As you claim and integrate new levels of reality in your life, clients that are in greater and greater resonance with who you’re becoming will find you.

What are the most amazing things about the newest client you’ve taken on? Their creativity, their excitement about the project, their trust in you?

What are the most challenging things about the client you’ve worked with the longest?

When you began working with them, were you a perfect match for them? Have you outgrown them, or have you grown together?

Whatever you see in your client, look for it in yourself.

Your perspective of them betrays your perspective of yourself.

It shows you what you’ve integrated and accepted into your world, and what you haven’t.

How do you spend your money? How do your clients?

How excited are you to be working together? Is your client responsive and collaborative?

Bonus question: Are you afraid to break up with a client because you’re afraid to lose the income? And is your client proud of the work you do for them?

Beautiful clients are such a gift. Clients you’re proud of, projects you believe in and want to help bring to the world—that’s where I want you.

(The definition of a “great client” is completely personal to you and your preferences, and that’s how it should be.)

When you see what’s mirrored back to you by your clients, are you proud of what you see?

What new levels of reality are you brave enough to claim? Because that’s how you attract clients that are right there with you, doing the work, and deeply thriving.

And let me tell you… They’re a fucking blast to work with.

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Your ideal clients are already looking for you. They just need to be able to recognize you when they find you. Great marketing shares who you already are, so that you ideal clients know that you’re who they’ve been searching for.

This is the beauty of authentic marketing. When you share the core of who you are and what you offer in your client-facing material, great potential clients can actually see you. Those that need you will be able to recognize you.

When you pretend to be someone you’re not, projecting a good-looking image that you think will be liked, you will inevitably fail to fulfill the expectations of the clients you attract. Do you expect happy results on either side of a collaboration built on a lie?

This includes lowering the cost of your work to convince clients to hire you. When you accept work that isn’t an equal exchange for your time and energy, nobody wins. You either cut corners to make up the difference, or end up giving away much more than you receive. The first situation sets your client up to feel taken advantage of, and the second sets you up the feel the same. Either way, you cannot offer your best work.

Clients that needed convincing need to work with someone else. There is someone else out there that is a better fit to support them. You do everyone a disservice avoiding this reality.

How To Actually Help.

If you’re in a conversation with a potential client and you find yourself trying to persuade them to work with you, STOP! As soon as you recognize it, take a step back, breathe, and get back to center. At the end of the day, it’s your client’s right to determine for themselves if they want to hire you. It’s not your responsibility, nor is it appropriate for you to decide for them.

The reaching you’re doing doesn’t feel good to be on the receiving end of. It reveals your desperation and lack of confidence. It’s manipulation that fulfills your own needs. You think that if you don’t get this client, you won’t be okay. And that’s not true.

The reason I’m sharing this so plainly is because I know that helping others is deeply important to you. You’re a genuinely loving person with skills that you know are supportive to many. You may even be as passionate about accessibility as I am.

I’m here to tell you that if you see yourself in what I’ve shared, you are out of alignment with what caring and supporting actually looks like. This is tricky to identify because lowering your rates or working with clients that aren’t a good fit for you is easily mistaken for kindness or humility.

Here’s The Alternative.

Be honest about who you are and what it costs to live a life in which you offer your best work.

There are a ton of ways to increase accessibility to your work that don’t lead to bad-fit projects and lowballed quotes. Affordable or free teaching in courses, on social media, or in newsletters is highly accessible. If you want a mission field, start there.

The world needs your growth and success. That’s how you can change the world; by directing the capital you earn toward people and causes that matter to you.

When you work with clients that are more than happy to pay top dollar for your work, you’re able to do the same, and you become a model for how business can nourish its contributors and the causes those contributors care about.

Stop hiding, beautiful one! And let go of your shame. Your offering, your pricing, and your vision are wonderful and deserve support. There are tens of thousands of people looking for exactly what you have to share and how you share it. Claim it. Great marketing shares exactly who you are, as you are. Share from that place. Watch how your life transforms.

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