In this episode I chat with Andrea Slate, who is a 2/4 Sacral Manifesting Generator and Empath. Andrea is a Content by Design graduate, an Online Business Manager and a writer. She grew up in a small-business family, and went into the corporate project and contract management world before returning to small business for herself. Follow along with us as she shares how Content by Design has exploded her business – so much so, that for the first time ever, her books are closed AND she has a waitlist to work with her.

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In this episode, you will hear:

• Why she took Content by Design.
• How she knew that Content by Design was different, and that the ROI would be there.
• Using her own Human Design to make her decision.
• How she can serve her clients at a higher level using what she learned within Content by Design.
• That her business EXPLODED after taking Content by Design – and what she started doing differently.
• What surprised her about Content by Design.
• How her writing became more effective in business, without changing her own writing style (personally as a writer, and professionally for her business).
• Who she thinks Content by Design is really for. (Could it be you??)
• That participants got unstuck in their businesses, across the board.
• The bonuses that blew her away.

Always remember, your purpose is not what you do, it’s who you BE.

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Andrea’s business has EXPLODED since graduating from Content by Design. So much so that she has had to close her books (for the first time EVER) and create a wait list to work with her. Want results like hers? Check out the episode for all of the juicy details.

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In the Next Episode:

Join me, your host, Vickie Dickson, as I chat with Meg Dol. She is a 4/6 Emotional Generator… and a Content by Design graduate. It has been nothing short of beautiful to watch Meg embrace her truth and share it with the world. Her soul aligned clients are being magnetized to her with every single thing that she posts. I would say it’s magic, but I think you know what she will say – she took Content by Design!

Life is gonna kick you around. Stay Unjaded! ✌️

💙 Vickie

Find the Entire Transcribed Episode Here:

Intro, Vickie Dickson:

Welcome back, or welcome here, if you are a first time listener, today, you’ll meet Andrea and Andrea was a student in my last round of the Content by Design course, she is a 2/4 Sacral Manifesting Generator. And we’re going to be talking about how she is using her voice in her business, how she creates posts based on her Human Design. And actually, she is an OBM, who has begun to use what she learned in the Content by Design course about her own Human Design to bring in clients through that business. So you’re in for lots of juicy tidbits in this episode that you will be able to then use in your own content creation as you go along. And if you’re curious about the Content by Design course, you’ll get some of your questions answered in this episode.

Now full disclosure, Andrea is my oldest daughter, and in case you think, oh, well, that’s easy. She’s gonna definitely say that, you know, her mom is the best and all those things. That’s not how our relationship rolls. We are great friends, we are business partners in some businesses, and I raised my children to be independent, to be self-sufficient. And that was not always easy on either one of us. We’re not the kind of family that just, you know, brushes everything under the rug and thinks everything is rosy, no, we are absolutely able to call each other on our ship when we need to. And I firmly believe in skin in the game. So Andrea, and any of my other children who want to take one of my paid programs actually do have to pay for the program. And because then I am sure that they will show up to get the results for themselves. So lest you think that, oh, I just go easy on her because she’s my kid. Or, oh, she just goes easy and says nice things to me because I’m her mom. That’s not the case. But I do want to be fully transparent that that is the relationship that we have.

Andrea also is the OBM in my own business. So we should do an episode sometime about how that works, how working with family can work, and how understanding our Human Design helps us to navigate some of the little rough spots sometimes. But that’s not a today thing that we’re going to, so stay tuned for the episode where we’re talking about all things Content by Design, all things OBM business, all things Human Design.

Welcome to unjaded, I’m your host Vickie Dickson. This is a podcast with a Human Design spin on building the life, the relationships and the business that you were made for. Let’s dive in.

