(upbeat music) - Hello and welcome to the Elemental Entrepreneurship Podcast. The elements are a metaphor, a simple organizational system to help us understand business and ourselves as business owners. And they are the components of nature, the roots of magic and the building blocks of life. We all have some aspects of life and business where we thrive and others that are more challenging. By looking at these things elementally, we remove shame and judgment and can discern which elements would help us bring ourselves into balance. Earth, root chakra, Capricorn, Taurus, Virgo. Earth rules the parts of business that keep us safe and secure as we do our soul work. Sustainability, finances, contracts, systems, our core values and clarity about exactly what our medicine is and how we fit into the ecosystem are governed by earth element. Air, heart and third eye chakra, Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. Air rules are big vision or ultimate picture of success. It's where we connect our medicine to a mission and decide what kind of impact we want to create during our time on this planet. Water, sacral chakra, cancer, Scorpio, Pisces. This is the realm of our emotions and business is emotional. How we feel about people, ourselves, visibility, uncertainty, how we handle stress and disappointment, all of this and more affects how you navigate your business. Water element is where we learn to resource ourselves and expand our capacity to hold the big feelings that come with doing our work in the world. Fire, solar plexus chakra, Aries, Leo, Sagittarius. Fire is where we take our gifts, our uniqueness and our creations and we blaze them out into the world. All things selling, marketing and the day-to-day actions of running our business are ruled by fire. Too much fire and we burn out. Not enough and our business never makes it off the ground. And spirit, crown chakra. Every good gardener knows the day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit. Spirit rules the faith required to keep tending your business long before you've seen a single sprout of evidence that it's growing. No matter what you believe in, spirit element is what you travel through after you leap and before you land. Life thrives when all of the elements are in balance. So do you and so will your business. To find out your dominant element, take our quiz at intuitiveedgecoaching.com/quiz. Now let's get into today's episode. (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) - Hello and welcome to the Elemental Entrepreneurship Podcast. I'm your host, Sarah. Thank you so much for being here with me today. If you are new to the show, welcome. So glad you found us. If you are returning, welcome back. Today's episode, I think it might be a little meandering, but you know, we're gonna land the plane together. We don't know where we're going, even. We just all found ourselves on a plane. It's like a sci-fi TV show. We all woke up, we're on a plane. We're on a plane. Don't know where we're going or how we're gonna get there. Maybe it won't land, you know? Lots of drama, lots of tension. Peak of tension moment. We're gonna get there though. It's gonna be great. Just hang out, we're gonna see where it all goes. (laughs) But it's gonna be a little meandering 'cause I feel like I haven't done an episode in a while and I feel like there's a lot to share. And so I want to tell you what I have coming up and what's going on. I wanna talk a little bit about why I haven't recorded as many episodes recently and I want to get into the thing I actually wanna say today. So this might be like a three-part episode is what's happening. So I will start with, yeah, I haven't recorded as many episodes recently. And I've just been trying to really reconnect to the podcast and what I'm doing here with this show. And also I've been in a big, long phase for a while now of really kind of reconnecting to and refiguring out what it is that I'm doing in my business. I've now been in this business for nine years and I love it and I'm so happy and I'm not going anywhere, but I've changed a lot. And starting a business comes with all kinds of unique sets of challenges. And once you've been growing and building a business for a long time, I think there's another unique set of challenges that come from like looking around and being like, okay, now I've created so many things and I have so much momentum and I've been heading in one direction for so long that really reevaluating and reimagining what you're doing is a very different challenge. The image that's coming to my mind right now, I always get very visual, metaphor pictures, but the image that's coming to my mind about it right now is like the difference between moving into a new house and when you've lived in a house for a handful of years, when you've lived, like when you're first moving in, you get to completely imagine the space. It's empty, it's bare bones. You can do anything with it. You can decorate it however you want. You can be really selective about what new things you're gonna bring into the home and what's not gonna come with you and everything gets to be intentionally built and designed and planned. And then you start living in it and you acquire more and more stuff and things get piled up in corners and you start a drawer that you're like, oh, eventually I'm gonna organize this but for now it's a junk drawer and it just stays