Are you working harder than ever but still stuck at the same income level? The culprit might be simpler than you think.
For spiritual entrepreneurs, coaches, and visionaries, the most expensive business mistake isn't poor marketing or insufficient skills—it's trying to do everything yourself. When you're caught in the cycle of overworking, avoiding systems, resisting automation, and postponing delegation, you're actively limiting your growth potential.
Tech fatigue is the canary in the coal mine. When you're spending hours wrestling with funnels, email sequences, and administrative tasks instead of serving clients, you're not just wasting time—you're burning money. Every minute spent on backend systems is a minute not spent in your zone of genius, where you create the most value and generate the most income.
The Effortlessly Productive Method offers a clear path forward: identify what only you can do, what lights you up, and what generates the most revenue. Then build systems and teams around these insights. Traditional tech platforms often fail spiritual entrepreneurs because they weren't designed for heart-centered, intuitive business models. Solutions like CoachOS integrate marketing, client management, community building, payments, and more into one cohesive system, eliminating the cobbled-together approach that causes so much stress.
Your nervous system also plays a crucial role in breaking through income plateaus. When you're constantly hijacked by technical overwhelm, you can't access the creative, intuitive parts of yourself that your clients value most. Learning to regulate your nervous system creates space for strategic growth.
Ready to stop being your own bottleneck? Reach out if you'd like support implementing these principles in your unique business. Remember: if your business can't scale without you doing everything, you're capping not just your income but your impact on the world.
Coaches, healers, and creatives—how much money are you leaving on the table?
Coach OS is the world’s leading all-in-one software that automates your business, scales your income, and replaces all your other software for a fraction of the cost!
Grab your free trial now, at https://coachossoftware.com/
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Speaker 0 (00:00):
Welcome to today's episode of Effortlessly
Productive.
Today, we are going to betalking about the most expensive
mistake that you're making inyour business.
That's keeping you stuck atyour current income level.
So I know this is somethingthat hits home for a lot of
(00:20):
entrepreneurs, where they hit acertain income level and they
just get stuck there and theyfeel like they can't move past
it.
There is one specific mistakethat I find so I'm working with
a lot of coaches and healers andspiritual entrepreneurs and
creatives and visionaries thereis one mistake that a lot of
(00:44):
people are making that iscausing this.
So that's what we're going tobe talking about today.
We're just going to come rightout and say it and then we are
going to talk about it and howto do some things to change this
around.
I'm going to say this with somuch love in my heart for you,
as I have been there.
(01:04):
You need to stop trying to doeverything yourself.
So many spiritual entrepreneursand visionaries are stuck in
this cycle of overworking, andit's not because you're not
capable, it's not because you'renot a hard worker, it's not
because you don't have what ittakes to have success.
(01:26):
It's because you're avoidingsystems, you're avoiding
automation, you're avoidingdelegation and probably, if you
did not catch my last episode ontech fatigue, go back and
listen to that, please, please,please.
Fatigue go back and listen tothat, please, please, please.
(01:48):
Tech fatigue is what often iskeeping spiritual entrepreneurs
and coaches and visionariesstuck.
That's like a symptom of themtrying to do it all themselves.
So if you are experiencing techfatigue, that is a huge sign
that you are trying to doeverything yourself.
We're going to talk a littlebit more about tech fatigue just
because this is such a hugetopic that so many people are
(02:10):
experiencing right now.
A lot of coaches and thesecreative and solid entrepreneurs
you're overwhelmed by tech andyou are just wasting your time
learning all these skills thatyou don't actually need, wasting
your time learning all theseskills that you don't actually
need.
You might be spending so muchtime trying to figure out
back-end systems that you aren'tactually coaching, creating or
(02:34):
making money.
I know that one hits so manypeople hard and they're like
when they hear that.
They're like oh my gosh, yes,like.
That's why I started mybusiness.
I started my business to coachpeople and heal people and
create and earn this income, andI am now just stuck in these
backend systems or admin work ordoing everything manually, and
(02:57):
I want to get back to that placewhere I am working with clients
.
That's what lights me up.