Vickie Dickson:

Okay, so welcome to Unjaded Andrea, I’m super excited to have you here. Thank you for meeting with me. For those of you who are listening in, Andrea and I are doing this interview on Good Friday. So it’s a holiday here in Canada. But it was just the time that worked for us to be able to sit for a few minutes together and chat about the Content by Design course. So we are going to be talking about Andrea and how she is using her specific Human Design in her content. Andrea is an empath, she has an undefined Emotional Solar Plexus in her Human Design. She is a 2/4 Sacral Manifesting Generator. So we’re going to talk about of course, we know you know, if you’ve been following along here for quite some time, that Human Design is all about the nuances. In my world, Human Design is all about the nuances. But there are some generalizations. So we’re going to be talking about what brought Andrea into the Content by Design course, what she learned in the Content by Design course about her own Human Design and her own business and how she is using her voice in her content. Now what has changed for her since joining. So welcome, Andrea, to the podcast.

Andrea Slate:

Thank you. I’m very excited to be here.

Vickie Dickson:

So tell me a little bit about your business.

Andrea Slate:

Yeah, thank you. I’m an Online Business Manager. I actually come from the corporate world, I spent about 13 years in project management and contract management. But as you know, I was raised by small business owners, so definitely a niggle and a passion to have my own business and to support other small business owners. So when I left the corporate world, I took those skills, and I started helping other people manage their own businesses in the online space. And I absolutely love strategic mapping. As you know, I feel like I can just take people’s ideas and like, give them a map to get there. So yeah, although I say Online Business Manager, I really help with strategy in the back end, and just making the systems work and the vision come together.

Vickie Dickson:

I love the way that you do that. Because it’s such an interesting mix of creativity, and strategy. Like sometimes people think they have to be either strategic or creative. But you’re a writer. So we know that you’re a creative person, but even in the way that you look at business, you have such a creative way that you can see what needs to happen. And then you also know the strategy behind it, which I find is rare in the online space.

Andrea Slate:

Thank you.

Vickie Dickson:

Yeah, you’re welcome. That’s calling out your second line and recognizing your second line. So if you’re listening to the podcast and you’re a second line, or you love someone who has a second line, just understand that it feels really good. And we need it as a second line as well. So we need it. We need for people to call us out and recognize the things that we’re good at because we can’t even see them. And I think that that’s one thing that I’ve noticed with you, Andrea is that you seem to think that either everyone has this gift and they’re just not using it or like, why don’t they understand the way that that works? Like, why don’t they get that the way that it works, but then you come into their business and it’s like a boom, there you go. It’s all done for you. It’s crazy how that works. Okay, so why did you want to take the Content by Design course?

Andrea Slate:

Well, firstly, as you mentioned, I’m a writer. So any opportunity to be in co-writing space, I find really nurtures my craft. But for me, it was more than that, it was realizing that it was time for me to invest more into my own business, and more about my own business, because I do so much for other people’s businesses, which I love. That’s where my heart is. That’s why I’m doing what I’m doing. But a lot of my own business stuff was on the back burner, like I wasn’t writing about my business. I might mention about proposals later. But the way that I was approaching, getting new opportunities to meet with people and talk about their businesses, just really wasn’t hitting home for me. So yeah, I took Content by Design. And it really put me into a spot of where I could do more for my own business, and confidently do it for my own business. Because I’m confident in the strategic mapping for other people. But I wasn’t confident in sharing and talking about that. So really also, an added benefit was that it helped me with my confidence and doing so.

Vickie Dickson:

Ok, I love so much about this. And I’m going to unpack this with you. Because that’s such a second line thing, like you can see, I’m like going forward in my chair. And I forget sometimes when I’m talking on the podcast that people can’t see my hands moving. And I’m, like all all crazy about it. But that’s such a second line thing that you can see for other people. And you can do things in other people’s businesses, or if you’re a Human Design coach with their design if you’re a health coach with their health, but you can’t seem to master it for yourself, because you just don’t even see the things that you’re good at. And you don’t see how you can turn that into a piece of content in your world. I think second lines probably have the hardest time of all of the profiles with this. And I’m having a conversation with someone today and DM’s, where she’s like, but I’m a 2/4. I don’t know what that means. I don’t know how to do this. And I feel like we over complicate it because for us (sorry, not sorry, guys) but it gets to be easy. And we’re not used to things being able to be easy in our content. Right. So that’s just as a second line thing that I noticed. The other thing that I noticed that you said was something about not being used to investing in your business. Very, very interesting. So how has that played out in your business? And in your like, holding yourself back from buying things? How did you know that? Um, this is a lot of questions. How did you know that this one was different, and that the ROI would be there, the return on investment would be there for your dollars?

