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96. Q&A Part 2: Why I killed Joyful Marketing, why I brought it back + lightning round
07/10/2026 | 21 mins.Why would I close a business course that was adored by so many students — which was also making me a ton of money? Danny asked. I bare it all.
Listen to hear more about:
Why I wanted to quit business coaching after so much success
Did I worry that closing Joyful Marketing was a huge mistake?
What changed in Joyful Marketing 2.0 (and why I rewrote the entire workbook)
Email marketing, AI-written captions, posting daily: my answers in a marketing lightning round
Joyful Marketing 2.0 is open. Come explore!
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I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business.
📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails
📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol95. Q&A Part 1: Going viral, disappointing launches, and clean vs. dirty desperation
07/10/2026 | 38 mins.At the end of my filming videos for Joyful Marketing 2.0, my friend and I sat down to do a spontaneous Q&A.
Danny Lim asked me a bunch of questions. I gave him my unfiltered answers.
Listen to hear more about:
Do you really need social media — and is going viral actually good for business?
Why you can do all the “right” marketing things and still not make money
How to be private, introverted, and still visible
What to do when your launch flops — especially when you really need the money!
Joyful Marketing 2.0 is open now. Come join us!
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I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business.
📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails
📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol- The best marketing you can do is being really, really good at solving your people's problems.
So, what are your people's problems, and how do you actually solve them? Let's make it simple.
Listen to this episode to learn more about:
Why solving problems for free, in advance, is the most effective marketing there is
A specific list of the problems your people carry — and what solving each one actually looks like
The three buckets to sort every problem into so you can get granular
Good marketing is being a genuinely useful presence in people's lives. I hope this episode helps you to become more of that.
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I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business.
📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails
📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol - A lot of business marketing advice promises clarity: find your niche, define your positioning, choose your content pillars, follow the strategy.
But sometimes what feels like clarity is actually false resolution. Somebody gives you an answer, your anxiety drops, and you mistake that relief for knowing what’s actually right for your business.
But what if the uncertainty you’re trying to get rid of is actually building discernment and coherence?
Listen to hear more about:
Why so much business advice that promises to empower you leave you feeling less resourced
The difference between real business clarity and the false resolution
Why “my content is all over the place” might mean your authentic voice and point of view are still emerging
How to create human, original marketing in a world flooded with AI-generated content
We can all agree: we don't want AI-generated businesses. But in order to avoid that, we must be willing to tolerate our humanity.
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I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business.
📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails
📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol 92. How I decide which collaborations to say yes to (plus: how to spot the red flags)
15/09/2026 | 19 mins.I've said no to collaborations that would have put me in front of huge audiences. And I've said yes to ones that I stood to gain zero financial benefit from.
I have a unique approach to collaborations, it's served me very well over the years, and I'm breaking it down in this episode.
Listen to hear more about:
The one question I ask about every collaboration request
The #1 wrong reason early-stage entrepreneurs collaborate
The collab you should say "no" to, even when saying yes feels like the nice thing to do
If you've got an offer sitting in your inbox that you can't tell is a good idea or just flattering, start here.
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I’m Simone Grace Seol. Let me help you build community care, social responsibility, and spirituality into every part of your business.
📩 My emails — my most intimate writing, sent in real time: simonegraceseol.com/get-emails
📷 Instagram — @simone.grace.seol
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Let's build community care, social responsibility, and allyship into every aspect of your business — not as an afterthought, but as a core foundation. Because business isn’t neutral. The way we sell, market, and structure our offers either upholds oppressive systems or actively works to dismantle them.We’re here to have honest, nuanced, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations about what it really means to run a business that is both profitable and radically principled.
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