May 9, 2024

Questions:

1. LinkedIn advertising- It’s being successful! is it ethical? Other things i should be thinking about?
2. Booked a vendor booth last year at an astrology conference.
3. Do I have two businesses or one? I see patients and I also help other practitioners.

May 2, 2024

Questions:

1. Not sure if people want to buy what I want to focus on.
2. Messy situation, had a difficult weekend, and in a difficult headspace. Not caring about business.
3. Counseling practice she’s in was sold. Can continue as contractor, or can become an employee, grief at maybe giving up on my business.
4. More questions about niche.

April 25, 2024

Questions:

1. I’ve been lost for awhile, a lot of changes since February, and since then I haven’t done much since then.
2. Powering ahead with marketing, and running into resistance sometimes. How to decide on a profitable niche.
3. Lots of engagement in social media, but not getting sales conversations.
4. Struggling with One Compelling Sentence, having different audiences.
5. Wanting 5 hours/week of working with clients.
6. Starting over with my business, working on One Compelling Sentence.
7. Significant audience, but not doing a lot of first journey marketing.
8. Needing accountability to work through the material.

April 18, 2024

Questions:

1. Home page
2. Role playing game sales page

April 16, 2024

Questions:

1. In early stages, and has a collaborator working out audiences and model. How to avoid unhelpful trends.
2. Working with the business model spreadsheet, and questions arose about how to actually reach those models.
3. Revamping business in a big way, need a model to move forward while cocooning.
4. Using content to solidify the business model.

April 11, 2024

Questions:

1. Terms and client agreements.
2. Being awake and more aware of my relationship with my business.
3. Is it possible to have a profitable business as a coach?

April 9, 2024

Questions:

1. Untangling marketing/business model, and whether to introduce courses.
2. Maybe too many different types of offers.
3. Monthly offers not getting enough enrollment.

April 4, 2024

Questions:

1. New idea about  my niche.
2. Introverted, can get exhausted.
3. Refining OCS.
4. Still struggling with selling the offer. Important rant from Mark.
5. Attention taken up by corporate job, what should I do with my website. Don’t want to abandon my business yet.
6. I have my OCS, said it to 3 different people in the last week.
7. How to make my OCS more concrete.

March 28, 2024

Questions:

1. At a conference, and feeling doubt that I should  be doing something else, not being focused on my work.
2. Collaborating with people who would be staff.
3. Narrowing down OCS. And want to write a talk. Shifting focus.
4. Content vs. Offers. And the One Compelling Sentence (OCS).
5. Attention pulled to other things, and harder to come back to the business.

March 21, 2024

Questions:

1. First call of the year, did not prepare client for receiving editor’s feedback.
2. Supported by Patreon, but contributions.
3. Celebrating,  but wondering  about  diversifying.
4. Iterating the OCS.
5. A client bought 10 sessions within 6 months, now it’s nearly expired.

March 14, 2024

March 7, 2024

Questions:

1. Not producing enough content to meet goals around income.
2. OCS for half day retreats for churches.
3. How to launch a 1-1 service. And what to do between launches.
4. Freebies aren’t working.
5. Putting free workshops but don’t have enough people you’re reaching out to.
6. Three different scenarios, and not trusting my own guidance or sense, looking for intuitive support.

February 29, 2024

February 22, 2024

Questions:

1. Making the journey through the training easier.
2. Generating cashflow quickly.
3. Benign neglect of the business, not getting to doing the work of developing the business.
4. Struggling with how to reply to client inquiries.
5. One Compelling Sentence.

February 15, 2024

Questions:

1. Making a larger offering, and writing the sales page, and check the increase pricing.
2. Celebrating filling  workshops! Too many ideas, how to move forward.
3. Publishing a book. Which route to take, traditional, or hybrid?

February 8, 2024

Questions:

1. Following up with people who drop off.
2. Blocked in talking about the offer.
3.  Little tech things- building a tech stack.
4. Feeling icky about the content I’m trying to create.

February 1, 2024

Questions:

1. Helping devoted, burned-out moms find themselves again. Scared of making someone mad by sharing my insights to them in a discovery call.
2. Witness -personal process with OCS.
3. Interested in so many things, but want to have something specific to dive into.
4. Celebrating – more clients and first U.S. client! And wondering about starting a group.

January 25, 2024

Questions:

1. 2 people found me through Google and signed up for connection calls. Filtering/refining?
2. Overwhelmed by what to focus on to make selling easier and more effective, out of a long list of what  to do.
3. 50% off clients come from referrals, ready to sign up. But, they come in cold, without looking at my website, and they don’t know my offer.

January 18, 2024

Questions:

1. Emotional challenging to  build  the business.
2. Finding the right price, but my heart showed me  a price that is double what I’m charging  now.
3. Used up my networks for referrals, what’s next?
4. Trying to grow my  email list.

January 11, 2024

Questions:

1. Celebrating decreased anxiety, and newly certified.
2. Online networking challenge.
3. Testing next iteration of O.C.S.
4. Written emails to send out to audience, but keeps getting inner feedback to not send them.
5. Sending out videos instead of writing email?
6. Follow up following sign ups or a free workshop, automated.
7. Taken a few weeks off business because nothing was going anywhere, realizing focus is spirituality explicitly.
8. Feeling hesitation about pitching workshop to Rotary Clubs.
9. What if your heart had a full seat at the table? Grief came up.
10. Business assessment- in Concentration. What should I focus on?

January 4, 2024

Questions:

1. Multiple modalities/offer- do I need separate sales pages for each?
2. Wrote 25 articles, now pressured and fearful about sending it out.
3. OCS feedback
4. Stuck in confusion over which audience to focus on.
5. Need to change my schedule because my business is growing exponentially, but I need a lot more space.

