ReWild Your Business

Thank you to everyone who joined Deb D ⭐️ The Intuitive HERoine and I for our live convo earlier. What a pleasure it was to go deep into a topic that is so close to my heart - how women who learn how to connect with, listen to, trust and ACT on their intuition are the women who get to build the most aligned, sustainable, and profitable businesses.

We’re just not willing to tolerate the extractive, patriarchal constructs anymore - and the good news? We don’t have to, in fact, everything gets easier when we don’t!

Have a listen to the recording if you weren’t able to join us live.

During the livestream I mentioned my free book - The Natural Order Of Things (a guide to the 7 layers of a soul-led business). Download your copy HERE.

I’m one of 9 speakers in this series and I HIGHLY recommend you get to as many of these sessions as you can. Every, single one is a conversation that needs to be had…

Here’s the full line up:

Deb D (Host) ~ Women’s Leadership NOW ~ Monday 14th at 12 pm

Valerie J. Lyons ~ The Role of Elders ~ Monday 14th at 6 pm

Gill Moakes ~ From the Outside to IN ~ Tuesday 15th at 12 pm

Candis Fox: ~ Money & Abundance ~ Tuesday 15th at 6 pm

Holly Corbett ~ Human Design & Authority ~ Wednesday 16th at 12 pm

Sheri Moise ~ Astrology & Opportunity ~ Wednesday 16th at 6 pm

Juniper Stokes ~ Earth Alchemy ~ Thursday 17th at 12 pm

Alyssa Knapp ~ Balance of the Feminine & Masculine ~ Thursday 17th at 6 pm

Erika Sardinha ~ Our Bodies and New Choices ~ Friday 18th at 12 pm

Deb D ~ Summary of the Sessions and Next Steps for Women ~ Friday 18th at 6 pm

Despite it being a school night, I’m planning to stay up past my bedtime tonight to catch Deb’s conversation with Candis Fox about Money and Abundance at 11pm UK / 6pm EST.

Huge thanks to Deb D ⭐️ The Intuitive HERoine for hosting these vital conversations, and here’s to the New Era everyone… we’re beyond ready.

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On the podcast this week, we’re stepping into autumn, a time that always feels to me like a second Spring in terms of energy. It’s so easy to make ourselves wrong for slowing down, to feel guilty about projects that stalled over summer, but I believe that quiet period was just your inner well refilling - a completely natural and necessary part of your year. In this episode I’m talking about how to leverage this seasonal shift into autumn, and what might be possible with the different energy it brings.

Honouring Your Business Rhythm

Nature doesn’t bloom all year-round, and we shouldn’t expect ourselves to either. Slower seasons rest the soil; it’s not laziness, wasted time, or the procrastination of imposter syndrome, it’s your system conserving energy for the right season.

3 Markers of a Soul-Aligned Move

When you’re thinking about how you want to use your renewed energy - what project / decision / next step you want to focus on, ask yourself if it meets these criteria:

* It feels expansive rather than urgent.

* It simplifies your focus instead of cluttering your business.

* It requires your full, undiluted presence.

The Practice of Silent Listening

I encourage you to sit in absolute silence, no podcasts, no music, not even your journal at first. Just give yourself space to connect with your soul and hear what your work actually needs from you.

Journaling Prompt

If I knew my energy was fully supported by this season, what is the single soul-aligned move my business is asking me to make right now?

If you’re ready to bring your bold move to life this season, I’ve opened up slots for my 12-week 1:1 Mentorship.

* We kick off with a deep-dive 90-minute visioning session.

* We’ll have biweekly 60-minute calls with implementation weeks built in between.

* You’ll have direct email and private messaging access to me throughout our time together.

* You get complimentary access to weekly online circles & one seasonal online day retreat

Head over to gillmoakes.com/mentorship to read through the details and book a casual, no-obligation chat with me.

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You know when you're really close to something, you don't always pause to check that people are getting it the way you do? Well I came face to face (well, email to email) with just that last week. Someone dropped me a line saying that they'd been listening in to the podcast for quite a while now, (and they caveatted with 'this might be a stupid question'... (trust me, it's not)... but what does it actually mean to 'rewild your business'?

Ok, a not-so-subtle sign that I need to record an episode that shares exactly what I mean, and why it might be exactly what you, and your business are craving right now. I mean, the online space has never been louder, the volume of content begging to be consumed has never been greater, the number of 'experts' shouting to be heard is overwhelming. BUT, we don't have to jump into that world.

