117. The Freedom Plan Most Entrepreneurs Never Create (And Why It’s Costing You Your Life)

About this episode

In this episode, Natalie Sisson discusses the importance of creating a freedom plan for entrepreneurs to design a life-first business.

Let me ask you something that I think most people never actually stop to answer: What does your freedom plan look like? Not in a vague, "one day I'll slow down" kind of way. I mean actually,  how many hours a week do you want to work? What does your ideal month look like? When do you want to take Fridays off, go hiking, have a full pamper day, travel, or just be? Because here's what I'm seeing way too much of right now: people letting life and business happen to them, instead of being fully intentional about designing the life they actually want. And I just can't stop talking about it. That’s why in this episode, I'm getting into what it really means to create a life-first business. I talk about hustle culture, the myth that you have to sacrifice everything to build something meaningful, what it really means to build a business that works for your life, and the beautiful work I'm doing with a client in the dental industry who is, for the very first time, asking herself how she actually wants to live. This is the stuff that fires me up. Because I genuinely believe,with every single part of me, that you can build a business you love, run it in 10 to 20 hours a week, make…

People in this episode

Host: Natalie Sisson

Topics covered

• freedom plan
• entrepreneurship
• life-first business
• hustle culture
• work-life balance

Keywords

• freedom plan
• entrepreneurs
• hustle culture
• work-life balance
• intentional living
• business design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: dental industry

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