The Seven Pillars of Soulful Business
A sacred inventory to identify the friction points and fertile edges of your business.
Length: 5:41
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Transcript
Happy Sunday, beautiful people.
I want to share with you a resource that I've created called the seven pillars of soulful business and really any business, but we're soulful babes in here.
So love to stick that word in where I can.
And so the seven pillars is, I mean, really, when you think about it, maybe in corporate terms, you could think of it like departments or silos, whatever terminology.
But I like to think of it as pillars because it's more about the integrity of these different parts of your business.
And as many solopreneurs, like I know that many of you are solopreneurs, obviously this is not looking like, okay, we have five people in here and 10 people there.
This is more of, okay, how is my business as an entity and as her own being?
How is she doing in these seven pillars?
How are these seven pillars?
What is the structural integrity of these seven pillars?
So the way I love to use this preliminarily for clients, for myself, is to do an audit of my business using this.
And so how I use this and how I encourage you to as well is to, first of all, read through it completely.
Don't get too lost in the weeds.
Just read all the words on every page and then go back through it again.
This time sensing, taking a little bit more time to sense in your body and in your mind where you feel constriction, tightness, lack of clarity, maybe urgency, any of these things, and make note of it.
And then once I have kind of made note of the places where I'm feeling like, ooh, this doesn't feel super stellar or solid within me and in the business, I then look at that list and I prioritize it.
And I say, okay, which of these areas will, if resolved, will likely meet my most pressing business needs?
Depending on what stage of business you're at, like what I asked above in the poll, this answer will be different.
And your business as its own unique entity and you and your own unique path, right?
But oftentimes businesses are in one of a few different stages, which is the biggest pinch point is gaining clients or the biggest pinch point is serving clients slash retaining clients.
Very simplified, but I think it's helpful to think of it in this way because sometimes we approach business solutions that meet a different need than where we're at.
Like if you are still building your client base and you are concerned about building out a whole bunch of templates and scaling, you are likely not focusing on the most pressing issue.
And then on the flip side, if you have grown to the point where you are stable enough in your client base, but you are still pouring so much effort into marketing and sales, but your client delivery is rough and you're not retaining clients on the back end, then of course never stop client attraction efforts, but you'll want to focus energy, even if it's just temporarily on that client delivery, client service.
So again, to recap, looking at the seven pillars, you do a quick internal audit, like using your body, your immediate intuition, build out a list of the areas that feel like they have friction or lack of structural soundness, prioritize them based on what you feel will yield the greatest benefit, and then begin working on that.
And that's the way I like to simplify the process of knowing what to do in business.
And this is very high-level, of course, oftentimes the how becomes the hard part.
Like if we recognize, okay, getting more leads and more prospects into my business is the hard part, I feel like I need to work on my presence, how can I actually do that?
I know that's where we get tangled up, and I will likely be diving into each of these seven pillars over the next few weeks, but this is a good starting place to first identify where you're feeling that friction and that discomfort in your business.
Because it is so important to get into our bodies with our business and to pay attention to where our nervous system, our wounds, our intuition is telling us like, this does not feel good.
And there is definitely a discernment process of this is a necessary good stretching thing, and it doesn't feel great, versus this is clunky, this is inefficient, this is not aligned with my brand and who I want to be in this world and how I want to deliver services.
And that's why it feels bad.
So there is also discernment in that.
And if you need help discerning that, let me know, and I can riff on that a little bit.
But I'd be curious as you guys go through this, what sticks out to you, what area really resonates and where do you think that you're going to focus?
Or do you think that there's more than these seven pillars or that there could be less?
This model is always growing and shifting.
And I would love to hear your thoughts.
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