36: Tending, Not Tactics: A Regenerative Approach to Growing Your Business

Today’s episode begins in a rain-soaked woodland, the first drops falling after weeks of dryness. It’s a moment of relief—for the land and for me. Just after finishing a wild coaching session with a client, I’m walking among the trees, reflecting on a question that’s been showing up for both of us:

What do you do when you’re doing all the right things in your business, but the results just aren’t showing up?

In this episode, I share a simple but powerful metaphor that helped us both: tending a vegetable garden. When we’re building something regenerative—whether it’s a business, a creative offering, or a career—we can plant, water, weed, and enrich the soil. But we cannot force the vegetables to grow on demand.

I explore:

• Why trying to force results in your business often leads us back to extractive, manipulative tactics

• How capitalism teaches us to equate effort with immediate outcomes—and why that mindset doesn’t hold up in regenerative work

• The importance of patience, faith, and trusting the invisible growth happening beneath the surface

• How to focus on what you can do: planting seeds (like offers and invitations), tending relationships, and nurturing your creative ecosystem
  

If you're in a season of slow or invisible growth, this episode is your invitation to step back, breathe, and trust in your garden. You are doing more than you know. And with time, the results will come.

Email me at alisa@regenerativeworklife.com to book your own wild coaching session, or check for availability updates on my Instagram.

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Listen to related episodes:

EP34: The most JOYFUL conversation about marketing I've ever had! (Interview with Natalia Sanyal)

EP28: Five Reasons Why You Should INVEST in RADICAL Career Change

EP23: Crafting a Resilient Ecosystem for Meaningful Work (Regenerative Sticking Point with Sara)

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