What If Your Small Business Could Nourish You Instead of You Lugging It Around?
Opening the Moneyflow 2011 starts July 2011.
Six Months to Realizing a Heart-Centered Business Model That Really Works
Our intention: By December 2011 you have structures and strategies in place and you’ve made huge jumps in your heart that will enable your business to carry much more of the burden, allowing you to relax and enjoy the ride more.
Such a Painful and Familiar Tangle of Priorities
- You love what you do, and you care deeply that it’s done well and with integrity.
- You need to catch your breath, you’re overwhelmed by everything that needs to be done.
- There are parts that are just confusing. I mean, how does this getting-clients-thing-consistently really work?
- You need to bring in some money. Like, no joke.
- You cherish your relationship with the Divine. Yet it seems so absent in so many parts of your business.
Not fun. And aren’t you supposed to spend time with family and friends, or just have some precious “me” time, too?
Here’s the truth: getting a business from struggle to thriving takes work. It just does. But there are five things that bring ease and relief to the process.
5 Things That Bring Ease and Relief to the Process
1. Understanding the Big Picture.
For a business to work it needs certain things in place, like a bridge. You can have the best-built bridge in the world, but if there’s a section missing, no one is getting across the river. For many businesses, it’s not a matter of doing something better but simply adding a missing piece.
2. Knowledge.
It’s true there’s an overload of information available on how to do business. And yet when you don’t fully know how to do something, clear instructions really help.
3. The Spiritual Perspective.
Everything in this world has a spiritual reality. Understanding the integrity, love and nourishment available in marketing or other critical areas allows you to truly experience that every act of business can be an act of love.
4. Dependable Feedback. Business is not a paint-by-number and it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. For your business to grow organically you need to be able to take a step, get dependable feedback, and then take another step.
5. Community. The one thing that surprised me most years ago when I first started to working in small business is how tender the process is. We need a lot of love, compassion and gentleness mixed in with the accountability, and a heart-community can help you move forward without beating yourself up. Not to mention breaking up the loneliness of doing it on your own.
See how your business could take off with these five things? Business isn’t rocket science, but there are enough moving parts that just having information or just having a spiritual practice isn’t going to do it completely.
Introducing:
Opening the Moneyflow 2011
A six-month program to build the foundation and structures your business needs to support you.
The structure, the guidance, the information and the healing are all aimed at one thing: providing you the means to turn on the moneyflow, without selling your heart.
Before We Get Into the Details
You need to know that our most cherished wish is the realization of this truth: That every act of business can be an act of love.
Your business can be a sacred container as beautiful and powerful and effective as the work you do. Your marketing and other business activities can nourish you and your clients with as much love as you bring to the gift that you you’ve been given.
We know that details, practicalities and follow-through are what make the difference in a successful business, not just wishful thinking or sitting on a meditation pillow. This is a substantial program, one that others have called a “spiritual small business MBA.” Take a look and give it the same kind of consideration your business itself deserves.
Here’s What Your Business Could Have:
- Crystal clarity so that you never again stumble in answering the question “What do you do?” Instead you’ll answer in a way that easily attracts your best prospective clients or customers to you.
- Sustainable marketing that walks people toward you, from prospect to paying customer to raving fan referrals, leaving behind the uncomfortable scramble for more business.
- The clarity to enroll the right people, whether it’s an individual for one of your offers, or connecting with a strategic alliance partner who can give you access to hundreds or thousands of new potential clients.
- Your heart and creativity in reaching people, making it enjoyable for you, and rich and meaningful for your prospective or paying clients.
- A winning website and other online strategies. The internet is critical in opening the money flow. You can learn not only what makes an effective, profitable website, but do it in a way that affects potential clients in a profound way.
- More customers and clients and more income. When your business is abundant, it’s easier to feel ease in your heart and be generous in your interactions.
- Systems and structures that make your business sustainable. You want a business that supports you. One that you can rest into.
“This December I’ve been incredibly busy, and will bill more than double what I’ve billed any previous December.
I believe this is because a change in attitude on my part, stemming from my work with you, has allowed my relationships with clients to be easier and more natural. Yay!”
