[Series 1/3] In this episode, I break down how to ditch overwhelm and inaction, and swap it with a two hour a month Lifestyle Business Operating System.

I deep dive into setting an inspiring lifestyle vision, ensuring your business model is capable of achieving it and how to develop a simple business system to bring it to life.

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[Series 2/3] In this episode, I break down how to ditch overwhelm and inaction, and swap it with a two hour a month Lifestyle Business Operating System.

This episode deep dives into part two of the Operating System, and breaks down how to plan, set a steady pulse to stay on track and also how track and measure your progress.

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In this episode, I share more about why I decided to pause the pod and how my approach to content creation is shifting. I also share more about the shifts I have been in my business focus and why I am going all in on helping people take messy action.

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In the past 12 months, I’ve created 8 online courses.

That’s 680 lessons, according to my course platform.

[Read the full blog post here].

It’s all been part of a grand master plan I hatched in mid-2023 to build out the complete operating system for building a leveraged, expertise-based lifestyle business.

The eight courses are designed with that specific endgame in mind.

Here’s a summary:

• Lifestyle Business School Roadmap: This is the overarching roadmap for mapping and tracking your progress to your personal endgame.
• Dream and Design: Design the leveraged expertise-based business model that satisfies the Monday Morning test and feels just right for you.
• Create and Validate: Build a simple, leveraged expertise-based offer suite (and the engaged lead list to sell it) in 12-weeks.
• Deliver and Delight: The full delivery playbook for building out a stand out and streamlined online course, group program, membership or mastermind.
• Rinse and Repeat: The ultimate collective of every live launch and promotion under the sun.
• Traffic Playbook: Develop and execute a simple but sophisticated marketing plan to sell your scalable offers.
• Automate and Accelerate: Build out a fully automated system of cascading campaigns to sell your offers on autopilot.. while you sleep.
• [Not currently included in Lifestyle Business School] Operational Elegance: The full back end blueprint for running your online business including systems, structure and streamlined processes to simplify, scale.. or step back!

Here’s why it was important to me, though.

When I looked around, I saw too much piecemeal advice.

“Implement this strategy for success!” – one course would say.

“Do this and get your next 1000 followers!” – another would say.

The truth is, everything worked (if implemented).

But, the advice was piecemeal.

They were tactics, when ultimately what someone needs to build a successful leveraged lifestyle business is a simple, holistic strategy, and a clear map with all of the pieces laid out in order.

That’s what I have created in Lifestyle Business School.

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In 2007, I spent six weeks in a hostel in the middle of Guatemala just “because”.

Truly, I’d never felt so free.

The two years prior had been spent working like a donkey, with good people but in a field I hated.

The endgame? Admission to the Supreme Course of Queensland as a lawyer.

It was an accolade I spent 7 years working towards..

Only to quit, 6-weeks to the day later.

And so, there I found myself in a computer shop in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, on a steaming April afternoon checking my emails when my brothers friend messaged us on Facebook.

“Wanna come visit?” – he wrote, “I’m just down the road in Guatemala!”

We looked at each other.

Of course we would. It wasn’t even a QUESTION.

We were free. The world was our oyster. And we could do anything, be anyone, go anywhere!

And so it came to be that I ended up spending the best, most carefree, most FUN 6-weeks of my life living out of a backpack in a dingy hostel dorm room in Antigua.

Acutely aware that I had opted out of life for a little minute, and feeling grateful as heck for it.

Five years later, I started my online business chasing that kind of freedom again.

And on the surface, the promise of it all felt.. intoxicating.

Time freedom – to work when I wanted!

Location freedom – to go back to Central America, or London, or ANYWHERE BUT HERE!

Financial freedom – to make more than a doctors wages working on the goddamn INTERNET!

I wanted it.

The sense of adventure.

The possibility.

The wonder that came from not knowing what would come next.

The Tuesday afternoons spent outside (and not in an air-conditioned cubicle)

ALL OF IT.

🍊 Rinse and Repeat has just been added to Lifestyle Business School! This is the ultimate collection of every live launch and promotion under the sun. Join now for $149/m.

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🎁 I have a gift for you!

This time of year is the PERFECT time to take stock of what worked, what didn't and what you need to change or work on next year.

And, to help you take ACTION on doing that, I have created something for you!

Introducing.. the ULTIMATE Expertise-Based Business Diagnostic.

