In today’s era of AI, piecemeal approaches are not enough. To really gain momentum in a discombobulated world, being able to tap into your natural rhythms of work, while anchoring in the other core foundations needed, is critical. As many of you know, I call these the 9 Catalysts for Solopreneurial Growth.

I’m really excited to be bringing you this new weekly podcast for solopreneurs, where we explore the PEOPLE, PRACTICES and POSSIBILITIES of Solopreneurism.

Episodes run 15 - 20 minute so they are quick to take on the road or listen on the treddie (treadmill).

I just released Flow Flex Scale Podcast Episode 4 - take a listen or watch

Here’s the description:

In this episode, Jennifer Britton explores why so many solopreneurs struggle with focus, consistency, and momentum, even when they have the talent, expertise, and vision to succeed. Drawing on more than two decades of working with coaches, consultants, and service-based business owners, she shares the patterns she’s observed and the framework she developed to help solopreneurs navigate today’s rapidly changing business landscape.

Jennifer introduces the Flow Flex Scale Operating System and its nine catalysts for sustainable business growth. You’ll learn how the three pillars... Flow, Flex, and Scale... work together to help you make intentional decisions, build momentum, and create a business that grows with clarity rather than complexity.

Join us this month at the Flow Flex Scale Lab, geared for solopreneurs like coaches, authors, and digital creators. We meet Monday for weekly planning and Friday for an hour of coaching. Mid-week you get a video drop around the weekly Catalyst, as well as a set of AI prompts each month to activate another layer of learning and action. Learn more about the Lab here or at the new FlowFlexScale Website.

Many of you already have a copy of the 2026 Flow Flex Scale Planner, a desk sized calendar for those who prefer an analog version. For a short time you can pick up on the of the limited summer edition hard copy planners covering August - December 2026 for just $15 plus postage. I have less than half a dozen left and would love to get you a copy. Email me to be invoiced directly and send your mailing info.

A Lunch & Learn is one of the simplest ways to demonstrate your expertise, or approach, while building relationships with organizations that may become future clients.

Within the Flow Flex Scale™ Operating System, this is part of Catalyst #8: Visibility & Marketing.

Visibility involves being seen by the right people, with the right message, at the right time. Lunch and learns (or even breakfast sessions) are a great way to get out and demonstrate your approaches.

The Visibility Multiplier

A well-designed Lunch & Learn (common term for a lunchtime workshop) does far more than fill an hour.

It helps you:

• Demonstrate your expertise

• Build trust before a proposal is ever written

• Create meaningful conversations

• Expand your professional network

• Position yourself as a thought leader

• Open doors to workshops, coaching, consulting, and speaking engagements

Every presentation becomes a marketing asset and every audience becomes a potential community.

Focus on One Challenge

Don’t try to teach everything you know in the hour. Work around one meaningful problem or opportunity facing the organization/group.

Examples might include:

• Preventing burnout through sustainable work rhythms

• Leading conversations that matter

• Working better across hybrid teams

• AI without overwhelm

• Creating more focus in a distracted world

Consider what people attending will value - clarity, tips, connection, tools….?

Create an Experience

The best Lunch & Learns are conversations, not lectures or “talking heads”. Design for experience.

Consider a simple structure:

10 minutes — Why this issue matters

30 minutes — Frameworks, stories, and practical ideas. Connection and Discussion with Peers.

10-15 minutes — Reflection, application, and questions

Invite participants to consider the one action they can implement immediately. Leaning reinforcement is key so invite them to also consider an accountability partner or pod.

Think Beyond the Presentation

Within the Flow Flex Scale™ framework, visibility creates momentum.

A single Lunch & Learn can lead to:

• Team workshops

• Leadership programs

• Coaching engagements

• Retreats

• Conference invitations

• Long-term organizational partnerships

Visibility involves getting out and showcasing your work - in person, online, at conferences, or other special events.

Just last week I was able to lead my own breakfast sessions with fellow writers. While it wasn’t called a “Lunch and Learn” these creativity sessions built connection and also offered a doorway into showcasing my work and approaches. There’s nothing more powerful than a DEMO.

Your Revenue Reset

This week, design one Lunch & Learn that showcases your expertise.

