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I just finished reading Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici. If you have read it you can possibly relate to some of the things I’m feeling right now.

Essentially I guess it’s just women sitting in a circle? But if you’ve been in one you know it’s more than that.  Here’s where things get a bit tricky: I can tell you what women’s circle is to me, how it is for me and what I experience, but every circle is different depending on the person running it or holding space. So in the spirit of that, I’ll simply share what women’s circle is like in my experience. Other circles run by different women will be different to this and I think it’s important for a participant to feel a synergy with the person running the circle for it to “work”.  Read the whole article on the website: https://natashaberta.com/what-is-a-womens-circle/

If you've noticed a change in topics on this podcast you must be a long time listener! Yes - I am moving away from business focussed content over to more women's business type content. What is women's business? Really it's stuff we don't want to talk to men about! It's about carving out a space away from patriarchal opression where we can be the wild women we are! So welcome :)

Camila Sunshine and I had a chat about the parallels in our lives: multi-passionate business, ADHD, Menopause and more. More from Camila: https://www.camilasunshine.com/about-camila-sunshine/ https://www.facebook.com/camila.sunshine.online/ https://www.instagram.com/camila.sunshine.online/ More from me: Website https://natashaberta.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@natashaberta Instagram https://www.instagram.com/natashaberta_/ Podcast https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/connected-creative-free

I hope you enjoy this chat with Shan Withnell, a Women Centred Coach and Hypnotherapist. Shan and I talk about the things are are holding you back from living the life you want: YOUR BELIEFS.Yes it's hard sometimes to even identify our beliefs, because we believe them! Shan shares some awesome tips to help identify and change your limiting beliefs and who knows what might happen? Maybe your dreams will start to come true. Find Shan: https://www.facebook.com/ShanTherapyMore from me: Website https://natashaberta.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@natashaberta Instagram https://www.instagram.com/natashaberta_/ Podcast https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/connected-creative-free

Let’s talk about SEO. It’s something that comes up again and again when I chat with people about building websites. When people start shopping around for a website, they’ll sometimes get quoted $7,000 or more because that price includes “SEO” and they’re told it will guarantee them a spot on the first page of Google. Obviously, I have a different sense about SEO and that's what this episode is all about. You can read it on the website if you like: https://natashaberta.com/seo-yes-no-maybe-what-i-really-think-about-it/#

Welcome everybody! Today I'm excited to be interviewing Julie Gibbons from Brandiwork. We're going to have a casual chat about branding and more + tap into her expertise. Julie brings nearly 30 years of experience in design. With her strong design background, she specialises in branding and website design. Julie is passionate about design and branding. Her mission is clear - she helps businesses shine and grow their audience through effective branding. Many business owners, especially startups, think branding is just about getting a logo. But there's much more to it than that. What Branding Really Is (Not Just a Logo) and more Follow Julie: https://brandiwork.com/ https://www.facebook.com/brandiworkbyjulie More from me: https://natashaberta.com/

I thought it might be fun to try and go back in time to try to remember all the different modalities I’ve studied and that I draw on in my life. There's a lot to list here so I won't - you can get it all on the website: https://natashaberta.com/all-the-things-ive-studied-and-used-in-my-healing-journey-aka-life-that-i-can-remember/ Now, mostly, I notice that the more i bring magic into my life – singing – drumming – art – being in nature – being slow – being with women – sticking to my guns – honouring my intuition – loving myself – the more magical my life is.

Ever wonder what it's really like trying to monetize on YouTube? In this candid chat, I'm sharing the less glamorous side of the creator journey. From the mental drain of constantly refreshing analytics to the unexpected time sink of creating Shorts, I'm laying it all out. I'll also be opening up about my personal doubts and asking the tough questions: "Do I really have what it takes?" Join me for an unfiltered look at the challenges of building a YouTube business.

I have been in business since 2015. I started posting on YouTube as a way to answer questions that a lot of clients were asking me and as a value add to my one on one sessions.​In a time between then and now I have had a number of accidental successful videos YouTube. The first one was How to Create a free landing page on MailChimp. The second was How to Put Faces in Circles in Canva. My current high performer is How to share your Canva design to your Facebook Business Page. The audience for those videos is 70% male males in Australia over 50. In my business my favourite niche has been female coaches and healers over 40 and I didn’t really know how to serve my YouTube audience other than the value they were already getting from the videos created. Most of those viral video views came from a Google search and my videos just happened to exactly answer their query. Fast forward to 2023. I took a job with University of Wollongong for 18 months and in that time I wasn’t creating content for my business. Even still a number of my videos had thousands of views while I did nothing. To me that looks like a business opportunity. Now it’s 2025 and re-entering my business. I’m open to new things and new ideas.​I was still just looking at my YouTube audience and trying to figure out how to make the most of it. I’ve watched a lot of YouTube channel optimisation videos and advice . I’ve done a mini course with Ali Abdaal and considered doing his large program. My concern is that sometimes I struggle to create content when it's very strategic. My best content seems to come when I'm in pure service. I love one take videos and editing has not felt good in the past. I’ve been working with ChatGPT to analyse my existing successful videos to see what ideas can be generated through that exchange.​ChatGPT talks about freebies and funnels and small ticket courses and templates that could lead to larger courses and coaching. Nothing i don’t already know but I’m approaching it with a new curiosity and willingness. I can't help thinking that those YouTube views could lead to something and at the least, I could try to get monetised again. I thought it might be valuable to other people to see the kinds of tools I’m using and processes I'm engaged in as I am reinvigorate my YouTube channel with a goal of becoming monetised and developing a business model for that M 50+ audience. It’s now 16 June 2025 and my current situation with monetisation eligibility is: I have enough subscribers and I have enough uploads. I currently have 139 valid watch hours - my goal is 4000 watch hours in 365 days. ChatGPT thinks I can do it in six months. Let’s see what happens.

