No Excuses Just Write podcast

Welcome to this very first episode of the Birthing Your Book podcast. This third evolution of the podcast where I release an online business of six years and start a brand new one as book editor & coach for Soulpreneurs that seemed to just land divinely in my lap.

I am very excited to bring you a whole lot of different things under the banner of the Birthing Your Book Podcast, because we are here for full creative self expression. We are not here for limits. We are not here for niching down. We are not here for talking about one thing in isolation because even books do not live in isolation. They don't live in a vacuum. They are birthed through living our lives and they are often a piece of a business.

There will be interviews with authors going behind the scenes of writing, birthing, and publishing their soul purpose & calling in book form. I'll be sharing my own story through an early fiction writing career, corporate life, and pursuit of the 6-figure online business of deconditioning from toxic productivity, reconnecting with the feminine, and now the journey of finding a healed masculine-feminine balance.

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If this has sparked something for you I would love for you to continue this conversation with your own thoughts & perspective in your content (please tag me, so I can check it out!) or join us in the comments over on YouTube.

You can also connect with me over on Instagram @kerrynhewson.

HOW TO WORK WITH ME

If you're interested in working with me please send me a DM or email [email protected]. You can find more information about my book editing and coaching services here.

My priority is developing a relationship and working container with you that serves, supports, and excites both of us. So if you’re not sure if it fits my current offers or not, simply ask for what you want!

I'm so excited to be talking about Do you want it to feel easy or hard in episode 30

It is time to talk about what feels easy, what feels hard, and how that works with this concept of ease and flow.

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So I do invite you to join the conversation, feel free to respond to this in your own content and tag me.

Come on to YouTube, we'll have it up and you can pop anything you want to say in the comments there.

I would love to connect with you over on Instagram @kerrynhewson.

Mentioned in this episode

Episode 15 - Choosing to change by flow not force - https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/7iH9ktpiftb

Episode 16 - The path of Ease & Flow: What it is and what it isn't - https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/6uYskPRhftb

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All my current ways of working with me can be found here linktr.ee/kerrynhewson

My priority is developing a relationship and working container with you that serves, supports, and excites both of us.

Ask for what you want!

This episode is from a livestream series I did last year called Let Your Intuition Lead. The third in the series I speak about what happens once we hear what our intuition is suggesting, how to deal when we don’t like what it’s saying, and taking inspired action by allowing our intuition to lead.

“A lot of the time we get this idea and it freaks us out. We’re not ready to take action on it or even consider it further. But if we give it some time and space, it integrates and the idea comes back to us and we don’t have as strong of a reaction to it. It takes a little bit of integration and our bodies can actually shift a whole lot for us without us having to consciously do anything.”

“We want to act in flow over force. So if we are forcing anything, if we are feeling any resistance we need to stop and clear the resistance first. Then things will seem to just happen and it will feel easy. It won't feel like you're having to put much effort into it. Because you're not putting effort into fighting against all of these feelings of resistance and all of these limiting beliefs and all of these fears and worries that come up. That’s why it’s draining. That’s where all the energy and hard work is going.”

“When you have space, you can connect into your intuition and get really good at sitting still for a hot minute, allowing yourself to be bored, and asking yourself what you’d like to do. Sometimes you might start doing things and it’s not feeling like it fits. So you stop and you come back and ask yourself again… what else could I do? When you hold the space. When you let yourself think and you glance around and you try a little bit of one thing and you try a little bit of another thing you eventually figure out what fits and what feels right.”

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If you desire to connect deeper with your intuition I have a Connect with Your Intuition Women’s Circle replay that can guide you through teaching and guided practices on how to listen and hear your intuition.

Connect with your Intuition is for anyone who…

• wants to consciously connect with their intuition for the first time
• has been connected before but desires to reconnect in a guided space
• wants to connect deeper with their intuition alongside like-minded women

I’ll be sharing about how to listen and hear your intuition, how to know what’s NOT your intuition, and how to process what your intuition shares so you can act on this guidance. Throughout the session we’ll be practicing connecting with our intuition through guided practices that you can use and replay whenever you need.

Click here to pay what you can for the Intuition Circle.

This episode is from a livestream series I did last year called Let Your Intuition Lead. The second in the series is for those of us with bleeding wombs, who are connected to our intuition in a beautiful moonthly cycle that gets louder and louder as our cycle progresses. I share how we can use this cycle to connect deeper with our intuition despite a lifetime of being told it’s wrong.

