Your Simple & Spacious Business

Jen Carrington
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I’m Jen Carrington, an online business guide and I’ve spent the past nine years building and running my own simple and spacious business and supporting hundreds of my clients in theirs too. In this show I’ll be diving into the ways we can bring more simplicity, ease, joy, and intention to our work - through both the nitty gritty practical shifts and all of the mindset shifts that comes with running your own business too. This podcast isn’t here to tell you how to build and run your business, instead I want to support you to build and run your business in whatever way truly works best for you. yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    A Q1 catch up 🐢

    For my first podcast episode of the year back in January I shared all about planning for 2026 when we don’t know what our capacity will be. I entered this new year with so much clarity around my creative desires, for the mini book of essays that I want to write and self-publish, for the first draft of my novel that I want to chip away at this year, and the app my husband and I are working on together too. And I also knew that I would have to be okay with the messy, imperfect, and beautiful road that I walk down as a human who lives in a chronically ill body. Because the gap between my creative desires and my capacity can feel so huge some days. In this week’s podcast episode I recorded a catch up from Q1 in my business and creative work; I share how business is feeling really good so far this year and what’s working well and how I’m adjusting my mindset and approach to expanding what my body of work can be this year too as I continue to slowly work on my creative projects. More than anything, I hope this episode helps you feel less alone if you’re also navigating a gap between your desires and your capacity too and that you know that it’s possible to bridge the gap between where you are now and where you truly wish to be next in your business and creative life without sacrificing your joy, peace, and wellbeing in the process. Sometimes we just have to be okay going at a slower, gentler, more flexible pace. Links: Find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business + join us inside whilst doors are open this week 🌼 Read my Substack essay: Move gently & stay the course Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

    21 min

  2. 17 MAR

    Do I regret making my group program a lifetime offer? 💫

    Four years ago when I first built and launched my group program Your Simple & Spacious Business I made a very gut driven decision to price it as a lifetime offer. Instead of needing to continue to renew and pay to keep access to all of the resources, coaching, and community inside members pay just once and then continue to get access at no extra cost. Do I have any regrets? No. Even though I know I’d make more money if existing members had to continue to keep paying, and therefore need to do less marketing to welcome brand new members in each year, I’m so glad that I priced the program this way. But does that mean that I recommend this pricing structure to everyone else? Not really. And would I do it again for a different offer? I don’t think so. In today’s podcast episode I dive deeper into all of this and share all of my feelings, thoughts, and lessons learned from pricing an offer this way and why it’s the best worst business decision I’ve ever made. Links: Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day. Find out more about YS&SB and join the waitlist before doors open again next week. Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

    25 min

  3. 10 MAR

    Five routines that support my simple & spacious business 🗓️

    Living with two chronic illnesses means that I have many routines, structures, and boundaries that I rely on in my business so that I can continue to sustain my work and income whilst also honouring the daily realities of living in a disabled body. I talk a lot about the ways I’ve designed my business model and offers to work best for me and to be a space where I’m able to do meaningful work with my clients and customers and today I’m getting a little more granular and sharing with you five routines that support my simple and spacious business each week. I share: 🗓️ How I plan my workload a quarter at a time 📝 How I use weekly time blocking 🌿 Why I never work on Wednesday’s and Friday’s 🌼 My marketing Monday’s 🌸 And how I offer asynchronous 1:1 coaching each workday without feeling overwhelmed My hope is that today’s podcast episode can spark some ideas for ways you can build routines that support you to gently thrive in your business each week too. Links: Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day. Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business. Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

    19 min

  4. 3 MAR

    How I’ve sustained a client workload for over a decade 🪴

    I’ve found that we talk a lot about growth as small business owners but not enough about actually sustaining these businesses of ours for the long run. Because longevity has always been my goal, not the endless pursuit of more, more, more. Sustaining the energy, devotion, courage and creativity that my business asks of me has been essential for me in my work ever since I started my business 12 years ago now. It’s how I’ve been able to stay committed to doing my very best work for my clients and customers and continue to sustain steady sales in my business thanks to strong word of mouth, testimonials, and sustaining a gentle marketing plan too. So today I’m sharing the ways I’ve supported my business to sustain a client workload for over a decade now, from the ways I’ve designed my offers, to how I protect the space I need to hold space, and why downloading my brain was one of the best decisions I’ve made and more. Whatever your business model, my hope is that this episode holds some space for you to explore what sustaining the energy, devotion, courage, and creativity your business asks of you looks like for you too 🌼 Links: Join me for next week’s workshop: Marketing Without Performance & Persuasion Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day. Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business. Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

