SPA Girls Podcast – EP394 – Career Sustainability with Brenna Aubrey
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This is a really important discussion for writer at all stages of their careers. Brenna has experienced publishing highs and has also dealt with the darker side of the writer’s journey. Her candour and courage discussing some difficult topics in this interview made it a very humbling experience for us, and we truly appreciate Brenna’s openness in wanting to help her fellow authors.
From mindset and productivity, to branding, social media and your writing community – we cover the gamut of how to sustain your author career long term.
About Brenna Aubrey
Brenna Aubrey is a USA TODAY Bestselling Author of contemporary romance featuring geek culture. Her bestselling romance series, Gaming The System, is available in eBook and print format across all vendors.
When she’s not dreaming up people and worlds and writing them down, she’s also a mom, wife, teacher, avid reader, a proud geek-girl, a self-confessed gaming addict, a French-speaking Francophile, lover of nature and beautiful sunsets.
Find her at https://brennaaubrey.net/
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP369 – Make Luck Through Belief
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Today we talk about not relying on luck to build your career.
We believe you can make your own luck, but don’t wait for it to happen!
Ron Weasley (or not, we’re not really sure) says believing in yourself is 100% more powerful than luck!
Overnight success may happen for some, but if you dig deeper often, what appears to be a lucky break is actually from years of hard work to get to that point.
Wendy, Cheryl, and Trudi dig deeper into this subject in the podcast.
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP365 – Write To Riches with Renee Rose
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In this episode we talk to the amazing Renee Rose about her new release Write To Riches! We love having Renee on the show; she’s an amazing guest, and we always finish feeling so much more motivated and inspired. We hope you feel the same way. 🙂
Renee is a 15-time USA Today bestselling romance author who loves a dominant, dirty-talking alpha hero. In her career she’s sold over two million copies of steamy romance with varying levels of kink.
She’s also passionate about helping other authors find and maintain an abundance mindset to catapult their careers and create their best future. She wrote Write to Riches so she could teach more people about the power of the abundance mindset, manifesting your desires, and attracting wealth.
Find her at:
write2riches.com
reneeroseromance.com
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP351 – The Calm Entrepreneur, Corinne O’Flynn
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When you feel the frantic need to achieve and you don’t, it’s easy to get stuck or suffer burnout. If that’s happened to you, then Corinne has some ideas to get you through.
The Calm Entrepreneur was born out of a series of aha moments over the past several years. After a long time writing-to-market and chasing the algorithms with rapid release, she found herself in deep burnout.
Deciding to write a book about recovery from burnout, Corinne soon realized that it wasn’t just about recovery – it was also about the practical things needed to move through the slow process and claw her way out.
This was about getting back to basics on the admin side of her business and writing, and re-assessing and re-securing the foundational practices of her work. Focusing on the fundamental organizing and system principles of day-to-day life, and getting back in touch with all the things that were on auto-pilot (or had been ignored) was the thing that shifted everything. As she started sharing this with friends, other authors, and entrepreneurs, it became clear that almost everyone who ran their own business was feeling stressed and overwhelmed and craved some of what she was experiencing.
“Before this burnout experience, I was not someone who operated from a place of stress. I loved my work and somehow got lost in the mire. Getting back to the place where I work in ease has been transformative for me, and it’s something I think I need to share with the world. I believe it’s possible to thrive in your business and live your full life without losing your mind in the process. Fundamental organizing principals are the key, and when you have those in place, you can build anything on top of them.”
Organizing is not a personality trait; it’s a skill that anyone can learn.
www.thecalmentrepreneur.com
SPA Girls Podcast- EP294 – How To Embrace Change
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This episode we’re back “on the couch” with the SPA Girls to discuss tools and resources we’ve used to cope with the ever changing climate of self-publishing, AND those big life events that we all face at times.
As always, we share our own experiences and hard-won tips for rolling with the punches and utilizing change as a tool for growth and learning.
Resources mentioned: BBC – Why Embracing Change Is The Key To A Good Life
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SPA Girls Podcast – EP286 – Writers’ Fears
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Resistance. Fear. Procrastination. Avoidance. Most of us writers struggle with these challenges at some point in their career (or day!). This episode we cover everything from the struggle to finish a manuscript through to fear of publishing, and everything in between.
This blogpost inspired today’s episode : http://positivewriter.com/scared-writer/ Blog post by Harrison Demchick
excerpt: Two Kinds of Scared Writers
During my weekly writing group, I’ve been working on a screenplay that begins, oddly enough, with a weekly writing group. My main characters are a pair of best friends named Mindy and Lane, and what I’ve realized during the development of this story is that Mindy and Lane represent two particular kinds of scared writers. They’re the kinds we all see in our writing groups and workshops.
There’s a very good chance we’re one of them.
1) Mindy is the writer who doesn’t finish.
She has ideas, but she never really pursues them, because she sees every obstacle as a sign that she isn’t good enough. And if she did push on and did finish a draft of something, it would be bad, and then she’d know she could never be good enough. So she comes up with ideas, abandons them, and struggles with the next one.
2) Lane is the writer who doesn’t fight.
He has a finished manuscript, but he doesn’t want to do anything with it. It’s the creative accomplishment that matters. But really, he fears what comes next—agents and publishers and rejection. Or he fears the marketing battle any author, traditionally published or self-published, must face. Maybe, at heart, he too doesn’t think he’s good enough, so he hides behind the pretense of contentment and never works for his real dreams.”
++ SPA Girls’ additions
Along with Mindy and Lane, we’ve added:
Mandy – Mindy’s sister, Shane – Lane’s twin brother, and Xanthe
Listen up for their fears and how we can so relate (let’s not even get into Shar’s weighted hula hoop disaster) and tools for overcoming fears we’ve found that work.
Recommend reading and resources:
Steven Pressfield’s book War on Art and his blog
SPA Girls Podcast with Amira Alvarez on Imposter Syndrome
Brene Brown https://brenebrown.com/
Developing A Growth Mindset by Carol Dweck
Developing a Growth Mindset with Carol Dweck
