The Visionary Files

My Least Favorite Thing to See on the Internet is when a business coach posts something about how they were able to grow their business (or what they’d be doing if they had to start over again) – and inevitably –  they say, “Hiring the coach is the thing that made ALL THE DIFFERENCE.”

I call BS on that. 

Coaches coaching coaches to be coaches on the internet gives alllllll kinds of MLM vibes. 

This episode will help you avoid that altogether – and advise you on what you need to think about instead if you are considering what kind of support to seek out for your growing business. 

And, clearly…I have very strong feelings about this topic! (Who’s shocked? Oh no one?)

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• How, on the wild streets of the internet, these terms are used interchangeably (and why that drives me bonkers)
• How to identify what type of support you *actually* need as you grow
• What the important differences are between coaches, consultants, mentors, service providers, and employees
• What specific questions you need to be asking if you’re just starting out (under $100k/yr), when your  ONLY job is to learn how to sell and market (and how to get your brain on board with both)
• How those questions require a mindset shift towards systems, team, and operations when you’re growing
• What types of support come from a place of privilege and what come from a place of necessity

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Sustainable Scaling: @sustainablescaling 
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Resources:

• Predictable Sales: a secret podcast around making predictable – even daily – sales
• Your First 10 Sales: a secret podcast perfect for if you're not making consistent sales yet

Connect with Adriane:

• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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When it comes to creating a sustainable business, the goal of building a team seems like a no brainer. But the truth is that it takes a lot of brain power to become a leader. 

Those who prioritize energetic intelligence and emotional intelligence will find their way with a LOT less heartache (and financial loss). In this episode, we dive into what it truly costs to build your team.

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• The reason why contractors cost less up front, but more in the long run
• Why avoiding pricey team member turnover is the goal – but keeping those on board who aren’t the right fit isn’t the way to get there
• Why throwing money at team building problems is not the same as investing in their development
• What savvy business builders need to account for when estimating hiring cost  (spoiler alert: it has *nothing* to do with dollars and cents)
• How choosing hard in the beginning of team building let’s you enjoy “work fam easy” later on
• Why excellent leaders expect those they let go to find bigger and better opportunities (and why that’s so dang hard to reconcile)
• The true energetic cost it takes to avoid bitterness, anger, blame, and “why me” thinking as you build your dream team

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Sustainable Scaling: @sustainablescaling 
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Resources:

• Predictable Sales: a secret podcast around making predictable – even daily – sales
• Your First 10 Sales: a secret podcast perfect for if you're not making consistent sales yet

Connect with Adriane:

• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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Alex Beadon — known to many as the ‘Launch Queen’ and formerly as the ‘Instagram Stories Queen’ — is also a queen of reinvention. Bursting with Big Ideas and launching businesses like no one’s…well, business…this chat is an opportunity to peek behind the curtain and see just how an uber-successful boss lady operates. 

In the first of a three part ‘Visionary/Integrator Series’ Alex shares her key insights for executing successful launches, growing your business sustainably, and leading your team. (With wit and candor, she also explains why sometimes those things happen accidentally, only via patience, and—no matter how wonderful we think they are as people—by way of letting go of those who aren’t a good fit, respectively.) A heart-centered leader at her core, Alex also comes from a place of authority in all that she does, and is just one of those people who doles out wisdom in spades.

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• It’s quite all right to start over…and over…and over
• Sustainable businesses walk like this: create once, update many times
• How to inform future launches from past launches — just as we anticipate seasonal change, each launch offers energy, connection, growth in a new direction. and FUN (yes, really!)
• Why a strategic launch must build anticipation, buzz, and intrigue — even if you don’t know exactly what it is you're launching ’til you get there
• Why terminating employees is especially hard in ‘work family’ environments, and how it’s also an act of genuine kindness
• What it’s really like to run a business with your lifelong BFF
• How building community is the answer to every solopreneurs lonely existence, and why ‘embracing the woo’ gets the right people in front of you lickety split

ALL THREE EPISODES IN THE VISIONARY / INTEGRATOR SERIES: 

