Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast Wandering Aimfully

We’ve been working together in some capacity for almost 15 years! In that time, we’ve learned how to communicate, navigate each other’s emotions, but we still run into difficult moments like we did this week.

In this episode, we want to share our experience as a couple who works together (on two businesses!) but also how you can apply some of our lessons to running your own business, whether you have a partner or work with freelancers (or just on your own!)

We’re going to talk about the importance of having more discussions that you think you need, how to navigate perfectionism (over and over again), communicating during rough patches, and recommitting to your values.

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What do you do when you have a TON of ideas and all of them feel like they need your attention? How do you sort them, prioritize them,  and schedule them?

Thanks to listener Leah W. for submitting this week’s podcast topic! This is a timely one for us as of recording because we’re overflowing with ideas for our two businesses (Teachery and Wandering Aimfully). And, even with our advantage of being a 2-person operation, we’re still finding it hard to carve out time for every idea.

So what do we do? Well, that’s what we discuss in this ep! We’ll cover our signature “Big Ass List™” and then go through the steps to get your ideas out of your head and planned on your calendar to get done in a methodical way.

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💌 Want to get a weekly jolt of business inspiration and learn tactics and strategies that can help you increase profits, have more predictability, and feel peaceful with your biz? Sign up for our weekly email at wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter 

We thought it would be fun to share the tools that we’re super excited to be using in 2024! Most of these are used for biz purposes, but a few them overlap with life too.

If you’re a fan of the video game MarioKart (any version!) then you’ll know about the items you can collect in the “?” blocks throughout each race. As we shared the seven tools, Jason assigned a MarioKart item to each of them to make it fun! Here’s a recap of the tools and the MarioKart items… because… why not?? 😅

1. Chat-GPT (👻)
2. Midjourney (🐢)
3. Castmagic (🔴)
4. ScreenStudio (🍄)
5. Tally (🔴🔴🔴)
6. Whimsical (🍌🍌🍌)
7. Framer (⭐️)8. Bonus: Arc Search (🔵)

Hope you learned about a few new tools and found this episode interesting! Let us know if you’d like to hear us share more episodes like this one in the future?

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⚙️ Give Teachery a try today for free! Looking to create online courses with a platform that lets you customize everything? Give our course software a 14-day free trial at teachery.co

💌 Want to get a weekly jolt of business inspiration and learn tactics and strategies that can help you increase profits, have more predictability, and feel peaceful with your biz? Sign up for our weekly email at wanderingaimfully.com/newsletter 

Who wants to talk about burnout?? Intervening before reaching burnout is crucial skill we’ve tried to learn over the years. 

How do you know you’re on the cusp of burning out? There are clear signals we’ve noticed: neglecting texts, rushing through moments, feeling unfulfilled despite productivity, brushing only half your teeth 😂, and struggling to find stillness. 

To avoid burnout, we’ve put together a list of six things to reassess and take stock of. There are times to push yourself and your limits, and there are definitely times to take a strong look at your schedule and make important decisions to save future you!

Let’s talk about avoiding burnout before it happens in this week’s ep. Also, learn more about setting non-negotiables here: https://wanderingaimfully.com/calm-non-negotiables/

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This week, we’re all about action taking! We have a handful of tasks you should be able to accomplish this week to impact the growth of your audience and overall business. 

Here are the 14 quick wins written out:

Rewrite your homepage so it speaks to a problemMake your home page lead magnet obvious and enticingRemove clutter from your site that isn’t convertingMake your lead magnet useful, specific, and efficientRewrite your opt-in copy to be based on a mini-problemTry a welcome mat on your blog posts Create a contextual lead magnet for your top 3 articlesPut search terms in your Instagram nameAdd related “guide posts” to every piece of content Use ConvertKit’s Creator Network/RecommendationsInclude a “ways to work with me” section in emailsName and “brand” your newsletterAdd formatting to make your newsletters scannableIf your podcast host has dynamic ad insertion, use it!
If you’re feeling frisky, send us an email and let us know how many of these 14 wins you HAVEN’T done yet and are going to next week.

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For the last 5 years we’ve run a paid coaching program that includes a community. During that time, we’ve learned a lot about what works and doesn’t work and thought we’d break down in this episode.

We go over 4 crucial parts: The Audience, The Offer, The Community, and The Launches.

Not only do we share what has worked for us in each of those four categories, but we also share some ideas if we were to start over from the beginning. How would we build an audience from nothing? Would we still lean on email marketing? How would we facilitate a thriving community? And what would our sales and launch strategy be? 

All of those questions and more covered this week! We hope you enjoy this chat and if you know anyone looking to start a paid coaching program or community, pass this episode on to them!

🎥 Check out Created By Wayne’s YouTube channel to see exactly what we’d do for audience building using YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@createdbywayne

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🌟 GET READY! Our un-boring coaching program opens for enrollment March 11 - 26! You can learn more and jump on our pre-launch email list at wanderingaimfully.com/join