Waykeeper Farm & Nerdery

Neither my husband nor myself have a farming background, we didn’t grow up around livestock and we both had very small vegetable gardens as kids.

We wanted to get involved in small-scale farming because we believe that big agriculture is not sustainable.

I first learned about permaculture design when I started planting trees in my suburban backyard outside Dallas, Texas and they kept dying.

I learned more about the interconnected world of soil life. I got to appreciate how important water flow is, and how planting more than one thing together can help the whole do better.

After successfully planting some fruit trees, I wanted to bring animals into the picture to help increase our fertility and add diversity. 

So we made the plunge and bought a 17-acre farm. We kept a few of the original horses as boarders, and we’re grateful because we learned so much about farm life from these longtime horse owners who have seen it all.

After moving we jumped in with both feet and welcomed chickens, geese, ducks, and dairy sheep to our farm. Not to mention a few barn cats, and all of the amazing birds, butterflies, and bees.

We’ve been called “software nerds who pick up sheep turds” and that feels like a great way to put it.

The farm is an ever-evolving project, where we continue to plant more trees, and practice rotational grazing in an effort to regenerate the land and sequester carbon.

Permaculture Farmer

AccessAlly

AccessAlly is the #1 WordPress Course and Membership Solution for Industry Leaders.

We understand what it’s like to outgrow your systems.

We’ve helped 100,000+ business owners scale on their terms. In fact, AccessAlly provides training to over 2,578,387 end users.

AccessAlly is a powerful, flexible customer-getting and retaining system that grows with your business, and that pays for itself.

It integrates deeply with automation marketing platforms like Infusionsoft, Ontraport, Drip, Keap, ActiveCampaign, and ConvertKit. 

You shouldn’t have to deal with software that hinders business growth.

Find out more at: https://AccessAlly.com

We believe that access to education can help defy stereotypes and make the world a better place, while providing a sustainable livelihood for enterprising teachers.

Founder

Nathalie Lussier Media Inc.

I’m a digital strategist, and I believe that unique businesses deserve unique strategies to succeed online… and I love coming up with ideas to match your ambition.

I'm award-winning entrepreneur who has been making web sites since she I 12 years old, and graduated with a degree in Software Engineering and a job offer from Wall Street. In a gutsy move, I turned down this job to start my own business right out of college. 

Now running a six figure consulting company, I help thousands of people all over the world get techy with it, and I've been featured in Forbes, Inc., FastCompany, Venture Beat, Mashable, and Under 30 CEO.

I've been blogging for over 10 years, and really “get” the online marketing landscape, focusing heavily on improving key business metrics like traffic, subscribers, and sales. 

I've helped clients launch online campaigns that generated over $139,000 in sales in under a month, and kickstarted entire new businesses using these strategies. 

Clients and customers rave about my ability to simplify the complex, and make technology and digital strategy easy to understand and implement.

Founder / CEO

Wise Women's Council

Lead the Wise Women's Council members in a workshop around Scaling on Your Terms, and what's needed for today's leaders to grow a business sustainably.

Workshop Facilitation

CoachingOurselves International Inc.

Part of the Coaching Ourselves team, learning how to manage better through experience as a manager. Providing web strategy consulting, software wrangling, and social media mojo.

Web Strategy Consulting

Morgan Stanley

*  Worked closely with clients to design and develop an Adobe Flex interface to display key business data in a refreshing format.
    * Implemented dynamic charts and graphs from XML SOAP responses to give users a visual understanding of the data in Flex and Action Script.
    * Developed an Export to Excel function to retrieve data from Flex into a spreadsheet format that can be saved by users.
    * Wrote end-to-end functionality starting from Flex, through ASP.NET to pass SOAP messages, to coding Java server side database queries and data aggregation.

Application Software Developer

Platform Solutions Inc.

-Lead the daily bug status meetings, developed a PHP tool to display transient bug counts, managed the assignment of bugs to developers and tracked their progress.

-Learned the IBM z/Architecture assembly language by writing, testing and debugging new z/Architecture instructions using Intel's Itanium Assembly language.

-Leveraged self-modifying code to develop a dynamic debugging tool, written in Intel Itanium Architecture Assembly.

CPU Firmware Developer

-Designed and developed two new client-side C# view modules while adjusting to changing specifications and time constraints.

-Leveraged C# serialization and SOAP request/response messages to communicate with the Linux-run server side code while tracing the messages through from C# to Java in Eclipse.

-Wrote unmarshalling code to take XML and dynamically create columns and rows in a grid and display SOAP response data to traders.

-Incoporated my modules into the existing pricing form to recalculate prices based on the changing data retrieved from the feeds.

Trading Application Developer

ALT Software

-Became the sole developer for the C#-based test automation project (both build and test managers), implementing over 30 new features while increasing the level of stability and performance of the program.

-Leveraged C/C++ and OpenGL to create visual test cases to verify a safety critical Aerospace graphics driver.

