The Sustainable Success Podcast By cover art

The Sustainable Success Podcast

By: Carly Jo Bell
Listen for free

  • Summary

  • There are some conversations that normally only happen behind the scenes with a few trusted business besties or clients that you’re supporting. In The Sustainable Success Podcast, however, we’re going there. Because in a world overrun by shoulds, shiny objects, and strategies du jour, these are the conversations that let us know we’re not alone and can trust ourselves on this sometimes messy, but always worth celebrating, journey of expansion.

    Hey, I'm Carly Jo Bell, business consultant, coach, and the founder of WholeCo Media. Over the last 5 years I've worked with over 100 individual business owners and thousands more have joined my courses. Our goal? To build businesses that bring in as much joy as they do revenue — by cultivating deep self trust, and solid foundations as the first step. Join us each week for a fresh conversation, released Tuesdays. See ya there?

    (p.s. this podcast was formerly named Selling Chocolate.)
    © 2024 WholeCo Media All Rights Reserved.
    Show more Show less
Episodes
  • 024. A week of Mornings with Carly (behind-the-scenes of our private client podcast!)

    024. A week of Mornings with Carly (behind-the-scenes of our private client podcast!)
    May 7 2024

    Mornings with Carly is our private client podcast where I drop three 5-10 minute episodes every single week, full of mindset practices and inner work inspiration, client lessons, and WholeCo behind-the-scenes debriefs. And today, right here on The Sustainable Success Podcast, I’m sharing a preview of THREE of those episodes!

    All as part of our first ever Spring Spectacular, only the biggest sale we’ve ever run in nearly 6 years of business here at WholeCo. Check it out here: WholeCoMedia.com/spring-spectacular

    Here are the episodes you’ll get to listen to today:

    • Is there ever a time to take on a wrong fit client, especially if you want the money?
    • Tried it; didn't like it. A convo on the value of experimentation in biz (even if you don't like the results)
    • How might your desire to be liked (or a fear that you won’t be liked) play a part in your business right now?

    Mornings with Carly is typically only reserved for our EXPAND clients, and we occasionally invite members of live rounds of our courses to subscribe as well. For this week only, however, you can get lifetime (of the podcast) access to Mornings with Carly simply by picking up either of our bundles at Spring Spectacular.

    Learn more about Spring Spectacular right here: WholeCoMedia.com/spring-spectacular

    If you are loving this podcast, please take a moment to give us a review! You can do so right here in the app you're listening on, or at RateThisPodcast.com/sustainablesuccess — be sure to let us know what you loved most about this episode, so that we can publish more like it!


    If you haven't already done so, subscribe or follow The Sustainable Success Podcast so that you can be notified every time we release a new episode taking you behind the scenes of what it really takes to build a business that brings you as much joy as it does revenue.


    Discover how to build your business, your way in our comprehensive free training, The Sustainable Success Starter Kit.

    https://www.wholecomedia.com/starter-kit


    Always know what to post with Not Another List of Content Prompts.

    https://www.wholecomedia.com/content-prompts-podcast


    Clearly express who you help and how so that you can confidently showcase what makes you and your work unique everywhere that you’re marketing and selling your stuff with The Aligned Niche.

    https://wholecomedia.com/aligned-niche-podcast


    Learn about our comprehensive business training program, EXPAND. This program is for online service providers, coaches, and practitioners who have already seen some success in business but are now ready to expand their business-building acumen, trust themselves as the leader of their business, and build their business, their way.

    https://www.wholecomedia.com/expand


    Join our community inside the Big-hearted Entrepreneurs Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/wholeco


    Know someone who would love this episode? I'd be honored if you'd send it to them.
    Show more Show less
    35 mins
  • 023. When you inevitably "get it wrong" with a client, here's what to do

    023. When you inevitably "get it wrong" with a client, here's what to do
    Apr 30 2024

    A couple years ago, I realized that I had made an assumption about one of my clients that led to me skipping over some really important work with them — which ultimately slowed down their progress and ability to expand.

    Naturally, I felt like sh*t when I realized what had happened. After I had worked through some of those emotions, I then reached out to the client to own up to my mistake — one of the most simultaneously liberating and terrifying actions I had taken up to that point in my business.

    In todays’ episode of The Sustainable Success Podcast, I share what happened next.

    Episode 023. When you inevitably “get it wrong” with a client, here’s what to do

    I also walk you through exactly what YOU can do when YOU make a mistake with a client, so that you can not only rectify the situation with the client, but also how to set yourself up to not repeat this mistake in the future.

    Before you go and listen, I’ll leave you with this:

    It’s entirely normal to make mistakes (we’re human after all!). So much so that us making mistakes in our businesses actually isn’t that newsworthy or notable. What really matters is not the mistake itself, but rather how we respond to it. I share how to do so in episode 023. Tune in today wherever you listen to podcasts!

    If you are loving this podcast, please take a moment to give us a review! You can do so right here in the app you're listening on, or at RateThisPodcast.com/sustainablesuccess — be sure to let us know what you loved most about this episode, so that we can publish more like it!


    If you haven't already done so, subscribe or follow The Sustainable Success Podcast so that you can be notified every time we release a new episode taking you behind the scenes of what it really takes to build a business that brings you as much joy as it does revenue.


