Your Simple & Spacious Business

Hosted by Jen Carrington

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I’m Jen Carrington, an online business guide and I’ve spent the past nine years building and running my own simple and spacious business and supporting hundreds of my clients in theirs too. In this show I’ll be diving into the ways we can bring more simplicity, ease, joy, and intention to our work - through both the nitty gritty practical shifts and all of the mindset shifts that comes with running your own business too. This podcast isn’t here to tell you how to build and run your business, instead I want to support you to build and run your business in whatever way truly works best for you. yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

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June 16, 202610 min

What season of life is your business here to support? 🌻

If you ever feel like there are markers of success and growth that you have to hit to feel good enough in your business, today’s episode is for you.Because it’s okay to have a slower season in your business to honour the needs of your life.It’s okay to adjust your workload to make space for other priorities.And it’s okay to gently dial things back up again too whenever that may honour your desires and goals.Our business can bend alongside us and be something that grounds and supports our life instead of consuming it and dictating our days.So if you feel torn between what you truly desire in this season and the goals that you think that you should be pursuing instead, I hope today’s episode can ground you back into what is most aligned for you.Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

June 8, 202611 min

How I’ve been gently reaching my next 100 hell yes people 🌸

One meaningful piece of content a week.That’s the foundation of my gentle marketing plan for this year.To carve out the energy, space, and time each week to sit down and create something that just feels like a meaningful dispatch from one human being to another.So much noise online right now is telling us that we need to be churning out content for business growth.That we need to please algorithms, hook attentions, and that if we can’t keep up with that pace then we should outsource to AI and let that create our content for us instead.But in all of that noise I think we can lose sight of what actually builds, grows, and sustains a business: resonance, connection and trust.In today’s episode I share some encouragement for why you don’t have to churn out more content to support your business to gently thrive and how I’ve been supporting my business to make steady sales, reach new hell yes people and continue to build resonance, connection, and trust with my existing readers and listeners too without pushing myself past my capacity.Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

May 19, 202619 min

Reflecting on four years of running my group program 🌸

It has now been four years since I first opened the doors to my group program Your Simple & Spacious Business in April 2022.Four years since I built a whole new foundational piece of my business model and redefined what my work gets to look like and brought a whole lot more spaciousness and flexibility into my business too.And for today’s episode I want to share with you the biggest lessons I’ve learned from running and selling this program, what’s supported it to gently thrive over the past four years, and why you never have to feel stuck in any one version of your business that isn’t truly working best for you.I also share how much money YS&SB has made since 2022 and how building and running this program really changed everything for me in my business.Links:Join us inside Your Simple & Spacious Business before doors close on Friday 22nd May + the 1:1 bonus ends on Tuesday 19th!Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.Do I regret making my group program a lifetime offer? 💫 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

May 12, 202613 min

Our day is the whole damn point 🪴

Whenever I come across business advice that I’m deciding whether or not if it’s relevant and supportive for me and my work I ask myself two questions:Do I have their day? And do I want their day?Because the real question isn’t: will this strategy or approach work?But instead, will it actually work for me?Over and over again I come back to the reminder that our day is the whole damn point.Because that’s the beating heart of a simple and spacious business: doing work we enjoy, spending our days and weeks at a pace that feels good to us, and where we are making enough money to sustain our life too.In today’s podcast episode I share more about why our day is the whole damn point and how we can root into that as our guide whenever we feel lost, overwhelmed, or overstimulated by all of the noise of what we should and could be doing next in our business.Links:Join the waitlist for Your Simple & Spacious Business before doors open again on Monday 🌸Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

May 5, 202630 min

The five key decisions that built my simple & spacious business 🌾

My business hasn’t always been this simple & spacious.I used to be overbooked, undercharging, and deeply burned out in my work each week.It’s taken a whole lot of intention, patience, and experimentation to design my business to work best for me and I’m so damn grateful to have built a working life for myself that feels aligned with my capacity and the daily life that I want to be living.There are five key decisions that have supported me to build, run, and sustain this simple and spacious business of mine and in today’s podcast episode I dive deeper into each of them and offer up some lessons learned if they can support you in your own simple and spacious business journey too.mLinks:Sign up for the free simple & spacious clinicWatch the quarterly planning call recordingJoin the waitlist for Your Simple & Spacious BusinessRecent episode about my 8-10 hour workweekDo I regret making my group program a lifetime offer? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

