In this episode, I’m sharing the best lesson and the hardest lesson I’ve had to learn as an entrepreneur. If you are looking to build a life-giving business, this episode is for you.

I was talking with a client about goals for 2025 based on 2024, and the biggest change she wanted to make was not doing everything at the last minute. That conversation reminded me I had to learn to let go of the sense of urgency to make my business thrive. I had to learn that nothing is an emergency in business.

In today’s episode, I cover:

• How to not do everything last minute
• Getting out of the “rush” zone
• How nothing is an emergency in business; nothing needs to be so urgent
• Building your business with long-term thinking, not instant gratification
• Why you don’t have to execute the second you come up with an idea
• How to stop and ask yourself, “But what if I wait?”
• Why spaciousness is the goal, and urgency is not going to get you there

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Find the complete show notes here: https://myanichol.com/2025/02/18/best-lesson/

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In this episode, I'm sharing everything you need to know about the new Instagram feature, Trial Reels. I dive into the tests I did with Trial Reels and share my opinion on whether it's worth your time. I'm also sharing a quick and raw update on what's happening in my life.

Trial Reels is a new Instagram feature where you can post a Reel that doesn't get shown to your followers or appear anywhere on your feed, Reels tab, or your account. Its purpose is to do a trial run of your content so you can see how people who don't follow you interact with it, and then you can decide if you want to share that content with your audience.

In today’s episode, I cover:

• How Trial Reels is only for posting reels, not posts or carousels
• How posting a Reel currently works, and what is different with Trial Reels
• The results I've seen from testing different pieces of content in Trial Reels vs. Reels
• Why Trial Reels specifically target people who aren't following you
• How many Trial Reels I've posted, and how many followers I've gained from them
• How long my test trials took to gain any traction
• What kind of Reels perform best
• Why your content still needs to make it to your feed for the audience you've already grown, regardless of how it does in Trials

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Find the complete show notes here: https://myanichol.com/2025/02/11/instagram-trial-reels/

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This episode was inspired by a really great question I got from someone in my Instagram community. Today, I'm sharing some general guidance on how to decide what content to share for free vs. what to charge for.

The balance of giving and selling is what builds a sustainable business. People aren't just paying for your information; they're paying for your experience, your perspective, and your tools to implement. Share the what and the why for free, but charge for the how.

In today’s episode, I cover:

• Tips on the type of content to share for free
• How information alone doesn’t create results
• That people who pay, pay attention
• How your information should help with their problem and guide them on how to implement the solution
• The ultimate goal of all content is to sell the transformation
• Why share the “what” and “why” for free but charge for the “how”
• How everyone’s business is different, so do what works best for you

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In today's episode, I'm walking you through how to handle negative customer feedback. (I also have a fun surprise to share with you all!)

We all receive negative feedback in our businesses at some point, but feedback is just a data point. You get to decide what you do with it. I'm sharing some examples of what I've experienced and how I reacted.

In today’s episode, I cover:

• How even negative feedback can be valuable information
• Why every piece of feedback does not mean you have to take action
• How to find what multiple people are saying, not focus on one person’s opinion
• Why to hold off on knee-jerk reactions
• A script I use for how to respond to negative feedback
• How you can ask questions to learn more about how to make your offer better

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Find the complete show notes here: https://myanichol.com/2025/01/28/negative-customer-feedback/

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In today's episode, I'm sharing how I set goals in my business for the year. It's a little different than how some people do it, but you'll take away some new ideas on how to set your goals for the new year.

In this episode, I dive deep into how to plan your life first, then fill in the gaps of time with your business goals. We are focusing on yearly, big-picture goals.

In today’s episode, I cover:

• Ways to recap what went right or wrong in 2024 and how to expand or change in 2025
• How I pull out a calendar for the entire year and plan out my personal life first, then focus on business planning
• Categorizing big projects first, then smaller projects that I want to accomplish throughout the year
• Why celebrating the wins in 2025 is important
• How focusing on how you want your business to feel this next year helps you create goals to reach that
• How goal setting is more than just revenue numbers

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Find the complete show notes here: https://myanichol.com/2025/01/21/how-i-set-goals-in-my-business/

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Today’s episode is a good reminder to provide value, but don’t forget to do this one thing: sell.

In this episode, I share different scenarios that happened recently in my business that reminded me that selling is providing value. We don’t always have to provide free educational value in every single place we are reaching our audience. You can provide value, but don’t forget to sell!

In today’s episode, I cover:

• How I use my Instagram stories to connect as a human being while building my personal brand
• Why implementation equals transformation inside of your offer
• Why information does not equal transformation
• How people who pay, pay attention
• We should spend as much time selling our offer as we do creating free value content

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Find the complete show notes here: https://myanichol.com/2025/01/14/provide-value/

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Today, I'm sharing a sales technique that made me $20k. I recently used this technique to launch my Plug and Get Paid course and saw massive success.

In this episode, I'm walking you through how to sell an offer by selling the lifestyle the offer will bring. In sales, we often don't think about the transformation as how it integrates into someone's life and what it would actually look like in a very specific scenario.

In today’s episode, I cover:

• Examples of selling by using specific scenarios
• Why your messaging has to resonate with people
• How to show how your offer will integrate into their life and benefit their lifestyle and routine
• How to show the physical representation of the emotional aspect that you help people with
• Why you need to sell the lifestyle on your sales page, Instagram stories, and in conversations
• How being specific and talking to one person actually helps more people than if you were trying to talk to everyone

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Find the complete show notes here: https://myanichol.com/2025/01/08/sales-technique/

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This is my 100th episode of the podcast! To say that I'm shocked to be here recording this episode would be an understatement.

I was struggling with what my topic should be because I wanted to make it extra special for this milestone. I then realized that I haven't missed a week of recording since I started the podcast in February 2023, so I don't need to put so much pressure on today's episode.

I'm sharing the lessons I've learned since starting this podcast in the hope that these lessons can help you win in your business.

In today’s episode, I cover:

• Not putting too much pressure on yourself for any one piece of content
• How proud I am that I show up for this podcast even when an episode or show metrics aren’t where I want them to be
• Why I do this podcast for the people and not the money
• How consistency is more important than perfection
• Not relying on vanity metrics and external validation to reach success
• How if you can’t sell when you have 100 people watching, you won’t be able to sell when you have 10,000 people watching

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Find the complete show notes here: https://myanichol.com/2024/12/31/the-reason-youre-not-winning/

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