ReWild Your Business

Gill Moakes
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This podcast is where we name what’s not working, unlearn what was never a good fit, and make space for the truth underneath. Your business was never meant to be built from strategy alone, it was meant to be built from you: your values, your voice, your rhythm, your soul. gillmoakes.substack.com

  1. #214 - The Natural Order Of Things - Part 4 - World View

    4d ago

    #214 - The Natural Order Of Things - Part 4 - World View

    You know the feeling. You read something and stop dead. "Yes. Exactly that. I've never heard it put that way before." That flash of recognition is what a worldview does, and it's the difference between being remembered and being white noise. This week we're into layer four of our 7 part mini series, The Natural Order Of Things: your worldview. Your thought leadership. Your distinctive, lived, hard-won take on your corner of the world. It's the opinions you'd defend in a room full of people who disagreed with you, and it's the reason the right people choose you and keep coming back. If you've ever felt like you're doing everything right and somehow still disappearing, this is the one for you. Next week, part five: the Speaking Up layer, where we take your worldview and make you properly visible to the people who need you. Mentioned in this episode The Natural Order of Things, the book. My gift to you, free to download: https://gillmoakes.com/natural-order-book Your World View companion worksheet: https://gillmoakes.com/214 The bonus workbook for figuring out your worldview, borrowed from my Coaching Business Academy, because some things are too good to reinvent: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yf_E_Cq4h9uCOPjM7hfKDZX2x2S-_vfV/copy The Wild Way, my community for soul-led women. £22 a month, live calls together at new moon and full moon, and our first gathering is at New Moon on 15th June: https://gillmoakes.com/wildway 🤍 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gillmoakes.substack.com

    30 min

  2. Jun 1

    #213 - The Natural Order Of Things - Part 3 - Soul Work

    Most offers are built from the wrong starting point - the market. What's already out there. What seems to be working for other people. And when you build that way, the best you can produce is a competent version of something that already exists. In this episode, part three of The Natural Order of Things series, I'm exploring layer three of the seven-part business diagnostic: Soul Work. This is where your inner world meets the outer one for the first time. It's where your vision, your values, and your story become something you can place in someone's hands. I walk through what it actually feels like when an offer is genuinely right - generous, complete, confidence-inspiring, and exciting to talk about, and how to know the difference between a soul work offer and one you've built because it seemed logical. I also go into pricing: why your intuition knows when you're underpricing (and the resentment that builds when you do), why it also knows when you're overpricing, and what it means to build your price from the inside out. Download the companion worksheet (10 journal prompts to audit this layer): https://www.gillmoakes.com/213 If you haven't listened yet: Start with Ep 211 (Inner Knowing) and Ep 212 (Truest Expression) before this one. Also Mentioned In This Episode: Download The Natural Order Of Things book: https://gillmoakes.com/natural-order-book Join the waitlist for my community, The Wild Way: https://gillmoakes.com/wildway This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gillmoakes.substack.com

    41 min
  3. #212 - The Natural Order Of Things - Part 2 - Truest Expression

    May 25

    #212 - The Natural Order Of Things - Part 2 - Truest Expression

    Your brand isn’t your logo. It isn’t your colour palette. It’s the truest expression of who you are, and in this episode, I'm diving deep into Layer 2 of The Natural Order of Things framework: Truest Expression. If your vision and mindset - your inner knowing - is solid but your business still isn’t growing the way it should, this is the layer to look at next. I share openly about my own brand evolution - the years I spent showing up as an edited, strategically ‘sensible’ version of myself, and what shifted when she finally chose to bring all of who I am to my work. This episode explores the five questions your brand must be able to answer, why your story is your greatest competitive advantage, and how closing the gap between who you are and how you present yourself is the moment everything changes. Don’t forget to download this week’s companion worksheet for the 10 journaling prompts to help you audit this layer: https://www.gillmoakes.com/212 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gillmoakes.substack.com

