Your Simple & Spacious Business

One of my goals heading into this year was to redefine for myself what launching and sales cycles get to look like in my business, especially for my group program Your Simple & Spacious Business which I sell multiple times a year.Sales were a little slower at times last year but doing bigger launches also just wasn’t feeling good for my nervous system and capacity anymore either.And so much of the advice I saw last year in response to many people’s launches not working as well as they used to was to do more: build more hype, create more urgency, build more volume and virality, more, more, more.And I’m just not interested in extracting from myself to sustain my business or to feel like it’s my job to perform or persuade in my work.So when I was mapping out my sales cycles for 2026 I decided that I what I want to experiment with this year are mini enrolments rather than big launches, to take the pressure off each launch, and to embrace lower-lift sales cycles rather than feeling like I have to go big and push myself to do more, more, more.In today’s podcast episode I share more behind the scenes of how I’m embracing softer sales cycles in my business this year and all of the behind the scenes of this launch, why I only sent sales emails to a 5th of my email list, and what I think supported this first mini enrolment of the year to gently thrive and reach my goals.Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.Join me over on Substack.Photo credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

As a society we celebrate fast growth, pushing through, and overcoming whatever obstacles are in our way.Yet over and over again I see my clients truly crack open gentle momentum and growth in their business journey - and actually have the capacity to sustain that growth - when they are brave enough to honour their needs in the process.When they go at their own pace, when they opt-out of the growth-at-all-costs mindset, and when they tend to their nervous system every step of the way.I’m a chronically ill parent and there’s no way I would have been able to sustain my business for over a decade now without deeply honouring my humanness in my work.I have a mantra: our needs are the answer, not the obstacle.They’re how we can feel resourced and rested enough to actually sustain the courage, experimentation, and devotion to doing our very best work that running our own business asks of us each week.So in today’s podcast episode I share more about what it’s looked like to see my own needs as the answer and not the obstacle in my business and some encouragement for how you can do the same too.You’re not alone if you need a whole lot of space to tend to the needs of your life, body, and mind in your business. I’m right there with you, needy and refusing to be ashamed of it.Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and come and join us inside before doors close this week on Thursday 5th 💫Photo credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

A wonderful human left a comment on one of my Substack essays recently that inspired today’s episode. They shared:“I’ve spent the last few years reclaiming my identity from coaches and gurus I purchased courses upon courses from. I was so desperate to find the answer to unlocking success… along the way, I completely lost myself. I’ve been slowly but surely finding myself and rebuilding confidence”I think that there is so much gentle power in reclaiming our entrepreneurial inner compass in our business.In redefining the hierarchy in our mind of who knows best what our business needs to thrive.And I think outsourcing the leadership of our business and believing that someone else knows better than we do is such a dangerous way to not only disconnect ourselves from our own inner wisdom but also lead us down an entrepreneurial path that probably isn’t built to truly work best for us.In today’s episode I walk you through five simple steps to reclaim your entrepreneurial inner compass if your head feels really noisy right now from everyone else’s noise and if you’re doubting your own entrepreneurial instincts and craving deeper intuition in your work.Links:Over on my Substack: But what if I don’t want to be a personal brand?Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and join the waitlist before doors open again this week.Photo credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

I have been the breadwinner for my family for over a decade now, which has at times felt so empowering and at times also felt like a whole lot of responsibility on my shoulders too.After five years of mostly being a stay at home dad and retraining to be a software developer, my husband started a full time job last October so heading into 2026 I now have the option to earn a little less this year in my business if I want to. I’m still the higher earner and probably will be for quite a few more years to come but I am no longer responsible for almost all of our financial needs and long term goals and my nervous system was honestly so ready for this.So in today’s episode I’m sharing some very in-the-moment thoughts, feelings, and reflections on how it feels to be able to earn less money this year if I want to and all of the big messy feelings that’s brought up for me too. And most of all I hope this episode can encourage you to know that how much you earn in your business isn’t the most interesting thing about you in your work and that your financial goals don’t have to exist in response to anyone else’s. Links:Over on my Substack: I don’t want to be the breadwinner anymore Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and join the waitlist before doors open again next week.Photo credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