a junk drawer for years. And you know, like it gets harder, the more entrenched and lived in your house becomes to look at it with fresh eyes and to imagine, well, what would it be like if I redecorated all the rooms? What would it be like to move back into this space like it's brand new? What would it be like to, you know, do I need to have a designer come in? Do I need to have someone else come in and help me look at this space in a new way? It's probably time to do a big call and go through everything in the house and figure out what I wanna get rid of or, you know, oh, I set this up this way 'cause I liked it when I moved in here but things have changed and I don't like it anymore. I feel like that's what happens when you've been in business for a long time. Like your business gets very lived in and it's a beautiful thing. And for me being intentional and looking around and going, do I love how this is working or is it just this way because it's always been this way? Is this great or is it just good enough? Am I excited and passionate about this or is it just that has it become the status quo? These are the kinds of things that I think about and look at in my own life and in my own business kind of all the time. So I have been in a long phase for a while of re-imagining and examining and going through everything that I've built and all of the free classes and freebies and resources and mini courses and big courses and programs that I've created and going, what do I want to do with all of these things? Do I want to keep them? Do I want to relaunch things? Am I getting rid of things? How does this all fit together? Am I still happy with my direction? Are there things I want to change about what I'm doing and how I'm doing it? And I highly recommend this for everyone really all the time but especially if you've been in business for a while. I'm definitely as good as the enemy of great girly and there are a lot of areas where good is okay and good is enough. And then there are other areas of my life where great is really the standard and it's challenging to look around at things that are good and say, could they be better? And not in a way that is destabilizing, not in a way that's about never being satisfied, not in a way that's not about being grateful but in a way that's about the joy I find in continually stretching for where could it be even better? And that's something that I am thinking about a lot in my business and with the podcast, with the YouTube channel, with social media, with my emails, with my programs. Where is it good and where can it be even better? Where are things that I'm doing that I'm like, this is okay, but that I would love to be really passionate about. I think it's the CEO of Netflix, I think, I think. And I don't know that person's name. But I've heard that they have a thing where they're like, the business is not a family and we're not a family because with a family, you expect unconditional love. We are more like a dream team. And if you want there to be a dream team, then there is some very specific things. I'm sorry for the beeping. There's background things happening in my house. If you want to be a dream team, there are very specific things that need to be considered. And the way that they approach this is that the managers are asked to do regular reviews of all of their employees, all of their top people. And the question that they ask themselves is... - If you had to hire this person again today, knowing everything it is that you know about them with all the experience that you've had working with them, would you still hire them today? And the other question is, if this person told you they were leaving to go work for a competitor, how hard would you fight to keep them here? And those are the answers to whether or not this person stays on the dream team. And I think that things like that, like continually holding yourself and your business to a certain standard of, you could call it greatness or just, "This is what I want things to feel like," gives you a metric for your continual growth. And some of that growth is not just revenue growth, right? So often in business, when people talk about growth, the baseline assumption is that you're only talking about revenue growth and revenue growth is great. But I'm also interested in my personal growth. I'm interested in the growth of my skills. I'm interested in growing my emotional capacity. I'm interested in growing in joy. I'm interested in growing in ease. I'm interested in growing in efficiency. How could things be more efficient? How could they work better? I'm interested in growing in customer satisfaction. So there are all of these ways that I'm really interested in growing that aren't just about revenue. And these types of qualitative questions about the standard that we're holding ourselves to and the standard we're holding our business to open the pathway for us to continually be checking in with our overall happiness and satisfaction levels. And also just not accumulating too much gunk, right? Like back to that idea of the way that we live in a house. If we just keep acquiring more and more and more and more and more things and building them up inside the house and never going through them and letting things go back out, then our house gets pretty unmanageable pretty quickly. And so for me, looking back at how we're doing things, the systems that we're