A space for powerful, creative business women
 

the coven

Ever felt lonely whilst working on your business?

Gone freelance and miss the office in-jokes?

Wish you were part of an online community who has your back through the highs and the lows?

Want to join us and be supported by hundreds of members every single day?

Fancy having access to a few business worksheets and workshops along the way?

Welcome to The Coven.

PLEASE NOTE WE ARE CURRENTLY AT FULL CAPACITY AND WILL BE WELCOMING NEW MEMBERS IN SEPTEMBER 2019. JOIN THE WAITLIST TO ENSURE YOU GET A SPOT.

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I’m up ridiculously early for my flight home to Ibiza but I saw this via @Gina martinuk from @sine_missione1 whilst scrolling through my stories this morning and it sang to me. This what I’m all about ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼 society encourages us to look at each other like we are in competiton and sometimes it’s hard to grow past this and realise that lifting someone else up doesn’t dampen your own success, achievements or life. If anything, together we are stronger. So with that in mind, whatever you are working hard to achieve, I’m over here pitching for you 🙋🏻‍♀️🌹. #thecovensgotyourback ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼 things often happen before we feel ready and later than we’d expected or at different times than what we’d planned for. Go with it, let it happen and trust the timing. Sometimes that missed opportunity actually sets you up for the next thing, the thing that you were really meant for. I think we put too much pressure on ourselves for things to happen at certain times so it’s fits in with how we’ve planned our life to look. It puts unnecessary pressure on us when lots of the things that happen in life, especially when it comes to timing, are out of our control. So today is a reminder to trust the timing and just go with it. If it comes let it, if it doesn’t just accept that maybe you weren’t ready for that thing yet or maybe life’s got something better in store 👊🏼 Last night I spoke on a panel at @vibe_and_flow and when I introduced myself I looked around and thought “I recognise a few Coven members” so I asked everyone who’s a Coven member to put their hands up and 90% of the room raised their hands including 4 out of 6 of the panel. I see the numbers flash up at me like 500+ every day on my laptop but seeing so many of you sat in front of me was pretty mind blowing. I feel so lucky to have such an incredible group of powerful, supportive women in The Coven. It literally is down to all of you that The Coven is the safe, welcoming space that it is ❤️🌻. Big thanks to @itschloeslade for having me! Lastly if you want to join these babes above and a join a group that’s set to go global in the next year you can jump on the waitlist now. You are guaranteed to make friends! ✨✨✨✨ Not the sexiest quote ever but an important message for a Tuesday morning. You need to tell yourself this bad boy over and over and over again ☝🏼. Self belief and confidence comes from within, confidence is a skill that you can teach yourself. Running a business, building a career, trying to succeed at being a living human is hard and will involve set backs BUT to really move forward, to really try your hardest, to give yourself the best opportunities you need to be BELIEVE that you are capable. The best way to build your confidence in yourself is to do. Thinking it helps but there’s nothing better than proving yourself wrong. Think that jobs not for you? Go and smash the interview. Think you don’t know enough about business to start one? Start it anyway and see your first sale you never thought you’d get roll through the door. Fancy a guy or girl at the bar but think they are out of your league? GO AND TELL EM THEY’RE HOT 🔥. Tell yourself everyday that you are capable because you are. Do not hold yourself back in life because we only get one and there’s no rewinding the clock. Get out there and make stuff happen!!!!!!! I dare you. Afternoon! All my coaching calls are done and I’m about 50% of the way through my emails for both my inboxes (double inbox is STRESS). It’s funny because I’ve been asked a lot recently how I now manage my time and “fit everything in” but if I’m completely honest (which as you know I always am with you guys) I’m at a point in my business career where my business is at the biggest it’s ever been (and bigger still than my previous flower studio ever got too) and I have much more free time than I’ve had in my life. More than when I worked a 9-5, more than when I ran my flower studio (that was a mental three ish years)... more than, well, ever. I no longer live an “omg I’m so fucking busy” kind of life. I’m scaling my business slowly and sensibly (sounds a bit boring but it is so so worth it) and I make time for lots of things outside of my career. Each step the business takes I carefully expand where needed and welcome new team members aboard to take the stress and all the responsibility off of me. I used to be a complete one man band with my previous business, EVERY thing was on me and every minute of every day was packed with stuff to do. Whilst I felt like I was successful and hustling hard, I was also driving myself into the ground, growth was 10 times slower than it needed to be and I wasn’t able to pivot the business as easily when the profit margins weren’t what they should have been. This time around I did the planning, I found the gap in the market, built the business around that gap and spent almost a year planning and creating my platform BEFORE I launched it. I self funded the whole thing, taking money out my very small wage to get the next step done and skillswapped everywhere possible (flowers anyone???). Fast forward a year and The Coven has been paying me a wage since day one, not a huge wage mind but it’s remained profitable and fingers crossed it will continue to do so if I remain as cautious and steady as I have been so far. I spend my days enjoying living in Ibiza (and feeling v. grateful), getting to know members, delegating tasks to the right people and focusing the majority of my time on the growth and the performance. The hustle is over.

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