Archive for April 2016
Printable Project Planner and Calendar: May 2016
15 Minutes Per Day = Progress
What tiny step can you take each day to move one (or two or three) of your business projects forward in May? (psst. want to plan with me for free? See how below!)
Imagine the Possibilities
Download this printable (PDF) calendar and commit to take one tiny action per day, and see how much progress you can make.
Fifteen minutes of focused action, every day in May = 7.75 hours of work on one or more of your most important projects!
Jewels Branch Showcase: Meshaelle Pate
This Jewels Branch Showcase features an awesome client and the work we did on her branding and website.
Introducing Life and Health Coach Meshaelle Pate…
“I work with amazing moms who are rocking motherhood, but not taking good care of themselves. Moms who are so busy taking care of everyone else that they’ve forgotten their own dreams, passions, and health.
I’ve been there … in the midst of my own motherhood experience, I lost sight of who I was. On my journey to find myself, I got certified as both a Transformational Nutrition Coach and Life Coach. Now, using my own life experiences and my coaching skills, I help moms, who are feeling lost like I was, rediscover their passions and energy for life.
We work together to find practical, mom friendly ways to make time for their passions, health, and family so they can feel good about themselves again.” ~ Meshaelle Pate
Moms take note: Meshaelle’s Heart-to-Heart video series (sign up on her website), is full of practical, mom friendly ways to find time for yourself in the midst of all that laundry and carpooling.
Rebrand and Website Update
It was a pleasure working with Meshaelle Pate to rebrand her coaching business and update her website. Her experience of rediscovering her own passions and turning that into a mission to help other mothers do the same, resonates deeply with my own life and the work that Jewels Branch does.
Meshaelle worked through our branding process (questions, one-on-one conversations, visual exploration, and more) to clarify her big picture brand and business goals, and hone in on her unique visual style.
Through the visual exploration part of our branding process, Meshaelle found a deep connection with softer color palettes and scripty handwritten fonts. Meshaelle’s friend drew the heart icon Meshaelle had in mind for her logo. We worked to combine the curvy, feminine feel of the heart icon with typography and a soft color palette to convey Meshaelle’s warm, open personality.
After branding and logo creation, we worked with Meshaelle to write new copy and re-designed her home page to more clearly showcase her expertise and better connect with the mothers she loves to coach.
We updated Meshaelle’s existing theme (Elegant Theme’s Divi) to match her new color palette and fonts. We created design modules for Meshaelle to reuse as she continues to work on her site. We connected her opt-in to her newsletter service and tested the opt-in process. Finally, we provided Meshaelle a brand style guide and video tutorials to help her manage her site and keep her branding consistent going forward.
Meshaelle Says …
“Christie is an amazing designer to work with. I am “design challenged” yet Christie was able to direct my ideas into important elements of my brand and then put those on paper. She helped me write the copy by listening to me ramble on about my coaching dreams and then clarifying my ramblings! She is truly gifted to dig into the exact feel you want your company to project. She created a logo I love and a website I will have for a long time.” ~ Meshaelle Pate
Connect with Meshaelle
Visit Meshaelle’s website here to learn more her work. Connect with her on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
Connect with Jewels Branch
See more of Jewels Branch’s work in our portfolio and learn more about working with us here.
Online Resource Roundup: April 2016
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Spotlight
This month we’re shining the spotlight on …
All-New Mama Community Dump
With: Sara Bradford
Price: $97
Description: MAMAS: A Spring Food Cleanse doesn’t have to exclude you. It just needs to be designed FOR you. Nourishing self-care in 5 minutes or less a day, recipes that make sense for a busy life, foods designed for new moms, extra time to get it together, a pile of supportive, knowledgable moms. Time for the world to give something back!
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Join by: April 11-17, 2016
~~~APRIL~~~
Life & Relationships
The Reach Out Initiative
With: Lynn Daue
Price: Free
Description: The Reach Out Initiative is a free, five-day mini-course to help you build better personal and professional relationships. We begin April 25, 2016!
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Join by: April 23, 2016
Soul Work & Creativity
THE ARRIVAL:
the quintessential essence7 journey to making your dreams come true
With: April M Lee
Price: $427
Description: THE ARRIVAL: the quintessential essence7 journey to making your dreams come true is a 7-week live workshop. A new essential element will be introduced and explored each week. Is it time to pay attention to your deepest desires, to embrace hope, to trust yourself, to find your voice, and to reunite with your unique essence?
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Join by: April 24, 2016
Business Growth & Personal Development
BOP your OPT-IN :: Live Edition
With: Helene Scott
Price: Free
Description: April 18th – 22nd :: BYO LIVE is a A FREE, 5-day virtual workshop where you’ll learn (and apply) the BOP philosophy to create a brand aligned experience (that excites + delights) FROM OPT-IN to PAID OFFERINGS.
