How to Adapt Your Business Model When You're Living With Chronic Illness | Laura Reeves
About this episode
Laura Reeves discusses how to adapt business models when living with chronic illness, sharing her personal experiences and strategies.
If you've ever rebuilt your business from nothing after a diagnosis, a flare, or a crash you didn't see coming, you already know that "just push through" stops working at some point. The harder question is what you do instead. In this episode, Laura Reeves shares how she answered that question for herself, twice. After Crohn's disease cost her nearly every client she had in 1997, she built a 30-year career as a professional dog handler, one designed around her body instead of around what her industry expected. And when she knew that career couldn't last forever either, she didn't wait for a crisis to force the next move. She planned it. What you'll take from this conversation isn't really about dog shows. It's about what it looks like to build and rebuild a business that can actually hold the life you're living, instead of the one you wish you had the capacity for. In this episode, you'll learn: How to think about rebuilding a client base from scratch after a diagnosis takes everything you had A real-world framework for capping your workload to protect your health, without capping your income to zero Why planning your business's next chapter years in advance beats waiting for…
People in this episode
Host: Nikita Williams
Guest: Laura Reeves
Topics covered
- chronic illness
- business model adaptation
- entrepreneurship
- client rebuilding
- health management
Keywords
- chronic illness
- business adaptation
- client base
- workload management
- health and entrepreneurship
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Crohn's disease
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