1:1 Holistic Business Mentoring
Let’s get your business set on solid foundations, running smoothly & feeling good.
Overwhelm… be gone!
[1:1 Mentoring finished up in August 2024. I will restart mentoring October 2024: join mailing list to find out when]
Are you a Holistic Practitioner?
- Life Coach
- Energy Healer
- Psychic Medium
- Psychotherapist
- Body Worker
- Yoga Teacher
- Mindfulness Teacher
- Health Coach
- … or any other kind of spiritual, healer, wellbeing type of person?
… who is on a mission to bring healing, wholeness & consciousness to the world through your work?
You want to…
…& are fed up with
Years 0-3 in Business….
The Instagram Dream
vs. The Actual Reality
Are you doing “all the things” (like posting on social media) but not getting clients?
… Maybe you haven’t done the deep work of Winter or Spring.
Winter- Your Personal and Business Foundations: Winter is a time of deep work and clarity. Our focus here is around forming your vision for your lifestyle and business, connecting with your mission, your values and the message you want to share with the world. We get clarity on who you serve, which problem(s) you solve and we create a solution that your ideal clients will love. We do this by researching and deeply understanding your ideal client. We work on the wording, we choose the price point and the features of the service you offer. We work to communicate your unique brand and essence and we prepare a professional online presence for clients to find you. We will then put your project ideas into order (courses, workshops, digital products, 1-to-1 offerings, all the ideas!!) and choose which part of your business to focus on and accelerate first.
Spring- Strong Trunk- A Professional Online Presence: Where can people check you out to learn more about what you’re offering? This could be social media and/or a website. Think of this as the online equivalent to opening a physical premises. In this phase, I can show you how to set up a free mini-website, or guide you in building your own website or hiring someone to build one for you. I can guide you on how to optimise your social media presence. We can discuss which images, videos, blog posts and social media posts will showcase what you’re about to your audience. The 2 most important pieces here are 1) Creating safety for an interested person to step forward to work with you because they have enough information about you and your offering. (conversion optimisation) and 2) You provide real value to your ideal client through your content e.g. a freebie pdf, free useful blog posts, free useful videos, free useful checklists or books/ resources you recommend. You want to be helpful and valuable to your niche and become known as a go-to person for them. This makes word-of-mouth referrals happen and it gives you material that you can happily and helpfully tell people to check out during the Summer phase.
Summer- Branches of Visibility: During Summer, we focus on figuring out the best way for you to tell people about your amazing offer(s). There are so many ways to “advertise” your services (social media, YouTube, ads, networking, posters, events, talks, podcasts, blogging, collaborations, webinars etc). How to choose the most effective way for your business to be visible online? If you’ve done your deep dive work in understanding your ideal client, you will know exactly which platforms your ideal client spends time on & you’ll work to build relationships with ideal clients there. I will share approaches that you can do with and without social media. A priority here is that you are getting a flow of new eyes on your work (traffic) as well as nurturing the people who are already connected with you. I can also teach you all things tech and help with your confidence around visibility during this phase too.
Autumn-Harvesting before the Next Cycle: Autumn is when you are enjoying the harvest of all the work you have done. You are serving clients and things are going smoothly. You know that you’re now ready to start another offering or part of your business or maybe something is feeling “off” and out of alignment pointing to a pivot that you need to make. Perhaps you’ve been working 1:1 and would like to start your group programme or a course. Autumn is the time to harvest the experience and knowledge you’ve gained from one cycle before moving forward into the next cycle.
I work best with people in Winter and Spring
Most people come to me thinking they need help with the Summer season (a.k.a. I need to know how to use social media/ run ads). But they haven’t done the Winter or Spring work which means they don’t know their niche, their offers aren’t clear, they don’t have a professional online presence where people can check them out… so they end up just making noise online and nothing converts.
Therefore, my work is centred around building the solid foundations of Winter and Spring and creating attractive offers to bring forward to Summer. Yes, we focus on Summer Visibility and it is a priority to get you working with clients/ launching your course, but there’s often a lot that needs to be ironed out before that 🙂
(If you’ve skim-read this whole section… I’ve basically said that my approach is not surface level tactics but rather “Depth Marketing” which produces more soul-aligned long-term success).
Here’s what I can help you with:
Inner Foundations
- Connect with your bigger picture, your mission, your why, your message. Ensure your business aligns with the lifestyle & impact you want.
- Mindset work to manage fear & self-doubt and start believing in yourself & your business
- Identifying which business model is best for YOU
Business Foundations
- Register your business
- Track your finances
- Track your metrics
- Schedule your time
- Manage your energy especially if you are highly sensitive or an introvert
- Manage your To-Do List
- Uncover your best way to be productive
Working with Clients
- Format for Enquiry Calls
- Procedures for onboarding new clients
- Client booking system
- Client payment options
- Creating a package/ programme
- Format of and procedure for asking for testimonials
Personal Branding
- Uncover what makes you unique and stand out from the crowd
- Visually communicate your essence through your colours, images & brand voice
- Creating your own Logo, colour palette
- Plan your photoshoot
Niche & Offering
- Truly knowing your ideal client based on data you gather from interviewing people (format given)
- People buy solutions to problems. Which problems is your service a solution for? Perhaps you are trained in many modalities & solve many problems. We work together to articulate your service in a clear & impactful way
Online Presence
- Creating your first website- DIY low-cost options
- Customised email address e.g. sarah@sarahryan.ie
- Optimising your social media presence to be professional and effective
- An-inside out approach: Which is the best way for YOU to show up online- writing, speaking, video?
