Which Shining Academy Membership Is Right For You?
Are you thinking of joining Leonie Dawson’s Shining Academy? I hope this article will answer your questions and help you decide which Shining Academy membership type is right for you at this point in your life.
Did you know you don’t have to have a business to benefit from being a member of the Shining Academy?
Did you know you can join the Academy and get access to tons of life resources and courses, without paying the full membership price?
Are you thinking of joining the Academy, but you’re unsure about what is included in each membership type, and which one makes the most sense for you and your life, right now?
Read on!
Shining Academy Membership: Two Types
There are two types of membership in the Shining Academy.
One type of membership is Life + Biz Access, which is full Academy membership.
Next there is Life Access Only membership, which includes a plethora of life resources and excludes business and technical resources.
Let’s dive in to learn more about each type of membership so you can decide on the one that’s right for you.
Life Access Only Membership in the Shining Academy
Membership in the Shining Academy includes a wide variety of life programs, courses, and resources to help you in all areas of life: family, spirituality, creativity, health, relationships, home, meditation, and more.
If you don’t have your own business, but you love Leonie and would love to gain access to all of her life resources and trainings, Life Access Only membership may be right for you.
Life Courses, Trainings, and Meditations
Here are some of the life courses and resources included in the Shining Academy. Over 72 life courses, workshops, and resources are available to Life Access Academy Members.
The following list is not exhaustive. These are some of the highlights. Check out Leonie’s website for more.
Personal Growth/Life Courses
Radiant Goddess E-Course
Creating Your Goddess Haven E-Course
How to Be a Morning Goddess
How to Create More Joy In Your Life Mini Workshop
How to Trust Your Intuition Mini Workshop
Healing Goddess Workshop
How to Face Your Fears
7 Life-Changing Habits for an Abundant 2016
How to Find Your Purpose Mini Workshop
Boundaries Bootcamp
Creativity Courses
Creative Goddess E-Course
Intuitive Art Workshop
Mega Colouring Book
How to Create a Mini Retreat
How to Create a Dream Board
The Project Finisher E-Book
Meditations
I Create My Amazing Year Meditation
Best Day Ever Meditation
Divine Dreaming Meditation Kit
Chakra Healing Meditation Kit
Releasing Fears Meditation Kit
Holy Dinger Uber Zennifying Meditation Kit
Instant Uplift Meditation
Shining Academy Life Mastermind
When you join with Life Access Only membership, you gain access to a Mastermind of like-minded women. This is a great community to help you find support, encouragement, friendship, and accountability. The group is very active and is located on Facebook.
What’s Not Included
In Life Access Only Academy Membership, you do not get any of the workbooks or diary delivered to your door as you do with full Life + Biz membership.
However, you do get access to the Life Workbook, which you can download and print yourself.
You also don’t get the business and marketing resources/courses.
What Else Is Included
Discounts to various tools and resources for life and business.
Monthly live coaching calls with Leonie, so you can get 1-1 support.
Regular chances to ask Leonie and other team members questions within the Mastermind (live).
Investment
Your investment to join the Shining Academy with Life Access Only is $197, which is less than half the cost of full Biz + Life Membership.
You can also take advantage of a payment plan. If you choose the payment play, you make four payments of $60 each.
Full Shining Biz + Life Academy Membership
Full membership in the Shining Academy includes all of the life resources plus tons of courses and resources to help you start and grow your business.
Business Courses and Resources
Here are some of the business resources and courses that are included in full Shining Biz + Life Academy Membership. To find out more, visit the Shining Academy website by clicking here.
Double Your Business Intensive
Business Goddess 2.o
How to Hire, Grow, and Keep a 6-Figure Team
How to Market Your Business with Videos/YouTube
SEO Masterclass: How to Get to #1 on Google
Woman Breadwinner: How to Make It Work For Your Family
Grow Your Local Bricks & Mortar Business
Create Your Sacred Sales Funnel
Self-Love in Business
Money Manifesting Course
How to Raise Your Rates Mini Workshop
How to Get and Share Testimonials to Grow Your Business
Creating a Website with WordPress
How to Use Masterminds to Accelerate Your Business
The 7 Chakra Business Model
How to Create Your Standard Operating Procedures
6i Success System
You can read more about my experience in the Shining Academy in my Shining Academy Review.
