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Helping business owners lead for sustainable success👇🏼Lead you business👇🏼
🌿Psychologist+Accredited Coach
🌿Cancer+Infertility survivor

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I'm running an experiment about where I go online. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I LOVE IG, meet a lot of my clients on here and enjoy stories. But for a while I've been interested in using Linkedin better and differently and I know I can’t divide quality time between both. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So to truly understand whether it's a useful place for me to spend valuable time, I'm going to spend a month over there on LinkedIn. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'll test how comfortable it feels to say and show up (shock horror!) the same way on LI as on IG, and I'll test engagement and leads.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'm going to mix the content up with posts and videos and share a lot more of my podcast too. If LI stories come in I'll try them out too but I doubt they will yet.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'm going to show up on IG stories for the month (of June) and probably chat reflections, but I won't be posting on my feed.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'm telling you this because it's cool to test things out that we instinctively feel might be interesting, and it's cool to share what I think might happen and then report back on what happened too. And I'm telling you because it may give you permission to test what you’ve been wanting to recently too - whether it's using a new platform, adjusting who you talk to, closing down a service you don't like anymore or more.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What I think might happen is:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🌿 I feel icky about posting some things on LI over IG but I'll get over this AND it may be liberating to bring the IG vibe over to there (to be confirmed)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🌿I will increase my LI engagement (as long as I'm posting useful, audience-needs-led content and human stories)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🌿 I will connect with some of my existing audience over there⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🌿 I will connect with a new audience and type of person too⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Let's see shall we? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you want to join in with me or watch with popcorn here I am:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#linkedin #socialmedia #leadership #womeninbusiness #businesswomen #coaching #coachinguncovered

*WHAT YOUR INFLUENCERS AND YOU WANT MIGHT CHANGE*⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I've been in this business long enough to know there's a pattern that emerges - for myself, and in others. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We find someone, a few people, that we really like and resonate with and we're slightly obsessed with - can't stop reading their posts, following their stuff, signing up to their things, maybe even working with them or almost working with them. But there's a point, for some of these people that we once loved, that we just get tired of them. Their message, their stuff, their thing, and maybe even working with them.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'm here to tell you this is REALLY normal. You're not strange for suddenly being really turned off by that person you were a true fan of not that long ago.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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There's a few things happening here:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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1. the natural life and business cycle - we just resonate with people and then we don't. period.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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2. THEY changed - maybe their message, the way they communicated, the things they talk about, the way they show up, what they sell (if it's a business) changed. And maybe they told us it would, or maybe they didn't. Maybe they didn't know it would, or maybe they did. Whatever it is, it is OK if we no longer resonate with someone's new message. Wish them well, set them free from your expectations and move onwards.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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3. YOU changed. Perhaps you realised that suddenly this person, or people, aren't where you're at any more. You've moved on in some way and you need to hear other messages, other people. Maybe people who are really similar to where you're at right now and going, or maybe people wildly different. Who knows, that's the fun. But you know you need a different set of markers to read and watch and consume. And that's amazing. Set yourself and them free from your expectations and move onwards.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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4. You realised you no longer need an influencer, leader, spokesperson. You're ready to speak, lead and do it all yourself.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#leadonline #businesswoman #instacoach

*STOP discounting your successes*⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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*START making them (ridiculously) magnificent*⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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That is all x

*ARE YOU READY FOR GETTING OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY - I

*ARE YOU READY FOR GETTING OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY - I WASN'T*⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I love the idea that we can step aside from ourselves, helping ourselves to wade, shift then glide through the sludge. To watch those green shoots fly up in abundance.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I had the best day yesterday - supporting amazing clients doing their thing. Feeling really in flow. Then I got some news which really threw me. I felt off, wonky, unable to concentrate, ansty for the rest of the day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I walked to the duck pond, watched the baby ducklings eat the corn we'd thrown for them, felt the grass on my feet and thought 'I can get out of my own way on this'. Accepted it didn't feel good, then went to bed, feeling better. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Despite the world around us, so much can be seen from our internal lens. And I wanted to acknowledge my lens could be refocused. Which it can. As can yours.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Have a lovely day, however you're spending it x⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#instacoach #businesscoaching #womensupportingwomen #femaleentrepreneur

*Should you have worked IN a business to help peop

*Should you have worked IN a business to help people work on theirs?*
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When we set out to get help with our business, we look for the right person/company and we ask what experience they have in doing it...actually if you're not doing that already it would be useful to from here on in. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Sometimes the person/company may not have experience in exactly the thing you want help with, but might have supported lots of people to get it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Or, they help with a way of thinking about the thing you want help with, and whether they've done or experienced the thing you want is, or feels, irrelevant. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Or, perhaps they have direct experience of the exact thing you're struggling with, to know how to guide you from their experience.
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Or a combination thereof.
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The online space is rife with opinions about which is better but, IMHO, none is, as long as:
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-The person/company providing support is in integrity* about what they can and can't do for you
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- The person looking for support can be clear (or supported to be clear) about what they need. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
As someone looking for support, your needs will also change over time, as will what and who you need to help you; the ever-turning cycle of personal and professional development.
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Hope this helps if you're looking for support OR you're offering support and wondering what category to place yourself in (or you've been shamed into thinking you can't help people because you don't have direct experience).
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*about integrity - how do you know if a person/company has it? Will post about that separately to open up that whole can of worms.
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*YOU ONLINE*⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Did you ever imagine you'd work online like you are? Was it always your dream? To communicate and make money on the internet? Didn't it always seem so 'urgh laptop lifestyle bali sandy macs are just SO 2013'.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And here you are, working on the internet, making money on the internet. What's changed? I mean, apart from the obvious, so much ELSE changed too.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It became easier to share RELATABLE voices online as we all found a way to share REAL stuff that we also aspired to. Like gardening, walking, taking time OFF line as well as enjoying online stuff.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It became easier to FIND others who wanted similar things, and we could hear the voices who wanted to share their experiences online too and not just their latest bikini shot (no shame, just that it's not everyone's cup of tea)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It became more important in our minds, too, to get over that feeling of worry of what would people think IF I post some of this stuff? Will Simon and Sarah from school see it and why do I care so much about that anyway? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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WE grew up - we released ourselves from pressure and permission and we found a way to align with the messages and people we like and value. We realised that 'making money off the internet' is one hell of a broad spectrum and we make it work for us, with our quirky and sometimes inefficient ways.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
We feel the buzz when we GENUINELY connect with amazing people, not for show, but reminded in the power of being real and showing up FOR and AS our business, sometimes one and the same. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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That's you, online 🙏🏻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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