Into the Woods with Holly Worton

Business Beliefs: The Power of Mindset

I originally met today's guest at one of Corrina Gordon-Barnes' You Inspire Me Community meetups. We sat next to each other, and as we chatted over lunch, I realized I loved the concept of her business and wanted to have her on the show. Decluttering is very important to me, and while I don't do it as often as I like, I do have a fairly minimalist life, considering that I move home on a regular basis.

Right now, we've been in this home for almost three years, which is a record for me! Moving home frequently, and moving countries on a regular basis, means that I have to keep things to a minimum. Even so, I often have to let go of most of my belongings when I move to another country.

Julieanne is very passionate about decluttering, which I find very exciting! Can't wait for you to listen to this video. I hope it inspires you to take action.

Julieanne Steel helps people to unclutter their lives. She is a Minimiser – her aim is to teach you to minimise your possessions. She is also a personal organiser, and uses simple methods to remove the visual chaos and create new re-designed living spaces and storage solutions. Julieanne is a mentor, and she supports you to create habits that reduce your consumption and limit your commitments.

• Julieanne's top tips for how to declutter your home
• How she turned post divorce debt into a business
• How losing things can make your life better
• How you can know when it's time to get help with decluttering
• Julieanne's easy three-step system to decluttering

• Corrina Gordon-Barnes
• Linda Anderson
• Gretchen Rubin

• ABDO
• Julieanne's YouTube video
• Leo Babauta's Zen Habits

• Website
• Twitter
• Facebook

[SHP 52] How to Declutter Your Life So You Can Free Your Mind, with Julieanne Steel http://wp.me/p3QOiq-IB #podcast

Today's Guest

I'm excited to introduce today's guest, Kelly Covert. We met recently in Elsie Escobar's E-League, and I got to know Kelly's work. I absolutely love what she does, and I wanted to get her on the show to talk about how to create a deeper connection online.

Kelly Covert is an inner voice coach with a passion for helping women lay down their lifelong habits of perfectionism and chronic overachieving, so they can listen to their inner voice and love themselves fully every single day.

Through her coaching, online programs, writing and speaking, she is creating a movement of women that are practicing worthy now instead of worthy if or when. She is the creator and host of the In Her Voice podcast. Her work has been featured on The Huffington Post, The Elephant Journal, YourTango.com, and she has been a featured guest on many podcasts.

Kelly is also a professional flutist with Symphoria, a wife and the mother of 2 big boys and 1 baby girl beagle named Piper.

You can learn more and connect with Kelly at www.kellycovert.com.

• The daily practice Kelly uses to stay connected to her inner voice
• How connecting to your inner voice can help your business
• How to create meaningful content that gets you noticed
• What to do when you don't know what to say, or you feel like you don't have anything to talk about
• How to know if something's right to post online

• Kelly's In Her Voice podcast
• Kelly's Free 5 Day Journaling Program

• Website
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Private Facebook Group

• Click here to subscribe via iTunes
• Click here to subscribe via RSS
• Click here to subscribe via Stitcher

If you enjoyed this episode, please head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating and a review! You can also subscribe, so you'll never miss an episode.

Every once in a while, I ask the women in my Business Mindset Alchemists private Facebook group what they'd like me to talk about on this show, and the topic of woo came up: how to get over your fear of sharing your woo. This is something I've personally struggled with, and I know it's something other people struggle with.

I'm going to be honest here: I'm still not 100% open about my woo, and I would really like to be. I think I'm still taking baby steps to get there. If you've been following me for any amount of time, you've probably been seeing it come out little by little.

I knew this wasn't a topic that I considered myself to be an expert on, so I contacted four online business friends I considered to be experts on the topic, and asked them about their experiences. I asked them for their top tips on how people can get over their fear of sharing their woo, so people can be 100% authentic and aligned and open online...if that's what they want. And so I got together this small group of four “woo experts,” people whom I consider to be open about their woo, to record mini interviews on the topic.

This extended episode took a couple of months to pull together, and I'm super excited that it's ready for your ears.

