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. 3d ago

    Why I’m changing the sliding scale tiers for YS&SB 🪴

    Rarely a week goes by where I’m not talking about pricing with my clients and YS&SB members. It’s both a really practical and emotional topic in our business. Practically our pricing is just what we charge for the work we do and how we design our offerings in a way that makes it sustainable and profitable for us to deliver them. But emotionally it can trigger a whole lot of feelings and fears. Fears around, who will pay me this? And am I allowed to charge this? And what about the people who can’t afford this? And am I even good enough to be paid this? And will I be able to make enough sales at this price point? And I’ve navigated this messy middle in my own business recently too as I made the decision to increase the sliding scale tiers for my group program after the next enrolment in July. In today’s episode I dive deeper into all the thoughts and feelings behind this pricing decision and some encouragement for you if you’re currently feeling stuck on what to charge or how to give yourself permission to increase your prices so that you don’t abandon your own needs in your pricing. 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 for an invitation to the next enrolment in July. 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

    14 min

  2. Jun 16

    What season of life is your business here to support? 🌻

    If you ever feel like there are markers of success and growth that you have to hit to feel good enough in your business, today’s episode is for you. Because it’s okay to have a slower season in your business to honour the needs of your life. It’s okay to adjust your workload to make space for other priorities. And it’s okay to gently dial things back up again too whenever that may honour your desires and goals. Our business can bend alongside us and be something that grounds and supports our life instead of consuming it and dictating our days. So if you feel torn between what you truly desire in this season and the goals that you think that you should be pursuing instead, I hope today’s episode can ground you back into what is most aligned 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. 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

    10 min

  3. Jun 8

    How I’ve been gently reaching my next 100 hell yes people 🌸

    One meaningful piece of content a week. That’s the foundation of my gentle marketing plan for this year. To carve out the energy, space, and time each week to sit down and create something that just feels like a meaningful dispatch from one human being to another. So much noise online right now is telling us that we need to be churning out content for business growth. That we need to please algorithms, hook attentions, and that if we can’t keep up with that pace then we should outsource to AI and let that create our content for us instead. But in all of that noise I think we can lose sight of what actually builds, grows, and sustains a business: resonance, connection and trust. In today’s episode I share some encouragement for why you don’t have to churn out more content to support your business to gently thrive and how I’ve been supporting my business to make steady sales, reach new hell yes people and continue to build resonance, connection, and trust with my existing readers and listeners too without pushing myself past my capacity. 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

    12 min

  4. May 19

    Reflecting on four years of running my group program 🌸

    It has now been four years since I first opened the doors to my group program Your Simple & Spacious Business in April 2022. Four years since I built a whole new foundational piece of my business model and redefined what my work gets to look like and brought a whole lot more spaciousness and flexibility into my business too. And for today’s episode I want to share with you the biggest lessons I’ve learned from running and selling this program, what’s supported it to gently thrive over the past four years, and why you never have to feel stuck in any one version of your business that isn’t truly working best for you. I also share how much money YS&SB has made since 2022 and how building and running this program really changed everything for me in my business. Links: Join us inside Your Simple & Spacious Business before doors close on Friday 22nd May + the 1:1 bonus ends on Tuesday 19th! 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. Do I regret making my group program a lifetime offer? 💫 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

  5. May 12

    Our day is the whole damn point 🪴

    Whenever I come across business advice that I’m deciding whether or not if it’s relevant and supportive for me and my work I ask myself two questions: Do I have their day? And do I want their day? Because the real question isn’t: will this strategy or approach work? But instead, will it actually work for me? Over and over again I come back to the reminder that our day is the whole damn point. Because that’s the beating heart of a simple and spacious business: doing work we enjoy, spending our days and weeks at a pace that feels good to us, and where we are making enough money to sustain our life too. In today’s podcast episode I share more about why our day is the whole damn point and how we can root into that as our guide whenever we feel lost, overwhelmed, or overstimulated by all of the noise of what we should and could be doing next in our business. Links: Join the waitlist for Your Simple & Spacious Business before doors open again on Monday 🌸 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

    14 min

  6. May 5

    The five key decisions that built my simple & spacious business 🌾

    My business hasn’t always been this simple & spacious. I used to be overbooked, undercharging, and deeply burned out in my work each week. It’s taken a whole lot of intention, patience, and experimentation to design my business to work best for me and I’m so damn grateful to have built a working life for myself that feels aligned with my capacity and the daily life that I want to be living. There are five key decisions that have supported me to build, run, and sustain this simple and spacious business of mine and in today’s podcast episode I dive deeper into each of them and offer up some lessons learned if they can support you in your own simple and spacious business journey too.m Links: Sign up for the free simple & spacious clinic Watch the quarterly planning call recording Join the waitlist for Your Simple & Spacious Business Recent episode about my 8-10 hour workweek Do I regret making my group program a lifetime offer? 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

    31 min

  7. Apr 28

    How I’m taking 4 months off from my business this year 🗓️

    Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is how much de-centering my business has been one of the most supportive decisions I’ve ever made in my working life. Don’t get me wrong, I am so damn grateful for my business and so devoted to doing my best work for the wonderful humans I get to walk with each week. But I’m also not obsessed with my work, or endless growth, or defining my self-worth by how much I get done each week. We get to build businesses that orbit our life, not the other way around. And we get to do this whilst also running businesses that sustain our life financially and give us space to do work that we find meaningful and fulfilling too. One of the ways I do this in my business? By taking regular time off throughout the year. This year I’m taking 15 weeks off from my business and in this week’s podcast episode I’m sharing more about how I make this possible and some encouragement for how you can build more time off into you schedule 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

    21 min

  8. Apr 21

    Is a simple & spacious business unrealistic? 🌸

    I received an emailed recently from someone asking if I outsourced any tasks to a virtual assistant in my business as they just couldn’t believe that I was able to sustain my business in just 8-10 hours a week. And their question makes sense. My workweek isn’t the norm. But as I shared with them, apart from my husband editing my podcast episodes each week there is nothing else that I outsource in my business. 8-10 hours a week is truly what my workweek looks like whilst continuing to make a steady and thriving income in my business. I’m also not outsourcing any of my work tasks to AI (everything I write, create and share with you is and always will be human made). In this week’s podcast episode I dive deeper into the specifics of what my workweek looks like, the decisions I’ve made to make this possible, and some encouragement if you’re currently craving more spaciousness and don’t believe that it’s possible for you. Does it take time, patience, curiosity, and one brave decision at a time to make this possible? Of course. But we don’t have to stay stuck in a version of our business that asks us to abandon our humanness to sustain our work. 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

    22 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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