The online business and marketing spaces are flooded with messages that bigger must be better. But is it?

What if that focus on scale and expansion isn’t aligned with your values or what makes you happy?

Ashley Gartland and India dig into what it means to be better than big, being profitable without the never-ending hustle, and how a subtractive approach can create simplicity and ease in your business.

In this discussion:

• Why focusing solely on growth and scale can create complexity and overwhelm
• How a subtractive approach creates simplicity and ease
• How to implement subtraction in your business
• What is means to be “Better Than Big”

Connect with Ashley Gartland

• AshleyGartland.com
• Instagram: @AshleyGartland
• Better Than Big Podcast
• Do Less, Live More Course

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• LinkedIn: India Jackson
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

Your actions for this episode:

In Pause on the Play® The Community we are reconnecting with what's essential in our lives and brands. Join in on conversations and prompts to help you declutter the noise in your life so you can better access the people and causes/non-profits that matter most for you.

Let us know through the rating and reviews feature of Apple Podcasts or FlauntYourFire.com/rate what types of episodes you'd like to have more of here on the podcast.

Want to dig deeper? This week you'll also hear from Erica Courdae and I over on our main podcast, Pause On the Play®. We’ll break down consumerism and how we personally began having more once we took a subtractive approach to our shopping.