Ep 109: What it's like to start your own business and be your own boss

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This week on the Project Love podcast we are talking about what it's like to run your own business. 

With so many of us spending much more time at home and travel being limited, more and more people seem to be using the time to embark on the adventure of starting a business or a side hustle. Particularly coaching businesses and online businesses.

And so as two people who have found huge joy and fulfilment in running our own businesses over the years, we decided to make this the topic of this week's episode, sharing our experiences of quitting employment and starting our own businesses and what it's really like being our own boss.​

Listen-in as we talk about:

•  How we started our own businesses

• What we believe has been key to making those businesses a success

• What we love about the work that we do 

• What we find challenging about running our own businesses and being our own boss

And a whole lot more!

DO ​YOU ​DREAM OF STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS?

If you are dreaming about starting your own business and you’d love to have a coach by your side, helping you to get really clear on what you want that business to be and getting it off the ground and happening, then I have just opened the doors to my Career Change Coaching programmes 🎉​ 🎉​ 🎉

The 6 week Career Change Kickstart programme is particularly good for you if you have a business idea you want to get off the ground. You could have your very own business up and running as early as November! Imagine that!

If that idea gets you really excited, then head on over to selinabarker.com and book yourself in for a discovery call!

I can't wait to hear from you :)

x Selina

Ep 107: The secret to creating a career you love...for life

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Hello lovely, it’s Selina here 👋 full of excitement because TWO big things are happening this week.

First of all the Project Love Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021 journal is now today officially ON SALE! Order your copies over here. 

Aaaaaand on Tuesday my very own Audible Original Series: ‘The Career Change Coach’ went live! 

I made this series at the start of the year. It was supposed to go live in April but then, well, you know...a global pandemic got in the way. And so finally it is out in the world and it is free on Audible UK!

💛 If you have Audible then adding it to your library and leaving a review would absolutely make my day! 💛

 >>> Download it on Audible today! 

The series follows me as I take six people on a Career Change journey. Each episode follows a different person as I coach them and, between coaching sessions, send them off to experience something that will help them along on their journey. You’ll hear me offering tips on how to make a career change throughout the series and at the end of each person’s coaching journey you’ll hear me help them create a plan going forward.

The aim is that, by the end of the series, you will have learnt practical tips and gained confidence to embark on your own career change journey. 

I really am so proud of this series and can’t wait for you to hear it too!

And to celebrate the series going live this week, I’m doing my first ever solo episode on the podcast! I talk about my own career journey over the past decade:

• how I have created a career that I love

• how I got into coaching

• how I discovered that my intuition could be used in a practical way in my coaching 

• how listening to my dreams and taking those dreams seriously has been at the heart of my career 

• the importance of personal development and healing to enable you to create a career and life that you love

Lots of love, 

X Selina

Ep 3 Life in Lockdown Series | Working from Home

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Hi lovely, how are you doing?

We are back with another podcast episode for you from our ‘Life in Lockdown’ series. 

With the boundary between work and home now feeling so blurred, we thought we would dedicate this week’s episode to working from home during lockdown. 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Our own experiences of working from home during lockdown and how we have been adapting 

• Productivity tips to help you to focus (particularly if you have a tendency to procrastinate!)

• The importance of creating healthy boundaries between work and home 

• Rituals to help you to get ready for the working day and tips on how to stay energised and in flow 

• Tips on how to transition out of work mode, to unwind, de-stress and renew your energy after your working day 

• And much more!

What would you like to hear us talk about next in this ‘Life in Lockdown’ series?

While we’ve been recording this ‘Life in Lockdown’ series we’ve really enjoyed how many of you have been engaging with us and joining in the conversation to share how you’ve been feeling. So we wanted to offer you the opportunity to tell us what you would like to hear us talk about next in the series. We would love to hear from you.

We really hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did recording it.

Project Love weekly love-ins 

We are still holding our free Monday lunchtime love-ins (1-2pm BST) on Zoom where we all come together and check-in with each other. It really is a gorgeous time filled with love and support and always sets us up for the week ahead. And as always, Vicki will be leading us through some EFT/Tapping to help us to start the week feeling calm and at ease. Here is the link to join 🤗

Lots of love,

X Selina & Vicki

EP 96: How to work smart, stretch time and make things easier for yourself - with Jo Gifford

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Hi lovely,

It’s Selina here today 👋with an energising episode all about how to work smart, stretch time (yep!) and manage your energy so that you can thrive in life. 

