How I'm Envisioning 2024
Creative experiments and opening portals to me
Storytime! 📖
It’s a long one so I hope you have a cup of hot chocolate ready ☕
Let’s dial it back to last December (…was that only a couple of weeks ago?! 🤯).
I participated in a virtual workshop hosted by a life coach (even though I’m not one myself…but maybe in the future? who knows 🤷🏻♀️) that was focused on solving the money-making problem with his 3-problem method.
Honestly, I joined because 1) I wanted to make new friends/meet new people, 2) I needed virtual accountability from other solopreneurs, and 3) I was curious how much more different the workshop content could be from what I learned during my time in tech.
Well…
I did make new friends and met interesting people!
The result of being held accountable during the one-month-long workshop was launching this Substack! Not bad, given how the second half of 2023 was mostly a write-off for me, given the personal and family stuff I was going through.
An interesting insight popped up when chatting with the coach—all roads lead back to me. This means people who need my interdisciplinary experiences and talents can reach me at various financial levels. I can finally stop worrying about being a “different Michelle” to different target audiences. Talk about a rock lifted from my shoulder. 😮💨
🌌 But…what am I really trying to get at? 🌌
In my last post, I shared how I’m exploring creating more room for myself and intentionally not niching down.
As a start, this means I’m growing my public presence and sharing more about what’s really on my mind across different platforms like Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack. I want to create my own micro-communities where I can engage and connect with like-minded individuals who want to grow together and learn from each other.
The workshop experience also reminded me how much satisfaction and joy I get from helping people with their marketing and businesses over 1:1 conversations (like what I used to do over at GrowthMentor!).
One of them was an intuitive healer based in Montreal, and honestly, when she sent her recap below, I was tearing up. 🥲
"I came into Michelle's world when I was feeling completely blocked in my business. I was stuck on my offerings. I felt like I had many loose ends and couldn't see a way to tie them together.
Less than half-way into our session, Michelle shared some ingenious downloads around possible titles for my group offerings and those completely unblocked my creative flow and the next half hour was spent brainstorming possible ways to shape my offerings.
I loved our time together so much that I booked another session and this time, within a few minutes of me sharing my woes Michelle free-styled some more possible ideas for my container & offerings and it literally felt like she somehow managed to help me pull together decades worth of research & seemingly unrelated passions & knowledge. The result: I am so excited to get to work on creating my offerings, I can't wait to start rebirthing my much-more-cohesive-&-exciting-business and to watch it grow.
I absolutely love Michelle's gentle yet-bad-ass-intuitive-and-oh-so-creative mind and feel safe to show up vulnerably to our sessions, which means me and my business can grow by leaps and bounds.
Working with Michelle is a gift that keeps on giving! I don't care how cheesy this sounds, it's literally the truth, you will hear her encouraging words echoing in your mind and you will see yourself & your business reflected in ways you never thought possible. I can't recommend her enough."
— Anda, Intuitive Healer and Guide
Ooof. Did that also strike a chord with you?!
🪞 Opening portals to me 🪞
I want to feel those similar vibes again and again. That’s why I’ve decided for the next while, I want to dedicate my time and energy to helping small business owners and tech companies with their marketing and business operations (‘cause you know we gotta leverage our skills and experiences!).
For tech companies - 30-minute chats to discuss marketing challenges (anything goes—from content marketing to demand gen to ABM) and how I can resolve them.
For small business owners - 30-minute chats to discuss the one thing that can unblock their marketing or business operations.
I’m also keeping in mind what the life coach mentioned to everyone during the workshop—you can’t keep creating value and being someone’s friend but not eventually get paid for your talent and time.
So, by the end of 2024, I aim to have built a treasure trove of offerings across different platforms, providing various portals through which people can connect with me and grow together.
Coming back in full circle, that workshop illuminated that it’s never too late to explore new experiences in life and create new relationships. Trust that you’ll be brought to the right people at the right places in divine timing.
With that said, if you want to catch me live working on my business, come co-work with me on Flow Club!
Here's to a year of transformation, expansion, and shared success. 🥂
Until next time, my friend. 👋🏻
P.S. This post took a couple of tries. Shoutout to Joy, who reminded me to be more me and infuse my voice and personality—something I feel will take some time to get used to, but I’ll get there!
Enjoy your day with this cute heart-shaped waffle 😋