Women Speaking Up is for people who've:

• 1. been in business or building their organisation or freelance career for at least a couple of years,
  2. are pivoting from an old business focus or way of working into something new, or
  3. who have built a body of work and are now looking to monetise it through the vehicle of a business, social enterprise, or not for profit. (If you're unsure whether you'd be a good fit but are keen to join us, submit your application and we can chat.) 

It's for you if you’ve ever felt:

• called to play a bigger game
• cautious or fearful about speaking up or promoting yourself or really being authentically yourself in your business or online
• unclear about what you want to say or where to say it
• overwhelmed by everything you have to learn in order to get your name and your work out to the world
• worried that you’re going to have to spend your life stressed and hustling if you want to succeed 

or if you’ve ever wanted: 

Women Speaking Up is NOT for:

People who don’t like personal development work or feel huge resistance to it.

People who don't feel ready to exercise personal responsibility in their leadership development journey or whose favourite way to deal with the hardships of the world is through spiritual bypass. 

People who are actually looking for 1:1 work (as opposed to a group coaching program) or who don't particularly like group coaching programs. 

People who are thinking about possibly running a business but aren't sure what it might be about or where to start. This program is best for people who've:

1. been in business or building their organisation or freelance career for at least a couple of years,
2. are pivoting from an old business focus or way of working into something new, or
3. who have built a body of work and are now looking to monetise it through the vehicle of a business, social enterprise, or not for profit. (If you're unsure whether you'd be a good fit but are keen to join us, submit your application and we can chat.)

People who are looking for a done for you service rather than a done with you program. 

Women who want to learn the latest tactic for growing their list from 100 to 100,000 in 30 days. 

People who are strongly anti-capitalist but nevertheless are attempting to build a business. If you're looking to change the way business is done (including the kinds of values and business practices people use and the way we all think about business) we would love to support you with that. If however, you know that deep down, you're in fact quite opposed to the idea of capitalism, there are probably better programs for you.

Those who are supportive of, or strongly influenced by, the alt-right. 

Those who disagree with intersectional feminism or who adhere to a notion of womanhood that's exclusive of transwomen. 

Women who are unwilling to do both the inner work and the outer work. This means both clearing visibility blocks and fears and taking strategic action to become more visible in the world. (We know it’s a waste of time to focus on one without the other and we don’t want to waste your time or ours.)

People often think pursuing visibility must mean being more visible on social media. 

At Women Speaking Up, I do not coach you to be more visible by spending more time on social media.

Our visibility approach is all about being smarter with your visibility efforts which means that over time, you'll find yourself doing far less and achieving much more.

In fact, I regularly advise my students to pull back on the number of social platforms they're trying to appear on.

Here's why; I know that to amplify your voice, you need to simplify.

I also know that if you're showing up in a place you hate, that platform will never work for you. So it's best to get off fast and find a platform or environment where you can comfortably share your voice and your work.

Social media platforms can be very ugly places. They can also provide you with opportunities for wonderful connection and inspiration. My intention for you is that rather than feeling like a victim to all the noise and ugliness, you start to navigate your chosen platform(s) with powerful focus and intent.

Once you start doing that, I promise you, it'll change the way you experience social media forever.

AND if social media isn't for you, there are plenty of other visibility avenues which we can explore together. (Social media is only approximately 20 years old after all. People found myriad ways to be visible long before the advent of Facebook.) 

We'll help you be visible in a way that feels natural and enjoyable to you.

This is precisely why we take an inside out approach to visibility. 

You can try and wait until you feel ready, or force yourself to take action (which feels terrifying), but both options are far from ideal.

Instead, our approach at WSU is to identify and clear out your fears so your feeling of not being ready falls away naturally, leaving you excited about moving ahead with clarity and confidence. 

I hear you sister! There are two core reasons for this: 1. Unhelpful course delivery models and 2. The absence of mindset and inner block clearing work in programs focused on strategy and tactics. 

Unhelpful course delivery models: Most digital courses focus on delivering the content in as short a time period as possible, with very little focus on supporting you to implement what you've learned. 

We've deliberately created a 12 month visibility container to avoid that problem, plus we have a programs inside WSU to help you build the habits you need to implement what you learn.

The absence of mindset and inner work. Because our curriculum delivery flows between personal development and strategy implementation, you'll continue to clear the inner saboteurs which would otherwise stop the outer work from happening. 

By taking such an approach, guess what happens? You're continually paving the way to more effectively implement what you're learning. 

Goodbye to procrasti-learning forever!

Here's the one thing I wish someone had told me when I first started building my business; 'Make time for visibility. Focus on building your list, on making sure people know what your business is all about, and that people know your name or the name of your brand.'

Everything would have been so. much. easier. if I'd done that. 

Not being visible wastes time. It wastes untold resources. It makes launches and selling more difficult than it needs to be and it leaves you on a treadmill of having to come up with new offerings to sell regularly to the small number of people who do know about you. 