• Part 1: The Reality Behind Growing Your Business and Team with Alex Beadon
• Part 2: How a COO Supports a CEO (Finding Your Actual Biz Bestie) with Laura Marston
• Part 3: Behind the Scenes of Two Lifelong BFFs Scaling a Business with Alex Beadon + Laura Marston

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

Resources:

• Predictable Sales: a secret podcast around making predictable – even daily – sales
• Your First 10 Sales: a secret podcast perfect for if you're not making consistent sales yet

Connect with Adriane:

• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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Even if you've hired in a corporate setting, nothing can truly prepare you for building your team in your OWN business. The process is extremely nuanced and is a muscle you have to build over time (spoiler alert: you're probably going to get it wrong, and that's okay). In this episode, we're going to be talking about how hiring is as much an art as it is a science, and better ways to hire by using both strategy and intuition in the process.

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• Why it's crucial to know whether you're hiring to innovate or to replicate
• Why SOPs and KPIs are must-haves when you hire (and what to do if you don't already have them)
• My dilemma in figuring out if I wanted to hire a copywriter or a project manager and the thought process behind my decision
• How to think differently about the hiring process than you would if you were hiring in a corporate setting
• How to approach the hiring process whether you're more strategic and structured in the way you think or if you're more intuitive and follow your gut
• Why honouring your energy and needs is crucial... often more so than following what looks right in every way on paper
• Don't forget to give yourself grace when you inevitably don't get it 100% right

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Sustainable Scaling: @sustainablescaling 
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Resources:

• Predictable Sales: a secret podcast around making predictable – even daily – sales
• Your First 10 Sales: a secret podcast perfect for if you're not making consistent sales yet

Connect with Adriane:

• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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Trigger Warning: Discussion of ED and Body Image

This week, I am joined by the AMAZING biz coach and strategist, Rachel Spencer Wolff  to talk about all things money mindset, inner work, and how she scaled her business! Rachel embodies integrity and transparency and you totally can see this in our conversation. She tells us all how we can stay true to who we are when running a business and letting go of looking at what everyone else is doing, in order to find ease in your business and life. 

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• Rachel’s background in acting and how that led her all the way to sales, business, and coaching (she was even featured in Teen Vogue!)
• How Rachel juggled transitioning her business into a new niche having grown a large audience of followers who were no longer ideal clients
• Reminding yourself that your ideal clients would love to have the "problems" that you have
• Getting over imposter syndrome and self doubt
• A better way of setting financial goals than just tracking month to month
• Indicators of your business's growth that have nothing to do with money

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Sustainable Scaling: @sustainablescaling 
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

CONNECT WITH RACHEL: 

• Follow Rachel: @mycoachrachel
• Visit her website: www.mycoachrachel.com

Rachel Spencer Wolff is a Biz Coach and Strategist living in NYC. She specifically helps her clients break the rules and scale to $100K+ THEIR way.

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Resources:

• Predictable Sales: a secret podcast around making predictable – even daily – sales
• Your First 10 Sales: a secret podcast perfect for if you're not making consistent sales yet

Connect with Adriane:

• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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I’ve managed teams of 20+ in my own businesses and 200+ in corporate settings, and over the years, I’ve learned a lot about how to (and how NOT to) hire and manage team members. Since I’ve had years of experience hiring various  positions I have made this series to talk about ALL the dos and don’ts of hiring and on this episode we are going to discuss something I am very passionate about: why hiring a VA is not ALWAYS the answer. 

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• How to tell whether you should hire a VA or not, and how to determine which team member might actually be a better fit
• How your hiring structure may not be meant for hiring a VA, but more of a full-time employee
• Why you shouldn’t need to (and in most cases, actually can't) train a VA
• Most VAs are technicians and doers, not strategic thinkers  
• Understanding the difference between hiring to replicate vs hiring to innovate
• What you need to be thinking about before hiring

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Sustainable Scaling: @sustainablescaling 
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Resources:

• Predictable Sales: a secret podcast around making predictable – even daily – sales
• Your First 10 Sales: a secret podcast perfect for if you're not making consistent sales yet

Connect with Adriane:

• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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Around 6 or 7 months ago, I realized I unintentionally, but quite blatantly copied other business owners without knowing. In today’s episode, I talk about this horrifying situation and why I believe it is IMPERATIVE to talk about situations that no one else will talk about. We love radical transparency.  There is so much value in talking about the hard stuff because… lets face it, if it's happened to me, it's probably happened (unfortunately) to someone else! 