“It's really important for us to not spend another few 100 years trapped outside of the very natural cycle that our bodies are going through. We have a reminder every day that our body is trying to speak to us every single month. Yet we've been taught that it's wrong. That it's not normal. That we can't trust ourselves. We can't trust how we're feeling. We can't honor how we're feeling. We should be feeling differently.”

“We’re going to feel angry, we're going to be moody, we're going to feel bitter and frustrated and annoyed and irritated. Because we are noticing all of the things in the world, in our life, the things on a daily basis, that are out of alignment for us. The things that we want to change, the things that we want to be different, the things that we want to improve.”

“Cycle by cycle, month by month, without doing anything you are connecting into your intuition, connecting into the wisdom that you have available to you. When we leverage the energies you have through your cycle we can make relatively effortless changes in our lives to align the life that you're living right now to the dreams that you have.”

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If you desire to connect deeper with your intuition I would love for you to join me for my very first Women’s Circle event on Tuesday 2 August (replay available).

Connect with your Intuition is for anyone who…

• wants to consciously connect with their intuition for the first time
• has been connected before but desires to reconnect in a guided space
• wants to connect deeper with their intuition alongside like-minded women

I’ll be sharing about how to listen and hear your intuition, how to know what’s NOT your intuition, and how to process what your intuition shares so you can act on this guidance. Throughout the session we’ll be practicing connecting with our intuition through guided practices that you can use and replay whenever you need.

Click here to register and pay what you can to join us.

This episode is from a livestream series I did last year called Let Your Intuition Lead. The first in the series I’m talking all about how we’re so conditioned to look outside of ourselves for answers, how well that’s served us (or not), and moments when we’ve still heard our intuition despite all the noise outside of ourselves.

“I'm all about not only supporting you in doing something different, but in how you were doing that. Because I want you, I want all of us, to be thoroughly enjoying our lives. There's a wild crazy idea, right? To thoroughly enjoy our lives, no matter what we're doing.”

“I was doing this thing that I didn't really love. And it was fine. And I was good at it. And I could tick all the boxes and get all the external approval. But it wasn't what was lighting me up. Looking back, I was probably depressed. I was fine when it was during the day and doing the things but you know… When you come back to your room at night and there's no distractions left and then you're just left with how you feel. It's really tough. And so looking back, all the way through for so many, many months there were a lot of signs from my body, from my intuition that I was not an alignment.”

“It could be when we made a decision in our adult life or in learning to be an adult. And it felt really yucky. It was an intuitive no and we Made The Wrong Decision. But our journey is our journey. We can only start where we are and go forward. So I really again want you to do your best to drop the blame, to release the shame of… I wish I had known this earlier. Of course you're going to wish you did this earlier. We have to move forward from where we are and take the lessons forward with us.”

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Connect with me over on Instagram @kerrynhewson.

If you desire to connect deeper with your intuition I would love for you to join me for my very first Women’s Circle event on Tuesday 2 August (replay available).

Connect with your Intuition is for anyone who…

• wants to consciously connect with their intuition for the first time
• has been connected before but desires to reconnect in a guided space
• wants to connect deeper with their intuition alongside like-minded women

I’ll be sharing about how to listen and hear your intuition, how to know what’s NOT your intuition, and how to process what your intuition shares so you can act on this guidance. Throughout the session we’ll be practicing connecting with our intuition through guided practices that you can use and replay whenever you need.

Click here to register and pay what you can to join us.

In this episode I’m joined by Kayla Gebert, who is empowering wahine to embody their cyclical nature through the wisdom of consciously connecting with their menstrual cycle.

We had such a beautiful, nourishing conversation about…

* working with masculine and feminine energies

* cyclical rhythms we find in our menstrual cycle, the seasons, even in our days and weeks

* recognising and celebrating our anniversaries as mums (and parents) with reflection on our children’s birthdays and mother’s day

* learning to hear that intuitive voice inside of us

* using our cycles to embrace play and learn how to play as an adult

“There's a part of you that has been told it's wrong. There's a part of you that has been pushed down and hushed and quietened and told to be quiet. There's a little part of you that still there that knows that this is true. And I think when we do read a book or see a post or listen to a conversation like this, that is reflected back to us. That little part of us stands up and takes notice.” - Kerryn

“It’s such a gift to have this level of awareness and this entire conversation. This is what I wanted to do. I wanted to feel the fear and do it anyway. To bring these conversations out into the open because like you say, this is the third conversation you’ve had about it and this is my first conversation about this.” - Kayla

*****EDIT - in this episode infradian and circadian rhythms are mentioned the wrong way around, please reference Kayla's blog post here - https://thenavigoddess.squarespace.com/blog/cyclicalliving for more info

You can connect with Kayla over on Instagram @navigoddess_ 

Check out the link in her bio for all her amazing offers including The Wellness Planner, a menstrual cycle tracker and organiser that brings the feminine and masculine parts of you together.

