After spending the last quarter preparing for and executing a launch, there is one key insight that I’m absolutely shocked and to be honest, disgusted by. Saying I’m shocked and disgusted isn’t clickbait, it’s simply the truth about how I feel. 

This is a spicy one, friends, get ready!

Quick overview of what we cover:

• The major problem that exists within the coaching industry and my perspective on how it’s affecting business owners
• What it means to have integrity in what you offer
• How to properly qualify leads into your programs before taking money from them
• The questions to ask before hiring a coach or mentor – and the red flags around their answers
• Why discernment is your greatest ally as a business owner
• The primary objective I have for any client who comes into a coaching program with me – and why you should care deeply about this
• The definition of success in a coaching program and why replicable results are crucial
• How to be both a better coach AND make better decisions when working with a coach
• The formula that constitutes the #1 thing you should walk away with from almost any investment

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join the Solopreneur to Scaling CEO no cost 3-day training for service business owners making $50-250k/year USD
• Click here to join Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

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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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

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• Adriane's LinkedIn
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It’s officially July, which means the year is half over – and I wanted to talk to you about recalibrating to what you’re hoping to accomplish in 2023! 

In this episode, I’ll walk you through how to look at the first six months of the year and evaluate them, then create a bomb-dot-com plan for the second half of the year. And to note: listening to this episode will be good, but sitting down with a notebook and brainstorming as we go will be even better :)

Quick overview of what we cover:

• Evaluative criteria to assess and plan using my 4C’s framework (content, cash, core, clients)
• How to use a red-yellow-green assessment to determine where to focus your energy and efforts
• Why understanding your season and capacity are critical to future planning
• The weird method I use to future plan that works extremely well to cover all bases
• How to use historical data – if you have it – to make better choices
• The #1 thing I want you to keep in mind when setting goals or intentions

For your reference: 

• Clients: leads, current clients, evangelists (referrers)
• Cash: sales, revenue, profit
• Content: marketing, visibility, assets
• Core: strategy, operations, team
• Fire: what’s hot / what fires do you have going
• Earth: what’s grounding you
• Water: what are you drifting toward / what’s leaking
• Air: where is the wind blowing you long term

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join the Solopreneur to Scaling CEO no cost 3-day training for service business owners making $50-250k/year USD
• Click here to join Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency

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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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

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• Adriane's LinkedIn
• Visit the Visionaries website

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If you’ve been taught to sell in a certain way (cough cough, ‘Bro Marketing’) – no shame – but I’m here to tell you there’s a better way. (Like, so, SO much better).

This episode covers the icky soup of deceptive selling practices known as Bro Marketing, plus a pinch of Woo Marketing, that’s been wafting through the online biz space. (A WooBro Biske, if you will.)

Here’s the thing – manipulation is out and integrity is in. 

Steve Corney joins me for a second *super*spicy chat about how we must change our (sometimes unconscious but always unconscionable) sales and marketing approach now that we are living in a ‘Know – Like – Distrust’ state. 

Quick overview of what we cover:

• Why you need to understand deceptive sales practices, even if you think they don’t apply to you
• The exact point where you turn into a ‘piece of sh*t marketer’
• How Woo Marketers are able to convince you that both the source of, and the solution to your problems is YOU (and why you pay them for this nonsense)
• How to tell if you if your {insert BS Title Here} Coach is gaslighting you
• How you doing the right thing actually sets you up to ‘get woo’d’
• What kind of marketing leads to this client response: “Huh… There isn’t a catch. Amazing. This is cool. I’M IN.”
• How to build enthusiastic consent into your sales approach
• The Better Way to make someone feel safe when purchasing from you

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to join Adriane’s Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency
• Book a call to work with Soulpreneur to grow your business

LISTEN TO MORE EPISODES WITH STEVE:

• Click here for Episode 45, How Bro Marketers Have Destroyed Digital Learning 
• Click here for Episode 63, The 5 Elements of a Successful Digital Sales Event Funnel Part 1
• Click here for Episode 64, The 5 Elements of a Successful Digital Sales Event Funnel Part 2 
• Click here for Episode 67, The Critical Metrics Most Coaches and Course Creators Aren’t Tracking for Long-Term Success
• Click here for Episode 70, The Secret Weapons of Generating More Leads and Converting More Sales 
• Click here for Episode 73, Trust Isn't Enough to Sell Courses or Group Coaching Programs: Extending Your Lifetime Customer Value Via Respect and Consent
• Click here for

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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On any given day, I have ideas for my business coming in from every direction, at lightning speed. Whether you get 27 new idea downloads every time you shower, or just the occasional brainstorm, it’s important to understand how to sort through big ideas you have for your business – and how to lean into the season of growth that comes with implementing them.