Consider:

• A compelling title

• Three learning outcomes

• A short description

• Your ideal audience

• A clear next step for participants

Then identify three organizations or associations where your expertise could make a difference. Reach out or check out their website about speaking opportunities.

Flow Flex Scale™ Connection

Catalyst #8: Visibility & Marketing — In the Spotlight

Marketing isn’t simply about promoting yourself. It’s about creating meaningful opportunities for others to experience your approach and what you have to offer. When you consistently put yourself in the spotlight in ways that educate, inspire, and solve real problems or address current opportunities, you build trust, strengthen relationships, and create sustainable pathways to new revenue.

Revenue Reset Reflection

Reflection Question: Where could you put yourself “in the spotlight” over the next 90 days so the right people experience you and your approaches “real-time” - virtually or physically?

Momentum Move: Design one signature Lunch & Learn, or breakfast sessions, and reach out to three organizations this week.

Want more support around moving your business forward? Join us in August for the Flow Flex Scale Lab. We meet Mondays and Fridays live as a group for planning and coaching around your biggest opportunities and challenges. You are supported mid-week via on-demand content around one of the 9 catalysts and 3 activators. Learn more and join us here.

The Flow Flex Scale podcast explores the PEOPLE, PRACTICES and POSSIBILITIES of Solopreneurship in the AI-enabled landscape.

This is a weekly podcast with episodes dropping each week, moving between and interview with a guest and and an episode which takes a deeper dive into the Flow Flex Scale Operating System for Solopreneurs.

Here’s Episode #1 of the Flow Flex Scale podcast, an overview:

Here’s Episode #2 of the Flow Flex Scale podcast, where I sit down with Valerie Awaiye, as we talk about her shift from corporate to solopreneurship:

I hope that you enjoy the weekly episodes and would LOVE to hear from you regarding WHAT TOPICS you’d like to see covered. Please share any topics you would find valuable in the comments here. Thank you!

Jennifer

One of my favorite offerings since 2019 have been VIP Days. They’ve taken many different forms over the years. Some have been half-day sessions, while others have unfolded over one, two or even three days. Some have been held around a boardroom table, others on a screened porch overlooking the river at our cottage, and many have taken place virtually, connecting people across continents.

Regardless of the location or the format, the outcome is remarkably similar.

When we intentionally create the time and space to step away from the day-to-day demands of work, people begin to think differently. They stop reacting and start creating. They see connections they hadn’t noticed before. Decisions that have lingered for months suddenly become clear, and projects that have sat on the back burner begin to take shape.

There’s something powerful about giving yourself permission and the space to focus on one thing that really matters.

As coaches, we often work with clients in 30, 60 or 90-minute conversations. Those conversations are invaluable, but they’re naturally constrained by time. A client arrives with everything that’s happened since your last session, you spend time reconnecting, exploring what’s most important, and before long you’re identifying next steps and wrapping up.

A VIP Day is different. It gives us the opportunity to stay with the work. To follow an idea a little further. To test possibilities, sketch out new approaches, challenge assumptions and keep building until something meaningful emerges. Rather than pausing just as the conversation is getting interesting, we have the opportunity to continue moving forward.

Over the years I’ve used VIP Days to help coaches design new programs, entrepreneurs clarify their business direction, leadership teams map out strategic priorities, and organizations rethink how they approach collaboration and learning. Sometimes we’ve built an entire year’s business development strategy together. Other times we’ve designed learning experiences, packaged intellectual property, developed books, or created new coaching offers from ideas that had been sitting in notebooks for years.

The work is always different because the client is different.

What remains consistent is the depth.

Clients often tell me they’re surprised by how much they accomplish. Not because I’m working harder, but because we’re creating the conditions for focused work. Instead of squeezing strategic thinking between emails, meetings and client calls, we’re giving it the uninterrupted attention it deserves.

As an experiential educator, I’ve long believed that the environment shapes the experience. That’s true whether I’m facilitating a leadership retreat, a team coaching engagement, or a one-to-one strategy day. The way we design the experience influences the quality of the thinking that takes place within it.

Perhaps that’s why I continue to love offering VIP Days.

They’re immersive. They’re practical. They’re creative. They create room for reflection and implementation, and clients leave not only with new ideas, but with tangible progress. Often they’ve completed work that might otherwise have taken months to move forward.

