Top 5 tips to increase your impact, income and ability to succeed in a downturn

Would you love to significantly increase your impact and visibility, 7 x your income and double your followers within 8 weeks?

Do you dream of having others support you in your business to help you step up and lead with the impact and influence you know deep down is possible?

In this email I want to share exactly how I have created the most successful period in my business to date over the last 90 days and also how my clients have done the same.

Imagine investing £6k in a coaching programme and making that investment back within 2 weeks...Before you even created your growth strategy to take you to 6 figures within 6 months!

How about creating your most successful month of income AND taking 2 weeks off on holiday during the same month...

This is exactly what my amazing client Sarah has just achieved as we begin her second round of business coaching.

Imagine all of this being done in the context of a massively shrinking economy where so many businesses are failing...

So what is the secret?

You will gain a lot of insight from watching the video attached where I am being interviewed by the amazing Lenka Lutonska.

Last week I was invited as a guest onto a Masterclass by Lenka. Lenka is a very successful (think 7 fig business with ease and fun) business mentor who has a very similar mission to my own - Help women step up and fulfil their potential by creating wildly successful and lucrative businesses. I had so much fun sharing my experiences with her and her journaling process was a key part of how I connected with my inspiration and clarity during my first ever programme 'launch'.

In recent weeks some of you experienced The Wildly Authentic Experience - a completely FREE 5 day coaching experience I designed to help you answer the call of your soul and learn the habits and strategies that will lead to you living a life filled with more balance, freedom, confidence and fulfilment.

Through this process I invited 10 amazing souls to join me on my brand new 6 month transformational coaching programme 'Becoming Wildly Authentic'.

It was the most fun AND lucrative period in my business and I learned a lot through showing up to serve in a more powerful way during the unprecedented times we have found ourselves in. It was also an experiment and an approach I had never taken in my business before which involved investing £ks.

So why on earth did I choose the start of a pandemic and the beginning of what is likely to be the biggest recession we have known to take such a risk in my business?

Here's a few of the most powerful lessons I want to share - and you will be hearing lots more from me on this as there is A LOT I want to share over the coming weeks and months!

1. Do not assume people don't want what you have to give - ASK THEM

In the video I tell a story about asking my Facebook Group to help me decide on the name for my programme. I was unsure if it was the right time to launch my new programme because of all the uncertainty people were facing - so instead of working myself into a frenzy worrying about it I decided to ask people and see what the appetite was.

I also embarked upon a period of market research where I offered free coaching to people who gave me their time to share their challenges and dreams. It was such a great process and left me feeling absolutely clear there was an appetite for creating powerful transformation and change.

So all I had to do was keep doing my best work to create an offer that was the best of its kind and trust that the people who needed it most would feel ready to invest in themselves (with my support of course!)

 2. Act in alignment with your longer term goals and values in the decisions you make and the actions you take

I am crystal clear on the impact I want to have and the value I have to share. I have 'done the work' to get this clear! I am utterly committed to share what I have learned as I have achieved such meaningful transformation in my own life and coached and mentored hundreds of others to do the same.

I had a very strong sense that NOW was the exact moment all of my pain, struggle and experiences in the past had prepared me for. I am so committed to this I believe I have A RESPONSIBILITY to share the work I do with as many people as possible. To see so many people struggle more, experience more dissatisfaction in their lives, to be juggling even more priorities and spinning even more plates - I felt that to back down into worry and fear about sharing my work more widely would be completely out of alignment with my values and beliefs. It would be a reversal of all the work I have done on becoming more confident, getting clear on the value I add and exactly what the most powerful processes are that enable me to do that.

When you focus on who you are here to serve and not your own fears, worries and ego based thoughts and feelings it gets much easier to be brave and blow your own trumpet (even when you are worried it might just be more noise - I promise!) 

3. Be the change you want to see in the world.

When lockdown started I had a decision to make - do I move forward with my plan to launch my new programme or hold back. I also had to decide if I should continue with my plan to bring more people onto the team to support me in creating the free coaching experience and new programme. It felt very important to me to keep money moving in the economy. I wanted to use some of the financial security I had and share that with others. So I invested thousands of pounds in bringing on 2 new team members and increased the investment in my existing support. Why on earth would I do this when I didn't know if I would be earning any income in the coming months?!

Because I had a strategy I felt confident in, I had no childcare so I needed additional support to do the best job I could and I trusted my instinct. And then I GOT TO WORK!

4. Use your intuition as your super power

A huge part of my business success comes from my creative process which is driven by my intuition, inspired ideas and taking action on them quickly. So I have created daily habits and routines that enable me to work from this place of inspiration with ease. Every morning the first thing I do is meditate, hydrate and set a powerful intention for the day. Then I set a timer, put my earphones in and write. I write the words that flow from my heart through my fingers - the words that will call in the people who are out there waiting to find me and the work that I do. The clients that I believe with every ounce of my being that are destined to work with me. Our souls are aligned and I am here to serve them. It is written in the stars!

When I began to ramp up this side of my business magical things started to happen. Including more income, more clients, more impact and the ability to make a bigger difference in the world. It feels more easy than I ever would have believed. And brings more joy and fulfilment to my working life than I have ever experienced.

5. Always know if you are expanding or contracting on a moment by moment, day by day, week by week basis.

All of the lessons I just shared had something in common - they all encouraged and enabled me to focus on expanding and NOT contracting.

Not contracting and hoarding my money - expanding and sharing it which resulted in more flowing to me.

Not contracting into worry and anxiety - expanding into possibility and action

Not contracting into my head and my doubts - expanding into letting my ideas and creativity flow

Not contracting into 'I can't' - expanding into 'what if it's possible...'

Not contracting into 'Nobody will want what I have to give' - expanding into 'how can I make my offer to the market the most perfectly aligned, impactful, powerful option for people'

Where could you expand right now where you feel contraction? You can normally feel it within your body as tension, in your mind as worry or anxiety, in your soul as an ache or niggle.

You owe it to yourself and the people you are here to serve to step up, shine your light and have the impact you know deep down is possible.

So how have you fared during lockdown? Has it been the best of times or the worst of times? Has it awoken something in you that refuses to remain dormant anymore?

I would love to hear your own experiences and stories.

I would also love to have you join us in the Facebook Group if you haven't already. We will be hosting weekly live Q&A sessions, a brand new bookclub, daily coaching questions and inspirations and its such a joyful place of connection, community and camaraderie.