🥂 You're Invited! Business Bestie Brunch

+ Pop-up Q4 Mastermind with Sarah Young, author of Expansive Impact

Aug 11, 2023

Hi Friends,

I'm super excited to pilot a "what would we invent if anything were possible" experience this quarter—and you're invited!

Join me and business bestie Sarah Young, founder of Zing Collaborative and author of Expansive Impact, on Sunday, October 22 for a three-hour VIP brunch and brainstorming extravaganza, followed by a decadent buffet at DUMBO house, with inspiring views of the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan.

This is much more than a brunch. As fans of what restauranteur Will Guidara calls Unreasonable Hospitality, we just couldn’t resist throwing in all kinds of bells and whistles.

This VIP day is supported by a three-month-long program designed to surprise and delight you. Together with a small, curated group of Heart-Based Business owners, you’ll get a mix of 1:1 coaching and group calls to close 2023 strong, set a clear vision and strategy for 2024, and implement the most joyful, abundant next steps for you and your business.

📆 Early Bird Enrollment (and special pricing) ends September 1, and the final deadline to enroll is September 15.

If you’re interested in joining, learn more and apply here »

🪄 Here’s to building business blissfully! 🎉

🎙 ICYMI: 🍩 What Do Donuts, Coffee, Conversation, and Energy Cliffs Have in Common?

What’s it like to be at a conference with “fancy” people, when you’re the one feeling like you snuck in a side door as a seat filler? In an experimental episode that quickly became a listener favorite (much to my surprise!), I take you behind the scenes of the TED conference in Vancouver, building on Pivot episode 325: 10+ Conference Networking Strategies with Alisa Cohn.

In full-on morning voice with a travel mic, I do a daily check-in about what I was nervous about, spontaneous serendipitous invites, fan-girling my favorite authors and podcasters, falling off the energy cliff, what gave me FOMO and JOMO, and my daily quest for coffee. Always. Find. The. Coffee. Listen to episode 196 here »

Now onto this week's goodies . . .

💌 This Week's Roundup

🎉 Featured

I low-key launched a secret paid Substack on my twelve-year biziversary in July, building courage by sharing only with my private community at first (BFFs get full access), and a small handful of friends.

I also planted a few small seeds in the middle of Free Time podcast episodes...until today, when my friend Jonathan released a conversation taking listeners behind-the-scenes on The Confidence Trap: Why You DON'T Need It To Do Big Things.

⚙️ Tips & Tools

Has anyone tried SwagUp? It looks interesting: they allow you to create custom swag boxes for customers, and they handle all storage and drop-shipping. Then again, I always have John Ruhlin’s words ringing in the back of my mind that swag is not a gift, since it’s about marketing you and your business, not them (your clients and community).

+ Join us in BFF to get my recent bonus episode on reflections after my first month on Substack (I highly recommend reading whatever 'stacks your subscribed to in their app—so much better than chaotic, guilt-inducing email inboxes!). In short: I haven't been this head-over-heels for software since I encountered Notion in 2020, which transformed my entire life and business!

You can subscribe to this Time Well Spent newsletter in Substack too—for now, I’m publishing in two places (1,000 things will break if/when I move entirely off of Kajabi).

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💬 Quote

“The answer to every problem is present within the problem. To justify the problem, to announce it as real, is to reclaim it.

To realize the problem is the illusion of the small self claiming itself in form gives you the immediate opportunity to re-see or re-know or realize the thing you call a problem as an opportunity to develop, to know anew.”

—Paul Selig (channeled) in Beyond the Known

💭 Question

What “problem” is arising in your business at the moment?
Take a page out of book proposal best practices and consider: Why this problem? Why now? Why for you?

+ Pair this with the inquiry I share in Free Time, from the same book: Where in your business are you ordering off of yesterday’s menu, missing today’s specials?

📝 Permission

Not to eat the day-old bread in your business (h/t Anthony Bourdain). What has gone stale? What can you leave behind?

🎙 Podcasting — Recent Episodes

Free Time:

Pivot:

Thank you all for being here reading and listening — it means the world to me!

❤️ With Gratitude,

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