(#96) The strategy & Mindset I Used To Fill My Level 1 Sound Bath Practitioner Training

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain and sharing exactly how I filled my Level 1 Sound Bath Healing Practitioner Training.  

If you’re anything like me—curious about how people actually make things happen—you’re going to love this deep dive into the marketing, mindset, energy, and embodiment practices that made this training a success.

If you’re planning your own launch, I hope this episode gives you insight, inspiration, and permission to do things in a way that feels right for you.

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Hello, hello, hello, dear beautiful listener. Welcome back to the Alchemy Mindset podcast. Wow. March 18th, 2025. I think I'm very late in saying this, but happy new year. I get the feeling I left you at the end of December and I haven't picked up the microphone since. I actually have needed a break, a serious break from podcasting. So if you are new here, welcome. It's such a pleasure to have you for this episode episode 96 of the alchemy mindset podcast my name is anna i am your host i am your chitter chatter here i will be giving you a ted talk today all about how i filled my level one sound bath healing practitioner training or certification. And the strategy behind that like what i did to fill that program and if you don't know who i am I'm a mindset coach, so I love supporting women, entrepreneurial women who run small businesses, whether they're starting out brand new or they've had one established for a while, as well as teaching and training. And I am now officially a trainer and a founder of the Level 1 Sound Bath Healing Practitioner Certification, which is endorsed and supported by IICT, the International Institute of Complementary Therapies. I know. So welcome to this podcast. so excited okay now nothing about me let's just get straight into this so I left you hanging somewhere at the end of December and honestly I felt like I didn't really give or the previous episode justification of like the episode where I did like the summary of my 2024 after I recorded I was like that was just half-hearted like I was just ticking a box just to get that done rather than actually give it full meaning energy and heart but I've got a little strategy a little process that I'm going to use for the end of this year when I do a little summary and it's actually based on some of my favorite vlogs that I see and that I go oh that's a really cool summary of how they summed up their year in terms of like their best performing videos and their takeaways from the year and what they're planning for the year ahead and I'm like yeah that was fun so I'm going to do that. So I had actually last year planned to do an episode every week that was my challenge and I think on average I did but I just dropped the ball towards the end and it was largely because I just got what's sometimes known as pod fade. I just got a bit disenchanted, uninspired and not really committed to my podcast and I just need to take a break. Just take a break, take a step back. I am a generator within my human design which means that I need to do things that light me up and my podcast just wasn't. I felt like I was just having to do it for the sake of committing to something that didn't feel right anymore, rather than recording and sharing things with heart, with meaning, with intention, with purpose. So I really did enjoy doing the episodes, the trilogy where it was focusing on three very inspiring women and then the reflection of that big shift that happened mid-year and interviewing my two mentors or healers at the time that helped me within that. But I think largely what happened was because I was so focused on this level one sound bath practitioner certification, I just didn't have the energy to focus on other things. So I dropped the ball in so many ways in other aspects of my business and it's not a bad thing it's not a bad thing because I think for some of us we can wear many hats and we can be okay with. That but I think for me personally it's either a sign that I need to outsource certain things when I am deep in like a launch or a program filling mode or just being okay with this is the season I'm in this is the moment the time what I'm focusing on my business and that needs my whole attention and I don't have the ability to divert my attention to many other things like I'm not a manifesting generator and they're the human design where they actually can do like pretty much multiple things all at once and they thrive and they love it that's just not me anyway also life update so I know we're six minutes in already and here I am waffling about my podcast life update well 18th of march 2025 i am 38 and a half weeks pregnant and i'm ready to go oh my goodness i'm gonna do a whole episode on this second pregnancy once baby is out and i can give you all the exciting stories. Of what happened and blah blah blah but yeah let's just say i'm ready i feel so prepared i feel really organized i feel so much more calmer than what i did first time around at this stage on so many levels and I'm going to share that later on but yeah baby girl just waiting just waiting waiting waiting waiting now and I thought well while we're waiting because I am actually going to say it I'm a bit bored I know can you be laughing at me please like Anna you're bored and you're about to have another baby and I'm like yes um I thought why not record this episode because it just feels something to do in my life I've actually unsubscribed from Netflix. I'm over looking at anything and. I would normally look at I'm not interested in watching movies or tv series I just have no energy or drive to do that can't even be bothered like listening to an audiobook the most is that I'm doing some podcasts listening to podcasts and I'm currently doing a money mindset online course to keep me entertained but other than that I'm a bit like what else can I do to fill my time when I'm not hanging out with Ava which last night I had that realization of my time and moments where it's just her and me rapidly vanishing and so I'm really appreciating that I've got this time and freedom to be with her because when baby comes out