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Pamela Schneider
• Oct 13
Your business grew a whole crop this year. Have you picked any of it? 🍂
Fall makes the gathering part so obvious.
You bring in the apples. Pick the last tomatoes. Make something with what’s ready, save some for later, and notice what you’d love to grow again.
In business, we can spend months creating and then roll straight into another planning session.
New season. New goals. Twelve more things to make.
Meanwhile, that workshop you poured yourself into is sitting in a folder.
The process you refined over six client projects still lives entirely in your head. Your best explanation of what you do is buried in an email that starts with “Sorry, just seeing this!”
Let’s gather a little before we plant anything else. 😂
That’s the invitation of HARVEST from my oracle deck: Gather what is ready to be used.
When I look through someone’s business with her, I want to know what this season produced.
What did clients keep asking for? Which part of your work got the “Ohhh, NOW I get it” response? What did you love doing enough that you wished it had a bigger place in your business?
Those answers help us decide what to bring forward.
A workshop people loved could become a paid first step into your work. One useful exercise could become the resource that welcomes people onto your email list. The questions from that workshop could help shape the emails that follow.
Then we connect it all to the offer you’re excited to deliver now.
Someone discovers you, gets a taste of your approach, understands how you can help, and has a clear way to work with you.
Your work gets to keep doing something after the day you created it. And you get to sit down with a cup of something warm and see how much you actually have to build with.
I love that moment. The shoulders drop. The ideas start connecting. You open an old document and say, “Wait. This is really good.”
Yes. Let’s give it somewhere to live.
What has this season produced that you’re ready to bring into your next chapter?
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