    21 min

  5. 24 FEB

    Six gentle alternatives to old school launching 🌼

    Over and over again my clients have been telling me: I want launching to feel simpler, more easeful, more low-lift. Either big, intense launch plans have exhausted their body and nervous system in the past or they’ve avoided selling altogether because what they think they have to do feels super out of alignment for them. And I get it, because I’m right there with them too. As I shared in my last episode I’m leaning into much softer sales cycles this year and so far it’s feeling really good. If old school launching advice and being told that you have to go big, build hype, and create more, more, more sales content and take up more space than feels sustainable for you is holding you back from creating sales cycles that support you to reach your financial goals, I recorded this week’s podcast episode for you. In it I share six gentle alternatives to go-big-or-go-home launch strategy that I hope can crack open some fresh ideas for how you can sell this year in a way that resonates and connects with your hell yes people and actually feels fun and sustainable for you to bring to life too. Links: Join me for next month’s workshop: Marketing Without Performance & Persuasion Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day. Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

    18 min

  6. 10 FEB

    All the behind the scenes of my first launch of the year 🚀

    One of my goals heading into this year was to redefine for myself what launching and sales cycles get to look like in my business, especially for my group program Your Simple & Spacious Business which I sell multiple times a year. Sales were a little slower at times last year but doing bigger launches also just wasn’t feeling good for my nervous system and capacity anymore either. And so much of the advice I saw last year in response to many people’s launches not working as well as they used to was to do more: build more hype, create more urgency, build more volume and virality, more, more, more. And I’m just not interested in extracting from myself to sustain my business or to feel like it’s my job to perform or persuade in my work. So when I was mapping out my sales cycles for 2026 I decided that I what I want to experiment with this year are mini enrolments rather than big launches, to take the pressure off each launch, and to embrace lower-lift sales cycles rather than feeling like I have to go big and push myself to do more, more, more. In today’s podcast episode I share more behind the scenes of how I’m embracing softer sales cycles in my business this year and all of the behind the scenes of this launch, why I only sent sales emails to a 5th of my email list, and what I think supported this first mini enrolment of the year to gently thrive and reach my goals. Links: Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day. Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business. Join me over on Substack. Photo credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

    26 min

  7. 3 FEB

    Your needs are the answer, not the obstacle 🌸

    As a society we celebrate fast growth, pushing through, and overcoming whatever obstacles are in our way. Yet over and over again I see my clients truly crack open gentle momentum and growth in their business journey - and actually have the capacity to sustain that growth - when they are brave enough to honour their needs in the process. When they go at their own pace, when they opt-out of the growth-at-all-costs mindset, and when they tend to their nervous system every step of the way. I’m a chronically ill parent and there’s no way I would have been able to sustain my business for over a decade now without deeply honouring my humanness in my work. I have a mantra: our needs are the answer, not the obstacle. They’re how we can feel resourced and rested enough to actually sustain the courage, experimentation, and devotion to doing our very best work that running our own business asks of us each week. So in today’s podcast episode I share more about what it’s looked like to see my own needs as the answer and not the obstacle in my business and some encouragement for how you can do the same too. You’re not alone if you need a whole lot of space to tend to the needs of your life, body, and mind in your business. I’m right there with you, needy and refusing to be ashamed of it. Links: Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day. And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and come and join us inside before doors close this week on Thursday 5th 💫 Photo credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

    20 min

  8. 27 JAN

    5 steps to reclaim your entrepreneurial inner compass 🧭

    A wonderful human left a comment on one of my Substack essays recently that inspired today’s episode. They shared: “I’ve spent the last few years reclaiming my identity from coaches and gurus I purchased courses upon courses from. I was so desperate to find the answer to unlocking success… along the way, I completely lost myself. I’ve been slowly but surely finding myself and rebuilding confidence” I think that there is so much gentle power in reclaiming our entrepreneurial inner compass in our business. In redefining the hierarchy in our mind of who knows best what our business needs to thrive. And I think outsourcing the leadership of our business and believing that someone else knows better than we do is such a dangerous way to not only disconnect ourselves from our own inner wisdom but also lead us down an entrepreneurial path that probably isn’t built to truly work best for us. In today’s episode I walk you through five simple steps to reclaim your entrepreneurial inner compass if your head feels really noisy right now from everyone else’s noise and if you’re doubting your own entrepreneurial instincts and craving deeper intuition in your work. Links: Over on my Substack: But what if I don’t want to be a personal brand? Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day. And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and join the waitlist before doors open again this week. Photo credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

    18 min
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I’m Jen Carrington, an online business guide and I’ve spent the past nine years building and running my own simple and spacious business and supporting hundreds of my clients in theirs too. In this show I’ll be diving into the ways we can bring more simplicity, ease, joy, and intention to our work - through both the nitty gritty practical shifts and all of the mindset shifts that comes with running your own business too. This podcast isn’t here to tell you how to build and run your business, instead I want to support you to build and run your business in whatever way truly works best for you. yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

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