What Starting a Vlog Reminded Me About Unsubscribes, Unfollows & Haters

 

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I've owned my business for 11 years now so I've developed a pretty thick skin when it comes to unsubscribes, unfollows, and rude or hateful messages.

But starting a personal vlog was a whole different ball game!

When I'm sharing my business beliefs, thoughts and concepts I can detach from what people think of them. But sharing my life, challenges, personality and relationship through a vlog is a lot more intimate - and when I first started, I battled with a fear of being disliked by people online. A fear of what people thought of me.

If you...

  • make unfollows or unsubscribes mean something about you, your work and your business.

  • stop yourself from putting your work and business out there because you're afraid of what people will think.

  • have core beliefs of not being "good enough" that are seeping into your business

Then this episode is for you.

We'll discuss

  • Why it's not your job to be likable. It's your job to be yourself.

  • 3 reminders for when you feel scared to put yourself & your work out into the online world.

  • Why people unfollow you (it's not what you think). 

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About Nesha

Hey there! I’m Nesha, 10-year traveling entrepreneur and host of The Simple Business Show. I teach freedom seekers how to make a full-time income online without working full-time hours, so they have the time, location and financial freedom to live the lifestyle they dream of.

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5 Hard Truths That Will Make It Easier to Run Your Online Business

 

Running a business can be simple, but it isn't easy.

You're not just the service provider. You're also the marketer, customer service rep, admin assistant, graphic designer, website designer, social media manager and more.

On top of that, you also carry a lot of hidden responsibilities, like:

  • Making all the decisions in your business

  • Being solely responsible for paying your wage or providing for yourself/your family. No monthly pay slip to count on!

  • Difficult clients

  • Dealing with comparison, imposter syndrome, fear & limiting business beliefs

  • Work/life balance

It can feel HARD.

And many business owners make it even harder for themselves by choosing NOT to accept the five hard truths I'm sharing in today's podcast episode.

These 5 truths are facts of business that are difficult to accept but if you don't, it'll make you feel like you're doing something wrong, like other business owners have something you don't, and like you suck at business.

But if you DO accept these five things simply as FACTS of entrepreneurship, the hard parts of business will no longer serve as sticks to beat yourself with and simply become things you know every business owner has to deal with sometimes.

Tune in to find out what the five hard facts are.

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About Nesha

Hey there! I’m Nesha, 10-year traveling entrepreneur and host of The Simple Business Show. I teach freedom seekers how to make a full-time income online without working full-time hours, so they have the time, location and financial freedom to live the lifestyle they dream of.

Looking for more ways I can help you? Here they are:

1:1 or group coaching: I’m booked until April 2023. Join the waitlist and hear when slots open!

Organize & Automate - Join 1200+ students and learn how to organize your entire online service-based business in just two weeks (on the side of your regular routine!) so you can stop stressing and fall back in love with your business.

Simple Sales School - Learn how to get a consistent flow of clients so you can build the income & financial freedom you desire.

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How to Trust Yourself & Make Confident Decisions in Your Business

 

This week the podcast is BACK! And the first episode of season 4 is all about how to trust yourself and make confident decisions in your business. (You can expect new episodes every Thursday and I'll email you when they're available!)

If you read my last email, you know that one of my words of the year is TRUST.

I've been on a journey towards trusting myself more in my personal life over the last couple of years, I just didn't really know it. And after thinking of everything I've learned and am still learning about trust, I realized I wanted to talk about it in a business sense on the podcast. Because self-trust is one of the most underrated yet VITAL qualities you need if you want your business to last a long, long time. (I've been running my business for almost 11 years and self-trust has played a big part in how I've achieved this.)

There are a couple of things you need to know about learning to trust yourself more & make confident decisions:

  1. Unless it's a moral choice (like to steal or not to steal) there's no such thing as a right or wrong decision. You just make the best decision you can at the time with what you know.

  2. Self-trust is not about trusting yourself to always know what the right decision is, and it's not about feeling certain of your choices. It's about trusting that no matter what the outcome of your choices is, you can handle it.

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Organize & Automate: Streamline and organize your business in just 14 days on the side of your regular routine

Simple Sales School: Learn how to book clients consistently and start scaling your business to $5k months

About Nesha

Hey there! I’m Nesha, 10-year traveling entrepreneur and host of The Simple Business Show. I teach freedom seekers how to make a full-time income online without working full-time hours, so they have the time, location and financial freedom to live the lifestyle they dream of.

Looking for more ways I can help you? Here they are:

Organize & Automate - Join 1200+ students and learn how to organize your entire online service-based business in just two weeks (on the side of your regular routine!) so you can stop stressing and fall back in love with your business.

