If you want to grow your business, don't do this

If you want to grow your business, don’t do this

When you run your own business, you get a different sort of feedback than you do when you work for someone else. As an employee, your boss can be explicit about what’s expected of you and what’s not, and as long as you’re happy to operate within those boundaries, things are relatively smooth sailing.

As a business owner though, things are not quite as linear. Your feedback comes from your customers and clients IF you survey them regularly.

It also comes after a launch where people have either bought from you or they haven’t. You can definitely acquire some data from that experience, although how to interpret the data can be tricky.

And of course, you have indicators like how many people are subscribing and unsubscribing to your emails, or following you on socials, or visiting your website.

In between all of that is a lot of space which means … [Read More...]

We’re simplifying things

Four things happened in the last few days which really refined things at the School of Visibility. I’ll tell you about that in a moment but the upshot is this; I’m simplifying the business.

Here’s what the School of Visibility will look like going forward:

The School of Visibility will continue to be a space for women to speak up and be seen and heard in the world.

To support you in that, we’ll be zooming right in on the thing that sits firmly in my genius zone; visibility block clearing, healing of old wounds, bringing women back to the truth of themselves, and supporting you to a new leadership paradigm that I call feminine leadership.

Specifically, we’ll offer that personal development work through a feminist lens by bringing to the fore and clearing out all the ways we’re not showing up in the world as a consequence of gendered … [Read More...]

Three stories we tell ourselves that stop us from speaking up

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Today we’re talking about three stories we tell ourselves that stop us from speaking up.

It’s so important to recognise these stories, because once you see them, you can do something about them.

It’s when we don’t see them that we get stuck with them, and the reality we unconsciously create limits our visibility.

Story number 1: I’ve got nothing to say

You may have had a thought like this when you’ve sat down to write a blog post or a chapter of the book you’re writing or a script for a video you’re trying to create. We see a blank page in front of us and suddenly the pressure to fill it overwhelms us. And because the words don’t flow within 5 seconds, we tell ourselves, ‘I’ve got nothing to say!’

When this … [Read More...]

Ordinary, extraordinary lives

During the holiday break I deliberately spent a good bit of the holiday period away from my computer and social media and soaked up the pleasures of the non-digital world. During that time, an old friend of mine died, and it gave me great pause. I spent a lot of time thinking about his life. About what an ordinary, extraordinary life he’d had. He was a beloved husband and father of two small children, he was a nuclear physicist, and he was a guy who loved music, camping, and being with his friends. Although he’d achieved a lot in his life, it was his humility, his thoughtfulness and all his small kindnesses over the years that really stayed with me.

At that time I was also listening to season 3 of the podcast Serial (an excellent, and often distressing, piece of long form journalism about the criminal justice system in … [Read More...]

Visibility lessons from 2018, part 2: Australian Women’s Day

NB: this is part 2 of a 2 part post on visibility lessons of 2018. In part 1 I spoke about the visibility lessons learned as a writer this year.

Pursuing new opportunities

Having set up my year to write, I was approached early in 2018 to be a part of a new initiative – the creation of Australian Women’s Day (a national day to celebrate the women and girls of Australia).

This was something that immediately excited me. It’s 100% aligned with my vision for the world and with our work here at the School of Visibility, so I happily stepped toward the opportunity when it arose. It opened new doors for me, it saw me making connections I wouldn’t otherwise have pursued, I became part of a beautiful circle of women, and it coincided with a dream I’ve had for Australia and for the women of the world, … [Read More...]