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Soulful Business Manifesto: An Invitation to Healers and Change-Makers

Being a soulful business owner means taking a long hard look at how we do business in the western world. It means turning convention on its head and pushing for a better world. It means healing ourselves so we aren’t embodying the archetype of the wounded healer. It means taking a stand for our values and ethics. Read the Soulful Business Manifesto to learn more about this heart-centered approach to business.

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10 Essential Tips for Avoiding Solopreneur Burnout

Burnout is far too common among solopreneurs. It’s so hard to do everything! Here’s a post to help you steer clear of burn out or backpedal out of it. It’s essential to ensure we are thriving in our lives and businesses so our clients get out best care (and we have a strong sense of wellbeing). Keep prioritizing yourself in your soulful business!

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4 Powerful Ways Building a Website Can Transform Your Business

It sounds strange to say, but website design is a portal into better understanding yourself, your ideal clients, and your ideal business structure. While it might seem like a superficial thing to check off your list, web design is actually a powerful experience you can harness to become a thriving business owner and life purpose liver. Take the web design experience seriously and you’ll find yourself growing quickly into a business you love!

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My Business Story: Why I Became a Squarespace Web Designer

Everyone has a story when it comes to how they started their businesses. It can be helpful to read others’ journeys to get inspiration, learn more about your favorite business owner, and deepen your understanding of how careers are shaped. Here’s my story to inspire you to follow your own path and to help you understand why I am a Squarespace web designer and how I became one.

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A Solopreneur’s Guide to Setting Up Email Marketing with Flodesk

Feeling a little lost when it comes to email marketing? Here’s a guide to getting setup on the Flodesk platform so you can start collecting email addresses and building your audience! Flodesk integrates nicely with Squarespace so you can make the two work together in a couple of different ways. Read on to learn how to get it set up and why list building is so important.

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6 Tips for Taking Time Off from Your Business

Planning to take a break from work is super essential for your overall mental and physical health. This is especially true if you work in a helping profession, such as a therapist, midwife, or other intensive care field. Taking a break will help you refill your own well so you’ll have enough to care for yourself before giving care to others. Here are 6 tips to help you do just that.

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How Slow Can Change Your Work and Life (+ 8 tips for slowing down)

When you’re bringing lots of soul into your work, it’s important to take time to slow down. But what does “slow” really mean, why is it important, and how is it done? Slow working, slow business, and slow marketing can be a challenge to conceptualize. Read on to unpack this very useful concept and system of values in your own life and solopreneur business.

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A Web Designer Answers Honestly: Do You Really Need a Website?

Trying to set up or expand a business can be overwhelming and frustrating. If you’re still trying to figure out this marketing thing, you’re inevitably going to worry about websites. Do you need one? Or can you get by with just running your business without one? The answer depends on your, your values, your goals, and your business structure. Read on to learn more.

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A Guide to Soulful, Slow Marketing

Marketing is a word that makes soulful, intentional business owners cringe. But it doesn’t have to be a deceitful, manipulative experience. You can do marketing in ways that feel authentic and even enjoyable. If you’ve been looking for a new mindset for marketing, you’ll enjoy the slow marketing perspective. Read on to learn more about how to put this into practice in your own business.

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Squarespace or Wordpress: The Basics

If you’ve been debating between creating your website on Squarespace or Wordpress, this post is for you. Wading through the heaps of information out there (lots of it biased) can be overwhelming. So I’ve created a super simple guide to the biggest differences and which situations each platform is best for. Read on to pick your platform!

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