there'll be two people to divert my attention to so that's where we are to life update okay let's get into this I know you want to hear about my little strategy rather than all this other stuff so let's have a look I really want going to share the exact strategy or method or process as to how I filled my level one sound bath practitioner training because everybody loves a behind the scenes. Everybody loves to know how someone else did it because to be honest I do. I often will look at what people do and I love to pick their brains. I love to find out like how did you do this? What was your process? What worked for you? What didn't? I love hearing those kind of podcasts. I love knowing how people run their business and what they do behind the scenes as opposed to just what they do right and I don't often share a lot of this in a way I share like my mindset and the energy and the embodiment process but not necessarily the strategy piece because while I always feel strategy and and when I say strategy I mean like process or your method or your pathway if you want to say as to how you're going to do something or achieve something to reach your intention, your goals. I always know that mindset is so important to go along with that. And I will always bang on about that forever and ever and ever a day. Cause I do love mindset. I love it so much. I don't actually share my own strategy. And I think I've always been a bit like, Ooh, would anybody be interested? Like, do they really care? It's not like the best strategy. You know, I'm saying strategy in terms of that broad sense of overarching term of like all the process or method or whatever, because it's not really something that I would say I'm an A-plus student in. I feel like sometimes I wing it and it just works for me. Whereas, you know, I look at a lot of other people and I'm like, oh, they've got like everything sort of. Off and down to a fine process whereas I feel like I'm a bit more of that I'm just going to feel how this sort of works out a little bit but I will say over the last year 2024 was my time to share and lead a lot of courses and trainings and I knew within that I would need some support and And I guess you could say, have a little bit of a better process as to what my marketing process would be to generate interest, to call in the participants to fill my programs. And that's where at the start of last year, I worked alongside or Taryn Bolt from the Social Bolt. She worked alongside me, I should say, to support me in filling that gap within my skill set, if you could say. So I did a one-to-one program with her and I loved it and I felt like it was a really good reminder of you got to do what's right for you and there's no process that fits everybody. You have to find what works for you and just enjoy it and have fun with it and experiment and be the scientist and be the experimenter. And I think what I came away with feeling after working with Taryn was that sense of this is what I enjoy doing and it lights me up and I'm going to continue doing it like I'm not going to get too bogged down as to whether or not it's exactly what she does I'm not going to get bogged down as to whether or not it's something someone else does this works for me so she also helped me work with my website and like copy and landing pages and things like that so I felt like I had a lot of support in there, but mainly for me. It was finding the way and like a rhythm, if you want to say that when I came to promoting and sharing things, I felt really good about it because I will say this, if you feel really good about doing something within your business, it is going to like thrive. It's going to shine. It's going to explode far better than if you're dragging your feet, feel like you're walking through mud and you're hating every moment. So that's where that kind of all started. so in this i'm going to be sharing the mindset the energy embodiment and the marketing part that was my strategy i would say is the marketing part of how i filled my level one training and i will honestly say like i am that person who's always looking for that golden process that it's worked for someone else then it has to it has to work for me but as i've said what I've learned is you've got to take the things that you love, do the things that you love and know that that's how it works for you. And that's okay. So that's probably the takeaway of this whole entire podcast episode. So I've just given that to you. You can pause it and stop now and go, all right, I'll just do what works for me and what feels right. So yeah, here we go. So marketing, oh my goodness, I'm going to talk about marketing. This is not my forte. And as I said, I got Taryn to help me create a process that felt good for me. And for me, that looked like I basically wrote out a whole bunch of topics that I could talk about in an email to my existing community about why I was running a certain program, why it felt good to do that, the benefits of it, the process of it, like the outline of the program. And then all the things, I guess you could say the messaging within that, like. Why it would be a benefit for them. Like how would they feel having completed this? What's the transformation process? What are these participants going to learn and achieve from working with me in this? My story is behind and my journey behind becoming a sound bath healer or into spiritual development or whatever it was I was doing. And so I just listed out a whole bunch of topics and then I went through and I went from basically the time that I was starting, If you want to say a launch, I hate that word because I'm not a rocket. I'm not about to launch myself into space. But from the time that I was going to run the program, I worked my way backwards and mapped out like how many times a week I would send an email separate to my normal weekly update email that just specifically spoke about this program that I was offering. And then what I would do is I would then convert that email into a social media post, into a story into, you know, a carousel post or a reel or whatever it was to then share not only on my Instagram, but my Facebook page, but also into Facebook groups that I was a part of. And I will say this, all my programs