Andrea Slate:

For me looking at my own Human Design, and I’m, you know, a bit of a Human Design nerd. And I’ve done some readings with you as well. So very beneficial. But I just knew that I needed something that would hold me accountable, if that makes sense. Like there’s so much of my design that is complementary to what I’m doing, in my own business, to my own writing. So even though I’ve been a writer, oh my gosh, I think the first thing I ever said I wanted to be in life was a writer. So I’ve been a writer forever. But this really gave me something that was a bit difficult, because I haven’t been investing my business. But it held me accountable. I knew that if I did this, I would. I’m an accumulator. This is a whole different story in terms of money I like to save right? So for me to make a spend was a big decision. And I knew that that would hold me accountable. And I would do the things in my business if I spent the money on myself.

Vickie Dickson:

Okay, and did you use your Human Design to lean into the decision to like, actually buy the thing?

Andrea Slate:

Absolutely. Which has been, I’ve done a Sacral session with you as well. As you mentioned, I’m a Sacral Manifesting Generator. So my initial Sacral nudge was hell yes. Still, still fine tuning the sound, but it was a hell yes. And then I second guess myself, and I don’t know if that’s the two in me. I’m not sure what, or where that comes from, or, you know, competence, conditioning. But I second guess myself, but every time I really just sat with it, it was like, yes, yes, yes. And I felt it really in my gut. And it would have been easy to talk myself out of it, conditioning to like, whatever. But the Sacral response every time was a yes. Okay, so for once I listened to it.

Vickie Dickson:

I love that. So I’m going to walk our listeners through this as well. So, if you are a Sacral being no matter what your authority is, or what your decision making superpower is, as I like to call it in Human Design, if you are a Sacral authority, so a Generator or a Manifesting Generator, sorry, not Sacral authority, Sacral being, Generator or Manifesting Generator, then you will have that strong gut feeling about something and I’ve had people who are new to Human Design come in to come into the reading or a course or whatever and say, I know when it’s a no, but I don’t know what strongly when it’s a yes. So really getting in tune with your Sacral Center is absolutely key and listening to that. And the thing that’s beautiful about the Sacral response is that you can continue to ask your Sacral over time. So what Andrea could do in her process of decision making, the decision for this course, is that she could just say: Should I do the Content by Design course? Is the Content by Design course right for me? Is now the right time for the Content by Design course? Is there another course that might be better for me? So it’s not just asking your Sacral that one question, is this yes or no? It’s also like fine tuning and asking more yes or no questions that kind of lead you further down the path because maybe for you it’s not the right time for Content by Design and your Sacral will tell you that. So that’s really a beautiful piece of getting in touch with your Sacral. And that comes with practice. So if you’re not there yet, with your Human Design, don’t worry, because it does come with practice over time. So I love that you were able to lean into your Sacral. As you know, I’m an Emotional authority, which is way more painful when making decisions. And it’s painful for you as well, because you actually do the OBM work in my business. So you see how this plays out in my business, I decide something and it’s back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth. It’s crazy, crazy, crazy. But that’s not the topic of today, because you’re not Emotional authority, you don’t have to deal with that stuff, other than when you’re dealing with clients who have it. And that’s kind of, I wonder too, how does having more Human Design… I don’t want to say knowledge, because it’s like, knowledge is one thing, but actually living your Human Design is another thing. How has being more familiar with design, because in the course, this is going to be around the mulberry bush question. But in the course, you know, we do tons of kind of, I would say mini readings or targeted little readings where you know, there might be four people on a call. And we pull up each chart or we pull up a chart with someone who’s struggling with a piece of the content or whatever, and kind of do a little bit of a reading on that. So has that helped you in your own business with your own clients? Because I know that some of your clients, you do know their Human Design, because we’re all kind of in this world together. And I know that sometimes we’ll have conversations, you’ll be like to think that you might be a Generator, do you think that you might be a Projector so that you can kind of cater it? So how does that benefit you in your business?

Andrea Slate:

I would say there’s two immediate benefits that come to mind. The first is it’s really helped me with how to ask questions. So then I can help my clients, like really land on what they’re after. Especially when we’re looking at scaling business, launching new products like this, these grander visions, to really hit home. It’s how can I ask questions that pull the right answers out of them? Their aligned answers, that would be the first. And then the second would be honoring their decision making process or that authority, as you mentioned, you’re an Emotional authority. So knowing that it’s going to take more time for you, knowing that it’s going to ebb and flow. And knowing that for you, it’s, what is it, 70% or 80% is basically a yes? So helping and backing off sometimes, as you get to that 70 or 80%. Because I am a Sacral. So for me, it’s yes or no. So it’s given me a bit more grace and understanding that there are other ways to make decisions, and to hold the space for my clients to do that.

Vickie Dickson:

And that’s so needed in the business space, because I feel like you know, I was facing a business decision this week. And it was like the guy was like pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, like if you can’t decide right this minute, then there’s something wrong with you, you know, and we all up not we all have. I don’t have this in the Content by Design sales process, where there is an early action bonus or something because I don’t want people joining my world if it’s not the right time for them. The last thing I want is somebody coming in and immediately regretting it because they didn’t wait out their decision making authority. And I watch you do this with your clients. So your business is really interesting. And I just know more about your business, because you have been through the course and we talk about business, and we talk about the things that are coming up and all those things. But you have an interesting mix, because you have some people who are like entrepreneurial babies just starting out and setting up their systems. And by the way, if that’s you and you’re working with an OBM or with Andrea specifically, kudos to you, because you’re super, super smart, instead of doing it, Manifesting Generator or third line profile, and do it all wrong, and then go back and have to redo it. But that’s, that’s our gift, right? So you have these baby entrepreneurs, but then you also work with a lot, quite a few people, who are scaling from six figures to multiple six figures or from multiple six figures to seven. That’s really an interesting place to be in and your business, I would think.

Andrea Slate:

Thank you for calling that out. I don’t think about that a lot. But I really work with people on all phases of their business, or all like ages, really, right? So it’s fun for me too. I love the variability. And I love being able to take, you know, past experience or trainings and systems and all the things that are in my head and be able to bring them forward to the client that needs them. So working with clients that are at different stages is really fulfilling for me. Yeah.

Vickie Dickson:

And like you said, you grew up in a small business background. And we already covered who you are. So people know. So you worked in my store from the time, before you were even really able to hold a job you worked in the store. And you just have always had that entrepreneurial exposure, let’s call it entrepreneurial exposure, but then you also have this, well you’ve married it with his massive corporate career that you did for over a decade. And like you really grew your roots in that corporate environment. So I feel like you can, you can do this big picture and look at big business, but you always have the heart for the entrepreneur and then adding this Human Design knowledge even though you took the course for you. I watched you be able to, well let’s talk about that. I’m asking questions in way not a Generator style here because I’m in conversation, but your business kind of exploded in the last few months, hasn’t it?

Andrea Slate:

It has, it absolutely has. And I give full credit to Content by Design for this, as you know, but I’ll share with you. I’ll go back to the holding myself accountable, right, to make the decision to invest money in my own business, because I have no problem buying systems that I’m going to learn for other people’s businesses or for future clients. But this was for me and my business. So it held me accountable, it put my feet to the ground. But once I got into the course, I realized this wasn’t just going to, “just”, air quoting for anyone not seeing the video, this wasn’t going to just help me with content writing. It was impacting, immediately, everything that I was writing. So that could be emails, that could be in your DM’s, even conversationally with people in the business space. But proposals. I know I’ve shared a little bit about this with you in the backend, but I’ve taken my learning from Content by Design and put it into my proposal process and my writing process there, completely reworked how I was approaching proposals, and I’ve signed every single client that I have sent a proposal to, and I have completely filled my books. So for the first time ever, I have a waitlist, or I guess I have to put a waitlist on my website once it’s redesigned and out there. Because I completely filled my books. And I credit that to being able to speak to people, the way that I can now and write to them the way that I can now.

Vickie Dickson:

And I think the thing that’s different, and you can correct me if I’m wrong, but I, what I see is different about the Content by Design course is that we really focus on you. Whereas most content programs that I have seen on the market, focus on your ideal client avatar, have you doing all of this work, and we do do some work definitely around the person you’re here to work with in your niche, niche if you’re in the US, and all of those things. But it really and truly starts with you because your voice has to come from who you are. And in your Human Design. We see it’s basically your user manual, it’s who you came here to be. So I just, I just think there’s such beauty in watching the graduates of this program, or this course, come into their own. It’s like you’re all of a sudden standing in your power. And it’s like you, you’re calling your specific person to you, because you’re standing in who you are, which isn’t often what’s taught more often you’re taught to grab a template, grab a formula, follow this, think all about your person and what they need. And yes, that comes into it. But it’s more about you. And I love how you have really stepped into that. Like the thing that surprised me the most I think was when you actually I think maybe you talked about it on a call that we had were in Content by Design where you had sent proposals. And people were, who had received the proposals and accepted the proposals, asked you could you then help them write proposals that would speak so clearly? So that was kind of cool. Did that surprise you?

Andrea Slate:

Absolutely. Because on one part, I do have this confidence in how I’m writing to people now. I think as a creative, I always enjoy my writing. So to be able to apply some Human Design to it and really understand more about who I am, my voice, who I’m talking to, who I’m here to talk to, the way that I speak too, was really beneficial. But then having that feedback. And instinctively I’m like, well just take Content by Design. Like that’s how I did it. Come on into Content by Design.

Vickie Dickson:

Okay, so you’re a writer, and you write beautifully. Anyone, Andrea’s going to talk about how to follow her on Instagram at the end of this episode, but you write beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, heartfelt posts. And you have taken people on a real life journey that you’re on, which is part of that second line, right where we bring in other aspects. And I think that’s part, that second lines feel like, either they’re doing wrong, or they shouldn’t do because, well, this is about my life. It’s not really about my business, but that’s really part of the second line gift. And you write beautifully. And I swear there’s a question in here. And you, in your words, you say I have a really hard time with marketing language. And I’m putting that in air quotes. Because there’s no such thing as really marketing languaging. But you would, you would come in and you’d have these beautiful posts, and you’d say okay, I just need to like, tighten this up a bit. So how do you think you’ve changed your writing? Hopefully, you haven’t changed your your own style of writing. But how do you think you’ve been able to make it a little bit more effective as far as when you’re writing for your business versus when you’re writing your life story?

Andrea Slate: 

Great question. I’m going to start by saying that I was pleasantly surprised that in Content by Design, you’re not pushed into a box or we’re not pushed into the box. Does that makes sense? Because I’ve done tons of writing containers, I facilitated them, I’ve partaken in them. I’ve taken writing courses. And the bulk of what I’ve attended or participated in really tries to like, put you into the box of how they’re doing something. Content by Design is the opposite of that. Right? It’s like it’s your own. It’s your own playground because this is your Human Design and like you’re uniquely you. So for me, I’m able to know even in my own writing, and my own journey that I share on my Instagram, I can look at it and apply things like the writing tips and the power words and a lot of the like, really actual bonuses and extra value in Content by Design comes through in how I write personally. But in the business, when I tighten it up, I, there’s no emotion attached to it, if that makes sense, because I just think, oh, well, this is my design. This is like, who I’m here to speak to. And if they’re going to receive it, this is kind of where I need to finesse it or tighten it up. Because as you know, I’m a babbler, that comes into my writing, sometimes to my personal level, so I have to tighten that up on the business side.

Vickie Dickson:

I wonder where you got that from? Like, I feel like in my questions on the podcast, I just babble and babble and babble. Not so much in my writing. It’s funny how we all have our thing, right? But yeah, there’s, there’s so much bonus content there for actually understanding how to write your story, like, why did you come to do what it is that you’re doing, which is a really important thing, and, and how to focus on the thing that your person needs to hear and how to tighten up your writing. So we’ve just been through the Workshop Week on the Unjaded podcast. And if you miss that, you can go back now, I might need your help on this, you can go back, I think it’s from episodes 46 to 50, something like that. And it’s a whole week of workshops designed to take your writing to the next level in your business. So it focuses on Human Design. And the last episode, number 50, is actually about all about writing. So a lot of people are sending me their homework, and I love it. When you do that, if you’ve been sending me your homework, thank you. And if not, please feel free to send it to me either on Instagram or to reply to my emails, if you’re good if you’ve got the workbook and you’re working on your workbook, but a lot of what I find people need to do is really tighten up the writing and it doesn’t come naturally, right. Because when we write a post, we want to give people like all of the information. And that’s probably something that we’ll talk about on Meg’s interview here, because that was something that she you know, every time she wrote a post, she had at least eight posts in it, which is beautiful, because you have, you know, three weeks of content there, if that’s the way that you write, but our tendency is just to pile it on and to pile in all of the words. And so I think tightening it up is is a lot of what we need to do as far as writing skills go. But it really is about your blueprint. Who did you come here to be? What did you come here to say? What did you come here to do? Like your purpose. So many people come into Human Design, it’s like, I need to know my purpose, I need to know my purpose. Your purpose is not what you do. It’s who you be. And you’re going to be that person in every aspect of your life. To me, there’s no separation in business, in content, in personal life, it’s all you as an entrepreneur, you get to be this robust being, according to your Human Design. So I just have a couple of more questions for you. One of the things I would ask you is, who do you think should take the Content by Design course? Who do you really think it’s for?

Andrea Slate:

Oh, gosh, I feel like maybe it’s cliche of me to say, but anyone who owns their own business. But I’m going to, I’m going to maybe bring that a little bit closer. I do think anyone who owns their own business will benefit from this course. Because, again, what surprised me was that it’s not just about content. So yes, we’re going to focus primarily on content, and there was beauty that came out of that. But when I sit down to write an email now, like, do you write emails in your business? When I sit down to write a proposal, do you write proposals in your business? When I answer DM’s, are you answering DM’s in your business? Like everything that I’m doing in terms of written correspondence, and even sometimes in conversational, I’ve been able to take what I learned in Content by Design and apply it. So I think if you own a business, it makes sense. But what I’ll say is, if you’re ready to scale, to reach for that next step, to maybe take some of the pressure off, but like you have all these ideas and things aren’t coming of them, you know, clients aren’t turning into paying clients, all these things, if you have like that hurdle there, then jump into Content by Design, because you’re gonna be so clear about who you are, who you’re here to speak to, and how to speak to those people that I really feel like those blocks or tension points are going to melt away in the process.

Vickie Dickson:

I do see people getting unstuck as they go through it, you know, we could see that when we had the content, we’re gonna do it differently this time other than a Facebook group. But I could see that in the Facebook group where people would be, you know, people who hadn’t written a post in six weeks, all of a sudden were like cranking out posts where, you know, they would post this one thing, what they thought was one post, and it’s like, okay, there’s actually six posts here. So there’s, there’s your week done. And I think that we all can feel that, I, this is not a really very nice way to say it. But we can all feel that like a noose around us when we go to speak our truth in our content, or when we go to say something, and we feel like there’s someone on the other side to judge us. We feel like someone’s gonna say, well, who does she think she is? Or where does she get to think she knows all of that? Or, you know, you’re not enough. You’re too much. All of those things. And, you know, we’re both Generator types and so many times we want to create something in response and then we stop ourselves because oh, what if someone knows it’s about them? Or what if people realize? We’re all afraid of the backlash, it seems. And I, I saw people in the Content by Design course take that filter off and be able to just really accept this is who I am. This is how I’m here to move through life. And then the other thing that’s beautiful, is that I saw that most of you who did the work now have people starting to come into your world and you’re seeing your businesses really, really grow, which is beautiful for me, because to me, that’s the whole point of owning your voice is so that you actually get paying clients, because at the end of the day, that’s the only way you’re gonna be able to help people is if people actually pay you to work with them. That’s where the transformation occurs. And that’s where you get to live the life that you want to live. That’s why you have a business so that you can not have to go to work for someone else, and you can bring in a proper income. Right. Okay, so final question. I think, is there one thing that you learned in Content by Design that surprised you? Or was it pretty much like, okay, this is what I expected.