Shining Academy Business Mastermind
Full Academy membership includes access to the Shining Biz Mastermind. Located on Facebook, it’s a very active community. It’s a great place to get accountability and support, find answers to questions, and find new connections and collaborations.
Workbooks, Planners, Diary, Oh My!
When you join at the full membership level, physical copies of the yearly planners and diary, plus calendar and to-do list are included. Shipping is included as well. This is a great perk of full membership.
What Else Is Included
Discounts to various tools and resources for life and business.
Monthly live group coaching calls with Leonie, so you can get help from Leonie.
Regular chances to ask Leonie and other team members questions within the Mastermind (live).
Investment
Investment in the full Biz + Life Academy membership is $497, or 4 payments (back to back) of $140 each.
What About Customer Support?
I love the customer support team at Leonie Dawson International. They are extremely responsive and just plain nice. I’ve never had any problems with my membership, but I have had a few questions here and there.
Customer support team members are just wonderful. I know that if I have any questions or need help with anything related to my membership account, they’re just an email away and will be happy to help. And as you know, that means a ton.
Which Shining Academy Membership Is Right For You?
Do you love Leonie? She is an inspiring. uplifting, gifted teacher. If you resonate with her and her work, and you have a business you’re growing or one you’re just starting, I highly recommend considering joining the Academy at the full membership level.
You get all of the awesome business resources, plus you get the life resources, AND the physical copies of workbooks and diary will be delivered to you. That is included in the price of membership.
So if you want to get paper workbooks, this is a good way to go.
If you don’t have a business, but you want to transform your life, then Leonie’s Shining Academy Life Access is a fabulous resource and community of like-minded women.
Financially, the Life Access Only membership is less than half the cost of the full membership. However, if you do have a business or need help to start one, the full membership is a great deal. $497 over the course of one year comes out to only about $41 a month. That’s not a lot to invest in your business and life.
Paper copies of the workbooks and diary are not included in life only access, but you can print out your own copy of the life workbook. I started by printing out my first yearly workbook in 2013. It’s a great way to start.
They both have payment plans, which is great.
They both have access to the discounts, which are one great way to save money on other courses and products. There is also an affiliate program which is fantastic, and a great way to easily make back the cost of your membership simply by telling others about the Academy.
If you have a business, then definitely consider the full membership. It’s definitely worth the investment if you will use it. From courses, to meditations, to discounts, to the mastermind, and the yearly planners… It’s a great investment in your business and your life.
Shining Academy Doors Are Closing Soon
Enrollments will close at the end of this month. Whichever membership you choose, make sure to join before the end of September. Doors are closing, and it won’t open again until sometime next year, 2017.
Let Me Show You Around + Presents!
When you join the Academy using my affiliate link, I have some special gifts for you.
1. A group video chat in November to show you around the Academy and get you off to a great start, so you know where everything is, how it works, and where you personally might like to begin. I’ll also share some tips to help you get the most out of your membership, so you can make sure you get the most possible out of it.
2. My upcoming course, The Self-Care Habit Formula, to help you create habits of self-care so you can feel your best and create the life you want. This is a great course that will empower you and help you feel your best so you can create your best life (and business, if you have one).
3. Optional: Mini Class to help you make back your investment through sharing the Leonie Love (being an affiliate).
What about you? Which membership type sounds right for you?
Questions? Just Ask!
I hope you found this article helpful! Please get in touch if you have any questions about either type of membership or which might be right for you. I know it’s an investment, either way. I’m happy to share my experience and answer any questions you have.
Love,
Heather
Kris Baker Dersch: Flash Fiction, Podcasting, and the Productive Struggle 05
Highlights of Our Conversation:
- Favorite children’s books and authors
- How she got into writing when her son was a year old
- What exactly is flash fiction?
- Her inspiration to start her podcast
- Her experiences with NaNoWriMo
- The great thing about being the editor of your own podcast
- Her Christmas serial in December, a fanciful trip to the North Pole at Christmas
- How and why she podcasts while having a toddler
- Keeps her energy up for the things she has to do
- “Writing time” for our kids
- Starting out part time…
- “You kind of wake up one morning and realize you’re running out of somedays, and if you’re gonna do this, you might as well start now.”
