The Visionary Files

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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This episode was first published at SustainableScaling.co/050

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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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/049

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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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/048

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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Are you someone who wants to grow your service business to multiple 6-figures+ per year… or are you already there and you want to generate revenue without it taking so dang much of your time?

One of the most commonly asked questions I get about getting to that point is: who do I need to hire to get me there? 

So in this episode, we’re going to dig into what you want to look for when you hire – and who you DON’T need to hire to get you where you want to go (spoiler alert: it’s different advice than most business coaches give).

Quick overview of what we cover:

• How the most common hires made by online business owners are often the least necessary
• The importance of hiring for replication instead of innovation until you have more revenue at your disposal
• Why hiring doers is keeping you stuck on the hamster wheel and actually taking more of your time
• The four evaluative criteria to assign to each task to understand exactly whom to hire
• How to know when you’re ready to hire someone to do tasks you don’t do well 
• The difference between running an online business and running a business that happens to operate online – and why this should matter

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

This episode was first published at SustainableScaling.co/046

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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Who hasn’t wished for a magic wand to wave over their business from time to time? Parts of being an entrepreneur can get extraordinarily tedious, especially when you’re doing a lot of the heavy lifting yourself, task-by-task.

Well…just call me your Biz Fairy Godmother, because I do happen to have a little somethin’ magical up my sleeve – automated sales systems! 

Now, I get that this topic comes off as pretty boring, but the effect on your business (and the time it frees up for you!) is nothing short of MAGIC. 

So much so, that I’ve renamed them – and on today’s episode, we’re talking about autoMAGIC revenue systems. 

Quick overview of what we cover:

• The biggest mistake business owners make with sales systems
• How to tell if your biz is ready to start implementing automagic revenue systems
• What creating a process map of your clients’ behavior – from their discovery of you to ascending through your offer suite – reveals
• The 4 points to consider about each of your sales steps 
• The quantitative analysis that will tell you exactly which areas are primed for autoMAGIC
• What outsources you can call on to get your autoMAGIC systems underway
• How tracking KPIs highlights the areas still in need of a tweak

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

This episode was first published at SustainableScaling.co/046

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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Are you an ACTION-TAKER?! Because, today – for ONE DAY ONLY – we’ve got an…episode where we’re breaking down toxic Bro Marketing into all its snake-oily parts.

A Legend in His Own Lunch Box, Aussie-based Steve Corney, shows us exactly why value-based business practices (with no icky manipulative marketing allowed) are needed now, more than ever.

But what’s more, he dares us to go a step further to seek out joy in the relationships we build, rather than transactions.

I promise you’ve never heard anything like this – there’s spicy, and then there’s Australian spicy!

Quick overview of what we cover:

• Why Steve never aspired to be a CEO, and how he ended up there anyways 
• Why he derives (maybe too much?) pleasure from throwing wrenches into the twisted psychological sales techniques of Bro Marketers
• How there’s no such thing as giving away too much knowledge
• How he nurses his clients back to marketing health after they’ve been through the Bro Marketing wringer
• How automation actually enhances the human connection element in your biz (when used strategically)
• Who Steve calls “Time-Sucking Vortexes, Oxygen Thieves, Charlatans, Cereal Box Coaches…” and how to handle them
• What parts of the Life Coaching Business World he calls BS on
• The three elements you need to focus on to win at your next digital experience event
• What the heck is up with every offer ending in “7”

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

LISTEN TO MORE EPISODES WITH STEVE:

• Click here for Episode 55, Marketing With Integrity in a Post-Bropocalypse World 
• 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 Episode 74, Delivering Outcomes With Mad Respect - How To Improve Your Curriculum and Course Design and Your Learner's Experience

CONNEC

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 two things I know every business owner wants? More money and more time! So in this bonus episode, I’m sharing a case study of how I helped a client get BOTH within two months of starting together!

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• How to tell if you’re on the 6-figure hamster wheel
• The thing I can almost always predict with overworked business owners who are making more than 6-figures
• How we approached building a team with this client
• Tweaks we made in how this client was launching that resulted in $100k+ USD within 10 days
• What most coaches who say they’re only working 5-10 hours per week aren’t telling you

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

This episode was first published at SustainableScaling.co/044

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 worked to sell and market your offers last year and during the pandemic no longer work. The sales landscape has changed. There are really only two choices: 

First, stick it out and hope it passes. (My two cents: I don’t think it will… not for a while. The bubble is popping, friends!)

Second, do better.

If you want to do better, listen up! Here are three things I’d recommend you stop saying *immediately* when you’re selling.

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• How my sales have actually gone UP and what I attribute this to
• What I’m seeing behind the scenes from business owners who publicly seem like they’re very successful
• The things the online business has become way too reliant on for sales and marketing
• Why communication and delivery are the best things you can focus on right now (and always tbh)
• How the online coaching industry has made lazy marketers out of most of us
• A WAY better way to use social proof and testimonials
• Why upgrading your messaging is the missing link between you and more sales

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 on 4 things to make more sales
• Click here for episode on 6 things to do if sales are declining

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

This episode was first published at SustainableScaling.co/043

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! ⭐️

It’s one thing to make 6-figures per year, but it’s a whole different vibe to generate 6-figures through *one* contract.

In this episode, I’ll be breaking down what went into a recent 6-figure offer we closed, how it came to be, the structure of the offer, and the biggest factors I feel contributed to closing the sale.

Quick overview of what we cover: 

• The most obvious paths to selling a 6-figure offer
• The importance of having established trust and established rapport when selling at a 6-figure price point
• How to leverage high level skill sets and excellence in your field into high value expertise
• Having integrity in what you offer and turning away extra money even when a client wants to spend it
• How years of intentional work on money mindset contributed to making this sale
• The expected ROI of this offer for the client and how that contributed to making the sale

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 Sustainable Scaling episode referenced on CTFAR 

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

This episode was first published at SustainableScaling.co/042

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! ⭐️