December 14, 2023

Questions:

1. Strategy around email lists, newsletters and blogs.
2. Who am I writing articles to?
3. Audience is enthusiastic, but turning away from price.
4. Starting second program launch.
5. Wrote a freebie, should I link to my offer, or is that too soon?
6. Do I mention promotions only in promo emails or also in newsletter?
7. Trouble finding excitement and motivation after grieving the challenging.
8. How to follow through with 2024 planning, from overwhelm.

December 7, 2023

Questions:

1. Needing to plan for business development.
2. OCS for a music subscription offer.
3. Moved email from AWeber to Wix, but they did not deliver to 900 out of 1200.
4. Where to focus to develop my business.
5. I’ve written 9 articles! How to start organizing them.
6. Feedback on OCS.
7. Communicating about different kinds of coaching.

November 30, 2023

Questions:

1. Have tried my One Compelling Sentence on my network.
2. More about OCS.
3. 5 people coming to workshop.
4. Remove / changing website.
5. Wanting to be in relationship with business and for it to make money.
6. Really difficult year, double down, or let go?
7. Ayurvedic practitioner  trying to  get it online, lots of social media replies, but no sales.
8. Clients have an expiration date, because of the topic of trying to conceive a baby. How to handle this long term?

November 16, 2023

Questions:

1. Wanting to sit with my schedule, time, money, pricing, business for the last couple of months, but I keep not doing it.
2. Raising prices, when it doesn’t feel good to raise prices on certain clients.
3. Inspired to offer regular groups for next year. In the past I’ve never filled them, but now I know I need to offer them for next year. How to step forward with the promotion?
4. Feeling desperate, impatient, discouraged. Few discovery sessions.
5. Been in Learning Community for nine months, and it’s been so different than I expected it would.
6. Question about what your clients need versus what they will buy.
7. Feeling like I’m getting traction, everything is going better, and then my brain tells me a different OCS.
8. Just got a new job with a salary, going to bring so much stability. How to communicate this to my audience?

November 9, 2023

Questions:

1. Clear on a lot about my business, percentage of potential clients, people who are choosing work over getting help.
2. Need a new way to approach making mistakes.
3. In a freebie, at the end, how to invite someone to a free call/coffee.
4. Celebration! Plus a question about package lengths.

November 2, 2023

Questions:

1. Timing of coaching calls for the LC.
2. Next steps to get into writing articles.
3. Feeling anxiety at the pace of growth in the business.
4. Feedback on idea for a new offer.
5. Question about over-extending myself.
6. About content. I don’t want to add to the stuff. And I don’t want to cross the line into therapy. Plus technical tips on sharing audio content with my audience.

October 26, 2023

Questions:

1. Made spontaneous post that was tremendously successful, what’s going on?
2. How to market the annual program?
3. Shifting from per session price to retainer model.
4. Just not getting to creating content.
5. Planning for 2024, making offers that create a financial base for the year.

October 19, 2023

Questions:

1. Celebrating website. Had someone reach out- wanting to book or chat first?
2. Celebrating from coaching follow-through from last time.
3. A mess – how to sort out what I  want to do.
4. Sales numbers doubled, but profit is lower.
5. Many inquiries, all of which have fallen through.
6. New message/learning that wants to come out. How to bring it out.
7. Sales conversation, people not responding after I make the offer.

October 12, 2023

Questions:

1. Images of client popping up  before an upcoming workshop. Usually send a voice note, but most people don’t reply.
2. Non-hierarchical space for ADHD, community needs being met despite a diversity of preferences.
3. How to language coming back, revisiting someone who has said no to your services?
4. One Compelling Sentence feedback.
5. Workshop is up and running, giving me energy to go back into my studio. People who want to join the group after it started.
6. Leading webinars, workshops and trainings.  People  showed up to free offers,  but no one registered when I started to charge. What happened?

October 5, 2023

Questions:

1. People say they want to work with me, but people keep saying they’re busy, so it’s being put off.
2. When I get new followers on social  media they are mostly niche mates.
3. One Compelling Sentence
4. Soon traveling with an NGO, some urgency to get material together.
5. One Compelling Sentence- working with my messy first attempt.

September 28, 2023

Questions:

1. Acupuncturist, really busy for last year, and sudden outflow of patients, and need to reach out to people.
2. Want to do more free sessions – how should I reach them- networking, or webinar?
3. A lot of emotional stuff blocking ability to see where to go.
4. Offers to friends versus offers to unknown.
5. Teacher working half time, in infancy phase of business, intimacy coach for neurodivergents.
6. Loss of important project.

September 21, 2023

Questions:

1. 1-1 free call launch, how to reach people I don’t know.
2. Sales process for live workshops – too many inquiries  from folks who aren’t good candidates.
3. How to hold space for someone to process but still be clear about your boundaries.
4. Content- point of confusion. Modality is coaching, not teaching.
5. Lots of different offers, how to keep them aligned.
6. Website- How It Works page, how to make the principles effective.

September 14, 2023

Questions:

1. About pricing- pricing model has not been working.
2. Using database for networking.
3. Quick and Clean landing pages- I get bored reading, and I scroll down  to the end. How to make it not boring.
4. Four things you need to know before you sign up.
5. First Journey Marketing, and how to organize.
6. Stuck in pricing, because of different countries economies.

September 7, 2023

Questions:

1. This year has been hard, a lot less work and so less income and more anxiety.
2. As an introvert, what is appropriate to share on social media?
3. Mental health professionals are adding in spirituality. Do I need to get more credentials?
4. Messy situation with a vendor who is not being ethical,  but  the video on strength versus vulnerability was incredibly helpful in walking through the situation.

This is the same list that is in the Learn drop-down menu above. Enjoy!