S2E9: Building an Intentional Business with Ashley Gartland
Season 2, Episode 9 features Ashley Gartland. Ashley is an amazing coach who focuses on creating simple and sustainable businesses that serve your life. We first connected a few years back when I helped with some design projects for Ashley and over the past few years have found commonalities in our approaches - less but better, stop overwhelming yourself, and create a business that works for you and your life. Listen above or in your favorite podcasting app!
Highlights
Learn about Ashley’s beginnings as a business owner (01:59)
Major shifts Ashley experienced in her journey (06:30)
The benefits of “beta-testing” an idea for your business (09:10)
How important it is to listen to what your audience wants (12:20)
What Ashley would change if she could go back (14:05)
How doing less could be better for your business (16:26)
Understanding what you truly want and value (19:40)
Identifying the priorities outside of your business so your work schedule can support them (20:28)
Taking time to celebrate your wins and giving yourself credit (22:01)
How Ashley saw a huge positive change once she started streamlining her business (23:27)
Create the time to make moves to streamline your business for the better (25:59)
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MORE ABOUT Ashley:
Ashley Gartland works with service-based business owners and online entrepreneurs who feel like a hot mess behind the scenes - and who know it's holding them back from experiencing more growth in their business and true freedom in their life. Ashley helps them streamline their business through intentional business design, smart systems and focused growth strategies that take their business to the next level without the overwhelm.
Ashley has been building streamlined businesses since the age of 22, when she got her start as a freelance writer. After working in editing, event planning, public relations and digital publishing, Ashley launched her coaching practice to help overwhelmed entrepreneurs grow their business by doing less better. Ashley's work has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, The Huffington Post and Being Boss and she's appeared on The Startup Sessions, Courage & Clarity and Creative Empire podcasts.
She lives for rainy days, is a dedicated runner and prefers kombucha over coffee to fuel her day.
Website | Instagram | The Simplified Entrepreneur Facebook Group
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