I&apos;m letting you in on a super-secret tool that I teach exclusively inside my Joyful Marketing community this week! It’s called the Garbage Post Challenge. Taking on this challenge is going to create amazing ripple effects for your business, and if you do it all the way through, I guarantee it’ll completely change your marketing game forever. Listen in to find out how to carry out the Garbage Post Challenge, the criteria you need to follow, and why this one tool is the ultimate accelerator for your marketing mastery.Find links to everything mentioned in this episode here: https://www.simonegraceseol.com/160

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160. Garbage Post Challenge

Are your thoughts about your audience costing you in your marketing?Most coaches are prone to erroneous assumptions about their audience and it gets in the way of the efficacy of their marketing. I’m offering the most common thought errors I see playing out in my clients, the ways your assumptions about your audience are working against you, and how to begin creating intentional thoughts that have you showing up invested in your work as a coach. Find links to everything mentioned in this episode here: https://www.simonegraceseol.com/159

159. Limiting thoughts about your audience

As coaches, we know that our thoughts create our results, right? But in order to coach our clients effectively on their thoughts, we have to understand the CONTEXT from which these thoughts emerged. Someone whose cultural history involves persecution and multigenerational trauma may not resonate with the coaching that “everything will happen as it’s meant to,” just as someone who has learned explicitly and implicitly that their sexuality is wrong or bad won’t respond to coaching that does not take this history into account. In this episode, you will learn how approaching your clients with radical curiosity and learning to spot how their thoughts have been shaped by their cultural context will enable you to coach clients with lived experiences that differ from your own. In this special episode, guest coaches Rachel Hart and Dr. Sonia Wright join Kara and I for a conversation about why understanding your clients’ context is so important, and how committing to curiosity and nonjudgment will help you navigate your own blind spots as a coach.Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts!

BONUS: How to elevate your coaching by understanding your clients’ context

Does the idea of getting a refund request send you into a spiral of worry and anxiety?I’m always receiving questions about how to best handle a refund conversation and how I facilitate it in a way that serves my people, so this is what we’re diving into in this episode. This week, I’m sharing my philosophy on refunds that has served my business really well, my best tips for creating a refund policy that feels abundant and rooted in love, and how to handle any refund request with clarity and confidence. Find links to everything mentioned in this episode here: https://www.simonegraceseol.com/158

158. How to handle refund requests

Many coaches believe that once they become certified, they will be equipped with the tools to coach anyone on anything. It’s a lovely thought, but maybe not so helpful when you’re in your tenth session with a client who just stares at you blankly as you try to explain, for the 50th time, how their thoughts are creating their results and why that’s a great thing. While there are certainly powerful frameworks out there, the coaching principles we learn aren’t one-size-fits-all. One single tool or framework isn’t going to work for everybody, and that’s ok. In this episode, Kara and I discuss how to bring more openness, nuance, and discernment into your coaching, so you can coach clients of different backgrounds and lived experiences effectively.Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts!

BONUS: Coaching tools aren’t one-size-fits-all (and that’s a great thing)

If you find yourself buffering all the time, averse to the process of reviewing your progress, or if the notion of finding joy is in itself triggering, this is the episode for you. For part 2 of our conversation, Sally is sharing some brilliant practices that you can use to calm your nervous system that will help you truly unlock your business’s potential. We’re diving into how buffering can actually be soothing and healing, how to de-trigger the process of evaluating your goals, and two of her favorite methods for finding safety when thought work isn’t doing the trick. Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as links to Sally&apos;s work here: https://www.simonegraceseol.com/157

157. Healing your nervous system for authentic marketing with Sally Hardie - part 2

Coaching tools didn’t descend from the heavens. They were developed by humans whose social context impacted the way they saw the world and their clients, including what they even viewed as a “problem” to be solved in the first place. In other words, those coaching modalities that you know and love? Yeah, those were made up. Before you abandon all meaning and run off into the woods, tune into this episode to learn why understanding this is exactly what will elevate your coaching. Kara and I will discuss how learning the intellectual history of modern coaching concepts and embracing the subjectivity of coaching modalities will help you deliver powerful coaching to clients with radically different backgrounds and beliefs than you.Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts!

BONUS: How realizing ‘it’s all made up’ will make you a better coach

When it comes to marketing, without establishing nervous system safety in your body, you will always be out of touch with your full genius, creativity, and intuition.To shed some light on the importance of creating nervous system safety, I have Sally Hardie on the show. She’s a brilliant coach with a psychotherapy background who has an excellent grasp on the central nervous system and how it works. Join Sally and me as we talk about why marketing can be so triggering to our nervous systems, how to know when your body is not in safety and the steps you can take to move in the opposite direction, and why thought work can at times be a toxin we’re weaponizing against ourselves when we’re feeling activated. Find links to everything we mention as well as links to Sally&apos;s work here: https://www.simonegraceseol.com/156

156. Healing your nervous system for authentic marketing with Sally Hardie

Do you understand how the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and genocide have shaped the world we live in? If not, you are missing an incredible opportunity to deepen your coaching and serve your clients and the world. In this episode, Kara and I teach you how you can avoid whitewashing your coaching by understanding your historical context, the context of your clients, and the context of the coaching industry as a whole. Listen in to learn why broadening your historical literacy is so vital to creating a coaching business that meets the demands of a multicultural world.Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts!

BONUS: Using historical context to avoid whitewashing your coaching

You know your weirdness, quirks, and "flaws" that you try to hide on social media? What if that's the key to profit?All the "proven" social media strategies won't work until you show us who you are... because your you-ness is the secret ingredient to success.Life coach and digital entrepreneur Simone Grace Seol talks about how to have fun, be yourself, and making money on social media.