Slowpreneur: Business Without the Busy

Today's episode is all about being a beginner! Let's say you want to start a new career, or a new business, or possibly just build a new skill or offering within your existing business. How do we go about starting something new? How do we pivot slowly but surely towards the thing we want to do? I am currently in the process of building towards becoming a professional photographer, alongsid...

As I am sure you know by now, I'm a bit of a systems geek! It's a big part of my "slowpreneur framework", which has three major components: strategy, systems & self-care. In my experience, having all three of these pieces set up in an intentional way is what unlocks your ability to have a business that feels good and sustainable to run. 🙏🏼 So today we're talking about t...

On today's episode, we're talking about how to deal with slow seasons in your business. All business owners will deal with these at some point during their career! Maybe you launch something to crickets, or your cashflow gets sluggish, or you're suddenly not sure where your next client is coming from. Slow seasons are normal and inevitable, but can also REALLY throw us for a loop if we...

On today's episode, we're using Taylor Swift & the Eras tour as a case study to see what we can learn about slowpreneurship! Even if you're not a big fan of Taylor, I still think there are some interesting lessons to be learned from the way that she steers her career. 🎶 We're covering humility, preparedness, generosity, earnestness, sustainability, creativity, and surprise &am...

On today's episode I'm interviewing Sarah Von Bargen about her decision to step back from public internet life and adopt a more sustainable business model for herself. I've been a fan of Sarah's for years , ever since she was first blogging on Yes and Yes , and long before she was selling courses. So imagine my sadness, delight and envy when she announced her internet retirement! I...

Hello hello & welcome back to Season THREE of Slowpreneur! I am so happy to be back after our season break and ready to dive back into the world of slowpreneurship with all of you.  On today's episode, I'm sharing seven key mindset shifts that I've had to make on my journey to building an intentional and sustainable business that works for me. These are philosophies or ways of thin...

As a solo business owner, it can be really tough to set boundaries with clients. We need to have policies that protect us, but speaking those out loud and enforcing them with others can feel super scary, if not next to impossible. 🙈 It's also pretty hard to figure out when to be disciplined with your boundary-setting, and when to be more flexible. When we should give people the benefit of the...

On today's episode, I'm interviewing social media strategist and event planner Kirsti McNabney , whose mission is to help you connect with your ideal clients in-person and digitally. If you're somebody who has a major love-hate relationship with social media (🙋🏻‍♀️), this is the episode for you. Kirsti's approach centres authenticity, community, and building true connection with...

When the world is scary, it is easy to get sucked into the bad habit of doomscrolling: compulsively checking our various feeds for bad news and updates. This impulse makes sense! We want to be informed, and it's difficult to switch off when things are stressful. 🙃 And yet staying in this cycle of doom is not helping us or anyone else. It's throwing off our nervous systems and making us  l...

On today's episode, I'm interviewing Joy Asibey-Gabriel, personal stylist and feminine adornment coach, about the power of living & working pleasure-first . This was such a rich conversation! We explored why it can be so hard for us to prioritize pleasure, why pleasure is so important, how Joy brings pleasure into her life and business, and how we can start to access it in small ways e...

Confession: I'm a business coach that kind of hates the business coaching industry. I have opinions about some of the shenanigans that go on when it comes to marketing, sales and business models, and I want to talk about! Not just to protect you from scammy, slimey tactics, but also to strongly discourage you from replicating any of them inadvertently. 🙅🏻‍♀️ In this episode I'm sharing m...

On today's episode, I'm chatting with Celina Rosso , intuitive business witch & medium for entrepreneurs, about how we can use energetics in our business to move closer to the things that we want . Our conversation was full of great nuggets, including: how to follow the nudges you get towards your next right steps, the importance of meeting your strategy with energy , and how we can ad...

Y'all, we have a lot to do which means we have a lot to NOT do. On today's episode, I'm talking about entering my anti-decanting era, plus what my shampoo bottle epiphany taught me about figuring what  else I'm not doing anymore in life and business. This is a terrifically freeing thought experiment that I highly encourage you to take on in your own life! 💡 Tune in for lots of exa...