In this episode, I’ll walk you through my process and recommendations for sorting through your ideas as well as giving you the spice on some big ideas that I’ll be acting on in the coming weeks and months with Soulpreneur.

Quick overview of what we cover:

• My top 5 steps for navigating big ideas
• When the right time to share big ideas is – and what you MUST keep in mind when sharing them
• The combination of 3 key checkpoints that will help you navigate your big ideas better
• The seriously single BEST question to ask when you have a new idea
• How to approach the possibility of failing when you implement new ideas
• How implementing changes from your big ideas can go sideways quick when you don’t do THIS
• The changes coming to Soulpreneur from my own big ideas

LET’S CONNECT: 

• Book a call to work with Soulpreneur to grow your business
• 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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In working with business owners who are making 6, 7, even 8 figures, there is one small – but crucial – tool we use to aid healthy growth. This tool is often dismissed as fluffy or unimportant... until it becomes their secret weapon.

What is this tool? Have a listen!

Quick overview of what we cover:

• The three ‘must haves’ when you're just starting your business and how that carries into your growth phase
• How I liken wanting to have a successful business to the idea of wanting to be famous – and the way in which both are... complicated
• The "Power of Neutrality" in growing a business
• The inevitability of having to handle emotionally charged situations as your business grows and how to handle them more effectively
• More money doesn't necessarily mean MORE problems, but how (and why) it usually DOES mean BIGGER problems
• The actual magic wand I use with clients to rewire – or completely eliminate – unhelpful and limiting beliefs
• The most important growth lesson that usually takes the longest to accept

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join the Solopreneur to Scaling CEO no cost 3-day training for service business owners making $50-250k/year USD
• Click here to join 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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Take a peek behind the curtain of Sustainable Growth Lab™ in this replay of the open house event held for those who are genuinely interested in joining us for this one-of-a-kind 12-month program. This is your chance to take a tour of the program, take a look around, and get answers to the most commonly asked questions.

This isn't a training, isn't a webinar, isn't a sales pitch. It's just an overview of all of the features that will become available to you when you join, how to know if you're ready to join (note that we require you're generating at least $50,000 USD per year), and more.

If you're ready to unlink your time from your revenue, take a listen, and when you're ready...

Submit your application for Sustainable Growth Lab at http://soulpreneur.co/lab

LET’S CONNECT: 

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

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• 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

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• Adriane's Instagram
• Visionaries' Instagram
• Adriane's LinkedIn
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If you had to design an optimized Digital Nomad, you’d be hard pressed to find a better fit than Amanda Kolbye.

She’s equal parts free-spirit, adaptable entrepreneur, and diligent workhorse.  Working from a beach in Thailand,  Amanda scaled her first business to 7 figures, transitioning into a business coach for like-souled minds shortly thereafter.

Amanda’s sharing what it’s really like to pursue a LIFE-work balance from anywhere in the world and why adaptability is the key to sustainability in the  post-pandemic online biz space. 

Quick overview of what we cover:

• Why being a biz owner who ‘actually travels and sits on a beach’ is not quite what you think it is
• The questions you need answers to if building a  ‘biz that runs without you’ is your goal
• Why hitting her first $100k month was actually one of the most miserable moments in business for her
• What most of the fellow entrepreneurs she met in Thailand failed at when trying to become Digital Nomads
• Why Amanda thinks having a Plan B is a Bad Bad Idea
• How Money and Business will become your values unless you prioritize what really matters most to you
• Why fast growth is the opposite of sustainability

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join Adriane’s Scalable Foundations Membership
• Click here to get on the waitlist for Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here for Amanda’s FREE Scaling Calc
• Click here to listen to Amanda’s FREE Breakthrough Pod Series
• Click here for Amanda’s FREE Calc
• Click here for Amanda’s FREE Masterclass
• Click here to work w/ Amanda!