Don't even get me started on gender bias and double standards! Here's a tiny feminist rant that makes up part of my final work in my post grad studies. Hit me up if you would be interested to read my story. I'll pop it up on the website soon :)

I think it’s time to start a new story in our culture about the way we deal with grief. So often I hear this statement: ‘ we are just so bad at grief and death and grieving.’ We can keep this old way of thinking in place or we can challenge this and I hope this episode can meet you wherever you are at with your grief process.

I started something from scratch and I have been through all the spirals of learning lately! Today I want to share my lessons and insights with love and compassion if you relate to any of them :) Too Much of Nothing Create a structure?? Kind to myself Remember the key success tools Kind to myself in the face of change Keep experimenting More from me https://natashaberta.com/

Online or in person. Service based or product based. These choices can really change the kind of business advice that is meaningful to you. But these 3 things apply to every business person from my experience.

Why I’m Never Busy “How are you?” “I’m so busy” This is the most common line I hear in conversation especially with business people and mums. It’s definitely a thing I used to say a lot and now I try not to say it at all.  If I feel like I am about to say “I’m busy” I take a moment to reconsider and to take responsibility. Instead I say: “I’m fully engaged with my life” or “I have a lot on” or something like that.  If you like to say you’re busy please go ahead. I don’t judge you. I just know that when I was saying “I’m busy” it was a number of things. It was a badge of martyrdom. It was an abdication of my responsibility. It was a cop out and it was an excuse.  It felt good to say I was busy. It was me, as a mother, putting myself last. I was making excuses for why I couldn’t put my self care and wellbeing first in my life and the problem with that is: no-one else in the world is going to put me first. They might be playing the same mothering game as me and failing to put themselves first, but they certainly aren’t going to put me first. I needed to do that.  For me, the ability to change my relationship with busy-ness took a number of years and some tough challenges. My health declined and I simply couldn’t be busy. Plus, being busy was making me sick. I was anemic with HMB and I needed to learn a new way of being. Stress and overwork were making my condition worse and after a bout in hospital I finally committed to a new direction.  I had to learn to see the mindsets and beliefs that were keeping me stuck. I had to remind myself again and again that I am the boss and I get to make the rules. I had to release a lot of my employee mindset hangovers and step into a new paradigm aside from capitalism’s demands to do, do, do for more, more, more. I had to decide what I personally want from my life and business and redefine my goals.  I had to ask a lot of questions. Do I really want a 6 or 7 figure business? What do I want my days to look like? What are my priorities? What are my interests and who decides how much I should do? Should I let my imagination decide what other people think I should do or should I honour my body, intuition and health indicators.  I realised that I couldn’t blame my partner, his family, my family or society. I had to get good at saying no and taking the time to discern where my energy was best spent. In reality that looks like a lot of mistakes, a lot of over-doing it migraines and a lot of days in bed. It has taken dozens of reiterations of my calendar and it’s something I’m still working on every week and every day.  Ultimately I see that I need to continue to take responsibility. It’s my responsibility to take care of my wellbeing. I and only I am responsible for the hours I work and how I work. It’s entirely up to me to structure my days and commitments so that I can have the life I want.  It’s super satisfying and it’s also very uncomfortable but when I think about being an employee I’m just not sure how I would go. I feel like I’ve learned a lot of lessons and I’m in a completely different field to a lot of people, particularly people who don’t have a business.  I’ve had to learn to emotionally regulate myself when I’m in stressful situations instead of disassociating. I’m still learning that one. I am still learning how much time I need in nature and how much I need quiet. From my perspective it’s all a big experiment and I’m still playing the game.  We all have a choice. We all chose to be where we currently are whether we realise or not. I choose how I relate to my life circumstances and I find that very satisfying. I practice being satisfied. Satisfied with what I have. I take time to notice all that I have. I feel very lucky and grateful. And I’m never busy.