You can help more people
When you build a business your practice can rely on
You need a roadmap to create a business that feels like you. When it’s aligned with your values, it’s easy to create the foundation your practice requires.
Your skills are too valuable to waste.
You should be transforming people, not living in poverty.
You need a roadmap to create a business that feels like you. When it’s aligned with your values, it’s easy to create the foundation your practice requires.
Learn to differentiate between what helps you move forward and what holds you back, so you “do business” with clarity.
Take bite-sized, actionable steps to end confusion paralysis, save time, money and energy, and lead to feeling good about being your own boss.
Create a business that feels like you. When it’s aligned with your values, it’s easy to creat the foundation your practice requires.
Learn to differentiate between what helps you move forward and what olds you back, so you “do business” with clarity.
Take bite-sized, actionable steps to end confusion paralysis, save time, money and energy, and lead to feeling good about being your own boss.
HELP 2, 3… even 8 times more clients than they used to.
EARN a living with a business that feels completely in their integrity.
FEEL confident about every aspect of their practice.
ENJOY being self-employed.
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for their future.
When I started my Feldenkrais® practice in 1977, things were a lot different than they are now. We advertised by putting flyers up at the food coop, we hoped against hope to get into the local newspaper and we were over the moon if we got asked to do a radio interview.
Although I had grown up immersed in our family business, I somehow managed to convince myself that I could be self-employed without having a business. So for a long time, I managed to squeak by without really paying attention to anything other than taking advanced training, being a good practitioner and doing a great job with my clients.
Forty-some years on, I look back and wonder how I ignored so much for so long. For one thing, dismissing business meant that I wasn’t taking proactive responsibility for myself as I got older. Let me tell you—now that I AM older, that shows up like a black tick on my white dog. These are just a few of the ways I blew off what “other” people do:
What I didn’t realize earlier was that it isn’t enough to be a good practitioner… in order to be sustainable over the long term, I needed a business to support my practice.
In 2010, I created my first program to help practitioners build a practice. It was focused on attracting and enrolling clients without feeling out of alignment, and Heart to Heart remains an important course for most practitioners.
However, there are many smaller foundational blocks that need to be in place in order to have the kind of business that supports your ability to do the work you love—without taking forever to finish, making you feel out of alignment or costing way too much in money or energy.
That’s where I got the idea for…
Love Your Business (LYB) was designed to help you put a solid foundation under your business—one block at a time, so you never feel overwhelmed, out of alignment or confused about what to do next.
LYB is a membership program with monthly content “sprints” that will help you build a foundation under your business—one block at a time, without feeling out of alignment and without spending more time than you need to.
TOGETHER, WE’LL TACKLE THINGS ONE AT AT TIME IN MAJOR TOPIC AREAS LIKE—
Copywriting—putting words on your website, in your emails, on your social media posts.
Policies—what you need and why, how to create them before you need them, so you don’t get blind-sided when someone asks you about refunds, or misses too many sessions or wants to negotiate your fee.
Testimonials—how to get great ones that answer the questions potential clients have about you and your work.
Referrals—all too often, when your clients tell others about you it’s a dead-end, so you need to make referrals land.
Client nurture—finding potential clients, helping them decide to call you, turning the people you work with into people who promote you.
Being in touch—building a list and staying connected to the people on it without feeling sleazy, manipulative or vulnerable
Money–figuring out what you need, raising your fees, paying your taxes, feeling good about earning a living
Inner voices—you can’t move forward when something inside is holding you back and you can’t make a credible offer when you’ve got inner voices sabotaging your success at every turn. Those little voices can take you down—or lift you up when you make friends with them.
Create a plan that will help you build a viable practice and earn a living.
Most practitioners shy away from planning, numbers and anything to do with money. In this course, you’ll make a simple plan that takes into account what you want to earn, when you want to work, and what you need to charge to make it come together.
Your practice is an expression of who you are and the life experience that makes you perfect for your clients.
It’s a common belief among holistic practitioners that each of their credentials or certifications gives them a different thing to offer their clients. This can lead to difficulty with setting fees and understanding how to offer your work. It can create difficulty on your website and confuse your clients—who may not really know what it is that they need from you.
A better way to do it is to recognize that through your entire life experience, you’ve created the perfect training program for yourself that not only makes you who you are, but makes you the obvious choice to help the particular people you are here to serve.
It’s all about YOU! Your practice is an expression of who you are and the life experience that makes you perfect for your clients.
It’s a common belief among holistic practitioners that each of their credentials or certifications gives them a different thing to offer their clients. This can lead to difficulty with setting fees and understanding how to offer your work. It can create difficulty on your website and confuse your clients—who may not really know what it is that they need from you.