This Week’s Revenue Reset

What challenge do your clients consistently bring to you?

If you had an uninterrupted day together, what could you help them accomplish?

Rather than thinking about selling a day of your time, think about designing an experience around a specific outcome. Could you help someone build a strategic plan? Design a new program? Clarify their niche? Package their intellectual property? Develop a team coaching offering? Map out a marketing strategy? Prepare for a major transition?

Specificity makes it easier for people to see the value and say yes. What would your VIP day be about?

Reflection

Imagine someone clearing an entire day from their calendar to work with you.

What would you want them to say as they headed home, or logged off at the end of the day?

More importantly, what would you want them to have completed?

Momentum Move

Take 30 minutes this week to sketch out your own VIP Day.

Don’t start with the agenda. Start with the transformation.

What challenge does it solve? What experience do you want to create? What will your client walk away with?

Then begin designing the day around those outcomes.

People aren’t looking for another meeting. They want time earmarked for meaningful progress. As solopreneurs the time we dedicate to working ON our businesses are priceless.

What will create the space and time so you can shape an experience to make that possible?

Check out our VIP Days for Business Owners and Coaches: These run throughout the year so if you don’t see a specific date, reach out!

Well we know what happened in 2020/2021 with the return to office and hybrid work. Instead of moving the manuscript for DROVEPRENEUR forward, which really didn’t have the right title “ring to it!”, I wound up publishing Reconnecting Workspaces, and the 90-Day Guide for Success.

The DROVEPRENEUR manuscript kept peaking at me, and last summer I picked it up again given the amount of work and coaching I had been integrating in our annual Coaching Biz Growth Lab. It was clear to me that the landscape and time window for coaching support was shifting and that signing up for a year-long program wasn’t as enticing for business owners as it once was. That led to the launch of the 90-Day Flow Flex Scale Lab in September 2026. Were just wrapping up the 3rd 90-Day cohort, ready to launch the 4th tomorrow. Learn more here and join us.

Over the last year I’ve built out and updated the manuscript from 35000 words to now 71000, tightening the model into all the different components of the ecosystem it is, and updating for an AI-enabled landscape, which has changed the game for us as solopreneurs.

We’re in the final editing stage right now and I just got the first draft of cover art.

PLEASE vote in the comments and let us know which one you prefer - Cover 1, Cover 2 or Cover 3. Use the poll below and leave your comments at the bottom as well.

THANK You so much! Scroll down to see the other covers for books I have written

Remember, it’s for business owners! You might also keep in mind the other books it’s related to - Reconnecting Workspaces, the 90-Day Guide for Success, and Coaching Business Builder (the book that started it all).

Excited to see which one it becomes!

Jennifer

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Some clients want one-on-one support. Others prefer a group experience. Some are looking for a workshop. Others want to learn independently, at their own pace and in their own time.

As solopreneurs, how we want to work may also evolve. You may not want to spend every day delivering the same service for the next ten years. Your interests change. Your energy shifts. New opportunities emerge. One of the advantages of owning your own business is that you get to redesign it as you grow.

This is where packaging your intellectual property can become a powerful next step.

Over the years, many of us create frameworks, tools, worksheets, models, questions, exercises, and processes that help clients move forward. Rather than keeping those assets embedded only within your services, what might it look like to package them into a product?

It might be a toolkit, or a card deck. In today’s digital world you might also consider an app, or creating an assessment.

Productizing your intellectual property can create additional revenue streams while extending your reach. It allows clients to engage with your work in ways that fit their preferences, budget, and stage of growth.

The key is ensuring that your product complements your existing offerings rather than competing with them.

Think of your products as entry points, accelerators, or companions to your services.

A toolkit may help someone prepare for coaching.

A deck may spark reflection between sessions.

An app may help reinforce habits and track progress.

A workbook may help someone implement concepts before they are ready for deeper support.

The goal is not necessarily to replace your services. The goal is to create additional ways for people to experience the value of your work.

Catalyst 7: Programs & Products

Within the Flow Flex Scale™ framework, this work sits squarely within Catalyst 7: Programs & Products.

Many solopreneurs spend years developing valuable intellectual property without fully recognizing it. The frameworks, questions, worksheets, models, exercises, assessments, and methodologies they use every day are often hidden in plain sight.