Let's talk about “woo.” It's a heavy word, and as you'll hear in the episode, some of the experts don't like the word at all. Joanna Hennon even said she hated it. It's not surprising why: while I like the word, because I love woo stuff, and I see it as the secret sauce to many of the women I love working with, the official definitions are pretty derogatory. Let's take a look:

Woo-woo. adjective \ˈwü-ˌwü\ dubiously or outlandishly mystical, supernatural, or unscientific. Merriam-Webster.com.

Woo-woo. adjective/ˈwuːˌwuː (derogatory, slang) based on or involving irrational superstition. Dictionary.com

Yeah. So, not very positive. It's easy to see why so many people feel uncomfortable with sharing their woo side. And yet, as Lisa Wechtenhiser says on the show, “Everybody has it to one degree or another.” And it's true. It's just a matter of how you integrate that into your life and business.

And so, without further ado...I'm super excited to introduce today's guests...that's right, guests! I've got four “woo experts” on the show today, for this extended episode.

• Cara Wilde of Soul Inc., who helps people who are called to co-create a Heaven on Earth. She helps people to channel their guide, to achieve their Souls Goals in this lifetime, and to live their most joy-fueled life. She was previously a guest on episodes 13 and 116.
• Lisa Wechtenhiser is a channel for Guides and Teachers in Spirit. She calls herself the Trust Whisperer, because she helps people to develop unwavering trust in themselves. She was previously a guest on episode 88.
• Rebecca Kane guides women on their SHEro's Journey by providing clarity, community, and support to women who want to explore who they are at a deep level. She was recently a guest on episode 191.
• Joanna Hennon is a channel who works with the Spirit Guides. She helps people to step into their greatness by accessing their Soul Wisdom and taking soul-inspired action. She was previously a guest on episodes 86, 158 and 178.

• Top tips from four experts on how you can be more open about your woo side
• How they overcame their fear of being judged for their woo
• How their businesses changed when they started to be more open about their woo
• Why some of the experts really don't like the word “woo”
• How to introduce your woo side to people
• How to know when to share and when not to
• Why being open can make your business more fun
• Why the world needs more stuff like this
• How to help others feel comfortable with the woo stuff
• How to own it as part of who you are...

I first discovered today's guest, Amanda Berlin, when she reached out to me via email. I immediately checked her out, and discovered that I loved her story and what she does, and I couldn't wait to have her on the show. As Amanda says, "Narrative is what consumers connect with. They are literally buying your story." And that's why it's so important to create content that connects!

Amanda Berlin is totally committed to helping you tell your story, get your message out there, and connect with the people who need you. After more than a decade writing pitches for companies like Disney and Dove, Brawny and Baskin Robbins, Colgate and Campbell’s, Amanda now uses her powers for good, helping entrepreneurs position themselves as experts and create compelling stories that sell their services.

She is a communications specialist and content strategist who works with coaches and mindful entrepreneurs to help them find their voice, create systems for writing great content, and connect with their target audience in a completely authentic and stress-free way.

Visit her website for regular tips on creating content that connects. Sign up to receive her step-by-step guide for writing your website’s ABOUT page. It includes six key writing prompts to get you brainstorming the essential elements of your ABOUT page, guidance on best practices in copywriting, a final grab-and-go About Page Composition Worksheet that will help you put your brainstorms in order, and more.

Amanda also invites you to be a part of her new course in copywriting, Create Content that Connects: The Six-Week Roadmap to Consistently Streamline Authentic Signature Content...that will help you get your name out there and get clients. Master the story of “you” so you can talk about yourself and what you do to maximum impact — online and off.

• Why your past is the essential factor to distinguish yourself
• How to mine your personal story and spin your experience (and what the heck does that mean)
• Why clear is better than clever
• How to show your reader that you know them
• Amanda's top tips for creating content that connects

• Marie Forleo
• Stacey Harris
• Gabrielle Bernstein
• Anna Goldstein
• Nikki Elledge Brown
• Laura Yamin
• Jill Palmer

• Website
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Pinterest

• Write Your About Page, Answer the World's Most Common Question: "What do you do?"
• Clear Mental Clutter
• Content-Writing Course: Create Content That Connects

[SHP 70] How to Create Content That Connects, with Amanda Berlin http://wp.me/p3QOiq-OM #podcast