have been face to face. I haven't done any, I think I did one online one that was the mindset manifestation one, but either way, everything's been face to face. So I was aiming myself at face-to-face community groups and things like that so that's how I worked that I basically wrote out a bunch of topics a bunch of emails that I could write and feel good about wrote them out and I got chat GPT I love chat GPT to help me rejig them just to make them a little bit more shorter or a little bit more concise I did edit a lot I don't take chat for exactly what it gives me because often I'm like that does not sound like me so always always always side note here make sure it sounds like you like don't just do chats whatever it generates because that's great but in all honesty you can start picking out which sounds like a chat post versus your own voice anyway got that just to help me create the slides so I would create something different every time I did have a landing page like a website page which felt good and then what I would do is take elements of that out as well sometimes use an email sometimes use in like maybe a repetitive story post but generally every story or every post was a recycled version of the email even just shorter or just an element of it and that was so much fun like I loved doing the emails. I really loved it. I love sending out the emails and the stories and people were actually reading them, which was cool. So I do appreciate that. So if you were one of my email community people, thank you for reading. Thank you for not unsubscribing. So that's what I had been doing during the year, but this time round, when it came to the level one, I just, for some reason, didn't do as much as I felt I needed to, or that I had done with the previous introduction rounds of sound bath training and the introduction to spiritual development course that I did. For some reason, like I had the topics, I would write them out, but they weren't coming out as frequently as what I'd sort of planned. And I think a lot of it came down to the fact that I was very busy behind the scenes creating the course content because I wanted it to be supported by IICT I had to meet their requirements and get their approval on everything so that took a lot of energy and time so I would say next time going in it would probably look a little bit more like just more marketing and sharing stories and things like that and reflections of the previous training because I've already mapped out and created the course content and had it approved. I did do posters around town. Good old school poster. Look, if you're doing something face-to-face in your town, why not put a poster up? Find your friendly bulletin board that you'd like that has a nice energy about it and stick a poster up. Like there is nothing wrong with that because people do stop and read them. I do. I love standing reading like a little notice board while I'm waiting for a coffee or something like that. And I've had a lot of people sign up to things and attend things because they'd seen a poster that I'd put up around town where who knows but they'd seen one so do a poster if you're offering something in your hometown why not like it's a great idea I talked about this program a lot in my sound bath sessions and yeah at the end of like my sound bars on Sunday I would say just to let you know I'm holding this you know and gave like the general benefits of it and who it would be for and said look I'm really excited to do this if you are interested or you want to know more let's have a chat so I always kept it open always talked about it in my sessions I didn't necessarily talk a lot about it on my podcast I feel that there is still personally a bit of mindset resistance around talking about programs I'm offering on my podcast even though a lot of my programs are one-to-one in person here in Broome the mindset coaching stuff is but the group sound bath trainings and things like that I just feel like this is like I'm just feeling a bit like resistant to that and I shouldn't because. Hey, I know some of you are locals and you are listening to this podcast and some of you might be from other places and that's cool too, but I need to get over that little hurdle and know that it's okay to talk about it on my podcast. So whether I do like a little promo before or in the middle or after, I don't know. And particularly because I do see this training as having an online option eventually. So again, I just need to get into the practice of that. I reached out to wait lists and past participants who had done the previous introduction to sound bath trainings and again this was a mindset thing but it was part of my marketing strategy just to follow up people had expressed interest follow up don't just be like oh they haven't got back to me they're not interested actually follow them up and even if they say no not this time around that's okay put them on the wait list for next time move on i didn't take it personally i just had to put my big girl pants on and just reach out which again is kind of like a networking not necessarily cold calling because they were already warm leads they'd already expressed interest but I was just following them up to see if they were so I wrote them personal emails I wrote them personal emails with the reflection of something that they'd done in the introduction and how the level one would still support them in their life their journey their whatever it was and it was great because I had a lot of people just really lovely just reply and say oh not this time around but I would still be loved to maybe next time or something like that and that's fine at least I knew I could tick that box and be like well I've shown to the universe I've shown to this whole process that. I've done that I've done that thing and I'm still calling these people in to do this course and I'm ticking the boxes of all the things I had to do that doesn't feel natural for me it feels really uncomfortable like to reach out to people and say hey I was just thinking about you and I'd love you to come and do this course like in that sort of semi-cold call way I just it's just really hard, I'm just not very good at that, but it just feels like a bit of a telemarketer. But