If you desire support and guidance to bring feminine balance into how you do business and to find the natural, cyclical rhythm that supports your energy and your business expansion, I’d love to hear from you.

Connect with me over on Instagram @kerrynhewson.

I’ve opened Align to Ease, a small group container where we work to free you from anything that’s no longer serving you so you can move in, out, and around your business with ease. $555 USD per month with weekly group calls and a group Voxer space over three months.

I have spaces open in Ease & Expansion, my monthly private coaching where we work together to create the freedom, flexibility, and fulfilment you always knew your business could facilitate. $1111 USD per month with weekly 45 minute or fortnightly 90 minute sessions and unlimited Voxer access.

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In this episode I’m talking about growing our businesses to a place where they can stand on their own, where they become a separate entity to our personal selves, where they can grow in impact beyond the limits of our person. It is in this way that our businesses facilitate the freedom, flexibility, and fulfilment we desire.

“We've grown this amazing business. We've built it up to a certain point. And it's become capped because it's capped by our energy and our space and our time. We need to allow our businesses to grow into their own entity that is separate to us. An entity that has its own energy and its own purpose.”

“As an individual person with our business as the founder, the creator of this business, this desire we have to impact through this way. We need to be able to move in our business. We need to be in our business but we need to be able to move around and not get tangled up, not get stuck in it. We need to be able to move freely around our business when we're in it. We need to be able to move out of our business and look all around it from lots of different perspectives.”

“When you can see all of your business, when you know what it looks like, you can be confident in what you've done. You can be confident that your team's got everything handled. So you can step away and be confident that your business is going to hold its shape. It's going to continue to grow and thrive without you holding it.”

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If you desire support and guidance to reshape your business to facilitate all the freedom, flexibility, and fulfilment that you desire, I’d love to hear from you.

Connect with me over on Instagram @kerrynhewson.

I’ve opened Align to Ease, a small group container where we work to free you from anything that’s no longer serving you so you can move in, out, and around your business with ease. $555 USD per month with weekly group calls and a group Voxer space over three months.

I have spaces open in Ease & Expansion, my monthly private coaching where we work together to create the freedom, flexibility, and fulfilment you always knew your business could facilitate. $1111 USD per month with weekly 45 minute or fortnightly 90 minute sessions and unlimited Voxer access.

DM me for more information.

This episode I’m sharing the incredible journey of creative self expression I’ve been on since reading The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron and integrating my creative artist back into my current self.

“When we come from our soul purpose and our soul mission. First, we are here to create. And we are here to share. We're here to share words. We're here to share art. We're here to share in lots of different mediums. There's lots of different ways we can create and share our message and share our experience. We're here to be a channel for information that we don't know how we know it, but we just do. The reason why this creative self expression journey has been such a mind blowing experience for me is that it's kept that channel very clear and prioritized.”

“That little creative, that little artist inside us doesn't do well with pressure. They don't do well with deadlines. The creative process has its own timeline. It doesn't really care when we want things to happen. It's like no, no, this needs to be shared. And it'll be shared in this way. And if you haven't quite finished living it to be able to share it yet, then it's not going to come out right and it's going to feel forced. It's going to feel hard. It's going to feel like you have to make yourself do it. It's going to feel like the words aren't quite there.”

“We receive so much growth from creating and so we're doing ourselves a disservice. If we do not feel we can freely create what is on our hearts. If we do not feel like we can freely express our journey that we know is valuable for other people to hear about. We are doing ourselves a disservice.”

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If you desire support and guidance to live a creatively self expressed life first that flows seamlessly into fueling your business, I’d love to hear from you.

Connect with me over on Instagram @kerrynhewson.

I’ve opened Align to Ease, a small group container to free you from anything that’s no longer serving you in business, align everything in your business to who you are today, and support you to embody the vision you have for change moving forward. $555 USD per month with weekly group calls and a group Voxer space.