Simple Sales School - Learn how to get a consistent flow of clients so you can build the income & financial freedom you desire.

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Consistency is overrated. Here's why...

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'Consistent' does NOT mean 'constant.'

You do not need to post to Instagram every day.

You don't need to push a podcast episode out, come rain or shine, every single week of the year.

Your business will not collapse if you don't send a newsletter out for a couple of weeks.

To me, being consistent simply means you're on the ball more often than not. It doesn't mean you're on the ball all of the time.

Tune in to this episode to learn:

- Why consistency is pointless without the S word.

- Why you don't always have to be consistent and how to know when you can 'slack off' without breaking your business.

- What happened when I didn't post on Instagram for a whole month.

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Transcript

Ok this title may have been ever so slightly click baity because the fact is that consistency with online marketing in particular is important, we all know that.

But consistency is useless without the S word, and i'll explain what that is in a bit.

There are even times in business where you don't HAVE to be as consistent anymore.

So if you're interested in a gentler and smarter approach to consistency, keep listening.

First of all, we need to stop confusing 'consistent' with 'constant'

You do not need to market constantly. You don't need that pressure. When you put that expectation on yourself, you end up feeling like you're on a marketing hamster wheel or a content creation hamster wheel.

To me, consistent simply means you're on the ball more often than not. It doesn't mean you're on the ball every single day.

So pick a marketing schedule that would feel sustainable to you. Something that isn't every day if that's not within your capacity. And don't feel bad about not being able to show up on socials or post something daily - it's rare that anyone with a life and no team can do this. If you can outsource it - great! If not, don't pressure yourself. You'll be consistent with your marketing if it feels sustainable. That's the key to consistency.

You don't always NEED to be consistent.

If you are going through a challenging or busier than normal season of life, don't also add the pressure to be consistently marketing to your already toppling todo list. Same goes for if you're struggling right now with an illness, grief or something else that's hard. If you don't have the capacity to hire out your marketing then give yourself permission to take a break from it or better yet, try to automate it. Or focus only on 1-2 marketing avenues, and pause the rest for now. It can feel scary, but there's peace in believing & trusting that even if say you stop posting on Instagram for a while and it damages your reach, you're resilient and smart enough to build it up again when you're ready.

I haven't posted for a month to Insta because I've been busy with other things, but my insights still show my account engagement is growing and that's just from a post i made a month ago. So I hope that makes it a little less scary to take a break if you need it.

Another time you don't need to be as consistent is when you've built your business and credibility. I remember interviewing Maya Elious years ago and asking her why she stopped live streaming so often and she said, "because I don't have to. I've built my community and my reputation thanks to that, I don't HAVE to live stream much anymore."

Consistency is most important when you haven't built your community, credability, and grown an audience of people who would love to buy anything you offer. So when you've done those things, you can ease off on being consistent with certain types of marketing, like live streaming.

Another time you may not want to prioritize consistency is if you're not in a growth phase. If you are in a season where you just want to focus on nurturing the audience of potential clients that you've already built, you can get clients from that instead of focusing on growth. That might look like nurturing your email list instead of consistently posting to instagram, or asking for referrals and creating a referral program.

Consistency is pointless without strategy.

You can consistently post let's say an IG post every day. But without strategy, those posts will hear crickets. They won't get engagement. And they won't lead to clients.

I see a lot of business owners unsure what they should post and that's where you need to start. Because you can't have consistency without strategy.

Consistency compounds, it builds momentum and helps you grow and get in front of more people.

But strategy is what converts those people to loyal followers and clients. One without the other isn’t as effective.

About Nesha

Hey there! I’m Nesha, 10-year traveling entrepreneur and host of The Simple Business Show. I teach freedom seekers how to make a full-time income online without working full-time hours, so they have the time, location and financial freedom to live the lifestyle they dream of.

Looking for more ways I can help you? Here they are:

Organize & Automate - Join 1200+ students and learn how to organize your entire online service-based business in just two weeks (on the side of your regular routine!) so you can stop stressing and fall back in love with your business.

Simple Sales School - Learn how to get a consistent flow of clients so you can build the income & financial freedom you desire.

Subscribe & Leave A Review! 

If you enjoyed this episode, you can show your support by leaving a review, subscribing, or sharing your biggest takeaways on your Instagram story! Just remember to tag me @neshawoolery so I can see it.

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There's No Such Thing As Work/Life Balance

 

There is the odd time in life when you're thriving in all areas: friendships, family, relationship, work, finances, personal and spiritual growth, health and hobbies.

But most of the time, I believe a lot of people and business owners are stressed because they hold the unrealistic (and usually unconscious) expectation that we can and should be thriving in all of those areas at once, all of the time. So when we're not, we guilt, pressure and beat ourselves up about it.

