Joyous Journeys in Life + Business with Sharon Joy

By reading your body's signals, you can fine-tune your life and business for optimal outcomes. In this episode you will learn:

1. How our body's somatic responses can inform our intuition, emotions, and decision making

2. The questions to ask to help you best discern your next steps

"Rather than using our sight, our hearing, our touch, our taste, all of those sorts of senses, it's about using the senses that we feel on the inside, which is very much connected to our intuition."

Today's episode discusses how to read your body better for life and business outcomes. I'm a big believer in using somatic responses to guide my decisions. However, I often find myself struggling to interpret those responses correctly. This can lead to making poor decisions that can have negative consequences for my life and business. I'm hoping that today's episode will help you to sharpen your skills of discernment so that you can make better choices going forward.

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In a world where technology and creativity are increasingly entwined, being a modern day entrepreneur requires mastering both skillsets - something that didn't used to be the case. In this episode, you will learn:

1. The skills that modern-day entrepreneurs need in order to be successful

2. The importance of claiming your identity as a creative individual

3. The practice of creativity, and how it can help you get seen online

"In order to do that, you need to put your creative hat on. You need to redefine yourself as a creative. You need to make sure that you make time for creativity and for play."

I was a panelist on the Coffs Coast Creative Industries Visioning, the future networking event. It really got me thinking about entrepreneurship and the skills required to be modern-day startup-preneur, and I wanted to share those thoughts with you here in this episode. Previously start-up entrepreneurs needed skills like being a networker, a really effective networker. They had to get along to a lot of live networking events. They leveraged print media and the artwork was generally handled but the newpaper's graphic design department - not the business owner.

In this episode, you will learn the following:

1. The skills that modern day entrepreneurs need in order to be successful

2. The importance of claiming your identity as a creative individual

3. The practice of creativity, and how it can help you get seen online

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For most of us, a key part of the sales process requires is to let potential clients know our prices and packages. In your modality training or business coaching groups, you may have been told to have them on your website or not have them on your website for different reasons. Perhaps your coach or trainer has a system that they use and teach that favours one or the other. Before you decide what's best for your business you want to listen to this episode.

There are pros and cons to advertising prices and not showing them at all before a discovery or sales call.

"I definitely think that the answer is very individual. But I think it's always wise to go in with eyes wide open because often I'll have new clients who perhaps have had other advice where somebody has really given a hard and fast way that they should advertise or not advertise their prices."

In this episode, I talk about the benefits of both advertising and not advertising your prices publicly- particularly for those in the first few years of their business. You'll get a chance to consider what's right for you and what feels most authentic and aligned.

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In today's episode of Joyous Journeys in Life + Business, I'm talking to you about some of the most common mistakes people make when selling their services online - and how to avoid them. In this episode you will learn the 4 keys to being a strategic and soulful salesperson.

"Despite your training and background, you are not a coach until you are a successful salesperson first. You have to be able to sell your services so that you can do what you really want to do"

I'm sharing some of the most common mistakes people make when selling. Sales is a skill and the sooner that I worked hard to improve my skills in this area, the sooner I experienced growth in my business. The good news is- the 'skills' I developed really just had my become a better human. You'll find that the tips in this episode to improve sales results aren't about trickery, they're about making more genuine connections with people. When I implemented these tips I saw a huge difference in my business. I was making more sales and attracting my ideal clients. I was finally able to do the work I loved and change people's lives.

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Jaimie was recently a guest trainer in my SOULiD®️ Membership and with so much gold in the session I wanted to invite her on the show to share some of her wisdom in how to get paid to speak, how to look for paid speaking opportunities as well as overcoming fears and basic public speaking tips and tricks.

Jaimie Abbott is an award-winning media professional and international keynote speaker and has spent two decades in the industry working as a Radio and TV Journalist, Political Media Adviser, Managing Director of her own public speaking and media training company and a Communications Adviser for the Royal Australian Air Force. She was an elected independent Councillor on Port Stephens Council for over 4 years up until 2021.

In 2011 Jaimie was deployed to Afghanistan where she worked as the Chief Media Trainer in Kabul for six months for Headquarters International Security Assistance Force. In this role, she trained over 100 international General Officers on how to master media interviews. Jaimie has an MBA, a Master of Strategic People Management, A Bachelor of Communication and is a graduate of the AICD Company Directors Course and is a Mamma to two toddler boys.

In 2022 Jaimie launched her online course, called Paid to Speak which shows entrepreneurs how to become highly paid speakers and the 2nd round launches on 5th November 2022.

Find out more about Jaimie's Paid to Speak program at: https://www.jaimieabbott.com.au/paidtospeak

Find and follow Jaimie:

https://www.jaimieabbott.com.au/

https://www.instagram.com/jaimieabbott/

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Following on from last week's popular episode on the current challenges in growing an online business, this week I'm talking about the 4 key considerations as we approach the end of the year and the planning I recommend ensuring that you hit a happy home run.