So if tech fatigue is exhaustingyou, if it's draining your
business, it's actually keepingyou from that success that you
want so badly, and when we saysuccess, let's think about that.
Yes, success is an accolade.
Success is that thing to beproud of.
(03:20):
Success is all the nice thingsthat you can do for your family.
It's leaving that legacy foryour family, and it also
represents the impact of people,like the lives that you have
touched, the people that youhave changed and helped.
So when we talk about success,that is a sign of how many
people that you have helped andserved in this world.
(03:42):
But so many business owners, somany entrepreneurs, are burning
themselves out trying to managethese systems that aren't
aligned with their energy, andthat's what I so often see.
It's not the tech is bad.
It's not that we don't wantsystems in our business.
It's not that we don't want toscale.
(04:03):
It's that we need to do thesein ways that are aligned with
our energy.
If you feel like you might bewasting time doing the wrong
things, this episode is for you.
In reality, it's not so muchthat you are doing all the
things, it's that you're doingthe wrong things.
(04:24):
It's that you're putting yourtime and energy into things that
are not income generatingactivities and you're spending
hours and hours and hours onthings like tech and back end
and admin tasks instead of doingthese right things and instead
of getting to serve and coachyour clients.
(04:44):
It's that lack of structure andthat lack of automation that is
costing spiritual entrepreneursand coaches and visionaries
that money every single day.
Like I said, this can look liketech fatigue.
This can look like a lack ofautomation in your business.
This can look like doingeverything manually, and all of
(05:05):
these things are costing youyour time, your energy and they
are costing you money.
Instead of running a businessthat supports you, you're maybe
manually setting up funnels andemails and systems.
That's all valuable energy thatcould be going into creating
and teaching and coaching.
(05:25):
So what do we do about this?
If you are sitting herelistening to this or watching
this podcast episode and you'relike, yep, that is me, what are
some things that we can do aboutthis?
First of all, I would highlyencourage you to lean into my
effortlessly productive method.
We need to figure out what youdo best like nobody else, and
(05:50):
what you love doing and whatlights you up.
That's number one.
We have to figure that out.
We have to figure out whatthose income producing
activities are that are going toget you the biggest bang for
your buck, and are those thingsthat you want to hold onto and
that you love doing and that youdo better than anybody else.
Or are maybe there some ofthose things we can give to
(06:14):
somebody else to do we can findthe best who to do them right,
somebody who their strengths aregonna align with that so much
more.
Or is this something that wecan automate?
Is this something that we canbuild a system to automate, that
we can scale, that we cansystematize, that we can
basically have taken care of forus?
(06:35):
So once we can start toidentify that stuff in our
business, then we can start tocreate a game plan to get some
of this off of your plate, tofree up that energy.
But we can't do that unless wego through this effortlessly
productive method.
You can definitely go backthrough some of my past episodes
(06:55):
if you want to kind of piecethis together.
I do find often it helps tohave a set of eyes that are a
little bit removed, right,somebody who is unbiased and not
in our business, and that'spart of why I offer audits using
my effortlessly productivemethod, and I have a wide range
of different kinds of audits wecan do to fix one little thing
(07:18):
in your business, or we could doa deep dive into all these
different leaks.
So if you are curious in that,reach out to me and I can help
you with that one little thingin your business, or we could do
a deep dive into all thesedifferent leaks.
So if you are curious in that,reach out to me and I can help
you with that.
Or just lean into thiseffortlessly productive method
and definitely figure out whatwe can take off your plate.
We want to be putting our timeand, most importantly, our
energy into what we love doingand what we do best, what lights
(07:42):
us up, what is our magic, whatis our special gifts.
That is a really good measureof if we are doing the right
things or we are doing the wrongthings.
We also need to start toregulate our hijack nervous
system.
If you are experiencing all ofthis and you are like my time
and energy are so drained, I amexhausted, I have tech fatigue.
(08:06):
I have no automation in mybusiness.
I'm doing everything manually.
Your nervous system there is areally good chance that is
completely hijacked and we needto start to bring you back down
into a regulated nervous systemstate.