running, the things that we're generating, the things that we're creating and making sure that all of them still have a spark of aliveness and excitement and joy to them is something that's important to me. That being said, there is a way that you can help me with this podcast. And it is just to communicate with me about it. If you are a regular listener of the show, when I get DMs and messages and comments from folks about the episodes and about things that were helpful, that's really very valuable. I think I've been talking a lot recently on episodes for the past several months about how one-sided this type of communication is by default. But doing it completely by myself creates a little bit of a vacuum. And sometimes I don't know what's landing and what's not. I get a number on a screen. I know how many people are listening every episode. Don't know who those people are. I don't know if the content was relevant for them. Don't know if they listened to the whole thing. Don't know if they liked it. Don't know what topics they find really useful and what they don't. So any time that y'all connect with me, share with me, talk to me, say thank you to me for things. Tell me that things are helping. And also any time that people request things, I would love for you to talk to this person. It would be so cool if you interviewed that person. I'd love to see a collab between you and this person. Have you ever done an episode about blah, blah, blah, would you talk about this? I would love feedback on that. Any type of questions that y'all want to hear me cover on the show, topics you'd like me to cover on the show, people you think would be great guests for the show, anything that you want to share that would make this feel more like a community, that would be amazing. And so I just want to share that if you're listening to this, which I mean, you are, as you're listening to this, please know I want to hear from you too. I would love to hear more reflections from people about the show. I think that is something that would help me know that the show is on the right track and that we are delivering things to you that are important and that you want to hear and ways that we could improve and things that you think we could do even better. That would be awesome. And so you are just always invited to talk back to me. I talk so much here and you're just so invited to talk back to me, DM me on Instagram, email me, intuitive edge coaching at Gmail, send an owl. However you'd like to do it, I would love to hear from you. So that's kind of what's been going on with me, with the podcast, with everything, with my business. And so it is slowing down some of my offerings, it's slowing down some of my marketing and that's completely okay with me because I am being purposeful about taking the time to be more internal and to be more inward and to be more introspective and to kind of go through this evaluation process of what's really working and what's really bringing me joy. And just like a house renovation project, phase one is you sort through everything, phase two is you take a bunch of stuff out and that's what creates space for something new. And I think it's really common for us to want to just skip to the part of like knowing what's going to be next and what's new and starting to work on that and not giving ourselves time and space for going through everything, evaluating everything, letting things go, creating space for what's new to start to talk to you and start to emerge. And that's the space that I've been in. And so it has slowed me down on recording episodes 'cause I haven't had as much to say. I haven't had as much to share. I've been in a pretty internal and inward space that doesn't have a lot of conclusions, right? And has more questions than answers and sometimes that can be really good. And sometimes for certain things, it's challenging. And I think for coming up with podcast episodes where you have more questions than answers, it can be really hard unless you're Jad Abenrod and the show is Radio Lab. If y'all don't listen to Radio Lab, especially the old school, go back to the beginning and listen to Radio Lab. It's great. Okay, so there's that little chunk of what's going on. I'm gonna get into the kind of meat of what I really wanted to talk about. I think that this house to business metaphor is gonna carry on through the whole show. So I'm gonna get into what I wanna talk about and then I'm going to invite you into something at the end. So I've been wanting to share this idea for a few weeks now. And it is something that I am calling a granddad energy or a granddad archetype. I was talking with a client recently and we kind of got into a pattern that she has and many of my clients have and I sometimes have. It's really common of when we feel stuck or like something's not working or we feel frustrated or we're not getting the results that we want, that we want to go buy a new thing. We wanna go buy a course. We wanna go sign up for a program. We wanna go invest in a new mentor. And I always wanna be very nuanced because I will never say that a course, a mentor, more education is not the answer. Obviously as someone who sells coaching and mentorship and education, sometimes we do need that. Sometimes it is the correct answer, but sometimes it is simply, it's capitalism, it's capitalism, right? The on running joke, how long will it take before