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TRUTH: “You Can’t Be Friends With Someone Who Wants Your Life”

I know that when I’ve wanted someone else’s life, it made me transactional, strategic, subservient, and sometimes envious. In other words: not a safe friendship or business bet.

And I know that when friends, lovers or colleagues wanted what I had, we always ended in conflict and destruction. Always.

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We Are Each Other’s Necessary Tendernesses

The best thing we ever do is lean on each other and lift each other up because we are the culture makers, and together we rise.

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What Looks Like Personal Choices are Often Framed Up for Us By Society

The way we use our time is predetermined and overdetermined by our society and gender roles, and society frames our productivity as “personal choices.”

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We are Not Worker Bees. We are Humans…and CREATORS.

“In fact, many full-time artist reports that they have become more creatively rounded into full-time people.” – Julia Cameron. I struggle with this exactly!

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Business Tip for Culture Makers #531: Ask for Way More Than You Need

When we don’t have institutions underwriting us, we have to underwrite each other. Feminist Marketing Tip #531: how feminist makers can flourish.

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Business Tip for Culture Makers #54: The GDPR is Good for Consent Culture

I know there’s a lot of hullabaloo about GDPR and that it’s going to be bad for business, but I think it’s something culture-making entrepreneurs can champion.

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Talking with My Hands and Trying to Be Good with Emelia

This photo makes me smile. Admittedly, talking with my hands is perhaps not the most effective way to communicate on the radio.

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Dear Multi-Passionate Maker

Entrepreneur spaces will often tell people with multiple passions and focuses that we are flaky, but I think we are cultivating a rich body of work.

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Sorry! The Lifestyle You Ordered is Currently Out of Stock

Graffiti awesomeness by Banksy. Looks like we are all circling around the same phenomenon, trying to figure it out…and maybe change it.

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“Prettiness is Not a Rent You Pay…” by Erin McKean

“Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked female” – Erin McKean. A note on checking our sources, and citations as culture making moves.

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Every week, I send you a

Sunday Love Letter

I write them so that…

  1. You remember your life-changing, culture-making power
  2. You have the inspiration + tools you need to bring something new to the world
Are you in?

One of the ways we contribute to the change we want to see in the world is by doubling down on our unique knowledge & gifts: 

What do you know that you wish everyone knew? 
What do you see that no one else sees? 
What does no one escape you without learning?

My culture-making clients are already stoking change & building their people up, 1:1 or with one organization at a time, which is valuable & critically important work but also limits your reach *and you know it*.

I don't want only a select few people to have access to the healing things you know and the transformational practices you teach...

I want more people — maybe even all of us, imagine that! — to heal and elevate and use their voices and feel good in their own skin and get out of physical pain and lose the shame and activate their power and get physically stronger and navigate society's fear of illness & disability with power and feel brave enough to push back on the bullshit and get their message together and know they’re not the problem to be fixed but our society is, and, and, and.

In other words: I want you to put YOUR unique knowledge into the hands of more people, because we need it now more than ever.

And I don't want you to be a martyr about it. You, broke, struggling and suffering is NOT how we co-create a future in which we all flourish.

**If the culture-maker running the business isn’t flourishing, 
it’s not a culture-making business**

That's why I created Goldmine: so you can learn in 9 weeks what it took me 15 years to figure out. 

**Inside GOLDMINE you get**

• 9 Comprehensive & effective weekly video trainings so you can steadily build out your course without getting overwhelmed or stuck

• 4 monthly, 90-minute group coaching sessions so that you can get my eyes on your work and tightly dial it in

• An interactive workbook chock-full of potent exercises that actually generate your course design, modules & marketing messages 

• A comprehensive, time-saving, good-decision-making Course Tech Selection Matrix that helps you compare course delivery platforms & tools so you can get going and get your course into the world, now

We start Nov 18. DM me for details.
Thought exercise: how many brilliant carousels from very smart content providers have you saved across the years?

Now: how many of those creators did you hire or buy a course from?

While the online space will tell you that you should give away your content and teach for free and eventually one day they’ll buy…

…the truth is, that system only works well for very-established content businesses WHO ALREADY HAVE A SIGNATURE COURSE plus a decade of material and entire marketing teams who slice-and-dice pre-existing material into tutorials & freebies day in and day out.

For the rest of us, teaching for free is way too much work for way too little ROI. 

Plus it undermines our paid offers. The more access people have to you and your wisdom for free, the less likely they are to enrol in a program to learn from you.

EVEN WORSE: pouring all your energy into teaching for free eats up the exact time you could use to codify your knowledge into actual courses.

Coming back to those brilliant content creators making educational carousels...when I look at their bios, they rarely have courses. 

Which is why they also often post about how little they earn compared to how much they teach.

Here's how you escape this overteaching/underearning trap:

⚡You learn a game-changing, money-making course creation method that teaches you 3 practical, do-able ways to create curriculum & transformational courses RIGHT NOW instead of sitting on your ideas for years or wasting your life teaching for free online

⚡You use the *Translate Your Intuition Into Teachable Tools Process* to do, well, exactly that (this process is actually ridiculously simple but wildly effective in surfacing your knowledge and making it into tangible, teachable skills)

⚡You develop a compelling course promise that is absolutely unmissable to your dream client and gets them signing up on the spot AND clicks your whole course into focus *for you* so you know exactly what to teach and what not to (I’ve got a brilliant protocol you can use to do this fast)

And *that* is how you stop giving away your best ideas for free and start turning your wisdom into wealth.

This is the work I do in Goldmine. DM me for details.
Stellar courses don't just happen but they NOT have to take a long time to create. Time is not the problem.⁠
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You also do NOT need to load everything you know into your courses or include a lot of extras & shiny things to make your programs appealing to clients.⁠
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In fact, overpacking your courses (which is why they take so long to create...) can be the exact reason clients might NOT succeed in your programs.⁠
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FACT: When multiple concepts are presented, people only retain about 37% of what was taught…⁠
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…so the more you add and offer to your classes in the hopes it's helpful, the less people are actually able to metabolize your material.⁠
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EVEN WORSE: All those extras and bonus modules and visualizations (and, and, and) make your clients feel like they can’t keep up and are failing at your class (which does not make for repeat purchases...)⁠
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And I’m just going to say a thing: often we overdo our courses because we’re scared they won’t impress our clients...⁠
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But over-teaching creates under-learning and that's *never* impressive.⁠
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Here are 2 game-changing ways to fix this, ASAP:⁠
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⚡💡🚀Instead of winging your course development & over-packing your courses with extraneous teachings, you follow a proven process to radically distill your content into only the absolute essentials WITHOUT watering-down or diluting your work because that's what actually gets outrageous results for people and has them positively clamouring to sign up, now⁠
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⚡💡🚀You deviate from the standard group course containers everyone else uses and learn a system for creating innovative, hybrid course structures & tools that dramatically increase the likelihood your clients will actually complete your courses AND be successful at them (online courses have an 85% non-completion rate!!! But not in our house…)⁠
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This is the work I do in Goldmine and it's why my clients stop sitting on their course ideas and start putting their supernova programs out into the world, where they can actually make a difference for your clients AND make money for you, every single day.⁠
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DM me for details or go to kellydiels.com/goldmine to sign up. We start next Monday, Nov 18.⁠
Girl you know it's true... - Milli Vanilli⁠
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DM me for details about my GOLDMINE program or to join my 10-month mastermind for 2025