The Visionary Files

After working with hundreds of business owners, there are three common traps that I see people fall into which could stifle growth. In today's episode, I'm breaking each of those three traps down to help you focus on scalability and avoid burning yourself out.

I'd also love to know which of the things talked about in this episode resonate with you the most so I can create more in depth content. Let me know by sending me a message over on Instagram @soulpreneur_co!


Quick overview of what we cover:

• Why it is important to understand vision, growth, and money and how each affects your ability to grow
• The effect automation has around streamlining your business operations
• What people aren't telling you right now about using Facebook and Instagram ads
• Where you might be overcomplicating and undercharging and what to do instead
• Whether or not you want to create a robust product / offer suite and move into passive revenue
• The biggest mistake business owners make with systemizing, automating, and delegating

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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This episode was first published at soulpreneur.co/061. 

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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Ready for your business to serve you, rather than feel like a never-ending hamster wheel of tasks? In this episode, I'll walk you through my Intentional, Sustainable, Profitable™ framework which I use to help grow businesses at any stage in order to align your business growth with your lifestyle desires and mission.

Imagine a business that not only pays you well but also operates seamlessly, even in your absence. My goal is to help you create a surplus of resources in your business, be it money, energy, time, or satisfaction in relationships.

We also walk through a practical guide on how to audit your business model, prioritize profit, and make necessary adjustments to your offers to build infrastructure into your business that creates alignment with your life. 

Intentional, Sustainable, Profitable audit questions:

1. Does this serve my bigger vision?
2. Does this get me you more of what I want?
3. Does this achieve the desired outcomes?
4. Does this align with my desired lifestyle or current season?
5. Does this serve my mission, “why”, or purpose?
6. Does this bring me joy?
7. Is this meeting or exceeding financial KPIs?
8. Is this paying me and others well?
9. Does this create overflow of resources rather than deplete them?

Rank each question on a scale from 1-5 (5 being the highest)
Then whichever criterion matters most to you in the moment, count it twice.
Add the numbers up, and the closer you are to 50, the better.
40-50: Perfecto • 30-39: Tweaks likely needed • 29-below: Overhaul or delete

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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This episode was first published at soulpreneur.co/060. 

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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What do you do when you find yourself in a place in your business that is misaligned? After walking away from a decades long run as a corporate executive, then generating a sizable Human Design-based business, Christine Michelle from The Aligned Soul started feeling more and more like she was giving her power away to a tool.

Christine is sharing how she walked away from Human Design and has come back stronger, and shows us how to tap into her lifelong process of manifestation (coupled with a lot of action) to create your desired reality.
 
Quick overview of what we cover:

• What exactly is a personal energetic vibration and how to leverage it to create the reality you want
• Why you need both the "woo and the do" to actually manifest your desires
• The four types of power you have and how they work together to help you
• Why Christine doesn't consider going back to corporate, driving Uber, or filing bankruptcy after starting her business "failures" and why you shouldn't make yourself wrong for not having certain things yet
• Inner god voice, conscious money mindset, manifestation in motion and the tools Christine uses that help you stop seeking things outside of you
• How you can start micro stepping into the identity of the next level business owner you want to be 
• The logical side of manifestation and how it comes down to science and creating neural pathways 

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
• Book a call to work with Soulpreneur to grow your business

LET’S CONNECT: 

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

CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE:

• Click here to visit Christine's website
• Click here to connect with Christine on TikTok: @thealignedsoul
• Click here to connect with Christine on Instagram: @i.am.thealignedsoul
• Take Christine's free mini course, Conscious Money Mindset 

Christine Michelle is the Founder and CEO of The AlignedSoul by Ana-Hob® International Transformation Brand & author of The Aligned Receiver. 

Known as The Vibration Lifter and Energy Shifter, Christine is a former 20 year corporate executive tur

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 has been a lot of talk about the coaching “bubble” starting to “pop.” Nearly a year ago, I started making observations and predictions as to what has been happening in the coaching industry, and in this episode, I’m following them up. 

Whether you are a coach or a business owner working with a coach (or thinking about doing either), this episode gives ALL the spice around the current state of the coaching industry.

Quick overview of what we cover:

• How market sophistication, market savvy, and the economy are affecting the coaching industry
• The state of know, like, and DIStrust the collective of consumers have around coaching offers
• Why the soft skills that have made up for lack of marketing ability are no longer working
• What constitutes lazy marketing
• Internal vs external metrics, what most people are NOT using, and why both matter equally
• The Great Resignation: Online business owner edition – and why I believe this isn’t going to stop anytime soon
• Why excellence, mastery, and messaging are your biggest assets to make sales
• The biggest distinction business owners can make when doing business online

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
• Listen to the Alex Hormozi podcast episode mentioned on Apple | Spotify

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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This episode was first published at soulpreneur.co/058. 

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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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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This episode was first published at soulpreneur.co/057 

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 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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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

This episode was first published at soulpreneur.co/056 

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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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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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 @sustainablescaling

This episode was first published at SustainableScaling.co/054

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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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 @sustainablescaling

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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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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 @sustainablescaling

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! ⭐️