Episode 10 is about vision. In this final episode of Season 1 we part with some big questions: how can you start to be the CEO of your business? Are you holding a vision for what you want to accomplish? You have the power to make decisions and the ability to allow everything you want to flow to you. Listen above or in your favorite podcasting app!

Highlights

• How I felt about season 1 of EffortLess and facing your fears (01:25)

• The biggest revelation that this podcast has brought me (03:40)

• A new practice that has helped me take action and make decisions (05:15)

• Deliberately showing up as the visionary of my business (07:35)

• Allowing for big ideas, massive growth, and up-leveling (08:45)

• A common thread throughout this season about decisions and allowing (10:10)

• What I’ve decided for myself and my business in 2019 (11:30)

• What are you setting the vision for? (12:00)

• The big question: what will CEO-you do? (13:35)

• Season 1 wrap-up (14:10)

Resources

• Join my free community

• Season 2, Episode 0

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Episode 9 is about consistency. At the start of 2018 I thought consistency meant one thing — but throughout the year, I came to see it in a whole new way. It helped me to understand that consistency starts from within, and that I have to listen to my intuition and instincts about what I should do. Listen above or in your favorite podcasting app!

Highlights

• What I thought consistency meant in early 2018 (04:00)

• Feeling like I had “failed” my word of the year (06:00)

• Developing my own truth and working through the noise (07:15)

• The missing link for most peoples’ marketing (07:45)

• It doesn’t actually matter what you do (08:35)

• How consistency changed for me (10:50)

• Building this podcast around what makes me excited (12:10)

• Doing things because you have to isn’t sustainable (13:50)

• Making your own model (14:35)

Resources

• Essentialism

• Season 1, Episode 6

• Season 2, Episode 15

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Episode 8 is about clarity. Here’s what I’ve learned: you’ve got to step up and recognize that you are the leader of your life and business. That requires taking action, even if you don’t know the whole process. When you take a step, the next steps will appear. Listen above or in your favorite podcasting app!

Highlights

• A wonderful and appreciated review highlight (01:00)

• The difference between 2017 and 2018 in my mind (03:05)

• Opening up space to think beyond client work (04:45)

• Feeling stuck when it came to scaling and impact (07:25)

• Committing to a year-long mastermind because I knew I needed help (08:25)

• The power of making a decision and what happens right after you do (09:25)

• You have to take action — taking a step will show the next step (10:15)

• Recognizing that I had something I wanted to share (13:45)

• Grasping onto this message of “you can do what you want and make money” (15:10)

• Being a leader and being the one who takes action (18:00)

• How this podcast came to be and deciding to take action on it (20:00)

• Things don’t change unless you do (21:40)

Resources

• Simplified Designer Summit

What's Next?

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Episode 7 is about boundaries. Most boundaries that I’ve come to build into my business I learned the hard way. In this episode we cover some of the hard lessons and remind you to protect your time and energy at all costs — it’s your most valuable commodity in business! Listen above or in your favorite podcasting app!

Highlights

• Why I really stopped doing everything outside of client work (01:10)

• The problem with a lack of structure in business (03:40)

• What boundaries are actually for (04:30)

• You have to be the one to establish boundaries (05:40)

• Your time and energy are your most precious commodities (06:45)

• Mistakes I’ve made that ended up being a boundary issue (08:40)

• Business is business — treat it as such (09:30)

• Why are you resisting or fearful of boundaries? (10:00)

• How we can learn to respect ourselves, and get respect from others? (11:00)

• People don’t know acceptable ways to treat you, unless you tell them (12:45)

• You are being hired as the expert, and this is a collaborative relationship (13:50)

• The problem with ignoring your gut in regards to boundaries (15:30)

Resources

• Season 1, Episode 1

What's Next?

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