Coaching Episode - Talking About Your Why Without Looking Like You've Jumped On The Bandwagon with Rosie Harriott

07/03/20 • 50 min

Today is a coaching episode with Rosie Harriott, a textile designer who has worked across fashion and homewares both in-house and as a freelancer, and who is now shifting from being freelance to a business. Rosie has also had a personal journey of wellness and awakening over the last few years which is the reason for the business shift - but she’s worried about how to communicate this in her content without looking like she’s jumped on the bandwagon. In this episode we talk about starting to talk about your business across your channels, maintaining community when you start talking about what you do, making sure your why reads as authentic and approaching a personal tone of voice.

Here's what I talk about in this episode:

Background into Rosie
Changing the context of your work and business
Using social media to engage with your audience
Building excitement with a launch or reveal
Distilling your messaging with repetition
Knowing the difference between the truth and your truth

For links and resources discussed in the show, see the full show notes.

Kayte on Instagram

Here's what I talk about in this episode:

Background into Rosie
Changing the context of your work and business
Using social media to engage with your audience
Building excitement with a launch or reveal
Distilling your messaging with repetition
Knowing the difference between the truth and your truth

For links and resources discussed in the show, see the full show notes.

Kayte on Instagram

Previous Episode

Transitioning & Simplifying My Business Model

This month, on my blog and on Instagram, I’ve been sharing the experience of transitioning and simplifying my business model in response to my values and I how I want my business to support the life I want to live. I know that this is a perennial problem for many - the moment where you have out grown the old skin of your business but don’t know quite how to shed into and evolve into a new skin. It is a natural part of business, of life, but it is also one that is messy and feels, at times, insurmountable. I know that particularly this year many of you have been reflecting on how your business and life interact, so I felt that it was apt to share more of the step by step of my process here.

Here's what I talk about in this episode:

Reconnecting with my business values
Transitioning from 1:1 to 1:many
How lockdown allowed me to simplify my business
Pivoting my products to answer bigger problems for my audience
The importance of business models

For links and resources discussed in the show, see the full show notes.

Kayte on Instagram

Next Episode

Cultivating Self-Trust In Business

Today I want to talk about self-trust. I have jumped into some many decisions and ideas without it ever occurring to me to check whether I actually wanted to do them - and as a result I’ve felt stuck and sad that my business reality doesn’t live up to my business daydreams. Because it is supposed to feel better than this. The pressure, the worry, the actions taken out of panic or uncertainty, the tasks you dread are rooted in a lack of self-trust. I acknowledge here my privilege as a white woman that the colour of my skin, nor my sexual orientation nor a disability are something that unfairly holds me back. It is reductive of me to say that every single problem for every single person is founded in self-trust. Yet I do know that everything becomes harder when you aren’t on your own side, when you are another barrier for yourself to get over. It doesn’t have to be hard, and it can feel joyful. So, let’s talk about trust.

Here's what I talk about in this episode: