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Your fear of visibility and rejection is keeping y Your fear of visibility and rejection is keeping your business (and income) small. If you’re not consistently putting yourself in front of people, you’re cutting yourself off from the very thing you say you want: clients, income, impact. ✨🧐 And I don’t just mean posting content, I also mean the smaller but infinitely more powerful actions you might be avoiding taking in your business: Reaching out to podcast hosts, connecting with colleagues to establish collaborations, following up with leads every single day, getting in the DMs with leads to move them through to a sales call. Where are you holding back because your inner kid is afraid of rejection? 💕 I’ll go first: I’m doing zero podcast and collab outreach right now, instead nursing my inner kid, telling her it’s ok to be seen, and to expand. I’m a work in progress. We all are. Meanwhile, my lead gen game is on fire right now 🔥 Let’s chat and affirm that expanding our visibility is safe in the comments. Say “it is safe to grow my business” 💬 #visibility #workfromanywhere #innerchild #freedomlifestyle
I gave away the first $3,000 I ever made. 🫣🧐🤯 Not I gave away the first $3,000 I ever made. 🫣🧐🤯 Not because I was generous, but because I didn’t believe I was allowed to keep it. I’d grown up absorbing a very specific set of beliefs about money and ambition — rich people are greedy, charging for help is exploitation, wanting more is selfish. I didn’t think those beliefs were mine. But this sh*t was quietly sabotaging my business growth. I was bleeding money on one end, and handing out thousands dollars worth of coaching for free. I noticed it. And it irked me. With the help of my coach, I could see that I was losing thousands in revenue that I should have had. But the more I healed those inherited narratives, the more everything shifted — not just emotionally, but in my numbers. I distinctly remember how a month after I’d finally felt a sense of conclusion around a particularly sticky inner relationship, I suddenly made my first five figures in sales! Nothing had changed in my offer or pricing even. But how I showed up had transformed. Swipe through the post if your pricing has ever made you physically ill to say out loud. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Hi, I’m Dina 👋— I help new coaches build six-figure businesses through relationship-first sales and by addressing the inner patterns quietly running the show. Follow along if that’s the conversation you’ve been missing, @dinaseeksfreedom Comment ✨HEAL and I’ll send you the link to (Un)Becoming — the masterclass where we do exactly this work. #innerchildhealing #coachingbusiness #salescoach #newcoach #moneymindset
THIS 🫣👇🏻 First, Hi, I’m Dina — I help new coaches THIS 🫣👇🏻 First, Hi, I’m Dina — I help new coaches build six-figure businesses using a relationship-first sales approach. One I first learned as an actor in Germany, and then mastered as a major-donor fundraiser in the US arts world. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Here’s what sitting across from millionaires taught me about sales — and honestly, about building an entire business from the ground up: I got the “yes” because I genuinely cared. Not as a tactic. As a human being. Here’s what that looked like over lunch with a donor — and what it looks like now on a sales call: I asked questions. Real ones. What made them fall in love with this organization? What did supporting the arts mean in their daily life, in their values, in how they saw the world? The word “I”? Barely used it. And this wasn’t me performing generosity — I was committed to being genuinely inspired by every single conversation. To grow. To get curious. To be blown away. Only once I truly understood their “why” did I make my ask: “It would be a great honor to help you achieve this. As you know, this organization has long championed [the thing that mattered most to them]. And we’d love to invite you to contribute to it. Right now, we’re welcoming new donors at the $20,000 mark. How does that sound?” I use the exact same frame today when I sell coaching: “We’d love to welcome you into [Program]. It’s built for people like you, who are committed to [their mission + your genuine support]. We’re welcoming new members at an investment of $XX. How does that sound?” Same approach. Different room. 🫣🍾🫣👇🏻👇🏻 A relationship-first approach doesn’t just close — it creates clients who come back year after year, refer without incentives, and actually do the work. Some of my best clients started with me in 2020! Comment RELATIONSHIP and I’ll send you a free resource on the fundamentals of this approach (will go back behind a paywall soon). 🤝 #coaching #coachingbusiness #salescoach #newcoach relationshipselling