A better way to do it is to recognize that through your entire life experience, you’ve created the perfect training program for yourself that not only makes you who you are, but makes you the obvious choice to help the particular people you are here to serve.
The more you know about your client, the easier it is to find them and stay in touch with them… and the easier it is to know that you’re the right practitioner for them.
It’s very difficult to build a practice when you are trying to appeal to “everyone with skin.”
Once you understand your own uniqueness as a practitioner, it’s easier to see that there are certain people you can help more than others.
This course helps you understand who those people are, and includes having an Active Imagination talk with your Client Avatar.
Differentiate your clients from everyone else on the planet, so that it becomes much easier to find them, and for them to find YOU!
Knowing who your client is, is one thing. Knowing how to attract that person is another.
This course will help you to understand how to talk about the benefits of your work in a way that appeals to the particular clients you are here to serve. The more you know about the people you want to work with, the easier it is to write the copy for your website, send regular and engaging emails, and compose articles and blog posts that interest them.
Learn how to focus your attraction efforts on what your potential clients are looking for, instead of focusing on what you imagine people would like to know, if they were you. 😏
At different stages in your relationship, clients need different kinds of information from you.
Most practitioners focus their attraction efforts on the wrong information—not because it’s wrong to give it, but because it’s not the stage where that information matters to people who are not yet your clients.
In this course, you’ll learn about the Client Iceberg, a model that helps you understand which information is relevant at which stage. Then you’ll develop your own Client Iceberg as a guide to attracting the specific clients you’re here to serve.
Using the results of your work up to now, create marketing assets that help you be seen by the people you’re looking for.
If you want to build your client base, it’s not enough to hope people will find you.
In this course, you’ll take the information you’ve gathered about your clients to create attraction “assets.” Assets are ways of communicating your value to potential clients, by speaking to the kinds of things they are concerned about.
Use what you know about yourself, your clients, and the practice you want to build, in order to create web pages that attract the people you are here to serve.
If you have a website, there are some pages you need, some you don’t, and some that hurt you.
This course covers the essential pages. You’ll learn why there might be too much information easily available on your website, how to think about the copy you need, and how to get a website up quickly then expand it over time.
How to get testimonials that will help you build your business and attract ideal clients.
You’ve probably got some—or even many—testimonials. The thing is, they often don’t speak to what potential clients want to know about you and what you can do for them.
In this course, you’ll learn the parts of a great testimonial, how to get them from your clients, and when and how to use them.
Learn to get the referrals that will help you build the practice you want.
Wouldn’t you love to build your entire business on referrals from you best clients? Haven’t you heard from your best clients that they tell other people about you, and those people never show up in your practice?
Oops! There’s a gap here. It arises from the fact that no matter how much they want to help you and their friends, most of your clients don’t know how to make great referrals that actually land.
You’ll learn what constitutes a great referral, when to ask for them, how to help your clients give them, and how to keep the ball in your court so that referrals land and help both you and your client’s friend.
Understanding your Perceptual Style® helps you live in your strengths and build your practice with less effort.
I’m sure you’ve experienced two different feelings—easy communication (even with someone you just met), and a lot of difficulty being understood (even by people who know you well).
Both of these have to do with Perceptual Style—how we take in information from the world around us, what we do with it, and how we put it back out into the world. Understanding your Perceptual Style helps you have better and easier communication. It makes it more likely your clients will realize why they should commit to working with you, helps you develop you authentic marketing voice, and expands your value to your clients.
An annual review helps you stay on track and refine your business so you can get more of what you want.
In this course, you’ll look inside, assess what happened in the past year and allow that to inform your thinking for next year.
Taking time to celebrate your wins allows your brain to focus on what’s important to you so that it can be more effective in getting it for you.
Thinking about what worked—that you want more of, and what didn’t work—that you don’t want anymore, gives you an opportunity to refine your business as you move forward.
Still have questions? Make an appointment for a 15-minute call with me. I’ll answer your questions, ask some of my own, and if I don’t think Love Your Business is the best choice for you, I’ll tell you the truth.
DISCLAIMER
All the information on this page is true to the best of my knowledge. However, other people’s success is not a guarantee that you will experience the same results.
Your return on any investment in a program designed to help you build your practice is dependent on many factors. It is not possible to guarantee — and I make no promises regarding — your specific results.
If your financial situation is such that the investment you are considering means that you will be unable to fulfill your financial responsibilities to yourself and others, this may be the wrong time for you to invest in your practice.
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