{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/66ed4a97c63b952f9ac375ff/6a8601941ad8716bb62580fe?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Last Minute Launch Pivot (that became a full-on rebellion)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/66ed4a97c63b952f9ac375ff/1787158393619-1e1a3566-51d1-48a0-834c-df0ee550a50b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<h1><strong>This joy first decision is jumping the queue in the top ten because it’s happening right now, <em>and it’s massive.</em></strong></h1><p><br></p><p>As you may know, in this season I’ve been sharing the top ten joy first decisions of my life in a nice orderly chronological countdown, and then yesterday happened and had to through out the plan and have this conversation instead.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>So, totally out of order, this is joy first decision #5, arriving early and slightly out of breath, with my friend Nicole Begley.</p><p><br></p><p>Not that many weeks ago I asked Nicole for ten minutes to hear me out on idea sort of related to our annual launch of the Commercial Pet Photography Academy - and I asked her to listen and not say no before she let me finish.</p><p><br></p><p>We have both spent nearly two years streamlining our businesses, cutting and refining programmes, and getting really good at saying no.</p><p><br></p><p>Well, long story short, it’s about 8 weeks later and here we are. Yesterday we launched a new brand, a new program, have merged significant revenue streams from our separate businesses into a shared one, and retired a launch we had a great time running for five or so years.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This thing we’ve created is called the Creative Freedom Rebellion.</p><p><br></p><p>Today we’re exploring&nbsp;how you tell the difference between being flaky and moving into more alignment (something I refused to let myself do 2 yrs ago which made big, big problems for my biz).&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We also share the 4 things we’ve found our most successful clients have in common (even though their versions of freedom, joy and financial success were all quite different).&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>And we talk about why neither of us wanted to build another room built on polite niceness where the house rule is that<em> ‘we don't talk about that here’.</em></p><p><br></p><p>There is also a clip from the call we ran yesterday, including a really moving moment from one of our clients that I have not stopped thinking about.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Watch the full replay from yesterday: https://www.nicolebegleyedu.com/rebellion</p><p>Apply for the Creative Freedom Rebellion:&nbsp;https://www.nicolebegleyedu.com/rebel</p><p>Nicole's podcast: https://www.freedomfocusformula.com/blog</p><p><br></p><p>If this one lands, we would love to hear from you. xx&nbsp;-Nic &amp; Nicole</p>","author_name":"J.Nichole Smith"}