Business Coaching with a Twist!
Practical coaching for business owners with busy minds, full lives, and unconventional businesses
Are you an expert at what you do but find your mind so overloaded with options that you don’t know which path to choose? Or even how to start choosing?
You’re brilliant but find yourself paralysed when trying to tackle your overflowing inbox and other small tasks that ‘should’ be easy.
You kick yourself for not following up on that juicy lead, but it’s hard to do sales tasks when you second guess yourself and your business.
This sucks. And it sucks even more when:
You have a clear vision but you never seem to get any closer to it
You’re teetering on the edge of burnout but you can’t step away or everything will collapse
You know you need to work differently to other business owners but you’re still trying to jam yourself into the 9 to 5 because when you don’t you feel weirdly guilty!
This is how most of my clients feel when we meet for the first time.
It’s like you’re on a running machine; no matter how fast you run, you never seem to be able to get anywhere..
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Knowing doesn’t make doing any easier
In fact, having experience, technical knowhow, and seeing every nuance and shade of grey makes it all the more tricky. All of your knowledge just gives you more options to think through before you act.
Because you can’t think your way out of this stuff. And having bold ambitions only compounds the pressure and squashes you even more stuck between bold action and considering every possible way to get there.
And let me hazard a guess here; there’s probably something else going on too.
Do you have a busy mind and complex life?
Are you managing things in your life that add stress, uncertainty, or restrictions around the time you have to run your business?
Perhaps you have a chronic illness, you’re working with a neurodivergent brain in a neurotypical world, you have caring responsibilities, or is the nature of your work unusually complicated?
Or…all of the above plus perimenopause?
No matter what combination of challenges you have in your life, it’s hard to know where the ground is under your feet when it keeps shifting.
This complexity can feel messy but it’s where I excel.
BRING IT ON.
“F**ck off big problems and a wickedly complex business model? Seonaidh’s your gal!”
Seriously, the more there is for you to brain dump, the more impact we can make!
Now imagine yourself in 6 months time:
You’re able to harness the power of your skills, expertise and creativity by knowing how to choose the ideas that are right for you
You’re taking practical action every day and it’s all building in the right direction
The way you’re running your business is giving you energy not sapping it
And ultimately you’ve regained that solid sense of self-trust. You’re decisive and your inner compass is back on line. You can feel yourself getting bolder and more confident about your business.
<I’m ready to get my self-trust back!>
Click on this button and you’ll be invited to fill in a quiz that’ll tell you your best next steps as well as an invitation to have a chat with me to see if working together would be a good fit for you.
“She gets right to the heart of what you can’t see.”
Finally, your business is fulfilling and sustainable
YES you are bloody brilliant, and finally your business is blooming in a way that’s fulfilling and sustainable instead of squeezing every last drop of joy out of your body.
“But Seonaidh, I also need to tighten up my messaging, update my website, and get those automations in running…”
We’ll get to all that too.
Tackling the business essentials is HOW we reach that 6 month picture!
I’m not here to convince you that you need support with this.
In fact, if you don’t need me, I’d be genuinely delighted!
But if you’re still reading, then you probably already want to see serious changes in your business and life, like yesterday.
Either something drastic has happened which means you need your business to work right now.
Or you’ve simply had enough. You are ready for your business to work as well as you know it can.
But knowing that you need change and creating that change are two different things.
The same goes for operating in ‘fight or flight’ with worries about the future of your business. It’s not conducive to using your intuition and creativity.
Introducing The Orchard Framework
The ORCHARD Framework has been developed over x years with hundreds of clients and gets remarkable results every time.
It’s based on three simple pillars: Your environment, your business and you.
People naturally want to leap to ‘business growth’ without considering what’s going on in and around their business that could scupper your efforts before you’ve even started. The Orchard Framework avoids those pitfalls completely.
The Orchard: Your Environment
Are you trying to do too much at once? Do you find yourself avoiding looking at or thinking about your finances? Do you struggle to prioritise because you’ve lost connection to what’s really important?
All this will be tackled in The Orchard: Your Environment
Including:
Money and profit
Your personal finances and your business finances are closely linked. If you’ve got a buffer that gives different options than if you are living month to month and contract to contract.Your Business context
Caring responsibilities, children, illness, and other lifestyle factors create a container your business has to function within - without considering them we could make plans that are completely unrealistic!And your people
Your support structure and relationships are a huge determining factor in your overall stress levels and capacity. It also tells us about the support your business has (directly and indirectly) and the social needs you may want to meet through your work.Realigning with your purpose
You may have a strong vision or purpose, or you may be leaving one and changing your whole life focus. Regardless, we will be checking in with your mission, vision, values, and priorities. This changes the emphasis we put on different areas of your business.
