How To Achieve Time Freedom in Your Home Staging Business with Ashley Gartland
About Today’s Episode with
Ashley Gartland
As you grow your home staging business, time becomes an even more valuable resource. We are all pretty burned out on hustle culture. When we spend too much time at work, we’re not maximizing our productivity and we end up sacrificing personal and family time.
Ashley Gartland is here today to talk about time freedom, goals, and finding ways we can do less, but better so that we can all be more productive in our business while leading more fulfilling lives. Ashley runs a successful coaching practice in just 25 hours (or less!) each week so she has time to enjoy the outdoors, good books, and family time.
Let’s explore how you can simplify and streamline your services, systems, schedule, and team.
This Episode is Brought to You by 17hats, Our 2021 StagerCon Sponsor
17hats saved us tons of time and admin when we were busy staging houses. We were able to keep staging without worrying about dropping the ball on staging clients and project management!
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This Week on The Home Staging Show Podcast
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Ashley shares her journey from freelancing to coaching and how she found her niche (00:10:34)
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How you can build more sustainability into your home staging business (00:14:24)
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Why we need to broaden our definition of success beyond just metrics (00:16:52)
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Using overwhelm as an opportunity to explore what needs to change (and the question Ashley wants us to ask ourselves) (00:19:24)
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Ashley’s reframe around perfectionism and why we don’t have to let go of it entirely (00:22:50)
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Ashley invites us to take a subtractive approach to managing our time (00:27:58)
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Why letting go of a revenue stream is worth creating space for (00:32:01)
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How to decide what to outsource in your business (based on what energizes you and what drains you) (00:36:09)
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The power and ease of spreadsheets for tracking and systemizing (00:39:27)
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How to look at your personal habits, mindsets, and beliefs and how they might be holding you back (00:42:28)
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Ashley shares the biggest mindset traps we can fall into as business owners (00:44:37)
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The importance of prioritizing our personal habits and rituals just as much as implementing business strategies (00:45:47)
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One of Ashley’s favorite questions when we fall into the trap of beating ourselves up (00:51:23)
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Why recognizing our own version of success is key to building a stronger and more sustainable business (00:52:19)
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Ashley explains why she chose to run her coaching business part-time and what her other priorities are (00:57:07)
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Ashley’s #1 tip for home stagers when it comes to doing less and living more (01:00:07)
Connect with Ashley
Ashley’s Website: https://www.ashleygartland.com
Ashley’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleygartland/
Ashley’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-gartland-991aa95/
Listen to Ashley’s podcast, Better Than Big: https://www.ashleygartland.com/podcast
Join Ashley’s audio course Do Less, Live More for 15 short lessons to help business owners save time and live a more abundant, spacious life.
Links & Resources Mentioned On Today’s Show
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Check out the latest edition of our newsletter to learn more about our Monthly Staging Challenge and upcoming live workshops.
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Learn more about our partner, 17hats
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Our Monthly Staging Challenge ends on March 28th. Enter your home staging project here and learn more: https://www.stagingawards.com/challenge
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Andrea Neff is hosting a 2-hour workshop on March 29th about virtual staging consultations. Learn more about all of our upcoming workshops here.
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Learn about our comprehensive Home Staging Professional Career Certification Program and join Stage 2 from April-July where we’ll focus on honing your systems.
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Check out The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss.
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