Susan Pomeroy, Richmond, CA
Here’s Some Critical Pieces Every Business Needs:
- Getting clear on your core message and Customer-Focused Story. Many people stumble over the simple answer to “What do you do?” We’ll help you hone in on a grounded, one-sentence message for your business that really opens the door for your best prospects.
- Unveiling Your Jewel. The unique jewel in your heart is a source of nourishment and strength for you in business. And it is also the magnetic attractor that physically draws people towards you. Knowing your Jewel will give you a source of internal strength and confidence, as well as clarity in finding your target market.
- Spiritual Alignment. The biggest and most powerful attractor is a full and generous heart aligned in service. Your marketing structures support people finding your heart, but without spiritual alignment, it’s all a shell. We will go deeply into how to stay nourished spiritually, so you can replace fear and anxiety with inspiration and strength.
- Website content in one afternoon. Many people agonize over writing their website for weeks or months. We’ll show you how to take your Customer-Focused Story and, in one afternoon, create the rough draft of all the basic content you’ll need.
- Creating a Client-Focused Story (CFS). Finally you don’t have to get caught up in trying to explain what you do. Instead use the CFS to make it easy and obvious why the right people should buy from you, without lengthy, eye-glazing explanations.
“As I talked with people, I used elements of my CFS (Customer-Focused Story), leading off with my ‘I help…’ The results were astounding!
“I’ve always stumbled as I’ve tried to explain what I do. As rough as my CFS is, people got it! And what’s even more amazing is they wanted to work with me! Not ’sorta’, but with genuine enthusiasm.”
Dale Gillilan, Washington
Opening the Moneyflow 2006 participant
- How to get potential clients to “Yes!,” without manipulation. HYou can have 1000 people interested, but if no one says “Yes” and pays, you’re stuck. Learn enrollment from the inside out, from the heart through to the details, without manipulation, so that you actually have a business that pays the bills.
- Sustainable marketing structures and methods. Once you have access to your jewel, and your message is clear, you discover sustainable, effective marketing strategies that fit you, and begin to put them into action.
- Crafting an offer that people actually want to buy. A huge part of making your business successful is understanding how to craft a successful offer. If you’ve been trying to sell “sessions” individually, or even trying to sell workshops, and people aren’t showing up, this might be the magic ingredient.
- Listening to your heart and your business. If you are self-employed, you probably tend to ignore your two best partners: your heart and your business! If you know how to listen to these two, they will tell you what you need to know. Then your success unfolds organically, without having to push the river.
- Getting it done. You’ll get the heart-centered support that Heart of Business is known for, support that will help you actually get the right things done in an inspired way, and help you clear and heal any emotional or spiritual issues that are keeping you from creating and implementing a vibrant business.
What’s So Different About This Program?
If you’ve ever read a book or taken a workshop on business and haven’t followed through despite your best intentions, then you already know what’s wrong.
Everyone knows what steps you should take, but how about when you are overwhelmed, stuck, or resistant. There are a 1001 books out there telling you what to do, but few help you ease through resistance without running roughshod over your heart and ethics.
That’s where the strength of this class kicks in, because of this nourishing and effective combination:
- Coaching is where you use an insightful questioning process to help someone come to a realization.
- Healing is when you access something profound as a catalyst for transformation. Our entire team is extremely proficient in coaching and facilitating healing.
- Teaching is different from either of these, and the biggest thing missing from many entrepreneurial programs.
Excellence in teaching requires an appreciation for how different people receive and integrate new information, including entirely new worldviews. It also requires providing a learning environment, materials, and exercises, sometimes called “instructional design,” to help people truly integrate and implement theory into practice within their unique, personal environment.
Having a business is such a personal, unique thing, and yet all businesses operate by standard principles. By combining coaching, healing and excellence in teaching you can make huge jumps in developing your business.
This course is absolutely unique, because of our combination of spiritual connection, super-practical content, in-depth feedback, and implementation support. It means you’ll be supported to be a disciplined mystic in business–to make it work, and to stay connected in your heart while you do. The Heart of Business means topflight marketing information that is informed by more than 1500 years of Sufi spiritual tradition.
Considered Taking Moneyflow in Previous Years?
If you’re new to Heart of Business you might not care how the program has changed from last year.
If you almost signed up last year, or in one of the previous years, you may be interested to see how the course has evolved.
Change Number One:
Three Different Versions.
