The Wellpreneur Podcast

Today's episode is the first in a three-part series on working with a virtual assistant! This is a hot topic for wellpreneurs, and it's frequently brought up in comments, emails, and Facebook discussions – people need help with their businesses, but where to start?Making the leap to hire outside help can be a big one, so I'll be challenging you to just dip your toe in the water by outsourcing one small project. This little experiment will also open up possibilities in your mind as to what you can do with your business at a very low cost.The first step is deciding whether you need a VA and identifying a list of tasks a VA can help out with. You might be surprised by how many tasks you can get off your plate, freeing you up to focus on what really love!What you'll learn in this episode:Surprising ways a VA can help you and your businessWhy hiring a VA can help you shift your mindset to effective business owner/CEOHow to brainstorm a list of tasks you can delegateHow to start small and gradually

Join us this week for a guided EFT Tapping session to eliminate a hidden fear of success. EFT Tapping is the "Emotional Freedom Technique", and it's a powerful practice to shift stuck energy and move through blocks. It's an effective tool for entrepreneurs to use regularly to improve their mindset! This week's interview is with Claire Hayes, an EFT practitioner and author. I've been working with Claire for a few months doing EFT and I've found this technique to be very powerful, so I wanted to share with all of you how EFT can also help you improve your entrepreneurial success mindset.EFT works with acupressure points in the body and it can be used to tackle deep-seated issues you may have around money, success, or putting yourself out there. Many times we are sabotaging our own success, and tapping can help uncover those issues and shift us out of those patterns so we can achieve what we really want in our businesses.During today's episode, Claire will be guiding me through an

Is writing a book on your business dream list? It is for many of us! Writing a book for your wellness business is an excellent tool for gaining credibility and opening new doors to speaking opportunities and media coverage. It's a huge task though, and the work doesn't stop once it's down on paper. So how do we get our book published in a professional manner, how do we market the book, and how do we budget our time and energy to get it all done?Today's guest is Ronnie Nijmeh, an expert in self-publishing and marketing books, and the CEO of Coachzing.com. He'll tell us how to get our book written even if we're not great at writing or we've gotten stuck, and once we've finished writing, how to get it out in front of the right people so that we can use it to as a credibility tool in our wellness businesses.What you'll learn in this episode:Tricks to gain visibility for your book on amazonHow to divide your energy between writing your book and marketing itHow to get your book o

So many business growth strategies involve speaking, networking, and putting yourself out there, which can be intimidating and draining for an introvert. Do we need to adjust our strategy if we are introverted?Today's guest, Tanja Gardner, specializes in helping heart-based, conscious entrepreneurs who are also introverted. As an introvert herself, she has lots of information on how to manage energy and tweak your strategy so that sharing the message about your business feels easier, more natural, and true to your personality.If you've noticed yourself feeling easily drained by people or clients, or if you tend to feel uncomfortable about marketing, this interview will give you some great tips for adjusting your perspective and your working style.What you'll learn in this episode:Are you an introvert? (You might be surprised!) – and how to make the most of your strengthsWhich challenges an introverted entrepreneur facesHow to learn to manage your energy more effectively as a business ownerHow to t

Do your ideal customers and clients love Instagram? Instagram is an awesome platform for health and wellness businesses - but what's the best way to use it to build your audience and get clients? Get a pen and paper ready – this episode is packed with tips!Instagram Tips for Wellness EntrepreneursSue B. Zimmerman is The Instagram Expert. She discovered the power of Instagram after she used it to promote her own store, bringing her a 40% increase in sales. She's attracted a $50,000 client from her hashtag strategy, and another client who's made $250,000 herself, from Instagram alone!Instagram is the fastest growing social platform right now, so if you're curious or if you love using Instagram already, this episode will tell you how to get started with using Instagram for your business. We'll delve into everything you need to know - hashtag strategies, managing multiple accounts, creating engagement, and more.What you'll learn in this episode:Why you might want more than one Instagram ac

If you're a wellness entrepreneur with multiple passions - you're going to love this interview! It can be hard to know if you should focus on one thing, or if you can combine your many interests into a business. This week's guest did just that. Today's episode will be great for many of us who have are starting our businesses and have so many interests and feel drawn to go in multiple directions at once! Our guest shares her story of how she turned her passion for yoga into a diverse, multi-faceted company.Kimberly Wilson did a complete career flip, working as a paralegal before opening her first yoga studio, Tranquil Space, in Washington DC. After 15 years, the business has grown to include two studios, a clothing line, a charity, online courses, a blog and podcast, and retreats around the world.She'll share her advice for where to start and how to branch out, and practical tips on how to start in the many different directions that reflect all of your interests.What you'll learn in thi