LET’S CONNECT: 

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

CONNECT WITH AMANDA: 

• Follow her on Insta: @laptop.lifestyle.co
• Follow her on TikTok: @amanda.kolbye
• Click here to subscribe her YouTube
• Click here to listen to her podcast 
• Visit her website: www.laptoplifestyleco.com

Amanda Kolbye is a 7 figure business coach, online educator, podcast host & founder of her company Laptop Lifestyle Co. After scaling her own business to 7 figures in her first 2 years

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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50 episode, who dis?! 

In honor of this milestone episode, I’m flipping the script, and answering the same question I ask of every guest - “How do YOU define sustainability?” (Probs an important one to answer as someone who makes a podcast called, ‘Sustainable Scaling,’ heyooooo!)

In short, my 🎤💥 answer begins: “A sustainable business is one that….” 

Quick overview of what we cover:

• The three ‘must haves’ that make any business sustainable 
• If your business isn’t sustainable then you must either convince yourself you don’t need those things – or do THIS
• Literally the MOST important requirement I have for my business (and how I’ve redefined it as my business has grown)
• How I make my sustainability blueprint work for me, and how you can design one for yourself
• Why intentionality is so, so important for structuring how your business runs
• How to manage your day-today tasks to fit the vision you have for your business 
• The GIANT ‘ah-ha’ moment I have when I realize  (while recording this episode!) something that I’ve done regularly from the age of 12 until now is being phased out…and what I plan to do about it
• The fun homework assignment I have for you – my listeners!

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join the Solopreneur to Scaling CEO no cost 3-day training for service business owners making $50-250k/year USD
• Click here to join 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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There’s one pesky thing that will hold you back from scaling your business…

→EGO←

Ego in and of itself is not inherently bad – in fact – in its highest expression, it bolsters your confidence and self worth. But in its lowest expression, it’s a hot mess of arrogance, control, and perfectionism and that ish will derail the best of us faster than you can say ‘time freedom.’

This episode runs through three ways your ego lies to you and trips you up – and how to work through them to knock it down a peg or three. 

Quick overview of what we cover:

• What to focus on instead when your ego keeps telling you to do way more than you need to
• How prioritizing working in your zone of genius helps to keep your ego in check
• The sneaky ways your ego tells you “Mindset work?! You don’t need that!”
• Why developing your emotional and energetic intelligence naturally keeps your ego in check
• The special set of lies ego reserves for women and moms
• The framework to adopt to let your ego know ‘I see you, there’s space for you, but you’re not running the show’

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join the Solopreneur to Scaling CEO no cost 3-day training for service business owners making $50-250k/year USD
• Click here to join 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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Want to know a hard truth?

The very things that make us great at being business owners – willing to take risks, a never ending supply of new ideas – also tends to make us poor money managers.

And while it’s become a lot less taboo to talk about and celebrate money wins (#yay!), no one is talking about being crappy with money.

But I am.

Today we’re going over five financial literacy blind spots to recognize if you want to increase your profit margins and pay yourself MORE. 

Quick overview of what we cover:

• The investment fallacy that people in the online coaching space fall for…over and over
• Why ‘spend more to make more’ thinking is a trap 
• What keeps your from paying yourself a consistent or robust salary 
• What amount of credit card debt is a red flag
• How often is too often to feel stressed over money 
• The three things successful business owners are good at (and why you only need to be good at one of them) 
• A better metric to estimate when you want to increase your profit margins (that goes beyond what you’re making and keeping each year)
• How to tell if you have goldfish finance syndrome

RESOURCES: 

• Click here to join the Solopreneur to Scaling CEO no cost 3-day training for service business owners making $50-250k/year USD
• Click here to join Sustainable Growth Lab
• Click here to work with Adriane and the Soulpreneur Agency
• Click here for Episode 020, Purpose-Driven, Human-Centric Accounting and Business Finances with Keila Hill-Trawick

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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