First I'm genuinely going to miss Lara in this space. 😢 We connected through Grow with Evelyn and she has been such a light on this journey. 🌟 She suggested I pop in and introduce myself, so here I am! I'm Amanda, and I run ✨ Spiritual Business Skool ✨ a community built specifically for spiritual entrepreneurs (think reiki practitioners, energy healers, human design readers, tarot readers, astrologers, holistic healers etc.) who want to grow a soul-aligned business on Skool. If you're looking for a new home that gets you this might be it. 🙏 Right now we just started round 2 of our 28-Day Visibility Challenge where we take one aligned action toward visibility every single day together. It's been so good. I also do a ton with Claude AI artifacts, Human Design, and building marketing systems that actually feel good to use as a spiritual person. 😍 You can check us out at https://www.skool.com/amanda/about I'd be truly honored to support you on your journey. 💜✨ Thank you so much for having me here. I've loved watching your growth and support you wherever your heart leads you Lara. xoxoxo Amanda

I want to be real with you, because you deserve that. Over the past couple of weeks I've had moments where I was really, really down emotionally, moments that even scared me a little. I've realised that working alone in my flat, building this online business for the past year and a half, has been slowly burning me out. I don't want to end up destroying myself, so I'm listening to what my body and mind are telling me: I need simplicity, stability, and something that genuinely feels aligned, without so much weight on my shoulders. There's also something I want to be honest about. The image I've been holding: in front of my partner, my parents, my friends, and even in front of you... of someone pushing hard to build something online, has become really difficult to carry. I think I just need to let that go and choose something more real for where I actually am right now. So I've made the decision to step away from Aligned Creators and from the online business world altogether. I know I promised a 30-day outreach challenge starting this week. I'm sorry, that won't be happening. I didn't want to just disappear without explanation, which is why I'm telling you directly. What I can leave you with: everything I know about getting your first paying clients is already in the classroom. The videos are gone, but the full written process is there: the exact method I used with my own clients, who paid me for it. The scripts, the steps, everything. If you do the outreach as it's laid out, it works. The community will stay open until June 3rd so you have time to go through anything you want to keep. Now, the part I really mean. Thank you. Genuinely. - To my activity allies: @Amanda Smith @Nicholas Lee @Suzzie Woods @Lidia Axe @Sabine Hope - To everyone who showed up, commented, contributed, and made this feel like a real place, you made this worth doing. - To the clients I had the privilege of working with: @Mat Edwards @Wendy Prager @Edith Calls @Logan Smith @Dovydas Zemeninkas @Branco De Souza

Since making the decision to go from HT to LT a couple months ago I've had 40 ppl join premium and 0 new VIP members. I was like wtf is going on here?! (I've sold $3k - $12k offers and everything in btwn) Do I not have product market fit? Is my time not valuable? What am I doing wrong? Did I make a mistake lowering my prices? Sometimes I be doing the MOST lol I cant even tell you what goes on in my brain sometimes 🙈😅 This week we moved and cleaned, organized, or threw away a lot of stuff before we got to our new place Literally the next day one of my followers from tiktok who has been with me for over a year I've done not one but TWO sales calls with her lets me know she just got her tax return back and.... She signed up for VIP.🎉🎉🎉🎉 To me this confirms a couple things 1. If you want more clients you have to make space for them (literally, get rid of shit you don't need lol) 2. Theres no substitute for time in market - if you just keep doing you on the internet long enough its only a matter of time until your people discover and decide theyre ready to work with you As a former hardcore door to door sales girlie I no longer opt-in to follow ups, urgency, fake scarcity this is such a soft life savage execution exhale moment for me. Like yes I've done the work for years showing up online, building the systems, being consistent. Learning all the SKILLZ AND at the same time I hadn't posted in days, never followed up with her, pushed her with a deadline, or did anything extra to get her to sign up. She just did because she knows I'm the one for her 👯‍♀️ (which she has literally said from day 1 the first time we met. ) What are you celebrating in your biz today?

A few weeks ago I had a real wake-up call. Not from a course. Not from a mentor. From a conversation (with Claude LOL) where I had to get honest with myself about something uncomfortable. I wanted the MONEY, but not the SELLING. I wanted the CLIENTS, but not the OUTREACH. I wanted the COMMUNITY growth, but not the daily CONTENT grind. I wanted the VALIDATION, but not the UNCERTAINTY of testing. And I realised: that's not a business strategy.. That's avoidance with a vision board on top. Here's what actually landed for me: 💌 There is NO path that gives you consistent income, complete alignment, 0 selling, 0 uncertainty, and fast results, all at once. That path doesn't exist. Not for me. Not for anyone. 💌 Every business requires you to be uncomfortable somewhere. The question isn't HOW to avoid the discomfort. It's WHICH discomfort you're actually willing to sit with. For me, the answer became: warm, responsive selling, just connecting the dots when someone raises their hand, that I can do!! It's not the version I hated. It's a lighter version I hadn't fully tried yet. Where are you at with this right now? 👇 I'd genuinely love to know which part of building feels most uncomfortable for you these days.

I've spent weeks overthinking my strategy. Posting everywhere, trying everything, measuring myself against frameworks that weren't mine. This week I stopped. And I just looked at the data: not other people's data, my own. Here's what I found: 1. I've been on the wrong platform for a year. After 12 months of consistent posting on Instagram, I realised I was never getting the right people engaging with my content. Not because I wasn't trying hard enough — but because the people who follow me there are mostly people who know me personally. They engage with my cats and my dinners. Not my business content. So I made a decision: Instagram is my personal journal now. TikTok is where I'm building. And honestly...The relief I felt when I gave myself permission to stop forcing Instagram was enormous. 2. My best YouTube videos are the ones where I'm not trying. I went back through my analytics and noticed a clear pattern. The videos that got the most CTR and retention were never the ones where I sat down with a script and tried to teach something. They were the ones where I just... talked. Like a friend. Like I was processing something out loud. So that's what I'm leaning into. No more educator mode. Just me, a camera, and whatever's actually on my mind. 3. My positioning was in my head, not in my members' words. I spent an afternoon reading through every DM, every comment, every "Start Here" post reply from my community members. And the pattern was so clear once I stopped assuming I knew what they needed. They're not lost about their purpose. They know what they want to offer. They just can't get anyone to pay them for it yet. One member said it perfectly: "I know I am great at what I do. I just can't get clients." That one sentence rewrote my entire about page. Sometimes alignment isn't a feeling. It's what happens when you stop ignoring what's already in front of you. Where are you at this week? What's one thing you've been ignoring that might actually be trying to tell you something? 🧡