"How can I find clients for my health coaching business?" is one of the most common questions we get here at Wellpreneur. And it's not only health and wellness coaches. If you're starting a wellness business, you don't really have a business until you have paying clients (you just have an expensive hobby!) So today's episode digs into this issue - giving strategies and ideas to help you start finding clients for your new business this week. Corrina Gordon-Barnes is a business coach who helps entrepreneurs find happy, profitable self-employment. She has a lot of experience with people who are just getting started to develop their presence online and find clients, and this is what we're discussing today.If you're wondering why people aren't looking at your website, you'll definitely find this episode helpful. She'll explain to us the reasons you don't have clients (it's not necessarily your fault!) and the process of turning strangers into paying clients.What

When you're starting a health coaching practice, it's easy to fall into the trap of simply copying other coaches. But instead of just creating what you think a health coaching business 'should' look like - what if you were able to create a business that truly aligned with YOU? Today's guest has a really powerful message about fearlessness, following your gut, and taking those leaps of faith to create the kind of business you really want.Julie Santiago left Wall Street two years ago to start her health coaching business, and earned nearly 6 figures in her first year! Despite the immense success, she felt something still wasn't right and she was burning out. She decided to start over and rebrand herself, working on a much more sustainable and authentic level.Julie shares her journey – the success, the lessons learned – and how we can bring our unique strengths into our businesses to create a more authentic business.What you'll learn in this episode:What to do if your current wellness

Have you ever felt uncomfortable with something that you're selling in your business? Or have you ever felt overwhelmed with the things you “should” be doing in your business? Today's interview is about getting more aligned with what you really want to be doing and bringing more authenticity into your business.Our guest today is Heather Day, a coach and yoga teacher who lives in Costa Rica. She teaches her clients to get in touch with their hearts and inner wisdom, and today she'll be telling us how that applies to running our businesses.So if you're feeling like you're having a hard time differentiating yourself because you're doing the same thing as every other coach out there, or if you're starting to feel unhappy with the direction your business is going in, then this interview is for you.What you'll learn in this episode:What to do when the structure of your business is bringing you a lot of struggle and stressHow to hear your heart calling, telling you how to run your bus

What's your vision for your wellness business? Sometimes we keep ourselves small by only envisioning a little bit more than where we already are. But what might change if you had a Big Audacious Vision for your business? This week's episode is all about thinking big and creating something in your business that is larger than what you initially imagined.Creating a Big Vision for your Wellness BusinessJana Schuberth is a coach who created the Alive in Berlin conference, which ran for the first time in 2014. She began with one-on-one coaching before she had a vision for creating a community of like-minded world changers in Europe, which didn't exist.Jana will describe how the idea for the conference came to her, how it developed over time, and how she overcame fears associated with being responsible for such a large event.If you've ever had a small glimpse of an idea about creating something big but you're not sure how to go about it, this interview will be really helpful for you.What you'

Today's guest, Tom Asacker, is an author, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur. I met Tom earlier this summer and we had an interesting conversation about his new book The Business of Belief. If you're familiar with coaching, you'll recognize many of these concepts - especially how people's decisions and actions are motivated by their underlying beliefs.While Tom is not actually in the wellness industry, his message of understanding belief is relevant for us as coaches, marketers, and entrepreneurs. In this episode, we talk about how understanding our audience's desires and beliefs is the key to bringing them on as customers/clients, motivating them, and ultimately motivating ourselves.What you'll learn in this episode:How to use belief to motivate yourself as an entrepreneur, and motivate othersHow you can use what you learned as a coach for marketing your products and servicesHow to inspire your customers/potential clients to want to work with youWhy trying to sell to as many people as

Do you have a corporate job, while you're starting your health coaching or wellness business on the side? It's easy to get stuck into "counting down the days" until you can go full time in your own wellness business. But instead of wasting those precious days at work - what about using your corporate job to help grow your new business? This week's guest shows us how he managed to combine his health coaching business with his day job, to great benefit.Start Your Health Coaching Business with a Day JobLawrence Mitchell is a health coach and full-time marketing executive, and he loves his corporate job. Lawrence was quietly building his business, Raw Energy, on the side until he found a way to merge and leverage these two parts of his experience. Now Lawrence runs corporate wellness programs within his day job, in addition to working with private clients and growing his own online wellness business.In this interview, Lawrence shares how he built his wellness business, how he's able to man

You know social media is a great way to grow your wellness business and find clients - but how can you use it effectively, without spending all day online?! That's one of the most common questions we get here at Wellpreneur, so I've invited Holly Worton, the founder of Socially Holistic, to join me this week to talk about simplifying your social media strategy.We're discussing social media tips and strategies for health and wellness coaches, yoga teachers, personal trainers, nutritionists and other holistic therapists. If you're just starting your wellness business, you're likely doing everything yourself - so there's no way you can be everywhere online - instead, you need to focus. We'll talk about that today.Holly's business is Socially Holistic, where she works with heart-centered entrepreneurs on building an authentic business. She specializes in social media, so she's a great guest to give us the scoop on how to keep social media from becoming overwhelming.The discussi

