Danielle Gardner is a business mentor, tiny course creator, and author of Quiet Marketing. Her work with clients is centered around taking a calm, minimal approach to business and online visibility, that is especially suited to Highly Sensitive solopreneurs. I first came across Danielle's work about a year and a half ago. Ever since, I've been captivated by the powerful signature presence of hers that combines a heart-based, non-hustle approach to marketing with a quiet and dignified presence in the online space. 

In this episode, I speak with Danielle on the art of giving yourself breathing space as an entrepreneur and what that looks like, away from the noise and grind of mainstream marketing approaches.

1. Why is breathing space important for business owners? 

2. How do you make space for yourself in a fast-paced digital environment?

3. Is there a personal experience that led you to understand the need for this breathing space?

4. What about solopreneurs who don't have virtual assistants? How can they battle the feeling of overwhelm while giving themselves space to breathe?

5. Easy to implement, concise advice that helps you create new results in your business with less effort - Dani's principle behind a Tiny Course.

Dani's book: https://www.danigardner.com/quiet-marketing-book

Danielle’s latest articles, online events and trainings are at:

Other links

https://www.instagram.com/thequietmarketer/

https://www.facebook.com/thedaniellegardner

https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielleGardnerTV

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Gregory Vahanian is a Transformational Life Coach.  He helps men and women enjoy depth and success in their personal and business lives. Gregory's work fosters a life of authenticity which often includes healing work that leads to fulfillment and service. Gregory happily shares his life with his beloved spiritual partner and wife and their two daughters in Los Angeles, California.

Gregory and I met through the MasterHeart program in 2021, conducted by our mutual coach and mentor, George Kao. Right away, what resonated with me was the gentleness and kindness in Gregory's approach to connection and networking.

It is my great honour to share this episode with you all and it's also my privilege to share that Gregory is the first ever male guest on this podcast. For that, I am truly grateful.

In this episode, we talk about

🌿 His ideal clients and how he helps them

🌿 Understanding there's a deeper sense of fulfillment available in life

🌿 The legacy of Loving

🌿 How to tap into your innermost Being & Find Contentment

Follow Gregory at the links given below:

On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gregoryvahanian/

Website: https://www.gregoryvahanian.com/

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gregoryvahaniancoaching

🌿🌿🌿For more about your host, Shailaja Vishwanath, check out my website: https://shailajav.com/

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Susmitha Veganosaurus is a holistic business coach, vegan chef and culinary consultant, a joyful vegan transition coach, meditation guide, and as you can tell by now she's a multi-passionate entrepreneur.  She helps people make fulfillment, joy and self care their highest priority through her own podcast, The Feel Good factor, plus her blog posts, workshops, courses, talks and online coaching programs.

Things we talked about in this episode:

🌿 How she adopted veganism as a lifestyle two decades ago

🌿 How testing recipes led her to her own vegan restaurant

🌿 Busting myths about a vegan lifestyle

🌿 Her holistic approach to coaching

🌿 How women’s menstrual cycles affect their business planning

🌿 On being part of the Intentional Growth Community

Follow Susmitha below:

On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veganosaurus/

Her website: https://www.veganosaurus.com/

Her Newsletter: https://www.veganosaurus.com/newsletter

Her Podcast: https://www.veganosaurus.com/category/the-feel-good-factor-podcast/

For more about your host, Shailaja Vishwanath, check out my website: https://shailajav.com/

For more gentle marketing ideas plus weekly tips on intentional living & digital minimalism, join my free newsletter: https://shailajav.com/newsletter/

Welcome back everyone to my interview series, Intentional and Creative Affluence. This is where I talk to creators and business owners about how they choose to work on what they love while infusing joy into their daily lives. These are my kind of people, the people who follow a heart-Based approach to creating content, marketing with purpose, and connecting with their audience.

My guest today is Asmita Bharadwaj Das. Asmita is a photographer based in Hong Kong where she lives with her husband and two boys. Her background in Pharmacy and HR helps bring a bit of both mind and heart to her passion-photography. A self-proclaimed intuitive ambivert she derives great joy in observing both, people and inanimate objects and bringing out their best using her camera.

In today's episode, we talk about a number of things including:

Why she chose the path of photography for her business- the reasoning behind it, how she learnt to connect with clients and how she's built her reputation in a country that's not native to her own.

🌿The challenges of monetizing a food blog, especially when you're from a different country and learning to pivot in this scenario

🌿The power of making your mistakes and learning from them; plus how she prefers not to call them mistakes

🌿The fact that she's a different person now than two years ago and the incident that triggered it all

🌿The power of the pause and how deeply it impacts her daily life

🌿Her kind tips for those starting their own venture

Here's the post from her blog that I love and read at least twice a month: https://onewholesomemeal.com/not-a-food-post-but-food-for-thought/

Find Asmita on Instagram, her website and on LinkedIn

https://www.instagram.com/onewholesomemeal/

https://www.instagram.com/asmitabd_photography/

https://onewholesomemeal.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/asmita-bharadwaj-das-84b37a13/

For more about your host, Shailaja Vishwanath, check out my website: http://shailajav.com/

Or follow my work on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shailajav/

For more gentle marketing ideas plus weekly tips on intentional living & digital minimalism, join my free newsletter: https://shailajav.com/newsletter/

Amy Isaman is an author, book & writing coach, and podcaster. Amy works with aspiring authors to support them in developing and clarifying their ideas, structuring and organizing them, breaking through creative blocks, and writing their books with regular feedback and accountability. She adores supporting her clients to write the books that their soul is calling them to write whether that’s fiction, memoir, or self-help. She does this through 1:1 book coaching, a monthly writing membership, retreats (when it’s safe), and her podcast, Dear Creativity, Let’s Write.

