81 - Your Availabiilty is Costing More than You Realize / Time Management for Overwhelmed Owners

About this episode

Kari Lotzien discusses how being overly available can hinder true leadership and create overwhelm for business owners.

If you pride yourself on being available, responsive, and always there for your clients and team… this episode might challenge you. Because what feels like great leadership - being approachable, overdelivering, always saying yes, might actually be the reason you feel constantly pulled, behind, and unable to step into true leadership. In this episode, Kari breaks down the subtle (and very human) ways business owners train their clients and teams to treat their time, and how those patterns quietly create overwhelm, inconsistency, and even resentment. This is not about becoming rigid or unavailable. It’s about becoming aligned. If you’ve ever felt like you can’t catch up, can’t step away, or can’t get to the “big picture” work your business needs…this episode will help you see why.

People in this episode

Host: Kari Lotzien

Topics covered

• time management
• leadership
• business overwhelm
• client relations
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• availability
• responsiveness
• overdelivering
• time management
• business owners

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