- Ira Glass on creativity…
- Doing the work to get better
- Permission to suck, practicing for the time we won’t suck
- Advice from a Native American basket weaver that she’s never forgotten
- The value of “productive struggle” and why it’s good to make mistakes
- How are culture is hard on moms
- Starting a blog or podcast when others don’t totally get it
- “You can’t get discouraged by the numbers… If it’s not worth it to you to do for you, then it’s not gonna be worth it because you’re not going to get a huge audience and you’re not gonna get all that right away.”
- What drew her to podcasts and why she became even more into them when her baby was little
- How we listen to podcasts
- The surprising criteria she uses to judge other podcasts
- Too many podcasts, too little time…
- Her main goal in podcasting
- New show idea! Women Belong in Baseball
- Three great pieces of advice for other moms: find your village, trust your instincts, & find moments of joy and creativity in the mundane
- The hardest part of the SAHM gig
- Embracing the “verb” of homemaking
Quotes from This Episode by Kris Baker Dersch:
- “You will fit in what you make a priority.”
- “Stop listening to the negative.”
- “There’s something to be said for just doing it.”
- “It’s nice to not know everything; it’s nice to learn by doing.”
- “Just do a paragraph. Just do a page.”
- “Some days, some months, it just doesn’t happen.”
Links and Books Mentioned In This Episode:
- No Extra Words, Kris’s Website: www.noextrawords.wordpress.com
- Connect with Kris on Twitter: www.twitter.com/noextrawords
- Subscribe and Listen to No Extra Words on iTunes
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
- Fat Fitness Girl with Katrina M. Thom
- She Podcasts with Elsie Escobar and Jessica Kupferman
- Brain Burps about Books with Katie Davis
- The Brain Science Podcast with Dr. Ginger Campbell
- Marketing for Hippies with Tad Hargrave
- Ira Glass on Creativity
- Free Guide to a Mindful Holiday
Spread the Word:
If you enjoyed the podcast and want to help other mamas be happier, too, visit iTunes and kindly leave me a rating, review, and subscribe. (More ratings and reviews can lead to more eyes and ears seeing and hearing the podcast.) Thank you!
How to Subscribe to the Happiness Mama Podcast:
- Click here to subscribe via iTunes
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Stay in Touch:
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Thank you so much for listening! I hope this podcast helps you be a little bit happier, and helps you go from striving to thriving!
Love,
Heather
How to Listen to a Podcast
Do you devour books and magazines, but never have enough time to read to your heart’s content?
Do you crave more time to talk to your girlfriends, but find it hard with busy family schedules?
Would you love to make house cleaning, running errands, and other mundane tasks more fun?
Of course, right?
Enter, the podcast.
Listening to podcasts is something I’ve been enjoying for the past year or so.
I love it.
I feel like I’m getting some “me time” while getting other things done.
If you haven’t yet started listening to podcasts, I highly recommend it.
What Is a Podcast?
A podcast is like a radio show, except it’s on the internet instead of the radio. There are podcasts on every subject imaginable.
Happiness. Home. Mothering. Writing. Blogging. Business.
Fashion. Travel. Lifestyle.
Simplicity.
Mindfulness.
You name it, there’s a podcast about it.
So many podcasts, so little time!
In just a few minutes, you’ll be ready to listen to your first podcast.
So what are we waiting for?! Let’s get started!
How to Listen to a Podcast
Perhaps the simplest way to listen to a podcast is directly through your computer.
In that case, you simply go to the blog or webpage of the podcast and press play. You can also listen through ITunes.
I almost never do this, because I love being able to listen while doing other things.
In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through listening using a free app on your phone.
The app I currently use is called Podcast Addict.
1. Download Podcast Addict.
Go to the Google Play Store on your phone. Click on Apps. Search for “podcast.”
When I did this, Podcast Addict was the top result. Click to download.
2. Find podcasts and subscribe.
Open Podcast Addict on your phone.
On the top right of the screen you will see a plus sign in a circle. Click that.