I did. I reached out to past people, wait lists, people who had expressed interest, followed them up. The process for people to join was that there'd be an application form. Fill that out. Let me know that you're interested. How do you want to pay? Are you committed? Are we ready to go? Then from there, they would then get an email to say, congratulations, you're in. Here's your next steps. Agreement form and a payment form. So they would then have to sign an agreement to say that they knew the terms and conditions and what their side of the contract was, and then make a payment, whether it was pay in full or on a payment plan, that was fine. And then within this, and this isn't necessarily marketing, this is just the back end of stuff. I used my program Asana, which is like a project management type, if you want to say it, program where you can just basically create your processes and tick things off. I don't even know what you want to call Asana, but I love it. It's so handy. And I had that to track everything. So basically, I have a whole folder in Asana that's all about the level one training, everything from details, marketing, costs, expenses, enrollments, and I could use it just to tick things off. So I knew where I was. It's like an organizational folder or program. And I used Google Drive to keep all the marketing emails and copy, like all the things that I was drafting, as well as the course content that I was creating. And I then drafted the whole course in Google. According to the different modules. And then I transferred it into Canva. So the final course book has been created in Canva, which I love. And I got great feedback over as well. So yay me. So that's kind of basically the marketing side of things. That's like how I did things. Marketing. My biggest takeaway here would be for you, do what feels right and be consistent on it. Because I think that's where we can fall down where we go, oh yeah, I tried, but it didn't work. It's like, well, were you consistent enough? Did you have fun? Was it enjoyable? Did you like the way you did it? And if you didn't, why didn't you like it? And what could you do differently for next time? But be consistent, like keep at it, keep going. Even if you feel like nobody's reading the emails, no one's liking your posts, no one's responding to your stories, whatever, just keep at it. And if you're having fun at doing it, then that's the main thing. Because I will tell you this and this I think is where it comes into mindset and energy and embodiment if you're having fun within your business it shines it shows that energy is a ripple out that energy is there like oh she's having so much fun talking about this this program must be amazing it must be so freaking transformational it must be so empowering I'm definitely going to join if you're doing something from a place of like just because I have to I really don't feel like it but I have to you're going to get that kind of crickets tumbleweed responses because people are going to feel that they'll be like oh okay there's no real like drive or energy behind this why would I get involved so for me and I'm going to talk about the energy aspect because this was a really big like for me the energy behind this was so different compared to the energy I needed for the other trainings I'd hosted before and I'll get back at that into a moment, but. If you feel good about how you're marketing and it works for you in terms of you're getting results, you're getting enrollments, you're getting inquiries, you're getting people saying, oh, I'd love to, but not this time around. Please keep me for the next one. Or yes, I'm in. Let's do this. Then, then, you know, you've got your formula and that is what you can continue using for next time and on again and again and again. So this whole program, I mean, like freaking wow, I'd never done anything like this before in my life. Like to run and hold a course that had an accredited certification behind it like people can actually get insurance to hold and run sound baths themselves and it was accredited by and supported by another institute this wasn't just something that i pulled out of my bum and ran it off the cuff like you get a certificate for this like you have to do the homework and. The assessment to get that actual accreditation for yourself that you can shine wherever you want to say hey I'm qualified in this now and that was a big thing for me so first of all it was like the mindset was like wow okay you're going to do this this is going to be a big achievement and a bit of a final push and climb up my mount everest for the year so throughout 2024 I decided I'd go all in and push myself on to do certain things trainings programs courses like just go all out and do some things that I'd been thinking about for a long time but hadn't actioned and I knew it was my year I knew it was my year because I knew that the following year which is 2025 where we are now I was going to be having baby number two so I knew that this was my time and I had the space I had the time I had the support I was going to do it so I'd always seen myself throughout the whole year like climbing and hiking up this mountain in this alpine area and every time I achieve something I was one like. Spot or marker closer to the very top and I knew this would be the final icing on the cake before my maternity leave so again as I said I'd never done anything on this scale before so it felt really huge but really important and I hadn't actually even planned for it during the year like it was only from I think the second round of holding the introduction to sound bath healing that people had said we want more want to get dual qualification would you do more in depth and I'm like okay and again being a generator in human design when you get the feedback that's your green light go for it that's when you respond and I was like okay this could feel really fun this could feel really good so as I said I wanted to do it justice and make it worthwhile so the International Institute of Complementary Therapies was my goal for achieving like to make it a successful program and to meet their requirements. So I knew it was going to be a big task to create the course content, but I knew the