People need different things, so we’re created different levels. One version is DIY with a bare-budget price. One version is in-depth small group work, no more than six people, with one of our practitioners. And one version is an intensive combination of individual one-on-one work and group work in a small group of no more than eight with me, Mark.
Change Number Two: Group Time is For Transformation and Learning
Instead of you having to sit through live lectures, we’re going to be offering the information content in a combination of recorded audio and PDFs. Group time won’t be lectures, it will be discussion, strategizing, healing, implementation. You can focus on the content you need, based on your individual study plan, and not just following along because “it’s on the syllabus.”
Change Number Three:
Your Personal Path in Business
Each person who joins will take a detailed assessment of their business, so we can create a personalized study plan with you. You won’t just follow a curriculum as part of a group. Instead we’ll take a look at where your business is, your strengths and weaknesses, your struggles and successes, and we’ll plot a plan for you to move forward.
The Common Elements
There are common elements to all three versions of the Moneyflow Course. Let me list’em out here for you.
#1 – Heart of Business Core Teachings
Sometimes you just need to know what to do and how to do it. We’re including the following courses, MP3 and PDF, for you to work with. If you bought them separately, you would spend over $1000:
The Foundational Intensive
It’s about an incredibly critical part of your business- the foundation. Including the part most people don’t talk about.
In this first section, we cover the foundations of any business: the core story and spiritual jewel. It solidifies and defines what the business is. The spiritual nature of this intensive means that you have a source of nourishment in your business, so you don’t become depleted.
The practical nature of the intensive means that you will finally have a super clear way to think about, talk about, and write about your business, so that others get it, and you can go into momentum.
We talk about it in terms of the Who-Who-What, who you’re helping and what you’re helping them with. Some folks refer to this as “target marketing” or “identifying your niche.” It’s that, but it’s more than that.
Here’s the part most people don’t talk about: identifying and stepping into a niche is an incredibly tender process. It might be the most important thing you ever do for your business. But because there are so many fears, worries and legitimate issues that rise up, most business owners need a lot of compassion and time to process it all before they land, ker-thunk, with something that they feel in their bones.
Bonus: There is a sixth class that will help you, in one afternoon, turn your core story into the content of a website, so that you don’t have to take forever getting it launched.
Website Content and Strategy
Does your website truly express who you are, what you do and does it also bring in business? It needs to.
You need a website, and yet why does it take so long to get one? Or if you already have one, is it truly working for your business?
It’s not the design that slows down your website going live or your business, it’s the content and strategy. I hear from many web designers that they are always waiting for their clients to just get them the copy so they can make the site live.
Or, if you have content, is it really connecting with people in a heart-felt and effective way?
Heart-Centered Websites will show you not just the content you need, but how to write it in a way that truly expresses your voice, and not just sound like a cookie cutter.
Quick and Clean Copywriting
Writing a web page that helps the right people say yes to your offers can be very challenging. There are advanced, intense ways to do copywriting that take a lot of time and effort to integrate and very effective.
That’s not what we’re talking about. Quick and Clean Copywriting builds on teachings from the Foundational Intensive to show you a quicker, easier way to get copy written that is still effective and still feels good.
Note: Premium participants can get advanced Heart-Centered Copywriting teachings if they need them.
Talk to Potential Clients with Heart and Still Get Paid
The conversations you have with potential clients, potential strategic partners, potential anybody who is willing to help you with your business, are sacred. They are also critical. If you aren’t successful with these conversations, then you don’t get paid.
But, when you are successful, your business flourishes, and you do get paid.
As a Moneyflow participant, you will receive the complete home study materials, workbook and audio- complete recordings of the two day live seminar.
Heart-Centered Networking and Strategic Alliances I
These two classes will help you finally feel like a normal person while expanding the reach of your business in big ways.
Heart-Centered Networking will help you understand how to enter a networking space, online or in-person, and make the contacts you need. It’s hard to enter one of those networking events without feeling either like a wolf on the hunt, or like the most unpopular person in high school. This class will give you the foundation to network with fun and ease, while actually making business contacts.
Building Strategic Alliances will give you the tools to access the most powerful strategy in marketing. Making contact with influential people who are willing to recommend you and your business to their lists and their communities is the closest thing to a magic wand that can move your business forward, quickly.
