The Journal
I mentor impact-driven entrepreneurs to build a business (and life) that fulfills them, with peace of mind and clarity. I write about digital organization and consciousness, holistic productivity, the entrepreneurial journey and mindset, and marketing.
Social Media: Its Impact on Us, Our Businesses and Our Legacy (Part 02)
Are you wondering how to market your brand without Instagram? Are there successful companies without social media? Let’s explore how we can shape our online existence and craft a content strategy and approach that aligns with our values, with some ideas on how you can build a brand without actively posting on social media.
Social Media: Its Impact on Us, Our Businesses and Our Legacy (Part 01)
Do you hate social media but feel like you need it for business? Do you want to market your business without having to post on Instagram? Let’s explore how to build a brand without social media. I'll also share a bit about my social media journey up to today as I pursue building my coaching business in the digital age. I hope to explore the question: is social media necessary for business? And to what extent? Is it possible to do marketing without social media in 2024?
Maximizing Joy: The Art of Balancing Online and Offline Business Connections
Research shows that working solo with our only human interaction being via screen can negatively impact our health. It's time for the pendulum to swing back in the other direction. This is a data-backed blog to support a new movement: To reverse the effects of solely online life and business and encourage you to nurture your local community 'village' through the power of in-person connection.
Ask For Help and Grow Your Business With This Simple Strategy
Overview of how customer acquisition strategies can grow your business, how the straightforward method of 'risk reversal 'saved my spa business, and how you can apply it to grow your business, too.
Post-Launch Reflections
I promised some behind-the-scenes this year, so in this post, I’m revealing the lessons learned from my recent launch to open the doors to my brand new group program, Intentional Business Immersion. It was the most exhausting launch I have ever done (it nearly took me two weeks to recover!) but also the most successful one, achieving my financial goal of generating €10K+ organically and with relatively minimal promotion.
Reflecting on the Last 12 Months (Part 2)
This is the second part of my annual holistic business review: “Reflecting on the Last 12 Months.” Hoping it’ll help someone in the online space to feel inspired and connected. Comment below to share your thoughts; this will make my day!
Reflecting on the Last 12 Months (Part 1)
Better late than never: I meant to share my year reflection in a post at the beginning of the year, but my year review had ten pages, and a lot was going on in the last two months, so I postponed it. I finally distilled it and took parts out, so you have a lighter, more digestible version.
Why I Came Back to Active Campaign After 3 Happy Years With Flodesk
I'm not an email marketing expert, just an entrepreneur who's been using different email service providers to communicate with my people, since 2010. This is not a tech article but rather a testimony of my experiences from a coach and course creator point of view. In this article I'm sharing
4 reasons why I decided to leave Flodesk for Active Campaign
3 insights to help you pick the right email service provider for your business
My Weekly Review and Planning Ritual
Here's a practice that will help you see that you already have all the answers. It's the ONE thing I encourage you to do at the end of every workweek before you shut down your laptop: A weekly review and plan.
Pivots can lead to beautiful things
Focus & Flow for Mompreneurs is the culmination of 16 years of being an entrepreneur and will:
Teach you a general framework to go from an idea inception to completion
Give you some ready-to-action tips that will help you create more time and peace of mind
Help you harness new insights and awareness through prompts and fun exercises
You’re Perfectly Imperfect
We all have “perceived handicaps”. This article is a personal sharing and a motivational message to be OK with having doubts, fears, and some inconsistencies - And to share your work anyway.
Don't do this. You'll burn out.
The number one mistake I see entrepreneurs make when they start their business is creating an Instagram account in the hope of finding their first clients this way.
How I Nurture My Creativity and Cultivate Peace of Mind with Evernote
In this article, I’ll give you a glimpse of how I use Evernote in 2022, its place in my creative workflows and digital ecosystem, how I organize my notes, and some of my favorite features that make it the app of choice far above any other note-taking app
What I Learned From Taking a 30-Day Social Media Sabbatical
What do you do out of habit?
Are you on social media for your business just because everyone else is?
What if you questioned its legitimacy and usefulness in your life?
What would be true for you? Let’s explore this together...
Brand Reveal: Maika Endo Coaching 2.0 Part 2
This is the second part to my blog post Brand Reveal: Maika Endo Coaching 2.0 where I share the journey of my rebrand. In this article, I'm going to share 4 practical tips to help you prepare for (re)branding. Hopefully, this will demystify the process if you plan to start a (re)branding project for your business!
Brand Reveal: Maika Endo Coaching 2.0 Part 1
Today, I'm proud to share something I've been working on with a professional designer, Jess at Studio Crescent: A new brand and visual identity, consolidating the multiple facets of my identity and my French and Japanese heritage. In fact, this is exactly what I challenged the designer to do – to capture French ease and elegance blended with Japanese minimalism and simplicity.
Don’t Get Stuck On Numbers
List size, revenue, number of followers, website traffic…numbers aren't everything.
If you feel triggered by them, I want to share this because I used to be.
Interview with My Sister on How She Practices Giving
This was an interview with a lovely member of our Sweet Words community (my sister!), following my recent newsletter: “Should the show go on?”, starting a conversation on how as a world citizen, we can “do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have”.
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