Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast

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We all know being on social media has its ups and downs. While it’s a great place to have a brand new business or idea get found, it’s also hard on our mental health and can constantly feel like you’re stuck in this never-ending hamster wheel of content creation.

This week, we’re sharing our thoughts on how we’re viewing social media as it relates to our businesses moving forward. We also talk about our personal social media profiles (really just IG) and if we think we’ll come back to those either

We want to make sure to note, if you LOVE using social media then by all means keep using it! But, like everything else in life and business, if you aren’t enjoying using social media right now, ask yourself our age-old question: “what is it all for?”

✈️ Our pramvel this week starts with a beach story from Nazaré and the first moment we realized living in Portugal could be a real option. Then, once we switched our plans to stay in the Silver Coast for another week, we had to book a last-minute hotel, but we found a great spot with a fun surprise!

🏨 Check out the Well Hotel & Spa we stayed at: https://goo.gl/maps/x7yheVeHXfyAMtTu7

😍 Check out the unique Areias do Seixo Hotel: https://goo.gl/maps/VSso2KDXqohahG5t5

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We have 11 questions we grabbed from the game OpenUp! These weren’t pre-selected and we simply picked them at random while recording to make it fun and authentic.

Have fun asking these questions with your friends, family, partner, or just answering them on your own:

1. If you had a hairy spot on your body that you could NEVER shave and that would grow forever, where should that spot be?
2. Do you feel that life has been generally fair or unfair to you?
3. Do you eat food that’s past the ‘best by’ date? Explain.
4. Have you ever told a friend you were interested in more than friendship, and gotten turned down?
5. How well do you think you could keep an important secret if you were subjected to torture?
6. What’s the largest age gap you would consider when choosing someone to date/marry?
7. Would you go commando for one year for $10,000? Why or why not?
8. What is the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
9. Would you be willing to flash a stranger? (*At FlashCon, a conference we made up for people who like flashing other people)
10. How long do you think you could survive in the wilderness without help or supplies?
11. If there were no electronics (TV, smartphones, i-anythings) what would you do for fun?

👩🏻‍🦰🌍👨🏻‍🦲 WAW Countdown: 50 days!

🍿 Movies discussed: Red Notice and Love Hard

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The next few weeks of our podcast will shift from business and focus more on life, silliness, and just all-around fun (we hope!) as we partake in our summer sabbatical.

In this episode, we answered 10 thought-provoking questions and they range from deep and meaningful to utterly ridiculous. A great metaphor for the two of us as human beings, don’t you think??

Here are the 10 questions if you want to answer them yourself, with your spouse, or with a friend:

1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
2. What do you wish you’d spent more time doing five years ago?
3. Who do you sometimes compare yourself to?
4. How have bodily functions evolved in your relationship?
5. If you could instill one piece of advice in a newborn baby’s mind, what advice would you give?
6. What are the 3 most defining moments in your life thus far?
7. Would you rather own a dragon or be a dragon?
8. What small act of kindness were you once shown that you will never forget?
9. If you had to do anything as a job other than what you do right now, what would you do?
10. What’s the best part of growing older?

Movies: Skyfire (great disaster flick!) and Inside (Bo Burnham’s new Netflix special)

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Bring on the 5-week content EXTRAVAGANZAAAA! We are getting back in the content creation saddle for the first time in almost 3 years. We’ve only been creating “nurture” content for the entirety of our WAIM business and that’s about to change!

This week, we’re kicking off a big content creation project for both WAIM and Teachery. Now, Teachery is a bit easier because it’s has NEVER had content created for it (not a single article, social post, etc). But, before we just start creating content willy-nilly, we wanted to come up with a framework to make sure we’re creating the right content for the right purpose. Is our content just nurturing an existing audience? Or is our content discoverable and helping us grow our audience?

Enter our... Content Salad MATRIX. We cover the two different formats of content (Long and Short) and the two different types of content (Find and Nurture). From there, we share our plan for the next 5 weeks and what type of content goes where.

We’ll fully acknowledge there is a lot to unpack in this episode and that we are embarking on a big content project, but hey, wouldn’t it be boring if we didn’t swing for the fences a bit??

Hope you enjoy it!

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We open enrollment for our coaching program twice per year and have done so for the past four years. We love sharing the launch recaps to give you the good, the bad, and any lessons/takeaways that might help you with your next launch.

We don’t use paid ads, and we aren’t on social media, yet this enrollment period saw the highest amount of customers in our business history! How’d we do it? Listen to hear all about it!

[00:02:14] Do you listen to launch recap podcasts? Send em to us.

[00:03:18] Launch breakdown, goals, numbers, sales, MRR, affiliates, final thoughts.

[00:07:19] Time for an episode on lifetime pricing?

[00:11:23] Excitement and energy increased sales in spring.

[00:12:27] 10,538 email list size with 10-person increase, targeted launch for business owners transitioning to digital products.

[00:18:14] Jen Carrington's case study brought us success and gratitude.

[00:21:36] The total net revenue and our 90% survey response rate.

[00:28:40] No social media or paid ads. Email, website, affiliates only.

[00:32:27] Entrepreneur avoids pressure and starts teaching baking.

[00:34:50] Calm business confidential!

[00:38:27] US podcast episode? Differences, portions, candy excitement.

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🔗 Calm Business Confidential:

👩🏻‍🦰 Carol’s pick: Chef Amanda Schonberg of Chef Schonberg Sweets | @bakingforbusiness (Professional Baker and Course Creator)

If you have a calm business you think we should talk about, send us an email and share it!

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