Sarah Blum's everything on capitalism? We made it like 15 minutes. We're doing great. That's part of the programming, the water we're all swimming in in capitalism is like go buy something new is the answer. There's a solution out there, right? And you just haven't found it yet or you haven't bought it yet and there's something out there that's gonna give you everything that you want and you can just go buy it and that's gonna be the answer. And so I think it is really natural for our brains to jump to go buy something is the answer. And that does a lot of things, right? Like sometimes it gets us out of thinking about the thing that feels like a problem. It can get us out of what essentially might feel like despair and move us into excitement and possibility, right? Oh, I get to buy something and that's fun. I get to go around and look for this new thing and then I get to like open up to hope, right? And I get to pin all of my hopes on this thing, working out on this new thing that I'm gonna buy. And then we buy the thing and then we may or may not actually use it or implement it. And then if we don't get the results that we want, the cycle just kind of starts over. And this is how we end up buying course after course after course program after program, coach after coach and not necessarily getting the results that we want because we're not always moving deeply into implementation we're just staying in this kind of like endless information gathering student mode stage. There's so much and this is stuff I've talked about before that gets tied up in this, right? Outsourcing our authority, not believing that we're ready enough yet, that we know enough yet. Thinking that if we knew enough and we were ready then we'd already have the results and we'd be making money and that's not happening yet. So we must not know enough yet. So we must need to go buy something new. Thinking, okay, well I want to start posting on social media more but I don't feel super confident about that. So rather than just deciding I'm going to post every day for 30 days, I feel like I should go buy a course on social media and learn how this one person says that I should coordinate my grid is just never ending because there's always something you can buy to teach you someone's new strategy on it. But no matter how many courses you take, no matter how many strategies you learn, you're only going to actually build the feeling of confidence and competence and trust in yourself when you spend time in implementation. When you actually take that stuff and you go try it out and post every day for 30 days and see what your results are and get some feedback and get into motion. And then maybe you do need another program but maybe you just need to do the same thing again for another 30 or 60 days or maybe you need to create your own plan and follow your own plan for 30 or 60 days. There is something about the energy of, I'm not the authority someone else is and I've got to go out and find who's the more, where is there an adultie or adult? And that feeling makes so much sense in business. Somebody else has to know because I don't know. Again, back to the house thing, I'm a homeowner and I'm a first time homeowner. And last week, a plumbing thing broke in the middle of the night. There was like water gushing from the bathroom wall and gallons of water as a shower wouldn't turn off in the middle of the night. And it was terrifying. And for a good few minutes, I just stood there blinking and all I could think was I can't be the person who's in charge of this. Like, I'm just a baby. I do not know what to do. There must be an adultie or adult around somewhere. I must have a secret husband that I don't know about. There must be someone who knows something about plumbing. Who knows what I should do because I do not know. And I don't know because I've never had to deal with this before. And so it makes sense that I want there to be someone I can look to to help me figure out what to do. But there wasn't. And so I had to think and I was like, oh yes, emergency plumbers are a thing. Let me Google emergency plumbers. Let me call a plumber. Let me have a plumber come to the house and solve the problem and pay for a plumber. And then yes, be annoyed that I'm the only adult here to pay for the plumber. But still, I have so much more confidence in myself as a homeowner now because I had to implement. I had to be the homeowner. I had to be the adultiest adult in the room for that one situation. And now that's one more situation that I know how to handle. Wasn't the funnest lesson. Most lessons aren't that fun. But now I know how to do it. And so there are so many things in business. There's so many times in business where what we're actually up against is simply something we've never done before. And we're like, there must be an adult, you're adult. There must be a CEO or CEO who can come help me and tell me what it is that I need to be doing. And again, that's not always wrong. It's just not always right. Sometimes we do need some outside help. Sometimes we need outside eyes. Sometimes we need to talk things out with someone. We need a collaborative brainstorm. We need a second set of eyes and opinions. Sometimes that's true. Sometimes we do need guidance. But how much of the time, if we just slowed down and trusted ourselves and thought for a second, would we actually be able to internally source the