-Traced through the graphics driver code and helped driver developers to pinpoint bugs, while acquiring a deeper understanding of graphics and low level programming.

-Developed keen interpersonal skills by working with QA for the automation program, while catering to the needs of users and keeping the MySQL back-end and the GUI front-end well organized.

Software Developer

Nuance

-Researched and proposed a new database system and implemented the database layer changes with a co-worker.

-Reimplemented two modules of the Voice Recognition program, performed developer tests, created a personal schedule for time management while meeting release deadlines.

-Worked with a team of testers and developers to debug and maintain existing code base and also worked remotely with a team from an offsite office.

-As a Quality Assurance Engineer in 2004 I wrote and debugged Perl scripts, to set up new testing environments for different aspects of the software product.

Speech Application Developer

I'm the founder of AccessAlly, the most flexible WordPress plugin designed to elegantly deliver your digital offerings as your business grows.

I'm a also permaculture farmer and raise dairy sheep, ducks, chickens, and geese.

I lead a team of incredible humans alongside my husband Robin because we believe that education can help defy stereotypes.

We're on a personal mission to help regenerate the soil and grow food in sustainable ways.

On LinkedIn, you'll find me posting about everything from online course creation, promoting membership sites, and raising dairy sheep.

Plus all of the ups and downs that come up for us as startup founders, what it's like being a woman in tech, and why I'm so passionate about regenerative agriculture.

Nathalie Lussier

Marketing yourself is necessary. But what if, instead of ‘necessary evil’, it feels more like joy, justice, and medicine—for you and your audience?


Hi! I'm a first-gen immigrant, brand messaging strategist, and conversion copywriter on a mission to make your words sound like you, sell more, and harm less.

My special sauce:
-Conversion copywriting that reduces harm.
-Clear brand messaging that helps you resonate with your perfect-fit customers.
-Email campaigns that they actually read.
-Website copy that communicates your own special sauce (yep, we all have one).
-Brand voice guidelines that sounds just like you. 

Street cred:
Over many years of working in digital marketing agencies and one-on-one with clients, I’ve written copy and content for brands like:
Apple🔹lululemon🔹Deepak Chopra🔹Glennon Doyle🔹Gabrielle Bernstein🔹Layla Saad🔹A&W🔹Shaw🔹Telus World of Science🔹Purdys Chocolatier🔹LUSH🔹DUER🔹Hitcase🔹Glory Juice🔹Lighthouse Labs...and many others.

Who I'm for:
Coaches, course creators, and consultants

All in favour of learning more say, "Hi"!

Shoot me a message here or email hello@nataliasanyal.com

Natalia Sanyal

I’m starting an Instagram account for my business from scratch. 😅
This wasn't a “new year, new platform” move.
I thought this through for a long time.

Here’s why I’m doing it:

-ManyChat is an official IG partner, which means I can move people from IG to my mailing list and make sales without being penalized by the algo.

-With the ManyChat automation, getting ROI on my marketing is a lighter lift. 

-It’s easier than ever to be discovered by strangers at scale on IG. Let's see if I can crack that code while refusing to jump on trends that just aren't me.

-IG was my original social platform of choice. I started on LinkedIn for two personal reasons:
1) I have a chronic health condition that makes being visible (through pics/videos) online really hard.
2) I didn’t have strong enough boundaries back then and IG had a grip on me so I took a break from it in 2019.

But it’s been 7 years.
I've made huge progress on managing my condition.
I’ve done a lot of work on my boundaries.

Will starting from zero be humbling? Definitely.

Maybe it’ll be a disaster.
Maybe it’ll be a breakthrough.
Maybe I’ll love it.
Maybe I’ll hate it.

The only thing I know for sure is that I’ll learn a lot.

And I’ll be sharing the play-by-play with the Momentum community:
What worked
What flopped
How I’m juggling LinkedIn, IG, and my weekly newsletter
My systems, shortcuts, and sanity-savers

I haven't opened the account yet (starting in Feb), but when I do…what’s your IG handle?

Humanity-first marketer helping you sound like yourself, sell like hell, and harm less.

Amy Porterfield sunsetting Digital Course Academy is NOT proof that "courses are dead", IHMO.

It’s proof that things evolve. ie. Business models, marketing channels, your audience's needs and behaviours...etc.

I don't think courses are out.
But I do think things have changed.

What’s harder now:
-Selling static courses on a topic where change is constant.
-Getting people to invest four figures with no support or human interaction.
-Selling generic advice when everyone can get that for free.
-Selling courses with broad promises. I'd argue that specificity has always sold better than broad for most people but these days, I don't think anyone can get away with broad, even the big names.
-Selling a course that doesn't answer "why should they learn this from YOU vs all the other options, including AI".

There's prolly more, but I'll stop there.

My point is, when a big name like Amy P. makes an unexpected move like that, people are quick to jump to blanket statement conclusions.
The entire internet starts yelling "PIVOTTTTTT!"

And they completely abandon an offering of theirs that they have no good reason to.
ie. Their decision isn't based on THEIR OWN business data.

