How often do you give yourself permission to play and be silly? Have you ever considered comedy improv as a means of developing the key skills needed for entrepreneurship?

As Wellness practitioners it is so easy to be working either within the past or the future with all of the hats that we wear in this space, but there is huge power in using tools that help us become fully present in the now in our business (and life). Being present ensures we feel all the juicy discomfort that can arise from stretching our comfort zones and creates an opportunity for us to work through them - and who knew comedy improv could support us with all this and more.

In this episode of The Wellness Entrepreneur Podcast we speak with Ali Hannon about their love for improvisation and comedy and how utilising key practices from this space can support us with our wellness. Now I know that some of you listening will hear the word improvisation and immediately be feeling discomfort (as you’ll hear in the...

Could you walk away from a career you had dreamt about since you were fourteen?

What if you spent years studying and pushing yourself with that one goal in mind, and then noticed that your entire body was telling you to stop?

Many in this industry have found their true calling in wellness after experimenting with other paths, but Isla McLachlan chose to leave her career in law just as she was starting out.

After forcing herself to work past her limits for years, she finally realised that she couldn’t thrive in an environment that didn’t support her mental health.

But the path from barrister to wellness coach wasn’t easy.

Isla battled her own doubts and her family’s concern. Then, within a short period of starting her business, she was diagnosed with PTSD.

So, in this episode of The Wellness Entrepreneur Podcast, I speak with Isla about her journey since giving up the certainty of a career in law to help others find a safe and comfortable space to explore...

Do you have an idea so big that you’re afraid to think you can ever make it happen?

You know it will push you outside your comfort zone and force you into spaces and situations you’re completely unfamiliar with. 

You’re afraid you’ll drown and sink the whole project with you.

Yet in the last few months that’s exactly what I’ve done to myself.

I have faced down every fear and hesitation I had about launching my own retreat style festival, about collaborating with a co-founder with their own vision, about learning a whole new set of skills to make it all happen.

So, in this episode of The Wellness Entrepreneur Podcast, let me tell you how it all began. 

How my initial idea for a festival for wellness entrepreneurs blended with my colleague’s vision of making this industry a warm and inclusive space for the LGBTQ community and became the incredible festival we just co-launched.

Listen to the full episode where I recount:

- the fears...

When relationships leave us traumatised, we often find ourselves repeating a self destructive pattern of behaviour.   

It can take a long time to break out of that cycle.                         

But if you’ve lived through a lifetime of toxic relationships, how do you even begin to heal yourself?

According to Natalie Russel, the path to recovery from traumatic relationships begins when you choose to focus on your own transformation.

In this episode of The Wellness Entrepreneur Podcast, I speak to Natalie - a self esteem and relationship recovery coach - about the choices that slowly start a healing journey, and how to approach your trauma with compassion and acceptance. 

Listen to the full episode, where we talk about:

- how Natalie chose the pain of change rather than the pain of staying stuck

- how the world is waking up to...

Many in the wellness industry found their calling after a transcendental session with a therapist or counsellor. 

Something they had struggled with for years was suddenly given a name and a form.

We’ve all heard the anecdotes, and a lot of us have lived through this. Knowing ourselves better gave us the tools to fight and build a better life for ourselves.

Yet, outside the wellness circle, mental health is rarely given the importance it deserves.

This is why I decided to invite someone who is intimately familiar with the world of therapy and is deeply invested in helping promote popular awareness of mental health issues online.

In today’s episode of The Wellness Entrepreneur Podcast, I’m speaking to psychotherapist, Rebecca Hays about her personal and professional journey into counselling, and why we should strive to normalise mental health conversations in every household. 

Interestingly, a robin played a decisive role in helping Rebecca choose her...

Let’s talk about how some social media accounts seem to attract followers and engagement with ease even though their content strategy doesn’t seem to be anything special.

Maybe a lot of what they post is very similar to your own content.

But something is attracting the audience and clients to them and not to you.

What is it and how can you make it work for your business?

Here’s a big hint before we dive in - these businesses have mastered something else before they worked on their content strategy.

Ready to find out what it is?

Today’s episode on The Wellness Entrepreneur Podcast is going to focus on how businesses attract the right audience by using the magic of brand magnetism.

To make your brand magnetic to your clients, there are six major elements in your business that you need to focus on.

Listen to the full episode to find out what they are, but here are some crucial points I cover today:

- Develop a mindset that sees every challenge as an...

How often have you pushed back a holiday or short break because you were afraid to disappoint your clients?

I remember how crushed I used to feel when a client would react badly to my taking some time off.

This was years ago, before I reduced my one-to-one clients to a select handful.

Yet, that feeling of dread every time I needed a break is still fresh in my mind.

So, when a team member needed to push back a masterclass inside my membership last week, I knew exactly what she was experiencing.

And a small part of me felt that fear too.

But the members of The Collective proved once again how incredibly valuable finding the right community for your business is.

They were immensely supportive, but what was even better, they were encouraged to see that my team could take a break when they really needed it.

In this episode of The Wellness Entrepreneur Podcast, I want to talk about the importance of being your honest, human self instead of an unhealthy ideal. Your clients want to work...

The traditional wellness industry business model is broken. 

No matter which modality you’ve trained in, once you step out into the world and set up shop, you’ll soon have the realisation I did.

There’s something glaringly wrong with how you’ve been told to do business in this industry.

It’s likely your training never really covered any skills in business - you were probably vaguely told to start attracting clients and begin working with them one-to-one.

That when you’re fully booked with a long waitlist, you’ll know that you’ve succeeded.

But is that really true?

I found myself in that coveted position early on in my career. But instead of being happy, I was exhausted. My every available hour was taken up by direct client work. 

I couldn’t even dream of scaling my business. How could I, when there was just one of me and time was limited?

And then I figured out what the problem was. 

I had bought into our...

Every new year, we create a list of goals in our hearts and journals. We envision that somehow in the next twelve months, we will fulfil a dream or a business milestone.

But most of us do this without proper goal setting.

Which means that four months later, by the end of April, the majority of people have made very little progress towards achieving their dreams.

They are beginning to write off 2022, just as they gave up on the years before.

I’m sure you’re familiar with this pattern of behaviour, since all of us have experienced it in our lives.

You decide on working towards a dream at the start of the year, but somehow within a few months, you find yourself sidetracked.

You haven’t forgotten your dream but you have become overwhelmed.

It’s almost easier to tell yourself that you’ll start afresh again next year.

But this pushes your dream further down the path and delays milestones you could be reaching sooner.

Which is why in this episode of The...

Selling is supposed to equal lying, manipulation, and selfishness - the antithesis of everything we value in wellness. 

This is why most of us struggle to be at peace with selling our services. It always feels wrong and in conflict with our core beliefs.

But what if I told you that the traditional view of selling is not just wrong, it’s utterly ineffective.

What if I told you that you couldn’t sell anything if you were lying or trying to manipulate your clients? 

The best salespeople lead with human connections and empathy.

Authenticity and the ability to humbly learn from rejections is how successful wellness businesses are built. 

To prove my point, Lynsey Grace joins me in today’s episode of The Wellness Entrepreneur Podcast. She is a “Soulful Selling” mindset coach who works with entrepreneurs to help them find the courage and confidence to make more sales without leaving integrity at the door.

Inside the episode, I find out why...