And, like I've said so manytimes in past episodes, it's not
that we don't go into thathigher level of alert, it's not
(08:29):
that we never go into fight orflight or never go into freeze
and we want to be excited.
Sometimes.
That's a little bit elevatednervous system state, right, so
that's not a bad thing, but wealso need to be able to come
back down as well.
So if you need some helpregulating your nervous system,
definitely reach out to me orjust find some ways, explore
(08:52):
that a little bit, figure outhow to get back into a place of
regulation that you can operateout of most of the time, because
then those moments where youare excited, they're going to
feel so good, right, because youknow you can come back down
from it.
One other thing that we reallyneed to do with all of this is
we need to start to be able tosimplify our tech, right,
(09:16):
because I find so often that isthe piece that spiritual
entrepreneurs and coaches andcreatives and visionaries.
It's the tech side of thingsthat they are spending so much
time on, whether that's likepure tech of like setting up a
funnel, or whether that is likejust doing these manual back and
repetitive tasks over and overand over again.
(09:39):
A lot of that can be taken careof with tech.
Again, go back and listen to mylast episode on tech fatigue.
I dive so much deeper into allof this.
Like, maybe we have stuffthat's all over the place.
Maybe we have stuff that youknow it's super expensive and
that's stressing us out.
Maybe we're trying to duct tapetogether all these different
(09:59):
systems.
We need to simplify that.
We need to find a system thatworks well for us.
So I wanted to talk a littlebit here, because so many people
reach out to me and they'relike, okay, you talk about this
all the time, like simplifyingthe tech, finding a system that
works for you.
Like I just don't know whatplatform to go with.
So I just want to spend alittle bit of time talking about
(10:21):
my CoachOS platform, because somany people come to me looking
for an answer and I trulybelieve CoachOS is the answer to
your tech fatigue.
Number one it eliminates theneed for multiple expensive
platforms.
So a lot of the time I findpeople are using something and,
again, there's nothing wrongwith any of these platforms for
(10:44):
the people that they work wellfor, but I find often for
spiritual entrepreneurs andhealers and visionaries and
coaches, they're not the idealplatform.
There is something missing.
So maybe they have Kajabi butthey're running Facebook ads,
and then they're not the idealplatform.
There is something missing.
So maybe they have Kajabi butthey're running Facebook ads,
and then they're having to tieit together with Zapier.
Maybe they have MailChimp andthey're like it doesn't do all
(11:04):
these other things that I need.
I have Kajabi, but I want touse text message marketing or
even just text message remindersfor my clients for their
appointments, and so then we'relooking at adding on these other
platforms that cost a lot ofmoney and they don't work well
together.
Coachos is designed specificallyfor spiritual entrepreneurs,
(11:26):
with automating a lot of thisstuff, so it's happening for you
in the background without youhaving to touch it, but the
piece that's missing for so manypeople is that community
building right.
As a spiritual entrepreneur ora coach, we are founded in our
community.
Our community is so importantto us.
(11:46):
Coachos has those communitybuilding features that align
with your business model.
Traditional tech platforms likeKajabi and like some of the
other ones ClickFunnels,mailchimp, like all of those
they're not designed forheart-centered, intuitive
business owners.
They tend to be much too rigid,maybe disorganized, maybe too
(12:08):
complex, definitely expensive.
So what CoachOS does is itsimplifies everything by putting
your marketing.
So what Coach OS does is itsimplifies everything by putting
your marketing, your clientmanagement, your community, your
social media management, yourads, your courses, your invoices
, your contracts, your payments,your calendar.
The list goes on and on.
(12:29):
It takes all of that and itputs it all in one place.
Think about if you weren'ttrying to tie all of this
together and make it work from amillion different platforms, if
you didn't have it all ducttaped together and people
falling through the cracks allover the place.
If it was all in one place, howmuch time and effort would that
(12:52):
save you?
Gone are the days of healersand spiritual entrepreneurs and
coaches trying to be techexperts.
It is time for you to start todelegate and start to let a
system like CoachOS do the workfor you.
We can have that support thatwe need from other people and
(13:12):
from our business systems.
So let other things do theheavy lifting for you.