answer? Would we actually realize, okay, if I can get myself out of panic, I do know what to do. Let me just take a step. Let me just try a thing and then see how that thing goes and then try the next thing. There's a self-reliance and a self-trust, default baseline that's slightly different than, I don't know the answer. I need to go hire an expert, somebody else knows. I have to buy a course. I don't know anything. What do I know? What could I do? What skills do I have? What have I already done that's similar to this? There are a different set of questions that we can be asking. So, this client and I were talking about this compulsion to constantly go buy a thing. To be like, I'm in one-on-one coaching with you and I'm in a mastermind and I'm in a group program and I'm in a course. But now I have an idea for how I wanna build the sales page and I'm considering going and signing up for this other person's sales page course. Should I do that? No, use the resources you're already paying for that you already have. This is how many, many small business owners end up in pretty significant debt really early on in business. And it's not because we shouldn't be signing up with mentors early on in business, but if you are continually signing up for programs, when you're already in programs, you're not using the resources that you have. You're not going to the mentors you have. You're not asking the coach you're working with. You're not going to the mastermind you're in and bringing the problem to that place and working on it there. You're immediate impulses. I gotta go get something new. That's a pretty good indication that you're kind of caught up in the escapism, that buying something new is going to solve the problem. And that is an emotional kind of escapism coping mechanism that doesn't have a lot to do with what's gonna get me the best outcomes in my business. And so when I thought of granddad energy, the archetype, the image that came to mind was a, what was before the boomers? Was it the golden generation, the great generation, the best generation, what do they call themselves? The fucking we have all the money, fuck y'all generation? No, those are the boomers. Anyway, depression era parents, my parents parents, if you're younger than me, this would be your parents parents parents. But for me, it's my parents parents. Depression era, my grandparents, depression era parents. Where there is this like old man pride about I have just the thing, right? You're like, oh, we really need, this table is wobbling. And they're like, ha ha, I have just the thing. And they like run off into their little work room and they shuffle around and they're humming and they're so excited. And then they come back with the little tiny square piece of wood that they've been saving since 1932 for just this occasion that fits exactly under the table and makes the table not wander anymore. And the sense of like pride and accomplishment and just smugness that they feel at the fact that they had just the thing, that they've been holding onto and saving a tool for just such an occasion, that they would like, why would we ever go out and buy something new when we have just the thing? I have it at home. I have it in my toolkit. I have it in my study. I have just the thing. And tapping into this energy of saving things first of all, and then also remembering the things you've already bought that you've saved and finding a sense of pride and accomplishment and excitement from being able to go into your own storehouse and your own reserves to bring out the solution to the problem. Just that, oh, I can picture him. The little old man in my head, he's wearing like brown corduroy pants and he has like a green, like sweater, like kind of cardigan, not a cardigan with buttons, like a green cable knit sweater with a little v-neck and he has like a button down shirt under it and he's bald, he has glasses. And like, he's just so excited that he has just the thing. He's got to wrench in his hand and he's like holding it up in his fist and like waving it in the air. He's like, "Ha, ha, I'm just the thing. "Just wait right here." No, I'll just be a minute and he's running off and he's going to shuffle around in all of his stuff to find just the right thing to bring out that's gonna solve the problem. And he's so proud of himself for being able to help you grandpa energy, granddad archetype. How can we bring more? I have just the thing, into our own lives, into our own businesses, into our own relationship with that feeling that something's not working. I wanna do something and I don't know how. I feel like I wanna shake stuff up. I feel like I wanna refresh things. How do we remember to utilize the things that we already have either in a fresh way, in a new way or to reuse them? So all these courses that you've gone out and bought in the past that are sitting on your hard drive, before you go buy another course or another program, go check your inventory. Go look through the folder. Of courses you have already bought and go, "Do I already have something like this?" Before I go buy another marketing course, did I do every marketing activity in the workbook from the last marketing course I took? Before I sign up for another copywriting course, did I do every single activity in the workbook of the last copywriting course I took? Do I still have those recordings? Can I go listen to all those