I decided to join the Disobedient Business® Mastermind because quite frankly, being in business on your own can be rather lonely. And I was looking for a group of like-minded individuals that I could share the highs and the lows and the ins and the outs of running my business my way. I'm doing things the way that I want to do it. And, yeah, I definitely found that crew with the Disobedient Business® Mastermind this year.

I was nervous about a new group of people. There were a lot of individuals in the group who I had never met or spoken to before and I had no idea how we would get on and how we would gel and how I might feel, you know, some of them very well established in their business, compared to where I'm at with my journey and my business. But it turned out that I had no need to worry about that. They were an absolutely lovely bunch, as you might expect with Pippa being at the helm of us all. So, yeah, it was no need to be worried about that at all.

I think my favourite part of the disobedient business mastermind has been all of the guest speakers and workshops. It's just been really enlightening, really insightful to hear from people from all walks of life running all types of businesses and doing so, disobediently and how they kind of applied their way of doing things to their business, it was really inspirational. Also found inspiration from my fellow Disobedient Business® Masterminders, hearing from them on a weekly basis and what they were doing on how they were smashing things was really inspirational too

I think the changes that I've made in my business are, well, I think it was more about the fact that I felt like I'd been given a permission slip to run my business disobediently. That's been my biggest takeaway. So I have wanted to do things differently and, you know, not really enjoyed seeing the way that people were selling and marketing and running their businesses and I didn't want to be like them and do it the same, but I didn't really know how to do it differently. And it turns out that I can just be me and then that's going to be OK, because there's a whole bunch of us out there who feel the same!

I'd recommend the Disobedient Business® Mastermind because it was really such an enlightening experience for me to just understand that there is another way to do things. If you're sitting on the fence and not sure whether to join, if you wake up every day and think there must be a different way to do this, because that's how I felt, then I can assure you that there is a different way to do things and you can explore those different ways with no judgement and lots and lots of love and support from your fellow Disobedient Business® Masterminders.

So I joined the business mastermind because, I guess I thought it's very easy to say I want to do business differently, but actually quite hard to put it into practise so that it feels like it's lived and sustainable. And I just felt that anything offered by Pippa would be real and genuine and get to the nitty gritty and that I would actually be able to nail all aspects of my disobedient business.

I did have one or two queries. I guess before I started the course, of course, you always think will it really be disobedient, or will we just be paying lip service? And will it really be, just a little bit of a deviation from the norm? I needn't have worried about that. It really has been disobedient. What else will it the value for money? Well, I like the people will be a lot of tosspots on it. Um, and there weren't they were all lovely, no tosspots at all.

My favourite bit of the whole programme was the group, the group of people that I was with. It was marvellous, serendipitous. We had some fantastic conversations. There was always great participation and energy for everything. No matter what we were doing, we all learned loads from each other and I don't think I've ever been in a group that where there was such high levels of trust, acceptance and compassion from people who didn't know each other.

What changes have I made to my business? I've just got all my ducks in a row, really, you know. Sorted out what my vision and values actually were and then looked at how they manifest in what I actually do. So, how I price, how I market, how we define success, how I show up, how I planned for the future. Just a holistic blueprint for how I want my business to work. Um, yeah at all levels really.

Why would I recommend recommend the DBM to people who might be thinking of joining? I just think you'll really interrogate what it means to do things disobediently at all levels. It's just so, so thorough, far more thorough than I ever imagined it would be. Um, you get both variety, but also great consistency. Week in, week out. It's just a very professionally run container for human flourishing, really. And the sum is greater than all the parts. Um, great value. It was great value for money.

I decided to join the Disobedient Business Mastermind because I felt I wanted support with my very new beginnings of my coaching practise working with midlife women around self belief. And I really wanted a supportive community of other humans who are running their own businesses as well, plus the support of a really solid business coach (that's Pippa), so that was my main reason.

I wasn't really hesitant about anything before joining the mastermind, I knew Pippa because I had a coffee chat with her online a couple of years ago and I followed her on social media, so I knew she was really sound & really fun. And, of course, the disobedient bit really appealed. And I knew she'd surround yourself with some really great clients in the mastermind. I suppose the one thing I was slightly hesitant about and this is the same with joining any kind of new group of people is whether I felt I would belong. But to be honest, I was welcome from day one, and I've always felt I could be completely myself.

That's a hard question, what's been my most favorite part of the mastermind? Everything, of course, everything! Really, really appreciate the regular hot seat coaching and the discussions we have and also our guests have been absolutely superb and also the support in the Facebook group and on Voxer with Pippa. I did also sign up for the extra 1 to 1 additional coaching, which has been absolutely amazing as well and a really great addition to the mastermind.

I think the biggest changes are actually getting stuff done and really, really focusing on what's important. I spent ages, in fact, my website is still not quite ready, but hopefully this week, getting kind of sidetracked by the smaller things, when really Pippa helped me and the group helped me to see that the most important thing was getting myself in front of people and having conversations with them, being a very, very early stage business. So yeah, focus on actually achieving what I want to achieve.

