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Emotions in Business: How envying others can feel awesome and boost business

Thanks for coming back to the Soul Business blog… I’m touched that you’re resonating with it. Hey if you haven’t already, do you think you could pluck up the courage to leave a comment on a post you like? I’d love to have your contribution… Envy? Awesome?  I don’t think so! When I first felt [...]

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Are you taking care of yourself?

A box of self love I never knew that I was sabotaging myself in this area, until I attended the Sacred Moment Seminar in Portland, OR earlier this year. The seminar was about how to talk navigate that sacred moment in a sales conversation where you and your client decide to work together. But I [...]

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Inspirations – for your soul and business

And now for something different… In this Inspirations series I’ll be sharing some stuff that’s been lighting up for me this month. I hope you enjoy! If there’s a video or article you’d like to share, please feel free to post a link in the comments, and we can inspire each other! Hear Me Now: [...]

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Soul Business: Unprofessional or Authentic? And the State of the World

It’s been a fair while between posts. And a big reason for that is that I’ve been sitting with – and soul searching on – what Soul Business is really about. Unprofessional or Authentic? Yeah, I know. It’s probably not ‘professional’ to tell you that sometimes  I don’t even know what this business is about. [...]

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2011: The Year Your Soul Started Dancing

One of my favourite conscious and creative entrepreneurs, Goddess Leonie, recently wrote a great blog post about how your business can evolve in a not-so-logical-but-deeply-rewarding, follow-your-heart kind of way. I say ‘not so logical’, but in retrospect of course, those crazy, creative, follow your heart decisions often turn out to make sense after all. There’s [...]

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Mindful time management: Making space for you in your business

Learn a simple and powerful approach to time management that brings spaciousness to your mind, your heart and your business.

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Living is an Art Form… But is your Business?

Living is an Art form. So says a very funky little hip hop tune written by my friend Mattriks, in his album Made Outta Motion from Mind Heart Media. It’s a great concept for musicians, poets and philosophers. Rather more troublesome for parents and business people, I think. At least that’s what I thought this [...]

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A Little Update

Well, it’s been a long time since I last posted on this blog, so here’s a little update: First up: Remember we had another baby back in September last year? He’s nine months old now and just beautiful. Here he is going for a ride in a ‘spacerocket’ by his big sister! Second: We packed [...]

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How to get clients quickly (and honestly) when you’re in a tight spot

A friend of mine recently went from flying-by-the-seat-of-her-pants to booked-up-three-weeks-in-advance, when she got real with herself about her own vulnerability and shared it with her clients in an appropriate way. Sound good? Want to know how you could do the same? An amazing woman who could do anything… Tamsyn has a relatively new business, that [...]

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So, what do you do? The secret to an effective answer…

“So, what do you do?” Err, umm…. Lots of business people find it hard to answer this one. Or hard to answer it effectively. Even if you do know the secret to an effective answer, it can still be hard to find the right words when applying it to your business. But that’s where the [...]

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