teaching, that part was going to be freaking easy. It was all the creation and ticking off all the boxes and the requirements that was going to be the backend and the challenge. And the same with like just promoting and marketing. So I knew within my mindset having done the previous year like so I basically had this mapped out to be held at the start of 2025 which I did there was no way I could have done it at the end of last year I just ran out of time a lot of people said oh could you do one like before Christmas and it's like no I don't have time I don't have the energy it's not finished yet I knew that just the way things had to be and. I couldn't do it until February this year. And I also need to give people the time and space to get their bowls and to make payments and things like that, because this isn't a cheap course. This is a course that you're going to invest in. So it costs you $2,222 Australian dollars plus purchasing and owning a set of crystal singing bowls if you don't already have them and you needed to have a minimum of three. It wasn't just one. It was going to be three for a reason. so that's a pretty big expense or outlay into a program that you want to invest in right so I knew that within this my mindset had to be strong in terms of knowing that a I was going to fill it and I will say this I only had six places I planned for six places I. Saw it in my mind I saw how many people in the room I saw the space set up I saw where I would sit in the Buddhist sanctuary where I was going to hold it and six felt like the best number and you might think well six is easy Anna like that's under 10 people but whether it was six or 16 or 60 it doesn't matter you still need the same mindset like it's a numbers game and it's still holding space for those people to come into the program so while I knew teaching the whole thing would be so flippin easy my biggest challenge was getting all the course content done and the backend stuff and I think because I was so focused on that my marketing wasn't as strong in terms of sending all the emails and the social media posts but I knew I was still at least doing something and I was still talking about it in my classes so I was still creating energy and momentum around it and I was still getting lots of responses like lots of people saying I'd love to do this but maybe next time lots of feedback so I knew it was going to happen but the one thing I had to remind myself was that I wasn't responsible for everyone's problems. Okay. I was a solution to something that they wanted in their life, but that was it. I wasn't there to solve their problem of how they were going to pay for it or how they were going to get their bowls in time or anything else. Like in that regard, all I knew I had to remind myself in was that I'm not here to solve people's problems. Like my thing is, I think it's because I care. I think it's because I care. And I kept thinking, have I left people enough time? have I left people enough time from talking about it and opening enrollments I probably could have opened enrollments a little bit sooner I think I did it as of end of October and I really should have done it like at the end of September but it just happened when it did but I felt like I'd only given people like maybe two solid months to get themselves sorted and it was coming into December which is Christmas and January it's holidays I was like how is this all going to happen like am I going to get my six people? Is it just going to be like, I need a minimum of three to go ahead just because of expenses and costs because hiring a space for six days. So I was holding it across three weekends. It's not a cheap exercise. I'm just going to say that, but yeah, planning all of that, like how it was going to run, when it was going to run the timeframes it was going to run in so I ended up doing three weekends in a row for February and knowing that I was also pushing it up to how was I gonna feel holding space for everybody knowing that I'm gonna go into maternity leave as of the start of March like I didn't want to work anymore beyond the end of February and I'm holding this in February like holy moly guacamole how's this all gonna work out so I knew there was a big wheel being turned. And at the end of the day, it was my space and role to just show up, talk about it, promote it, sign people in, attract the most aligned, amazing, gifted, talented people to be part of this program, but not to solve their problem, not to solve their money worries or how they were going to get their bowls, but just trust that they would rock up with their bowls, having made payments. Assign the forms, all the things, and they were ready to go. That was a big mindset thing for me and as I said it's hard when I care and I want people to feel relaxed going into this and not stressed about will I have enough money will I be able to afford this or will I be able to get my bowls in time or all that kind of stuff so that was a big big big big mindset shift for me and the same thing for calling in six people so you always feel great when you got the first person because you're like oh that's my first person tick that off my list there's the first person the ball's rolling right that's how I always feel like if I've just got one I know I'm on the ground running and in many ways I think it was like the first two came easily and then the next three came very easily but the last person and I had to really again I'll talk about this in the energy part just take a step back just take breathe and go all right is this is this going to happen am I going to be okay if I just have five like why do I have to be hell-bent on six I mean yes financially that would be lovely to achieve my goal to have six to have that final amount come in but is it really essential like will I be okay with four will I be okay with five but in some ways I knew that there was going to be a sixth person and that there was every element that it was going to be someone right down to the line and again it was a test and a measure of take the pressure off it's not. My job to solve someone else's problems if they. Really want this they're the ones that have to go and move mountains to make it happen i've got the spot i've got the place