This is part of what is goingto help you be able to focus on
doing the right things, knowingthat everything else is getting
taken care of.
If you don't have a businessthat can scale without you, you
are seriously capping yourincome and, even more
(13:34):
importantly, you are capping theimpact that you can have on the
people that you want to helpthe most.
So lean in.
Let's start to take one or twosteps.
In the show notes, I will dropthe link to CoachOS if that is
something you are interested in.
If you have a software platformthat you love and it works for
(13:55):
you, stay with it.
But just start to figure outways that we can start to take
some things that do have tohappen in our business.
They're getting taken care of.
(14:23):
They're just not your focusanymore.
How would that feel if thatdidn't have to be your focus
anymore?
You knew, you trusted that itwas all taken care of and you
got to lean into doing what youlove and doing what you do the
best.
I hope you have a beautifulrest of your day and I will
catch you on the next episode ofEffortlessly Productive.
Welcome to today's episode of Effortlessly
Productive.
Today, we are going to betalking about the most expensive
mistake that you're making inyour business.
That's keeping you stuck atyour current income level.
So I know this is somethingthat hits home for a lot of
(00:20):
entrepreneurs, where they hit acertain income level and they
just get stuck there and theyfeel like they can't move past
it.
There is one specific mistakethat I find so I'm working with
a lot of coaches and healers andspiritual entrepreneurs and
creatives and visionaries thereis one mistake that a lot of
(00:44):
people are making that iscausing this.
So that's what we're going tobe talking about today.
We're just going to come rightout and say it and then we are
going to talk about it and howto do some things to change this
around.
I'm going to say this with somuch love in my heart for you,
as I have been there.
(01:04):
You need to stop trying to doeverything yourself.
So many spiritual entrepreneursand visionaries are stuck in
this cycle of overworking, andit's not because you're not
capable, it's not because you'renot a hard worker, it's not
because you don't have what ittakes to have success.
(01:26):
It's because you're avoidingsystems, you're avoiding
automation, you're avoidingdelegation and probably, if you
did not catch my last episode ontech fatigue, go back and
listen to that, please, please,please.
Fatigue go back and listen tothat, please, please, please.
(01:48):
Tech fatigue is what often iskeeping spiritual entrepreneurs
and coaches and visionariesstuck.
That's like a symptom of themtrying to do it all themselves.
So if you are experiencing techfatigue, that is a huge sign
that you are trying to doeverything yourself.
We're going to talk a littlebit more about tech fatigue just
because this is such a hugetopic that so many people are
(02:10):
experiencing right now.
A lot of coaches and thesecreative and solid entrepreneurs
you're overwhelmed by tech andyou are just wasting your time
learning all these skills thatyou don't actually need, wasting
your time learning all theseskills that you don't actually
need.
You might be spending so muchtime trying to figure out
back-end systems that you aren'tactually coaching, creating or
(02:34):
making money.
I know that one hits so manypeople hard and they're like
when they hear that.
They're like oh my gosh, yes,like.
That's why I started mybusiness.
I started my business to coachpeople and heal people and
create and earn this income, andI am now just stuck in these
backend systems or admin work ordoing everything manually, and
(02:57):
I want to get back to that placewhere I am working with clients
.
That's what lights me up.
So if tech fatigue is exhaustingyou, if it's draining your
business, it's actually keepingyou from that success that you
want so badly, and when we saysuccess, let's think about that.
Yes, success is an accolade.
Success is that thing to beproud of.
(03:20):
Success is all the nice thingsthat you can do for your family.
It's leaving that legacy foryour family, and it also
represents the impact of people,like the lives that you have
touched, the people that youhave changed and helped.
So when we talk about success,that is a sign of how many
people that you have helped andserved in this world.
(03:42):
But so many business owners, somany entrepreneurs, are burning
themselves out trying to managethese systems that aren't
aligned with their energy, andthat's what I so often see.
It's not the tech is bad.
It's not that we don't wantsystems in our business.
It's not that we don't want toscale.
(04:03):
It's that we need to do thesein ways that are aligned with
our energy.
If you feel like you might bewasting time doing the wrong
things, this episode is for you.
