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We Won! APAC’s 2023 Australian Enterprise Awards!
We are so excited to announce that we were just named the 'Most Enriching Business Behavioural Coaching Provider in New South Wales' in the prestigious Australian Enterprise Awards 2023 by APAC Insider.
We’re supremely humbled and grateful to be recognised along this line up of incredible business owners!
The Secret to Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
You see, the secret to overcoming Imposter Syndrome, according to expert Valerie Young, is that you need to accept and integrate your ‘Crusher’.
Say what now?
The Secret Source of Burnout in Your Team
Have you heard of e-disc? It’s a behavioural analysis tool backed by decades of research, that is used to identify an individual’s natural strengths (captain energies).
Are you a Technician or an Entrepreneur?
We’ve been friends for a little while here right…
Can we have a really open and direct conversation?
There’s a consistent mistake or trap Founders fall into you need to know about.
They think they’re entrepreneurs and read books about being entrepreneurs - whilst they are actually still operating like technicians.
According to Michael Gerber, author of the #1 business book E-Myth, the core difference between the Entrepreneur and the Technician is that the Entrepreneur owns an Enterprise and the Technician owns a job.
Raised $8525 to Support Kids in Crisis
To every one of you who have supported us, booked one of our workshops, joined our mastermind or worked with us (or our team) over the last 24 months…
Congratulations, you have directly impacted the lives of: 170 vulnerable Australian kids!
3 Rules that will see you achieve your Business Goals in 2023
Regardless of how you went with goal setting this year (like you seriously suck at it, or hate it or never even think about it) - there are 3 golden rules you can apply right now, to guarantee that you smash through your goals in 2023.
Ready to hear them?
Despite your success, it’s not enough. Something’s missing isn’t it?
Before we work with any client we actually take them through a complimentary one hour strategy session where we do a gaps analysis of the 4 core aspects of their business that tend to be out of alignment and map out the most important thing that needs to happen in each quadrant to bring them in alignment.
And having done hundreds of these over the years, we’ve come to realise that most Founders feel like they are missing 1 of 3 of these crucial ingredients for a full life.
4 Ways Founders Block their own Growth
As a founder or business owner, it's your job to bring the certainty.
It's your job to see what others cannot see yet, and empower them to try anyway.
It's your job to be the glue that ties all the people who orbit your business together. Not physically but emotionally.
Why Purpose-Driven Founders have it harder…
We need vision unlike any other.
We need a deep seeded belief that it is possible to create the change we seek & incredible patience, authenticity and communication in order to inspire people to join our movement.
Above all we need grounding.
Better with Clients than Staff?
There is a critical mindset difference between a Founder who is good with all people and one who considers themselves bad with people but good with their customers...
The prior understands that time spent with their team is no different to time spent with clients - it is not taking them away from revenue making activities - IT IS REVENUE BUILDING.
They see time spent with their team as the biggest investment into their bottom line they can make.
5 Pieces of Advice for Start-Ups & Service-Based Founders
We have a lot of calls with Founders.
Some are new to business entirely and doing this thing called leadership for the first time.
Some are seasoned pros, onto their 3rd or 4th venture.
And many of them are somewhere in between…
They’re past the start-up years but often still operating like they’re one.
5 Secret Levers Every Founder can Pull
We’ve worked with hundreds of people over the last 3 years and each one of them has seen improvements in their mindset, performance, leadership or self-concept.
Most importantly, even when they can’t make sense of how or why, they FEEL different - lighter, hopeful, empowered, capable!
And we’ve achieved that by working with them across 5 levers.
The same 5 levers you can work on to achieve the same incredible results
Those secret 5 levers are:
Do you have exceptionally high-standards?
Do you consider yourself a little bit of a perfectionist?
Someone with exceptionally high-standards?
Someone who invests a lot of energy to get it ‘just-right’?
We have a controversial ideal we want to run past you…
Perfectionism is the voice of younger-you saying I never want to feel vulnerable again.
Perfectionism is what happens when earlier on in life, we felt criticised, humiliated or shamed and we internalised that experience to mean “we were not enough”.
BS Alert: When people say Look forward - Don’t look back
Have you heard people say, you can’t drive a car looking out the back window?
Makes sense, right?!
It’s a clean metaphor of the ills of getting stuck in the past.
BUT did you know, there’s such a thing as getting stuck in the Future too!
The Shit No One Else Tells You
Don't know who needs to hear this…
But Peace looks like Boredom to People Who Grew Up In Chaos.
If you keep swimming in Drama in your business - it may be a sign your Nervous System needs to be reset and shown a new way.
From Imposter to Empowered
Confession: I’ve had a lifelong phobia of public speaking.
There I said it.
14 years ago the phobia was so crippling that I remember being on a tour with 15 other people and when it came time to introduce myself, I literally HID under the seat so I did not have to speak!
In front of 15 people.
Who ironically knew I was there and hiding (even worse right)!
6 Signs Your Nervous System is Dysregulated
Emotion dysregulation happens when we never learnt how to successfully manage our emotions in early life.
This often takes place when our caregivers themselves struggled to manage their own emotions and never modelled for us what healthy emotional processing looks like.
7 things our Clients say Before they become our Clients
1. I know where I want to go, but I am not actively moving towards it
2. I'm not comfortable self-promoting
3. I am so tired by week's end we have no energy left to create or inspire….
What people Think Coaching is vs What it Really is…
"I honestly had no idea what coaching was, when I signed up"
"I have no idea how to describe what we actually work on" - says 90% of our Clients
It is totally normal to have no idea what coaching is - hell I struggled to explain it for a long time myself.
10 Signs you are Living in Alignment
When you have heart-mind alignment, it simply means YOU stop becoming a barrier for you to overcome.
Read that again.
What matters is not where you are today,
but where you want to be, and what you are willing to let go of - to get there.
This is your journey and we are with you every step of the way.