April 28, 202620 min

How I’m taking 4 months off from my business this year 🗓️

Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is how much de-centering my business has been one of the most supportive decisions I’ve ever made in my working life.Don’t get me wrong, I am so damn grateful for my business and so devoted to doing my best work for the wonderful humans I get to walk with each week.But I’m also not obsessed with my work, or endless growth, or defining my self-worth by how much I get done each week.We get to build businesses that orbit our life, not the other way around.And we get to do this whilst also running businesses that sustain our life financially and give us space to do work that we find meaningful and fulfilling too.One of the ways I do this in my business? By taking regular time off throughout the year.This year I’m taking 15 weeks off from my business and in this week’s podcast episode I’m sharing more about how I make this possible and some encouragement for how you can build more time off into you schedule too.Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

April 21, 202621 min

Is a simple & spacious business unrealistic? 🌸

I received an emailed recently from someone asking if I outsourced any tasks to a virtual assistant in my business as they just couldn’t believe that I was able to sustain my business in just 8-10 hours a week.And their question makes sense.My workweek isn’t the norm.But as I shared with them, apart from my husband editing my podcast episodes each week there is nothing else that I outsource in my business.8-10 hours a week is truly what my workweek looks like whilst continuing to make a steady and thriving income in my business.I’m also not outsourcing any of my work tasks to AI (everything I write, create and share with you is and always will be human made).In this week’s podcast episode I dive deeper into the specifics of what my workweek looks like, the decisions I’ve made to make this possible, and some encouragement if you’re currently craving more spaciousness and don’t believe that it’s possible for you.Does it take time, patience, curiosity, and one brave decision at a time to make this possible?Of course.But we don’t have to stay stuck in a version of our business that asks us to abandon our humanness to sustain our work.Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

March 24, 202620 min

A Q1 catch up 🐢

For my first podcast episode of the year back in January I shared all about planning for 2026 when we don’t know what our capacity will be.I entered this new year with so much clarity around my creative desires, for the mini book of essays that I want to write and self-publish, for the first draft of my novel that I want to chip away at this year, and the app my husband and I are working on together too.And I also knew that I would have to be okay with the messy, imperfect, and beautiful road that I walk down as a human who lives in a chronically ill body.Because the gap between my creative desires and my capacity can feel so huge some days.In this week’s podcast episode I recorded a catch up from Q1 in my business and creative work; I share how business is feeling really good so far this year and what’s working well and how I’m adjusting my mindset and approach to expanding what my body of work can be this year too as I continue to slowly work on my creative projects.More than anything, I hope this episode helps you feel less alone if you’re also navigating a gap between your desires and your capacity too and that you know that it’s possible to bridge the gap between where you are now and where you truly wish to be next in your business and creative life without sacrificing your joy, peace, and wellbeing in the process.Sometimes we just have to be okay going at a slower, gentler, more flexible pace.Links:Find out more about Your Simple & Spacious Business + join us inside whilst doors are open this week 🌼Read my Substack essay: Move gently & stay the courseJoin my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

March 17, 202625 min

Do I regret making my group program a lifetime offer? 💫

Four years ago when I first built and launched my group program Your Simple & Spacious Business I made a very gut driven decision to price it as a lifetime offer.Instead of needing to continue to renew and pay to keep access to all of the resources, coaching, and community inside members pay just once and then continue to get access at no extra cost.Do I have any regrets? No.Even though I know I’d make more money if existing members had to continue to keep paying, and therefore need to do less marketing to welcome brand new members in each year, I’m so glad that I priced the program this way.But does that mean that I recommend this pricing structure to everyone else? Not really.And would I do it again for a different offer? I don’t think so.In today’s podcast episode I dive deeper into all of this and share all of my feelings, thoughts, and lessons learned from pricing an offer this way and why it’s the best worst business decision I’ve ever made. Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.Find out more about YS&SB and join the waitlist before doors open again next week.Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com

March 10, 202618 min

Five routines that support my simple & spacious business 🗓️

Living with two chronic illnesses means that I have many routines, structures, and boundaries that I rely on in my business so that I can continue to sustain my work and income whilst also honouring the daily realities of living in a disabled body.I talk a lot about the ways I’ve designed my business model and offers to work best for me and to be a space where I’m able to do meaningful work with my clients and customers and today I’m getting a little more granular and sharing with you five routines that support my simple and spacious business each week. I share:🗓️ How I plan my workload a quarter at a time📝 How I use weekly time blocking🌿 Why I never work on Wednesday’s and Friday’s🌼 My marketing Monday’s🌸 And how I offer asynchronous 1:1 coaching each workday without feeling overwhelmedMy hope is that today’s podcast episode can spark some ideas for ways you can build routines that support you to gently thrive in your business each week too.Links:Join my free library filled with resources to support you to create a spacious workweek, a steady and thriving income, and honour your humanness every day.Find out how I can support you to bring more flexibility, ease, and stability into your business.Join me over on Substack. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yoursimpleandspaciousbusiness.substack.com