Hi, I’m Claire!

Anyone else host Zoom calls in the COLDEST room in their house? 🥶 Do you think I have enough layers on here?! 😂 🧦 🧣

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I don't set business goals nor do I set New Year's resolutions. Keep reading to find out why 😕

When the 1st of January rolls around each year, rather than focussing on the year ahead for inspiration into unknown abyss with very little clarity, have you ever thought about reflecting BACK instead? 📆

Strange concept I know, but history and hindsight teach us wonderful business and life lessons 🦄

If you want 2021 to be a better year than 2020, there are only 3 questions you need to ask yourself when you want to bring about change:

1️⃣ What do I want MORE of (in life and in business)?
2️⃣ What do I want LESS of (in life and in business)?
3️⃣ How can I achieve these in the simplest, easiest, fastest way possible?

Note: you can ask these 3 questions periodically throughout the year, not just on the 1st January, can't you? 🥰

Goals aren't just for the New Year, just like dogs aren't just for Christmas (man, I'd love a puppy right now 🐶)

Use this time today, or tomorrow, or next week (or whenever you have the energy), to think LESS about goal setting, reaching targets and crunching numbers, and think MORE about personal development, setting boundaries and dare I say it: setting "self" centred intentions 🙌

Ever set a monetary goal and not reached it? Kind of sucks, doesn’t it? So, why put that pressure on yourself? 💰🤑

This exercise is going to take work on your part, and it might be work you're not willing to do because it's hard and uncomfortable, and it requires some big decision-making time

I'm covering "Why goal setting doesn't work" in this week's Pelvicpreneur newsletter, so send me a DM if you'd like a copy of this article to hit your inbox for inspiration ⬆️⬆️⬆️ ...

Ok, I’ll play along #topnine 😂 A mix of personal & professional shenanigans here, don’t you think?

Contrary to most people, I’ve had a pretty good year all things considered (quitting my fitness classes at the end of December 2019 turned out to be one of my best business decisions ever!) 💕

And, I’m going into 2021 with newfound focus and dare I say it: energy 🤸‍♀️

I will NOT be talking about goal setting from the 1st January 🙌🏻

Watch out for my New Years post, because it might go against the grain a little 😬

Happy New Year!! 🥳

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Boxing Day 8 mile walk to blow away the Christmas Day hangover, and prepare for a today’s cheese board 🧀 😂

Did you get up to anything much today? 🛌 📺 🚶‍♀️

Let me know by commenting below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Merry Christmas 🎄 If I've touched your life in some way this year, please know that that touching will continue in some capacity into 2021 🙌

That didn't quite come out as I meant it to there, but I'm sure you know what I mean 🤣🤣🤣

Have a fab Christmas, and above all drink and be merry! I am NOT short of festive beers at MockridgeHQ here (can you tell?!) 🍺

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Everyone should take a break from social media periodically throughout the year 📱

If you work in the health + wellness sector, December can be particularly quiet, so with that being said, why not take a break from social media this holiday season? 🙌🏻

Here are my top tips:
✅ INFORM YOUR AUDIENCE (eg create a post for your feed, record a Season's Greetings video saying thank you to your clients for their continued support, go live with the same message, upload some video Stories and explain why you're taking a break, or write a short email out to your list confirming dates you're away, when you're back and a roundup of all of your current offerings)
🚫 TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS / SET UP AN OUT OF OFFICE REPLY (you will NOT be answering emails, DMs, What's App messages whilst you're on a social media break, so turn off notifications, set your out of office to "on", switch your phone onto silent, and just for fun, why not allow your phone battery drain down to zero?!)
⏰ CHECK YOUR CURRENT SCREEN TIME (then set a limit in certain apps, so that when you start your social media break, you have a benchmark with which to work from)
💯 FACEBOOK GROUPS (schedule in some posts to keep things ticking over if need be, but at the end of the day: it's your business, your rules!)
😩 FEEL GUILTY FOR TAKING A BREAK? (well, because travel in 2020 has been heavily restricted, chances are, you actually haven't had a "proper" break this year, have you?)

No client wants a stressed out person instructing and advising them, so use this time not just to refresh, and rejuvenate, but rest 💀

Rest is what your mind and body needs right now, so if that means sleeping in, doing no exercise other than walking in nature, turning inward for reflection, and/or having some alone time, please do this 🛌

Note: reading text books, finishing a qualification, listening to podcasts on walks, bingeing your favourite show on Netflix: these are all stimulants 😳

Also note: you may have high hopes of going into 2021 with a tonne of goals you want to achieve in your business 🥇

I disagree with business goal setting, so be sure to follow me for more tips and look out for my New Year’s message 💕 ...