i've got the solution i've got the transformation it's up to them to sign up own to it and be on board and what i had to do mindset wise because i was actually on holidays in January. And at the time I thought I would have energy and time and space to like continue promoting and sending emails, knowing that I'd pretty much created all the course content. I was just waiting for it to be approved and get the feedback. I was like, you know what, I'm going to have to shut the doors. Like, even though it's not my job to know how someone's going to come in last minute, maybe they've already got a set of bowls and they just, you know, get back from holiday and go, yeah, there's still a spot. I'm going to do this. I'm like, I don't want to hold space for this anymore. Like I'm done. I want to shut the doors. So then I can enjoy my holiday, but also then prepare myself. Mentally and physically and emotionally and get all the behind the scenes stuff finalized for this course, knowing I've got five people, if that's it. So I shut the doors. I shut the doors, I think about two weeks, two or three weeks, two weeks. And it felt good. It was like, we're done. I'm done. That's okay. I'm done. And in that time, someone then replied to my email. And I said, I'm shutting the doors saying, I really want to do this. I really, really, really want to do this but I'm not sure if I can afford it and I said well that's fine I'm not going to push you you have to know that this is right for you and if you want to do this I can give you an extended payment plan beyond what I'm already offering like I can make it more flexible for you that's not a problem it's up to you and then there was a big conversation around bowls and what was going to work for them and I overall said I said look you know I'm never going to push you I would love to have you in this of course and you know if you feel it's right there is a space if someone walks up to me tomorrow even though I've shut the doors and said I'd really love to join is this still possible I'd be like yeah hell yeah I'm not gonna just because I've said sorry doors are shut doesn't mean you can't come in no of course you can so I mentioned that to that person left them with it but I had this feeling I had a little feeling deep inside that they were going to be my sixth person and I just had to let them sort themselves out and lo and behold I got an email to say I'm in let's go let's do this I was like excellent so I was really excited that because I had used my mindset of let it go we're done shut the doors it all happened and it all just happened exactly as I had anticipated and this is where I want to go into my energy my biggest lesson here was to take a step back. Not to hustle and or push. I kept getting this feeling of just being pulled backwards rather than slingshotting forwards. Like there was an element of me just holding me back going, just breathe, hold space, breathe and hold space. You are here to hold space for people to learn and grow. And within that, you need to learn how to do that as they're enrolling and coming in so it was breathe hold space breathe and hold back just let it flow it's gonna happen and that just was something I really had to lean into and trust rather than stress over oh I've only got four like and hustle hustle push push push panic panic panic stress feel anxious and I feel like having done the work with Nikki Vox on my nervous system and regulating it mid-year when I lost my car, when all that hell-bent transformation that happened, I found that I was in a place where my energy was just different. It was softer, it was more relaxed, I was feeling a bit more. Yeah, if this happens, great. And if it doesn't, I've done my best and that's all I can ask of myself. So I felt like that energy work I'd done with Nikki mid-year. But actually I started working with her in July. Yeah. And until December, I think is when I finished with her January. Maybe I felt like all the work I'd done with her in that time had paid off and it still does. Like even if I was to think about doing it again, I would probably still work in the same environment in the same way in the same energy and I kept the visualization my biggest energy work this time around and my mindset work was just constantly visualizing the number of people in the room where they would sit and calling in and channeling in their energy like I kept saying I'm just calling in the most aligned amazing group of people who want to experience a transformation who want to learn about the bowls who are ready to work on themselves who are ready to support each other and I kept seeing their energy like just filtering in and sitting in the room and I found that that was the biggest thing for me I didn't do a lot of EFT tapping I didn't feel like I needed to calm the farm in any way like I had in previous ones I did it a couple of times just to sort of talk through my intentions and stuff like that but I didn't feel like I needed to clear anything i did take the abundance bushflower essence i love that i will always take that i did do certain meditations i did my kundalini kongka and i did the ha meditations which i always find just help me manifest like i attract the most amazing things through doing those meditations. But I wasn't like consistent either. It was weird. Like I just felt like maybe because I was in that stage of pregnancy or I was so focused on creating the content and creating the course that I knew it was going to happen. So my job was just to create it, knowing that people would fill and take those spots. So that's kind of literally all I did mindset and energy wise. If you wanted to know my exact technique or strategy, like I didn't actually do a lot of mindset clearing because I had worked previously a lot with Nikki anyway but I just felt really like my biggest lesson here was just hold back hold space you're a space holder now that is your job and your role within this course and you just have to hold the space you've opened the doors you've got them all these beautiful spaces ready each one will be filled so you have to trust but hold space and again knowing that that final person was going to drop in when they did and that they'd be the aligned most beautiful person