On today's episode, I'm convincing you to take a vacation from your business. A real one! Not a staycation, not a working trip, not a digital nomad experience on the beach in Thailand. A real vacation where you unplug from your daily tasks, give yourself a chance to breathe, and learn to be a human again. 😍 I'm going to share two key mindset shifts that you'll need to take on boar...

On this episode, I'm talking to Amanda Laird of Slow & Steady Studio about mindful marketing that helps you achieve your business goals . Amanda has years of experience in marketing and we are so lucky that she is sharing her philosophies and approach with us. 🙏🏼 You'll hear some of the factors that make marketing so hard (for all of us!) and how we can use the principle of "jus...

On this episode, I'm sharing my seven favourite books for slowpreneurs ! 📚 Unfortunately there is no book  specifically about slowpreneurship (yet! I hope to write one soon!) but these seven taken together are a good primer to help you build more slow values into your own business. I'll be walking you through all of these books one by one and sharing why it has stuck with me over the year...

On today's episode, I'm talking to ⁠Géraldine Jippé, the creator of the podcast Slow is Good and the co-founder of The Slowpreneur Summit ⁠, about her journey to slowpreneurship. 🙏🏼 She shares how she learned the hard way after a cancer diagnosis that she needed to slow down and prioritize her life while building a business. I loved Géraldine's approach to business, how she wants to...

On this episode, I'm talking about why rest is so important for us entrepreneurs. It's not just a "nice to have" thing that can be sacrificed on the altar of productivity! Rest is one of the most important factors when it comes to our productivity & creativity, and should be prioritized. I'm also sharing five different  kinds of rest to hopefully spark some new ways of th...

On today's episode, I'm talking to Ashley Beaudin , the Gentle Business Coach , about her approach to building a gentle business that prioritizes care, safety and compassion for ourselves. ❤️ She shares her own journey to building a gentle business and what she's learned from past experiences and endeavours that were successful externally, but not always internally. Ashley is so though...

Hello and welcome back to Season Two of Slowpreneur! 🐌 Thank you for coming back for another round of thoughtful conversations about what it means to build a sustainable & intentional business. 🥰 On today's episode, I thought it was about time that I tell you about my philosophy on slowpreneurship! I'm sharing my personal definition of what it means to be a slowpreneur, as well as de...

And just like that, it's the end of Season One of Slowpreneur! I'm taking an intentional pause between seasons, but not before I share the slow business lessons that I've learned from creating this podcast that I think are widely applicable no matter what kind of business you run. 👀 In this episode you'll hear my thoughts on the importance of showing up, how vulnerability creates connection (and...

Over the past few years, more folks than ever are working & running businesses from home, myself included! It's harder than ever to set up clear boundaries around our time & work hours. If we're not careful, the lines between personal & professional life can get really blurry. Over time, this lack of down time can lead to us to feeling a huge lack of wellness & restfulness in our e...

It's not easy to build a business, and it's even harder to build a business that feels calm & peaceful to spend time working in. I've learned a few strategies over the years about what helps me to feel more relaxed when managing my business, and on today's episode I'm sharing those ideas with you! ✨ If you struggle with setting boundaries, managing client communications, keeping track of what...

On today's episode, I'm talking to my friend Palak Dave of Embiria and Hosted Here about her mission to live beautifully in the present moment, and to inspire others to do the same. Through her experiences, events, and thoughtfully curated spaces, she uses the five senses to invite us to slow down and find deeper presence in our everyday lives. 🙏🏼 In our conversation we talk about Palak's major...

Everyone talks about how it's so important to work ON your business instead of only IN your business, but what does that actually mean? One key aspect is taking time to reflect  on your experiences and make sense of all the data you're collecting as a business owner. In today's episode, I'm sharing my five favourite tools for reflecting on your business. All of these tools are inexpensive or...