    28 min
  4. #211 - The Natural Order Of Things - Part 1: Inner Knowing

    May 18

    #211 - The Natural Order Of Things - Part 1: Inner Knowing

    If your business feels stalled, the answer probably isn't a new strategy, a better funnel, or more content. It's likely something far more foundational, and that's exactly where this series begins. This is Part 1 of the seven-layer Natural Order of Things framework, and we're starting with Inner Knowing: your vision, your mindset, and your intuition. This is the layer beneath everything else. And if it's shaky, nothing built on top of it will work the way you want it to. In this episode, I walk you through four signs that this is the layer that needs your attention first, from a disconnection from your intuition, to an unclear purpose, to fear quietly running your business decisions, to the parts of your vision you've edited out because they felt too bold. This isn't about manifestation rituals or mindset hacks. It's about getting honest with yourself about whether you're building your business from your own inner knowing, or from someone else's blueprint that was never meant for you. Download the free Inner Knowing companion worksheet - 10 journaling prompts to help you audit this layer properly: https://www.gillmoakes.com/211 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gillmoakes.substack.com

    30 min
  5. #210 - How To Know What To Fix First If Your Soul-Led Business Has Stalled

    May 11

    #210 - How To Know What To Fix First If Your Soul-Led Business Has Stalled

    Grab a pen. This one's a keeper. If you've been working hard, doing ALL the things - showing up on social media, refining your messaging, tweaking your website, maybe even running ads, and the growth still isn't coming, this episode is for you. The problem usually isn't a lack of effort. It's that most business advice treats growth like a flat problem, as though everything is equally important and you just need to do everything better, all at once. It isn't. Growth is always sequential. And when you don't know what to fix first, you end up pedalling fast in first gear and getting nowhere. In this episode, Gill introduces The Natural Order of Things - a seven-layer diagnostic framework for auditing your soul-led business from the inside out. Once you hear it, you won't look at your business the same way again. The seven layers are: Vision & Mindset - The deepest foundation. This is the real infrastructure of your business. Hitting a ceiling? It's almost always here, not in your marketing. Brand - Not your logo or colour palette. Your point of view, your voice, your values brought to life. An unclear brand means that better marketing just spreads confusion more effectively. Offers - A transformation clearly defined and priced. The most common problems? Trying to serve too many people, wonky pricing, and solving a problem your clients don't know they have. Thought Leadership - The body of ideas, frameworks, and opinions that make you the person people think of for your work. This is what gives your marketing substance and makes sales feel like an invitation. Marketing - Only layer five. And yet it's where most people go first. Marketing's job is to amplify what already exists - if the foundations aren't solid, more marketing is just more noise. Sales - When the layers above are working, sales conversations become simple final invitations between two people who already know they're on the same wavelength. Friction in sales is almost always a symptom of something upstream. Client Delivery - The thing that feeds everything else. Exceptional delivery creates testimonials, referrals, and the personal conviction to keep showing up. It isn't the end of the chain, it circles back and strengthens every layer above it. The audit is simple: start at layer one and work outward, asking honestly is this solid? Not perfect, but solid. Stop at the first layer where your honest answer is not quite. That's where your energy belongs first. This episode is the start of an eight-part series - next week, Gill goes deep into Layer 1: vision and mindset, with journalling questions to help you really feel the difference between solid and looks okay-ish. Listen in if you're ready to stop fixing the wrong things and start building something that actually compounds. Want more personalised support? Book an alignment call here: https://go.oncehub.com/alignment-call This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gillmoakes.substack.com

    33 min
  6. #209 - Do You Even Recognise The Person Described On Your About Page?

    May 4

    #209 - Do You Even Recognise The Person Described On Your About Page?

    Have you ever looked at your website or your content and not quite recognised the person it’s talking about? The one who apparently runs your business? If so, this episode of the ReWild Your Business podcast is for you. I’m getting into something that I think is incredibly common: the drift. The slow, incremental process by which a business that started as a real expression of who you are gradually becomes something you’re just managing from the outside - you’re trying your best to be the business owner you think you’re supposed to be. This doesn’t happen overnight. It happens through one tiny, reasonable tweak after another. The about page you softened because someone said it was confusing. The content style you adopted because one post unexpectedly went well. The offer you repackaged because someone in your peer group launched something similar and suddenly you felt like you needed to catch up. Each one makes sense in isolation. Stack enough of them together and one day you wake up and the business just doesn’t feel like yours anymore. In this episode I’m exploring why this happens, what it costs you (and it costs a damn sight more than you think), and three questions to help you trace your way back to the work you’re actually called to do. This is identity work. It’s the foundation of everything… I know, I know - I sound like a broken record. But when you get it right, the right clients, the right content, the right offers - all of it gets so much easier, I promise you. If this episode lands for you and you’d like to go deeper, I invite you to book a call with me. It might be the thing that changes everything. Links: Book a call with Gill: https://go.oncehub.com/alignment-call This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gillmoakes.substack.com

