Something Even Better

Are you a coach who wants to grow their business, but you’re sick and tired of exaggerated promises of quick results, cookie-cutter solutions, being stalked by ads and cold DMs, and just the egomania that tends to run rampant in the coaching industry?

If so, How to Grow a Coaching Business is the podcast for you.

I’m your host, Stacie Mitchell, and I believe coaching changes lives. 

I’ve been a coach for over 10 years, and I’ve worked with over 30 coaches and counting on helping them create the foundations of a booked-out coaching practice.Join me as I dive deep into the strategies that work best for coaches and interviews with coaches who've built their dream businesses. This podcast won't shy away from the nitty-gritty realities of being an entrepreneur and building a successful coaching practice.
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Join Stacie for the (probably) final episode of Something Even Better, where she talks about her podcast journey, why she’s moving on, what’s next, and how to stay connected. 

“I want my work to support my life, and I want my life to be incredible. I can still have a mission and do amazing things in my work, but I can also have this huge, rich life and identity outside of work.” 

Connect with Stacie on Instagram.

Join Stacie’s email list right here!

Thanks again to all my amazing listeners!!!

You don’t want to miss this podcast with guest Kyle Johann-Baker, where he talks about how choosing to pause and focus on his Strengths took him off the path of burnout to a business filled with ease and flow. 

If you’ve ever felt like you’re stuck in the hustle and constant pushing, Kyle gives you powerful questions and tangible examples of how to pause, take stock of your Strengths, and use those Strengths as a filter to create a unique path of ease in your business. 

Kyle Johann-Baker is an Organization Leadership & WellBeing Consultant who uses CliftonStrengths to bring out the best in others. In a world of endless pathways and options, Kyle encourages entrepreneurs to observe what it is that truly makes them come alive, even if that is a different path than the person next to you (hint: if you’re doing it right, it often will be). He collaborates with his clients to find ease and develop flow in your business to make more space for YOU to exist.

You can connect with Kyle over on Instagram (for allll the baking and pies!)  on LinkedIn (for the networking and tips) or sign up for his value-filled weekly emails here.

Join Stacie as she interviews Alyssa Cotten, who pivoted from being a business/finance undergrad to becoming a mental health counselor in what she thought was her “dream job” to then becoming her own boss – where she combined her business degree with her counseling degree to create her own private practice.

In 2020, the pandemic hit, and she then pivoted yet again. She didn’t have ANY social media for a decade up to this point, but she started her online business in 2020 and went all in on creating an online presence on Instagram and YouTube. 

We also talk about high functioning anxiety, what it looks like, how it can keep you from creating your most meaningful work and life – and how to begin to heal it.

Create Your Own Calming Jar on Alyssa’s YouTube!

Find Alyssa over on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or her website. 

Mentioned on the podcast:
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Henricks

In today’s episode of Something Even Better, Stacie talks with guest Sarah Feeley, HR Leader turned Stress Management Coach. 

Sarah discusses how she is helping women avoid the burnout she faced in her corporate job, as well as how to heal from burnout by better managing your stress, listening to your body, and setting solid boundaries -- all from a place of self-love.

Inspiring quotes from Sarah:

• “Burnout led me to leave a six-figure corporate job and go on a self-healing and self-discovery journey.” 
• “We're not necessarily taught growing up that we should be slowing down and listening to our intuition.”
• “When they get into a place where they can hear that voice (their intuition), that's where they can start creating their most meaningful lives.” 

Check out Sarah's free guided breathwork meditation for overcoming to-do list overwhelm -- in just 5 minutes at sarahfeeleycoaching.com/free. 

Sick of spending HOURS every day glued to your phone? 

These are my best tips that help you spend WAY less time on your phone ASAP so you can focus on your real life!

Today, I deep dive into:

• The stats of social media usage (that honestly make me want to cry!)
• Why it's so important to spend less time on social media (aka the scary effects that social media has on us all!)
• My best 10 tips for HOW to spend less time on social media that actually work
• The ripple effects and benefits of getting back your time and focus

Get all the links and research over on the blog!:
How to spend less time on social media: 10 can't-miss tips

Book mentioned on the podcast:
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

Free resources!

I’ve collected the very best resources, including books, articles, podcast episodes, and more to help you quit social media. You can get this list – which I regularly update! – over at staciemitchell.com/social.

Ready to market your business without social media??? Get my 5 minute SEO Cheat Sheet that grew my web traffic by 159% and my podcast downloads by 58% at staciemitchell.com/seo!

Link to Part 1 of this special collab: Social media marketing and the true costs for small business on the Building Balance Podcast

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This is a special podcast collaboration with my good biz friend Jenna from the Building Balance podcast.

We decided to do something a bit different with this topic and split it into two separate episodes.

In Part 1, which you can find right now over on The Building Balance podcast, we answer the question: “Is social media costing you more than just your time?”

Listen to Part 1 here before you listen to this episode – Part 2!

In this episode – Part 2 – we talk about how we can start to move away from social media toward other marketing methods. Because if not social media, then what?