In reality, it's not so muchthat you are doing all the
things, it's that you're doingthe wrong things.
(04:24):
It's that you're putting yourtime and energy into things that
are not income generatingactivities and you're spending
hours and hours and hours onthings like tech and back end
and admin tasks instead of doingthese right things and instead
of getting to serve and coachyour clients.
(04:44):
It's that lack of structure andthat lack of automation that is
costing spiritual entrepreneursand coaches and visionaries
that money every single day.
Like I said, this can look liketech fatigue.
This can look like a lack ofautomation in your business.
This can look like doingeverything manually, and all of
(05:05):
these things are costing youyour time, your energy and they
are costing you money.
Instead of running a businessthat supports you, you're maybe
manually setting up funnels andemails and systems.
That's all valuable energy thatcould be going into creating
and teaching and coaching.
(05:25):
So what do we do about this?
If you are sitting herelistening to this or watching
this podcast episode and you'relike, yep, that is me, what are
some things that we can do aboutthis?
First of all, I would highlyencourage you to lean into my
effortlessly productive method.
We need to figure out what youdo best like nobody else, and
(05:50):
what you love doing and whatlights you up.
That's number one.
We have to figure that out.
We have to figure out whatthose income producing
activities are that are going toget you the biggest bang for
your buck, and are those thingsthat you want to hold onto and
that you love doing and that youdo better than anybody else.
Or are maybe there some ofthose things we can give to
(06:14):
somebody else to do we can findthe best who to do them right,
somebody who their strengths aregonna align with that so much
more.
Or is this something that wecan automate?
Is this something that we canbuild a system to automate, that
we can scale, that we cansystematize, that we can
basically have taken care of forus?
(06:35):
So once we can start toidentify that stuff in our
business, then we can start tocreate a game plan to get some
of this off of your plate, tofree up that energy.
But we can't do that unless wego through this effortlessly
productive method.
You can definitely go backthrough some of my past episodes
(06:55):
if you want to kind of piecethis together.
I do find often it helps tohave a set of eyes that are a
little bit removed, right,somebody who is unbiased and not
in our business, and that'spart of why I offer audits using
my effortlessly productivemethod, and I have a wide range
of different kinds of audits wecan do to fix one little thing
(07:18):
in your business, or we could doa deep dive into all these
different leaks.
So if you are curious in that,reach out to me and I can help
you with that one little thingin your business, or we could do
a deep dive into all thesedifferent leaks.
So if you are curious in that,reach out to me and I can help
you with that.
Or just lean into thiseffortlessly productive method
and definitely figure out whatwe can take off your plate.
We want to be putting our timeand, most importantly, our
energy into what we love doingand what we do best, what lights
(07:42):
us up, what is our magic, whatis our special gifts.
That is a really good measureof if we are doing the right
things or we are doing the wrongthings.
We also need to start toregulate our hijack nervous
system.
If you are experiencing all ofthis and you are like my time
and energy are so drained, I amexhausted, I have tech fatigue.
(08:06):
I have no automation in mybusiness.
I'm doing everything manually.
Your nervous system there is areally good chance that is
completely hijacked and we needto start to bring you back down
into a regulated nervous systemstate.
And, like I've said so manytimes in past episodes, it's not
that we don't go into thathigher level of alert, it's not
(08:29):
that we never go into fight orflight or never go into freeze
and we want to be excited.
Sometimes.
That's a little bit elevatednervous system state, right, so
that's not a bad thing, but wealso need to be able to come
back down as well.
So if you need some helpregulating your nervous system,
definitely reach out to me orjust find some ways, explore
(08:52):
that a little bit, figure outhow to get back into a place of
regulation that you can operateout of most of the time, because
then those moments where youare excited, they're going to
feel so good, right, because youknow you can come back down
from it.
One other thing that we reallyneed to do with all of this is
we need to start to be able tosimplify our tech, right,
(09:16):
because I find so often that isthe piece that spiritual
entrepreneurs and coaches andcreatives and visionaries.
It's the tech side of thingsthat they are spending so much
time on, whether that's likepure tech of like setting up a
funnel, or whether that is likejust doing these manual back and
repetitive tasks over and overand over again.
