The Visionary Files

Frequency. Resonance. Alignment. Manifestation. Visualization. Quantum Leaps?!

Okay, so these terms might not be what jump out at you as the kind of things that millionaires value, but rest assured, they are very much discussed in 7-figure circles.

Today’s episode brings together two very special occasions – Adriane’s Birthday AND the 100th episode of this podcast! 🎉

Milestones are a great time to shake things up – and Part 2 gets all into the messy, woo-laden methodology needed to retrain your brain into believing that ‘being a millionaire’ is already yours.

Quick overview of what we cover:

• A crash course in quantum physics, chemistry, and astrophysics 
• Why ‘woo’ is really just ‘mindset,’ and vice versa
• Why you’re seeing the term “quantum leap” show up everywhere in business now (and what it actually means)
• What the things you notice about what others have (that you don’t) tell you and how to channel this observation into positive action
• Why no successful, balanced person will ever judge you for wanting more – and why they’ll only encourage you to do THIS
• Practical steps you can take to create alignment between what you want and who you are
• The actual time is takes to realistically break behavior patterns and retrain your brain

PS - Adriane wants one thing for her bday, and it’s for YOU to leave a 5⭐️ review and share this episode…but only if you loved it as much as we loved making it for you!

✨ LISTEN TO PART ONE OF THE SERIES HERE ✨

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to apply for a Growth Strategy Call
• Click here to apply for a Soulpreneur revenue-based scholarship

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Connect with Adriane on LinkedIn @adrianegalea
• Follow Adriane on Instagram @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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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Mindset work and manifestation practices (like, actual scientifically-credible manifestation practices) are powerful tools when you have “become a millionaire” on your life’s vision board. 

Here’s where things can get a little messy, though. And that’s because…

Doing hard work isn’t always going to get you the thing you want – especially if that thing includes ‘break 7-figures’ – and even more so if attempted under the guise of “fake it until you make it.” 

Which is, unfortunately, a lot of what manifesting + mindset work gets (incorrectly) boiled down to.

As we lead up to the BIG 100th episode, join Adriane for her signature take on manifestation and “millionaire mindset” work - it’s unlike any you’ve ever heard. Included are some very practical steps you can start taking action on today, plus a few outside-the-box thoughts to chew on along the way.

Quick overview of what we cover:

• If you want to change your reality, you need to start with your brain
• How to ‘find the story in your data’ to achieve the thing you desire
• What changes for you when you go from being interested in something… to being committed to it
• Doing the hard work doesn’t get you the thing you want – doing the right thing does (and coaches / courses / mentors / biz investments are best used to help figure out those ‘right things’)
• If you’ve been plateaued, it’s not because the decisions you’re making have been wrong – you’ve just not been ready to make them
• If you can’t seem to figure (*gestures wildly*) all this out, it’s most likely not an intelligence problem…it’s a self-image problem
• How to get back on track if your gut instincts about success have been overshadowed by a compulsion to show up and look a certain way 

✨ LISTEN TO PART TWO OF THE SERIES HERE ✨

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to apply for a Growth Strategy Call
• Click here to apply for a Soulpreneur revenue-based scholarship

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Connect with Adriane on LinkedIn @adrianegalea
• Follow Adriane on Instagram @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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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“Thanks for coming to my TED talk,” says every hopeful public speaker ever…

But have you ever wondered what goes into appearing on an actual TED stage?

The loss of both of his parents at a young age attached a sense of urgency to how Steve Corney views – and values – leaving a legacy behind for those that love us. 

The way in which he combined this very personal experience with his professional expertise as a digital learning expert – one who truly understands the power that audio + video recordings hold –  is a powerful and transformative lesson for anyone looking to leverage their impact and expand their brand into public speaking.

In part 2 of our ‘Building Your Business with Speaking’ series, Steve  details exactly how he prepared for, executed, and ultimately landed a coveted spot in an upcoming TEDx event!

Plus – stay tuned to the end of today’s episode to find out how to get your hands on the public speaking assets that Steve and Adriane are cooking up!