A conversation that I have over and over again with the wonderful humans I work with is encouraging them to know and trust that marketing gets to feel way more simple in their business.I have been marketing my business online for 12 years now.12 years, hundreds of clients and customers, thousands of email subscribers and social media followers, and over a decade of sustaining my business financially without doing anything that I don’t want to do to reach my sales goals.There is so much noise out here telling us what our marketing plan has to look like.Expert after expert telling us what we should be doing to reach our sales goals and sustain our business.It’s a lot and for those of us who crave slower, gentler, more spacious businesses it goes completely against our needs to feel like marketing is a place where we have to perform and persuade and extract from ourselves energetic resources that we don’t actually have available to give in our business.So in today’s episode I’m sharing with you a calmer and more human approach to marketing in 2026 and some questions that I find so clarifying when it comes to rooting into intention with our marketing plans. I also share some behind the scenes of what I’m prioritising and experimenting with in my marketing this year too.Links:Join my free library where you can dive into my 100 Hell Yes People toolkit.And find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business and join the waitlist before doors open again at the end of January.Photo credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

I feel more clarified at the start of this year than I have in a long while.Or perhaps, more than clarified, I feel like I am in deeper dialogue with my desires and creative curiosities than I have been in recent years.There’s a mini book of essays that I want to write and self publish, an app that I’m building with my husband, a novel idea that I want to get lost in - all whilst gently sustaining my business and doing my very best work for my clients and customers too.And also… I’m still a human who lives in a chronically ill body, I’m a parent, and I’m also just a deeply introverted human who doesn’t thrive at a go go go pace.I have no idea what my capacity will be this year - 2025 was a very low capacity year for me with lots of health challenges, and as I enter this brand new year with creative desires, a business I want to continue to nourish and sustain, and a simple daily life that I like to fill with walks, reading, and naps whenever I need them too, I am balancing both gentle devotion to my creative desires and an acceptance that I want and need to honour my own humanness and capacity and pace every step of the way.In today’s episode I share more about my desires and creative projects for the year ahead and a simple process for moving towards your own desires and intentions for your business and creative work this year whilst honouring your humanness, your needs, and your capacity inevitably shifting too.Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

Does anyone else feel like you’re just not the same person you were at the start of the year?That’s exactly how I’ve found myself feeling as we start to wrap up this year and slowly enter a brand new one in just a few weeks.So for my last podcast episode of the year I’m just sharing a very candid and personal voice note from me to you sharing how I’m processing 2025 and all of the ways it has changed me and I also share some encouragement for you if you’re also finding yourself navigating a season of deep transition and evolution too.Links:Get the end of year coaching session recording sent straight to your inbox.Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.Join me over on Substack.Photo credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

Last week I logged into IG, archived a decade of posts, and uploaded a nine grid to be a simple landing page for my business.In today’s episode I share why I did this and take you on a walk down memory lane as I share why IG has always been a side character in my marketing plan, how I have grown my audience online without relying on social media, and why my vision for my marketing plan for this next season doesn’t include IG at all.If you’re feel exhausted by the pressure to dilute your marketing plan to please an algorithm or are just in need of a mini pep talk to do marketing in a way that works best for you and your creativity and capacity, this episode is for you.Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day - including my toolkit called 100 Hell Yes People if you’re craving deeper guidance on reaching your hell yes people in your business in a way and at a pace that feels aligned, creative, and sustainable to you.Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.Join me over on Substack.Listen to Amelia’s podcast that I mentioned: Off The Grid.Photo credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

Do you ever feel utterly exhausted by all of the strategic business advice you navigate on the internet? By all of the ways you could be growing your business? And by how inaccessible so much of it feels for the capacity you actually have for you work?Today I’m sharing with you how I opt-out of business strategy that isn’t accessible for my capacity or in alignment with how I actually want to be experiencing my business and two gentle questions you can ask yourself to figure out what you actually want to work towards in your business and what pace you want to move towards those goals and desires at too.If you want business to feel calmer and more clarified for you in this season and more attuned to your capacity and humanness, today’s episode is for you.Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

Sometimes life throws us unexpected curveballs and laughs at all of our best laid plans and forces us to adapt and adjust in ways we couldn’t have prepared for.That’s exactly where I’m finding myself right now - adjusting to the fact that my vision for this season looks nothing like I thought it would due to navigating some new health challenges. In today’s episode I share the messy middle behind the scenes of the past couple of months of my life and business, the three questions I asked myself to ground into acceptance and clarity in this season, and some encouragement for knowing you’re not alone if you’re navigating a season of your life and business that looks different to what you first hoped and planned for too. 📞 Submit your voice note to the simple & spacious hotline✍🏻 Get the Design Your Part Time Business Model toolkit sent straight to your inbox for freeYour Simple & Spacious Business is produced by Sonics Podcasts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

In today’s episode I share the behind the scenes of recently updating the pricing structure of my group program, why I’ve created a concession tier, and how I’m experimenting with a 1:1 tier too. If you love to hear the messy middle behind the scenes of someone else’s business this episode is for you.✨ Find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business✍🏻 Get the Design Your Part Time Business Model toolkit sent straight to your inbox for freeYour Simple & Spacious Business is produced by Sonics Podcasts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