The key areas for consideration & planning I discuss are:

You might be surprised to know that with a little planning you can take time off and continue to support your clients with free and paid offers. The summer is also a time when many people are re-assessing their direction in life and so as a coach, healer or consultant this is a great time to grow your audience as people have more time to 'browse' the internet. Granted that people are also feeling burnt out but it's not a time to disappear and go cold on your peeps. A little planning now will go a long way in months to come!

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If you’re growing a coaching, healing or soulful consultancy business right now and feeling like you’re pushing sh^t uphill, you’re not alone. It’s high time that the struggle in the online business world right now is normalised and spoken about.

Launch conversion rates are well down, audience growth is slower than usual and just doing the bare minimum definitely isn’t cutting it.

There are a number of reasons why it's never been quite so hard to build an online business but it’s not all doom and gloom.

From the economy to online burnout to algorithms changing on the daily… the need to do more of what moves the needle has never been more important.

In this episode, I chat about the key challenges we as online business owners face and what you can do to keep your ship sailing in the right direction to weather this entrepreneurial sh^t storm.

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It's no secret that my SOULiD Membership is my most favourite place to hang out on the internet! 

This week we are celebrating SOULiD's 1st birthday which blows my mind on one hand and on the other it's like "of course!"

Having seen so many memberships launch and end within 3-6 months, I wanted to be certain that I could hold the intensity of always being "ON" and also that my concept would grow legs. As it turns out, it did and here we are a year on in and just getting started!

In this episode I share some of my biggest takeaways from having a membership for a year now which I hope will inspire and guide you if a membership is something that you've been considering.

So here it is.... My top lessons from the past year!

I can honestly say that launching SOULiD is one of the BEST THINGS I've ever done in my career and I don't plan for it to go anywhere anytime soon. I love group coaching and the benefits of group programs.

Are you interested to find out more about the limited offer to join SOULiD as part of the 1st birthday celebrations? Simply jump on over to https://sharonjoycoaching.com and follow the prompts to SOULiD®. Until 9pm AEST (Sydney) 30.9.22 you can purchase 5 months and receive your 6th month for free! Save $222 AUD. I'll see you in there!

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Louise O'Reilly is a Warra-Noongar woman creating cultural inclusion, diversity, equity and allyship in business with her profound work. She works with entrepreneurs to develop expansive leadership that creates a positive impact in the world including how to be a true ally for our most marginalised people.

In this insightful, deep and honest conversation, we go places where many wouldn't be brave enough to go. Louise guides us to see the blind spots on the periphery of our culture and society and brings them into focus as she shares painful truths of her lived experience as a First Nations woman, once a child trying to make sense of her world. You will see through the stories she shares that Louise was born to do this work and gain incredible insight into the ways she calls out injustice and guides allies towards a better future for all.

I am a proud member of Louise’s Inclusion Creators Collective Membership and absolutely love the way that Louise guides me and others to unpack their unconscious bias and create safer space. If you're a coach, healer, or consultant, I highly recommend this membership as a place where you can unpack your privilege and reveal unconscious biases with a person of lived experience.

Louise has generally offered Joyous Journeys listeners access to some of her incredible resources via these links and I absolutely recommend that you take her up on it.

Fcuk the Status Quo, You're here to be a Socially responsible CEO https://sunny-experimenter-3185.ck.page/2f4d5f0108 You get 3x 1hr workshops sent to you over 3 days when you sign up to my email list.

Uncovering Unconcsious Bias Workshop on Racism https://louise-oreilly.thinkific.com/courses/uub-racism (use the code unpacking to get 100% off)

Website: https://louiseoreilly.com.au/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louise.oreilly.shieldandconch/

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@louise_oreilly

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In the interest of truth-telling, it's high time that this commonly perpetuated myth gets busted once and for all.

The Momentum Myth- the myth that once we find momentum in our business that we stay in it. Sorry to burst that bubble if you were hoping that the holy grail of momentum is only just around the corner but the truth is, when we are in momentum we don't necessarily stay in full flight forevermore.

In reality, like everything else in life and business, there are cycles.

I want to reassure you though that all is not lost... as your business grows, the likelihood of it coming to a complete standstill is far less likely unless you do. Of course, the longer you're in business, the longer it takes for this to wind down to a complete stop.

In the episode, I talk about some of the reasons why momentum may stall and what to do when it does, as well as a gentle reminder to work on the mindset, that at some stage it sure will stall or feel a bit like wading through mud.

If you'd like some support with the strategies to help you regain momentum during a period of sluggishness then I highly recommend that you join my upcoming 4-Day Clarity Challenge which is starting next Monday 19th of September. If you're finding this after the date, then you can also jump on the waiting list for next time I run the challenge.

JOIN THE 4-DAY CLARITY CHALLENGE: https://sharonjoycoaching.com/challenge

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