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Join by: April 17, 2016
Photo Picking Power Session
With: Christie Halmick
Price: $50
Description: No more aimless stock photo searches! Walk through the stock photo search process in a 30-minute, one-on-one with Christie Halmick of Jewels Branch. Look over my shoulder (via screen sharing on Skype or Google+) and I’ll help you find a batch of stellar images from free and paid stock photos sites to use in your branding.
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Join By: April 25, 2016
Avoiding Shiny Object Syndrome for Business Success
With: Vatsala Shukla
Price: Free
Description: Want to increase your productivity & stop burning a hole in your wallet or maxing your credit card?This teleclass recording about shiny object syndrome with practical tips to deal with this bane of business owners and professionals will help. A 30 minute coaching class with a handout for your notes.
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Join by: April 30, 2016
~~~ONGOING~~~
Business Growth & Personal Development
30 Days to Fame Digital Playbook
With: Lori Nash Byron
Price: $97
Description: Skyrocket your biz fame in 30 days with simple daily actions. A fun and friendly PDF playbook, the 30 Days to Fame program will walk you step-by-step through the marketing and PR elements you need to become a business superstar. Lessons are simple activities that take only 10 to 30 minutes. 100+ pages and Bonus Guides.
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90 Days to Systems Bliss: a VIP Systems Building Experience
With: Kathryn Brown
Price: 4 payments of $900.00. A “pay in full” discount is available.
Description: You’re exhausted and overwhelmed and to top it off, your income has hit a plateau that just won’t budge. You’re spending more and more time, money, and energy working on administrative tasks than you are in growing your business. You’ve become your own bottleneck. It’s time to change that. I can help.
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Blogstorm
With: Lacy Boggs
Price: $59
Description: Planning might be boring, but results AREN’T. Get six months of blog posts planned and ready-to-write with your new secret weapon detailed in this quick, fun guided brainstorming program. You’ll finish with an organized editorial calendar that not only tells you what you’re writing but how your content supports your biz goals.
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Jewels Branch Creative Community
With: Christie Halmick
Price: Starting at $49/month.
Description: As a creative member you get access to a growing library of self-paced digital courses and the Jewels Branch creative community. Learn graphic design software, branding, content strategy, and more at your own speed (no more overwhelm!). Get support from other entrepreneurs on the same journey as you. Get constructive, helpful feedback from a professional graphic designer.
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My Tiny Empire
With: Megan Flatt
Price: $75
Description: A virtual workshop, My Tiny Empire, is a low-tech, high impact system for formulating your next big project, creating your amazing business products and services, and planning out how to get it all done. All with one little office supply power house you probably already have in your drawer.
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Opt-in Brilliance – Self-Study
With: Jewels Branch
Price: $180
Description: Design a brilliant opt-in freebie pdf in Canva. Brainstorm: Find the connections between the problems your potential clients are having and your expertise; Write: Structure your content to make it digestible (small bites!) so your clients can take instant action, and so it’s easier for you to design; Design: Learn the ins and outs of Canva, including how to customize Canva’s templates to fit your brand for speedier design. Learn how to design 3-d promo images and other graphics to promote your opt-in; Promote: Make a promotional plan to get your opt-in into the right hands.
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Polish Your Online Brand
With: Jewels Branch
Price: Free
Description: 5 days of branding inspiration! Build your brand from scratch, select fonts and colors, and create a brand style guide to help you keep your branding consistent going forward.
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What To Post When
With: Lucy Davies
Price: £97
Description: If you ever find yourself on social media thinking “What can I post today?” this one-to-one workshop will answer that question once and for all! You will come away from this session with a social media content strategy and schedule for your business so you always know what to post when.
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5 things you need to work on before jumping into business
With: Vatsala Shukla
Price: $18
Description: Want to quit you job and go into business? In this workbook, I will help you to think more about your plan and consider 5 tough areas so that you transition from employee to business person with clarity and focus and understand what you next step should be to Project Independent Business.
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7 Strategies For Starting Your Own Business
With: Flesche Hesch
Price: Free
Description: You are a Mom and you have a dream: You want to get paid to stay home and be more available to your kids. Do it! Learn 7 simple strategies for launching your own business with what you already know. It is easier than you think. Get the free workbook to start now.
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50 Attributes you need to be a successful business person
With: Vatsala Shukla
Price: Free
Description: This business readiness assessment has been created especially for career professionals who have decided that they want to hang up their corporate running shoes and enter the world of self-employment. A simple self-assessment that will help you gauge if you are really ready or need to do some more work before making the shift.
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Business Love Boat
With: Cigdem Kobu
Price: $247
Description: The Business Love Boat is a 30-day intensive program that walks you through 30 different ways of improving (and empowering) your solopreneur business. You’re going to come back from this guided journey with many ‘aha!’ moments and a unique road map for making your business easeful and sustainably profitable.