And there is no better person to have that conversation with than Jo Gifford - the queen of working smarter, not harder. Jo has been a huge source of inspiration to me, particularly when I first became a mum and was juggling that new and exciting (but time and energy consuming) role, while running not one, but two businesses at the same time. 

Jo has been successfully running her own business for over 10 years while managing chronic illness and parenting twins. She recently wrote her second book - Brilliance Unboxed (out in March) - while working on two huge projects. 

So whenever I find myself with an impossible deadline or overloaded plate, I ask myself: ‘What would Jo do? How can I find the easiest way to do this?’

And it always works. 

I LOVED having this conversation with Jo. We both ended it buzzing and grinning from ear to ear. So I hope it leaves you feeling inspired and energised too.

Lots of love, 

Selina

P.S. If you’re feeling stuck and fed up in your career, desperate to make a change and would love to have me by your side as your personal career change coach, then email me at hello@loveprojectlove.com and we can jump on a discovery call. I’m opening up a few spots on my coaching programme this spring and YOU are the first to hear, so let me know if you’re interested!

EP 81: Everything is Figureoutable

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A couple of weeks ago we went to see the absolutely brilliant Marie Forleo at her event in London, celebrating her new book ‘Everything is Figureoutable’.

If you saw our instagram stories you’ll know that we were like the ultimate fan girls. Giddy with excitement!

Why? Because Marie Forleo is someone who we have followed and admired for years. She is an unwavering example of someone who brings so much love and joy into her work. And she believes, like us, that our careers can be the source of so much joy, love and fulfilment in our lives and that anything is possible if you allow yourself to dream it and believe in it.

Being at the event and hearing her share the ‘Everything is Figureoutable’ philosophy really had us reflecting on all the times in life where we’ve gone after a dream, not having a clue of HOW we were going to make it happen, but committing to it none-the-less. And so we wanted to dedicate an episode to diving deep into the ‘Everything is Figureoutable’ philosophy and share how we’ve used this approach in our coaching and in our own lives and careers to follow our dreams, even when we had no idea of HOW we were going to do it.

So if you have a dream that you’d love to go after but you’re not sure how to make it happen, then this one is for you!

X Selina & Vicki

Self-celebration and creating a career you love with Sarah Powell

It’s Selina here 👋with this week’s podcast episode. And I cannot wait for you to hit play on this one, because I am joined by the Queen of Self-Celebration and all round joyous creature: Sarah Powell.

I have head-over-heels fallen in love with Sarah via her instagram stories (if you are on instagram and you don’t yet follow Sarah Powell on @thissarahpowell then go and do so immediately). She is hilarious, courageous, loving and inspiring.

She is one of those people that has created a career that is a total expression of who she is and what she loves in life.

She is a celebrant, founder of Celebrate Yourself (the first Celebrate Yourself Live event recently sold out in just 4 hours!), she is co-host of not one, but two hugely successful podcasts - Jules and Sarah and Wobble - both of which she does with her co-host Jules von Hep and she has a rapidly growing instagram community that she pours love into every day.

And yet just a few years ago Sarah was stuck in what she calls ‘the wilderness’ - that no-man’s land of not knowing what you want to do with your life and career, where you’re feeling totally lost and afraid that you’ll never figure it out. The place where everyone (yes everyone) begins their career change journey (or any big journey of transformation for that matter).

And so we talked about the power of self-celebration, finding humour in the mundane and how Sarah made her way out of the ‘wilderness’ to create a career that makes her heart sing and brings joy into the world.

This is such an inspiring episode and one that I guarantee will put a smile on your face!

Look at how much we were grinning by the end of it!

And if you felt like I was speaking to YOU at the start of the episode and you know that it is time for you to make your career change happen, then I would love to hear from you.

I am opening the doors to my 3 month 1:1 Career Change Coaching programme this month and as always will only be taking on a handful of clients.

And I would love for one of those clients to be YOU this time.

So if you’re ready to take the leap, come and book yourself in for a discovery call!

Let’s do this!

X Selina

EP 70: Let's talk about Career Change with our very own Selina Barker!

