Choose Carefully the Voices You Let into Your Space
As multi-passionate people, we want to do ALL THE THINGS. Which means we end up following a lot of people on social media and email newsletters. Our digital spaces end up really crowded, and...
One lesson I keep having to relearn is to limit the number of voices I allow in my space. There are so many people out there talking about online business - how to be successful, how to make money online, build a course, put yourself out there on social media, start a youtube channel, follow my 5 steps proven formula - 🤯
I am definitely guilty of seeing something on social media and clicking the link to download the free PDF and signing up for the email inbox.
Or I have a thought and immediately go down a huge rabbit hole, and you guessed it, signing up for email newsletters because they are going to give me a “step-by-step process” that rarely helps.
There is so much noise. And as a multi-passionate person who does want to have a podcast, and a youtube channel, and a side blog, and my main business, and this newsletter and... I want to do so many things that the shiny object syndrome is a real problem.
One solution is to severely limit the number of people that I actually pay attention to. I try to only go looking for other information if I can’t find it from the people I already follow. Jason and Caroline Zook are the team behind Wandering Aimfully - my favourite online business coaches.
A little inside scoop: One of my favourite things about them is that they didn’t start out as business coaches. They slowly realized that they were already coaching and then adjusted their mindset, and then their marketing, to match.
Wandering Aimfully
What is Wandering Aimfully (WAIM)? I’ll let Jason and Caroline fill you in - because who else could say it better?
Wandering Aimfully (WAIM) as an ethos is the idea that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for designing a business and life you love; there is only experimenting intentionally until you find the right answers for you.
We believe in wandering, exploring, and being open to the evolution of yourself and your business—while also striving to define and embody the values that aim you in the right direction. While you wander, do it AIMFULLY (not aimlessly) based on your own personal goals and your unique definition of success.
In other words, your definition of success is what you should be aiming towards. In business, especially online business, there are general principles that apply, but there is a huge amount of wiggle room in how to actually put them into practice. It takes experimentation to find out what will work for you, in your business, to reach your goals.
So why are you talking about Wandering Aimfully?
Using the resources from WAIM:
I learned the tools and techniques to brand my main business.
I was able to embrace the need to focus on one main thing while having permission to play with side projects.
I was able to finally understand - and get hooked on - Notion.
I have a place to ask questions when I am overwhelmed or just need some feedback on an idea.
I got the antidote to hustle culture - focus on enough.
I learned some super valuable ideas like the Content Salad and Marketing Bridges.
Because I have gotten so much value from this program, I want to tell everyone about it. And since I was going to tell you about it anyway, I signed up for their affiliate program! That means, if you click my link and buy the program, WAIM will pay me a percentage of your membership fee. So if you join WAIM using my affiliate link, I’ll add in my Complete Notion System for free plus 4 1-hour zoom calls. You can pick my brain, get my help setting up your Notion system, or just chat for a bit.
Wandering Aimfully is for people who have an online business (either working with clients or selling products) that they want to grow intentionally - without burning out. WAIMers are creative and willing to put in the work to reach their goals. We value being inclusive, kind, curious, open, honest, willing to ask for help, and compassionately giving help when asked.
If this isn’t for you, I’ll catch you next week for my March Income Report and Update!
Tell me more!
Jason and Caroline Zook are the two-person team behind WAIM and they teach what they practice. In a space filled with membership programs, they take the concept and make it their own with a lifetime price. Once you have paid them $2000 (in either $100 or $400 per month installments), you never pay them another cent, but you are still a full member of the community and continue getting everything they keep making.
And, boy, do they keep making. In addition to ongoing monthly coaching calls, the program includes:
🗺 The Un-Boring Business Roadmap: Our in-depth roadmap that pulls all of our experience, coaching sessions, and knowledge into ONE sequential program that an online business owner can jump into. This comes with:
🗂 A step-by-step system for improving any online business based on our 5-step business checklist (Foundation -> Offer -> Marketing -> Content -> Website)
📺 29 two-hour pre-recorded coaching sessions that leave no stone left unturned for every aspect of online business creation
📓 Interactive workbooks to put each part of the roadmap into specific action, some in the form of editable PDFs and some in the form of Notion templates
🌎 Access to the private Slack community
👩🏻🦰👨🏻🦲 1-on-1 help from us through Slack, email and monthly live session Q&As
🏆Momentum Mondays accountability with Jason through Slack
📋 Notion Starter Pack: We’ve created a full system of Notion Templates that help with project management, business organization, content creation, and more! (If you’re not familiar, Notion is a flexible and customizable project management and note-taking software app.)
📐 Page Layout Library: A library of 10 different website page layouts with copy prompts, including sales pages, home pages, about pages and marketing bridge landing pages, in order to make spinning up new website pages a breeze.
🤖 WAIM.ai Personal Coaching Robot: This microsite hosts 200 audio coaching clips sorted by topic to help business owners overcome the mental, emotional, and practical hurdles we all face on our journeys.
⚙️ Lifetime Teachery Account: This is our online course software platform, which helps someone build and sell courses easily and without any technical knowledge. (Normally $49/month, but a lifetime account is included free with WAIM Unlimited.)
🔑 WAIM Vault and WAIM Custom Dashboard: Over 40+ courses, workshops, walk-throughs, and behind the scenes videos, complete with a powerful search by keyword and accessible from a personalized dashboard
🔮 Anything we make in the future: At no additional cost!
The doors of Wandering Aimfully are open until April 5, 2022, and will reopen in the fall. BUT if you are reading this outside of a launch window and cannot wait to join - you don’t have to! Send me an email at bizandlife@substack.comand I can hook you up with a super-secret link to get you in ;)
Remember, if you join WAIM using my affiliate link, I’ll add in my Complete Notion System for free plus 4 1-hour zoom calls. You can pick my brain, get my help setting up your Notion system, or just chat for a bit.
I’ll catch you next week when I’ll be sharing my March Income Report and Update!
-Samantha 💜
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