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Reporting live, from Maui!  I'm thrilled to announce: for the first time EVER, we're doing the Garbage Post Challenge together, live, as a community! 100 posts in 30 days. We start October 13.  Listen to hear more about: How the Garbage Post Challenge works:Why calling your content “garbage” helps bypass perfectionismWhat regenerative ecosystems teach us about creativity and why nothing we create is truly garbageWhat we're doing differently for our first-ever community challengeJump in now, and get your free support pack.  Join the Garbage Post Challenge 2.0 for free ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

Why would I close a business course that was adored by so many students — which was also making me a ton of money? Danny asked. I bare it all. Listen to hear more about: Why I wanted to quit business coaching after so much successDid I worry that closing Joyful Marketing was a huge mistake?What changed in Joyful Marketing 2.0 (and why I rewrote the entire workbook)Email marketing, AI-written captions, posting daily: my answers in a marketing lightning roundJoyful Marketing 2.0 is open. Come explore! ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

At the end of my filming videos for Joyful Marketing 2.0, my friend and I sat down to do a spontaneous Q&A. Danny Lim asked me a bunch of questions. I gave him my unfiltered answers. Listen to hear more about: Do you really need social media — and is going viral actually good for business?Why you can do all the “right” marketing things and still not make moneyHow to be private, introverted, and still visibleWhat to do when your launch flops — especially when you really need the money!Joyful Marketing 2.0 is open now. Come join us! ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

The best marketing you can do is being really, really good at solving your people's problems. So, what are your people's problems, and how do you actually solve them? Let's make it simple.  Listen to this episode to learn more about: Why solving problems for free, in advance, is the most effective marketing there isA specific list of the problems your people carry — and what solving each one actually looks likeThe three buckets to sort every problem into so you can get granularGood marketing is being a genuinely useful presence in people's lives. I hope this episode helps you to become more of that. ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

A lot of business marketing advice promises clarity: find your niche, define your positioning, choose your content pillars, follow the strategy. But sometimes what feels like clarity is actually false resolution. Somebody gives you an answer, your anxiety drops, and you mistake that relief for knowing what’s actually right for your business. But what if the uncertainty you’re trying to get rid of is actually building discernment and coherence? Listen to hear more about: Why so much business advice that promises to empower you leave you feeling less resourced The difference between real business clarity and the false resolution Why “my content is all over the place” might mean your authentic voice and point of view are still emergingHow to create human, original marketing in a world flooded with AI-generated contentWe can all agree: we don't want AI-generated businesses. But in order to avoid that, we must be willing to tolerate our humanity.  ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

I've said no to collaborations that would have put me in front of huge audiences. And I've said yes to ones that I stood to gain zero financial benefit from. I have a unique approach to collaborations, it's served me very well over the years, and I'm breaking it down in this episode. Listen to hear more about: The one question I ask about every collaboration requestThe #1 wrong reason early-stage entrepreneurs collaborateThe collab you should say "no" to, even when saying yes feels like the nice thing to doIf you've got an offer sitting in your inbox that you can't tell is a good idea or just flattering, start here. ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

Who you think you're talking to when you're writing copy? That invisible person can make or break your marketing. And no, I'm not talking about an "ideal customer avatar." I'm talking about something more energetic. Listen to hear more about: The two dead giveaways that you're writing to someone who doesn't trust you (and what that costs you)Why the ideal customer avatar exercise is uselessHow to call in the right personWhat to do when nobody knows who you are yetIf writing copy feels stressful — like something bad happens unless you word it exactly right — you'll know how to fix it by the time this episode is over. Hooray! ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

This episode is just me yelling at you to PLEASE GO WRITE YOUR BOOK. (Plus some genius tips on how to actually get it done.) For most of human history, the ability to record and spread your ideas was only reserved for the most privileged few.  And even the most privileged people in history -- like the greatest roman emperors -- did not have the ability to have their ideas travel to the other side of the world, for free, in the fraction of a second. If you have a book inside of you, you know. And if you know, this is my love letter, encouragement, and exhortation to you to get your ideas out there. ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

"No one is buying. What's going on?" This is the checklist I run through with clients when the sales just aren't happening, and they want to understand why.  The good news is: the fix is simple, and you can start to turn things around today. Listen for the six diagnostic questions that will get you out of "low sales purgatory." ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

You put something out for free — something truly valuable, something you were proud of — and got crickets. Nothing. Nada.  What gives? I learned the hard way that there's a good reason people don't take you up on your free (or low-cost) offers. Let me teach you how to problem-solve around this. ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

Has this ever happened to you? You're looking at a blank screen, you need to write copy... and your brain comes up with a big fat NOTHING.  You think to yourself: "I don't know what to say!" And the more you try to wrack your brain trying to come up with something, the bigger the block seems to get? Well, here's the good news. This happens to all of us. Even me!  And the better news? There is a cure. Listen to this episode. ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

This is one of the simplest changes you can make to upgrade your sales game. Add better calls-to-action (CTAs). Adding CTAs to your copy can feel awkward when you think of it as getting someone to do something for you.  Here's a better way to think about it. ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

This is a short but powerful one. A loving kick in the pants. I talk to so many entrepreneurs who have "tried everything"... and yet, none of it seems to move the needle. It's a very frustrating place to be. And here are the coaching questions I guide my clients through when they bring this conundrum to me. (Hint: the truth is, you haven't actually tried "everything." Here are some ideas.) ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

Everyone tells you you need a crisp "I help" statement. Like: "I help such-and-such-people do something-something." If you're like most entrepreneurs online, you've spent real hours agonizing over the words... only to feel like it doesn't fully capture the magic of your work.  That ends today. Here are some better alternatives. (This one's a rerun from the archives -- and it's just as true and relevant as when I first published it.) ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol

A friend once asked whether I secretly have an army of content producers behind me. After all, how else could one person put out that much? Of course, I don't. The thing that produces all of it isn't extraordinary talent, or having a ton of time. It's a specific way I choose to think about myself. And you can adopt the same mindset. This is a re-release from 2019, the fifth episode of my very first podcast ever, and everything in it is still exactly how I work, and exactly what I'd recommend. ——— I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business. 📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails 📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol