Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall

#216: Bringing your small business into web3

I believe that ​​our education systems and how our society is structured traps us. We are taught to fit within a mold so that we are ‘employable’ and can hopefully find a job that allows us enough pay to live comfortably and gives us a few weeks off a year. ⁣   ⁣ Yet inflation is skyrocketing, the cost of living is outrageous and people feel disconnected from things that genuinely make them come alive. ⁣ ⁣ We need change. ⁣   I know for many of you reading this, you feel that w...

#215: Anticipation vs reality is never the same

Have you ever found yourself anxiously anticipating something? Maybe it’s small like a task you need to complete or maybe it’s a large goal that requires you to push big-time out of your comfort zone. No matter the gap between where you are now and where you want to be, anxiety, fear, doubt, all exist primarily in the anticipation of something- not the act of it. Why is that? It’s mostly because when we’re in the act of doing something we’re present and in action mode - which leaves litt...

#214: Self sovereignty is connected to community care

If you’re on social media and work in the space of  entrepreneurship and/or spirituality you’ve most likely heard the term self sovereign over the past few years.    I wanted to dive a little deeper into what I feel it means and why it is directly connected to community care - because sometimes when I hear people use it, it just comes off as inherently selfish and not empowering at all.    Self sovereignty and community care are highly interconnected. The more empowering and expansiv...

#213: Becoming the person who accomplishes your wildest dreams

#212: Crypto is more than money: web3 + you could change the world

I believe that ​​our education systems and how our society is structured traps us. We are taught to fit within a mold so that we are ‘employable’ and can hopefully find a job that allows us enough pay to live comfortably and gives us a few weeks off a year. ⁣   ⁣ Yet inflation is skyrocketing, the cost of living is outrageous and people feel disconnected from things that genuinely make them come alive. ⁣ ⁣ We need change. ⁣   I know for many of you reading this, you feel that w...

#211: Stuck in the inbetween

#210: Intro To The Fundamentals Of Web3

I am getting a lot of people in my dms saying they are very interested in learning more about web3 - blockchain - nfts - crypto, but have no idea where to start.  They are telling me they grasp that there is potential in this emerging space but truly do not understand most of it.  If you fall into this category, that is totally okay and let me tell you why. You do not need to understand on a fundamental level how this technology works, you only need to know how to use it.  Most of you ...

209: NFTS on Instagram and other web3 things coming

  A few weeks ago IG announced it was beta testing integrating NFTs onto its platform and so far things are going well.  Youtube, Meta (aka facebook), Amazon, Shopify, Stripe and other content hosting platforms and commerce based businesses now officially all have web3 teams who are using, building, and integrating blockchain technology.    What the heck does this mean?!   It means that many of the platforms, applications and tools we use in our businesses are taking web3 seriousl...

#209: NFTS on Instagram and other web3 things coming

  A few weeks ago IG announced it was beta testing integrating NFTs onto its platform and so far things are going well.  Youtube, Meta (aka facebook), Amazon, Shopify, Stripe and other content hosting platforms and commerce based businesses now officially all have web3 teams who are using, building, and integrating blockchain technology.    What the heck does this mean?!   It means that many of the platforms, applications and tools we use in our businesses are taking web3 seriously ...

#208:There is no future ‘you’…

It is very common for us to view ourselves as 3 separate people. There is our past self, our current self, and our future self. The reality though is there is only one us.    This isn’t to say we stay the same, we know we are constantly changing. What I mean though, is that without changing something today, nothing will change in the future - except that time itself has passed.    Sometimes by thinking our future self will somehow be more equipped, more motivated, more responsible th...

#207: You Are Not In a Race.

Many of us can feel as though we’re in a race to reach ‘the finish line’ in our business and lives. We look to those around us to determine if we’re ahead or behind and this can create a sense of urgency. The reality is that we aren’t actually in a race, we will most likely never feel like we ‘crossed the finish line’ and we aren’t competing with anyone either.    When this feeling is used in a healthy way to motivate us it can be motivating, however many of us use it to stress ourselves...