    Discover how to build your business, your way in our comprehensive free training, The Sustainable Success Starter Kit.

    https://www.wholecomedia.com/starter-kit


    Always know what to post with Not Another List of Content Prompts.

    https://www.wholecomedia.com/content-prompts-podcast


    Clearly express who you help and how so that you can confidently showcase what makes you and your work unique everywhere that you’re marketing and selling your stuff with The Aligned Niche.

    https://wholecomedia.com/aligned-niche-podcast


    Learn about our comprehensive business training program, EXPAND. This program is for online service providers, coaches, and practitioners who have already seen some success in business but are now ready to expand their business-building acumen, trust themselves as the leader of their business, and build their business, their way.

    https://www.wholecomedia.com/expand


    Join our community inside the Big-hearted Entrepreneurs Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/wholeco


    Know someone who would love this episode? I'd be honored if you'd send it to them.
    Show more Show less
    48 mins
  • 022. Why is 1:1 client work so dang exhausting?

    022. Why is 1:1 client work so dang exhausting?
    Apr 23 2024
    I’ve heard it again and again: “I need to create a more scalable offer, because 1:1 client work is just so exhausting.”Every time I hear a business owner say it, I… 1 - Validate the exhaustion. That sh*t is real.But also…2 - Invite them to explore whether it’s actually the 1:1 work that’s exhausting and needs to be done away with, or if there’s something else happening within the 1:1 work that is in fact the root cause of the exhaustion.Imagine you come to me saying that “working 1:1 with clients is exhausting.” When we probe a bit further, you actually realize: “I have mostly attracted clients into this offer that seem to want me to ‘fix’ everything for them and that aren’t actually doing what THEY need to do to see their intended result.” If that’s happening—as I’ve seen MANY times with business owners across so many different industries—then OF COURSE you’re exhausted. It’s a lot of work carrying responsibility for your own personal success alongside the success of your business, and now you’re trying to also carry a bunch of other people’s success. Goodness, even the weight of responsibility for one more person’s success is too much.While it’d be easy to think that “that’s just the type of person who is attracted to this work,” what’s actually happening is that that’s just the type of person that you have been attracting into this work—very likely through the way that you’ve been positioning and languaging and marketing and selling the work. Which means: if we can adjust how you’re talking about this offer so that it actually speaks to a Right Fit client, you’re going to stop attracting clients into the work who aren’t ready or willing to carry their side of things, and start attracting clients who are so much “lighter” to work with.Now, any time I support a client through this exploration, I don’t do it from the place of: “you can’t give up 1:1 work.” That’s not productive nor is it even my decision to make. We might very well go through this exploration process and discover that it’s not actually about the 1:1 work and yet still ultimately decide to release the 1:1 work.The difference is that now the business owner is making a decision to release 1:1 work not from a desire to escape something painful, but rather to expand into something they’ve decided is more aligned. And that underlying motivation means that it’s MUCH more likely that they’ll be less likely to repeat the pattern in whatever else they move to.Think about it. If you’ve been attracting wrong fit clients into an offer, and you simply shift the offer, you’re not actually changing the issue, you’re changing the channel for the symptom to show itself. Whereas if you get clear on what the real problem is—your words are attracting wrong fit people—and then you change those words, not only is the original “channel” of 1:1 work now clear, but you’ll be able to carry that newfound approach to messaging, positioning, marketing, etc to any offer you are selling. You’re able to actually solve the real problem, not just in the original offer, but in all of the offers.Wrong fit clients are just one of the common reasons I’ve seen 1:1 client work being so dang exhausting. I share the other three common reasons as well as what you can do about them in todays’ episode of The Sustainable Success Podcast.Episode 022. Why is 1:1 client work so dang exhausting?Whether 1:1 client work is actually super exhausting for you, or you’re simply looking for ways to set your 1:1 client work up to be more sustainable, tune in today!MENTIONED IN THE EPISODEEpisode 019: What do you do if clients aren't using the support available to them? — https://www.wholecomedia.com/019The Sustainable Success Starter Kit — our most comprehensive (and free!) masterclass — https://www.wholecomedia.com/starter-kitPowerful Offers that Transform — free guide — https://www.wholecomedia.com/powerful-offersEpisode 021: Voxer Office Hours — https://www.wholecomedia.com/021Blog Post: Boundaries Online Business Owners Can Set for More Sustainable + Successful Client Containers — https://www.wholecomedia.com/boundaries-for-businessIf you are loving this podcast, please take a moment to give us a review! You can do so right here in the app you're listening on, or at RateThisPodcast.com/sustainablesuccess — be sure to let us know what you loved most about this episode, so that we can publish more like it!If you haven't already done so, subscribe or follow The Sustainable Success Podcast so that you can be notified every time we release a new episode taking you behind the scenes of what it really takes to build a business that brings you as much joy as it does revenue.Discover how to build your business, your way in our comprehensive free training, The Sustainable Success Starter Kit.https://www.wholecomedia.com/starter-kitAlways know what to post with ...
    Show more Show less
    1 hr
Leadership Marketing Economics
Show more Show less

What listeners say about The Sustainable Success Podcast

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available