Just Start Now

Season 6 is coming! The new season of the Just Start Now podcast will land in your podcast app on Monday 2nd May 2022.

This season will be dedicated to taking apart and going deeper into the Just Start Now book I released earlier this year. To get the most from the season (and to be in with the chance of winning some prizes!) I recommend you grab a copy of the book and read along with us.

You can purchase your copy here: https://vickyshilling.com/book

Also a reminder: my How To Market Your Wellness Business Without Social Media course starts next week too, doors close this Friday 29th April.

If you want to get more clients and work in your business in a way that isn't reliant on pumping out contnet and going live every day, this is the course for you.

Sign up here: https://vickyshilling.com/marketing-without-socials-mini-course

This season will be dedicated to taking apart and going deeper into the Just Start Now book I released earlier this year. To get the most from the season (and to be in with the chance of winning some prizes!) I recommend you grab a copy of the book and read along with us.

You can purchase your copy here: https://vickyshilling.com/book

Today I’m talking to meditation teacher Laura Farrington, who runs an online meditation studio and is the co-founder of Umbrella Wellness, which provides wellness activities for corporate businesses.

We discuss how meditation can help us to be better business owners by shifting our mindset. A topic I discuss in the opening chapter of my book.

Some of the things we talked about when it comes to changing your mindset through meditation:

• What meditation actually is - Laura busts some myths around what people think it is or ‘should’ be.
• How meditation can help you on a personal level as well as in your business.
• How using box breathing for just 5 minutes per day can help you to get started.
• Using affirmations to help shift from a negative to a more positive mindset - I also talk about this in the book!

For episode show notes, resources and links, head to: https://vickyshilling.com/juststartnow-podcast

I'm dropping into your ear-holes to let you know about two in person events I'm hosting to celebrate the arrival of the Just Start Now book. 

Join me in Dublin on Saturday 11th June to raise a glass, eat some delicious vegan nibbles and chat with me and wellness practitioners about the book, business and more. Get your ticket here. 

Join me in London on Tuesday 14th June for a private podcast recording. We'll have drinks and nibbles and do a Q&A that will be recorded for the final episode of the season. Get your ticket here. 

To check out all the live events I'm hosting in the next few months visit my website: https://vickyshilling.com/events

In this episode I talk about four ways to achieve more stable income as a wellness practitioner:

The need to create products that answer people’s problems.

Find a way that you love to consistently market yourself.

Diversify your income streams so you’re not reliant on one thing.

Believe that stable income is possible.

I help you with practical tips and the mindset tweaks needed to do all of these things.

Love this podcast? Want to go deeper? Join the Just Start Now course and community for wellness business owners. Any questions about this episode or the Just Start Now community drop me an email ([email protected]), send me a DM on Instagram or book in a chat here.

Today I'm interviewing Toral Shah, scientist, writer and chef, the name behind The Urban Kitchen and co-founder of What The Health events.

In this episode we cover some great topics related to diversity and how we can all do our bit to ensure the right people hear the health messages they need including:

• Basing health and wellbeing on how people look, and the dangers this has to our message as wellness experts.
• Increasing diversity in our messages so we help our audience see people more like themselves and therefore they listen more carefully to our health messages.
• The fact that we all have prejudices, regardless of our own race, religion or ethnicity.
• How we can all stand up and support other minorities - even if we feel we don’t identify with that community ourselves.
• Finding commonality in our messages, rather than division - celebrating our differences rather than using them to divide, polarise and argue.
• Getting more diversity at health events and panels so we don’t just keep hearing the same things over and over from the same people.
• Apathy in small things like social media, right through to larger issues like the environment and politics. How we can lift ourselves out of apathy and question things more.
• Listening and learning different perspectives, not just living in an echo chamber that reinforces our own views.

For episode show notes, resources and links, head to https://vickyshilling.com/juststartnow-podcast