Selina here! So excited about this week’s episode because in celebration of me opening the doors to 6 new clients this summer and starting a YouTube channel all about career change (eeeek!), we decided to dedicate this week’s podcast episode to...you guessed it, career change!

We dive deep into:

Why it might be that so many people are miserable in their jobs today (over 50% of the UK population wish they could change career!)

What the key phases to making a career change are

Why career change can feel so scary

How to manage those fears

And a whole lot more!

So if you are feeling miserable in your job and wishing you had a career you loved, then this episode is for you.

Aaaaaand if you want to be one of the six new clients I am taking on this summer on my 3 month career change coaching programme then head on over here to check out the programme and if it sounds like just what you need, then fill in the form to book in a discovery call with me.

And don’t forget to check out the first of my new YouTube video series on career change over on selinabarker.com.

Lots of love,

X Selina

P.S. Find out more about my career change coaching over on loveprojectlove.com/careerlove

Podcast | Practical Magic - a conversation with the queen of living life creatively, Kate Taylor

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* GORGEOUS EPISODE ALERT! *

If you haven’t come across Kate Taylor before then you are in for a real treat. She is the creator of the Practical Magic Activation Deck and the Practical Magic prints, she’s a powerful creativity and empowerment coach and NLP practitioner, host of the Practical Magic podcast and has co-run THE most beautiful and powerful one-day retreat we have ever been to.

So we got her into the podcast studio to talk about:

• How she created the Practical Magic Activation Deck (it truly is magic) and what she’s seen it do for people

• The practical things we can do to tune into our intuition more (the place where we get the answers we need)

• How to get in touch with that deeper self, love and wisdom through the body Aaaaaand...how powerful it will be to do Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019 WITH the Practical Magic Activation Deck (and cake)

We enjoyed this conversation SO much and hope you will too.

And because we really do think the journal and the deck are a genius combo, we are offering a special ‘Practical Magic x Goodbye Hello’ Xmas bundle - buy the two together over on lifeandme.com and save over £6!

Let the magic unfold!

X Selina & Vicki

VIDEO | Selina's five top tips on how to start your career change

Today’s video is for those of you that are feeling fed up with your job and either thinking about changing career or starting to make it happen.

I’ve put together a little 18 minute Career Change Session specially for you, sharing with you my 5 top things to do (and one NOT to do) when you start wanting to make a career change.

I’ve been helping people change career and find work that they love for the past 10 years, helping over 2,000 people to figure out what it is they really want to do and how to make it happen. What I’ve found in all those years is that the big difference between those you go for it and make it happen and those who don’t, is that those who make it happen COMMIT to it, they make time in their lives to work on making that change and they TAKE ACTION.

Watch the video below and I’ll tell you more.

And if you are serious about really getting your career change going before the year is up then GET IN TOUCH.

I don’t often open the doors to coaching clients these days (full on with other Project Love stuff!) but autumn is always a time of year when people really start to get that back-to-school ‘I can’t do this for another year!’ feeling. And so this is the time of year that I like to focus on helping some of those people.

And so we are opening up TWO new spaces onto our 3 month 121 Career Change Coaching programme this autumn.

This is the programme where you get to have me as your personal coach for 3 months, helping to guide and support you as your figure out what it is you want to do with your career and then create a plan to make it happen.

I have just had the most amazing season with my two clients who are coming to the end of their journey with me. One (you know her on here - the wonderful Nicole) has quit her corporate job in that time, made a plan to travel the world for a year surfing and has found a new and exciting path as a coach and is already taking on her first guinea pig clients (whoop!), while the other has moved to a super cool new company and gone down to a 3 day week and is using the other two days to test out an amazing new biz idea (still top secret so I can't say more) and is writing a children's book

It's amazing how, when you really commit to making a change and get the right kind of guidance and support, how much can happen and how differently you can feel in just a few months.

So if you are ready to get serious about making a career change and you're ready to invest in getting the right guidance and support in helping you to do it then get in touch.

Drop me a line over at hello@loveprojectlove.com and let me know where you're feeling most stuck and when you'd be free for a chat this week or next.

X Selina

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This course has been in the making for a long time and so we are beyond EXCITED to finally share it with you!

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Over the the 4 weeks, you will:

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