which they were to be part of the group but also one thing I did was I kept visualizing elements of my teaching so once I'd sort of decided on the framework or the. Itinerary of how I was going to hold it it was the final student showcase that I kept visualizing in my mind like how that would unfold for the students the presentation I'd do at the end for it. Like just the sense of feeling and how I would feel supporting them and holding space for them so they could hold space for family and friends in this group showcase. I loved it. And it was that literally just exceeded my expectations and my visualizations when it came to that final day. And I think that also helped in this whole process. It was like, I kept reliving and living in that moment. And because I was doing that, I knew it to be true. Like I knew that this was going to happen. And body went, this was my next level of entrepreneur self. I'd had such a huge shift in transformation mid-year that going into this level one, I knew I was ready for it. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. And the thing was that I knew I could do it because i actually have been presented with a person her name's rosie blake she has glow by rosie she sells crystal singing bowls and holds sound bath training and she's also a mindset coach or a business coach for healers and i was shown her through social media and i'm like that's my future self like that is me that is what i want to do a version of me i don't want to sell crystal balls, but do the trainings and support people in that way. That's me. So I knew it was possible because I've seen physically with my own eyes, someone doing something that I really wanted to do. And I knew if that person can do it, then I could do it too. And they were doing it in a way that I would want to. And I just felt like... This was really exciting. This was me stepping into a leadership role, which is something that I'm not like, I would never really deem myself as a leader, but here I was stepping into a role that was exceeding what I had previously seen myself as. This was me stepping into something and doing something exceptional and something that would take me further into a place of just elevation within my business like I wasn't just here to do healings anymore I was here to lead and teach and share and this is something that really lights me up like I felt so energized after every single day of teaching these courses and workshops and everything that I did throughout the year even like when I was I don't know what weeks of pregnancy I was probably 33 34 35 I felt so energized after each and every single day that I just loved it. I just loved it so much. This is me sharing my passion and what I love. And I felt like that was the easiest thing within the whole entire process of running this course. What I didn't plan for was sickness. So mid training, I got sick and I had to sort of be flexible and. Couldn't extend the training beyond what I had already outlined because I didn't have any more time up my sleeve and I knew that as of March I wanted to be on maternity leave so I had to kind of pivot a bit and on the Saturday of the second weekend we did a zoom training which was good because we all got to like learn a little bit about how to hold a sound bath online via zoom and then on the Sunday I felt well enough to teach in person so that was the only thing and look you can't avoid or plan for sickness really so I think next time it would be just like okay where could I have another period of time up my sleeve should this happen and being in the wet season the most I had thought of was like what if it like cyclone comes down the coast which it did during the time but didn't affect us at all that would be my biggest challenge I didn't think about getting sick because I just don't think about those things so that was something that was a little bit of a curveball but managed to get through it and then afterwards just having so much reflection on how I could make it better for next time what was the hardest part what would be done the same way again and probably how I could make it a little bit different so there are some things where I'd be like well maybe I could do that a bit online next time so we have more ball playing. The hardest part was creating the content, creating the core structure and everything. That's all done now. Like I can tweak the manual. I can add a few things in and shift the pages around, but I don't have to write it all out again. It's just basically a print and repeat and the framework of it or the itinerary of it. Yeah. Maybe I could change that a little bit as well. But overall I could easily rinse and repeat and it would still be great. And also having that insight as to what would I do for a level two training and would people be interested? And yes, they would. And the other thing that I loved is that how everybody shared stories and insights and was really like participatory in the whole entire experience and how they were all saying that they just wanted to get together again and do more bowl jams and more full moon and new moon sound baths, like mass. Like have a big group of sound bath healers playing crystal singing bowls and doing like a big group session i'm like yes i was like yes broom is going to be like the mecca for sound bath healings and crystal singing bowls and you know my dream to make it the mecca of australia would be so cool so not that it's really my dream and ambition but you know if that happened like how cool would that be so i felt like with the embodiment process or element of the back end of this whole entire creation of this program was me stepping into this next aspect of myself and each and every time just envisioning and seeing myself climbing that mountain and the day the showcase happened and the day actually actually I think it was the day that I started the whole entire level one training with the group like we're there we're in the room where I'm doing the opening ceremony I was like I'm at the top I'm at the top of this freaking mountain the view is glorious I'm signing the little log book to say I made it to the top and I'm just so happy and yeah then to get to finish it was just like I don't know it was just such