(09:39):
A lot of that can be taken careof with tech.
Again, go back and listen to mylast episode on tech fatigue.
I dive so much deeper into allof this.
Like, maybe we have stuffthat's all over the place.
Maybe we have stuff that youknow it's super expensive and
that's stressing us out.
Maybe we're trying to duct tapetogether all these different
(09:59):
systems.
We need to simplify that.
We need to find a system thatworks well for us.
So I wanted to talk a littlebit here, because so many people
reach out to me and they'relike, okay, you talk about this
all the time, like simplifyingthe tech, finding a system that
works for you.
Like I just don't know whatplatform to go with.
So I just want to spend alittle bit of time talking about
(10:21):
my CoachOS platform, because somany people come to me looking
for an answer and I trulybelieve CoachOS is the answer to
your tech fatigue.
Number one it eliminates theneed for multiple expensive
platforms.
So a lot of the time I findpeople are using something and,
again, there's nothing wrongwith any of these platforms for
(10:44):
the people that they work wellfor, but I find often for
spiritual entrepreneurs andhealers and visionaries and
coaches, they're not the idealplatform.
There is something missing.
So maybe they have Kajabi butthey're running Facebook ads,
and then they're not the idealplatform.
There is something missing.
So maybe they have Kajabi butthey're running Facebook ads,
and then they're having to tieit together with Zapier.
Maybe they have MailChimp andthey're like it doesn't do all
(11:04):
these other things that I need.
I have Kajabi, but I want touse text message marketing or
even just text message remindersfor my clients for their
appointments, and so then we'relooking at adding on these other
platforms that cost a lot ofmoney and they don't work well
together.
Coachos is designed specificallyfor spiritual entrepreneurs,
(11:26):
with automating a lot of thisstuff, so it's happening for you
in the background without youhaving to touch it, but the
piece that's missing for so manypeople is that community
building right.
As a spiritual entrepreneur ora coach, we are founded in our
community.
Our community is so importantto us.
(11:46):
Coachos has those communitybuilding features that align
with your business model.
Traditional tech platforms likeKajabi and like some of the
other ones ClickFunnels,mailchimp, like all of those
they're not designed forheart-centered, intuitive
business owners.
They tend to be much too rigid,maybe disorganized, maybe too
(12:08):
complex, definitely expensive.
So what CoachOS does is itsimplifies everything by putting
your marketing.
So what Coach OS does is itsimplifies everything by putting
your marketing, your clientmanagement, your community, your
social media management, yourads, your courses, your invoices
, your contracts, your payments,your calendar.
The list goes on and on.
(12:29):
It takes all of that and itputs it all in one place.
Think about if you weren'ttrying to tie all of this
together and make it work from amillion different platforms, if
you didn't have it all ducttaped together and people
falling through the cracks allover the place.
If it was all in one place, howmuch time and effort would that
(12:52):
save you?
Gone are the days of healersand spiritual entrepreneurs and
coaches trying to be techexperts.
It is time for you to start todelegate and start to let a
system like CoachOS do the workfor you.
We can have that support thatwe need from other people and
(13:12):
from our business systems.
So let other things do theheavy lifting for you.
This is part of what is goingto help you be able to focus on
doing the right things, knowingthat everything else is getting
taken care of.
If you don't have a businessthat can scale without you, you
are seriously capping yourincome and, even more
(13:34):
importantly, you are capping theimpact that you can have on the
people that you want to helpthe most.
So lean in.
Let's start to take one or twosteps.
In the show notes, I will dropthe link to CoachOS if that is
something you are interested in.
If you have a software platformthat you love and it works for
(13:55):
you, stay with it.
But just start to figure outways that we can start to take
some things that do have tohappen in our business.
They're getting taken care of.
(14:23):
They're just not your focusanymore.
How would that feel if thatdidn't have to be your focus
anymore?
You knew, you trusted that itwas all taken care of and you
got to lean into doing what youlove and doing what you do the
best.
I hope you have a beautifulrest of your day and I will
catch you on the next episode ofEffortlessly Productive.
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