How Quinn Made $32K in the First 4 Months of Her Business

This is an interview with Quinn Downie of QuinnDownie.com

Hey, Quinn. Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do.

I am an intuitive life & business coach who specializes in helping people to connect with their intuition using basic psychology and spirituality as my modalities.

I help anyone who wants to learn more about their intuition, especially how they can apply their intuition in the way that they live their lives. This is important because it helps people to trust themselves and their own decisions without consulting the outside world for validation.

I also help entrepreneurs to apply their intuition to their sales and marketing strategies so that they are attracting more clients with more ease and playfulness.

What was your life like before becoming a coach?

Before becoming a coach, I was in school for psychology. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with thesis before moving onto my Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology.

I chose to study psychology as a result of my own mental health experiences, including my diagnosis of major depressive disorder when I was 18.

I wanted to learn more about my brain (and mind), especially so that I could understand how I became mentally ill in the first place.

So, even before I became a coach, psychology and personal development were a big part of my life anyway. I was even an activist on campus for mental health awareness as well as a volunteer peer counsellor for my fellow university students.

What inspired you to become your own boss?

As I was finishing the internship training for my Master’s degree, I realized that traditional therapy was too dry and too limiting for the type of work that I felt called to bring into the world.

What I mean by this is that my intuitive gifts felt like they needed to be a part of how I helped others. So, I dropped out of my internship (all classes completed though) and started my business.

I knew coaching would give me the opportunity to support others with my psychology knowledge while also allowing me the freedom to express the more spiritual/intuitive side to what I do.

What was the turning point to growing as a business owner?

Actually, I found that investing in business coaches led to more confusion for me. This is when I turned to my own intuitive manifestation model for attracting clients to my business.

I didn’t know if my method would work, but I tested it out. After about a month of practicing this method, I hit the jackpot with it!

This is when I finished the fourth month of my business with a total of $32K in booked sales (mostly cash).

After uncovering my own signature method, I hired business coaches with more intention, being pickier about whom I chose.

My most recent business support was a year-long mastermind that really helped me to expand the way that I attract clients to my business.

What limiting beliefs did you have to overcome to make this work?

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I had to overcome many limiting beliefs, and it is still a part of my business work today.

Changing these limiting beliefs helped me to hit my first big income milestone:

It is hard to make money, and you need to have a job in order to make money because entrepreneurs are usually broke/struggling.
I am one of many coaches, so it is difficult for me to stand out.
It is too good to be true that your intuition, alone, is enough to bring in clients to your business.

What were the first steps you took to get the business off the ground?

My first step was hiring my private business coach. Like I said, this really led to more confusion for me.

However, that confusion is what pushed me to consult my personal intuitive awareness as to how I was going to get my work off the ground.

From there, I started a Facebook group (as guided by my intuition) where I started live streaming based on what inspired me the most.

These live streams became LOVED by my community, even bringing in daily listeners. These live streams were usually about how your intuition, emotions, and mindset are related to your sales in your business.

From there, I was able to attract members of my audience who wanted the more in-depth experience of my coaching because they also wanted to see how applying intuition to their businesses could increase their sales (in a way that feels good).

This is how I established myself as a business coach; although, I have always known that my work is about more than JUST business.

This is why I offer a combination of business coaching programs and life coaching programs.

What does an intuition-led business mean exactly?

An intuition-led business means that you consult your inner guidance for the action steps that you take in your business.

This could include:

content creation
live streaming
strategizing
how you structure your sales calls
who you choose to connect with
and WHEN you decide to take these actions (because timing is everything).

The other side to this is manifestation.

To me, manifestation is simply the application of intuition to your reality so that you can co-create the reality you see in front of you.

Running an intuition-led business also means setting clear intentions for what you want to call in and setting your belief behind what you are calling in.

The intentions need to be fully committed and anchored, which is something that my business coaching supports people to do for themselves.

From there, it is also important to be aware of your emotional energy. I have found that, when I am resistant to my emotions, I am also being energetically resistant to my business goals too.

Your emotions don’t always feel good, and they don’t need to. However, letting emotions move and be felt can help make this process easier and faster.

An intuition-led business is created by a series of inspired ideas and creative power moves (rather than following a prescription from someone else).

How important is it to surrender and trust the process?

Surrender is critical to this process because attachment to the outcome creates resistance in our energy.

If you are attached to the outcome, you are embodying the type of belief that says “I will probably miss my goal, so I need to stay attached to it.” This tends to lead to more goal-missing because that is where your mental energy is being focused.

Surrender and trusting the process is necessary in order to let your business “breathe.”

What I mean by this is that our businesses are made of energy too. That energy will want to receive and it will want to give. In order to receive, there needs to be some space given to the natural process so that it can work.

The other reason why trusting the process is important is so that you don’t quit on your goal after, let’s just say, 3 weeks of working toward it.

There is always a time interval where you are waiting to receive something, and yet, you know you have DONE all you can DO.

This is the most crucial time to hold your trust in your process because it is the time when giving up is easy to do. In my experience, holding my trust just a little longer has always been rewarded (provided that I am also taking inspired action steps).

The thing that people tend to get wrong about surrender is that it means taking NO action. It means you can sit on your couch and watch Netflix, feed your cat, read a book, and there will be a client inquiry waiting for you.

There is truth in this, and I have had it happen to me. That being said, the process yields more results more quickly when inspired actions are being taken and trusted.

Surrender really just means TAKING ACTION when you feel the desire to and NOT ACTING when you feel the need to recharge.

The biggest mistake I see is assuming that surrender always means NO ACTION. Surrender is actually a sweet-spot between action and inaction where you aren’t OVER doing or UNDER doing anything.

You are not so attached to your outcome that you are obsessive about it, but you a