We compare ourselves to Nancy on Instagram with the six figure launch and the perfect husband and the daily workout routine and the 3 kids and meal prep and the daily Instagram reels and the 5 books she somehow manages to read each month.

We keep living in silent expectation that one day we will reach a place where we'll just Have It All Figured Out and every area of our lives will perfectly align.

We keep trying to cram our schedule with things that will help us reach our many goals in our many areas of life so we can finally feel like we're living our best lives…

And wonder why we feel overwhelmed.

The truth is… work life balance is a myth. We can’t balance every aspect of our lives, at all times. If we could, we’d all be perfect.

Really, work/life balance is about choosing what your priorities are and giving yourself permission to drop the other things for now. Just until you have the space to pick them up again.

Let's discuss replacing the elusive quest for work/life balance with radical prioritization instead. Tune in to learn more!

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Transcript

Something I've learnt over the years is that there's no such thing as work/life balance, but the truth is way more liberating.

There's the odd time in life when you're thriving in all areas: friendship, family, work, finances, personal and spiritual growth, health and hobbies. But most of the time, the reason we feel stressed is because we hold the unrealistic expectation that we can and should be thriving in all of those areas at once, all of the time. So when we're not, we guilt, pressure and berate ourselves.

We compare ourselves to Nancy on Instagram with the six figure launch and the perfect husband and the daily workout routine and the three kids and the 5 books she somehow manages to read each month.

We keep living in silent, unconscious expectation that one day we will reach a place where we'll just Have It All Figured Out and every area of our lives will align.

We keep trying to cram our schedule with things that will help us reach our many goals so we can finally feel like we're living our best lives, and wonder why we feel overwhelmed.

The truth is, work-life balance is a myth.

But really, work/life balance is about choosing what your priorities are and giving yourself permission to drop the other things for now.

That permission is key.

When we haven't allowed it, we feel stressed because we believe we should  be doing XYZ. For example:  "I should be going to the gym. I should stop being lazy and I should do it. Karen manages to do it and she has more kids than me."

There's a lot of shame and pressure in that which creates stress, versus choosing your priorities right now and giving yourself permission to  de-prioritise everything else.

That sounds like, "my priority is x y and z in this season of my life. I don't have the bandwidth to prioritize going to the gym because it simply isn't most important to me right now. That doesn't mean I can't prioritise that in the future, just not just right now."

In that honest and radical prioritisation, there's no pressure. There is self compassion, acceptance, and balance.

Trying to do All The Things and thrive in all areas of your life = pressure, stress and a constant feeling that you are not doing good enough.

But when we prioritise the most important things and drop the others, that results in more peace and calm, which is what we were seeking when chasing the elusive idea of work-life balance anyway.

My friend and I were talking about this recently and she shared an illustration she had heard on the subject. I don't know where or who the illustration is from, but it goes like this:

It's like juggling too many balls. Some balls are made of plastic and some are made of glass. We don’t want to drop the glass ones because they're the most important - the ones that will break potentially beyond repair if we drop them - but we CAN drop some of the plastic ones because they'll be there waiting for us when we are ready to pick them up again.

The glass balls would be things like your family, your marriage, your mental health. There are things like these that we can't drop because that may result in them breaking beyond repair. But we can drop the lower priorities if we don't have the bandwidth for them right now: the gym, the hobby, the new business idea we want to launch but don't have time for right now. Because those are things we can pick up again when we have more space for them.

Just remember: the key to successful radical prioritisation is giving yourself permission to drop some things, whatever they may be for you. And not beating yourself up over it.

Would you like to work together 1:1?

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COURSES

Organize & Automate: Streamline and organize your business in just 14 days on the side of your regular routine

Simple Sales School: Learn how to book clients consistently and start scaling your business to $5k months

About Nesha

Hey there! I’m Nesha, 10-year traveling entrepreneur and host of The Simple Business Show. I teach freedom seekers how to make a full-time income online without working full-time hours, so they have the time, location and financial freedom to live the lifestyle they dream of.

Looking for more ways I can help you? Here they are:

Organize & Automate - Join 1200+ students and learn how to organize your entire online service-based business in just two weeks (on the side of your regular routine!) so you can stop stressing and fall back in love with your business.

Simple Sales School - Learn how to get a consistent flow of clients so you can build the income & financial freedom you desire.

Subscribe & Leave A Review! 

If you enjoyed this episode, you can show your support by leaving a review, subscribing, or sharing your biggest takeaways on your Instagram story! Just remember to tag me @neshawoolery so I can see it.

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Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform: iTunes, Google or Spotify.

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