    23 min
  7. #208 - What Is Your Most Potent Work? And How Can You Do More Of It?

    Apr 27

    #208 - What Is Your Most Potent Work? And How Can You Do More Of It?

    There's work you do that's useful. And then there's work you do that's potent - where a small amount of what you give produces a disproportionately large shift for the person on the receiving end of it. They're not always the same thing. And the potent work is often the thing you've been quietly underselling, tucking inside a bigger offer, or treating as the bit that happens before the real work begins. In this episode I share the moment I realised my most potent work wasn't the strategy piece I'd built my offers around, it was the deeper identity work I'd been doing in the last fifteen minutes of every call. And I walk you through how to notice where your potent work is hiding, why claiming it feels so exposing, and how to give it more room in your business without burning the whole thing down. In this episode: · Why potent means concentrated, not powerful, and why that distinction matters · Why the work that comes easily to you is probably the most potent thing you do · How I spent years treating my real work as the preamble · What your clients tell you months later (and why that's the clue) · Why you've been hiding it, and what it costs you · Four ways to start giving your potent work its rightful place Mentioned in this episode: The Work That Matters - a reflective workbook to help you identify your most potent work and map more of it into your business. Email info@gillmoakes.com with "The Work That Matters" in the subject line for a copy. No opt-in page, no funnel, just email me. Enjoyed this episode? A five-star review on Apple Podcasts genuinely helps more women find the show. And if this one landed, send it to a friend who needs it. That's still how the podcast grows. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gillmoakes.substack.com

    26 min
  8. #207 - What If It Never Happens For Me?

    Apr 20

    #207 - What If It Never Happens For Me?

    Those two little words - what if - can stop us in our tracks. What if I've left it too late? What if I do all the work and it still never happens for me? In this episode, I'm digging into the what-ifs that seem to show up more insistently as we move into midlife and beyond, and why they're not actually messages from your soul, they're your brain's attempt to keep you safely exactly where you are. Here's what I'm exploring this week: ~ Why your brain registers change as danger, and how it "future-paces the scary" to keep you from moving toward what you really want ~ The two unhelpful responses most women fall into: either surrendering to the fear and giving up on the dream, or bulldozing through and dysregulating their nervous system in the process ~ A third way: working with your brain and body rather than against them ~ Why identity work matters more than strategy when you're reaching for something new, and how to hold the duality of loving who you are now while protecting the vision of who you're becoming ~ The power of baby steps (and my two non-negotiable criteria for what actually qualifies as one) How to reframe the what ifs from contractions into expansions - what if this is the year everything starts to change for me? This one was recorded a little off-the-cuff because the topic wouldn't wait. If you've been circling a dream and wondering whether it's too late, or whether it'll ever land, this episode is for you. Mentioned in this episode: Free journaling prompts to work through your own what-ifs - email the word 'CALLING' to info@gillmoakes.com and we'll send you the workbook. Come and find me: Subscribe to the ReWild with Gill Moakes Substack for more like this Follow me on Instagram Share this episode with a woman who needs to hear it Would you consider leaving review if the show has meant something to you - it genuinely helps others find their way here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gillmoakes.substack.com

    18 min
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This podcast is where we name what’s not working, unlearn what was never a good fit, and make space for the truth underneath. Your business was never meant to be built from strategy alone, it was meant to be built from you: your values, your voice, your rhythm, your soul. gillmoakes.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Gill Moakes
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    240
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Gill Moakes
  • Show Website
    ReWild Your Business

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