In this episode, Devi chats with Erin McDonald about Creating and Establishing Healthy Boundaries in your life and business as a spiritual entrepreneur. Erin is an international life and business coach, obsessed with transformation - both her own and that of her incredible clients. She has a course called “6 Weeks to Better Boundaries” and she shares some of her expert boundary advice with us in this episode.
Devi and Erin discuss:
- How to establish healthy boundaries in your business
- The impact of not setting healthy boundaries
- How to have difficult conversations around boundaries
- Knowing the intended outcome behind your boundary conversation
- How to communicate when you are ending a relationship with a client
- Owning your part of a relationship
- “Being messy and cleaning things up later”
- What to do when people choose to test your boundaries
- How Erin sets boundaries around personal time with her kids
- Powerful agreements that create powerful relationships
- Choosing the relationships that we want to have
- Creating the space for your “why”
- Letting go of the desire to multitask
- Reverse engineering your business from the lifestyle that you want to create
- Setting office hours
- Not trying to “mom” and “work” at the same time
- Putting your phone in the drawer
- Setting boundaries around work/life balance
- Creating dedicated time to “fill back up” and have personal self-care
- Using a scheduler, like Acuity Scheduling
- “Book it” to make it happen
- Creating clarity around who you are willing to work within your business
- Setting boundaries in the beginning of the relationship and only working with the people that you are here to serve
- Creating powerful copy and branding that comes from you being yourself
- Not allowing your branding to create a barrier between you and your ideal clients
- Being delighted in being yourself
- Moving from “It is not personal, it’s business” to “It is not business, it is personal”
- How to set boundaries in the online space
- The need for both boundaries and blurred lines
- Knowing “who you are for” and “who you are not for”
- How to find your own voice in your copy by sharing what you like
- Using copy to automatically set the boundaries around who you want to work with
- How humor is such an underrated tool in spirituality
- Be curious about what is interesting for you and always assume that someone will find it interesting, fun or inspirational
- The number one boundary that Erin set in her business and life that made the most difference for her
- Acting on the red flags that you are overlooking
- Watching out for the victim mentality
- The importance of keeping going and not settling
- Why “clumsy grace”
and more…
Connect with Erin on her website @ ClumsyGrace.com
On Facebook: facebook.com/clumsygrace
More about Erin:
Erin is an international life and business coach, obsessed with transformation - both her own and that of her incredible clients, also tacos. When she’s not coaching the funniest, most creative, purpose-filled, biggest-hearted-bad-asses on the planet earth, she enjoys parenting her two hilarious kids and wife-ing it up with her rad subbed. She considers herself a kitchen dance party enthusiast and is a self-proclaimed whack-a-mole champion. She believes that most success comes from mindset, that coaching creates miracles, that relief is an underrated emotion, and that Happy Potter’s birthday should be a national holiday.
Resources Mentioned:
Acuity Scheduling for scheduling
Get Rich, Lucky Bitch by Denise Duffield-Thomas