It's not a sustainable way to build a business. 

We've deliberately given you a great deal of space, time, and choice inside the WSU curriculum so you can work it around your lifestyle. That's why you get 12 months access to the program.

And within that 12 month period, if you spend just 2 hours a week on the program, you'll see extraordinary results by the end of your year with us. 

In over a decade of working online, I literally have never known a better time to build an online business. Particularly if you're working in a field that challenges the status quo. Whether that's the wellbeing industry, teaching people to slow down and connect with their souls, and/or to think differently about their relationship with their bodies, their money, their careers, their lifestyle, or their health.

All of these things are right at the forefront of people's minds right now and more people are online than ever before. Which means it's the perfect time for you to speak up.

People are listening. If you don't speak up and attract their attention, someone else will. 

Me too! I'm a very private person who couldn't care less about fame. (As a child, when my friends would talk about becoming rich and famous, I'd always ask, 'Why bother being famous, when you can just be rich? Then you can have all the fun and no one will bother you.') 

Here's what I do care about though; getting my work out into the world. So I've developed strategies and approaches to promote my work without feeling like a Kardashian. I share all of these approaches inside WSU and would love to share them with you. 

I completely understand. As a businesswoman myself, I always want to make sure I'm making the right investments for my business. So, let's start here: 

1. Regular business masterminds usually start from $5000 and head northwards from there.
2. Therapy will usually sit in the 3 figure range per session and can last for years.... 

When you join Women Speaking Up you get the chance to heal your deepest wounds, including your karmic and ancestral wounds, AND you get the opportunity to mastermind and focus on the number 1 thing you need to master of you want to be a success in business; visibility. 

If you tried to buy all of those pieces individually, the price would be 5 or 10 times higher than what you pay to access Women Speaking Up. 

I regularly ask students how much they estimate visibility is costing them. Estimates range from $500 to $5000 a week.

(One woman recently told me it's costing her her soul. So let's go with priceless in that instance.)

The reality is, whether you choose to join us or not, you can't afford to ignore the issue of visibility if you run a business or are building an organisation or movement. 

Here's the way I assess the value of a program; I calculate the return on my investment. 

When it comes to WSU, if clearing your visibility blocks and developing and implementing a visibility strategy could bring in just one more client each month, or a handful more students in your next launch, you'd not only have an immediate return on investment, you'd actually be making money off the program!  

We've done everything we can to make WSU as value packed as possible. You get to decide whether the wisdom you have to share with the world is worth the investment. 

We host live calls at two different times to accommodate most timezones. 

The North American timezone friendly calls are held on Wednesday afternoons/evenings with a start time of somewhere between 3 and 5pm PST and 5pm and 8pm EST, depending on the time of the year.

For Australian/NZ/Asia Pacific members that's Thursday at 10am AEST. 

The European timezone friendly calls are held in your Thursday mornings, usually between 6 and 8am, depending on your location and the time of the year. We also hold occasional calls on Wednesday evenings your time.  

For Australian/NZ/Asia Pacific members that's Thursday afternoon in the main (with some 7am AEST calls).

We also record every live call so you can always watch the replays if you can't make the calls live. The replays are available within the membership site within 24-48 hours of the call (and often much earlier than that). 

I recommend setting aside 2 hours a week that's the most you'll need to get the most out of your time with us. 

We offer membership access rather than lifetime access to Women Speaking Up.

That means that you'll have access to everything for the duration of the time you're enrolled with us as a WSU student. 

The reason many digital programs offer you lifetime access is because there simply isn't the time to work through the content while the live components are being offered.

Rather than take that approach, we provide you with a visibility container for 12 months ensuring that you have sufficient time to work through as many of the resources as you feel you'll benefit from, while you're enrolled as a WSU member. 

We don't offer refunds for change of mind or change of life circumstances during your 12 month enrolment with us.

If however, within the first 7 days of your start date, you realise the program just isn't the right fit for you, we'll offer you a no questions asked refund.

No further refunds are available inside the program. For the full terms and conditions of the program, please click here.

Weekly! Each week you'll either have a chance to participate in a live call or join office hours with me for the entirety of your time in Women Speaking Up.

Women Speaking Up begins immediately upon enrolment.

No. We facilitate the entire program experience off social media. 

A year's worth of live workshops and office hours support (that's one live support opportunity each week).

Comprehensive digital resources housed in two hubs: expand your reach and embody your message. Each hub contains six projects for you to work through at your own pace and each projects includes visibility strategy and leadership development programs and courses, classes, challenges, worksheets and checklists. 

A private, supportive online community, a private podcast show and regular access to founder Samantha Nolan-Smith to ask questions and personalise the curriculum to your specific circumstances. 

Connecting via DMs is the quickest way to connect with us :) 

If you're keen to know more about the program or need to clarify whether you'd be a good fit, we're here to chat with you.

Simply connect with us on Instagram and we'll get back to you asap.