AI is sort of a blessing for coaches that hate mas AI is sort of a blessing for coaches that hate mass-marketing. Double tap if you sort of thought this was true but were too afraid to actually say it out loud. #selling #workfromanywhere #BusinessGrowth #service
The year is 2019. I was offered a visa-extension, The year is 2019. I was offered a visa-extension, promotion, and a raise all in one breath. My body? Full nervous breakdown. This was everything I’d worked towards for a decade, and it felt nothing like I thought it should: Instead of happiness, I felt dread. Instead of success, I felt doom. And instead of accomplishment, I got the sense that I was on an entirely wrong path. I handed in my notice the next day and booked a one-way to Vietnam. 😵‍💫✈️ “Accomplishing it all” had suddenly shown me that I had lived to make others happy. Abiding by others’ standards. Living to not disappoint others. In doing so I had deeply disappointed, yes abandoned, myself. No more. I didn’t just quit my job that day, I quit living a life to please others. I decided that I would no longer be responsible for others’ happiness. I decided I’d live to make myself happy, tending to my needs, and my every desires. Decision was easy to make. It really seemed like the only one. But the execution? Boy… As I set out to build my business, travel the world, I noticed only lived a free-spirited life but was battling the consequences of that decision: Family members disapproving looks. Getting called names. Becoming estranged even to some friends and even family members. The constant voice in the back of my mind: “you don’t deserve this”. Building my business on my own terms required one thing above all else: forgiveness. Call it self love, self worth. But in the end I had to forgive myself for having lived a life I thought others would celebrate me for. The only life that will truly make you happy is the one you love entirely for yourself. ❤️‍🩹 Comment 💕 if you needed to hear this today. @dinaseeksfreedom #heal #forgiveness #digitalnomad #quityour9to5
And I’ll do you one better: 🤯👇🏻 If you want to le And I’ll do you one better: 🤯👇🏻 If you want to learn how to sell via your stories, you first have to learn how t sell on a call, in a DM, over a glass of wine at a cocktail party. Exposure therapy is tough, I get it. And it works. The more actual conversations you expose yourself to, the faster you’ll figure out your unique positioning for your social media. And the faster will you be able to have a full 1:1 roster and scale your business. So let’s start here: learning to sign clients without an audience. 💕🫣 DM/Comment “CLIENTS” and I’ll send you my masterclass and let’s GOOO.
Growing a business to consistent four figures is a Growing a business to consistent four figures is actually really basic, boring even, but certainly not comfortable. 🫣🤯 What it boils down to is this: ✨Connect with a new person every day. ✨Serve an existing client every day (or community member). ✨Create one piece of authentic content every day. ✨Follow up with a lead every day. Rinse and repeat. And watch clients walk through your front door. But these things aren’t comfortable. They leave you with absolutely nothing to hide behind. They put you right in front of potential rejection and judgment. This is why new business owners often hide behind ‘growing their audience’ or ‘trying to go viral’, ‘building out their newsletter’ or figuring out their funnels. In the beginning of your business, all of these things feel a lot more fancy than they’re profitable. Those who truly succeed and have a 5 to 6 figure business within two years of launch face their inner wounds, slow down to step through the discomfort, and then put their time into direct and genuine lead generation. In my business, we call that client CREATION. If you’re not sure where to start with creating clients out of thin air, don’t fret. I’ve got you with my super packed masterclass, Clients without Audience. 🫣💃 By the end of that, you’ll know what to sell, where to sell it, and how to sell it on calls. All without a large audience. If you’re ready to sign clients on repeat, comment CLIENTS and I’ll send you the link. 👇🏻🧐 With love, Dina #BusinessGrowth #workfromanywhere #laptoplifestyle #purpose
