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Podcast: The Nazi Episode (AKA: I can’t believe we have to actually talk about this shit in 2020.)

NEW on the podcast: The Nazi Episode. Aka: I can’t believe we have to actually talk about this shit in 2020.

You can listen to “Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised” on your favourite podcast app, or just by yelling “OK GOOGLE! PLAY LEONIE DAWSON REFUSES TO BE CATEGORISED” at your robot assistant.

Also: before you bother fucking debating whether using neo-nazi symbols are ok or not, do me a favour and just unfollow me now. Give my banning finger a wee break. Otherwise, if you’d like to continue hanging out, drop me a fist of solidarity in the comments… in the shared understanding that fascism, neo-nazism, racism & all the other bullshitisms are NOT COOL, let’s do that.

GO ON. FIST ME. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

Explicit AF

Just to reiterate: this is one sweary motherfucker of a podcast. So if you listen to it around kids… they will defo learn some new vocabulary from Aunty Leonie. MWHAHAHAHA. ENJOYYYYY!

How to listen

Listen below, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, PocketCast (or wherever else you listen to podcasts!)



Want to find all of my podcast episodes?

Just pop over here treasure!

You can also just sit on your couch and yell “OK Google! Play me “Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised” podcast!” and your digital servant shall administer to your needs.

Who gives a fuck about privacy when you can have a little robot assistant at your beck and call so you may never leave the couch again.

HONESTLY HOW GOOD IS LIFE.

THE END.

Big hugs,

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Podcast: The Secret of the Elders

Darlings,

I want to talk to you about my Elders.

Every village has its Elders.

You know the ones; the ones that navigated through so many long years of this whole “living” business.

The Elders who weren’t skewed, jaded or ruptured by the thousand moments where the heart stood still, when hope was lost, when days were sodden with grief, when things didn’t go according to plan.

I was blessed.

I have three elders.

Let me tell you a little bit about each of them.

Explicit AF

Just to reiterate: this is one sweary motherfucker of a podcast. So if you listen to it around kids… they will defo learn some new vocabulary from Aunty Leonie. MWHAHAHAHA. ENJOYYYYY!

How to listen

Listen below, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, PocketCast (or wherever else you listen to podcasts!)



Want to find all of my podcast episodes?

Just pop over here treasure!

You can also just sit on your couch and yell “OK Google! Play me “Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised” podcast!” and your digital servant shall administer to your needs.

Who gives a fuck about privacy when you can have a little robot assistant at your beck and call so you may never leave the couch again.

HONESTLY HOW GOOD IS LIFE.

THE END.

Big hugs,

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Tea with Nicky: Embrace Your Sexual Energy

Lovebugs,

A super fun one for you today!

Nicky Thompson, from ‘Tea with Nicky: Embrace Your Sexual Energy’ and I had a truly brilliant interview, that was just a BLAST!

Nicky describes it pretty damn well:

In todays episode with Leonie Dawson we discuss the highs and lows of parenting, how to incorporate creativity into planning life and business, and how Leonie incorporates solid self-care rituals in order to give her family the best version of herself.

This is one of the funnest interviews I’ve done and if you are looking for inspiration on how to add more pleasure into your life, this is the episode for you!

Grab a cuppa, get comfy and listen HERE! 

Big love, 

 

 

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Podcast: The Creative Manifesto

Lovely ones,

Let’s talk about creativity today.

Too often I hear people undermine their own creativity or creative experience.

In my opinion, the only requirement to be an artist is to be born.

Let’s talk about this.

Explicit AF

Just to reiterate: this is one sweary motherfucker of a podcast. So if you listen to it around kids… they will defo learn some new vocabulary from Aunty Leonie. MWHAHAHAHA. ENJOYYYYY!

How to listen

Listen below, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, PocketCast (or wherever else you listen to podcasts!)



Want to find all of my podcast episodes?

Just pop over here treasure!

You can also just sit on your couch and yell “OK Google! Play me “Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised” podcast!” and your digital servant shall administer to your needs.

Who gives a fuck about privacy when you can have a little robot assistant at your beck and call so you may never leave the couch again.

HONESTLY HOW GOOD IS LIFE.

THE END.

Big hugs,

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Video: My 3 Fave Sources of Inspiration

Darlinghearts! 

I wanted to share with you today my three* fave sources of creative inspiration!

I read a LOT of books! Like, a lot. Up to 400 books a year!
Graphic novels! Oh man, they are wildly inspiring for me.
My art journal!
Making sure you have a life outside of your business! Family, friends, personal goals, hobbies! It doesn’t matter what, just don’t focus solely on your biz (you’ll burnout, and get bored too.)

It’s important that you thrive and prosper, regardless of whether you have a business or not!

BONUS TIP: Stop scrolling on social media for 2 weeks!

See if removing the infinite scroll from your life makes a difference with your creativity.

I wanna hear what makes you inspired!

Tell me, tell me!

Love always, 

 

 

 

 

*May actually be 5. Oops.

