The Emily Osmond Show

If you don’t yet know the powerhouse I am interviewing today, allow me to acquaint you! This is a woman who started a blog as a hobby in 2011 and now runs one of Australia’s leading interiors platforms, receiving 100,000 unique readers on her site each month. This blog has been her full time business for eight years now, and has been featured in A Current Affair, Sky News, Real Living, Belle and more. She’s down to earth, a fellow Brit (I wish I had my accent still!), a mum to two young sons and is currently renovating her Sydney home with husband Damian. So who is this woman and what exactly is her blog? Allow me to introduce you to the brilliant Jen Bishop of theinteriorsaddict.com. Jen and I are both speaking at the Australian Gift and Homewares Association Sydney Gift Fair, which is on February 21st to 24th at the Sydney Showground at Sydney Olympic Park. The Fair is perfect for retailers, stylists, decorators, corporate buyers, designers and event planners, so if you are mad about design and retail, like me and Jen, come along and join us at the AGHA Sydney Gift Fair 2020. Go to agha.com.au to register for free now and be sure to check out the free Masterclass schedule to join our sessions.

Above anything else, time is often the number one challenge we face as business owners. Which is kind of ironic, because for so many of us, the very reason we started our business was to have more flexibility with our time, to be in control of our time, and ultimately have MORE time for the things we love. But in reality? We’re feeling stuck and pretty overwhelmed in trying to grow our business, and there just doesn’t seem enough time to get everything we want to do done. We can’t figure out what to focus on, we move between different projects and tasks, and by the end of the day, when we feel as though we have run out of time AGAIN, and been so busy, there realistically hasn’t been a whole lot of progress made with our business. So what do we do? How can we be more productive with our time? How can we cut out the distractions that are eating into the limited time we have? And how can we move faster - and more focussed - towards our goals? Well, that’s what this episode is all about! MY DETAILS: emilyosmond.com | @emilyosmond | Free Resources

Welcome to the third and final special episode in this membership series! Over the past two weeks, we’ve looked at whether an online membership could be the next best step for you, and how to choose the perfect topic for your own membership. Today, we’re exploring the 3 essential steps to launching a successful and profitable membership. Just a reminder that this series is brought to you by my brand new program called Scalable, which starts on February 3rd, where I’ll teach you step by step how to map, create and launch your own online membership. I’ve been welcoming the most amazing women from all different industries with a vast range of membership topics, but the one thing they have in common is that they want to create an asset in their business to scale their time, their impact and their profit, working when they want from where they want. Go to emilyosmond.com/scalable to enrol for our special launch price! And if you’d like to discuss your membership with me, just send me a message on Instagram (@emilyosmond). Now let’s get into the show!

In last week’s episode, we explored why creating a profitable online membership is the most powerful way to scale your time, impact and income and create predictable, recurring profit each month. And I loved hearing your ideas for your own membership - from public relations, to French language, dog grooming, Pilates teachers and more. And today, we’re going to nail your membership topic. We’ll discover: The key elements that make up a great membership topic Examples of some very niche memberships to help when it comes to choosing yours Topics I wouldn’t recommend creating a membership around Plus the traps that despite your best intentions could get in your way of you creating your membership. This episode is brought to you by my new program Scalable, where I’ll teach you how to plan, create and launch an online membership in six weeks - sharing what I learnt (and what I did wrong) taking my membership to a six figure revenue stream in my business. Scalable is now open for enrolment with a special launch-only price available only until February 2nd. I’m also running special free online masterclasses this week and next where I’ll take you through The 3 Essential Steps to Launch a Profitable Online Membership. So click here to register your place.

Did you know that acquiring a new customer is anywhere from five to 25 times more expensive than retaining an existing one, according to the Harvard Business Review? And it makes sense: you don’t have to spend time and resources to constantly attract new clients: instead you get to focus on keeping your existing clients happy. So what would it look like if 97% of your clients paid you again next month? This is the business I have created with my online membership. About 18 months ago, I was only offering one to one services. I really had no idea or experience in the online business world. But I knew the way I was working wasn’t making me happy. I wanted to work with more people, but my time was capped out. I also wanted freedom to work when I wanted to, to work from where I wanted, and for most of my time to be spent teaching and supporting. And of course, I wanted to grow my revenue too without needing to put in more hours. Within a year, I grew my membership to a six figure income stream in my business, and have the freedom to work from where I want to, when I want to AND really love the work I do. In this episode we are going to look at if an online membership could be a great fit for you, and what questions you need to ask yourself to find out. We cover: What an online membership is exactly Why you might want to launch one What the benefits are What the different is between a membership and a course The beauty of recurring payments Three measures to know if running a membership is for you. This episode is brought to you by my new online program, Scalable, where I’ll teach you how to map out, create, launch and sell your first online membership. Go to www.emilyosmond.com/scalable to enrol.