How's your Christmas shopping going? This is the face of someone who's spent 90 minutes trying to find a sizing answer for a garment for my OH, so yeah Chrimbo present buying is going slow for me over here 😐

I've done a little bit of dressmaking in my time, so in preparation to start my search for this piece of upper body attire, I measured Mik's chest (because that's what seamstresses do) 🧵 👗

After a few minutes searching Google, I then found a garment that I thought ticked all the boxes, and then clicked through to the "sizing guide" and well - that's where it got a little tricky… 🤔

The garment comes in 5 sizes: S, M, L, XL and XXL, but the sizing guide lists measurements for just 2 sizes, according to a person's HEIGHT, which only goes up to 5 foot 7 inches 🤷‍♀️

Mik's a decent 6 foot 1 on a good day, so I begrudingly opened up the "Live Support" window to chat to a robot called "Andy", who promised to do all he could to help me today 🤖

I wanted to query the sizing obviously, and I therefore sent my new internet friend, Andy the link to the garment on the website 👩‍💻

After a few pleasantries back and forth about the Great British weather and the slow internet connection, I got down to business to question why someone who's 5 foot 7 with a 30 inch chest would order the SAME SIZE garment as someone who's 6 foot 1 with a 40+ inch chest…? 👙 🦒

I mean, I held back here. I didn't want to go all out with a lesson on anthropological dimensions on Andy you understand, but what the actual festivities…?! 🎅

We put our heads together, and teamwork style, concluded that yes, the website team did need to be summoned to make some changes to the sizing guide for that garment on that particular website page to avoid other potential customer's going grey (or indeed greyer than their current state) this Christmas 🎄

Phew 💀 How's your present buying going by comparison...? 🎁

Comment below and let me know! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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I've been reminded 3 times this week how simple my approach to PFD rehab is, by clients, and my Your Pelvic Matters teachers 💕

Ever struggled to get pelvic floor clients to do their homework and not getting them consistent results? Kind of annoying huh? 😫

It might be because you're:
giving them too many exercises
dealing with "what shows up" with each individual or
prescribing unrealistic homework 🤪

Put simply, you're:
1️⃣ over-complicating
2️⃣ over-individualising, and
3️⃣ over-prescribing exercise

I have a free training (link in bio) that shows you how to simplify and systemise pelvic floor exercise and…

…if you’ve been attracting PFD clients who come to you expect INSTANT results and you're finding the whole situation exhausting - my online class will offer you a solution (Hint: you do NOT have to put up with those sorts of people, ok?)

PF rehab is NOT a quick-fix (you and I both know that), but there are definitely ways you can SIMPLIFY what you're teaching, SYSTEMISE your approach and SELL your services to clients who actually appreciate you and your expertise 🙌🏻

How amazing would that be to feel appreciated and valued for all that time and effort you're putting in…? 🥰

See you inside the online class (link in bio)! ⬆️⬆️⬆️
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Give me a double tap if you agree 🙌 Signing off a pelvic floor client to CrossFit, running, sport, group exercise in general etc is literally the BEST feeling ever 🎉

I see the role of pelvic floor expert as "facilitator". Sure, there are plenty of other roles we fill for our clients too, but wrapping them up in cotton wool forever, and being protective about whose service they access next, really isn't helpful 👎

Goal setting should form part of the health screening process IMHO, and if a client is seeing you because they want to return to "so-and-so's" exercise class down the road, you'd better be doing your best work here to help them get as close to that as possible 👼

Around the 4 month mark, my clients start to feel stronger, more confident, more resilient and have less pain and fewer pelvic floor symptoms 📆

Obviously, adherence is key, and we're not miracle workers. Some clients take much longer. Some need serious modification. It depends 🤷‍♀️

Clients' results for me are based on their commitment to being able to weave their homework into their day-to-day routine so it doesn't actually feel like "exercise" which means making those teeny tiny lifestyle changes that are oh so important 🙏

(If you're struggling to get clients to do their homework, check out my free masterclass: link in bio ⬆️⬆️⬆️)

Signing a client off is a sense of achievement and should be congratulated not feared because of competition. The world is a big place. We want clients to be able to step out into it and function within, as best as possible 🎾🤺🤸‍♀️🧘‍♀️🏋️‍♀️

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this! Have you released a client recently? Tell me in the comments below (and don't forget to check out that free resource in the bio link) ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Picture this: I'm midway through a Pilates class, I check the time on my phone, and a Paypal notification pops up "Payment received £400" 😳

My heart starts racing. I can't concentrate. I fumble through cueing the next few Pilates exercises, desperate to finish my class to work out who the heck just PAID me £400 🤸‍♂️

Yes, I still remember where I was the first time a Personal Training client paid me upfront for 5 sessions, and you know what? There's an even more amazing part to this story...

