Ep 716: Taking My Own Advice

About this episode

Rebecca Ickes Carra shares a personal update about taking an outside job after years of self-employment and discusses the realities of burnout.

Send us Fan Mail For fifteen years, the first piece of advice out of my mouth to anyone asking about self-employment has been the same: keep the outside income as long as you possibly can. And for fifteen years, I wasn't doing it. Until now. In this solo episode, I'm sharing a significant personal update — what led me to take an outside job after fifteen years of running my own businesses, what burnout actually feels like versus just being really tired, and the surprising freedom that comes f...

People in this episode

Host: Rebecca Ickes Carra

Topics covered

• self-employment
• burnout
• personal update
• outside income
• freedom

Keywords

• self-employment
• burnout
• outside income
• personal update
• freedom

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