Ten questions on running a gentle, steady, & joyful business
A free office hour recording from me to you…
Twice-monthly inside Your Simple & Spacious Business I invite members to submit any questions they have for our office hours where I can dive into wherever they desire guidance, encouragement, and support in their business that week.
It's one of my favourite parts of this program and members often tell me it's one of theirs too. To give you a sneak peak of what you can expect inside before I open the doors again very soon next week I invited you to submit your own questions for an office hour and I have the recording available for you today.
Here are the questions you submitted that I dive into:
00:32: How do you usually go about clarifying the deliverables of your offers? Do you work from your desired timeline and what feels possible for you to do in that time frame? Or do you work from what you want your client to walk away with at the end of working with you and reverse engineer from there?
04:13: How do I get started with my business and get those first paying clients?
06:35: I feel like my idealism is stopping me when I know all I need to do is just show up. Do you have any comments on this and how do you overcome the fears behind showing up if ever you still have them?
10:26: I have a reasonably successful business, but it's not making me happy, in fact it's making me stressed. Have you any advice on how to navigate this season in my business, or a way to evaluate and check I'm not doing the totally wrong thing?
13:55: I am a freelance photographer, and after a relatively consistent 7 years in business, over the last 6-12 months have seen a huge downturn in my enquiries and am also struggling converting them into sales. I am at an all time low, how do I turn this around and generate more leads?
17:20: How do you manage feelings of stress and nervousness in business? It’s in moments like that where I think ‘why am I putting myself through this?‘
21:09: I’d be super grateful for any tips you can offer to help me get coaching clients while I build up my online audience.
25:52: Even though I get branded work from my social accounts, I want to have a more reliable source of income. This year I have been feeling burnt out, frustrated for not making enough money for the amount of hours I am giving to this business and unsure what direction to take with all of it.
29:29: How do you decide whether your product will be free or not, and in terms of time and investment, where do you put your limits?
35:17: My question is to ask for guidance & direction to how to build a supportive framework for myself to rebuild my confidence, to plan out the next steps and actually make my plans a reality. I have lots of ideas but get the fear and overwhelm.
There are time stamps in the recording so that you can skip ahead to the questions that can be most supportive for you.
And there’s also an audio-only option if you'd prefer that here.
I also reference 100 Hell Yes People and The Deep Dive Kit throughout the office hour as free resources where you can dive even deeper into support in your business journey.
And if you'd love to join us inside YS&SB and have lifetime access to all of the awesome guidance and support inside (you pay just once and then continue to get access to everything inside at no extra cost!) I would be so honoured to welcome you inside during this next enrolment.
Inside YS&SB you'll find monthly coaching sessions diving into topics such as marketing, mindset, and boundaries, a vault of programs and resources to support you in your business, twice-monthly office hours, quarterly live planning calls, plus a super supportive and gentle Slack community too.
Enrolment officially opens next week on Monday 13th May and spaces are limited for this enrolment so that we can keep our community a calm and gentle space - waitlist subscribers will get early access from this Friday 10th May with an early-bird discount and an awesome 1:1 bonus too. If you’d love to join us inside YS&SB I'm so excited to welcome you inside soon and support you in your journey towards a more simple and spacious business that truly works best for you.
And for this enrolment of YS&SB I’m also continuing to experiment with a sliding scale pricing structure to hopefully make this program more accessible too - there are three tiers for you to choose from and all three tiers come with a 15-month payment plan at no extra cost too.
And I've recorded an updated tour of the members website if you'd love to see all of the support you will find inside.
And don't just take my word for it, here's what some of the awesome humans inside have to say about YS&SB 👇🏻
And more than anything I really hope a question or two in this office hour recording can be supportive for you in this season of your business.
Until next time,
Jen
Thank you Jen!