SBM Office Hours 2025
2025 SBM Office Hour Calls
Below are the 2025 SBM Program Office Hour Calls available for your viewing! These recordings expand a great deal on the teachings that were presented in class and will vastly add to your sacred business knowledge.
You should start by downloading the materials from this page (then you’ll have them forever and you can view them offline). Downloading the video and watching it offline is often a good solution for those with slower internet speeds as it allows you to play the video without any playback interruptions caused by a slow connection.
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January Office Hours Call
Links:
Amy Cesari printed materials including 2025 color planner on Amazon
Crystal Healer’s Datebook by Ashley Leavy
Compliance Solutions for Websites, Apps and Organizations | iubenda
Cookie Policy of Chykalophia Group, LLC
Privacy Policy of Chykalophia Group, LLC
Manage account-level permissions for partnership ads in the Instagram app | Instagram Help Center
Mimosa Live Crystal Sale Calendar and Zoom Registration Links
Topics, Comments, and Questions:
- Amy Cesari Quote – “You don’t have to plan ahead; the magic happens one step at a time” …
- Tucson Gem Show coming up, how to prepare to get things into awareness of what to look for.
- I am struggling with disclaimer wording, how many disclaimers are needed, etc. Any suggestions and input would be appreciated. Especially on social platforms, where is it best to be displayed?
- Any additional info you can provide on Terms and conditions and privacy policy?
- Web developer recommendation for cookie and privacy policy – will ask what things are integrated into your website, what social channels, etc.
- Cookie and privacy policy examples from a web developer
- • Ashley discusses her decision to disconnect the website connections as much as possible with social platforms like Meta (IG and FB); delete history, remove tracking, won’t be running ads like FB advertising and boosting posts, etc. and why.
- How to turn off marketing permissions.
- Sometimes it’s hard to “get over” a customer being rude or impatient when not receiving an immediate reply. Do you have any advice on letting go or how to handle those instances?
February Office Hours Call
Links:
Topics, Comments, and Questions:
- You asked a question on Instagram recently about whether as crystal healers we are accepted by others / comfortable talking about our crystal healing work, and I saw that 95% of respondents said no (including me). Would be great if we could talk a little bit about that and how to manage / respond to it.
- I need a better elevator speech. I tried to explain crystal healing to my book club and it went horribly judgmental and “woo woo”
- I was wondering about placement of crystals on clients for the more sensitive/private areas such as 1st chakra – do you ever use a blanket or something over the client to make it more comfortable and perhaps less triggering if they have had trauma etc. (I haven’t had any clients yet so haven’t actually worked with someone yet, but it was something I was wondering about).
- What are things you recommend to overcome the fear of getting out of the spiritual closet and actually put yourself out there?
March Office Hours Call
Links:
Shopify Mentioned in November 2021 SBM Office Hours
Shopify talked about in January 2022 SBM Office Hours
Spiritual Business Bootcamp – Class 7: Location & Distribution
Helping Women-led Brands Fast-forward Their Business – Chykalophia
MOO Print Official Website Country Selector | MOO (United States)
Mimosa Live Event: Minerals, Mocktails, & Mingle After Hours – April 4th
Topics, Comments, and Questions:
- When creating an online store, is Etsy or Shopify a better platform?
- Pros and Cons of building a website using WooCommerce, Shopify, Squarespace vs. platforms like Etsy and things to consider like:
- Creating customer traffic
- Adjusting pricing to offset additional fees
- Time spent on preparing and selling items
- Offsite Ad marketing
- Importance of photos
- Additional expenses if hosting your own site
- What about using Amazon?
- Pros and Cons to changing your branding name and doing a dba
- Crystal Encyclopedia A-Z Directory business card with QR code
- QR Code generator available in Canva for free
- Mimosa Live Event: Minerals, Mocktails, & Mingle After Hours Event coming up on April 4th 7-9 pm in Madison Wisconsin
April Office Hours Call
Links:
Learn It Live | Online Wellness & Spirituality Classes with Rewards
Instructor Knowledge Base – Learn It Live
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World: Hickel, Jason, Klu, Kofi, Read, Rupert
EVERYTHING HOLISTIC | Day Out Of Time
Sam Ogborn | are we actually moving away from plain creation? Instagram post
Topics, Comments, and Questions:
- There’s a website course platform option for classroom or group sessions, for both large and small courses, called Udemy. Essentially it’s a marketplace for courses, a hub for many teachers to provide coursework. There are other course platforms like Skill Share, Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, and Coursera, etc.
- 3 ways you can teach online – host on your own website, use a course platform like teachable or Thinkific, or a marketplace like Udemy.
- Ashley explored the Udemy marketplace and shared her experience about what she discovered
- AI use on the platform and implications, other red flags to look for, and Ashley’s final thoughts.
- What is surge pricing and how is it used
- Learn It Live is a great alternative
- Virtual summit – joint marketing SBM class 12: Networking – discussed how instructors get paid (using affiliate links), how that’s being impacted by private browsing
- Using a coupon code instead of affiliate links
- If you offer classes, can you promote it via social media?
- Getting the word out using digital marketing, shifting away from social media, using alternative private communities and paid membership platforms like Patreon, or getting subscribers on Substack.
- Watch for the interview coming out that dives deep into heart centered marketing, de-growth, less is more
- Online curated spaces for gathering people and resources together like the Everything Holistic website.
- When you did local, in-person events, did the limited space availability compared to unlimited students available online hurt your perception of doing in-person events? I want to gather in-person speakers for the community in a garden or atmosphere, but I’m concerned about the cost speakers would expect.