Crafting An Offer That Sells
Marketing and sales is all very well and good, but often the biggest hurdle is just to create an offer that people naturally want. Often service providers craft offers that actually look like road blocks to potential clients, shocking as it is.
You’ll learn the four steps to crafting an offer that sells itself, so that most of the selling is done before you say the first word.
Heart-Centered Article Writing
Powerful, effective content, content that might even go viral, is a critical piece to marketing these days. To learn more about this course, click here.
Whether you blog, send an ezine, or publish in a printed magazine, the written word is a powerful way to create momentum in your business. Understanding how to write a truly delicious article that is nourishing, helpful, but also zesty and attention-getting, is a must.
There are five distinct elements to putting together powerful content, plus the “secret sauce,” which includes a few writer’s tricks and techniques that help bring your content together in concise, effective ways.
There is no more powerful way to multiply your efforts and effects. The basics of story-telling that you’ll learn in this class will also translate to other media, such as audio and video, if you are venturing in that direction.
#2 – Personal Business Development Plan
You’ll take an assessment at the beginning of the course, and we’ll use that to develop a personal business development plan for you. This will help answer the question: “Ack! What do I do first! How to stop the overwhelm?!”
This self-inquiry process will lead you to learn which of the nine filters you live from, revealing blind spots and fixed personality patterns that keep us from experiencing deeper spiritual experiences. And in sharing what you learn, we, as teachers, will be able to further personalize your learning experience and best help you accomplish your goals.
This alone can totally change 2011 for you.
#3 – Private Community and Forum
Secure behind a password, your forum is a place to mastermind with the others in your group, get feedback from a facilitator if you’re in one of the small groups, and otherwise get support throughout the week.
Your postings will not be visible to anyone outside your section of the Moneyflow Course, so you don’t have to worry about sharing your vulnerabilities with the world. It’s a place you can just be messy and learn.
#4 – Spiritual Teaching Calls
All participants in all versions of the program are invited to join our monthly Spiritual Teaching calls. I teach every month on a topic of spiritual understand that has direct impact on your ability to move in the world. You will also have access to the past six months of recordings. The past topics I’ve covered:
- Receiving Guidance in Your Heart
- Accessing the Real Patience
- Steeping into Sovereignty and the Domain of Your Business
- Accessing Power
- Cleaning Up Mistakes
These calls are profound, and are not clouded with technical details of business. Participants credit these calls with helping them have a grounded, in-their-bones experience of owning their business and moving powerfully in the world. Others have said that these calls have radically changed their relationships to loved ones and others for the better.
Dates of the calls will be on the second Thursday of each month, 1-2:30 p.m. pacific, with two exceptions:
July 14, August 16 (3rd Tuesday), September 15 (3rd Thursday), October 13, November 10, December 8
#5 – Participation in all Virtual Retreats
We will be holding at least two, potentially three Virtual Retreats during your six months, and as a Moneyflow participant there is no additional charge. In fact, we’ll be encouraging you to participate because it will help you so much.
What is a Virtual Retreat? It is a period of 24 hours set aside just for spending time in your heart, with the Divine, in spiritual practice, contemplation, quiet. You do this at home (or another location of your choosing), and you join the group for five teleconferences during the day. Three of the calls I lead spiritual practice, and two of the calls are for spiritual teaching and guidance in classic Sufi Q&A style.
I’ve been leading these Virtual Retreats for several years to great success. The huge benefit of them is that by taking the time to clear out all of the concerns of the world from your heart, you have more direct access to guidance, to love, to peace, and to clarity. Everything becomes easier, and breakthroughs are more apparent.
The dates of the Virtual Retreats are all Fridays: August 26, October 28, December 16.
Everyone who joins the Moneyflow Course gets these five things. And then, from here, you choose which level of support you need.
Check Out the Three Versions
- Click to read about:
Do-It-Yourself
Self-directed learner?
Have a coach?
On a budget? - Click to read about:
The Core
Personal feedback?
Healing and transformation? - Click to read about:
Premium
Work with Mark?
One-on-one time?
Advanced strategy?