Quick overview of what we cover:

• Forget about your greenroom requests – nailing a TEDx spot is more about following the rules and guidelines set forth by the event and way less about who you think you are (in other words, “Don’t make it easy for them to say ‘no’ to you!)
• How to prioritize these important elements of the audition: keeping to time, linking your story/topic to the event's theme, avoiding a trauma dump on the audience, holding the crowd’s attention
• How to use clues from the application to choose a universally applicable topic
• Why commercializing any aspect of your talk is a huge red flag (remember, TEDx is about Big Ideas not Big Money)
• Steve’s incredulity that 50% of those auditioning with him committed this major faux pas
• The most important aspects of nailing public speaking when you’ve gotten very reliant on video editing
• The importance of branding as a public speaker – plus, the checklist we recommend for the minimum needed to step up to the public speaker plate... and be taken seriously 

CHECK OUT STEVE + ADRIANE'S PROJECT: 

• Click here to join the FREE Speaker Growth Networking Facebook community
• Click here to get our guide on Pitching, Auditioning for, and Landing a TEDx Talk
• Follow us on Instagram: @speakergrowthhub

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to apply for a Growth Strategy Call
• Click here to apply for a Soulpreneur revenue-based scholarship

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Connect with Adriane on LinkedIn @adrianegalea
• Follow Adriane on Instagram @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

CONNECT W/

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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Speaking and communication (and possessing the presentation skills to do both effectively), make up both the original and final frontiers of brand growth.

In part 1 of a two-part series, Adriane + Steve reunite to discuss how they pulled the rug out from under their up-until-recent collab plans, in lieu of some unexpected, yet compelling detours: a series of live events that Adriane is planning, and Steve's upcoming TEDx talk!

This episode covers how each approach public speaking and the essential ingredients needed to make an audience go from, "Cool story, bruh," to "Damnnnnn...tell me more!"

Quick overview of what we cover:

• A pulse check on the course-creation and coaching industry as it stands now, and how potential clients can be uniquely accessed via public speaking
• How Steve has blended his learning design and facilitator backgrounds into a deep understanding of using his speaker voice 
• Why effective and impactful public speaking goes WAY beyond 'intro...body...conclusion' frameworks
• The venues where it's better to feed off the audience and 'wing it' vs. the places where that strategy will run you straight into the ground
• How to best utilize speaking coaches, voice exercises...and Dr. Suess to sharpen your presentation skills
• The one thing to be super clear on for everything else to fall into place
• The important distinctions between keynotes, "lunch-and-learns," and TEDx talks
• How the mundane makes us human -- and why that's sometimes a more powerful reminder than life-changing anecdotes
• How to sense your audience's 'enough point' (aka, the critical precipice where a lot of stories (and storytellers) go wrong)
• Why great presenters speak from the scars and not from the wounds
• Can't wait for part 2?? DM "TEDx" to @adrianegalea on IG for an exclusive sneak peek!

CHECK OUT STEVE + ADRIANE'S PROJECT: 

• Click here to join the FREE Speaker Growth Networking Facebook community
• Click here to get our guide on Pitching, Auditioning for, and Landing a TEDx Talk
• Follow us on Instagram: @speakergrowthhub

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to apply for a Growth Strategy Call
• Click here to apply for a Soulpreneur revenue-based scholarship

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Connect with Adriane on LinkedIn @adrianegalea
• Follow Adriane on Instagram @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

CONNECT W/ STEVE: 

• Follow Steve on Instagram: @steve_corney
• Concect with Steve on LinkedIn:

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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It's no secret that 2023 was a doozy for a lot of people. If you want to set yourself up to have a more lucrative, more profitable, more impactful year in 2024, I've compiled a list of 7 things I'd argue you NEED to be aware of this year. (One of them... I'm really not happy to admit!)

Quick overview of what we cover:

• Why the lead time to convert clients is taking longer and will continue to take longer unless you do this ONE thing
• The possibilities of AI outpacing [insert your industry here] and how to keep yourself relevant and in demand
• The 3 things you MUST be able to do to create converting content moving forward
• The biggest regrets I have around the way I've developed my businesses over the last few years – that I'm going to prioritize in 2024
• How there is a lot of grey area around the way people are actually talking about profit margins
• The biggest asset I'd encourage you to develop this year if you ever want to grow a BIG business or be able to pivot in the future
• Why I believe there's one thing that's going to dominate (again) this year that will likely be your #1 propeller of growth
• My assignment to you to take yourself outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself to do this at least once per quarter

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to apply for a Growth Strategy Call
• Click here to apply for a Soulpreneur revenue-based scholarship

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Connect with Adriane on LinkedIn @adrianegalea
• Follow Adriane on Instagram @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Loved this episode? If you leave a review or share it with your friends on social, my team will send you a copy of one of our favorite business resources! Take a screenshot and email it over to us at [email protected] or DM it to @thescalinglounge!