Read the transcript(ish) for this episode here!

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Free resources:

If you’re interested in taking a different approach to marketing your business, I highly recommend downloading my free SEO Cheat Sheet and Tutorial at staciemitchell.com/seo.  This also adds you to my twice-monthly newsletter where I dig deeper into the topic of moving away from social media, as well as how to overcome the mindset gunk that can come with entrepreneurship. 

Jenna has a guide, called Instant Relief, which includes a really simple 4-step exercise that’s specifically designed to help you figure out which marketing and sales activities are actually bringing in sales, so that you can stop doing *all the things*, or reduce the time you spend on marketing activities that aren’t bringing in sales –– whether that’s social media or something else. You can find it along with Jenna’s other current resources at jennahellberg.com/resources.

Mentioned on the podcast:
Jessica Eley’s Free Workshop: The Top 3 Reasons Why Your Expertise Isn't Converting To Sales (and what to do about it)

Claire Paniccia (@conqueryourcontent): The importance of creating long-form content for your ideal audience to binge.

Does your website feel old, outdated, or – (gasp!) - you don’t even HAVE a website?!

Join me as I chat with Samantha Mabe, creative director and designer of Lemon and the Sea. 

We talk about:

• How a new approach to web design projects completely shifted her relationship with her business and allowed for more flexibility in her life and with her family
• How she knew it was time to find a different framework for offering her services
• How a simple website is the BEST approach for converting more clients
• How she delivers a website in just ONE day
• Tips for making your website better – that you can apply today!

Book mentioned on the podcast:
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

Samantha Mabe, creative director and designer of Lemon and the Sea, helps service providers and coaches who are ready to launch their signature offer and need a website that matches the high-caliber work they're doing. With her signature framework, Samantha has designed and customized over 25 websites over the past 6 years for all different types of entrepreneurs. When she is not digging into design and strategy, Samantha loves true crime podcasts, adventures with her toddler, and trying to keep up with her Netflix queue.

You can connect with Samantha over on her website or on Instagram @lemonandthesea.

If you’re a coach that hates marketing your business, this podcast might just blow your mind.

I’m going to get real with you, I hate the word “hack” or “secret” or “trick” when it comes to helping you signing more clients, but alas, I really do think this perspective might completely shift the way you view marketing and sales.

Because I believe that good marketing is just like good coaching, and if you use coaching as the lens for your marketing, you will naturally sign more coaching clients, without so much struggle.

In this podcast, I break down:

• How to use your coaching skills to more effectively market your business
• Why you already know how to do market research, simply through being a good coach
• How to use your coaching skills to create content that connects, converts, and ultimately helps you get more coaching clients online
• Why marketing is coaching and coaching is marketing – marketing isn’t a sleazy thing you HAVE to do, it can truly be an act of service for your ideal clients

Read this over on the blog! How to get life coaching clients online: My fav marketing “hack”

And don’t miss this free resource!: Steal my best market research questions to ask, a short video tutorial for how to conduct this research without ever getting on a call, as well as a template to compile this research and easily spot the patterns. Grab it at staciemitchell.com/research. 

Today’s special guest is Jessica Tudos, who helps fellow high-achieving multi-passionates organize and declutter physically - and mentally - in order to be more focused, productive, and creative at home and at work. As an Olympian turned edupreneur, life design coach, and organizer, Jessica helps creative portfolioists bring their ideas, projects, and passions to life.

If you’ve ever found yourself struggling to find your “one right path”, if you feel like you’re always  “trying to fit a square peg into a round hole” or you just have way too many interests and a fear of being "flaky", this episode is just for you!

Jessica and I talk about:

• How the myth of the “one path” can keep you from discovering the joys of being a multi-passionate creative or entrepreneur
• How to create a “portfolio” life where you can enjoy your many interests while feeding your curiosity and your need for variety
• An approach to stability and financial security that doesn’t hamper your creativity 
• How to stop feeling ashamed of your curiosity and many interests and how to embrace your identity as multi-passionate creative

Jessica is grounded by lifelong learning, creative expression, and lots of juggling. Her adventures include having 65+ jobs (and counting), traveling to 40+ countries, becoming a single mom by choice, and getting married at 50. Not a conventional path, nor possible if she had continued to pursue the “one thing” in my career or “settling down” in her personal life.

Breaking free from societal expectations, trusting her gut, and taking creative risks allowed her to find Something Even Better! You definitely don’t want to miss this episode!

You can connect with Jessica by joining her Thrive with 5 email list, where each month she sends multi-passionate portfolioists items to reflect on, read, watch, listen and do!

Jessica is also hosting a 10-day Group Decluttering Challenge from June 10 – 20, 2022, and you can sign up here!

Mentioned on the episode:
Jessica’s Curated List of Her 100 Most Inspiring Books
What she’s reading now: Creative Acts for Curious Peopleby Sarah Stein Greenberg

Check out Jessica's children's book "Kika the Upside-Down Girl" right here!