Nobody talks about this part. You spend years thi Nobody talks about this part. You spend years thinking the day you quit your job and launch your freedom business will be the best day of your life. But instead, there’s this “wtf” moment of pure panic where you realize: The person you’ve been for the last 10 years was built entirely around a societal + corporate identity. Around hitting someone else’s life goals and KPIs. Around being “the reliable one” in a meeting or team. Around the false security of a monthly direct deposit. The second that structure falls away, you’re left with a question no one prepared you for: Who am I without a title? Without that career? It can feel like you’re lost. Like you’ve made a massive mistake. Like you’re going backwards because the safety net is gone. But you’re not lost. You’re just no longer running on an identity that was shaped by someone else’s rules. For the first time, you actually get to choose. Not from what a boss wants. Not from what a LinkedIn profile says. Not from who you were told to be. But from who you actually are. That transition is uncomfortable as hell. But it’s the only place where your life finally starts to become yours. Comment “Become” and I’ll send you the first step to step into your expanded identity and watch your business grow effortlessly as a result. #entrepreneur #digitalnomad #freedomcoach #mindset #exitstrategy
It’s the side eye, the screaming-loud silence when It’s the side eye, the screaming-loud silence when I share about my business or, God forbid, about the gratitude I have for little Me who bravely quit her job 7 years ago. I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t bother me anymore. It irks me. It sets me back. It crushes me. It used to paralyze me, too. Nowadays, I’ve built the strength and learnt tools that make sure that I no longer act from the irk, from the pain. But instead move through it and come out the other end stronger. I used to live my life to please, to seek approval, and to make others happy. I so very much wanted my mom to be happy. 😟Not happy for me. Happy because of me. See the fatal consequences of that little difference? In my old career as a fundraiser, that held me back in applying for jobs, even on the job. “What would mom think?” When I quit and launched my business, that inner mother wound, the approval wound, showed up in destructive ways; I made sure to not make more money than I mom. I gave away the first $5000 I ever brought in, thinking myself not worthy of keeping it. I limited my income, because selling “coaching is exploitation” and because “making too much was greedy”. I acted on those narratives not because I thought them to be true. But because I thought them to be true for my mom, and I didn’t want to disappoint her. To my inner child, acting against those beliefs felt unsafe. It took me years to heal that part of my story and take action that used to feel not only unsafe, but outright fatal to that part of me. So yeah, my mom did just call leaving no doubt that she still thinks I should have stuck with my old job for the next 40 years. And I punched a pillow and moved on with my day. I poured seven years of this work into a two part masterclass to help you, too, untether yourself from your culture’s, family’s, and industry’s narratives. Comment “HEAL” and I’ll send you the link. I called the masterclass (Un)Becoming because we have to first unravel and unbecome all that old sh*t before we can become who we are meant to be. If you felt yourself free to do whatever, what would you do? #innerchild #workfromanywhere
THIS 👇🏻🫣 1. To stop overriding their own intuitio THIS 👇🏻🫣 1. To stop overriding their own intuition That constant internal friction trains them to finally listen to themselves instead of performing a life that doesn’t fit. 2. To face where they’ve been living out of fear, not choice Security loses its grip, and they start seeing the decisions they made just to feel safe. 3. To define what they actually want, not what sounds reasonable They can’t keep answering “I don’t know” without feeling it cost them something. 4. To rebuild self-trust Every time they ignore what they feel, the discomfort sharpens until they start taking themselves seriously. 5. To detach their identity from their job title and income They begin to see that who they are and what they do have been blurred for too long. 6. To value their time as something they own, not something they rent out The way their days are structured becomes impossible to justify. 7. To think for themselves instead of following a path they inherited Advice that once sounded smart/reasonable starts to feel misaligned. 8. To take responsibility for the direction of their life Blaming the job, the market, or circumstances stops working after a while. 9. To act before they feel ready To learn that waiting for clarity is a bigger risk than moving. 10. To build something of their own Not as an escape, but as a direct response to everything they can no longer ignore. If you’re building something of your own, comment or DM “Build” and I’ll send you something that’ll help you get started. #Unbecoming #BuildYourOwnPath #LeaveThe9to5 #IdentityShift #FreedomBusiness
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