Build a business around the work you’re here to do
You can do work you’re proud of and still struggle to put it into one sentence someone understands. You can have clients you love and still wonder how your work took over your evenings.
Sacred Business Flow is a publication by Phil Powis and Carolina Wilke for coaches, consultants, and practitioners who have spent years getting good at what they do. We write about how to turn that experience into a clear offer, find people who value it, and earn a living from work that leaves room for the rest of your life.
What makes a business sacred?
For us, it starts with taking seriously what you feel called to do, who it can serve, and what it asks of you to keep doing it. That means making practical decisions about price, time, and how people find you. It also means making room for faith and letting what happens when you act change the plan.
Take a familiar moment. A former client asks what you’re working on. You tell them you’re still figuring it out. Later, you open the same offer draft and change the first paragraph again.
Maybe you’re trying to fit too much into the offer. Maybe you know exactly what you’d offer them, and the hard part is saying what it costs. Those are different problems. One calls for a simpler offer. The other might call for confidently making an invitation to someone who already trusts you. What they say back gives you more to work with than another afternoon tweaking the draft.
The Five Practices give us places to act. We look at how people find you, how you sell and deliver your work, how you manage time and money, and where you decide to take the business. The Nine Frequencies help us pay attention to what we bring to those decisions, from the faith it takes to make an invitation to the vitality it takes to keep delivering what we promised.
What you’ll find here
Essays and practical ideas for decisions you’re making now, like where to get visible, what to charge, or how to deliver good work within the hours you want to work.
Sacred Business Stories about how other people built their work. Rebecca went from language tutoring to leading paid walking trips on the Camino de Santiago. Josh moved from videography into sobriety coaching, signed his first client, and went on to launch a paid community.
Live conversations and our Sunday newsletter, where we share what we’re learning and what’s happening in the community.
If you’d like to hear us work through these decisions in more detail, paid subscribers get Sitting on a Bench, our private podcast. A good first listen is “You’ve helped people. Why is this invitation so hard?”
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A little about us
Phil built a Facebook ads consultancy that reached $100,000 a month. Burnout forced him to ask whether he wanted the life that business required. Today he helps people shape their offers and work out what to charge, what to deliver, and how much of their week it will take.
Carolina spent years in a corporate career while living with chronic migraines. Her experience changed how she listened to her body and what she was willing to ask of it. As a Master Bioenergetics Practitioner, she helps people work with what comes up when they’re ready to be seen, name a price, or make a change they’ve been putting off.
We live in the mountains of São Paulo state, Brazil. The questions we write about here are the same ones we keep asking as we build our own business.
Where to start
Read The Manifesto to get to know the ideas behind the publication. If you have a specific part of your business that feels harder than it should right now, the free Harmony Map can help you see where there’s friction and which strength you can draw on as you decide what to do next.
Phil & Carolina
