is your business healthy (or heading for burnout)?
Maybe this question is an uncomfortable reminder of all the things at the bottom of your ‘To do’ list that never get done. If that’s you then listen to this, it will help….
For 20 years I have been starting businesses and helping women like you start yours. The simple truth is that all businesses have a ‘messy cupboard’ - the place in our mind or in our G Drive that is crammed full of the things we signed off but weren’t completely sure about, the things we ticked yes to in order to meet the deadline but have our doubts about now. These things hang around, waiting for the day when we are so on top of things we finally can spend time sorting them out, getting our ‘ducks in a row’ but that day never comes.
That’s where I come in. I have the energy, experience and professional confidence to help you clear out your closet, I can get your ducks in a row and, more than that….
It will be fun!*
so why does this matter?
Business support for women is everywhere, it’s easy to experience the ‘paradox of choice’ where there are so many people and organisations calling for your attention. It’s easy (and normal!) to end up feeling stuck, endlessly scrolling and staring at the screen like a stunned mullet. But here’s the thing, are you consuming business help or marketing help? One more time for the people at the back…
Are you getting business help or marketing help?
So much focus is put on our brand, our voice, our audience, our communication but none of this can really work if the fundamentals of our business are not sound. Even if we do experience some success this way we don’t really enjoy it because we have niggling doubts that we are going to trip up or get found out.
The foundations of your business, the INSIDE WORK matters, in fact, it matters more.
When we have the basics of our business considered, in place and optimised everything that follows is from a position of strength. We know what success looks like, we see early signs when things aren’t working and we can course correct.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the ability to do this is what real sustainability looks like. When you have a business that is set up right you have space to learn as you go and enjoy the journey.
who is it for?
✔️ This sprint is for you if you want to feel more confident that you know what you are doing in your business.
✔️ It’s for you if you want targeted suggestions that you can action in real time with the support of a small group of REALWORKers in a private Slack channel.
✔️ It’s for you if want to feel reassured that you have everything covered.
✔️ It’s for you if you want your business to last and not be a flash in the pan.
✔️ It’s for you if you want to feel really up together work-wise before the Christmas holidays and new year.
✔️ It’s for you if there are things about your business that you have meant to double check but you never get round to it.
✔️ It’s for you if you are working in a reactive way, fighting fires instead of being intentional.
How will it work?
The Health Check Sprint is for current or new REALWORK members only and will take place in a private Slack channel within REALWORK. The Sprint will start on Monday November 6th and run for four weeks.
✔️ All materials will be posted in the Slack channel so that if you take time off during the month you can revisit in your own time.
✔️ Suggestions will be posted in the Sprint Channel every weekday morning starting with a briefing from me on Day 01 to get you connected.
✔️ With the encouragement and accountability of the group you will be encouraged to look at what your business does and how, you will learn how to diagnose problems, identify key metrics and spot what is really working.
✔️ You will be shown a methodology that you can keep and use.
✔️ Although we are not running content on weekend days if you are online catching up at weekends members of the group will be available to support you.
what will you learn?
✔️ Concept: How to form and interrogate your own concept using both curiosity and metrics.
✔️ Model: What are you selling, who are you selling it to and how. Clarify your current business model, learn to work out if it is working, what alternatives you have and how to test them.
✔️ Financing: Get real about how you are making money, how much and learn how to model a meaningful cashflow that you could fit on the back of an envelope. This work is all about taking out the jargon and understanding how your business works, facing up to the money side will set you free.
✔️ Legal: What legal considerations are there in your business, do you need contracts, agreements or insurance? It’s ok if you don’t know, this sprint will help you work it out and get it done.
✔️ Management: Who is doing what in your business and if the answer is ‘you’ and ‘everything’ how are you going to manage that? Go deep on how to use tools and support to work in a light and sustainable way that leaves you space to breathe and feel creative in your work.
what does it cost?
The cost is £59 and the time investment needed is 10-30 mins each week day you participate during the sprint. Spaces are limited, payment is in full now and the Sprint begins on Monday November 6th and lasts 4 weeks. Sprint with us and do the work in real-time or jog at the back, note down all the content and work on it walking at the back of the race, dressed as a banana, the channel will stay open for a further week after the sprint closes.
If you are not a current member of REALWORK a month’s membership is included FREE in this price and you have the choice to stay in the membership (at £39 a month) when the sprint finishes but there is no obligation.
If you have been looking for a community of women freelancers and small business owners and want to try out mine this is a brilliantly immersive way to get the full REALWORK experience at a great price.
Places are limited so join us now.