Yes, the online learning landscape has changed. 
So you might need to make some changes. Maybe even major ones.

But don't assume that Amy's decision to cut out her course is best for your business, too.

I mean I just bought a course the other day.
People are still buying courses.

Where you at with selling or buying courses in 2026?

P.S. Nina Everflow is my go-to recommendation for anyone looking to update or create their course. They don't call her "The Course Whisperer" for nothing.

2026 is the year we track our marketing! Who’s with me??

I’ve officially stepped into my alter ego: Nerdy Nat 🤓

She’s currently creating a UTM strategy.
She’s not afraid of spreadsheets.
She’s over-the-top curious about tracking links.

Nerdy Nat can’t wait to collect data and be all organized about it so she can see:

-What’s actually moving the needle
-What needs to be ditched
-What needs to be tweaked
-What has to be doubled down on

Especially as she forays into Instagram marketing land this February.

Nerdy Nat demands receipts.
Nerdy Nat demands clarity.

But most of all, she’s thrilled about the alliteration in her name. 🤪



Image: a gif of Nerdy Nat putting on reading glasses and pushing them up the bridge of her nose.

A gif of me in a forest green hoodie putting my reading glasses on and pushing them up the bridge of my nose with a slight smile on my face. 

Founders, if you’re serious about growing your business through content, you gotta start tracking.

I know, I know.
I resisted tracking for years because it reminded me of my days working in corporate. 
Because I thought it would suck the joy out of posting.
I thought it would make the process of content creation inauthentic because decisions would be driven by numbers.
I thought it would make me obsessed with vanity metrics.

But the data-less approach is the soul-sucking one.

Because you don’t know what’s working and what’s exhausting you for no return.
You can’t intentionally double down nor confidently decide what's not worth doing again.
And your learning process is either non-existent or a looooot slower.

So nowadays I’m all for tracking in service of making content creation fruitful and sustainable.

Here’s what I’ll be helping my Momentum members track so that they can make smarter marketing decisions this year. ⤵️

Ease:
From a scale of 1-5, how hard did this feel to create?


Alignment:
How many pieces of content were not in alignment with my offerings/brand/business goals?


Lead indicators, aka the actions you commit to, like:
Number of posts published 
Number of emails sent
How many ideas you repurposed


Lag indicators, aka the results of your actions, like:
# of email subscribers
# of inbound leads
# of saves
# of opportunities created (podcast invites, collabs, speaker invites)

Tracking allows for better outcomes. Which is rather joy-giving, no?

If you’re still hesitant to start tracking, I’d love to hear why.
If you’ve been a long-time track star, would you share a tip that’s worked well for you?

I spy a GIANT gap between your big hairy marketing ambitions and your ability to follow-through. 😬

Let's create your anti-burnout plan. ⤵️

Create your anti-burnout marketing plan

Is marketing as usual a no-no right now?
IMO, it depends.

People expect companies to pause their usual marketing messages and publicly announce their stance (at the very least) on the latest humanitarian crisis.

Here’s where I stand on this:
Large corporations should absolutely do that (AND take meaningful action).
Personal brands / solopreneurs / small businesses? They’re often held to the same standard when it comes to pausing their usual marketing messages and using their platforms to speak out.

But I don’t think we realize that:

1. If the person’s identity is visibly marginalized, speaking out can pose a significant personal and financial risk depending on the topic and their opinion.

2. A week of no marketing might result in a big hit financially for a corporation, but chances are, they’ll be quite alright.
Whereas, for a small businesses, if a crisis happens in the middle of a time-bound promotion, pausing could significantly impact their finances and it could be hard to recover from, cashflow wise (ask me how I know). Then they start struggling and are less and less able to support the communities in need in any capacity.

3. Business owners who do their own marketing are faced with managing their mental health around the matter as well as making sure they’re keeping the lights on for their small team and their family as well as doing their part to help in some way.
Although that problem is obviously a privilege to have relative to those directly impacted by the crisis, it can be a lot for one person. Large corporations have leadership teams that can share the burden. 

4. When a small business owner speaks out and gets it wrong—which happens to the best of us—they're often criticized on a personal level. When Target gets it wrong? People get mad at “Target”.

Large corporations have a lot more resources and a built-in shield of sorts. So if you ask me, expectations to pause their usual marketing and say/do something is a hell yes.

But when it comes to the solos and small business owners, I’m all for extending grace if they're marketing as usual even though there's a crisis going on. And I don't assume that it means they don't care or aren't doing what they can outside of their marketing platforms.

Curious to hear where you stand on this.

Which of these platforms do you use to learn about marketing or to stay in the loop with a marketing voice that you follow? 
(List in order of where you spend the most time to the least.)

a) LinkedIn 
b) Email / newsletters
c) Instagram
d) YouTube
e) Podcasts
f) Other? 


Asking cuz I’m rethinking where certain conversations belong—and your answer might help me meet people where they already are.

P.S. I'm staying on LinkedIn, in case you thought I was leaving.

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