lessons and get a refresher on the stuff that I've already done? Instead of buying another program on social media marketing, I remember a long time ago, I bought one that was about email funnels. I never built an email funnel after I did that course. Is it time to go back and actually implement on the thing that I learned from that? Where do we have just the thing? This is also true when we're launching something. If you're launching something, especially if it's something you've done before, do you need to create all new everything? Do you have to write all new emails? Do you have to write a brand new sales page? Now maybe you do. Maybe you didn't market it well the first time or you didn't get the results you want or you've made significant changes to what the program is about or running it the first time help you realize your angle was wrong the last time and things need to be adjusted. But does everything have to be scrapped or can parts of it be kept? Go back through every email you sent out. Do these emails get to be reworked? Are we keeping them? Which ones are we keeping? What are we getting rid of? Going back through your old Instagram posts. Did I already write about this? Did I already say this? Have I made a video of this? Could I take that video and make it into a carousel? If I had it as a carousel, should I make it into a video? If I did it as a static slide post with one image, do I make it as text over a five second reel? How can I go back and use all the things that I've already made, that I've already built, that I've already created and use them again and keep recycling? I'm rinsing out the plastic bags and turning them inside out and letting them dry and using them again. How can I be more resourceful with the things that I already have? Not in a way that feels like deprivation, not in a way that feels like scarcity, but in a way that's like I'm so proud and excited of the way that I keep things, the way that I utilize the things that I have, the way that nothing goes to waste here. Our business is an ecosystem, especially if we're building an elemental business, we're really considering the balance and the ecology of the business that we're building and so creating a business ecosystem where we're actively thinking about keeping things regenerative, being able to use things, replant them, let things fall away, let things regrow to use everything we possibly can with as little waste as possible to use every part of things, is building a very different ecology than one where we're constantly bringing in new things and not utilizing anything to its fullest potential. So just what changes? What changes in our mindset? What changes in our emotional world? And what changes practically in our business? What changes about how we invest? What changes about what type of mentorship we seek and who we hire? When we're balancing the movement toward bringing in new help with being excited about when we have just the thing. So this was my thought. This was the thing I wanted to share. I hope it's valuable for you. One thing it really is causing me to do is go back through my whole hard drive of all these programs and courses I've signed up for for years and years and years and trying to make a commitment to remember to go look through that catalog before I buy anything because I love programs and courses. I love learning. And I love the thrill and the exhilaration of like, ooh, I want to learn that. That's going to be so much fun. And I can get swept up in that. And so before I buy anything, going back and looking through everything I already have and going, do I already have something like this? Why don't I just go through that again? Especially if it was good. Why don't I go do exercises from this that I haven't done in a while? Why don't I go do implementing the things that I didn't implement the first time around and do that now instead of going to buy something new? Where can I find joy and satisfaction in, oh, yeah, I already have this. I have just the thing. And to take the metaphor even further, where can we upcycle? Sometimes if we're redecorating our house, it's not about throwing everything away and buying all new things. It's about moving something from one room into another. It's about putting a new cover on something. It's about painting a piece of furniture that already exists. And so looking at the things we already have and going, where can I reapply this? Where can I take this one thing I learned about this and try it in another area? How can I use this differently? That kind of thinking is ultimately so much more creative for our brain, right? That type of problem solving. How can I take this thing I already know and apply it to something different? Gets your brain working in such a different way. I don't know if you're a crafty DIY-ish type of person, but I'm not as much anymore. I used to be quite crafty and quite DIY. And the reason I was quite crafty and quite DIY is because I was broke and necessity is the mother of invention. And when I was in my late teens and early 20s, needing to furnish apartments, I would be picking stuff up off the street. I was at the Goodwills. I was at the Salvation Army. And I was very good at finding things that were almost the right thing, that were like workable if you squint until your head to the side and taking them home and stripping them, painting them, putting new knobs on them, taking