The DIY (Do It Yourself) Version
People in three different situations will benefit from the DIY level:
- If you’re very self-directed and like to learn on your own, and yet don’t like to learn by yourself and enjoy having a learning community around you;
- If you already have a coach, healer, mastermind group or other support that can help you work through the emotional and spiritual issues as well as helping you implement things and you just need the infrastructure of a course.
- If you’re on a budget and want to get started learning.
The DIY includes all of the common elements listed above:
1. The Seven Heart of Business Teachings: All the audio and PDF course materials listed above. The Foundational Intensive, Website Content and Strategy, Quick and Clean Copywriting, How to Talk to Potential Clients with Integrity and Heart and Still Get Paid, Heart-Centered Networking and Strategic Alliances I, Crafting an offer That Sells and Heart-Centered Article Writing
It’s hard to be appreciate what this library means. One participant said she saw it and said, “Holy <bleep>! I had no idea that the Heart of Business body of work was both so broad and so detailed and deep.”
2. A Private Community Forum with other DIY participants
3. Business Assessment and Personal Written Business Development Study Plan
4. The Monthly Spiritual Teaching calls
5. Participation in All Virtual Retreats
What Else?
Additionally, it includes:
Written Feedback from Mark on a Written Check-in
Once per month as a DIY participant you will fill out a check-in on how you are doing, describing progress on your personal business development plan, challenges, successes, and anything you want looked at.
You will receive written feedback on your check-in, with answers, things to think about and where to focus on. If you have writing you’ve done, for instance a website or sales copy, you’ll get my impressions and 1-3 things you can work on to improve it.
These check-ins will be due prior to the monthly Q&A calls, so that you can ask follow-up questions on the live call.
One group Q&A/coaching call a month facilitated by Mark
You may be jaded from other Q&A calls, where the facilitator shows up without any other preparation and says, “Okay, who has a question?” This is not that.
Because of the written check-ins you will do every month, I will be up on what you are doing, and will have already responded to your check-in in writing. This Q&A/coaching is really to dig more deeply into what you are doing as a follow-up, and continuing the conversation from the written check-in. Every month a ninety-minute Q&A call will be held just for the DIY participants. Any questions, struggles, challenges, or feedback you’re wanting can be brought to the team.
Third Wednesdays, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. pacific.
July 20, Aug 24 (4th Wed), Sep 21, Oct 19, Nov 16, Dec 14
The Recordings of all Q&A Calls
So you can go back and listen to them as often as you need to.
A Private Forum
All DIY participants will have their own forum to discuss and support one another. In addition, we’ll be encouraging you to join together in mastermind groups of 4-6 people to actively support one another on the phone.
You will receive the Mastermind of the Heart ebook and audio class, as well as the Partnering! PDF to support you in create an active co-learning environment.
The Price
There are only 35 spots at this level.
Yes, I want to join Opening the Moneyflow DIY.
One payment of $1194
In seven payments of $170.60. First payment now to register, second payment on July 1, 2011, and then every 30 days afterwards until payment is completed.
Not Sure?
Maybe you want to take a closer look at the other two versions of this program. Click here to jump back up to the tabs and read through The Core and Premium versions.
The Core Version
People in four different situations will benefit from the Core version:
- You want expert support and feedback in building your business.
- You’re tired of going it alone, don’t have time to waste and know that DIY is no longer an option for you.
- You bloom in an intimate learning community.
- You want to be immersed in the Heart of Business approach, so your business can be infused with love.
The Core version includes all of the common elements listed above:
1. The Seven Core Teachings: All the audio and PDF course materials listed above. The Foundational Intensive, Website Content and Strategy, Quick and Clean Copywriting, How to Talk to Potential Clients with Integrity and Heart and Still Get Paid, Heart-Centered Networking and Strategic Alliances I, Crafting an offer That Sells and Heart-Centered Article Writing
2. A Private Community Forum with your small group. Your Heart of Business practitioner will be monitoring the forum and giving feedback, answering questions and in general giving online coaching, feedback and support.
3. Business Assessment and Personal Written Business Development Study Plan
4. The Monthly Spiritual Teaching Calls led by Mark
5. Participation in All Virtual Retreats
What Else?
Additionally, it includes:
A Small Group of Six
You’ll be in an intimate group of no more than six participants, all of whom went through the application process. (No one can just click “buy”- they have to fit.) You’ll meet twice a month for an hour and half with your small group for teaching, healing, coaching and transformation facilitated by your small group practitioner.