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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So many people have recently been sharing with me that they've been stuck at a certain revenue level for months, if not years now.

Revenue plateaus are extremely common, not just in the earlier stages of business, but all throughout their lifecycle. And I want to talk today about how you can break through your revenue plateau if this is something you're experiencing.

Note: the URL I spoke to download the private podcast was incorrect if you'd like to access it 🙈 It is actually soulpreneur.co/secret!

Quick overview of what we cover:

• Why scaling is kind of like breaking your business because you have to shatter the ceiling you've hit
• Which revenue levels you're mostly likely to hit a plateau at
• The difference between scaling, skating, or structuring and how I've been in a "structuring" phase
• Why every person, based on their own expertise, will give you a different solution you NEED to focus on in order to scale... and how they're all kind of right, but it misses the actual point
• How the 7 Pillars of Scaling always relate back to your plateau or bottleneck
• How operational capacity works kind of like adding additional stories onto your house
• The power off systems and how they will *aaaalmost* always solve your plateau or bottleneck

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to access the private Scale Your Service podcast to learn what you can do TODAY to break through your time-for-dollars ceiling
• Click here to apply for a Growth Strategy Call
• Click here to apply for a Soulpreneur revenue-based scholarship

EPISODES MENTIONED: 

• Episode 68 - Passive Income Series Part 1: The Most Important Things to Know Before You Start (That No One Tells You)
• Episode 84 - 7 Key Areas of Excellence to Get to 7 Figures (The 7 Pillars of Scaling)

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Connect with Adriane on LinkedIn @adrianegalea
• Follow Adriane on Instagram @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Loved this episode? If you leave a review or share it with your friends on social, my team will send you a copy of one of our favorite business resources! Take a screenshot and email it over to us at [email protected] or DM it to @thescalinglounge!

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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Welcome baaaack, Scaling Loungers! After a holiday hiatus, it feels so good to be back behind the mic and chatting to you again about all things business. 

Today we're easing back down the road with an update on what's happened since the last episode – and how I navigated some tricky times (like most service business owners – especially coaches – in 2023)

The biggest topic of conversation is certainly about a BIG change I've made to my overall business model – both in sunsetting a large component of my business and in taking on a completely new structure for working with clients. 

Everyone has looked at me cross-eyed when I've told them what I'm doing, but nothing has felt better. So let's get to it!

Quick overview of what we cover:

• How 2023 was... messy... for a lot of business owners
• Navigating tough times and cash flow conundrums 
• When to know it's time to let things go and move on and my non-sciency but tried-and-true barometer for making decisions
• The pricing struggle that's real
• Why I'm embracing partnership and taking on a (risky) change in my business model
• Why the thing everyone has said I'm crazy to do is absolutely what feels the best to me

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to apply for a Growth Strategy Call
• Click here to apply for a Soulpreneur revenue-based scholarship

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Connect with Adriane on LinkedIn @adrianegalea
• Follow Adriane on Instagram @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Loved this episode? If you leave a review or share it with your friends on social, my team will send you a copy of one of our favorite business resources! Take a screenshot and email it over to us at [email protected] or DM it to @thescalinglounge!

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 word “scaling” is thrown around a lot, and I want to talk about what this means and what this looks like if you are a service provider – so if you’re a web designer, copywriter, interior decorator, astrology chart reader, accountant, lawyer, and I’d also add consultant to this list. 

We’re going to be covering the six ways you could scale your business as a service provider, which includes moving to an agency model, outsourcing SOME of the work in more of a mini-agency model, developing a retainer model, going e-commerce by creating a template shop, or transitioning into coaching or course creation. 

I’m also going to go into my perspective on when the right time to make one of these shifts would be, things you need to keep in mind about scaling, and how to not burn yourself out with whatever you choose to do.

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• The six pivots you can make as a service provider to create scalability
• The pros and cons of each model and making intentional decisions based on what you want so you don't burn out
• How to know when it's the right time to start thinking about scaling
• Common misconceptions around scaling you should know

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to get on the waitlist for the January 2024 cohort of Scalable Foundations Accelerator
• Register for Predictably Profitable, the free training for 6+ figure service-based business owners

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Book a call to work with Soulpreneur to grow your business
• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Loved this episode? If you leave a review or share it with your friends on social, my team will send you a copy of one of our favorite business resources! Take a screenshot and email it over to us at [email protected] or DM it to @soulpreneur_co

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

⭐️ Love this episode? We'd GREATLY appreciate a 5-star review! ⭐️

Signing high-ticket clients FAST - every service-based biz owner's dream, right?

