Six Days to Find Your Focus. Free audio training & journal to get clear, take action, and create momentum — with joy.

We talk a lot about how social media is affecting our mental health and ability to focus but for many of us our relationship with 'traditional' media could also do with an upgrade, I'm sharing how I've been experimenting with the way I consume news and interact with social media and I'd love to get your thoughts on it too!

🎙 You can get the full shownotes here.

⭐️ And if you're interested in coaching with me you can get all the info here for private coaching and here for The Minimalist Business School!

💌 Don't forget to email me at [email protected] with your own experiment, I'm very curious to find out about your experiences!

Mentioned in the episode:

• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel @joyambitionbyemmalavelle
• Activate the theory in The Life Atelier Coaching Studio (50% Discount this month on your first payment, monthly or annual with the code MARCH-50)
• Contact Emma at [email protected]
• Substack Community - The (F)Alchemist
• Instagram @emmalavelle.co
• The Untangle Your Life Full Course with workbook (11€ or included in your Life Atelier Membership)
• Podcast! Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite pod player here

🦋 DREAM DECIDE DO. The Life Atelier

In this episode I’m going to share an exercise from the first module in the MBS which you can find out more about by clicking here, it’s one of the 5 pillars of a Minimalist Business… not 3 which is what I say in the recording, to be fair I usually divide things into 3’s my brain likes them!

You’re going to learn:

1. Why you need a vision that’s a little stretchy (and you don’t need to know the ‘how’ yet)
2. How to create your vision and I’ll share mine too
3. What to do with your vision so that it doesn’t become another ‘that’s nice’ exercise which you don’t take action on!

My current stretchy vision is to show others how to build a climate positive business where they have the option to work 20 hours a week or less so that the rest of their time they can read, travel, work on causes they’re passionate about and connect with people and themselves.

You can find out more about how teach my students to do that in The Minimalist Business School here!

Mentioned in the episode:

• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel @joyambitionbyemmalavelle
• Activate the theory in The Life Atelier Coaching Studio (50% Discount this month on your first payment, monthly or annual with the code MARCH-50)
• Contact Emma at [email protected]
• Substack Community - The (F)Alchemist
• Instagram @emmalavelle.co
• The Untangle Your Life Full Course with workbook (11€ or included in your Life Atelier Membership)
• Podcast! Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite pod player here

🦋 DREAM DECIDE DO. The Life Atelier

In today’s episode, the first of the new look Minimalist Business School Podcast (formerly The Life Atelier) you’ll learn:

1. Why your brain likes to distract you and keep you in the busy work
2. How to cut procrastination by thinking about the cost of what you want to create and then deciding
3. When and why to ‘choose your hard’

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Esther Perel's Podcast (both are amazing!)
• The Minimalist Business School 
• Natalie Miller 

Mentioned in the episode:

• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel @joyambitionbyemmalavelle
• Activate the theory in The Life Atelier Coaching Studio (50% Discount this month on your first payment, monthly or annual with the code MARCH-50)
• Contact Emma at [email protected]
• Substack Community - The (F)Alchemist
• Instagram @emmalavelle.co
• The Untangle Your Life Full Course with workbook (11€ or included in your Life Atelier Membership)
• Podcast! Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite pod player here

🦋 DREAM DECIDE DO. The Life Atelier

In today's episode you'll learn:

• How to check in that you actually want the thing you're working towards and start taking action steps towards it.
• I'll share my (quite recent) experiences with realising that I wasn't doing this myself!
• You'll also learn how to identify your keystone habit, and make a plan to return to it when things go off course, as they do! 

➡️ Structure or get feedback on your minimalist business offer in free live training The Minimalist Business Clinic, this isn't a webinar, it's me coaching you and maybe a few others (depends on the time zone!) on how to create an offer that will actually allow you to create a life of joyful freedom with your business! 

➡️ Sign up here: https://www.emmalavelle.co/minimalist-business-offer-clinic 

Mentioned in the episode:

• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel @joyambitionbyemmalavelle
• Activate the theory in The Life Atelier Coaching Studio (50% Discount this month on your first payment, monthly or annual with the code MARCH-50)
• Contact Emma at [email protected]
• Substack Community - The (F)Alchemist
• Instagram @emmalavelle.co
• The Untangle Your Life Full Course with workbook (11€ or included in your Life Atelier Membership)
• Podcast! Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite pod player here

🦋 DREAM DECIDE DO. The Life Atelier

A request from one of my clients, on how to do a digital declutter, you're going to learn:

1. My journey from extreme hoarder to *almost* digital minimalist

2. How to get started with digital decluttering

3. Mistakes to avoid including trying to do it all at once!

⭐️ Get the links mentioned in the episode here

⭐️ Ready for coaching? Schedule a virtual coffee chat to see if I can help you here 

Mentioned in the episode:

• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel @joyambitionbyemmalavelle
• Activate the theory in The Life Atelier Coaching Studio (50% Discount this month on your first payment, monthly or annual with the code MARCH-50)
• Contact Emma at [email protected]
• Substack Community - The (F)Alchemist
• Instagram @emmalavelle.co
• The Untangle Your Life Full Course with workbook (11€ or included in your Life Atelier Membership)
• Podcast! Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite pod player here

🦋 DREAM DECIDE DO. The Life Atelier

Ok there’s a lot about reactive dog training here in the first 10 minutes, but it’s relevant I promise!

This episode will teach you:

1. How to start thinking about your ROTI - Return On Time Invested
2. How to achieve your impossible goal in 10 minutes a day
3. Why you should ignore other people’s advice (sometimes)

🧨 Action step:

Write down one impossible goal you have, then write down one 10 minute action step you could take consistently every day towards it.

