Welcome to Girl Makes Fire, your go-to podcast for practical tools and solutions for the everyday challenges of being a creative and spiritual entrepreneur living in a material world. If youāre a mission-driven, purpose-aligned, spirit-drenched creative solopreneur, OR if you're just getting started becoming any of those thingsā¦. youāre in the right place. Your host, Deborah C. Smith, holistic business coach, online marketing consultant and crafty creative is the owner of several successful ...
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As solopreneurs, weāre often the CEO, the marketer, the content creator, and everything in between. While this independence is empowering, it can also be incredibly isolating. Thatās why today, weāre talking about the importance of finding your tribe. "Finding your tribe" is an expression that means looking for other people who are on a similar jouā¦
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#25 - How to Manifest a Quantum Leap In Your Business
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Have you been doing all the right things for your business but still not seeing the results you want? Have you been working on your website, funnels and marketing copy, updating your links and getting pro photos taken, connecting with your potential clients and refining your offers, but still not hitting those consistent $5k, or $10 or $20k months ā¦
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#24 - How Soul-Aligned Business Offers Increase Sales
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Imagine a time when you were doing an activity or having an experience that you really loved, something that lights you up and nourishes you - suddenly time flies, creativity flows, and challenges seem like manageable stepping stones. It's easy for you to rave about this experience to your friends and family because you felt connected, expressed, uā¦
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#23 - Should You Talk About Business at Times of Political Unrest?
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How are you supposed to show up on your Instagram feed talking about your upcoming design workshop or a discount on your latest offer when it feels like the entire world is focused on the current heated political narrative. We have to talk about this issue because it's not going away. For people in the online space using the free tools of the interā¦
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#22 - Fear of Visibility? Let's fix that.
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Have you ever felt paralyzed by the thought of being seen in a certain situation in your life? Have you ever felt truly scared to show your face or go live on a video or even just be in the same room as certain people? Fear of being seenā¦ Because your just not ready yet Because things are not quite perfect and they need to be Because what will you ā¦
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#21 - How To Manage Multiple Passions w/ Sarika Sake
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Do you have more than one great idea for a business? Not sure if you should teach yoga or start a pet-grooming service? Maybe you want to write a book and you also want to sell tarot cards.... If you have more than one project on the burners and you're struggling to figure out the best way to organize them all, then let's shine some light on how yoā¦
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#20 - How to Stay Productive While Enjoying The Holiday
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Let's face it, Solopreneur, just because the rest of the world is on a holiday break doesn't mean that your work is done. Depending on what phase of business you're in, your productivity is probably directly linked to your income, so "taking a break" could actually be stressful. Today, as we head into the 4th of July week/end, we'll tackle a timelyā¦
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#19 - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
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If you've ever thought, "But why would anyone work with me when they could work with [fill in name of already wildly successful person in your niche]?" Or how about, "Will people take me seriously if I don't have a degree in this?" Or my favorite, "I can't talk about this on social media, I have no idea what I'm doing!" Any of those sound like you?ā¦
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#18 - A Guide to Your Rockstar Offer
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FREE TRAINING: Create Your Rockstar Offer: Watch the replay. Hey there Solopreneur! I see you there putting all of this time and energy into finding your way through the jungle of online marketing. You're showing up more on social media. You're telling people about your new business. You're building a website that you really love.... But there is oā¦
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#17 - How A Soul-Aligned Business Can Liberate You š„
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When I set out to start this podcast, I made a vision board to capture the inspiration and essence of my mission. In today's episode, I'm sharing pieces of that mission and vision with you. I believe that our businesses should be designed to liberate us, not cage us or hold us back. If you are a big-hearted, purpose-driven creative, trying to desigā¦
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#16 - Creating Ritual to Support Your Business
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*Summer Camp for Solopreneurs starts July 1st and registration is OPEN! Learn More & Register Here Entrepreneurship is truly a journey of self-discovery. There is no way to avoid confronting all of your stuff. Your vulnerability, your money beliefs, your relationships, your self-care practices or lack there of, your resilienceā¦ its all going to be ā¦
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Tell me if you can relateā¦ Have high-stress or extremely challenging situations in your life left you feeling completely off track? Ever feel like there is no way you could get out of bed and do the things on your business to-do list? If you can think of a time when you were down and out, and it seemed Impossible to show up and shine your light, anā¦
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#14 - DIY vs. DFY - Which is the better path for you?
