Why Your Business Falls Apart Every Time You Step Away
About this episode
This episode discusses the challenges of running a business while balancing family life and the implications it has on personal relationships.
Your daughter asks if you love business more than her. You're standing in the kitchen and you have no idea what to say, because part of you knows she's not wrong to ask. That question is not a verdict on you as a mother. It's information about a business that needs all of you, all the time, and has no room left over for the people you built it for. Take the call from your mum at 3pm, with a client coming in at 3:15. You step away for one week and the whole thing starts to wobble. Your daughter asks if you love work more than her and you stand there with no answer. None of that means you've built the wrong business. It means you've built one that can't yet hold what you're need it to hold. What this episode is about This one is about the thing nobody in the business advice world will say out loud: what it actually costs you to run a business. Because as a woman running a business while raising a family there is a pretty good chance everything you've built right now stops at the edge of you. Step back for a week and it gets shaky. Take a real holiday and it recalibrates down to a standard you would never find acceptable. That's not a business yet, that's a job you can't leave, and…
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