The Tree: Your Business
How is your business working behind the scenes? Do you have systems, routines and automations that do the heavy lifting on repeat tasks and admin? Are you able to take consistent action on all business critical projects? Are your offers clear and easy to buy?
This is what we’ll delve into in The Tree: Your Business
Including:
The Gardener:
If the gardener collapses in an over-worked heap, there’ll be no one to weed and feed the garden! (And after being ill for 5 months in one year, I will never underestimate the value of regular weeding again.)
In The Gardener we make sure all your physiological and psychological needs are met, foundations first, so that you’ll be able to make better decisions, jump on exciting opportunities and bounce back from any challenges that crop up in the future.
The topics we’ll be covering In The Gardener: You, the business owner
Energy and function - Do you have the energy you need to do what you need to? Have you slept, eaten, hydrated and moved recently?
Stress and stability - Chronic stress reduces creativity and problem solving (as well as having physical effects), that’s not ideal when designing your future business!
Cognitive load - You’ve got energy, your stress is in a healthy zone, but if there are too many moving parts you’ll be spending more energy on maintaining a mental to do list than taking action.
Self and systems - It’s all well and good having ideas and plans, but we need to be able to deliver on them. This is all about understanding how you work best so we can do more of that.
Business growth and expansion - Then, and only then, is it time to go BIG. Expanding the zones where you can function, thrive, think, and act!
This is not a step-by-step plan.
We won’t cover every single topic consecutively.
It’s a framework that’ll enable us to spot where you’re not supported and which are the most urgent areas to get you back on track so you’ll see the biggest impact in the shortest time frame possible.
How we’ll work together:
To make the biggest impact on your business, I want to partner with you for six months so that I can fully get my arms around your whole business, resource constraints and any ‘wicked problems’ that you may have.
Worried that you’ll make one tweak and three other seemingly unrelated things will break? That’s a wicked problem. And I live for ‘em!
This is a summary of the contact points we’ll have during our time together:
12 x 50 minute online calls; 2 weeks apart so you have time to test, process, and come back
In-between support on WhatsApp, including a group just for my clients
Flexibility whenever needed to accommodate holidays and life-happenings
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I had a three-month window to turn my business from break-even into my sole source of income.
What Seonaidh brought wasn’t just strategy, but confidence, clarity, and a coaching style that genuinely adapts to the person in front of her.
I’m now clear on my numbers, I’ve rebuilt trust in my own decision-making, and crucially, I’ve found the confidence to ask for my “dream number”. My business is more than ‘surviving’. It’s now sustainable and growing.
AX, impressive sounding title with suspected ADHD, caring responsibilities for partner, burnout dodger
What does it cost?
The investment for this six month partnership that’ll take you from treading water and circling self-doubt to fully in-control of your gifts and able to be taking confident strides to growing your business in a sustainable way is:
£495 per month for six months. (Or £2.9k if paid upfront.)
Hi, I’m Seonaidh
I’m a highly capable person but that didn’t stop my previous business from failing. I maxed out my credit card and still had to let my team go. It left me utterly burned out. I lost everything including my identity and my self-esteem.
Now I realise that the whole situation was avoidable. And I don’t want anyone else to go through that.
I’ve also been Chair and treasurer of a charity, a project manager, worked for an international Trade Association, qualified and operated as personal trainer for 10 years, ran a freelance marketing company, worked on big tech migration projects, and river restoration and wetlands conservation. And I’ve got ADHD. Or did you guess that bit already..?
I am accredited in IAPCM coaching (APC), L6 Business Growth Coaching, NLP Master Practitioner, Master of Timeline Therapy, Hypnotherapy, and NLP. Not to mention having coached 750+ people to reach their goals.
I’m also the author of Why You Skipped Your Workout, which is based on the behavioural psychology of why we don’t do the things that we know we should.
Why now
You’ve probably already had coaching.
Was it ADHD coaching? It can be wonderful, but doesn’t always cover practical business operations.
Was it business coaching? That may not have considered your brain and your life.
Well as one of my clients put it, I’m not ‘just another fucking business coach’, we’ll cover your mindset and things that impact your business too!
So perhaps the question isn’t ‘why now’ but ‘how do I know if this will really help me?’
If that’s what you’re thinking then the next step is to fill out the Business Orchard Scorecard.
It takes you through some questions in each stage of the Orchard Framework, then we can talk through your results. Whether you end up working with me or not, you will get value out of this exercise.
<Fill out the scorecard and get my results>
When you click on the button, it’ll take you to my scorecard where you’ll be asked a set of questions. It’ll take you approx. x minutes to work through and then you’ll be sent a summary of your results by email. You’ll also be invited onto a call with Seonaidh for that all important vibe check.