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Content Empire Builders
Hosted by Hailey Dale · EN
Welcome to Content Empire Builders, where we talk about building a business that scales through strategic content, sustainable systems and lifestyle-first business model design.
If you're a coach, course creator or service provider ready to scale (but not at all costs), you're in the right place. We're ditching the hustle culture and building content empires that support both ambitious revenue goals and your actual life.
Start your week fresh with new episodes on Mondays full of steal-worthy strategies, systems and real talk about what it actually takes to grow.
If you're a coach, course creator or service provider ready to scale (but not at all costs), you're in the right place. We're ditching the hustle culture and building content empires that support both ambitious revenue goals and your actual life.
Start your week fresh with new episodes on Mondays full of steal-worthy strategies, systems and real talk about what it actually takes to grow.
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67. I do a business retreat every single month (here’s how it’s fixed my entire business)
5d ago00:19:20Tap to summarize💌 Download the Retreat Agendas here: yourcontentempire.com/monthly-business-retreatIf your biggest projects keep getting pushed to someday, this episode is going to change how you look at your calendar. Once a month I block off a full week to run my own business retreat, and it's the reason my book got written, my funnels got built and my quarters actually run smoothly. In this video I'm walking you through all 3 types of retreats I rotate through each quarter: the quarterly planning retreat, the project sprint and the peer mastermind retreat. You'll get the full breakdown of what each one is for, exactly what I do day by day and how to build your own version even if a full week feels impossible right now. This is business model design and content strategy the lifestyle-first way, built to help you scale your business without burning out.===== 🔗 LINKS MENTIONED: → 2026 Vancouver Island Retreat: https://www.yourcontentempire.com/retreat/ → Retreat Agenda: yourcontentempire.com/monthly-business-retreat Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review the Content Coffee Break Podcast on iTunes. For show notes and more, go to www.yourcontentempire.com
Transcribe →66. Steal my 5-minute business vision practice (2 years in and still obsessed)
2w ago00:15:41Tap to summarize💌 Get the full notes and extra resources here: http://yourcontentempire.com/how-to-create-a-business-vision 💌 Get the biz model design mini course: https://www.yourcontentempire.com/business-model-designA lot of vision advice skips the one step that actually makes it work. In this episode, I walk you through my full lifestyle-first business vision process and the 5-minute daily practice I've used almost every day for two years.You'll learn the three parts of a vision that actually holds (your life vision, your business vision and the combined way they connect), plus the morning ritual that keeps you connected to it. This is content strategy and business model design built around the life you actually want, not someone else's highlight reel.===== 🔗 LINKS MENTIONED: Lifestyle-First Business Model Design Mini Course: https://www.yourcontentempire.com/business-model-design Business Coaching for Scaling: https://www.yourcontentempire.com/coaching/ The 2016 TD Vision Study: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/visualizing-goals-influences-financial-health-and-happiness-study-finds-300207028.html Sport imagery training (Association for Applied Sport Psychology): https://appliedsportpsych.org/resources/resources-for-athletes/sport-imagery-training/Binaural beats and sleep in elite athletes (Abeln et al., 2014): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23862643/Binaural beats and performance in kickboxers (2025): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41035452/Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review the Content Coffee Break Podcast on iTunes. For show notes and more, go to www.yourcontentempire.com
Transcribe →65. mini mastermind: how to sell after a workshop using email marketing
3w ago00:22:35Tap to summarize💌 Get the full notes and extra resources here: http://yourcontentempire.com/how-to-sell-after-a-workshopYou can run a workshop that goes perfectly and still walk away with almost no sales. The real selling happens in the 5 to 7 days after your workshop, and that's exactly what this video covers.This is Part 3 of my Steal My Monthly Workshop System series. Inside, you'll learn to deliver your workshop so people leave ready to buy, sell in the days that follow without burning out your email list and read your numbers so you know exactly what to optimize for your next round. By the end you'll have a complete post-workshop selling and optimization system you can run every single month.If you're a coach, course creator or service provider who wants a repeatable way to fill a room and make sales without constantly reinventing the wheel, this one's for you.===== 🔗 LINKS MENTIONED: → Part 1 Video: https://youtu.be/MFNsVDtNtqU → Part 2 Video: https://youtu.be/b35AAHQ9DRQ → Free Strategy Call: https://www.yourcontentempire.com/coaching/ Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review the Content Coffee Break Podcast on iTunes. For show notes and more, go to www.yourcontentempire.com
Transcribe →64. How to promote a workshop and actually fill it (steal my complete system)
4w ago00:16:49Tap to summarize💌 Get the full notes and extra resources here: http://yourcontentempire.com/workshop-promotion-plan-for-coaches-and-course-creators If you've ever hit publish on a workshop sign-up page and immediately started wondering whether anyone was going to show up, this video is for you.This is Part 2 of the Steal My Monthly Workshop System series. In this episode I'm walking you through the two phases that run simultaneously once your sign-up page is live: promoting your workshop to fill your seats and building your workshop content so you're ready to deliver.===== 🔗 LINKS MENTIONED: → Part 1 Video: https://youtu.be/MFNsVDtNtqU→ Free Strategy Call: https://yourcontentempire.com/coaching Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review the Content Coffee Break Podcast on iTunes. For show notes and more, go to www.yourcontentempire.com