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• Lessons that I have learned around my realization that I was unintentionally, yet blatantly was copying other business owners
• Why it is INCREDIBLY important to talk about stuff that no one is talking about 
• The reason I have SOPs for copyright issues I may encounter in my business 
• Why embracing discomfort is part of the deal when you run a business
• Why you should always listen to your gut... ALWAYS!

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Sustainable Scaling: @sustainablescaling 
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Resources:

• Predictable Sales: a secret podcast around making predictable – even daily – sales
• Your First 10 Sales: a secret podcast perfect for if you're not making consistent sales yet

Connect with Adriane:

• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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I’ve managed teams of 20+ in my own businesses and 200+ in corporate settings, and over the years, I’ve learned a lot about how to (and how NOT to) hire and manage team members. In the online space, there are a lot of things that don’t get talked about that I wish did, so I’ve created this “Tea Time” series to spill some tea on hiring. We’re kicking off by talking about why you need to stop being a control freak (good reminder for myself, too) with your team!

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• Why behaviours that are generally rewarded in corporate America make us less than great bosses
• The thing your team really needs if it’s going to THRIVE
• Why it’s worth teaching someone how to do something even if you can do it better and faster
• My own realisations around things I’m being a control freak about that I could stand to let go of

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Sustainable Scaling: @sustainablescaling 
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Resources:

• Predictable Sales: a secret podcast around making predictable – even daily – sales
• Your First 10 Sales: a secret podcast perfect for if you're not making consistent sales yet

Connect with Adriane:

• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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The largest part of my business background is in the performing arts, and working with kids means having Christmas break. When I looked at how I wanted to structure my business, I knew that this idea of “Christmas Vacation” was something I wanted to carry into practise at Soulpreneur. So in today’s episode, I’m going to talk about how I took 3 weeks off, what worked, what didn’t, and how you can plan to take extended time off in your own business! 

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• What worked well and what didn't work well
• How I prepared to take 3 weeks off – and how you can can start preparing for your own time off
• My primary takeaways and what I’ll do differently next time
• My goals for the future regarding the vacation

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Sustainable Scaling: @sustainablescaling 
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Resources:

• Predictable Sales: a secret podcast around making predictable – even daily – sales
• Your First 10 Sales: a secret podcast perfect for if you're not making consistent sales yet

Connect with Adriane:

• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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I’m joined by one of my favourite biz friends, fellow masterminder, wonderful human, and brand embodiment queen, Ruthie Cease. Ruthie generated her first 6-figures cash in less than 18 months, during which time she also got pregnant, had her son, and balanced business with raising an infant. Less than 5 years later, she’s just closed 2022 having made more than $500k cash. Ruthie is one of the realest, rawest people I know, and I think that’s exactly what you’re going to get in this episode as we talk about stuff that no one else is really talking about when scaling. 

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• Why you should figure out who you are, own it, and let that drive your business
• Sustainability to Ruthie is time and financial freedom 
• How to set structure and boundaries in your business and why that helps you acquire time freedom
• Supporting yourself financially while balancing work and family life
• Ruthie’s biggest lessons she learned on her journey of going from 6-figures to multi-6-figures
• How Ruthie has created boundaries with clients
• Stay in your own lane and create from a place of service and artistry to stay authentic when running your business

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Sustainable Scaling: @sustainablescaling 
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

CONNECT WITH RUTHIE: 

• Follow Ruthie: @xotherebelsoul
• Click here to join her membership 

Ruthie Cease is a Business + Embodiment Coach for powerhouse, driven entrepreneurs. She helps her clients with the business strategies and energetic strategies that keep them calm, grounded and confident AF while their business is exploding.

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Resources:

• Predictable Sales: a secret podcast around making predictable – even daily – sales
• Your First 10 Sales: a secret podcast perfect for if you're not making consistent sales yet

Connect with Adriane:

• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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