We have two Heart of Business practitioners, Jason Stein and Yollana Shore, who will each be facilitating a small group of six.
Group A- Jason Stein, meets 1st and 3rd Fridays, 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Pacific
July 15, Aug 5, 19, Sept 16, Oct 7, 21, Nov 4, Dec 2, 16
Note that the first meetings in July and September, and the second meeting in November will be individual one-on-one sessions.
Group B – Yollana Shore, meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 3:30 p.m – 5 p.m. Pacific
July 26, Aug 9, 23, Sept 20, Oct 4, 18, Nov 1, Dec 13
Note that the first meetings in July and September, and the second meeting in November will be individual one-on-one sessions
A little further down you’ll find complete background information on both Jason and Yollana, so you can choose who you click with more. Although really you can’t make a bad choice, they are both beautiful, compassionate, skillful practitioners.
Recordings of All Group Meetings
All group meetings will be recorded and added to a private library of downloads for your group. Although you won’t want to miss any of the meetings, in six months it might be that missing a session or two is unavoidable due to illness or family need, and so you’ll have access to the recordings.
A Study Plan Consultation
In July, before your first meeting as a small group, you’ll meet individually with your small group practitioner for thirty minutes to turn the results of your business assessment into a truly personal study and business development plan for the next six months.
Two More Individual Sessions
After the study plan consultation, you’ll have an additional individual, one-on-one session with your facilitator in the first part of September, and then again in the second part of November, in place of group meetings. You’ll be able to go deeper into what you personally need, and have the time and space to really dig in.
Meet Your Facilitators
Jason Stein and Yollana Shore are both members of the Heart of Business team. When you apply for The Core you will be asked about your facilitator and group time preferences, so let’s introduce you to both of them.
The Scoop on Jason Stein
As a young child I experienced the empowerment of entrepreneurship at age 8. My step dad supported me along with my brother and two sisters to launch a dry cleaning company. We weren’t old enough to operate all the heavy machinery, so we outsourced the work to a neighborhood company and made a healthy profit. I was hooked. That original experience taught me about leadership, teamwork, and the art of small business.
And yes, I was the kid who would buy lollipops in bulk and then sell them at a premium in school.
I was on my way to graduate school in Business Psychology when I took a left turn. I had struggled with health challenges and after years of medication and invasive procedures, I saw an acupuncturist. After just a few weeks of acupuncture and herbs my health had fully recovered and I embarked on a journey of understanding the mysteries of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Read more about Jason, including watching Mark describe Jason’s secret gift.
(This is a video Mark made telling you what he really thinks of Jason, including his secret gift that maybe Jason won’t say for himself.)
(And this is the video Jason made introducing himself.)
I added to my psychology degree with a Masters of Oriental Medicine and became a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and started the first integrated medical clinic in a hospital setting in the State of New Mexico.
I loved the medicine, but all my clients shared they were becoming ill from the place they spent most there time. WORK!
I journeyed back to school in chaplaincy training specializing in spirituality in the workplace and completed professional coaching certification training. I was committed to helping people find peace in their working environment. I created the Meditation in the Workplace CD and training program and have presented at Providence Health Systems, NW Natural Gas, Wired.MD, and many other companies in the Pacific northwest.
In 2007, I became the Chair of Professional Development at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine where I am a full time faculty and teach business and communication skills to over 200 students a year. I also am currently investigating website effectiveness in attracting new clients and patients.
Over the past 10 years I have helped over 1000 business owners find clarity in the chaos of business. I have a special knack for helping people to make requests of others. This has included creating a strategic alliance that created $8,000 more in revenue, raising prices and forming groups which helped to triple profits, and following up one conversation that led to a check for $10,000.
I am also an adventure seeker and have been found skydiving, running with bulls, swimming with dolphins, and dogsledding. However the biggest adventure I’ve encountered is raising my two children who keep me humble and teach me new lessons all the time.
The Scoop on Yollana Shore
Hi, I’m Yollana.
I believe that business can be a powerful vehicle for transformation in the world. And that’s why I’m passionate about helping heart-centred businesses off the ground, to grow and to succeed.