Naturopath Caroline Cain is “The Freedom Seeker's Business Mentor” and in today's interview she'll not only tell us how she found her own freedom, but some great tips on how you can find it for yourself.Caroline is a trained naturopath, a business coach, a mother, and she's managed to make her business entirely location independent. In the beginning of her career, like many of us, she fell into the trap of evenings and weekends before learning to set boundaries. Today she'll explain how she successfully manages her time, allowing her to spend ample time with her family and cut her work week down to just 25 hours.What you'll learn in this episode:how she created her very unique, location-independent businesshow she chunks her time and schedules her daytips on setting priorities for your businesshow to set boundaries so that your business doesn't take over your lifewhy you need a mentor/coachhow she balances entrepreneurship and motherhoodThis episode originally aired on The Wellpren

This week's episode is a little different and was inspired by one of my coaching sessions and my recent three-week digital sabbatical. I'll be talking to you about my own business this time: running two sites, managing my time efficiently, and how I manage to keep my sanity!I'm going to share how I run my own businesses, which includes two websites with newsletters, a podcast, social media, courses, client sessions, speaking engagements, and so on. I'll give you an overview of how I schedule my time out to maximize my productivity and keep from getting overwhelmed. And of course, I'll offer lots of tips and recommendations that you can try in your own business too!What you'll learn in this episode:What a digital sabbatical is and why you should take oneGrouping tasks to increase productivity and eliminate procrastinationEfficient social media practicesHow to make time for self-care and creativityWhy it's essential to have enough "CEO Time" in your businessThis episode origi

Erica Mather is our first yoga teacher on the show! Although teaching yoga is traditionally thought an in-person service, Erica was able to translated her skill into several remotely offered services.After teaching for several years, Erica decided she wanted more freedom and flexibility in her career, and started with a series of yoga videos before discovering that group teleclasses, an online course and even business classes for other yoga teachers were much more popular with her customers.Erica and I talk about how creative thinking can help even "in person" businesses expand into online. Erica shares how she was able to use her skills to create unique online services. She'll also go into thinking strategically about who your customer is, and how to give them what they really want.What you'll learn in this episode:What she learned from her first online ventureUnexpected difficulties in coming up with online servicesHow to find your ideal client, and create a program specifically for themCrea

Julie Gray is a holistic time coach who is here to help us optimize our time and energy. She's going to share with her best tips on making the most of our time and managing our email!In today's discussion, Julie explains why time management doesn't have to feel restrictive, and how intuition and a holistic approach can help us avoid getting overwhelmed with everything we have to do in our business. She'll also help us with some specific strategies that will keep emails from taking over our lives.We'll also talk a lot about procrastination, tuning into your body, and finding the right blend of work-life balance for your lifestyle.What you'll learn in this episode:What holistic time management really meansHow to manage your time without feeling restrictedHow to keep from drowning in emailHow to use your time more intentionallyWhat Julie really thinks about “work-life balance”How to look at procrastination differentlyHow to tap into your intuition to help manage your time betterThis episo

On the show today I'm talking with herbalist Melanie St. Ours from Psyche and Soma. Melanie is very forward-thinking and innovative in taking her herbal medicine practice online to reach a larger audience - worldwide. It's easy to see how we can do coaching online - but what about practitioners who have a more 'in person' type practice? How can they move their practice more online? Melanie shows us how.Melanie has found that her patients get even better results with her new method than from her traditional face-to-face sessions. Her unique business approach includes skype sessions, using online tools, and packaging her services differently. Melanie also runs an online women's health group program, and has a podcast to educate people on herbal medicine.Melanie will share what's worked for her herbal business, why she took her practice online, and how she gained confidence in her new method.What you'll learn in this episode:How Melanie gets great—if not better—results from her online

This week's guest is Janey Lee Grace, the “Queen of Holistic Living.” She's well-known radio and TV personality in the UK, who has also become an advocate for natural beauty.With her expertise in media and understanding of the holistic market, Janey works with health and wellness entrepreneurs on media training and how to communicate and prepare for interviews.Janey has seen so many guests with a great message come on her show, but without the proper preparation for the interview the message gets lost or the interview is dropped. Her mission is to help people learn the necessary communication skills so the world is able to benefit from the information they share.What you'll learn in this episode:What led to Janey's passion for holistic livingCommon mistakes she sees entrepreneurs makeWhy “if you build it they will come” thinking can fall shortThat it's your duty to spread your knowledge to the world, so you must learn the necessary skillsWhy preparation is key for interviews, and how to do

On today's episode we have KC Baker, whose mission is to help unleash to power of women's voices. Through teaching women how to overcome their fears and limitations and communicate effectively, they can get their message out and see their business thrive.So many of us hold ourselves and our businesses back by succumbing to fears of public speaking, or even self-doubt about the message we're trying to share with the world. So today KC is sharing some tips on getting really clear on our message and connecting to our purpose because as we all know, good communication can make all the difference in making an impression on people and even making a sale.What you'll learn in this episode:How to become a more powerful, inspiring public speakerThe importance of overcoming your internal blocks, fears, and putting your message out thereTips from KC on how she built her business onlineThat business success requires more than brilliant, great content plus passionWhy “crafting your message” is an art, and c