something that was meant to be this kind of thing and being like, oh, I'm gonna use this for this other kind of thing. I'm gonna take this old bookshelf and I'm gonna turn it into a dish cabinet. I'm gonna take this old linen cabinet and I'm gonna turn it into a shoe bench, right? Like I was figuring out all kinds of things because I didn't have any money. And it made me very resourceful and it made me very crafty, but also it was so fun. I had such a good time and it was such a creative project to be able to go look for kind of hidden treasures and use my imagination to be like, I know how to make this great. I know how to make this work for me. That's so different than like shopping online for exactly the right thing. No, I'm not saying that's not fun. It can be fun to like hunt a lot of websites until you find exactly the right side table that does all the things that you want it to do. But it's not the same type of creative process for your brain. It's not the same type of thinking. It's not the same type of engagement. It doesn't generate the same type of creativity. And there's the IKEA value thing which is, I don't know if you've heard this before, but if you haven't, this might be good to know. If you ask someone, like say somebody has like an IKEA coffee table and you ask a stranger how much it's worth, they're gonna be like, I don't know, like 20 bucks. If you're the person who built the IKEA coffee table, you're like, it's worth 80 bucks because you built it. So you have a different level of attachment to the item and to the value of the item. You have a different level of pride, a different level of investment. It's just worth more to you because you've put effort into it. This same thing is true with all kinds of stuff. So if you go by a course and you do one or two lessons and then never look at it again, you're not gonna get that much out of it. You're gonna have a very different relationship with that course and with the person that you hired, then you are to something where you signed up and you did every single exercise and you really applied yourself and you said, I'm gonna get everything I possibly can. I'm gonna get my entire mileage and money's worth out of this program. I'm going to implement my face off and I'm going to do every single thing that's recommended in here wholeheartedly and see what kind of results I get. You're going to have a very different feeling and attachment to that solution than to the one that you bought that you didn't put a lot of time, effort and energy into. If you create something for yourself, that pause and taking a moment to be like, do I need to buy something new or can I spend a little time looking at all the things I have, squinting and tilting my head and trying to get creative and figuring out what I could scrap together, what I could make work, how I could repurpose something I already have for another purpose. It's going to make you feel so much more invested in the solution that you're trying because you came up with it, because you put that elbow grease in, because you put in that extra bit of creative time, effort, energy and thought versus just being like, well, I'm gonna buy a thing. I don't know, it's a Hail Mary. Hopefully this person's thing works. Let's try it out. I'm gonna halfheartedly try it out 'cause I don't know if it's really gonna work. Oh, it didn't work. Well, oh, well, moving on. You see how it sets you up to not be that invested in the solution, which means you probably won't approach it with that much enthusiasm or follow-through because you didn't put a lot of stock in it to begin with. So, these are my thoughts. Granddad energy, granddad archetype. My invitation for all of us is to notice when we are feeling like we wanna go out and buy something new, feeling like we wanna buy another course, a new program, feeling like someone else out there has the answer and just pausing for a second and checking before you go buy something, do I already have just the thing? Do I already know exactly what to do? Is this genuinely an issue of needing more information? Or do I actually need more implementation? And if I'm struggling with implementation, that's valid, but in that case, I don't necessarily need a course, I might need a coach, I might need a mentor, I might need someone who helps me with accountability and implementation versus focusing on information gathering and learning new things. So, I hope that this was helpful. I hope that you enjoyed it. I would love to hear your thoughts. You are welcome to shoot me a message and let me know what you think about all of this. You can message me on Instagram, add Intuitive Edge Coaching. You can also email me Intuitive Edge Coaching@gmail.com. I would love to hear your thoughts. And with that being said, I would love to invite you to work with me in 2025. And I know that feels like a hard pivot, like you just told us not to buy things, you just told us to stay focused on the stuff that we already have, how does this make any sense? But hang with me, it's always a both and. So, if you are in a place where you know lots and lots and lots of stuff, and you've taken lots and lots of courses, and you have a whole hard drive for courses that are things you've half looked at and half implemented, and your struggle is with implementation, when we work together, our focus will be on implementation and actually doing the