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Dance and Desire
With: Paulette Rees-Denis
Price: Free
Description: Our free online gathering place of a like-minded tribe for women only, of women who want to dance with life, move and share, who need support, who wish to dive in, who want to shine, to desire to honor their bodies, who want to be accepted as they are, or who want to make some changes that feel important to their heart and soul!
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Hit the Mic Backstage
With: Stacey Harris
Price: $25/Month $250/Year
Description: Hit the Mic Backstage is a virtual library of trainings supported by weekly coaching in a private Facebook group. Jump in today for trainings like Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, getting started with video, podcasting and even Google Analytics.
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Marketing Basics for Educators
With: Aurora Meyer
Price: $25
Description: This course will give you the confidence to apply your current skills and convert your classroom teaching experience (which is really selling when it comes down to it) into growing your business. Over the five lessons you will learn the basics of marketing your product including homework assignments to move you along …
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Posts With Purpose
With: Parrish Wilson
Price: Free
Description: In this 15 minute video training you will learn the 4 elements you must have in every post and how to put them together to inspire readers to connect and take action. This is how you write posts that make the impact you’re meant to make in this world.
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Quiz: Fearing Change or Confident to Win Challenges?
With: Vatsala Shukla
Price: Free
Description: How do you feel about changes in your life, career or business? More importantly, how do you handle change? You can learn more about your approach to change as well how to cope with my simple quiz Fearing Change or Confident to Win Challenges? based on the modern fable Who Moved My Cheese by Stuart Johnson MD. Try it!
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Finances
Quick Start Money Program
With: Kelly Christian
Price: $497 – $1597
Description: The Quick Start Money Program is a personalized action plan that will get you making smart decisions about your money instead of just shooting in the dark. We will get your business up and running (and incredibly organized) with your own personalize, step by step, DIY money management system.
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Health & Beauty
Personal Trainer to Go
With: Shay de Silva
Price: $47 to $97
Description: Get unlimited access to over 50 full-body workout videos that you can do on your computer, smart phone, or tablet. Each workout takes less than 25 minutes to complete and requires no weights or other equipment. You’ll also get lots of meal ideas, a tracking system, and a guide for changing your habits one and for all.
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28 day Love Your Asana Yoga, Meditation, and Nutrition Program
With: Danielle Diamond
Price: $149
Description: Ready to Crush Your Spring Wellness Resolutions? Each day is mapped out with workout and nutrition guidelines, plus easy mindfulness and lifestyle tips to implement, which will help create lasting change. To keep your workouts fresh I give you a wide variety of fitness videos designed to get you fit in less than a month
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All-Season Community Dump
With: Sara Bradford
Price: Free
Description: Here we make food cleanses MORE fun and LESS painful. Jump in on a mini version. Includes delicious (yet easy) recipes, a full meal plan and shopping list, a step-by-step guide, gorgeous daily emails to pump you through the process, access to a pro culinary nutritionist, a community of amazing people
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Fit Mom Solutions
With: Amanda Roes
Price: $69+
Description: I offer Online Fitness and Nutrition Transformations for Busy Women. 14 Day Fat Burner and 12 Week Total Transformation with personalized workout plans, nutrition guidelines, weekly coaching calls and daily emails. Soon to be offering Online Boot Camp classes.
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The Pantry Solution
With: Anastasia Hendryanto
Price: Free
Description: You can prepare a delicious and nutritious meal even when there appears to be no food in the house. There is a simple solution. Receive a printable Pantry Solution “cheat sheet” and 4 of my “go to” dinner recipes. Easy meal solutions for busy mamas. Never be caught unprepared again!
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Smart Snack Guide for Healthy Families
With: Anastasia Hendryanto
Price: Free
Description: In a snack rut? So many Moms are unhappy with their family’s reliance on processed snack food and are concerned about the amount of sugar their family is eating. Get delicious simple snack ideas and easy recipes to fuel yourself and your family.
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Life & Relationships
Bridging the Gap: Your Divorce Survival Kit
With: Summer Howard
Price: $199
Description: If you feel paralyzed by the pain of separation or divorce, then I created this program just for you! Join this exclusive self-paced divorce coaching program, including: Seven 1-hour lessons with world-class experts on divorce and transitions and one 60 minute Personal Coaching Session with me!
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Happy & Healthy is a Choice: A Spiritual Workbook on Radical Self-Care and Self-Love
With: Rosa Conti
Price: FREE
Description: People often ask how I stay inspired; this workbook shares my how. This 47-page FREE guide explores 8 meaningful self-care areas, and offers practical, loving, and useful examples for protecting your time, your choices, and your personal world.
