You know that trend going around about having coffee with your younger self? I saw that trend and thought: I don't want to have coffee with my younger self. I want to have coffee with my FUTURE SELF! So... I built her on ChatGPT 😎 I call her, "Future Courtney". Future Courtney is programmed to talk as if she is the version of me who has already achieved all of my goals. When I’m stuck, I ask her things like: What books have had the biggest impact on your life? How do you manage your business...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Reader, I feel really invigorated to share a message I don't see enough women entrepreneurs talking about: Sales as activism. Sales as resistance. Sales as the antidote to what is going on in the world. As Kamala Harris put it, "This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves." 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The problem, as I see it is this: As women, we're playing too damn small. Reader, money is power. For good or for bad we live in a capitalist society and MONEY is the currency of...
8 months ago • 1 min read
Reader, This weekend I attended Alex Cattoni's Posse Fest Live. To be honest, I'm new to Alex's community. The big reason I said yes to attending this event is because it's local. No plane rides! Sleep in my own bed! Yay! I was excited to see a couple of my lovely bad ass online business friends who were speaking at the event who I hadn't seen since before the pandemic. Specifically, Jordan Gill and Vanessa Lau. I was excited to FINALLY meet Laura Belgray in person. But this event turned out...
9 months ago • 2 min read
Reader, There's one week until SEPTEMBER. Can we please NOT repeat this pattern going into the fall? 👇🏽👇🏽 There are 3 steps to finally posting consistently on Instagram: 1️⃣ PICK 1 WEEKLY TOPIC + 5 SUB-TOPICSHere are some examples:🎨 Example #1 - Interior DesignWeekly topic: Paint colors5 Sub-Topics: Color pallets, cohesiveness, personality styles, colours and emotion, pulling colors from things you own💸 Example #2 - Personal FinanceWeekly topic: Credit card debt5 Sub-Topics: Interest rates,...
11 months ago • 1 min read
In March 2023, I was in the middle of a launch for my high ticket coaching program, Yay for 100K™ when... ...I decided to cancel the launch 😲 Reader, this was simultaneously one of the hardest and easiest things I've ever done. Have you ever felt something in your bones? Something that didn't make a lot (if any) logical sense but that you KNEW you needed to do? That's what happened to me. Masterminding with some business friends in March 2023...I had no idea what I was in for! What I didn't...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read
Reader, I'm currently on my way to a mastermind retreat in Whistler with 4 of my best entrepreneur friends and it feels SO fitting. You see, today marks a big new chapter over here at CourtneyChaal.com (<-- even my website got a facelift! 🤩) If you've been with me over the past 6+ months, you know that I have been changing just about everything about my business. Like, EVERYTHING. (Psst - tomorrow I'm going to share a behind the scenes look at my business' makeover!) Today, Reader is the...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read