Andrea Slate:

I mean, honestly, what surprised me was how much more is in there, like with the bonuses with the writing tips, things that I can apply to because I’m a writer, I can apply to writing outside of business, but also business, right, so I was really blown away with the value in the course, I’ll also say that something that really impacted me personally, and you just touched on it lately, real briefly was as a Generator being in response to things, because I really was holding myself back, as you know, and sharing in the moment, and I kept saying, well as a Manifesting Generator, and being in response, like I do have all these ideas, but how do we actually share them in a way that honors people’s privacy, maybe like a client’s privacy or allows me to stay in integrity, you know, call out something that still feel in what is integrity to me, and being able to work through that in that space was really beautiful. And I learned how other types do that too. Which helps me in the kind of business that I run, right, so that I can, because I work with people with all sorts of different designs, it’s not just about me, and I think that that will be through, you know, for anyone who’s in a coaching space or offering courses or holding group containers. I mean, you’re taking it for you, but honestly, your clients are going to benefit too, you’re taking it for your clients, as well.

Vickie DIckson:

Okay, so let’s talk about how people can find you. And I know you’ve already said that, now you have to create a waitlist, because you don’t have any more capacity, which is beautiful, that you’re sold out right now. And, but I still want, want people to be able to reach you and get into your world. So how do they find you?

Andrea Slate:

I would say, connect with me on Instagram, if I’m on social, that’s where I hang out. So it’s @theandreaslate. I’m going to tell you I did that because if you say Andrea Slate, everyone thinks it’s Andrea’s Late. And I don’t like to be late! So it’s @theandreaslate on Instagram. And once my website is redesigned and up, it would be www.andreaslate.com.

Vickie DIckson:

Yeah, love using your name, love using your name. So that’s, that’s something else. Yeah, something else we talked about in Content by Design, but it seems to come up hundreds of times in my world is like should I have this, you know, cutesy name or, and I’m like, use your name, your name is never going to change. But you know, especially as a Manifesting Generator, your business is going to change. I mean, I think all of our businesses change over time. But yeah, I love that you’re using your name. So we will link that in the show notes so that you can get into Andrea’s world, she really does have a beautiful way of crafting a story. So if you follow along with her, you’ll see her beautiful writing in action. And you’ll get to kind of be in the presence of that second line energy, which can be so powerful when it’s used intentionally. And Andrea is nothing if not intentional in her business. So that will be linked in the show notes. And we’re also going to link Andrea’s affiliate link in the show notes. So once you have taken the Content by Design course there is an affiliate program that you can be a part of. And Andrea, I want to just speak to you for a second here. I’ve already said no more questions, but you have a bonus when someone purchases through your affiliate link, I believe that you have a bonus that they get. Can you talk about that please?

Andrea Slate:

Absolutely. Yeah. So anyone who jumps into Content by Design using my affiliate link will receive a How to Organize Your Content bonus. And I’m using Trello for that, to show you, using the free version. So no added costs. Obviously, it’s a bonus, but no added cost for Trello. So using that free version, how can you organize your content, your ideas, banking at all, and having it ready for you, I talked a little bit about strategy. So I’m going to share that.

Vickie DIckson:

Awesome, awesome, awesome. And we do have a Trello bonus in the Content by Design course, that actually Andrea created for the Content by Design course for me. So it’s going to tie in. So you’ll have both of these systems to be able to use your Trello like a boss because if you don’t know what Trello is, you can look it up. It’s T-R-E-L-L-O. And it is phenomenal for keeping your content organized for keeping all of your ideas in one place for organized I see it kind of like post it notes for my brain that I can go back in and say oh, this is what I had an idea for for an email or oh, this is something that I responded to or whatever the case may be for you. So that affiliate link for Andrea is linked in the show notes for the Content by Design course and I would love to see you on the inside.