#206: You have the choice + the responsibility to build in a meaningful way

Have you ever found yourself working countless hours on something only to realize that you want to throw it away? Not because you don’t love the overarching thing you created, but because you feel so burnt out by the process and the idea of doing it again makes your heart sink. Sometimes how we build something affects our ability to do it long term. One of the most important things we can do, that most people struggle with, is creating systems that align with who we are and how we thrive...

#205: Becoming Who You Admire is Not Always What You Think it Is.

#204: Becoming Who You Admire is Not Always What You Think it Is.

#204: Changing the content creator economy - social tokens, NFTs and more.

What if you could build out your content and business in a way that rewarded you AND your audience economically? With blockchain technology you can.   Technology has always had a huge impact on how businesses interacted with their audiences. Email, social media, youtube etc have all shifted the relationship between us and our customers over the last 15 years. Believe it or not, there was a time when people did not understand why they would need a website, or email address and why they wo...

#203: You Don't Need Social Media, It Actually Needs you.

How many times have you spent countless hours of your life stressing out about social media and having to learn something new, yet again, in order to keep up with its changing rules of engagement?   Since starting my coaching business about 6 years ago I feel like I have whiplash from having to learn something, create a new strategy around it, only to have it need to change within 6 months.    The reality is that running a successful business using social media requires us to be very...

#202: What a DAO is and why it might transform business…

What if there was a way to retain the autonomy, creativity, freedom and innovation of entrepreneurship, but also have the community, structure and support of others that we sometimes miss when running a business by ourselves?   This is what has me so intrigued with DAOs - decentralized, autonomous, organizations. Think of a startup business meeting a community driven project, meeting a bunch of self motivated people coming together to share resources to make money and achieve a goal.  ...

#201: WTF is the metaverse?

The very first thing I need to make clear when talking about the metaverse, is that it is NOT owned by Facebook, nor are people that interested in what Facebook is building. Why?  Because most people in the web3 space, myself included, are most interested in decentralization. Meaning no one person, government, entity or company has full control or ownership.  The other reality is that we already live in the metaverse. I am writing this while in Rio, Brazil, and you will read it wherever ...

#200: Power isn’t freedom and sometimes it can actually be a trap…..

Many people (myself included) pursue the illusion of power, because under the surface what we desire is freedom and we think this is the only way to get it.    The only way I can be free is to have so much power, that no one can have authority (ie control) over me. Because we live in a world of haves and have nots, I need more power, money, status and things than other people to ensure I am one of the ‘haves’, someone at the top of the pecking order. *(having power and being empowered ar...

199: Can blockchain technology change the world?

There is so much (and this seems common unfortunately) going on in the world right now that can make us feel overwhelmed.    I’ve been in many conversations with people asking ‘is there any hope of changing these systems’ and while all I have is my own opinion, I believe decentralization (which is KEY) and blockchain technology has the power to change the world.    I recently got back from ETHdenver, which is a conference dedicated to ecosystem of blockchain technologies that align w...

#198: The possibilities of web3 with Sierra Renee

I understand the resistance to learning new things. Which is why I want to sprinkle in little bits of here and there, because it adds up over time.    I truly feel this space of crypto/nft/web3 is going to change the world faster (but still over the course of a decade +) than anything else in modern history. We’re still so early in its creation, which is why I want more good hearted, visionary people inside of it.    As entrepreneurs, it’s an easier bridge over into this new territor...

#197: Using mindfulness as a tool in your business

We live in a world that is constantly grasping for our time, attention, energy, money and resources. This means that more than ever, we need to know how to support ourselves, regulate our emotions and practice mindfulness in our daily lives.   There are a lot of shoulda, woulda, coulda moments that could have been avoided if we had slowed down, and brought awareness to what we were experiencing, thinking and feeling and how this was impacting our decisions.    I don’t know about you,...