Click here to download it now

The intention of this business diagnostic is to help you to either audit your current business, or identify what you need to BUILD. Once you have all of the items in the audit built and optimised, you have the engine required for a sustainable, profitable and happy lifestyle business.

So, there are two things to do!

1. Download the expertise-based business diagnostic. You can do that here.
2. Listen to today's podcast episode, where we break the diagnostic down in detail.

There are five key areas covered in the diagnostic. Here is what each will assess:

• Business Model: Whether you are set up with a leveraged model capable of achieving your version of the Lifestyle Business Sweet Spot;
• Offer: Whether you have an irresistible leveraged offer that converts;
• Leads: Whether you have a ready pool of high quality leads;
• Sales: Whether you have high converting live launch and automated selling systems.
• Delivery: Whether you have systemised and streamlined delivery processes for fulfilling your offers.

I recommend using this in your 2023/2024 planning process, to help you to identify the gaps and opportunities in your business.

Enjoy!

PS Side note? Lifestyle Business School doors are currently open. In the five weeks since we kicked off, we already have so many members taking BIG action. They are service providers, educators, online business owners like you. Want to do the same? Join us now, soak it all up and start 2024 strong. Click here to find out more.

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🍑 Rinse and Repeat has just been added to Lifestyle Business School! This is the ultimate collection of every live launch and promotion under the sun. Join now for $149/m.

I’ve had 17,400 Instagram followers for YEARS now.

Sure, it tracks up a bit.

Down a bit.

But overall, it HOVERS around that number 🛸

Same with my trusty email list.

A few subscribers up.. then a few down.. and repeat.

But, what can I REALLY expect?

I HAVEN’T TAKEN AUDIENCE GROWTH SERIOUSLY SINCE 2017.

In 2023 though, I changed my business model.

I gained clarity on my founder type and ditched the big, stressful business to to intentionally go back to my creator roots.

Here’s why:

In November 2022, I turned 40.

And let me tell YOU:

There’s something about turning 40 that puts everything into perspective.

It makes you realise that you are not, in fact, immortal.

That “later in life” has actually come WAY FASTER THAN YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD.

It helped me – in the best possible way – to define my dreams and what I REALLY wanted to do with the increasingly limited time I have left.

Here’s what I realised in the process:

That I was really, really proud of what I’d achieved in the 7 years prior since I’d started my business.

.. Even though I was a late bloomer.

.. Even though I’d spent FAR TOO MUCH of my life *ahem my twenties into my early thirties* waiting for the weekend and losing myself in happy hour.

.. And even though I’d veered a little off course in building the wrong model for me.

With every misstep, I’d had the tenacity, courage and clarity to course correct and keep chasing after my dreams.

And ALSO?

I realised that I was in NO WAY DONE YET.

That in many ways, I was just getting started.

And if YOUR dream is to build a lifestyle business, Lifestyle Business School is the thing I have personally built to help you get there.

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In the past two years, I have gone from three full time team members..
To me, one part time contractor.
The result of scaling DOWN my team?
My business went from 40% profit margins on a good month.. To 80%, always.
I halved my revenue.. But took home WAY more profit.
And I felt lighter, happier and more fulfilled than I had in years, with my days spent working on the things that truly light me up.
Two years on, things looked so very different..
It feels like a dream.
The no-team dream.
Systems Over Team

So, what changed?
And specifically, what ENABLED me to re-build my business A One-Woman Show Working 5-Hour Days With 80% Profit Margins?

Here’s the cliff notes:
From a business model perspective, I moved to a model that felt far more aligned.
It required fewer moving parts, fewer offers and fewer resources.
And I started prioritising systems over team.

It looks like this:
✔️ A Simple Model: One of the most overlooked “secrets” to an elegant business is simplicity. More offers, more work. I worked on refining my business model and offer suite to be simple.
✔️ Increased Leverage: I built offers that leverage my time by packaging my Intellectual Property into scalable offers that were divorced from my time (and didn’t require big team to run).
✔️ And Systems BEFORE Team: Rather than hiring FIRST, I worked to systemise as much of my business as possible, so that my time is now leveraged by processes, automations and tools instead of another set of hands.

Together, those three things, once achieved, are a little thing called Operational Elegance – and it has changed my (business) life.
Operations doesn’t sound sexy.
But truly, it is the thing that has set me free.
I want other people to experience it, and it’s why I have dedicated my entire business mission since 2022 to help others achieve the same.

If you resonate with this mission? Lifestyle Business School is for you.

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