And, it is possible. There are, in fact, effective ways to speed up the buying process – even when closing high-ticket clients.  But what no one is talking about is how engaging in these kinds of short-cuts only tee you up for another set of challenges down the line.

What will always be true is this: the only thing that speeds up the buying process is better marketing. This episode gets into the workarounds that circumvent this truth, and why they are hardly worth it in the long run.

Quick overview of what we cover:

• What high ticket prospective buyers expect from your sales process that low-ticket buyers don’t 
• Why fine-tuning your messaging, audience familiarity, and the way you communicate is the slowest of the fastest ways to convert prospective buyers -  but always the way in which they’ll feel safest investing with you
• Why aiming for higher sales call volume almost always leads to less sales
• How to do less sales calls with more qualified buyers using friction points in your sales process (which almost always leads to more sales) 
• Why closing the sales either comes from better marketing prior to the call…or a shady distortion of NLP techniques during it
• The three things every prospective buyer should know about you before getting on the phone
• Why higher quality clients who don’t burn you out, only come from higher quality leads in the first place
• Why fast closes will increase your attrition rate (the people who fall off/stop paying you)
• How high attrition rates lead to biz instability, inconsistent revenue, lower retention and referral rates, and…need we say more?
• One more time for the ones in the back: the only thing that speeds up the buying process is better marketing 😇

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to get on the waitlist for the January 2024 cohort of Scalable Foundations Accelerator
• Register for Predictably Profitable, the free training for 6+ figure service-based business owners

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Book a call to work with Soulpreneur to grow your business
• Follow Soulpreneur: @soulpreneur_co
• Follow Adriane @adrianegalea
• Visit the website: soulpreneur.co

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Loved this episode? If you leave a review or share it with your friends on social, my team will send you a copy of one of our favorite business resources! Take a screenshot and email it over to us at [email protected] or DM it to

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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Energetic Business Coach, Kari Russell, thrives off of helping women truly dig deep – and then feel safe in that vulnerable space – while getting in touch with the parts of themselves that many public-facing entrepreneurs work for years trying to mask. 

An expert in authentic self-expression, Kari’s own journey into goal-setting and leadership coaching has taken a path familiar to most small biz owners (up, down, and all around), along with a few unexpected detours (discovering the value of triggering herself with spicy romances to the extent that she now uses the genre as a medium to provoke her clients in the same way).

Let’s just say, when our convo reached the ‘spicy romance’ point, we – ahem – lingered there until we both felt well satisfied. 😉

Quick overview of what we cover:

• Kari’s time as a goal coach at Lululemon and how that ignited her lifelong passion for goal-setting work
• The importance (especially for women entrepreneurs) of releasing shame, guilt, masks and the masks we wear as we build and market businesses
• How Kari was finally able to step into her truest self-expression and self-acceptance, using Human Design 
• How she reconciled the startling personal realization that Human Design better served her as a tool of self-understanding with her professional identity of being a Human Design expert/coach – and what happened to the biz connected to it
• Her beautiful way of speaking about how her business expanded during COVID lockdown – a time when many, many people experienced extreme hardship 
• How she manages her extroverted nature working in a (mostly) virtual space and her go-to tools for self-regulation when she starts to idle uncomfortably high
• Why paying attention to our bodies’ reactions (and how our brains judge those reactions!) can teach us a LOT about the truth of ourselves. 
• The moments of personal inauthenticity Kari views as huge gifts of awareness of where we need to do more work 
• The connection, freedom, and impact Kari hopes to leave as her legacy gift in doing ‘business better’ and why it’s all grounded in S-EX

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to get on the waitlist for the January 2024 cohort of Scalable Foundations Accelerator
• Click here to register for the free training for 6+ figure service-based business owners

CONNECT WITH KARI:

• Click here to connect with Kari on Instagram: @iamkarirussell

Kari Russell is a Leadership and Energetic Business Coach, global leader in Self-Expression and host of the S-EX Talk Podcast. She is married with 2 children and lives in a small country town in Ontario, Canada where you’ll find her tanning on her deck reading spicy romance novels in the summer or submerged in her hot tub in the winter (while also reading spicy romance novels)

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

⭐️ Love this episode? We'd GREATLY appreciate a 5-star review! ⭐️