The Tools & Resources I Love
⚡My business coaches⚡
As a frugal and resourceful business owner, I was skeptical that business coaching could really be "worth it" for me. So for three years, I simply took in all of the free content that Caroline and Jason Zook created about running an online creative business. Every year I debated joining their program Wandering Aimfully Unlimited- but always chickened out, thinking I could just keep piecing my business together with free advice I find online. Things changed when the Zook's released their Calm Launch Formula to their members in Fall 2024 -- I wanted this sooo bad... CALM launching was definitely not my forte, and by now, I trusted that they'd have the answers.
So I took the leap, made the investment, followed their done-for-you launch formula, used their online course platform to host my pattern workshop, organized the whole thing using their Notion system, and BAM!! My next sewing pattern launch skyrocketed from my usual $800 to a lovely $5,000 in the first two weeks. I have absolutely no regrets. Just 4 launches later, and we've made it to $32,000 in the first 2 weeks.
2026 update: They are no longer offering group coaching, but you can grab their Calm Launch Formula here!
Or their Solo Content Studio here!
I've got a lot to process. A highly sensitive person living a life layered with cptsd and ptsd. I've had a chronic nightmare disorder for the past 15+ years, and developed POTS (a disordered nervous system) and chronic pain in 2024. I've moved 14 times in 14 years for school, jobs, partner; and have never quite found a local community to fit into.
Building a business from scratch has given me SO MUCH in terms of a flexible lifestyle and having the choices and freedom to carve my own way, but it is really hard, sometimes isolating and self-abandoning, work. It is even harder when your nervous system is deregulated, and your body is constantly in a state of hypervigilance, cycling through fight, flight, freeze, flop, and fawn responses.
Talk therapy has been (and is still) useful for me, but it is only scratching the surface. That's why I started looking into more somatic (aka body)-based therapies in 2026.
I came across Brain Based Wellness, run by Elisabeth Kristof, who does neurosomatic therapy to help people just like me. Brain-Based has 3 resources I cannot recommend highly enough:
1. Podcast - Trauma Rewired
2. Membership with live & on-demand classes: Rewire membership
3. Business coaching: The Expansion Lab