Go deeper and start to observe which of your habits are taken from other people and maybe don’t really work for you.

⭐️ Schedule a virtual cup of tea with me!

https://emmalavelle.as.me/virtualcupoftea

⭐️ Discuss this episode & share your ideas in The Atelier:

https://theatelier.mn.co/topics/6697259 

Links Mentioned:

• Vikki Louise (@feministtimecoach)
• Peter Crone, The Mind Architect @petercrone
• Spirit Dogs - Reactivity Course

Mentioned in the episode:

• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel @joyambitionbyemmalavelle
• Activate the theory in The Life Atelier Coaching Studio (50% Discount this month on your first payment, monthly or annual with the code MARCH-50)
• Contact Emma at [email protected]
• Substack Community - The (F)Alchemist
• Instagram @emmalavelle.co
• The Untangle Your Life Full Course with workbook (11€ or included in your Life Atelier Membership)
• Podcast! Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite pod player here

🦋 DREAM DECIDE DO. The Life Atelier

In today's episode I'm sharing the three hacks that helped me to actually achieve the big goals I set myself:

• Using upper bound limits to pace myself
• Prioritising self-worth
• Refusing to outsource my authority

Links mentioned in the episode:

Effortless, Greg McKeowen

Vikki Louise Coaching

The Atelier, my free community

➡️ You can get the taster lesson I mention in the episode here untill Sunday 

🦋 Become a minimalist business owner in The Life Atelier 

Mentioned in the episode:

• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel @joyambitionbyemmalavelle
• Activate the theory in The Life Atelier Coaching Studio (50% Discount this month on your first payment, monthly or annual with the code MARCH-50)
• Contact Emma at [email protected]
• Substack Community - The (F)Alchemist
• Instagram @emmalavelle.co
• The Untangle Your Life Full Course with workbook (11€ or included in your Life Atelier Membership)
• Podcast! Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite pod player here

🦋 DREAM DECIDE DO. The Life Atelier

In this episode I'll take you through a few topics related to self-care, self-sabotage and why we need to pair 'superficial' self-care with deeper self-care, you'll learn:

• How to use your values to deepen your self-care
• Why you must partner superficial self-care with deeper work to get actual results
• Where self-sabotage is coming from & what to do about it!

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Sabotage, Emma Gannon
• The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks
• Sleep Chronotype test
• The Atelier, My Free Community on Mighty Networks
• Get the transcript here

⭐️ Ready to take the next step with coaching? Check out my ➡️ Everything page ⬅️

Mentioned in the episode:

• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel @joyambitionbyemmalavelle
• Activate the theory in The Life Atelier Coaching Studio (50% Discount this month on your first payment, monthly or annual with the code MARCH-50)
• Contact Emma at [email protected]
• Substack Community - The (F)Alchemist
• Instagram @emmalavelle.co
• The Untangle Your Life Full Course with workbook (11€ or included in your Life Atelier Membership)
• Podcast! Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite pod player here

🦋 DREAM DECIDE DO. The Life Atelier

In this episode of The Life Atelier podcast I've gone through a few ways to interrupt the physical response to fear that you're having in your body so that you can build resilience little by little and get on with what you need to do.

Fear is a normal response to a threat so our body is just reacting as it's supposed to, but when we don't manage the fear we can end up taking reactive decisions and feeling like our brain is spinning in a very unpleasant way!

We'll cover:

• What fear actually is and why it's important to feel it
• Two techniques to interrupt fear in your body
• How to actually take digital breaks when the world is literally on fire (Well done 2022, you continued the streak of each new year being worse than the year before!)
• An accidental comparison between building resilience and being able to drink more alcohol, that was a mistake 🙃

Links from the episode:

• Olia Hercules on managing burn out during an intense situation using visualisation
• The Power of vulnerability, Brent Brown 
• Martha Beck & Rowan Mangan, Bewildered - The Courage To Rest
• Somatic Coaching with Tamu Thomas
• Glennon Doyle, Untamed
• Philippa Perry, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read and Your Children Will Be Glad You Did.
• Hugh Bonneville discovering the Ukrainian president did the voice of Paddington Bear in Ukraine 

Mentioned in the episode:

• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel @joyambitionbyemmalavelle
• Activate the theory in The Life Atelier Coaching Studio (50% Discount this month on your first payment, monthly or annual with the code MARCH-50)
• Contact Emma at [email protected]
• Substack Community - The (F)Alchemist
• Instagram @emmalavelle.co
• The Untangle Your Life Full Course with workbook (11€ or included in your Life Atelier Membership)
• Podcast! Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite pod player here

🦋 DREAM DECIDE DO. The Life Atelier

Grab a paper and pen for this episode, we're going to create an action plan that's based on keeping promises to yourself.

You're going to learn:

• The power of creating an action list from your 'avoiding'list
• How to build momentum from starting small, simply and imperfectly from exercise to your business
• Why you're procrastinating and putting yourself last

If you're ready to get coached, you can find out more about working 1:2:1 with me on my scary/exciting page or find out more about The Life Atelier here!

Mentioned in the episode:

• Subscribe to my YouTube Channel @joyambitionbyemmalavelle
• Activate the theory in The Life Atelier Coaching Studio (50% Discount this month on your first payment, monthly or annual with the code MARCH-50)
• Contact Emma at [email protected]
• Substack Community - The (F)Alchemist
• Instagram @emmalavelle.co
• The Untangle Your Life Full Course with workbook (11€ or included in your Life Atelier Membership)
• Podcast! Make sure you’re subscribed on your favourite pod player here

🦋 DREAM DECIDE DO. The Life Atelier