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What to do when Things get Difficult to Manage
Content Warning: Grief/Death/Difficult Times I've been coaching myself on this question - "What to do when things get difficult to manage" - since November of 2019 when...
Get Rid of Being Uncomfortable with Voice Business Sales
If you own a business, you have to sell. You have to market. You can’t get away from that. What we really want is for our clients to say “hell yes” without feeling manipulated into doing so. Let’s get off this myth that it’s inherently bad to sell, that it’s always dirty or shady.
Make Business Boring Again and Embrace the Mundane
Building a business brings with it all the frantic, anxious energy of an Act 1 finale number. There's hope! Setting up a new offer, bringing in your first clients,...
Make Yourself Available for the Ridiculous
BLOG ONE IN A PAIR. How many of you have wonderful, caring, well-meaning, incredible humans in your life that insist upon protecting you by telling you about how hard...
10 Work-life Balance Tips: How to Make it all Work
Michelle tackles a forum question about how to make it all work when you AND your partner are both working full time jobs AND raising a family. Keep these tips in mind to get inspired and achieve your #worklifebalance.
I will not help you find your authentic voice.
I said that to a client yesterday, "I will not help you find your authentic voice." She chuckled, and said, "Oh! That's what I thought what vocal coaches did." I smiled...
Resisting Scarcity in a Time of Scarcity
Scarcity is the gap between limited resources and unlimited wants. I’ll show you ways of using Scarcity to our Advantage, Pro-active ways to Resist Scarcity Mindset for small business owners in times of Covid-19.
Three Advantages to Separating Your Business & Personal Accounts
We have to keep track of money flow in order to ensure that our personal and business lives are financially healthy. By being aware of where our money is coming from and where it is going, we can make better choices about how to use it. Learn 3 key tips here.
Voice Teachers: Stop Blaming the Students
We blame our students for our voice studio frustrations, but how can we be more response-able? Each and every complaint we have about our students can be solved with one thing…