36 | You Don’t Have to Sacrifice Yourself to Be Successful: Lessons from Building a Business with Marissa Danekas

About this episode

Carly Schade interviews Marissa Danekas about her entrepreneurial journey and the lessons learned from building a business.

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Marissa Danekas, owner of Wilder & Co Salon. We talk about her journey of starting something from scratch, burning out, making mistakes, and learning along the way. Marissa shares how she decided she was done working for someone else and what it actually looked like to build a business without having it all figured out. We talk about the mistakes she’s made that led to burnout, what work–life balance has really looked like in different seasons, a...

People in this episode

Host: Carly Schade

Guest: Marissa Danekas

Topics covered

• business building
• work-life balance
• burnout
• entrepreneurship
• personal growth

Keywords

• business
• entrepreneurship
• burnout
• work-life balance
• self-improvement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wilder & Co Salon

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