things, actually taking the steps in your business that get the needle to move. It can also be really valuable, like Marie Kondo style, to have that outside support and that outside eye, while you're going through everything in your life and your business and going what do I keep? What sparks joy? What do I want to get rid of? What can I reuse? What can be reimagined? What can be reimplemented? And that is something that we certainly do in our work together. The other thing is having someone who has just the thing. So maybe you're not your own granddad archetype all the time right now. Maybe you do need a CEO, a CEO and an adult, your adult. Like we all do sometimes. Maybe you really need to have that person on deck that you can always message chat with, reach out to in the case of what do I do? How do I navigate this? I'm not sure how to move through this issue. And I would love to be that go-to person for you. And also similar to the granddad energy thing is that you have one mentor for an entire year, in fact, for 14 months. So rather than making the plan that you're going to take tons of programs and jump from person to person and try to implement it all on your own, especially if you've never been in long-term high proximity coaching before, it is such a game changer and such a difference between group programs and DIY courses and being all on your own, trying to do everything versus having one high proximity mentor for a long period of time who knows you really well and has been with you long enough to see your patterns, to see how you handle different seasons of business and to be able to point out, oh, this is the thing that happens. Don't forget that every time we get into this phase, you feel like this, this always happens. Now we know how to navigate it. Having an outside eye on you as you go through over a year of running your business and helping you be the best version of yourself, be the best leader, be the best decision maker, be the best implementer that you can possibly be. There is nothing like having a one-on-one coach by your side to get that level of dialed in. And that is what I love doing with my clients. I only open the doors for best year yet once a year at this time of year. And right now, the doors are open for 2025. If you enroll in October, that's this month, it's October 10th as I'm recording this, 10-10, happy 10-10. So if you enroll in October, you get the longest, lowest payment plan. You can lock in a 15-month payment plan. It's 15 months at 1333. And you get two months of free coaching because we will start in November. So you will get November and December free. So everything that I'm doing in November and December, all of the programs that I do for all of 2025, all of that is included. Access to my private mastermind powerhouse. You get access to powerhouse mastermind included this year, which is a $5,555 value included in the package. So October is the best time to grab your spot. There are four spots left. And when they're gone, they're gone. In November, I'm going to be really focused on powerhouse mastermind. So I will be switching focus to talk about powerhouse. I will, if there's still spots left, I will open up best year yet spots in December again. But the price is going up $5,000 in December. So if you are even a little bit curious about potentially working together for 14 months in high proximity, one-on-one coaching and mentorship with me for 2025, my recommendation to you is that we open those discussions now. Because even if you lock your spot in now, you're still going to lock this year's price in before it goes up $5,000 in December. I will put a link in the show notes that you can use to book a call with me if you want to discuss best year yet. You can also DM me on Instagram or shoot me an email. And just, you can even just type best year yet. And I will follow up with everything that we need to move it on forward. I know sometimes asking people to email their like, but now I have to think of what I'm going to say. You don't have to write me a big, long message. You can if you want to, but you could literally just write best year yet. And I will write back with next steps. So there's no pressure there on coming up with a big, long, brilliant message to send me if you're considering wanting a spot. I want to make it as easy for you as possible. Okay, I think that that's all I have today. I hope you enjoyed this rambly, rip-roar and rant of an episode. And I would love to hear your thoughts, your feelings, your opinions on granddad energy. Let me know if this was valuable for you. If it unlocked anything, if it made you think of things differently, I'd love to hear from you. Email me intuitiveedgecoaching@gmail.com or shoot me a DM on Instagram @intuitiveedgecoaching. You're also always invited to leave a five-star review for this show. It really helps the show out. If you leave a five-star review, I will read your review and shout you out on the podcast next time I record. I would say next week, but who knows? All right, that's all for me today. I can't love you, bye. - That's our episode for today. Thank you as always for being here and for listening to the podcast. I know there are so many things that you could be doing with your time, so many things you could be listening to. It is an honor that you choose to be here. Connect with me on Instagram @intuitiveedgecoaching. Have a great day. You
