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. 3 DAYS AGO

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 20 JAN

    How it feels to be able to earn less this year 💷

    I have been the breadwinner for my family for over a decade now, which has at times felt so empowering and at times also felt like a whole lot of responsibility on my shoulders too. After five years of mostly being a stay at home dad and retraining to be a software developer, my husband started a full time job last October so heading into 2026 I now have the option to earn a little less this year in my business if I want to. I’m still the higher earner and probably will be for quite a few more years to come but I am no longer responsible for almost all of our financial needs and long term goals and my nervous system was honestly so ready for this. So in today’s episode I’m sharing some very in-the-moment thoughts, feelings, and reflections on how it feels to be able to earn less money this year if I want to and all of the big messy feelings that’s brought up for me too. And most of all I hope this episode can encourage you to know that how much you earn in your business isn’t the most interesting thing about you in your work and that your financial goals don’t have to exist in response to anyone else’s. Links: Over on my Substack: I don’t want to be the breadwinner anymore 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 next 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

    22 min

  5. 13 JAN

    How long would 100 new customers sustain your business for? 📉

    A conversation that I have over and over again with the wonderful humans I work with is encouraging them to know and trust that marketing gets to feel way more simple in their business. I have been marketing my business online for 12 years now. 12 years, hundreds of clients and customers, thousands of email subscribers and social media followers, and over a decade of sustaining my business financially without doing anything that I don’t want to do to reach my sales goals. There is so much noise out here telling us what our marketing plan has to look like. Expert after expert telling us what we should be doing to reach our sales goals and sustain our business. It’s a lot and for those of us who crave slower, gentler, more spacious businesses it goes completely against our needs to feel like marketing is a place where we have to perform and persuade and extract from ourselves energetic resources that we don’t actually have available to give in our business. So in today’s episode I’m sharing with you a calmer and more human approach to marketing in 2026 and some questions that I find so clarifying when it comes to rooting into intention with our marketing plans. I also share some behind the scenes of what I’m prioritising and experimenting with in my marketing this year too. Links: Join my free library where you can dive into my 100 Hell Yes People toolkit. And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and join the waitlist before doors open again at the end of January. 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

    21 min

  6. 6 JAN

    Planning for 2026 when you don’t know what your capacity will be 🗓️

    I feel more clarified at the start of this year than I have in a long while. Or perhaps, more than clarified, I feel like I am in deeper dialogue with my desires and creative curiosities than I have been in recent years. There’s a mini book of essays that I want to write and self publish, an app that I’m building with my husband, a novel idea that I want to get lost in - all whilst gently sustaining my business and doing my very best work for my clients and customers too. And also… I’m still a human who lives in a chronically ill body, I’m a parent, and I’m also just a deeply introverted human who doesn’t thrive at a go go go pace. I have no idea what my capacity will be this year - 2025 was a very low capacity year for me with lots of health challenges, and as I enter this brand new year with creative desires, a business I want to continue to nourish and sustain, and a simple daily life that I like to fill with walks, reading, and naps whenever I need them too, I am balancing both gentle devotion to my creative desires and an acceptance that I want and need to honour my own humanness and capacity and pace every step of the way. In today’s episode I share more about my desires and creative projects for the year ahead and a simple process for moving towards your own desires and intentions for your business and creative work this year whilst honouring your humanness, your needs, and your capacity inevitably shifting 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

    25 min

  7. 09/12/2025

    When you’re not the same person you were at the start of the year 🌼

    Does anyone else feel like you’re just not the same person you were at the start of the year? That’s exactly how I’ve found myself feeling as we start to wrap up this year and slowly enter a brand new one in just a few weeks. So for my last podcast episode of the year I’m just sharing a very candid and personal voice note from me to you sharing how I’m processing 2025 and all of the ways it has changed me and I also share some encouragement for you if you’re also finding yourself navigating a season of deep transition and evolution too. Links: Get the end of year coaching session recording sent straight to your inbox. 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

    19 min

  8. 02/12/2025

    So… I made a nine grid 📱

    Last week I logged into IG, archived a decade of posts, and uploaded a nine grid to be a simple landing page for my business. In today’s episode I share why I did this and take you on a walk down memory lane as I share why IG has always been a side character in my marketing plan, how I have grown my audience online without relying on social media, and why my vision for my marketing plan for this next season doesn’t include IG at all. If you’re feel exhausted by the pressure to dilute your marketing plan to please an algorithm or are just in need of a mini pep talk to do marketing in a way that works best for you and your creativity and capacity, this episode is for you. 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 - including my toolkit called 100 Hell Yes People if you’re craving deeper guidance on reaching your hell yes people in your business in a way and at a pace that feels aligned, creative, and sustainable to you. Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business. Join me over on Substack. Listen to Amelia’s podcast that I mentioned: Off The Grid. 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

    25 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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