P.S. Want to achieve your shining creative goals in life AND biz? Click HERE!

 

 

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Leonie’s 2020 Business Update

Gorgeous humans,

I got an email this week, asking me if I could share a post or a podcast talking about how I closed my long-running membership site after 9 years, and what that feels like a year later. (BTW – if you’ve got anything you want me to write about or do a podcast about, just pop me an email! I love requests!)

So I thought I’d talk about that… and give you a long ass business overview as well while I’m at it!

 

So! I started my membership site back in September 2010. Back then, it was called the Goddess Circle. It started with access to a couple of courses and meditation kits. It eventually became the Shining Biz & Life Academy. I kept creating and adding more programs into it and by the end it had over 140 programs in it. For a long while there, I was creating one new course a month for my Academy members!

I taught tens of thousands of women through it, and it was a huge joy. It was hugely profitable – it brought in about $8 million over the years (!) and I had up to 80% of my members renew every single year… that’s totally unheard of in membership programs!

And then I had the soul calling to close it down.

I talked about my reasons I closed the Academy here – mostly I was just ready to change into a new business model of creating more intensive courses and selling them individually. I wanted to fully enjoy that creative wave of idea and creation and releasing it into the world and then hibernation again, instead of feeling like I was on a creative hamster wheel. I’d been doing it for nine years which is an absolute age in the internet lands! Plus, I felt like I needed to honour it for the gift it was. It was given to me as an idea by the angels. And I felt like I would be dishonouring the gift if I kept it going after getting the angels’ directive to close it down.

It felt scary to close it down – it was my biggest income source and my biggest creative dream. i’m definitely a financially risk-adverse person (even though my personality doesn’t seem risk adverse at all!) so I made sure I built up another income stream to replace the Academy before I closed it down. (You can find out more about my income streams & investment strategies in my Money course!)

Closing down the Academy allowed me to wipe the slate clean and simplify my business. I’d been on the path of right-sizing my business for a couple of years. I’d discovered through hard won experience that I actually hated managing staff, and really liked being able to do all the things in my business. I didn’t want to wait for a developer or specialist assistant or graphic designer to do things for me. I wanted to be able to use all the tools myself to launch quickly as ideas came to me.

I ended up killing off a lot of the software I was using (like Infusionsoft for my CRM and newsletter and Memberium for my custom-designed course website, Vimeo & AWS to host course content, Leadpages for opt-in pages). Instead I migrated to using one service – Kajabi which has CRM, course website, newsletter, opt-in pages, email sequences and website fully integrated. It ended up saving me a craptonne of $$$ – Infusionsoft alone was $25,000 a year for me (!!!) Their 24/7 chat support is fabulous too – it means I don’t have to pay an IT bro $300 an hour to problem solve, and instead it’s just me or my part-time VA chatting to their free support to get fixed. Between the two of us, we’ve managed to pull off what it used to take a full-time team of 10.

I decided to keep my main website on WordPress software for now just because I’ve got 2000+ blog posts on here already, and it would have been a pain in the ass to transfer them onto Kajabi. I use the Divi plugin on WordPress to make it easier for me to design and update pages myself.

If I’d kept doing the Academy, the transition to new software would have been much tougher… but making the change as I changed business models was pretty damn seamless!

The simplicity of our IT systems is pretty fucking stellar now. It’s meant I can come up with new ideas & launch them within days. I had the idea for the Money, Manifesting & Multiple Streams of Income on a Friday night, and by Monday afternoon it was launched in the world! It’s ended up becoming one of my best-selling courses… I fucking loooove running with random ideas.

I started creating new courses about 18 months ago.

In that time I’ve created 7 courses & programs:

40 Days To Finish Your Book
40 Days To Create & Sell Your E-Course
Money, Manifesting & Multiple Streams of Income
Anxiety Balm
Soul Care For Uncertain Times
Two short-term coaching programs – Goal Getter & Get Shit Done Club

And I also wrote/created 6 more books & products:

SALT: an erotic novella (written under my pen name)
2021 Goal Getter Life Workbook
2021 Goal Getter Biz Workbook
Goal Getter Weekly Planner
Goal Getter Daily To Do List Planner
2021 Wall Planner

Free Stuff

I fucking love making freeeee shit. I want to do so much more.

Here’s what I’ve given away recently:

Quarantine Planner
Poster of Austin Kleon’s creativity rules
35 Things To Do When Business Is Slow
6 Money Mistakes Women Make
Cheatsheet on Surviving Financially in 2020
10 Productivity Hacks
I’ve been interviewed on a shit tonne of other people’s podcasts from talking about birth to anxiety to business building & everything in between.

Other shit I’ve created & done

Just for fun, I also started a podcast: Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised. I didn’t want to make it perfect or polished or podcasty at all. I wanted it to feel like a chat with a dear mate over a cup of tea and cake, talking shit about everything and anything under the sun. It’s been bloody fun. It’s now got over 40 episodes & has been listened to over 20,000 times.

