Transform your business from chaotic shame-spiral, to one that’s focused, organized, and aligned.
Get on top of your schedule, create supportive (never confining) structures, and find ways make enough money without feeling inauthentic, overwhelmed, or exhausted.
Yes, it’s possible. But only when you have carte blanche to build your biz YOUR WAY!
Welcome!
I’m Stephanie…business coach for entrepreneurs who defy convention (or want to).
I help business owners like you embrace your nature (ADHD? Rebel? Multipassionate? Radically authentic? I’m down) and build a business based on your strengths, not someone else’s formula.
It’s a big, frickin’ deal that you have your own business. Do you realize how brave and badass that is?!
I know it doesn’t usually feel that way. Mostly, it feels overwhelming (ugh, emails), exhausting (ugh, marketing), and deeply gratifying (aaaah, client work!).
It’s time enjoy your life all the time — not just when you’re in the famine-phase of the Feast/Famine cycle.
YOU HAVE MORE CLIENTS THAN YOU HAVE TIME
You’ve got clients, and more keep coming, but you’re saying yes to everything with no clue how you’re gonna get it all done. (Working on your business? Who has time for that?!)
YOU WORK ALL THE TIME AND NEVER GET ENOUGH BREAKS
You keep saying you’ll stay away from work on the weekends, but something always seems to creep in to your down-time.
YOU’RE STILL NOT MAKING THE MONEY YOU NEED TO MAKE
Despite all your hard work and long hours, you’re still not making the money you think you should be. You’re unsure about raising your rates, and you can’t work more (only so many hours in the day) – it’s like there’s a glass ceiling to entrepreneurship nobody told you about.
YOU’RE STARTING TO RESENT THE JOB YOU USED TO LOVE
You actually LOVE your work, and it feels like all the business stuff is distracting you from getting in the flow of it all.
This is all too familiar for many business owners. I’ve worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs in the same position as you.
You don’t need another “guru” forcing you into their business model. You need support building a thriving business based on your strengths.
Here’s how I can help:
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Business for Busy Minds: interview on Beyond Business
Debbie Lee, host of the podcast Beyond Business, is an absolute delight, and she brought me on to chat about running an ADHD-friendly coaching business. What stands out for me is our conversation about the widely varying roles we assume business owners to be able...
The Importance (and Difficulties) of Sticking to a Plan as a Business Owner
I spent all day Sunday making a fairy house with my family. We put the leaf in the dining room table, heaped it with supplies, and followed our creative whims. I glue-gunned a tiny fairy banner, my daughter sewed a hammock, and my partner constructed itty bitty...
Improve your critical thinking skills with this one question: Is that really true?
Two things I hear this week sent me into unexpected spirals. The first was coaching related, and the second was feeding children related, but both benefited from my (sometimes inconvenient) habit of questioning conventional wisdom. Let me share the stories with you...
How do I estimate the time for a task or project in my business?
How does it happen that every day things seem to fall behind schedule? Even with a list, time blocking, and maybe even a plan, there never seems to be enough time in the workday. I see business owners struggle with this All. The. Time. They ask things like “I’ve...
How Things Will Shift if You View Your Business as an Experiment
Today I wanted to ponder with you the idea of experimenting in our businesses. I was talking to a friend who finds my view on experiments liberating because she always thought there was one right way to do business. You just follow the steps. She wanted to know...
What Makes a Community ADHD-Friendly?
If you have ADHD (or suspect you do), you’ve certainly been in some very UNfriendly business spaces. Long slide presentations, one-size-fits-all systems, constant criticism, and even facilitators who deny ADHD even exists. If you’ve been a facilitator, you may have...
Sometimes It’s Enough to Just Breathe
Photo by cottonbro studio For the past year my back has been giving me trouble. Not consistently, and not usually in the same place, but just enough to be really inconvenient and to make me feel like I’m letting it down somehow. Of course I should exercise more (or...
My Business Coaching Approach (and concerns about “mindset coaching”)
After 10 years of coaching, you can probably imagine I’ve tried a lot of different styles and approaches, especially since I’ve coached in so many other businesses where I’ve had to adopt whatever approach they asked me to. I’ve been a chameleon, and although tough...
Using Asana to Manage Your Workflows, Projects, and Tasks
I often get asked about how I keep track of things in my business. I’ve tried all sorts of other tools like ClickUp, Trello, and Airtable, but year after year I keep coming back to Asana. It’s simple but has enough features to do what I want it to do, and it’s very...
Making Imperfect Decisions (even when they feel uncomfortable or overwhelming)
All I can think about right now are colour choices. I’m in the beginning phases of a website makeover and I’ve completely fixated on updating my brand colours. What ones do I like? What colours make a person feel grounded? What colours have the lowest carbon...
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