In our chat today, Amy talks about a number of things such as:

1) You don't have to go big - baby steps will get you where you're going

2) Create a community of thinking partners for yourself - people you trust who you can brainstorm with, get and give feedback, and ask questions. Don't be afraid to pay for this if you need to as you build a local network. Your current friends are probably not those people but there ARE local people who are also where you are. It might take some time to find them but go to local business meetups etc. to create that support for yourself.  

We also reference Amy's first business - website design - that she used as a benchmark for the way she does her current book coaching. Check it out here: https://www.entwinewebdesign.com/

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Where you can connect with Amy Isaman

Instagram: https://instagram.com/letswritebookcoaching

Websites: https://amyisaman.com and https://www.letswriteclub.com

Podcast: https://amyisaman.com/podcast/

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/amy-isaman

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For more about the host, Shailaja V, check out: https://www.shailajav.com

Bingz Huang is a Gentleness Ambassador, Human Design Coach, Intuitive Healer, Writer, and Soul Dancer from Singapore. Through her Human Design chart readings and coaching, writing, dance videos, and podcasts, she inspires her clients and audience to be gentler with themselves. She also helps other sensitive solopreneurs feel safe and free to be their authentic selves while still honoring and managing their sensitivity effectively.

While learning to do content marketing for her intuitive healing business, Bingz Huang discovered her latent passion in writing to share her thoughts and beliefs on energy healing. Her message soon became a published book titled - "Empower Your Life with Gentleness: A Simple Guide to Feeling Safe and Free to be You". She went on to publish an illustrated poetry book titled: "From The Womb of Gentleness."  

Her message on practicing gentleness gained popularity when the pandemic started in 2020, and this increased resonance moved her to keep writing and sharing about gentleness through Medium, an online publishing platform. Currently, Bingz is the founder and editor of a publication on Medium- Gentleness Ambassadors- that welcomes other writers to contribute. She enjoys guiding and supporting other sensitive solopreneurs to do their content marketing through Medium in a way that aligns with their unique energetic blueprint.   

When she's not writing and coaching, Bingz loves dancing with her silk fan veils and playing with her 3 young boys.

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Where you can connect with Bingz Huang

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bingzhealinglight/

Medium: https://www.bingzhuang.medium.com/

Website: www.bingzhuanghealer.com

Podcast: https://podcast.bingzhuanghealer.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bingzhuang/

For more about the host, Shailaja V, check out: https://www.shailajav.com

Dr. Ranjani Rao is a trained scientist and a self-taught writer. She is the author of Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery. Her award-winning personal essays and op-eds have appeared in several publications and anthologies in India, US and Singapore.  

Ranjani is also a client of mine and we talked about how she could use social media in an authentic and conscious way to market her ideas without feeling awkward about the process.  As a student of my Intentional Instagram course, she shares what she learnt to enjoy about the heart-based approach to social media which made her embrace the platform with joy and deliberation.  

Find out more about her latest book here:  https://www.ranjanirao.com/books/rewriting-my-happily-ever-after/

Where you can connect with Ranjani Rao  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ranjaniwriter/  

Medium: https://ranjaniwriter.medium.com/  

Website: https://www.ranjanirao.com  

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/ranjani-rao

For more about me, check out: https://www.shailajav.com  

For details on my course, Intentional Instagram, here is the link: https://shailajav.com/intentional-instagram/

Kerry Lee is the alchemical artist and founder of the Self Discovery Wisdom School. She says she's a creative catalyst. After a 35 year case of what she calls creative Constipation, an unfulfilling career and a series of challenging life events, she decided it was time for her own transformation. She rediscovered and reclaimed her artist self and the work she was born to do in the world.  During the pandemic she launched the Self Discovery Wisdom School. She guides those who are feeling dissatisfied, stuck or uninspired to reconnect with their own inner wisdom to find clarity and confidence to spark imagination and bring a dash of creative magic into their lives.

In this conversation we touch upon:

🎧 Breaking through creative blocks

🎧 A beautiful story that speaks about her own artistic transformation

🎧 Symbolism in Art and the Red Thread story

🎧 How to tap into your innate wisdom and creativity

🎧 The Self Discovery Wisdom School

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Links we refer to in the conversation: 

Create with Kerry Lee Online Open Studio Sessions 

A Free Gift for all listeners

Social Media for The Self Discovery Wisdom School

IG https://www.instagram.com/theselfdiscoverywisdomschool/

FB https://www.facebook.com/THESDWS

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Welcome to my podcast. My name is Shailaja Vishwanath and I'm a content and productivity coach.

For more about my Intentional Instagram course, head over here:  https://shailajav.com/intentional-instagram/

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An Interview with Natasha Berta who runs Connected Marketing.

Natasha is a marketing coach and mentor and the owner of connected marketing. She supports smart women to grow their passion business. She loves the tech side of things and also believes that the whole business journey is best used as a personal growth opportunity.

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In this episode, she speaks with me and talks about:

✔️ How marketing is not about manipulation; but genuine psychology

✔️Why she chose to focus on the technology side of marketing

✔️One of her favourite books  (& mine) - Big Magic

✔️How to stop being reactive and be more intentional

✔️Keeping a gentle hold on her calendar

✔️Her advice for other business owners

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You can connect with Natasha Berta on her:

Website: https://connectedmarketing.com.au/

For more about my Intentional Instagram course, head over here:  https://shailajav.com/intentional-instagram/

I send a free weekly newsletter that is useful for creators. It contains tips for writers, bloggers and business owners who want to grow an organic audience without the overwhelm. Sign up for it here and get it delivered to your inbox every Friday morning:  https://www.shailajav.com/newsletter

I'm on Instagram and LinkedIn as well

Enjoying the podcast? Send me a voice note to let me know :)