We can carve out a quieter, calmer, more peaceful way to grow our businesses. In this episode I share the 5 principals of rewilding your business:

 1. Complete honesty about what you want (and don't want) your business to be.

2. Radical permission to go all in.

3. Depth over breadth. One or two offers that genuinely fulfil a desire that your ideal client has.

4. A marketing ecosystem that you can actually sustain without hating yourself.

5. Bespoke excellence. Treating every single client like they are your only client.

In this week's episode I share why I failed to upload an episode last week (after 4 years of weekly consistency!). There are a couple of reasones:

1. Summer Slowness - my energy has been diverted to other creative pursuits like writing, reading and painting, but as always with me, as we stroll into September my energy shifts up a gear and I'm back!

2. My podcast editor was on holiday.

3. I've broken up with Claude. If you want want to find out why, and what that means for me and my work, hit play now...

Find out more about my work: https://gillmoakes.com

Something a bit different this week, friends. I had the absolute pleasure of meeting with Nadia Adan when speaking at the ICF Converge Summit in Paris earlier this year.

Nadia is a transformational mentor and Quantum Human Design™ specialist who helps women stop living their "should life" and start making intentional choices that truly feel like them. After a decade in hospitality and travel tech, successful on paper but burnt out inside, she was pushed out of a toxic work environment and used the stillness that followed to do the inner work that changed everything.

She trained in coaching, NLP, EFT, and Quantum Human Design™ and built AlignHer: the space she wishes she'd had when she was sitting in that messy middle. Today she works with women 1:1, and through programmes and readings, helping them reconnect with their values and build a life they've intentionally chosen.

We connected after the summit and came up with a fab idea for the podcast - Nadia gathered the information she needed from me to map out my human design, and this episode is where she shares that with me live!

I still can’t believe how true her reading was - I mean down to the tiniest of details. It really was incredible. AND Nadia agreed to come back again soon to complete the sharing of my human design (seriously she’s thorough - it’s gonna be a two-parter!)

If Human Design is something that intrigues you the way it did me, I HIGHLY recommend you contact Nadia - you know I only recommend people I’ve had a personal experience of working with, well I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Nadia!

Her insightful interpretation of my design made so much sense to me and actually helped me unpack the why behind some of the thoughts and feelings I have.

Listen in to the episode and I’d love to hear what you think… just hit reply to this email.

Contact Nadia

Website: nadiaadan.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nadiaadan/

Booking: app.lemcal.com/@nadan

The Wild Way

Are you looking for a small community of like-minded women who appreciate the turning of the seasons, and enjoy gathering to set intentions at new moon and to reflect and release at full moon? Well, what a coincidence - that’s exactly what we do inside The Wild Way!

If you feel you’d belong, you do.

https://gillmoakes.com/wildway

Do you have a support circle? Those people in your life that you trust implicitly to tell you the truth (even when you don’t want to hear it). The people you can call when you want to rant about something and you know beyond any doubt that you’re being unreasonable, but you just don’t care… it’s got to come out.

The people who don’t automatically try to find a solution for you, unless you specifically ask them for that kind of help.

The people who understand why you’re so disproportionately happy about a single line of copy for your website that you nailed and just need to boast about.

The ones who totally get it when you want to throw your laptop out of the window one moment then switch to “and THIS is why I do what I do”, literally 5 seconds later.

We NEED those people. Probably more than we need any other kind of support in our businesses. Entrepreneurial loneliness is a real thing, but you don’t have to stay stuck in it…

On the podcast this week I’m talking you through why having an inner circle / a support circle is SO important, and how to cultivate the support you need from the people already in your world.

If this strikes a chord with you, you might like to join me inside The Wild Way… it’s a fledgling community, but is shaping up nicely to be exactly that kind of circle…

JOIN THE WILD WAY: https://gillmoakes.com/wildway

On the ReWild Your Business podcast this week, I'm talking to Maria Cussell, an experienced leadership coach who helps high achieving leaders become even more effective by developing insight and understanding to move quickly to action, bringing them more success and fulfilment, both professionally and personally.

Maria spent over twenty five years at Barclays before building a practice of her own, and somewhere in the middle of her story she said something so simple I nearly missed it.

She said that when our real strengths come naturally to us, we assume everyone can do them. So we stop valuing them.

Ooof.

Maria spent years in corporate being told, in various polite and impolite ways, that what she was good at didn’t count. She could walk into a room and connect with anyone, any place, any time. A friend once told her that when everyone else in the business was drawing up strategies to get past people’s defences, Maria just walked straight through them. And yet that never showed up on a performance review, because what got measured was audit findings closed on time and synergies squeezed out of a merger. She was good at the thing nobody was counting.