You can search by topic or title using the “Search Engine” or you can try using the other links to browse. Make sure to check the box that says “Search in iTunes.”
My podcast is called (surprise!) The Happiness Mama Podcast with Heather Ash. Click the search button, type in “Happiness Mama” and press Done. You will see my podcast.
You could also put in your favorite blogger or blog name, or just type in a topic you’re interested in. That way you can find podcasts about a topic or featuring a specific guest.
For example, if you search for my name, you can find other podcasts that I’ve been a guest on.
Once you find “The Happiness Mama Podcast” or another podcast you like, press Subscribe.
3. Download and play.
Go back home, and you will see the podcast listed on your home page.
Click it, and then you will see all the different episodes to choose from.
Click one that sounds good.
You can just press play, but I usually download first to avoid problems with streaming. Also if you’re leaving the house to take a walk or run errands, you’ll definitely want to download your episodes first.
At the top of the screen, you will see a downward pointing arrow over a horizontal line. Press that button to download. If your phone goes to “sleep” while downloading, wake it up so it will continue and finish the process.
After it downloads, you will see a large triangular play button at the bottom of the screen.
Press Play!
How to Listen
It is possible to just listen straight from your phone, but for more volume and flexibility, I recommend choosing from one of the options below…
Headphones
If I’m taking a walk or moving around the house, I often use my LG Tone+ Bluetooth headset. These allow freedom of movement, and they also don’t disturb sleeping babies or other people in your house.
Another option is non-bluetooth headphones. Just make sure you have a pocket to carry your phone.
A Bowl
I actually learned this clever trick from listening to Meagan’s podcast.
If you are going to be in one area, say, the kitchen, just grab a cereal bowl and put your phone in, speaker-side down.
The bowl acts as a surprisingly effective amplifier for the sound so you can load the dishwasher and still hear the podcast.
It’s pretty amazing how well it works.
Use a Speaker
This little speaker called the Etekcity Roverbeats is amazing.
All you do is turn it on, and it automatically connects with your phone via bluetooth.
The volume is really impressive given its small size. If I turn it up all the way I can hear it across the house. I love how it makes it really easy to hear in a loud kitchen or as I’m moving around the house.
It’s also a good option if you don’t like the feel of earbuds in your ears.
It comes with a soft cloth bag to store it in, which is a nice plus.
Enjoy!
That’s all there is to it!
It’s really easy.
In case you’d like some suggestions to get started, here are some of my favorite podcasts:
In my podcast, I’m talking to mindful mamas about consciously creating a happier life for ourselves and our families. By prioritizing our own happiness and nurturing ourselves, we set a powerful example for our children and partners to take good care of themselves, too. Loving others starts with loving ourselves.
The first season of The Happiness Mama Podcast is focused on creativity, so I’m talking to creative moms about their creative passions, how to find time for creativity, and happiness.
You can subscribe through Podcast Addict, through iTunes, or via RSS.
If you’d like to listen directly through the blog, you can browse the podcast episodes by clicking on Podcast in the menu bar at the top.
In The Home Hour, mother of five Meagan Francis talks with guests about all sorts of things related to family and home life. As she puts it, “everything within your four walls.” Meagan is smart and down-to-earth, and listening to her feels like chatting with a good friend. Meagan has been a big inspiration to me in my blogging and podcasting journey.
Another favorite is Bliss Beyond Naptime with Kathy Stowell. Kathy has a warm personality and a great sense of humor, and she talks to other women about their journeys toward “simplifying mamahood.” Kathy has also been a huge inspiration to me.
I’d love to hear about the podcasts you love! Let me know in the comments, and if you found this article helpful, please share it with your friends!
Busy Fall Days
Halloween was fun! This was Rose’s first Halloween that she was able to participate in. She caught on very quickly and had so much fun. She learned to say “Trick or Treat” and “Thank you.” She’s been saying her own version of “Thank you” by saying “Welcome!” but on Halloween she actually learned to say it.
It was a cold, windy evening, but we were doing so much walking it felt fine. Lily and Eli ran so fast to each house it was hard to keep up with them. By the end of the night, they could barely carry their candy bags into the house. [Read more…]