I received zero email correspondence from this client beforehand 😱

She filled in her form, selected a date/time in my online calendar, and paid me £400 directly from my website 🙌

This client worked with me after the birth of her first baby, all through her second pregnancy and after baby number 2 was born, and attended my beginners Pilates classes for several months 💕

She valued my pelvic floor expertise and was eager to learn about my unique full-body non-Kegel approach. She did her homework, she took on my advice, she got results ✔️

She still is to this day, one of my absolute favourite 1-2-1 pelvic floor clients (with the prolapse client I'm working with now coming in a close second 😉)

Want me to show you how YOU can make magic like this happen where your ideal 1-2-1 clients pay you upfront and do the work with literally no questions asked? 🧙‍♂️

Well, it's all inside my "Convert More Clients" course and doors are now open (but not for long) 🏃‍♀️

Head over to my bio, or send me a DM, and let's get you attracting more of your absolute favourite 1-2-1 clients who value and appreciate you for being you 😍

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Ouch! 🤕 That hurt, didn't it? But, it's oh so true 😨
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Can we talk about all of the clients who ticked you off here, because I have a long list I'm ashamed of 🤦‍♀️
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When I first started out as a Personal Trainer "having a go" at fixing clients' diastasis recti circa 2014, I charged £40 per hour, pay as you go, doing home visits 😐
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I got a few clients, sure, and I did all the right things like having no cancellation policy in place, making sure to schedule appointments on their terms not mine, spending hours writing up homework (only for clients to not actually do it), traipsing all over town here there and everywhere, and did I mention pay as you go?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Boundaries are important in business. They're what I describe as "firm but fair" and by creating them, you're now in the driving seat 🚗
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Want to see all of your 1-2-1 clients, on 2 Tuesdays a month, between the hours of 11:00am and 5:30pm like I did? No problems 📆
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Want to request a 24 hour cancellation fee of £15 when a client cancels because otherwise you have to fit the clinic room hire bill? No sweat 😅
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Want to get paid upfront for 10 sessions and get off the constant following up payments treadmill? That's absolutely fine 🏃‍♀️
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Want to attract more of your ideal niche 1-2-1 clients? You know, those dreamboat customers that value you, your expertise, and will show up and do the work and hang on every word you say? 🤩
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Your perfect clients are out there and they're eager and excited to start working with you, the problem is, you're scared that by enforcing boundaries, raising your prices and putting yourself first, that you'll end up scaring people away 👻
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Am I right? 🙋
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I'm offering you a unique opportunity here, for a limited time, because inside Convert More Clients, I can show you step-by-step how to market your services effortlessly, and attract more of your perfect 1-2-1 clients ✅
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Sound good? Head over to my bio, or send me a DM now! 💻
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Do you like my NEW pink scarf? 😍 I took a walk into town yesterday, and I have to say, walking down the High Street of the recently voted "Best Town In England" (2020), I actually felt quite emotional 😭
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All of these lovely independent, local, small businesses who'd been closed due to lockdown, had their lights on, their doors open, windows on display, and I just felt compelled to buy something 🏃‍♀️
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I popped into one of my favourite shops @clarkesofbelper, and you know me, I'm a sucker for a scarf, huh? 🧣
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I picked out this one here, patiently waited in the 2 metre socially distanced queue, got to the check out, and the first words that came out of my mouth were "It's so nice to see you open again!" and I really meant it 🙌
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Please, if you do one thing this week, go and support a small, independent store that's in your local area 👍
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Not all of them will survive, but if we all buy one small thing, it will hopefully make a huge difference and boost moral if nothing else 💰
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Do you agree? Have you you've purchased something from a local shop recently? Comment below and let me know! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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"Convert More Clients" is now open 🙌CMC is a 6-week course for wellness experts wanting to attract more niche, ideal 1-2-1 clients 😍
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You possess the knowledge, you have the experience and you even have the CONFIDENCE to work with your dreamboat client, but there's something holding you back 😭
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It could be lack of time, it could be truckload of fear. It's DEFINITELY pricing-related though. Am I right?! 🙋
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You dream of making money in your [insert niche] space and helping those clients you were put on this earth to serve 💕
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You see others doing it successfully around you all the time, but raising your rates seems so incredibly overwhelming that you just keep stalling, and that's essentially why you're still here, attracting the WRONG 1-2-1 clients who:
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❎ don't do their homework
❎ don't get results
❎ cancel on you last-minute
❎ test your patience, and
❎ don't value you for being the expert you truly are
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Your dreamboat client is out there and hungry to learn your holistic yet simplistic approach that gets results, and is willing to pay for it (yet if only she knew about you, and you had something packaged up nicely to offer…) 💰
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If someone (me) offered to walk you through the process from identifying your niche, to attracting and marketing to them effortlessly, start to finish, holding your hand every money-fearing-wobble of the way, patiently answering your questions and giving words of encouragement, would you be up for that? 👍
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Click the link in my bio, or send me a DM for more info!
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