“It's always an option for you to want to do incredible things.”

–S.E. Martin

Not sure what’s next? I’m talking with writer S.E. Martin who has continued to evolve with the support of FLOW365.

Shauna’h went from career and mom with little kids to side hustles and travels in Spain to published author. It’s been amazing watching her evolve. We featured her books in our Romance Collection in Pause Magazine’s summer issue.

Shauna’h loves the structure and the container of FLOW, the rituals and routines that work for her even when life gets busy. She’s been with us since 2019 and finds the support and community continue to help her do incredible things.

We talk about:

• How support can help you not lose yourself in the now and look ahead to what you want
• The importance of learning to take care of yourself
• Why you can keep getting things out of FLOW as you evolve
• Making choices — what you can cut out to keep the things that really matter
• How FLOW’s Get It Done days help move projects forward and balance the things you need to do
• Getting overwhelmed trying to figure it all out yourself and how amazing the FLOW community is

ABOUT SHAUNA’H

Shauna’h writes under the pen name S.E. Martin. She is an enrolled member of the Mohawk Nation at Six Nations of the Grand River in Ohsweken, Ontario. She grew up in Niagara Falls, New York, and now lives in New England with her husband and children. She is the author of the Medicine Game series — contemporary sports romance rooted in Haudenosaunee culture and community.

LINKS

• https://mybook.to/MedicineGameSeries
• https://www.instagram.com/semartin_writer
• Get S.E. Martin’s hockey romance delivered to your inbox
• Pause Magazine, Issue 5
• FLOW365

“The Oracle cards are simply a method for spirit, God source, or your spirit team or a loved one to speak to you.”

–Patty Lennon

From corporate to business coach to spiritual guide — Patty Lennon takes us on a wild ride and shows what happens when you really listen to your intuition and guides.

Patty Lennon is the resident oracle expert for Pause Magazine. She does a card pull for each issue and helps teach readers how to use Oracle cards in their lives.

Patty explains how she got here, what Spirit means to her, how Oracle cards are like a telephone. Then we dive deep into using the cards

We talk about:

• Following what you are good at and what people need — and how sometimes that isn’t your way
• Why Oracle cards are tool that helps get your brain involved
• The patterns that can emerge when you pull cards day after day
• The kinds of questions to bring to the cards
• How to deal with a message you don’t like and how to use an explainer card
• Getting ready to pull a card

ABOUT PATTY

Patty Lennon, a former type-A corporate banker who discovered there was more to life than making money, is the best-selling author, keynote speaker, certified coach, and founder of The Receiving School®. She’s the resident oracle expert of Pause Magazine.

LINKS

• Make Space for Magic Book
• https://www.pattylennon.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/pattylennon/
• https://www.youtube.com/@PattyLennon
• Pause Magazine: Issue 5
• https://plansimple.com/let-go-and-receive-with-patty-lennon/
• https://plansimple.com/trust-your-calendar-with-patty-lennon/

DOABLE CHANGES

At the end of every episode, we share three doable changes, so you can take what you've heard and put it into action. Action is where change happens.

Even though we want big change, it’s really little things done over and over that make the difference. So pick a doable thing. Put it in your calendar. Weave it through your days for a week and then move on to the next one. It will have a snowball effect.

Here are three Doable Changes from this conversation:

• ENGAGE WITH A CARD. Let the image speak to you first. Notice what draws your attention, what emotions arise, what feels familiar or surprising. After receiving that, then turn to the guidebook message connected to the card.
• PULL A CARD FOR 14 DAYS. What happens when you pull a card for 2 weeks straight? (Or longer?) Pull a card every day and see what emerges over time.
• FOLLOW UP TO A CARD YOU DON’T LIKE. Ask for help understanding the card that upsets you. You can put the card aside and come back to it the next day. Or you can pull an explainer card from a different deck and see what that opens up for you.

“Real conversations lead to opportunities and opportunities lead to sales.”

–Sue B. Zimmerman

You can’t outsource conversations. Sue B. Zimmerman, specialist in intentional online marketing and simplifying social media strategy believes Instagram conversations are great for business.

It’s about building trust and engaging in conversations, but that doesn’t have to take hours. Sue shows us how social media can feel less like a thing you should do and more like a thing you enjoy that leads to opportunities which lead to sales.

We talk about:

• How each feature on Instagram is an opportunity to show up in a unique way
• The benefits of a live instead of a video and how to build trust with video
• A time breakdown for creating social content and fitting it into pockets in your day
• How to use strategic commenting to engage with people
• Tagging leads in DMs and responding to everything
• Sharing things that are entertaining while making sure there’s a clear connection to your business

ABOUT SUE

Sue B. Zimmerman is a lifelong entrepreneur, relationship-driven sales mentor, and sought-after online marketing educator with more than 30 years of business experience. Known for her no-BS teaching style and ability to simplify social media strategy, Sue has privately coached hundreds of entrepreneurs to grow their visibility, confidence, and revenue through authentic connection and intentional online marketing.

LINKS

• suebzimmerman.com
• https://learnwithsbz.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/suebzimmerman/?hl=en
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/suebzimmerman/
• https://www.facebook.com/SuebZimmermanEnterprise/
• Pause Magazine, Issue 5

DOABLE CHANGES

At the end of every episode, we share three doable changes, so you can take what you've heard and put it into action. Change comes from action.

Doable changes are things that you can add into your life, one at a time to make micro shifts and really create a ripple effect that will create a big change over time. Choose one that really piques your interest and roll with it.