- Getting listed in networks where you ideal client can find you- pathways to your business
Marketing & Visibility
- No it’s not all about social media & posting everyday! It’s about building relationships.
- Through knowing your ideal client, you will know: which social media platform to use, which publications to be featured in, who to collaborate with, you will know which free talks/ events/ mini-offerings you can run to create natural word of mouth & referrals for your business.
Tech Solutions
- Set up a mailing list
- Set up a customised email address
- Build your own website
- Tech for teaching an online course
- Create nice graphics and marketing materials
- Information management systems
- … and probably other things too!
My Main Skills as a Mentor
Bigger Picture Overview of Options
Organising & Clarifying your Ideas
Words & Communicating your Message to your Clients
The Benefits of 1:1 Mentoring
- Saves Time:
- In working with a mentor, you will figure the most effective way for you to move towards your version of a successful business. Your business will move forward faster and with more ease.
- Instead of spending hours attending webinars, watching YouTube videos and fumbling around in the dark, you’ll know what to do step-by-step so things will happen more quickly for you.
- Time is Money:
- Working with a mentor costs money, but it can also speed up the process of getting you working with clients and earning money sooner than later.
- Furthermore, it can save you from wasting money buying things you don’t need.
- It’s faster than trying to piece together all the bits of information by yourself
- Increases Clarity & Confidence:
- By having a space to talk through your ideas to untangle the jumbled thoughts into clear and concise actions, you will feel more ease and confidence in moving forward in your business.
- You will also gain from being able to ask questions and hear ideas about how other clients have approached similar things.
My Holistic Approach is a blend of Coaching & Mentoring
- Your Answers Are Within You: My approach is to combine coaching and mentoring. In coaching, I ask you questions and to truly hear you. I facilitate you getting insights. I combine coaching with mentoring so you also benefit from my experience and knowledge. I offer you ideas, perspectives and options to fill in the practical gaps to empower you.
- An Inside-Out Approach to Business Model: Instead of trying to fit into a business model that some guru recommends, I believe we should build our business from the inside out- listening to our inner guidance for our mission and using our natural gifts for how best to bring this forth.
- Business is an Opportunity for Personal Development: I believe entrepreneurship is a great opportunity to grow by trying new things, to practice moving through fear in a practical way, to develop shadow parts of yourself to become a more rounded person. It’s an opportunity to grow in self-awareness and develop your relationship with yourself and with life. When viewed through this lens, the challenges we face in our business become opportunities to grow and learn.
- We need to Honour our Nervous System in Business: There’s a fine line between growth opportunities and overwhelming your nervous system. I believe we need to take very good care of ourselves along this path and develop positive habits around energy management and self-care as business-owners.
- No Sleazy or Unethical Tactics: There are a lot of marketing tactics that are quite simply unethical and that is why our impression of marketing is that it is “selling your soul”. I do not support or advocate these tactics. I teach heart-centred (&very effective!) ways of business and marketing. Please read more here.
Deep Dive Business Mentoring Sessions
- What you get:
- Price: €150
- 2 hour zoom session. Sessions can be recorded.
- Actionable steps and notes from our session
- Relevant resources I think will be helpful to you
- These sessions do not include follow up accountability or support.
- [1:1 Mentoring will be finishing up in August 2024]
Client Session Examples
- Working through a list of practical questions a client had about “all the things” she couldn’t figure out about starting a business. Screen-sharing practical info as we went along and identifying the right solutions for her in her situation with her tech ability.
- Overcoming comparison and shiny object syndrome by looking at what the client’s version of success is- her values, her vision for her lifestyle, her vision for her business, her mission. Foundations for staying in her own lane.
- Rewording a client’s webpage describing her services, tweaking her offer, viewing her page with fresh eyes and improving her ideal client’s user experience by clarifying and ironing out details, building rapport and adding authority.
- Untangling the details of a client’s group programme and mapping it into a google document sales page for her to continue clarifying before she downloads it as a PDF to share with interested people.
- Niching fun! Drawing out of the client the arc of the journey clients take by working with her- before and after. Articulating her approach and thereby identifying what makes her stand out from the crowd. Helping the client to see herself and her strengths more clearly by listening and reflecting back to her. We captured all of this in a google doc while we worked together so she can refer back to it. Please note that niching clarity is big work and can take a few sessions to fully solidify it.
- Helping a client who felt really frustrated by not moving forward in his business. To identify where his time is going, we got him time tracking into his calendar. Then we identified how he would like to be spending his time each week and blocked time in his calendar for these each week. He can move them around as he pleases, but they represent how he wants to allocate his time in alignment with what a successful and balanced life & business look like for him.