this glorious moment of like I've helped people step into some new levels and layers of themselves and. I just love sharing it, like to share this has been such an amazing experience and I just want to do more, like I can do this again and I will do it again. So for me, that entrepreneur self was just constantly there in the background. How do you show up? How do you lead? What are you doing? How are you supporting these people? And I guess there wasn't any fear at all around me teaching this because I knew it would be so much fun and so easy and everything that I'd poured into this course book was stuff that I believed in truly would make someone an exceptional sound bath healer because it's the things that I had learned and developed over time throughout my whole entire career of doing massage, Reiki healing, sound bath healings, everything that I've learned went into there that I felt was absolutely essential to becoming like an exceptional sound bath healer. And that's what I wanted to bring to the training. This wasn't just going to be learn how to play the bowls and there you go. It was going to be, this is how you learn the bowls and how to support people and how to hold space and how to take care of the clients and all the little things in the background that make you exceptional in an industry that really isn't regulated. Like there are no rules or there's no boundaries or there's no framework. It's just create it and do it as you wish but I just want to say I'm so proud of myself. And I loved it I loved it I loved it I loved it I loved it and I will do it again so there you go that is my whole entire strategy or process I use to fill my level one sound bath practitioner training thank you so much for listening to this very very very very long episode, oh excuse me I've got like a bit of indigestion because I've been reclining in my bed recording this. Baby girls just moving around a lot. But my takeaways here are for you. Firstly, when it comes to marketing, choose the process that feels right for you. Play with it, have fun with it, but be consistent. Rinse and repeat. Don't make it hard. It shouldn't be hard or difficult. It should be fun. It should be easy. You should feel inspired by it. And when you have that in the energy of what you're creating and doing, it gets felt by those who receive and read your marketing, your emails, your social media, things like that. Mindset. If there are blocks, fears coming up as to why you can't do something or sort of holding you back, then that's what you need to unlock and release to move forwards. And I always believe that whenever we're stepping into a new level within our business, there's always going to be something that needs to be shifted or cleared or reviewed and once you do that you have so much freedom and energy and space to allow and flow through that energy of what you're calling in and attracting so if you feel like there's times where you're like oh I don't know if I can do this what if people are going to think of me or judge about me or someone else is better at doing this than me then you know there's a mindset block that needs to be cleared work on it do it get it out of the way so it's not there to interfere with how great your thing that you're promoting or selling or teaching or running can be, right? But I will say that. And this kind of leads into the energy. Don't hustle. Don't push. Take a step back. Is it feel right to hold space, still do your marketing, still promote, still show up, still talk about it, still work on any blocks? But do you need to just do it in a more relaxed, refined, clear, calm and concise way? Or do you feel like you want to be hyped up and a little bit more energized and a bit more aerobic about it? You know, if that feels right for you, be in that space. Be in that energy trust that you are going to fill your places visualize like keep visualizing and calling in the energy of those people who are going to be part of the program like see if it is a face-to-face program see where they're going to sit in the room how you're going to set the room up rehearse the content you're going to present as if you're already doing it now because your mind doesn't know what's the past or the future it only knows what's now so if you're constantly like going through that motion your mind is going to pick up on it and go oh that must be real so it works in your favor and the embodiment who is your entrepreneur self that is leading this thing or doing this thing what do they look like how do they feel how do they show up how are they even dressed like I looked at my wardrobe and I was dressing myself every day in things that I thought would be comfortable enough to hold space for people in these trainings you know and had I not been pregnant I probably would have worn a whole bunch of other amazing cool outfits but had to work with the bump but anyway and the practicalities of sitting on a floor for you know a few hours at a time but be the entrepreneur self like who is she that is holding and leading in this whatever it is that you're doing always tap into her what does she do what does she look like what is she doing right now to fulfill and bring to life what it is that you're wanting to do. So that was me. That was my strategy, my process, my method. You don't have to follow everyone's plan, create one that feels right for you. And like I said, be consistent with it and do it as many times as you can over and over and over and over and over again. All right, that's enough. I'm tired. I'm done. You've listened to me talk for about an hour. That's more than enough. I love you so much. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for being part of this episode please let me know what you think any thoughts any questions you can leave them in comments you can send me a message on instagram at anna f hasty i am checking socials here and there every now and again during my maternity leave can't wait to share the next episode which will be about baby girl and this pregnancy because hey we love a pregnancy story don't we we'd love to know what happened yes lots of fun thank you so much I hope you're all fabulous and 2025 is amazing for you and I look forward to sharing more with you soon.