2024 - The year I made $100k (Part 3)

Lifestyle and the joy of the conscious entrepreneurial weave.

Hi, if your new here, I’m Claire. I live on the Northumberland Coast with my family. I’m a creative and entrepreneur. I bring a festival mindset to my work and a whole heart.

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I’m writing about how I scaled my online business to $100k to support those who are on a similar path.

Part one is here;

2024 - The year I made $100k (Part 1)

Part two is here;

2024 - The year I made $100k (Part 2)

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Hi all,

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If you’d like to lean into learning and inspiration around how I vision and manage my whole hearted business, I’d love to welcome you. I publish weekly and you’ll also get access to the almost 3 year long archive of posts and self seed your business classes and vision board workshops.

When it comes to work, my focus is always to keep balance in our slow lived life on the Northumberland Coast. That means my priority is to be there for my husband as he recovers from Long Covid and be brilliantly present with our kids. To hold the bigger picture of this precious thing we call life. I don’t always get it right and there is much nuance to it all but yes I made $100k this year. ¹

I know social media shows us lots of information about how possible it is to scale and earn money online. We should be aiming for $100k months not years?! 😵

This is my unique experience and to give context I have been self employed since 2008 and working on money mindset and business development, coaches and mentors since 2020.

It’s taken me four years to understand how to bring in $100k (£80k) sustainably and joyfully. As well as talent and hard work, I owe a lot of this ‘success’. to walking the path of self worth and regular therapy. I also have worked hard to understand how all the pieces fit together and whole heartedly committed to my craft and the mastery of Substack as a platform.

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I work part time 6 days a week. Between 30-60 hours. I could work less days and less hours and my aim is to do that in 2025 but I wanted to push myself this year.

I wanted to build more momentum, go all in, complete the vision.

Work is mainly on the laptop but because I work across timezones I often weave work into the evenings. Everything stops for lunch, dinner, kid’s bedtimes and at 8.30pm no matter what. There have been two points this year when I worried I might burn out and loose everything I’d worked for. The balance in it all comes from a routine that incorporates wellbeing. For example, this week, I’ve been on holidays from work because I wanted to fully absorb the kid’s nativities and my daughter’s fourth birthday celebrations. I find both of these events incredibly emotional and I don’t want to switch modes.

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My routine, where seasonal living fits in, downtime and ritual.