Here’s what happened next, and I think it’s the part we all recognise even if the specifics differ. She started to doubt herself. Not because the feedback was accurate, but because it was relentless. A boss telling you you’re not hard-nosed enough. A 360 review suggesting the people who love your work simply don’t know what good looks like. Enough of that, over enough years, and you start doing the thing so many capable women do: talking yourself down before anyone else gets the chance. Maria caught herself mid-sentence doing exactly that in our conversation, thirty years on, and laughed about it. Old habits leave a long shadow.

Isn’t it crazy how easily we hand the job of valuing ourselves over to whoever happens to be scoring us at the time. And how rarely that scorer is measuring the thing that actually makes us extraordinary.

The thing you do without trying, the thing that feels too easy to count as a real skill, is very often the exact thing you should be building a life around. And the people who tell you otherwise, the ones measuring you against a scorecard that was never designed for what you’re actually good at, are not lying about the scorecard. They’re just measuring the wrong thing.

Worth asking yourself this week: what’s the thing you’ve quietly decided doesn’t count, simply because it never felt like effort?

There was a line Maria used… “When I coach, I fly”.

Underneath all the values language we throw around in this industry, I love this reframe - not “what do I believe in” but “what happens to my body when I’m doing the work.”

Finally, I ask everyone I speak to on this series the same question: what won’t you compromise on? Most people answer with a value. Growth. Honesty. Family. Maria’s answer was more specific and, I think, more useful. She said she can’t do work that isn’t fun for her. If it’s not a hell yeah, it’s a no.

Uncompromising in the BEST way!

Enjoy the conversation…

About Maria

“I act as a catalyst, enabling people to become ‘unstuck’ and move forward. My ability to hold multiple viewpoints enables me to empathise with the challenges faced by my clients, whilst also allowing me to challenge their assumptions.”

Connect with Maria on LinkedIn HERE.

THE COACHING BUSINESS ACADEMY

Enrolment is OPEN for the Summer 2026 cohort of The Coaching Business Academy...

The Academy is my 12 week immersive program for coaches who are ready to start consistently attracting and enrolling the right clients.

Check out the Academy HERE - if it feels like the right support for you then we’d love you to join us.

If you have any questions whatsoever, you can book a call with me HERE and we can chat it through.

Most money mindset advice sees revenue as a straight line, always climbing, every month meant to beat the last. But when you think about it, nothing alive, nothing that grows, ever grows that way, and I think that mismatch is where so much of our money shame comes from.

In this episode I walk through the four seasons of money: spring as planting and investment, summer as the unglamorous tending with no proof yet it's working, autumn as harvest, and winter as the fallow rest we tend to mistake for failure.

Which season are you actually in right now, and are you allowing yourself to be there?

This episode is brought to you by The Coaching Business Academy, which is starting its summer cohort on the 4th of August.

If you're sensing a planting season coming on, the details are at https://gillmoakes.com/academy, and there's a link there to book a call with me if you'd like to talk it through first.

If I had to start my coaching business again from nothing, right now, in the back half of 2026, I know exactly what I'd do, and it isn't what most newly qualified coaches are doing.

In this episode I talk through the four things I'd focus on before anything else: having real, one-to-one conversations instead of building an audience, getting actual proof from real clients before touching my branding, building one plainly worded offer instead of a whole suite, and thinking in terms of my first hundred days rather than my first year. I also talk about what I wouldn't waste time on, including platform-hopping, waiting to feel ready, and letting AI write content that sounds like everyone else's.

If you're newly qualified and still waiting for your first paying client, this episode, and the free workshop I mention at the end, are both for you.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Natural Order of Things (free book)

Your First Yes workbook

Free live workshop: How To Get Your First Paid Coaching Clients — 21st July, 1pm UK / 8am Eastern

The Coaching Business Academy, Summer 2026 cohort

If you can't describe what someone gets from working with you in one breath, this episode is for you. I'm talking about why coaches pad their offers with modules, bonuses and add-ons (and why it's usually a confidence problem, not a value problem). I walk you through the three things every simple offer needs: format, price and promise.

Have you signed up for my FREE workshop yet?

1pm on 21st July: How To Get Your First (Or Next) Paying Coaching Clients.

Register here: https://www.gillmoakes.com/first-paying-clients-workshop

This podcast is sponsored by The Coaching Business Academy. Summer cohort starts 4th August. https://gillmoakes.com/academy