How to Develop a Flourishing Business
While training Emerging and Seasoned Change Catalysts for nearly two decades, I’ve seen how my students’ passion for their profession sours when they can’t find a viable way to translate their vision/dream into a flourishing business.
I’ve experienced this kind of disillusionment myself at various times in my own career as a Change Catalyst.
Each time I experienced a gap in my passion or felt frustrated with my business results, I would invest in programs – webinars, workshops, retreats, and coaching programs – to learn how to develop my emerging work and grow my established business.
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My Journey to a Pivotal Insight - Series 1 - Episode 1 of my podcast.
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The Mainstream Approach Is Not a Good Match
Along the way I discovered that the strategies and tactics I learned in Mainstream business courses, coaching programs, and workshops were not producing the results that I wanted and needed.
While sorting through my own experiences and the insights I gleaned from conversations with colleagues and clients, I realized that the Mainstream Approach to developing and building a business is not a good match for me or for the Change Catalysts I work with.
As I started developing my current business in 2016, I spent a lot of time unwinding the spoken and unspoken rules, milestones, and mindsets that had been drilled into my head during years of Mainstream Business courses and coaching.
I knew I couldn’t be in business again if it meant that I had to do things that were out of sync with my values or that forced me to be out of integrity with my clients. I no longer cared that the Mainstream Approach told me I was doing it “wrong”!
Take a Deeper Dive: Ways the Mainstream Approach Derails Change Catalysts
“For those who have struggled to implement strategies and achieve “success” with traditional business-building models, Carol’s work is a healing balm. Tapping into the natural wisdom of Carol’s Organic Way has served me rather spectacularly within both my work and my life. ”
The Organic Way
Even now, if I find myself considering a business practice that makes my skin crawl or my stomach turn, I pause to discern what is out of alignment for me. Then I develop my own patterns and policies that align with my values, my sense of integrity, and my natural way of working with clients.
As I share this approach with my business mentoring clients, they note how refreshing and validating it feels to create their work and grow their business in ways that reflect their personal style, their professional interests, and their clients’ needs and desires.
Through using, sharing, and experimenting with this gentle, encouraging approach, I’ve created the Organic Way to Create, Develop, and Grow a Flourishing Business that provides guidance and support to:
Emerging Change Catalysts who are just starting their business
Seasoned Change Catalysts who are ready to strengthen their existing business or take their work in a new direction.
In brief, the Organic Way is a natural way of creating a viable business that supports your clients in transition. The ways you choose to run your business and work with your clients align with your values, express your unique style and expertise, and create meaningful results for you and those you work with.
Imagine developing your work with clients and growing your business with gentle, respectful, and encouraging support that meets you right where you are with a framework that strengthens the roots of your work to support the growth you envision for your business.
Take a Deeper Dive: Explore the Organic Way
“My heart is full of gratitude for you and the Organic Way. You get me. I have not been able to say that about any other Coach/Mentor. Thank you for everything.”
“ I loved your comment that the Organic Way impacts who we are and how we show up in the world. I see that in myself, as well. As a result of learning about the Organic Way with you, I feel more grounded and at peace with myself and others. I have more patience and give grace more easily. And I feel I can better discern/intuit what is right for me – in all aspects of my life. I know I have more growing to do, and I look forward to continuing that journey with you.”