If you’re a coach, consultant or community owner looking at Black Friday and thinking your only options are to slash your prices or sit the week out, there’s a third option most people miss. For an established expert, the real value of Black Friday sits in the deadline. The discount is optional, and often harmful. Most of your interested buyers haven’t actually said no. They’ve said “not yet.” They told you “after Christmas,” “once I’ve spoken to my partner,” “when the next cohort opens.” That list is a pipeline, and Black Friday is the one week of the year the whole market has trained your buyer to expect a reason to decide. The timing trips most people up. They treat Black Friday as a promo week starting Monday, and by then it’s too late. The real work happens in October, building your “not yet” list, designing a door opener that leads into your main programme, and warming the room so the week itself becomes follow-up rather than first contact. Research suggests 40–60% of deals in professional services are lost to no decision rather than to a competitor. Your job this week is to give the undecided a reason to move. Price won’t do that for you. I wrote a full guide walking through: - How to build a “not yet” list from past conversations - The three tests a Black Friday door opener needs to pass (and why “20% off” fails them) - Four AI prompts you can use this week for finding leads, generating door-opener ideas, stress-testing offers and adding value - A working example, like a 90-minute pipeline audit with a 30-day plan Read it here 👉🏾 Black Friday Without Discounting: https://chelenapeart.com/guides/black-friday-without-discounting Question for the room, are you running something this Black Friday, sitting it out, or still deciding? Would love to know what you’re planning. Chelena 💙

Once a month, I host a free live workshop for my community, Sacred Self Sanctuary, on a self-love topic. It’s all about self-compassion, taking care of yourself without guilt, and building something small enough to keep you going even on the hardest days. Past topics: 🌙 September: Letting Go of Perfection as an Act of Self-Love 🌙 October: Self-Compassion and the Inner Critic Coming up: 🌙 November 12th: Rest Without Guilt (Save your spot here: https://www.sacredfoxstudio.org/rest-without-guilt) 🌙 December 12th: Boundaries as Self-Love Workshops are live on Zoom and recorded. Join the free community and you can watch each replay for 3 days. After that, the replay moves into the Low Tide Library, which is part of the Low Tide membership for Premium & VIP members. Join the free community: https://www.skool.com/sacred-self-sanctuary-1128/about

One of the most important things I've learned since becoming an online entrepreneur is that the most important thing you can do to grow your business is to build relationships. Many of us (myself included) have rushed to promote our groups and services that we care so deeply about. And it only makes sense - we are excited about what we are doing! Today, I'd like to invite you to take a step back and introduce yourself to the group by answering the following questions: 1. Who are you personally? 2. Who are you professionally? 3. What is something you love doing outside of work? 4. What is something surprising about you? As you open up and make more connections, you will find that not only are people more interested in what you do, but they will also be more interested in helping you make connections with other people they know! 😉 After you introduce yourself, please scroll through the other introductions and add a comment to someone you have something in common with or would like to know more about. 😊 Please add your introduction in the comments below! ⬇️

I've rounded up 5 replays from the summer AI program in my community Tech Mastery for Entrepreneurs (women only) for you and everything is completely free when you join our free community: 🔮 So if you were looking for a sign, here you go. 🙏 Everything you need to use Claude Cowork to step into your CEO Era to automate, delegate, and elevate your business. 1. Cowork Orientation — Getting Claude to actually hold context about your business instead of starting from zero every chat. 2. CEO Audit — The session where I found out I was spending 59% of my time as an operator and 41% as a CEO. First fix wasn't dramatic — just reclaiming 8 hours of mechanical community work. 3. Delegation Design — What's actually safe to hand off, and what needs a human for now. 4. Build Your AI Team — Writing an agent brief instead of a prompt. Who it is, how it sounds, what it should ask instead of guess. This is the one a member took and built her own Etsy listing agent from! 5. Connected Systems — Linking your actual tools to Claude via Composio. Two people in that session watched Claude set up their Notion workspace without ever learning Notion first.

FORTUNE TELLER'S ADVENTURE INTO ORACLE CARDS DESIGN THE STRANGE & UNUSUAL EDITION YOU'VE BEEN SUMMONED. A 3-day adventure to find your oracle deck theme, make the visual style unmistakably yours, and learn the shortcuts that help you design cards faster. Plus, leave with at least 25 cards completely done! Starts September 14th ACCEPT YOUR INVITATION (Normal behavior remains optional.) SOMETHING HAS BEEN TRYING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION Maybe it's the deck idea you keep coming back to. The collection of images sitting in a folder. The strange little theme you can't quite explain yet. The card concept you started six months ago and quietly abandoned in Canva. Or maybe you know you want to create an oracle deck—but every time you try to decide what it should look like, you disappear down a Pinterest rabbit hole and emerge three hours later with 47 completely unrelated aesthetics. Suspicious. For three days, we investigate. Not hours of theory. Actually uncovering the idea, defining the look, starting the cards. THREE DAYS. THREE CLUES. ONE DECK TAKING SHAPE. DAY 1: SUMMON YOUR THEME Something has been trying to get your attention. Today we find out what. The recurring clues. The things you keep talking about. The ideas you cannot leave alone. The themes already hiding inside your work. By the end of Day 1, you won't have "an idea for a deck." You'll have a direction you can build from. Evidence recovered: Your core theme. Symbols and motifs. A concept specific enough to become memorable. THEME SUMMONED. DAY 2: MAKE IT UNMISTAKABLY YOURS Your deck needs a face. Preferably one nobody mistakes for somebody else's. Style, mood, palette, imagery, texture, typography—the visual personality that makes your deck feel like YOUR deck. No endlessly collecting inspiration without deciding. No accidental copy-and-paste aesthetic. No settling for whatever Canva suggested first. We're looking for fingerprints. Evidence recovered: Visual direction. Color palette. Mood. The pieces that make your deck recognizably yours. STYLE LEAVES FINGERPRINTS.