But when I say ‘success’, let me be clear about that – For over ten years I’ve been seeking, studying and applying business and marketing strategies that are aligned with my heart, soul and the deeper values in life. For me, those values include spiritual awakening, social justice, environmental sustainability and world peace.
And more than that, as a mother of two gorgeous children, wife to my beloved, and an active member in my local and global/virtual community, I’m clear that successful business needs to embrace my femininity, to make space for rest and play, to support my good health and my relationships with my family and community.
And a successful business needs to make money. Good money. Solid money. Dependable money, so it can keep growing and serving the world.
At Heart of Business, I feel blessed to work with individuals and groups of business owners who are also seeking this sacred balance of personal, financial and worldly success.
Read more about Yollana, including a short video of Mark describing Yollana’s zing.
(This is a video Mark made telling you of his experience with Yollana, including Yollana’s special ZING with clients–including himself.)
(And this is the video Yollana made introducing herself.)
A balance like this is not found through a formula. It’s a personal journey. And my role at Heart of Business is to partner you on that journey to your own personal business success. I’ve been working with Heart of Business in this way since 2009. And I bring a lifetime of working with groups and over ten years of experience as a healer and coach, to support you – whether you are looking at working with me one on one, or in a group.
Healing and Coaching
Since 2001 I have been accredited in a healing modality called The Journey, with bestselling author and mind-body healing expert Brandon Bays. My training encompassed Neuro-Linguistic Programming, The Enneagram, voice dialogue, emotional release, meditation and prayer, self enquiry, abundance work and visioning, belief-change work, sabotage clearing and more.
This work has been a profound gift to me as a business coach. If you find yourself stuck, blocked and unable to move forward in your business, I have a lot of compassion for you. And I have some powerful tools to help you move through them.
I also have a bunch of practical tools. It’s important to me that your business can lean into a solid strategy that feels right for you. When we work one on one, we get down to the details of your business, we look at money, marketing, sales, website, writing, defining and launching your offers, time management, social media and more… I can help you find the right balance of structure and flow. (And if you’re fresh in your business, I can also help you get a much more solid feel for what it is that you’re actually doing, who it’s for and how it’s gonna unfold over the coming months and the next few years).
Oh yeah, and I’m fairly tech-savvy. I’m nifty with wordpress and mailchimp and the big three social media tools – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and a bunch of other applications that can make your business life easier or more effective.
Working with Groups
In case you’re wondering, I was practically born into group work. As a child I watched the workshop groups coming through our community house – healing, yoga, psychodrama, clowning, etc. I attended my first community conference and workshops at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland at age 15. I’ve run workshops, held women’s circles, facilitated community events and supported workshops with over 500 people. Teaching comes easily to me – even in high school I loved public speaking (and was voted school captain). Thankfully my experience and training as a therapist has also taught me the power of deep listening too!
I just thought you should know, Yollana is an absolute freaking genius. Okay, you probably already know that. But seriously, this woman has a gift. We had the most amazing call last night, that was utterly transformational for me and I think all of us. Some real, deep healing took place. And somehow the call also covered everyone’s business needs, managed some conflict we’ve been having as a group, and included no small amount of laughter as well.
Here’s the thing: she’s completely honest from an always compassionate place, and not afraid of anyone’s heart or anyone’s feelings. She manages the group time really well, and she’s extremely talented at listening to all the threads from everyone, and bringing them together into a deeper place that gets right at the heart of the matter. She shows real leadership in bringing us to that place and inviting us in. And she’s ultra smart about business practicalities and always has a good solid suggestion when someone is stuck. Plus, she is just super charming, have you noticed?
Marilyn Yohe, Opening the Moneyflow participant, http://myacupuncture.wordpress.com/about/
So this is me. Conscious, creative and human. I’m a big dreamer. I’m an optimist with a practical streak. I believe that if you follow your heart to do what you love, you’ll be on the right track and the Universe will conspire to support you… If you resonate with my work, I’d love to be part of that sacred conspiracy which will help you realize your business goals and dreams.
The Price
The all-inclusive price for the six month program is $2250. You can pay in a single payment, or, to make it easier on cash flow, you can make payments. $150 to register, then six monthly payments of $350 beginning July 1.
If you register after June 13, the price will go up to $2600.