Here are three Doable Changes from this conversation:

• 15 MINUTE CHALLENGE. Spending too much time creating social? Set a timer for 15 minutes. Use that time to create your post. A tip from the magazine: Your life is the content. Ask yourself: What in my life today connects to what my audience needs?
• TIME GAP COMMENTING. You can schedule 15 minutes to go in and comment strategically, but you can also try using those little gaps of time — while waiting in line or between calls. Comment strategically on complimentary accounts. Get involved in the conversation.
• TRY GOING LIVE. Going live has a different energy than you talking to your phone for a video. Even if you aren’t that used to being in front of the camera, you can learn to be more comfortable. And video builds trust.

“The more I've worked with the dead, the more my life has blossomed.”

–Perdita Finn

Our ancestors didn’t have money and grocery stores and medicines … they had their ancestors. We do too. I’m so excited to talk with Perdita Finn, the author of Mothers of Magic, about tapping into all the mothers on the other side.

Perdita wrote about what it meant to be a mother before patriarchy, what has happened to our idea of being a mother within civilization — and what it might look like to imagine the mother beyond it.

Mothering and how you’ve been mothered takes up more space than many of us even realize in its different iterations, so this conversation feels powerful.

We talk about:

• Human history as wanderers and what changed when we began settling
• The erasure of the grandmother and the war on young women
• Why one mother is not enough (you’re not supposed to be)
• The deep roots of why women’s friendships feel fraught
• Feeling held by love on both sides of the veil
• Fretting and handing over your worries

ABOUT PERDITA

Perdita Finn — writer, woodwife, witch — is the author of Mothers of Magic.

LINKS

• https://takebackthemagic.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/perditafinn/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/perdita-finn-12764224/
• Pause Magazine, Issue 5

DOABLE CHANGES

At the end of every episode, we share three doable changes, so you can take what you've heard and put it into action. Change comes from action.

Sometimes action gets a bad rap. You can be kind to yourself. You can practice being AND doing, but for change to happen you have to take steps. The way we take care of ourselves is making the steps doable and focusing on one thing at a time. We take time to integrate the change and then move on to the next one. Pick a Doable Change that resonates with you the most to start from.

Here are three Doable changes that we chose from this conversation.

• CREATE A FRETTING PRACTICE. It’s okay to feel your worries and not silence them. Try naming your worries and handing each over to an ancestor. How does it feel when you do this every morning for a week?
• CALL ON GRANDMOTHER ANCESTORS. We were not meant to mother alone. We hear that sometimes but do you believe it? One mother is not enough. What happens when you call upon your mother, grandmothers, generations before to help you in your own mothering or in your need to be mothered?
• SEEK WISDOM FROM LIVING GRANDMOTHERS. Who do you know who embodies grandmother energy. Take them to tea. Ask them lots of questions. Bring what you are sitting with and get an elder’s perspective.

What if the reason follow-through feels so hard isn’t the task itself—but how lonely it feels to become someone new?

In the final episode of this three-part series, I’m sharing what feminine follow-through really looks like: coming back into balance, remembering what matters to your future self, taking the next loving step, and getting the support you need.

I’ll share why a village matters, how support helped one FLOW365 member keep growing her business during a demanding season at home, and how this process has helped me continue creating through one of the most challenging years of my life.

We were never meant to hold the dream, make the plan, and follow through on it all alone.

Learn more about FLOW365 or book a call with me at https://plansimple.com/flow365.

What happens when you have meaningful work to share, but resistance keeps getting in the way of putting it into the world?

When Cathy Towle joined FLOW365, she was trying to grow her work as a shaman, medium, and spiritual entrepreneur. She had decades of experience, deep wisdom, and plenty of business knowledge, but she was struggling to translate it all into consistent action.

In this conversation, Cathy shares how planning, accountability, and being supported inside a community helped her move forward without forcing herself to follow someone else’s formula.

As she kept showing up, imperfectly, her resistance began to soften. She filled her private practice, created systems that made her business easier to run, found clearer language for her work, and made more room for creativity, health, family, and the rest of her life.

We talk about:

• Why experienced women can still feel like beginners in a new season
• The relationship between willingness, imperfect action, and momentum
• How structure can support intuitive and creative work
• Why we need a container that allows us to be honest about where we’re stuck
• Growing a business while navigating caregiving and real life
• What becomes possible when you stop trying to do it perfectly

This is a conversation about trusting yourself, allowing your path to unfold, and finding a way of planning and following through that actually feels like your own.

Interested in FLOW365? Learn more at https://plansimple.com/flow365

Quick Wednesday, extra episode on why I'm so passionate about the concept of a village. And how both a range of women and small intimate groups help with followthrough.

In this episode, I’m talking with FLOW365 member Thuy about building a business that honors her health, creativity, spirituality, and life as a mother.

Thuy’s business has taken many forms, from spray tanning and teeth whitening to face reading, space clearing, and tea ceremonies. Instead of forcing herself to choose one perfect path, she is learning how to bring all the pieces together while focusing on the actions that create income now.

We talk about why rest is power, how slowing down can help you move faster, and what happens when you create spaciousness without losing momentum. Thuy also shares how planning, community, and loving accountability have helped her stop spiraling, trust her intuition, take massive action, and build a rich life alongside a growing business.

This conversation is a beautiful reminder that your health and lifestyle do not have to compete with your ambition. Sometimes they are the very things that make your next level possible.

If this peaks your interest about FLOW365, let's talk: https://plansimple.com/flow365