I have spaces open in Ease & Expansion, my monthly private coaching where we work together to create the freedom, flexibility, and fulfillment you always knew your business could facilitate. $1111 USD per month with weekly 45 minute or fortnightly 90 minute sessions and unlimited Voxer access.

DM me for more information.

This episode began as a book club style discussion after reading The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron and ended up being me sharing the very beginning of my journey as a fiction writer pursuing a career as a published novelist, what it looked like for me back then to be dedicated to that path, and how it all fell apart to leave me with online business.

“I always wanted to be a full time writer. I wanted to be a novelist. I wanted to be published. I wanted that to be the thing that I did in my life. And I also had that story that artists don't get paid well. Writers don't get paid well. That you don't get very much in commission or royalties. You have to sell a lot of books to be able to make a decent living. And I always looked at all those stories and thought… that might be true, but I'm going to find a way to do this, to do what I love, and to make a whole lot of money doing it.”

“I was so focused on being committed and doing the work and working hard and being dedicated to this and completing things. Because the faster I could complete a draft, the faster I could edit it, the faster it would get to a point where I could submit it, and the faster I could reach my goal. That was the only thing that mattered. Not the journey, not the experience, not the actual exploration of the story and characters and message and feeling that you can put into a story. Yeah, you can do that. But just do it quickly.”

“The act of creating no longer needs to be this tortured artist journey that we've heard so much about and that is so often seen in the world. I think the pursuit of creating art, just like the pursuit of our soul purpose, brings up stuff to heal. It brings up things so that we can expand and we can receive bigger ideas. And we can create those into the world as business offers, as workshops, as podcast episodes, as books. The pursuit of our soul purpose through business brings up all of that same stuff that a pursuit of art does.”

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If you desire support and guidance to navigate all the expansion, opportunities, and challenges on the path of pursuing your soul purpose, I’d love to hear from you.

Connect with me over on Instagram @kerrynhewson.

I have spaces open in Ease & Expansion, my monthly private coaching where we work together to create the freedom, flexibility, and fulfillment you always knew your business could facilitate.

$1111 USD per month with weekly 45 minute or fortnightly 90 minute sessions and unlimited Voxer access.

DM me for more information or book a 90 minute intensive to get started (the price will be taken off your first month with me).

In this episode I’m joined by Support Queen, Ebony Tipene talking about the deep desire we have to support and help others through our businesses. And yet are we able to receive that same level of support we’re so willing to lavish on our clients?

Ebony Tipene is a behind the scenes alchemist when it comes to supporting women in their businesses.

“Ultimately, what I do is give support. I give a lot of it all the time. That's what lights me up, lights my sacral on fire all the time. It's the receiving piece that's uncomfortable… thank you very much, I’m tapping out. It really did highlight for me the resistance to receiving the support on my end. The resistance to handing over really basic tasks that I could get my VA to do for me by just accepting that support from her.” - Ebony Tipene

“We don't like to put other people out. We don't like to think that the thing we want to do (especially if we're changing something) is inconveniencing somebody else. That's a dynamic we're often confronted with when we start to grow a team. That's where new paradigm relationships built on emotional intelligence, understanding our Human Design, and our energetics comes in. So that we're not making it mean that we're doing a bad job. We're not making it mean that we didn't hear or understand someone properly. No, no, I just changed things and that’s okay.” - Kerryn Hewson

“If that resistance is going to remain, the growth will never happen. It can't physically happen because I'm one person. I have a limited number of hours in the day that I am willing to dedicate to my office. And so if I don't surrender to the fact that I can get support quite easily. Reaching out to different people and saying… “Hey, I have this. Can you can you help me?” If I don’t surrender to that very soon then there will be no growth.” - Kerryn Hewson

If you would like to connect with Ebony over on Instagram @biz_alchemist_ebz

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If you know you need more support in your business and want help clearing away the resistance and building team relationships in a new paradigm way, I’d love to hear from you.

Connect with me over on Instagram @kerrynhewson.

Here are some ways you can work with me to create that freedom, flexibility, and fulfilment for you and your whole team…

• 90 Minute Intensive ($333 USD)
• Monthly Private Coaching ($1111 USD) - Weekly 45 minute calls or fortnightly 90 minute calls with unlimited Voxer support.

DM me for more information or book a 90 minute intensive to get started (the price will be taken off your first month with me).