One of the most rewarding areas of my work is helping solopreneurs identify, organize, and package their intellectual property into offerings that create value in new ways. Sometimes that becomes a toolkit. Sometimes it’s a card deck, workbook, assessment, planner, or digital resource. Increasingly, it may even become an app or interactive experience.

The goal is not simply to create another product. The goal is to design offerings that extend your impact, support different learning preferences, and create new pathways for people to engage with your work.

When done well, a thoughtfully designed product becomes a bridge—connecting people to your ideas, your methodology, and ultimately your broader body of work.

If you have been fofllowing me for a while you’ll know how I walk my talk around this one. My first book, Effective Group Coaching was shaped by the experiences and questions asked during the first four years of the Group Coaching Essentials training (2006-2009). It’s probably why people still indicate that they

You’ll also see how I’ve leveraged productization with this whole line of business. Not everyone wants to coach with me directly, and they may have different needs and budgets. This why I’ve created planners, card decks and other digital tools and apps built around the Flow Flex Scale™ methodology. The process has reinforced an important lesson: your best products are often already hiding inside the work you’re doing every day.

Reflection Questions

• What intellectual property have you developed that consistently helps clients create results?

• What questions do you find yourself asking over and over again? What questions are you answering from your clients every day?

• What frameworks, models, or processes are uniquely yours?

• What format would best support your audience? It could be a toolkit, deck, workbook, assessment, planner, digital product, or app?

• How could a product complement your existing services without competing with them?

• What would be the simplest version you could create and test over the next 90 days?

This Week’s Revenue Reset

Take inventory of the intellectual property you already have.

List the frameworks, exercises, tools, worksheets, questions, templates, and resources you’ve created over the years.

Then ask yourself:

If I were to package one of these into a product, where would I start?

The answer may reveal your next revenue stream.

Remember: not everyone wants to work with you in the same way. Creating products gives people more ways to access your ideas, benefit from your expertise, and engage with your work, while creating new possibilities, and revenue streams for your business.

Productizing your intellectual property can help you create a business that is less dependent on delivering the same service, in the same way, every day. It creates options—for your clients and for yourself.

What are your next steps?

Set up a call to explore what you want to create next?

Check out the new Flow Flex Scale Podcast on your favorite podcast player - or here on Apple.

One of the challenges many solopreneurs face is that potential clients often need a way to experience our work before they are ready to commit to a longer engagement, coaching program, consulting project, or training initiative. They may know they have a challenge to solve, a goal they want to reach, or a change they need to navigate, but they are not always ready to jump into a multi-month program.

This is where a well-designed booster workshop can become a powerful addition to your business development toolkit.

This week’s Revenue Reset experiment is simple:

Create a 90-Minute Booster Workshop.

Think of it as a focused, results-oriented session that helps people make meaningful progress on one specific challenge. Rather than trying to teach everything you know, focus on helping participants gain clarity, take action, and leave with a practical next step.

Over the years, some of my most successful programs have started as short workshops. They provided an opportunity to test ideas, hear directly from participants, refine content, and identify where people needed additional support. In many cases, those shorter experiences evolved into larger programs, coaching engagements, team initiatives, books, and product offerings.

A booster workshop also creates visibility. It gives people an opportunity to experience your style, your frameworks, and your approach in a lower-risk environment. For many participants, it becomes the bridge between awareness and action.

As you think about your own work, consider the questions clients ask repeatedly. What challenge do people consistently struggle with? What conversation keeps showing up? What topic would create immediate value if someone spent ninety focused minutes exploring it?

For coaches, consultants, trainers, and facilitators, the possibilities are endless:

• Building stronger team conversations

• Navigating change with confidence

• Creating an AI-enabled workflow

• Improving productivity and focus

• Designing a 90-day action plan

• Strengthening leadership presence

• Creating a sustainable business rhythm

The key is specificity. The more focused the challenge, the more compelling the invitation.

Remember that a booster workshop is not only a revenue opportunity. It is also a listening opportunity. Every question asked, every insight shared, and every challenge raised provides valuable information about what your community needs most right now.

Sometimes the fastest path to new revenue is not creating something bigger.

It’s creating something shorter, sharper, and highly relevant.

Reflection Question:
If you were to host a 90-minute booster workshop this month, what single challenge would you help people solve?

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