Impostor Syndrome: https://www.hexotica.com.au/self-transformation/life-manifesto/
Sick of cookie-cutter business advice that doesn’t get people like you? Hexotica is the podcast for creative rebels, neurospicy visionaries, witches, goths, and all you beautifully weird humans who want to build a self-reliant AF, freedom-filled life without selling your soul or pretending to like LinkedIn.
Hosted by Christine Rice, Hexotica’s founder, digital biz mentor, and unapologetic laksa addict, this show is part business strategy, part mindset alchemy, and part “wtf-am-I-doing-with-my-life” pep talk.🎉
In this welcome + intro episode, Christine shares:
And how she hopes Hexotica can help you:
New episodes drop weekly.
Subscribe to The Inner Sanctum newsletter to get new episodes directly in your inbox and learn how to craft a self-reliant AF HEXOTIC alternative lifestyle👇
inner-sanctum.hexotica.link
From the publisher's feed
HEXOTICA is an alternative lifestyle business and marketing education brand designed specifically for…
Where creative misfits can CREATE their place in this world, instead of wasting their time or creative energy trying to FIND it. 🪄🦢
It’s about CREATING:
TIME freedom🪄⏰
LOCATION freedom 🪄✈️
and most importantly
FINANCIAL freedom 🪄💸
It’s where sub-cultural weirdness and neurodivergence can become a superpowered foundation for lucrative side hustles and self-employment.💪
Where feelings of never fitting in and impostor syndrome are called out for what they really are: pressures to conform to neurotic, never-ending, capitalistic, unsustainable material pursuits and patriarchal conformity to normative values. 💥
A place for status quo rebels. 🤘
And unapologetically selfish AF world-traveling digital nomads. ✈️
Where a MAN is not a financial plan, and CHILDREN are not a retirement plan. 🙄
HEXOTICA is about helping you learn how to create the most SELF-RELIANT AF life for yourself!
A life where YOU are the founder, owner, creator, driver, visionary, and leader of YOUR own life – and BEING THAT to inspire others just like you. 🤘
NOTHING can hold you back from realizing just how much of a BADA$$ you can become in the narrative of your own life story when you know how to strip away the baggage society offloads on you from birth.
Capitalism, patriarchy, religion, childhood trauma, or insecure attachment, eco-anxiety…
You can learn how to bypass the pain and struggles of all of it when you learn how to tap into your innate inner wisdom and combine it with a killer life strategy. 🪄☠️
🤘You do NOT need to ask anyone’s permission.
❌You do NOT have to ”earn” it, either.
By just BEING BORN, you’re 100% worthy of doing exactly whatever TF you want to do with YOUR life…
So why not learn to make the most out of it?
Why not unapologetically pursue and intentionally manifest your wildest, most delusional-level dreams?
HEXOTICA is your touchstone for helping you believe EVERYTHING you want in your life IS possible…
To be a reminder that YOU are WORTH every dream that you have,
Because inspiration is divine guidance, so whatever lights your fire…
Whatever in your life makes your heart skip a beat...
Don’t you DARE ignore that! ❌
THAT is your life’s calling!
Your life’s MISSION!
And you CAN figure out how to make that work for you: how to monetize it, how to make a living from it, how to spread it, how to make an impact with it.
HEXOTICA is here to help you do just THAT. 🪄🦢
Sign-up to The Inner Sanctum newsletter to get new episodes sent straight to your inbox and learn how to start crafting your alternative lifestyle DREAM with me! 👇
https://inner-sanctum.hexotica.link/
~ Christine Rice | Founder, Self-Reliance Mentor, and Laksa Addict 🍜