Ready to join?
Fill out the application below. You’ll have a chance to choose which group and facilitator you want.
Application for Opening the Moneyflow 2011: The Core
Not Sure?
Maybe you want to take a closer look at the other two versions of this program. Click here to jump back up to the tabs and read through The Core and Premium versions.
The Premium Version
People in four different situations will benefit from the Premium version:
- You resonate strongly with Mark and want to work closely with him.
- You know or suspect that to do what you really want to do in business is asking for a profound spiritual transformation or surrender and you need a very strong skillful compassionate presence to help you through it.
- You have a tiger by the tail, meaning your business has the potential to have a very large impact and you want to take it there.
- You need advanced business strategy, perhaps team-building, longer-term strategic planning, you want to jump into the comfortable six-figure range for your business.
You do not have to have an “advanced” business to join this group. You can be in the more beginning stages. Mark will have some specific questions he’ll want to ask you about what you’re working on to discern whether this group or the Core program will be more helpful.
The Premium version includes all of the common elements listed above:
1. The Seven Core Teachings: All the audio and PDF course materials listed above. The Foundational Intensive, Website Content and Strategy, Quick and Clean Copywriting, How to Talk to Potential Clients with Integrity and Heart and Still Get Paid, Heart-Centered Networking and Strategic Alliances I, Crafting an offer That Sells and Heart-Centered Article Writing
2. A Private Community Forum with your small group. Mark will be monitoring the forum and giving feedback, answering questions and in general giving online coaching, feedback and support. In essence, it’s getting nearly-daily coaching from Mark.
3. Business Assessment and Personal Written Business Development Study Plan
4. Monthly Spiritual Teaching Calls
5. Participation in All Virtual Retreats
What Else?
Additionally, it includes:
A Small Group of No More than Five
You’ll be in an intimate group of no more than five participants, all of whom went through the application process. (No one can just click “buy”- they have to fit.) You’ll meet once a month for an hour and half with your small group for teaching, healing, coaching and transformation facilitated by Mark Silver.
The group sessions will be recorded for you.
Meeting Time: Third Thursday 1 p.m – 2:30 p.m. Pacific.
July 21, Aug 25 (4th Thursday), Sept 21, Oct 19, Nov 16, Dec 14
Individual Sessions with Mark
Once a month, generally in the first week, you will meet individually for one hour on the phone with Mark. These sessions are for you to get the exact kind of help you need, whether it’s healing, coaching, strategy, or a combination of many things. Each session will be recorded and available only to you.
The first session in January will be an individual session, where you and Mark will review your business assessment, your goals, and come up with your personal map for the next six to 12 months. You will receive a recording of the session.
Laser Sessions When Needed
This is a premium group, we aren’t worried about counting every minute. If you are stuck and need to talk to Mark, you can. If something big comes up between sessions, you can reach him.
The Price
The all-inclusive price for Opening the Moneyflow 2011: Premium with Mark is $6500. Payable in one payment for a $200 discount, or payable in seven payments, $500 now to enroll, and then six monthly payments of $1000 beginning July 1, 2011.
If you apply after June 13, the price will go up to $7500.
All potential participants in the Premium program will submit an application and be interviewed by Mark to make sure of two things, 1. They are a good fit for this level of work, and 2. They won’t be doing themselves financial harm to join the program.
Ready to Join?
Fill out the application below. Mark will contact you to schedule a phone conversation.
Application for Opening the Moneyflow 2011: Premium
Not Sure?
Maybe you want to take a closer look at the other two versions of this program. Click here to jump back up to the tabs and read through DIY and the Core versions.
The 80% Guarantee
It’s very important to all of us here that this class helps you get where you want to go. You can decide up to six months after the end of the class in December, 2011 that the class didn’t work for you and you want a refund. But there are some conditions.
You see, the course works, but only if you attend and follow-through.
And the 80%? Attend 80% of the meetings, listen to and read 80% of the teachings on your personal plan, implement 80% of your assignments and if you’re still not happy, you can get a 100% refund of your tuition.
Launch your marketing into enjoyable effectiveness and start to bring in all the business you can handle. Fill out the application below, and you’ll be blasting off with us shortly.
best to you, and your business,
Mark Silver
Questions?
Please ask us anything you want to know.