#196: My secret to entrepreneurship

I know there are so many ‘secret’ weapons out there when it comes to business, but here me out!  This is one that I believe also deeply serves us in all aspects of our lives - It is the ability to remain open.  We live in a world where it is extremely easy for us to close ourselves off - to getting help, to believing in ourselves, to taking risks, to learning, to believing that things can change, to hearing competing points of view, to respecting someone even when we don’t agree with the...

#195: NFTs, Web3 and the future of entrepreneurship.

I know how much it can suck having to learn a bunch of new things, especially technology, in a world where it feels that just as we’ve grasped one thing, something new comes along.  Please know, that you can ALWAYS opt to not adopt new technology, and that is totally okay. I also know that sometimes it's easier for us to grasp and learn, than we give ourselves credit for.  Maybe you have heard about NFTs and web3 and maybe you haven’t. Either is fine, it’s all so new, think the first min...

#194: Entrepreneurship is About Being Non-Binary

We are never just one thing in life, and the same is true in the space of entrepreneurship.    We’ve come to understand being non-binary in relation to gender. I feel it can help us better support ourselves and flourish in ways that are far beyond gender identity.    When we view ourselves, our ideas, our lives, our hopes and dreams and these multidimensional, beautiful complex works of art, we realize we aren’t meant to fit into tiny neat little boxes.    We understand that lang...

#193: The ultimate productivity hack (and it’s very fun!)

First off I hope you had a lovely holiday season and were able to get whatever it is that you look for from that time of the year.  I wanted to start off the new year by tackling the concept of productivity. NOT because I think we need to focus on being ultra productive, but because focusing on the right kind of productivity can actually liberate us, fulfill us AND create more ease in accomplishing our big goals. How do we do this you ask?  By refraining how we view productivity, tunin...

#192: Seeking safety + security might be ruining you....

One of the main things drilled into us throughout our lives is that we need to ‘obtain’ safety + security, through a series of events.    A good stable paying job with benefits, saving for retirement, marriage, a house, kids, and other forms of social and material status. If you ‘achieve’ these you’ve done something right… but have you?    Safety and security truly cannot come from something outside of us (a job, a relationship, money), because by its very nature it's meant to actual...

#191: You are not your mistakes

Want to know one of the main reasons we don’t accomplish the things we desire?  It isn’t because we don’t work hard enough, or have what it takes….. It’s because we feel that we are our mistakes, our shortcomings, what we lack, and because of that have a hard time tapping into our inherent goodness.  Believe it or not, we are SO MUCH MORE than what we feel holds us back. It doesn't matter how much ‘proof’(aka the bad stuff you constantly run through your head) you have, you are inheren...

#190: No one is self made, so why do we try to do it all by ourselves?

Hey!   How do you feel about the concept of being self made?    We often think of it in terms of money and access to wealth and early mentorship, but the narrative around it can be harmful.   In reality no one is self made, not even the people we think are, because we’re all products of those around us. We need mentors, community, people who help us problem solve or do things we’re unable to do. Collaboration is a key ingredient in success.    So my question to you is, do you...

#189: Why are we so afraid of failing?

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where your fear of failure has actually prevented you from doing something?  If there is one thing I’ve learnt over the years, it’s that our fear of failure harms our ability to live the life we desire more than anything else. Fear causes us to feel shame, and shame ultimately traps us.  The thing is though, failure doesn’t really exist, not in the ways we think it does at least. If anything it's simply a moment or state of being that we move t...

#188: The difference between membership and genuine belonging

It is human nature to want to belong, but when does our desire to fit in come at an expense that might be too high for us to pay?   Often fitting in is a lot more about membership - checking off certain criteria that creates exclusivity over genuine belonging.    However we want to take time to understand the difference between the two, because genuinely belonging is what we desire, and membership doesn’t give us that. Yet we often think that membership = belonging and therefore we’r...

