The Self-Employed Life: Key Strategies for Sustainable Entrepreneurial Success with Small Business Coach, Jeffrey Shaw

Episode 76: The Self-Employed Life: Key Strategies for Sustainable Entrepreneurial Success

When you are self-employed, so much of your business and professional life seem to become intertwined. While many experts offer business advice or self-help, there is very little guidance out there on how to integrate these aspects, and other parts of your life, into a life that you love.

In Episode 76, NAPO Stand Out Podcast Host, Clare Kumar interviews Jeffrey Shaw. Jeffrey is a speaker, small business coach, and author of The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success. He explains that, in business, the only thing you can control is the environment that you set up for the results that you want. He offers a lot of practical advice that integrates business and marketing strategies, with spirituality, gratitude, and personal development.

In this episode, you’ll hear about the self-employed ecosystem, the importance of trusting in something bigger than yourself in business, and the concept of hug marketing. You will also discover helpful tools, such as a ‘What’s going right?’ journal and the practice of space switching.

Tune into this episode to learn how you can best help the people you’re meant to serve!

About the Speaker:

As a speaker and small business consultant, Jeffrey Shaw helps self-employed and small business owners gain control of their business in what seems like otherwise uncontrollable circumstances. Drawing on his experience as a renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey shows business owners how to see business through a different lens and strategies to compose the often-chaotic pieces of life and business into sustainable success.

Jeffrey’s TEDxLincolnSquare talk is featured on TED.com and he’s the host of the top-rated podcast, The Self-Employed Life, author of The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success and LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer’s Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible.

Key Points From This Episode:

Jeffery talks about the concept of the ‘self-employed ecosystem’ and the role of trust within it.
How to accept the limits of what you can and can’t control in self-employment.
What a ‘What’s going right?’ journal is, and how it can help you.
Why you should acknowledge your efforts and not just your achievements.
Jeffrey discusses external validation from other people’s perceptions.
What space switching is and how it can fuel your energy and focus during the day.
Exploring the concept of hug marketing as an alternative to funnel marketing.
Why Jeffrey suggests you “ditch the niche.”
The importance of dropping further into who you are so that the people you’re meant to serve can find you.
And much more!

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Jeffrey Shaw — https://www.jeffreyshaw.com/

Jeffrey Shaw Email — info@jeffreyshaw.com

Jeffrey Shaw on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyshawauthor/

Jeffrey Shaw on Twitter — https://twitter.com/jeffreyshaw1

Jeffrey Shaw on Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/jeff.shaw.12

Jeffrey Shaw on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/jeffreyshaw/

Jeffrey Shaw on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UCQAwdXD-6XV9XZlUgqDs47w

Jeffery Shaw TED Talk — https://www.ted.com/talks/jeffrey_shaw_the_validation_paradox_finding_your_best_through_others

LINGO — https://www.amazon.com/LINGO-Discover-Customers-Language-Irresistible-ebook/ dp/B0784YW4D5/

The Self-Employed Life — https://www.amazon.com/Self-Employed-Life-DevelopmentStrategies-Sustainable/dp/1774580047/

The Self-Employed Life Podcast — https://www.jeffreyshaw.com/podcast