I did a complete rebrand & website overhaul to make it even more creative. I got photos done by the incomparable Michelle & Jacko from Eyes of Love Photography and website was done by Soul Stirring Branding. I’m probably due for another branding photoshoot… my VA is starting to get bored from looking at the ones we have everyday. HA!

Philanthropy

My goal with business and money is to create more than I need so I can redirect those funds into the places that need it the most.

On the philanthropy front, just over the last year we’ve:

donated over $17,000 to Australian Wildlife Conservancy (my goal is to hit $25,000 by end of year)
fed a family of four for three months through Foodbank Qld
donated $2,500 to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Legal Services QLD
donated $1,000 to Healing Our Way
gave 166 course scholarships to Black, Indigenous & People of Colour
gave 200 course scholarships to frontline healthcare workers
donated over 6,000 Goal Getter workbooks to non-profits to use with their clients

YAY!

All in all, it’s been such a creative, fertile time for me. The simplicity of my business in terms of staffing and tech means that my time is freed up to do the things I love most of all: creating, connecting & helping.

What’s next?

More courses! Don’t know when or what… but they’re coming!

In the meantime, I’m concentrating on sharing the 2021 Goal Getter workbooks and planners with as many people as possible!

Let’s continue turning up and shining our light bright in the world.

To your shining success!

Love,

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Podcast: Special Election Day Podcast

New podcast episode out.

A love letter.

A balm.

For you if you’re feeling fucked up and anxious right now.

Listen to “Leonie Dawson Refuses to be Categorised” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any other podcast app.

I love you.

Explicit AF

Just to reiterate: this is one sweary motherfucker of a podcast. So if you listen to it around kids… they will defo learn some new vocabulary from Aunty Leonie. MWHAHAHAHA. ENJOYYYYY!

How to listen

Listen below, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, PocketCast (or wherever else you listen to podcasts!)



Want to find all of my podcast episodes?

Just pop over here treasure!

You can also just sit on your couch and yell “OK Google! Play me “Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised” podcast!” and your digital servant shall administer to your needs.

Who gives a fuck about privacy when you can have a little robot assistant at your beck and call so you may never leave the couch again.

HONESTLY HOW GOOD IS LIFE.

THE END.

Big hugs,

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The Priestess Podcast

Treasures!

A little while back, I sat down and had an absolutely delightful chat with Julie Parker from The Priestess Podcast!

She describes our interview best:

I think it’s reasonably safe to say that if you are blessed enough to be alive and listening to The Priestess Podcast right now you have dreams that you would love to come true.

Hopes, desires and wants for the life you want to lead – as a spiritual expression of your soul and who you truly are.

What does it really take to embrace those dreams and make them happen?

That is something of course that is going to be different for every person. What works for me or someone else may not work for you.

And that’s what makes my guest on the show today – Leonie Dawson – so fascinating.

As an author, course guide and artist, Leonie has created a multi-million dollar business doing what she is deeply passionate about, and she has touched hundreds of thousands of lives in doing so.

She’s quirky, creative, has extremely strict but loving boundaries on her time and needs, and is living proof of what can be possible when you fully embrace your dreams and reach for the life that you most want. 

Are you ready for this one?

Click HERE! 

Big love, 

 

 

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Video: If I had to start my business from zero, what would I do?

Treasures! 

If I had to start my business from zero, what would I do?

I thought about this for a bit, and I realised I would do exactly what I’ve always fuckin’ done, and those are my three principles:

Create and share!
No! Comparing! To! Others!
Living my life according to my own strengths and weaknesses.

I do what works best for me and my business!

At the end of the day, if I did this all over again, I would continue to put myself and my family first.

Because that is so much more important than anything else.

So! If YOU were starting your business over again, what advice would you give to yourself?

I wanna hear!

Love always, 

 

 

 

 

P.S. Are you ready to start your business? Or are you wanting to grown and transform your current biz? Click HERE!

 

 

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Podcast: The Wild Donkey Guide to Getting Stuff Done!

The Wild Donkey Secret!!

Loves, if you’ve been around for awhile, you’ll know that I have been talking about this shit for YEARS!

I even made a very cute eBook which you can get for free HERE!

In the meantime, buckle up and get ready, because in this episode I’m going to explain exactly what riding the wild donkey means and how it gets me BIG results!

Enjoy!

You can order the 2021 Goal Getter workbooks TODAY!

Explicit AF

Just to reiterate: this is one sweary motherfucker of a podcast. So if you listen to it around kids… they will defo learn some new vocabulary from Aunty Leonie. MWHAHAHAHA. ENJOYYYYY!

How to listen

Listen below, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, PocketCast (or wherever else you listen to podcasts!)



Want to find all of my podcast episodes?

Just pop over here treasure!

You can also just sit on your couch and yell “OK Google! Play me “Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised” podcast!” and your digital servant shall administer to your needs.

Who gives a fuck about privacy when you can have a little robot assistant at your beck and call so you may never leave the couch again.

HONESTLY HOW GOOD IS LIFE.

THE END.

Big hugs,

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