The Wellness Business Show

How is your breath linked to your success as an entrepreneur?  In the next instalment of the festival edition of The Wellness Entrepreneur Podcast we speak with Rachel Bednarski about just that and we explore how powerful the breath is in so many ways for us personally and professionally. Rachel helps us to understand how the world around us impacts the way we breathe and the consequences of that....

Have you ever thought about how focussing on your own wellness could impact the growth of your business? Do you stop to consider what wellness really means to you and how you can integrate it into your daily life? Well, in the first episode of this special festival edition of The Wellness Entrepreneur Podcast I speak with Sally Garozzo about just that and we explore how focussing on her own wellne...

Welcome to the trailer for the Wellness Revolution Season. In this trailer I am so excited to have a co-host, Sarah Taylor who is my co-founder of the Wellness Revolution Festival. We can't wait to interview the workshop facilitators for the Wellness Revolution Festival so that you can hear what we have in store for you. To find out more about the Wellness Revolution Festival click here: https://w...

Could you re write the stories you hold about yourself?  What if there was a way to create a safe space to step out from the stories that are so enmeshed within us? Journalling is a word that is talked about a lot and sometimes it can lose it's meaning. Jo Bell is powerfully supporting people to understand the true value of journalling in creating safe spaces to explore out deepest thoughts.  Jo h...

Could you walk away from a career you had dreamt about since you were fourteen? What if you spent years studying and pushing yourself with that one goal in mind, and then noticed that your entire body was telling you to stop? Many in this industry have found their true calling in wellness after experimenting with other paths, but Isla McLachlan chose to leave her career in law just as she was star...

Do you have an idea so big that you're afraid to think you can ever make it happen? You know it will push you outside your comfort zone and force you into spaces and situations you're completely unfamiliar with.  You're afraid you'll drown and sink the whole project with you. Yet in the last few months that's exactly what I've done to myself. I have faced down every fear and hesitation I had about...

When relationships leave us traumatised, we often find ourselves repeating a self destructive pattern of behaviour.    It can take a long time to break out of that cycle.                          But if you've lived through a lifetime of toxic relationships, how do you even begin to heal yourself? According to Natalie Russel, the path to recovery from traumatic relationships begins when you choose...

Many in the wellness industry found their calling after a transcendental session with a therapist or counsellor.  Something they had struggled with for years was suddenly given a name and a form. We've all heard the anecdotes, and a lot of us have lived through this. Knowing ourselves better gave us the tools to fight and build a better life for ourselves. Yet, outside the wellness circle, mental...

Let's talk about how some social media accounts seem to attract followers and engagement with ease even though their content strategy doesn't seem to be anything special.  Maybe a lot of what they post is very similar to your own content.  But something is attracting the audience and clients to them and not to you. What is it and how can you make it work for your business? Here's a big hint before...

How often have you pushed back a holiday or short break because you were afraid to disappoint your clients? I remember how crushed I used to feel when a client would react badly to my taking some time off. This was years ago, before I reduced my one-to-one clients to a selected handful. Yet, that feeling of dread every time I needed a break is still fresh in my mind. So, when a team member needed...

The traditional wellness industry business model is broken.  No matter which modality you've trained in, once you step out into the world and set up shop, you'll soon have the realisation I did. There's something glaringly wrong with how you've been told to do business in this industry. It's likely your training never really covered any skills in business - you were probably vaguely told to start...

Every new year, we create a list of goals in our hearts and journals. We envision that somehow in the next twelve months, we will fulfil a dream or a business milestone. But most of us do this without proper goal setting. Which means that four months later, by the end of April, the majority of people have made very little progress towards achieving their dreams. They are beginning to write off 202...

Selling is supposed to equal lying, manipulation, and selfishness - the antithesis of everything we value in wellness.  This is why most of us struggle to be at peace with selling our services. It always feels wrong and in conflict with our core beliefs. But what if I told you that the traditional view of selling is not just wrong, it's utterly ineffective. What if I told you that you couldn't sel...

Starting a business is often said to be the biggest risk a person can take.  We fear this failure more because we have to fight so hard to start. We have to convince our family, our friends, but most importantly, ourselves that we can be successful. And once we start, there are new risks at every corner.  But there's something that I have realised in my twelve years of running several businesses -...

Every entrepreneur faces stagnation at some point.  They watch their peers and competitors soaring in their own businesses and can't figure out why they are the ones stuck. A recent breakthrough with a client made me realise that this stagnation can come at any stage for a business owner - whether you're just starting out or have several years under your belt. You know that you want to change thin...

How does a client go from finding you on social media to signing up for your stellar offer or service? Do you know the exact path they take from the beginning to the end and what obstacles might derail them completely on route? Entrepreneurs often focus entirely on building their social presence, and forget to think about the next steps in guiding new clients to a sale. This can lose you sales and...

Women are realising that they've been lied to. It's a lie that society has fed us every day of our lives. It tells us that as women age, they are no longer worth paying attention to. And then we enter our 40s or 50s and suddenly face the onset of the 'dreaded' menopause. Our body and mind changes in ways we don't understand - because no one talks about it. This is where Polly Warren found herself...

For many, wellness is their second (third or fourth) career.  Born from a feeling that somewhere out there was a better fit for our experience and skills than what we were doing before. But many find their passion and curiosity isn't enough when it comes to turning their wellness tools into a business. We worry about the financial consequences of leaving our jobs. We worry about what our friends a...

The idea of creating free content to establish yourself as an authority in your field and get found by potential clients, is nothing new. But when you're spending hours each week, pushing out value through your blog, podcast or social media, an anxious question might pop up in your mind. How do you know when you're giving away too much for free? At what point have you created so much free content...

Is there anything more satisfying than helping your clients feel seen? Truly understood for who they are? As wellness entrepreneurs, we are often very open about our own struggles because we know how valuable it can be to our clients.  Hearing about how someone else identified patterns in their own life and connected it to a core issue they hadn't addressed before can be life changing to us.  When...

A launch is a massive event in a business owner's calendar.  It seems to take over every part of their life. And it's very hard to keep a clear vision through this time. So, most entrepreneurs end up struggling to see the full picture and correctly measure the success of their launch.  To help you avoid this confusion, I had previously set down my 7 Steps to a post-launch debrief that clears the f...

A lot of advice around growing your wellness business sounds great but seems to have very little practical value.   Like, goal setting.  You assume that its purpose is to motivate you to build your dream business and achieve your target income over a year. But what happens when you fail to meet your goals in the very first quarter? Doesn't it do the exact opposite of motivating you? So, does that...

Can you write persuasive sales copy without being pushy or manipulative?  Is it possible for wellness entrepreneurs to create their own sales page without spending a fortune in marketing from the very beginning? The answer to both is a resounding yes, and to back up my claims, I have a special guest on today's episode who has created the ultimate sales copy formula that will help you sell your off...

Don't let your work become the world's best kept secret!  The biggest obstacle to landing a sale for most wellness entrepreneurs is talking about their offer.  You see, your clients can't buy from you if they don't know what you are selling.  Sounds obvious, right?  Yet the moment you think about posting about your service on social media or talking to a potential client about your work, a part of...

You're working hard on your business every day but don't see the sales to match. What's going wrong? I believe great sales are the result of long term strategies that are implemented simply but consistently over time.  Last November was my best month in sales. Yet it was also the month when I had taken weeks off to heal after a surgery. Like the self-confessed nerd that I am, this got me figuring...