#187: What does ‘living a good life’ mean?

If I were to ask you what a good life meant to you, how would you answer that question? And after answering it, would you be able to say yes, you are in fact living that life?    If you’re anything like me, these last fews years have really left me contemplating what it means to ‘live a good life’.    I have come to realize that certain ways I’d answer that question aren’t really me, but the conditioned response I’ve been taught to believe were things I wanted for my life. That, that...

#186: Where we go wrong with goal setting

Goal setting is such a prevalent concept in our society, yet a lot of us can get it wrong.   Now ‘getting it wrong’ isn’t to imply that you’re not meeting some arbitrary expectation, but to say that sometimes our goals don’t align with our values, intentions or how we actually want to live.    We can use ‘goals’ as our guiding force in life, but sometimes those goals are leading us away from what we actually want.    Taking the time to figure out what your guiding principles for ...

#185: Stop personalizing your mishaps

Have you ever found yourself face to face with some kind of resistance or obstacle in your life and immediately blamed yourself for it?    If you’re human I am going to guess the answer is yes, because we’ve all been there. We’ve all faced resistance in our business and lives and instead of compassionately reminding ourselves this is a normal part of the process, we blame ourselves for it.    We will list off our reasons as to why we aren’t good enough and why we were dumb for ever t...

#185: Stop personalizing your mishaps

#184: Are your dreams actually just cookie cutter dreams?

Have you ever stopped and asked yourself if your hopes, dreams and goals for the future are actually yours?    When we buy a picture frame, it often comes with a stock image holder that's meant to be replaced.   Sometimes I feel the same is true for our lives. We get handed this life and we’re told we can fill it however we want, but that we forget to take that placeholder image out and end up creating goals for ourselves based on the placeholder - not necessarily what we deeply desi...

#183: Maybe you're just lazy?

Hey!    The term lazy is definitely something that haunts a lot of us, especially entrepreneurs. There can be alot of shame, self judgement and frustration that washes over us when we think we’re being ‘lazy’.    However, we need rest and I’ll be the first to admit - I love being ‘lazy. Maybe it’s because I’m a taurus and we are notorious for wanting to chill, or maybe it’s because I know we’re not machines and therefore are very deserving (without having to earn it) of rest.    ...

#182: Stop chasing the white rabbit of social media trends…

If you are anything like me, everytime a new social media platform or ‘must do to grow you business’ feature comes out, you might find yourself doing a familiar dance of ‘do I, don’t I’.    It’s easy to fall down the rabbit hole of keeping up with the Joneses when it comes to social media trends, platforms, and the do and don’ts that are always changing.    What we need to learn is how to master the art of letting go. Letting go of the feeling that we need to pivot and change every t...

#181: Limiting beliefs getting you down? How I worked through mine when I first started my business...

We’ve all been there... that eternal battle of what you desire and your limiting beliefs going head to head.    One of the most frustrating things about being human is genuinely how we can struggle to get over what feels like our own self imposed hurdles and roadblocks.    Please know though, that we all have them - nothing is wrong with you.    One concept that has really helped me over the years is that whenever I find myself spiraling in a pool of my own insecurities, doubt, a...

#180: Why you should listen to that pull to change

Have you been feeling this pull (or maybe a push) to change things up?    Whether that be starting a new routine, creating a new offer, shifting how you do things in your business or even starting something new altogether, fall often brings a feeling of wanting something fresh.    What we need to learn is to listen to that pull, as it is our intuition guiding us in the direction we need to be moving in.   Even if some of this change might mean starting something new or starting o...

#179: Your lack of motivation… is it you, is it your business, is it something else?

Have you been feeling a little ‘meh’ lately?    If you have been, you’re not alone. Lots of people I have been chatting with have been feeling the same.    While there are many different factors that play into our energy and engagement levels, a few I wanted to highlight today are comparable to relationship advice we routinely hear.    You’re going to have a honeymoon stage in your business and at some point, like every relationship, the mundane will start to kick in. Now this do...