I would recommend the disobedient business mastermind to anyone who felt that their disobedient I they want to do business a little bit differently. Um, one of the absolutely amazing things about the mastermind is the fact that we all have quite similar values. And we're really all trying to smash the patriarchy capitalist, racist, white supremacist, everything else East society. And Pippa does that really, really well. She's extremely inclusive, and, um, she's just great fun to work with. And the people in the mastermind have been absolutely 100% supportive and fun too!

So I decided to join the Disobedient Business Mastermind because I knew I needed support to actually get stuff done in my business. Um, and I wanted a place where I knew I was going to feel at home where I could be comfortable. Sometimes I have some quite, I feel, radical ideas about what I'm doing in my business and I knew I needed people to cheer me on rather than pick holes in that. Um, and it was important that I was around people that genuinely were working to make the world a better place, and really walking that walk, um and it really felt like Pippa had created exactly that, um, and it was it just felt like a really lovely place for me to join.
 
I think the thing I was most nervous about before joining was um the investment. It was the biggest amount of money I'd ever spent on my business. To um my accountant husband, seemed like a really big, perhaps indulgent expense. But actually, it's proved to be one of the most sensible things i've ever done for my business um and it has genuinely had a huge impact on how I feel about how I structure my services and how I charge for my services, and it's given me such a confidence boost that um, that alone has been worth its absolute weight in gold.
 
Oh it's really tricky to pick out my favourite part of the Mastermind, um because, like genuinely, I've absolutely loved all of it. I think like the guest workshop. Certainly the calibre and expertise of the people that Pippa's brought in has been amazing, um but also then the reflection of the group and just being around like the most amazing people has just been absolutely wonderful. Plus, I also really love the Voxer hours because to pester Pippa with questions, and it's just been such a helpful, helpful thing for me to get untangled and move forward.
 
There's so much to say for what kind of key takeaways I have, um so I'll try and cram it in. But I think the confidence and the conviction that I can do business in the way that I want to has been a huge thing. Um, I'm really understanding where my superpower is and kind of giving myself permission to be who I want to be in my business and to do things in the way that I want to, um in the way that I know works best for me, but also that does amazing things for my clients. That, and just knowing that I can do that, has just been absolutely huge.
 
What would I say to someone sitting on the fence? Well, um, it's absolutely a place for you if you know that you want people to challenge you and, um, not let you get away with your own bullshit and to help you figure out all the knots in your head that is stopping you from. And I don't want to say stepping into your power because that sounds so annoying but genuinely getting you to step into your awesome-est self and know deep down that the work that you're doing is amazing. If you want someone to just pat you on the back and tell you exactly what to do, that's not going to happen.

I decided to join the Disobedient Business Mastermind after spending a fair bit of time waffling in indecision around whether I wanted to become fully self employed. A majority of the conversations that I was hearing and learning from about being an entrepreneur, we're really just icky. They didn't align with my personal values, but when I finally matched up with Pippa and started following her and paying a close attention to the conversation she was hosting and leading, I figured out that, yeah, I could I can do business differently. There's this group of folks that are doing this, and these are the folks that I want to learn from and be in a conversation with.

I will definitely admit that at the start of the mastermind, I was really grappling with feeling challenged by the idea of investing in myself, spending both time and money in being able to get myself where I wanted to be, in being self employed. But after a few months it didn't take long at all with a couple of coaching sessions and guided calls, those concerns kind of melted away and very quickly transitioned into, "this is the best money I've ever spent". "This is the best way I could have spent this time". So overall, I'm glad that I stepped up to the plate, even though those insecurities were there and made the jump to join the mastermind.

My favorite thing about the mastermind is maybe two things that kind of correlate and that one is that it is a very organically structured kind of ongoing conversation where the themes and conversations that we have are co developed by the group, kind of that the current moment allows us a lot of flexibility. And also with that because it's a small group, because it's not a course where there's a set protocol or curriculum, you're able to show up and have those individualised, personalised Aha moments, which makes the mastermind just so wonderfully nourishing.

Before joining the mastermind, I felt pretty icky around selling. I don't think this is like unique to me, but I felt very, you know, misaligned with the idea of pulling on pain points. I wasn't sure how to name prices. I felt pretty uncertain every time I was asked to provide a quote. But now I feel much more confident and grounded and being able to articulate the value of the services that I provide, being able to connect and have authentic, grounded conversations with potential clients and transition them into paying clients at a price point that feels great for me and for them. So this has made a world of difference.

What really sets this mastermind apart is that it allows you to show up as you, it doesn't ask you to compromise and put parts of yourself on a shelf or in a box. It honors kind of the full complexities of who we are, as humans, as someone who is neurodivergent and gender nonconforming, I've really found that so much of the advice out there not only is it not helpful to me, but a lot of the times it can even be harmful to me to try to implement. And so within the mastermind, I've been able to be really honest about what my needs and my goals and my capacities are so that I can build kind of holistic systems that will continue to support me as my business continues to grow.