Let’s start with some honesty here. How many things do you do at the EXPENSE of your health? What do you prioritise AHEAD of your health? How often do you find yourself saying, "I just need to get this done"... "this project finished"... "this quote out"... and THEN I’ll focus on my health, on getting fit, or eating well? What if instead, we understood more about how our bodies work? And what if our bodies could actually HELP us be better, achieve more and thrive more in our day to day and in our business? In today’s episode, I’m joined by Jema Lee of www.wellsome.com and @wellsome_jemalee on Instagram. Jema is a women’s cycle health educator whose work helps to reconnect women with their bodies and find their unique flow. In our discussion we cover: The what, why and how of cycle tracking How shifts and changes to our nutrition and physical movement through our cycle can support us How Ancestral and Ayurveda health can be applied to hustles and entrepreneurs And lots more! JEMA’S DETAILS: wellsome.com | @wellsome_jemalee | Free Cycle Tracker MY DETAILS: emilyosmond.com | @emilyosmond | Free Resources HOW TO SUPPORT THE SHOW Write me a review & I’ll give you a shoutout in a future episode! Subscribe so that you don’t miss an episode! Screenshot as you listen, share to your social media & tag me so I can repost!

Consider this episode the sequel to my previous solo episode: Episode 24 - My 2019 Year in Review. I’m a planning nerd. I LOVE planning. Holidays, parties, and of course businesses. So come with me as I take you through my plan for my 2020 and how I create it. I share what I do before I start planning, how I come up with my revenue goal - and how you can too, how I recommend creating your goals and what I’m focussed on growing this year, advice for your marketing channels, and the activity I do to beat the overwhelm and keep momentum. MY DETAILS: emilyosmond.com | @emilyosmond | Free Resources HOW TO SUPPORT THE SHOW Write me a review & I’ll give you a shoutout in a future episode! Subscribe so that you don’t miss an episode! Screenshot as you listen, share to your social media & tag me  so I can repost!

I’m the first to admit that I used to avoid the numbers side of business. I could feel quite anxious about it. I mean I was always the humanities girl and never the maths student. Which of course, I now know, was just an excuse (I wonder if you have a few of those too?!). I avoided looking too much at my numbers and hoped, somehow, it would all work out. Until I realised I needed to get serious about my business if I wanted to meet my goals, which meant taking my finances seriously too. In this episode, we have the brilliant Melanie Miller who specialises in dishing up the hard, unsexy truths of business to women. You’ll hear the event that happened in Melanie’s life that strengthened her resolve to help more women get in control of their finances, and create, as she calls it, Profitable, Liveable and Loveable businesses both off and online. Today Melanie has a thriving online business, called Profit Lovers, a community of more than 8000 female entrepreneurs and is living nicely in what she calls her business "sweet spot". So, let’s bring on Melanie Miller to share how we can create more profit in our business - I know you’re going to love this episode! WE MENTIONED: Toggl.com: Free time tracking software Theprofitlovers.com: To download Melanie’s Plan + Track spreadsheet for 2020   MELANIE MILLER’S DETAILS: theprofitlovers.com | @profitlovers MY DETAILS: emilyosmond.com | @emilyosmond | Free Resources HOW TO SUPPORT THE SHOW Write me a review & I’ll give you a shoutout in a future episode! Subscribe so that you don’t miss an episode! Screenshot as you listen, share to your social media & tag me so I can repost!

Welcome to this episode, which is my 2019 Year in Review. I know that I love listening to this style content content from other people. So it was something that I wanted to record for you. But it's a little bit nerve wracking because it's pulling back the curtain into sharing what's going on in my business, what happened this year, what I learnt and what I want to do better at. I cover my first year of running an online program, how much I invested in Professional Development and my approach to it, what beliefs I needed to change when running my retreat, starting this podcast and guest speaking, what a major highlight of this year had been, how my team has changed and grown over the past 12 months, what I invested in when it came to my personal life and what I want to do better at in 2020. I hope you take something out of this episode that’s helpful for your business too. So let's get stuck in! MY DETAILS: emilyosmond.com | @emilyosmond | Free Resources HOW TO SUPPORT THE SHOW Write me a review & I’ll give you a shoutout in a future episode! Subscribe so that you don’t miss an episode! Screenshot as you listen, share to your social media & tag me so I can repost!

Today I’m introducing you to someone I have loved getting to know over the past couple of years and who has so much to share for others who are starting their business: she is Bridget Murphy. I met Bridget a couple of years ago during a strategy session together, and since then, Bridget and I have been working together inside my online program, The Modern Marketing Collective, where I have absolutely loved seeing her build her confidence and direction with her marketing and really play a bigger game with her business. Bridget Murphy is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and meditation teacher who grew up in country Victoria and is now based in Melbourne.  She specialises in helping women avoid and overcome burnout, pulling from her own experience, which you’ll hear a little about today. In this episode, we step through what the first 18 months in business have looked like for Bridget, the lessons learnt, the momentum built, and how Bridget has got to her biggest months in business and beyond. So go to emilyosmond.com/waitlist to be notified when we next open for enrolment to The Modern Marketing Collective and without further ado, let’s bring on Bridget Murphy... BRIDGET’S DETAILS: thetruestyou.com.au | @thetruestyou MY DETAILS: emilyosmond.com | @emilyosmond | Free Resources HOW TO SUPPORT THE SHOW Write me a review & I’ll give you a shoutout in a future episode! Subscribe so that you don’t miss an episode! Screenshot as you listen, share to your social media & tag me so I can repost!