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Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, understanding your options for how to get things done inside your business can make a world of difference in your journey. Today, we're discussing a hot topic for us solopreneursā¦. which is better... DIY (Do It Yourself) or DFY (Done For You) strategies in business creation. DIY is all abā¦
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#13 - How to Create Your Email Marketing Funnel
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*Summer Camp for Solopreneurs starts July 1st and registration is OPEN! Learn more and register here. Today weāre going to be looking at the anatomy of an email marketing funnel and why itās one of the most powerful business assets for a solopreneur. If you havenāt started building your email list yet, then my hope is that by the end of todayās epiā¦
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#12 - 4 Quick Cash Injection Strategies for Solopreneurs
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Youāre running a business, or planning to, OR Youāre trying to figure out how youāre going to finance your new idea while building it outā¦ OR Youāve been in business for a while but things are slow and you need ideas for how to bump up your monthly revenue... If any of the above resonated with you and you're in a situation where you need a quick inā¦
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#11 - Nutrition & Business: How to Balance Primary & Secondary Foods
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Have you ever been so intensely focused on a work project or trying to meet a deadline for your business that you completely forgot to eat? Maybe the first sign that you've been face deep in your screen for hours is a loud rumbling in your belly! Or, remember when you were a kid and you played outside for hours and hours on end and when your mom caā¦
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#10 - š„ Strategy: Create Consistent Weekly Content
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You want to build a small but powerful community of humans who know and love the work you do in this world? You want a business that won't fall to pieces when the whole world stops? You want to create an audience of raving fans who would love to work with or buy something from you! Then getting into action and creating weekly relevant content is a ā¦
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#9 - 4 Lessons The Solar Eclipse Can Teach Us About Business
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On today's episode of Girl Makes Fire, we take a take a trip to the center of the Sun as the moon uses it's small but mighty and perfectly aligned energy to make a big impact on us mere mortals. There is so much we can learn from nature, in general, but when we have these brief but highly visible experiences, such as a total solar eclipse, it seemsā¦
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#8 - Tax Time! Organize Your Money for Ease and Abundance
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Thereās a saying that goes āMoney loves intentionā Meaning, when you are aware of you money, and tracking the income and expense of it, and you get all your systems set up and ready to make money... it all flows with so much more ease. Conversely, if your accounting and money are all over the place- you won't be able to receive more. In today's epiā¦
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#7 - Creating Your Unique Offer
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In Ep 7 weāre going to focus on the topic of crafting your business offer. Specifically, I want to highlight the importance of clarifying some details of your unique offer - so you connect to the right people, and increase sales. It sounds so easy, right? Just connect to those right peopleā¦ Ok why - so why are we talking about this? There are lots ā¦
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#6 - Money, Mindset & Pricing with Masha Goins
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š„š„š„ Don't burn yourself on this episode! Have you ever dreaded having to sell your product or services? Have you spent hours deliberating over what to price your course, coaching program, or membership? Have you done alllll the things to lead up to the launch of an offer only to feel an overwhelming sense of imposter syndrome and fear around tellinā¦
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What is the source of our creative ideas and how can creativity be a master tool in your entrepreneurial toolkit? In this episode we'll get into CREATIVITY and it's power to transform a situation by opening up new pathways of thought to arrive at innovative solutions. You'll learn 5 ways that your unique creativity supports your entrepreneurial jouā¦
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#4 - Cultivating an Abundance Mindset
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In episode 4, I'm sticking with my plan to introduce the broad themes that I'll be returning to over the course of this podcast. Today we take a deeper look at the role of your mindset as it pertains to how things operate in your business. Youāve likely seen and heard the word āmindsetā a lot. It is a very buzzy word in the world of online marketinā¦
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#3 - Pros & Cons of Being A Creative Solopreneur
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If youāre new to the world of entrepreneurship, then hopefully this episode will help you think about your business model and clarify if you want to operate as a one-woman show. After 20 years begin self-employed, I finally realized - yup - I am a Solopreneur! š In today's eposide I dig into: a more clear depiction of the Solopreneur lifestyle the ā¦
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As small business owners and solopreneurs, its so easy for us to get stuck in analysis paralysis. It's easy to look at our peers as competitors and feel like weāre not ready to share our workā¦ That little voice inside our heads can be hypercritical and we get stuck feeling like we donāt like our images, or our voice doesnāt sound good or the qualitā¦
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#1 - What is a Holistic Business?
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What is holistic business? What does it mean to be a āholistic business coach? In the inaugural episode of Girl Makes Fire, your host Deborah C. Smith will share her take on this topic and how she came to be a holistic business coach. The word holistic means whole, so when applied the concept of income-generating business efforts, it can a mean a fā¦
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