In today’s episode I have a pep talk for you all about why prioritising your needs in your business is an essential piece of the puzzle of making your income goals your reality and actually sustaining them in the long run too.✨ How we can work together✍🏻 Get the Design Your Part Time Business Model toolkit sent straight to your inbox for freeYour Simple & Spacious Business is produced by Sonics Podcasts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

I’m back after a 7 month hiatus to share with you why designing a part time business model for ourselves is how we can bring more simplicity, spaciousness, and flexibility into our business - and how we can do this without compromising on our income goals too. ✍🏻 Get the Design Your Part Time Business Model toolkit sent straight to your inbox for free🎙 Listen to The Slow Business Sessions✨ Join the waitlist for Your Simple & Spacious Business🎙 Catch up with Letters From A Hopeful Creative🎙 Catch us with Business Besties This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

As I prepare to open my group program YS&SB for enrolment for the 8th time this month, in today’s episode I’m sharing five ways that I’m experimenting with this upcoming launch and breathing some fresh energy and life into the process.Find out more about YS&SB Get my free deep dive kitGet my free toolkit 100 Hell Yes PeopleJoin me on SubstackListen to my other podcast Letters From A Hopeful CreativeYour Simple & Spacious Business is produced by Sonics PodcastsPhoto credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

In today’s episode I share a pep talk for not spiraling if sales are slow in your business and share a recent example of selling a workshop in my own business where sales were very slow at the start. This episode is here to normalise the highs and lows of sales in our business and a reminder that we’re not alone if sales are slower for a season or an offering in our work.How we can work togetherGet my free deep dive kitGet my free toolkit 100 Hell Yes PeopleJoin me on SubstackListen to my other podcast Letters From A Hopeful CreativeYour Simple & Spacious Business is produced by Sonics PodcastsPhoto credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

In today’s episode I share why I still believe in the magic of long-form content in my business and why writing newsletters and recording podcast episodes is still where I prioritise the majority of my marketing energy in my work. I share why I’d rather reach less people at a slower and gentler pace rather than trying to hack an algorithm and people’s attention spans, and why I trust this approach to marketing as it’s served me very well for a decade now. I’m hosting a workshop on Tuesday 24th September to support you to revitalise your marketing plan 🖥How we can work togetherGet my free deep dive kitGet my free toolkit 100 Hell Yes PeopleJoin me on SubstackListen to my other podcast Letters From A Hopeful CreativeYour Simple & Spacious Business is produced by Sonics PodcastsPhoto credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

Hello 👋🏻 I am back from my 4 month break from this podcast and sharing with you how it felt to lose my business mojo, what I did to support it to come back (spoiler alert: I let myself rest a lot!), why longevity is my goal in my business and why losing my business mojo at times is just part of that, and some upcoming episode topics I want to record for you soon too!I’m hosting a workshop on Tuesday 24th September to support you to revitalise your marketing plan 🖥How we can work togetherGet my free deep dive kitGet my free toolkit 100 Hell Yes PeopleJoin me on SubstackListen to my other podcast Letters From A Hopeful CreativeYour Simple & Spacious Business is produced by Sonics PodcastsPhoto credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

In today’s episode I share with you why it’s so powerful to define and stay connected to our own version of what a simple and spacious business looks like for us and some of the specific ways I’ve done this in my own business journey too, from not building a team or a business model that requires thousands of paying customers a year to keeping my simple and spacious workweek as my guiding anchor and more.YS&SB is open for enrolment until Friday 24th May Get my free deep dive kitGet my new free toolkit 100 Hell Yes People sent to your inboxJoin me on SubstackListen to my other podcast Letters From A Hopeful CreativeYour Simple & Spacious Business is produced by Sonics PodcastsPhoto credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

In today’s episode I share a three-word approach to defining our vision and desires for our business - my three words are simple, spacious, and steady. I walk you through how you can define your own three words and how they can ground you into clarity and intention in your work. YS&SB is open for enrolment until Friday 24th May + today (May 15th) is the last day to get the 1:1 coaching bonus. Join me on Substack.Listen to my other podcast Letters From A Hopeful CreativeAllison BornsteinYour Simple & Spacious Business is produced by Sonics Podcasts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

After taking a month off from this podcast I’m back today with a little catch up to share where I’ve been and what I’ve been working on and what I’m prioritising in this season of my business too.Get my new free toolkit 100 Hell Yes People sent to your inbox.Find out more about YS&SB and join the waitlist before doors open again very soon.Join me on Substack.Listen to my other podcast Letters From A Hopeful Creative—Your Simple & Spacious Business is produced by Sonics PodcastsPhoto credit: Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com