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The Happiness Habit: 21 Days from Blah to Blissed Out
With: Michelle DeSpain
Price: $99 with the code: JewelsBranch
Description: Imagine this: 21 days of soul-scintillating, happiness habit-forming activities that will sprinkle some sparkle back into your life. Ooh. Ahh. Goodbye, blah. Hello, blissed out!
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The Ex-Boyfriend Detox Cleanse Him from Your Heart, Soul and Psyche in 21 Days or Less
With: Michelle DeSpain
Price: $99 with the code: JewelsBranch
Description: This one’s dedicated to the brokenhearted. 21 days of gentle, holistic practices that will soothe your soul, mend your heart, and restore your mind. There’s no place like hope.
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Soul Work & Creativity
Kakadu – a journey into country in image and small word
With: Narelle Carter-Quinlan
Price: $27
Description: Photo E-book. 56 pages, full colour. During October 2013 I travelled to Kakadu. The end of the dry, what I found was water. And rock. An echo of my own terrain, of bone and fluid. The land etched itself into me, searing my tissues. A visual and visceral encounter. Of Country. Lush vibrant images to take into your heart.
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Sensing the Spine – an Audio for you
With: Narelle Carter-Quinlan
Price: free
Description: Sensing the curving river of your spine changes everything! This is the first of a free Audio series, embodying your inner landscape. Come home to your interior wilderness. Sensing the spine – 10 minutes.
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You Are The Temple: The Beauty of Ritual
With: Lisa Claudia Briggs
Price: $149
Description: We all crave more time nourishing and renewing our hearts and spirits. You Are the Temple provides everything you need to create a sacred retreat at every level. Move through the techniques and teachings in Initiation, Purification, Nourishment, and Adornment to bring yourself beautifully into a new way of being in your life.
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Daily Dance
With: Erica Ross
Price: $35
Description: Daily Dance is an online, ‘evergreen’, 21-day ecstatic dance program, delivered straight to your inbox, based on my women’s award-winning ecstatic dance practice, Dance Our Way Home. Each day offers a special and unique invitation for one dance, a demo video, song track, and additional inspiration and playlist.
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Homecoming: Take a Delightful Journey Back Home to Your Innermost Self
With: Cigdem Kobu
Price: $97
Description: Homecoming is a self-paced 3-week unique program that offers women an intimate experience of truth telling, soul-searching, self-exploration, contemplation, and transformation through reading, writing, storytelling, literature, and creative journaling around the central metaphor of “home.”
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The Inky Path Writers Community
With: Cigdem Kobu and Jena Schwartz
Price: $81/quarterly OR $270/annually
Description: The Inky Path Writers Community is an inspiring, cozy, supportive online community where you can develop and maintain the writing practice you’ve always wanted no matter your background or genre, hone your craft through weekly events and connect with other writers and enjoy writing together whether you want to publish or not.
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The Mini Jumpstart To YOU Experience
With: Linda Ogier
Price: Free
Description: Can you hear the subtle whispers telling you there’s something more? You’re something more? The Mini Jumpstart To ‘YOU’ Experience is a 5 day, mini email course to spark your inner wisdom, amplify your self awareness, and stir your seeds of hope into full bloom. Your moment has arrived…
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The Playground
With: Sierra Koch
Price: $150/year
Description: Are you looking for fun Reiki resources? Want a deeper connection with Reiki? How about your intuition? Chakras? Ready to immerse yourself in playfulness and love? Ready to empower yourself and do what you’ve dreamed of? If any of these questions triggered a hell yes! Then The Playground is for you!
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Tarot & Tea
With: Jacqueline Fairbrass
Price: $85, $33 and $0
Description: Sparkle Up Your Life Angel Tarot Card Reading. I invite you to join me for Tarot & Tea. Tarot is a practical tool for bringing more joy and clarity into your life. Tarot & Tea will help you to: Fill your heart with love. Bless your body. Live in radiant health. Find the joy and happiness you deserve.
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A Year With Myself
With: Cigdem Kobu
Price: $497 (OR $107 x 5 months)
Description: A Year With Myself is a yearlong transformational journaling program for creative women who want to reinvent their lives from the inside out. Co-created with 102 experts including Patti Digh, Jen Louden and Tara Mohr, it includes 6 classes on 6 core areas of life, 52 thematic modules, 100 interviews, and 250+ original exercises.
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Writing the Womb: Myth, Metaphor, Embodied Knowing, and Liberating Your Stories
With: Cigdem Kobu & Jena Schwartz
Price: $149
Description: Created by writer and activist Isabel Abbott as an Inky Path Master Class, “Writing the Womb: Myth, Metaphor, Embodied Knowing, and Liberating Your Stories” is a process writing course for women at every stage in the creative cycle. Its aim is to help women free their voices, express their creativity and tell their stories..
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