Transcribe →63. Steal my monthly workshop system (part 1): how to choose a workshop topic that converts
Jun 1500:17:17Tap to summarize💌 Get the full notes and extra resources here: https://www.yourcontentempire.com/how-to-get-more-sign-ups-for-your-online-workshop If you have ever built a workshop, promoted it hard and ended up with a smaller room than you hoped for, this video is for you.In part one of Steal My Monthly Workshop System, I'm walking you through how to choose a workshop topic your audience keeps coming back for and how to build a sign-up system that goes live before your slides are finished. My clients are using this system to convert at 12 to 18% on average in 2026. One even hit 26% on her last round.===== LINKS MENTIONED: 🔗→ Free Strategy Call: https://yourcontentempire.com/coaching Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review the Content Coffee Break Podcast on iTunes. For show notes and more, go to www.yourcontentempire.com
Transcribe →62. How I turned my content plan into a daily sales plan (and started selling on social media every day)
Jun 100:12:20Tap to summarize💌 Get the Content Sales Engine here: https://yourcontentempire.com/content-sales-engine If your content is getting engagement but not sales, the problem isn't your posting frequency or your captions or the algorithm. The problem is more likely that your content is missing a purpose. In this video I'm walking you through the Daily Social Selling Framework: how to take everything you're already creating, give it a direction and turn it into a system that makes sales every single day without a single hard sell required.===== LINKS MENTIONED🔗 The Content Sales Engine: https://yourcontentempire.com/content-sales-engine 🔗 Full Post, Show Notes: LINK🔗 Book a free strategy call: yourcontentempire.com/coaching Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review the Content Coffee Break Podcast on iTunes. For show notes and more, go to www.yourcontentempire.com
Transcribe →61. Does your business model still fit your life? (the 12 questions I ask all of my clients to know!)
May 2500:16:46Tap to summarize💌 Download the Lifestyle-First Business Model Template here: http://yourcontentempire.com/business-model-still-alignedIs your business model still aligned with your life? In this video I'm sharing the exact 12-question diagnostic I use with every client before we touch their business model. You'll find out whether your model still fits, the 4 biggest reasons business models fall out of alignment and the research that proves this is a real, measurable problem (not just a feelings thing).🔗 LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:→ Free Lifestyle-First Business Model Template: https://www.yourcontentempire.com/business-model-template/ → Get Help Scaling in a Lifestyle-First Way: https://yourcontentempire.com/coaching Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review the Content Coffee Break Podcast on iTunes. For show notes and more, go to www.yourcontentempire.com
Transcribe →60. Here’s *exactly* how to balance big business goals & a balanced life
Apr 1300:18:36Tap to summarize💌 Download the Lifestyle-First Business Model Template here: https://www.yourcontentempire.com/big-business-goalsIs it actually possible to have big business goals and a life you love at the same time? In this episode I give my most complete answer to that question yet.Most business models break at one of three points: your constraints, your offers and pricing or your content system. I walk you through three diagnostic frameworks I use with every client before we do anything else: the Life Constraints Viability Triangle, the Viability Triangle and the Marketing Viability Triangle. Together they show you exactly where your model is breaking down and what to fix first.If you have ever felt like you are doing everything right but something still isn't working, this episode will show you where to look.Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review the Content Coffee Break Podcast on iTunes. For show notes and more, go to www.yourcontentempire.com
Transcribe →59. Here are the support systems that are going to help you scale in 2026
Apr 700:18:25Tap to summarize💌 Download the Lifestyle-First Business Model Template here: http://yourcontentempire.com/scaling-support-systems If you want to scale your business this year but keep stalling out no matter what you try, the problem probably isn't your strategy. In this episode I walk you through the 5 support systems every coach, course creator and service provider needs to scale without burning out plus a quick audit so you know exactly which one to address first.🔗 Links Mentions: → Lifestyle First Business Model Template: https://www.yourcontentempire.com/business-model-template/ → Learn more about coaching and book a call: https://yourcontentempire.com/coaching Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review the Content Coffee Break Podcast on iTunes. For show notes and more, go to www.yourcontentempire.com
Transcribe →58. 3 ways I had to change my personality to finally scale my business
Mar 2300:18:40Tap to summarize💌 Get the full notes and extra resources here: https://www.yourcontentempire.com/personality-shifts-for-scaling Are you doing all the right things in your business but still not scaling the way you want to? It might not be a strategy problem. It might be a personality one.In this episode I'm breaking down the three internal shifts that made lifestyle-first scaling actually work for me: Discernment, Boring and Devoted. None of them involve working harder. All of them changed how my business grows.We cover the Strategy Decision Matrix for choosing your next strategy and actually sticking with it, why embracing boring business is one of the highest leverage things you can do and the 3 Layers of Metrics framework backed by psychology that makes consistency feel sustainable. I also introduce the Life Richness Inventory and why a full life outside of work is actually a business strategy.Thank you for listening! Please subscribe, rate, and review the Content Coffee Break Podcast on iTunes. For show notes and more, go to www.yourcontentempire.com
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