Eight ways to feel nourished, calm, and like you can breathe in your business 🌸
And five free resources to support you in your journey…
Before I dive in: just a little reminder that the doors are open for just a few more days for my group program, Your Simple & Spacious Business, if you’d love to never do business alone again and feel deeply supported to bring more ease, joy, and intentional growth into your work and life. I’d be so honoured to welcome you inside 💫
Entrepreneurship is a WILD ride.
This is my tenth year of running my business and it still takes so much nervous system work to stay in the arena and be brave enough to continue to trust myself and the business I’ve built.
And if I were to describe how I want to feel each day in my business I would say: nourished, calm, and like I have space to breathe in my work.
And I know I’m not alone as so many of my clients and the awesome humans inside YS&SB tell me that they want to feel like this too: like their humanness is on the table too and like they can hold their nervous system through the rollercoaster each day.
I spend my working hours supporting small business owners to find and create more ease, calm, spaciousness and intentional growth in their work and here are eight steps that I’ve seen can make all the difference, with some awesome free resources to support you to dive deeper too:
1: Define your version of a simple and spacious business
Once we know what our version of a simple and spacious business actually looks and feels like we then have that foundation to ground and guide us in everything we do in our work.
So much of this process is a permission slip too: to define for ourselves how we want to experience our working life and to be brave enough to want more ease, joy, and freedom in the journey too.
My free deep dive kit is here to walk you through the simple and spacious approach to business and starts by holding space for you to define what a simple and spacious business actually looks like for you.
2: Define what enough money means to you
Opting out of what Amelia Hruby calls The Online Business Growth Escalator has brought me deep peace over the past decade in my business.
Defining what enough money is to me and exploring how I can make that enough number in the most spacious and fulfilling way has been a beautiful and calm journey to go on in my business - instead of trying to keep up with other peoples goals or chasing more for the sake of more I’ve been able to go all in on my version of enough instead.
3: Align your business model with your vision and enough number
This is the beating heart of a simple and spacious business: the intersection of our business vision, our enough number, and our business model, how we shape our business to facilitate the work we want to do, the life we want to be able to live alongside that work, and so that we can make our enough number too.
My free deep kit holds space for you to explore all of this in more depth too.
4: Cut the fluff from your offers
One of the best ways I know to create more breathing room and calm in our business is to simplify our offerings. So often we overpack our services and products in the hopes of making them more ‘valuable’ but the truth is that your true value is in you showing up fully in your zone of genius, not just by adding in more, more, more.
This could look like reducing unnecessary calls or check-ins or excess deliverables - whatever isn’t truly adding value to your containers but is draining your energy to deliver.
5: Remember that you’re not running a race
This is how I root into calm in my business, by reminding myself that I’m allowed to go at my own pace instead of trying to keep up with everyone else’s.
For most of us, our entrepreneurial journey will be a multi-decades long adventure: we have time to grow and evolve in all the ways we desire. We don’t have to rush ahead just to prove to ourselves that we can reach our goals as fast as we can. Instead we can breathe, go slowly, and define whatever pace truly works best for us.
I also have a free mini workshop about opting out of industry norms that don’t serve us to encourage you to move forward in your business in whatever way feels aligned, intentional, and joyful for you.
6: Put all of your needs on the table
This is so much of the beautiful work I get the privilege to do with my clients and the awesome humans inside YS&SB: supporting them to put all of their needs on the table in their work so they can find more joy, ease, and a sustainable pace in their work too.
And it’s an area I’m so passionate about because it’s been such a meaningful journey for me too, to learn how to put all of my needs on the table in my work so that I’m no longer abandoning my own humanness and facilitating my own burnout in my business.
There’s also a coaching session inside YS&SB all about putting your needs on the table in your business that you can dive into for free if that can be supportive for you.
7: Embrace marketing as one hell yes person at a time
Marketing can feel so overwhelming in our business, especially as it can feel like a full time job in itself to market and promote our work.
I root into a calm approach to my marketing plan by embracing a mindset of connecting with just one hell yes person at a time. Instead of feeling like I need to reach thousands of people to support my work to thrive, which feels utterly overwhelming, I use my 100 hell yes people philosophy to root into a more sustainable and human approach to marketing in my work.
I also have an awesome free toolkit to walk you through this process that has supported me to be booked out for a decade now.
8: Nurture your entrepreneurial spirit
When my nervous system is activated, when I’ve lost access to a sense of calm in my business, when I’m spiralling or doubting my magic in my work, this is often a sign that I need to route back into my entrepreneurial spirit and the simple and spacious mindset that supports me to gently thrive in my work.
And here’s the thing: this is a never-ending part of the job for me. I regularly need to route back into my entrepreneurial spirit, to move through my fears and overwhelm, to choose to trust myself over and over again even with all the uncertainty along for the ride. You’re not doing it wrong if your nervous system is regularly activated in this journey - it’s how we hold ourselves through it that matters most.
And there’s a coaching session inside YS&SB sharing ten simple and spacious mindset shifts that you can have free access to if it can be supportive for you in your journey.
And my biggest encouragement for you today? You are allowed to want to feel nourished, calm, and like you can breathe in your business and I really hope these resources can be a dose of encouragement, guidance, and support for you in your journey too.
And a bonus step: don’t go it alone
I see every single day the magic of having an experienced guide to walk with you in this journey, and a community of fellow business owners choosing a slower, calmer, gentler approach to business too.
Doors close soon on Friday for the enrolment of YS&SB and I would be so honoured to welcome you inside if you’re ready to never do business alone again.
Inside YS&SB you’ll find:
🖥 A library of 25 coaching sessions on topics such as your business model, marketing, routines and more - with new sessions coming every month!
💻 A vault of all of my courses, programs, and digital products
✨ Twice monthly office hours so you never have to feel stuck or alone again in your business
💫 A calm and gentle Slack community of fellow business owners choosing a slower, more human approach to business
🎙 Plus my private weekly podcast + quarterly live planning calls
And as a reminder: YS&SB is lifetime access. So you pay just once and then continue to get access to all of the awesome guidance and support inside at no extra cost.
Here’s what some of the awesome humans inside say about the magic inside this program:
And, more than anything, I hope this post can be one you can return to whenever the encouragement and resources can support you to find more calm and space to breathe in your business journey along the way.
Until next time,
Jen