Here’s my dirty little batch secret… I don’t.    In this week’s episode, you’ll hear a bit about my content creation process. Someone in my community wrote in my content survey  that I am a “master batcher,” when the truth is that I don’t batch. I used to try to batch content, even dreamt of having a complete content plan for months in advance–but my creative energy  just doesn’t  come through on demand.  In this episode, you’ll hear my actual process, so that you can try on an alternative method, as you figure out an approach that feels most natural for you. Beca ..read more

In this week’s episode, I want to talk about a concept that has come up for me and for a lot of the people in my community. And that is this feeling like there's a disconnect, there's something that feels not quite like it's clicking in your business and it feels like a dark night of the entrepreneurial soul. These are the moments when you wake up and realize that something about your business or something about the way that you've been doing business, feels like it's just not working and you just can't do it anymore   In this episode, we dive deep into this concept and talk about the pos ..read more

I am thrilled to introduce you to my dear friend, and personal face reader, Elisabeth Spears. In this episode, we talked about all things face readings, how trauma AND healing show up on your face, what some of your lines and wrinkles actually mean, and how healing is an incredibly viable alternative to botox and other face fillers.   Also, don’t skip the important message in the beginning. I found it fascinating that my audience asked me several times what skincare products I use - since I definitely DO NOT have perfect skin. Here’s what I took from that: you actually don’t care about pe ..read more

As kids, we learned a lot about leadership,  what it means to exhibit qualities of a leader, to lead others effectively, and to be a guide to our classmates or to our siblings. Here’s the gap: our education system fell short at teaching us how to lead ourselves. We’ve been conditioned to do exactly what and when to do certain things, with little to no wiggle room for us to practice self-leadership.   As we got older, this programming translates into us clocking in and out of our day jobs. And we see this in the world of entrepreneurship, particularly in the world of online business ..read more

Since when is change, wishy-washy, bad? Since childhood, societal conditioned has told us  that we should decide what we want to do when we grow up, and stick to that one thing. Our grandparents did it, our parents did it, but I don't think that's where we're going anymore. I don't think that that's the life that we're supposed to live right now. I don't think we're supposed to do the same thing forever and ever and ever, amen. So if change is calling you,  permission granted to make the change, whether it's your Instagram handle, closing your first Facebook group baby of 1,733 peopl ..read more

This week, I am honored to introduce you to my client, Bridget Michael. Bridget is the founder of Deu Doulas in Germany and Spain and has been attending births as a birth doula since 2006. She has worked hard to train doulas and her stories of her early days of marketing are particularly inspiring. She is a true powerhouse and is making a movement in Europe with doulas.  We met in 2020, and by then she had already been in the birth industry for more than a decade. And when we started working together, she expressed her desire to do things differently in her business.  In this episode ..read more

What does it mean to be a heart-centered entrepreneur? First let’s go back to our first heart experience - in the womb. In Joseph Pearce’s  book Evolution's End, Pearce explains that a few days after conception, a clump of vibrating cells form what will become the baby's heart. The heart is the first organ to form, and the vibrating cells tune to the mother's heartbeat, and to her breath. Then after the baby is born, we naturally hold the baby on our left side, even when you're right-handed. The reason: we hold babies close to our left side because it’s closer to our heart. Somewhere alon ..read more

In this week’s episode, you’ll hear the business birth story of a member of the Online Business School, Stacy Mayfield. . Stacy recently  completed her first year in the Online Business School, and has renewed for another year.    Stacy is a disabled, queer, neurodivergent, self-proclaimed from small town Alabama. She has a killer red lipstick collection and a tendency to go her own way. Her defiance has led to her over four years of human design study. She studied from multiple different teachers and has a pending certification as a full spectrum doula, postpartum doula, childb ..read more

This week, I’m so excited to bring back the Business Birth Stories where I feature my clients’ and their journey inside Online Business School (https://members.nicholejoy.com/online-business-school-membership).    To kick off its return, I invited my former client and the owner and founder of Blissful Womb, Brittany Zeer. I'm very honored to know Brittany and to have been invited to witness and been part of her journey thus far in her life and in her business.   In this episode, we talked about her journey and how she found success when she finally listened and gave in to her au ..read more

Quick Announcement: A New Program Comes to the Online Business School this week!    The new live program called Standout Online and Grow Your Online Presence is still open and it has available options that fit your business needs and your budget. Join us and experience a full year of new curriculum and new features in the membership!   > Online Business School (OBS) NOW ENROLLING Q1 in OBS: Stand Out Online & Grow Your Online Presence ..read more