#178: Integration - how to put what we learn into practice

Throughout the course of our lives we change many times. As life ebbs and flows, so do we.    One thing I know to be true is that sometimes creating that change we desire can be hard. Not because we aren’t capable, but because integrating new ways of being and living can come with its handful of challenges.    The key to integrating lessons, insights, and desired ways of being in a sustainable way into our lives all comes down to creating the right containers, and routines to let the...

#177: What happens when you let go of the thing you’re the most afraid of losing?

Have you ever had that moment where you realize you need to let something or someone who's been a pillar of your life, go?    There will always come moments in life when we need to let some part of ourselves that is connected to something else go, in order to make space for what's next.    It is scary, but also full of so much opportunity.    Nothing, or no one makes up the sum total of who we are, the value we bring into this world and what makes us who we are. That is what we n...

#176: Why we don’t have the same goals...

A phrase we hear often in the spiritual and entrepreneurial world, is to do ‘what is in alignment with you’. I am all for living and running an aligned business and life AND I am aware that those things will never look the exact same for two people.    We are similar and yet so vastly different, of course my goals and how I achieve them and your goals, and how you achieve them are most likely going to be different. That is exactly how it should be. We aren’t created in the same way, we d...

#175: Are you stuck performing?

A lot of people are starting to reintegrate back into the world, which means that we’re starting to feel the strain of obligation creep up on us again.    Something that I have observed is that a lot of people are realizing that they feel out of alignment with some of those obligations and expectations to go back to.    There might be resistance in how you go about conducting business, spending time with particular people, dressing a certain way, or having to do certain activities. N...

#174: Let's talk about conflict...

I would say that one of the things the vast majority of people try to avoid in their lives is conflict.    It sucks, it takes up a lot of energy, it causes us anxiety and all around isn’t fun.    However, conflict really is an unavoidable reality of life, and entrepresigp. You can be the kindest, calmest, most on top of everything person with the greatest of intentions and someone at some point will still have an issue with something you said, something you did (or didn’t do), or how...

# 173: Why Sometimes People Don't Support Us in The Ways We Want

Have you ever wanted people closest to you, whether that be your friends, family, or partner, to support you more when it comes to your business?    One question I get asked often is how to get people around you on board with your entrepreneurial goals and one thing I have realized is that sometimes it might take a bit of time to do that.    This isn’t because these people don’t care about us, or don’t want to see us succeed, it really just comes down to the fact that they don’t unde...

#172: You Are Not a Machine, So Stop Expecting Yourself to Operate Like One

Are you struggling to figure out what offer to launch?   Or what business to start? What career to build? What opportunity to pursue?   I hear this so often from many of my clients. They want to express themselves in so many ways, that in our one-dimensional definition of success, they start questioning their ambition for more than one passion.   We are constantly evolving beings. From the books we read, to the people we spend time with, and even how we take our coffee can change...

#171: 3 Ways to Get Through a Slump

Last week we talked about how transformation can feel like failure. Especially when we’re in the middle of a big project, everything is looking more messy in the middle and overwhelming us. This week, I want to go even deeper in this. What happens when you find yourself in this “slump”? Think of this week’s episode as my pep talk to help you climb out of it. When I’m in a slump, the support I always reach for is shifting my perspective, grace and compassion, and getting support. There ...

#170; Why Transformation Can Feel Like Failure

I’ve been having so many conversations with my clients and within The Lighthouse Collective when it comes to transformation. Many of us are finding ourselves in this energetic space of change and kind of knowing where we’re going without actually knowing where we’re going.   If you’re in this space, and even if you’re not, I recorded this week’s podcast episode with you in mind.   It reminded me of all the caterpillars we’re currently seeing here in Ottawa. What I recently learned ab...