Sonya's Patates Braavos: Edition #26 💌🥔

TLDR: taking work more seriously, taking on coaching clients

welcome 👋 

Hello, brave patates! 🥔 This short week whizzed by. How is it August 11th??

• Work: Excited to redevelop my website to better highlight my expertise. Created set packages and pricing for my work. Moving from hourly mode to project mode (with value-based pricing). Leveraging LinkedIn connections to secure new business for the fall. Collaborating on packages with web designers to offer SEO Copywriting (websites, blogs) to their clients. Exploring how my agency client can use my services for their clients too. I never liked cold pitching much. In my experience, genuine relationships and networking go a long way. And it’s mutual - how are you mentioning your friends’ names in rooms of opportunities? Referrals bring so much trust. They communicate value. With cold pitching, someone may be more skeptical since they don’t know who you are. May need more convincing. Or they may be looking for someone like exactly me. You never know. Different strategies definitely have different time investments and pay-offs.

• Work 2: I’m now in month 3 of my 8-month exponential coaching course. It’s expensive. It’s a big-time commitment, with at least 7 hours a week of lectures and practices. Every lecture has material from 50-60 books. I love learning and school, though. My brain craves problem-solving and stimulation, and I love nothing more than writing my notes, on paper. This month I’m taking on my first clients. It’s not enough to learn the theory, we have to apply it, too. We start at lower pricing and increase with experience. The entire program is rooted in successful modalities from psychological studies, with other soulful additions. The goal is a calm limitless mind. Where your heart and soul have a good relationship with your mind. Where you understand what subpersonalities and patterns are controlling your behaviour. So you can choose differently. So you can become aware of how you are limiting yourself. Of why you feel bad sometimes. Or why certain lessons repeat in your life. It’s fascinating. It can be sad sometimes when you learn how much you deny yourself, or that you don’t know who you really are or what drives you. We don’t practice fatalism. Change is possible. And it’s easier with a supportive guide who can bring you to the understanding yourself, instead of just telling you. Reach out to me to chat more about it.

• Watch: Resurrected Rides is a fever dream of insane car makeovers, highlighting fire vintage models (with a side of comedy). Love Is Blind UK is the same as in America, except with fun accents where you will definitely appreciate the subtitles. Season 2 of Shamaran is finally out. There is more action in the first episode than in the whole of season 1 so it feels very satisfying to finally know the full story. Great if you like mystical, cinematic, and spooky snake tropes.

If you got this far, thanks for reading ❤️ cooked something yummy? lmk. went to a cool event or read a fun book? lmk. see you on the flip side 🥔