Midnight in the Woods: Letting Go of Money Anxiety and Reclaiming Leadership

About this episode

This episode explores the deeper pressures recruitment business owners face around money beyond just the numbers.

Feel your chest tighten every time you open the accounts? Often, the pressure you feel around money in your business has very little to do with the numbers, as our guest this week found out... Many recruitment business owners carry pressure around money that goes far deeper than monthly revenue or market conditions. In this episode of The Recruitment CEO's Inside Guide , Katy Green speaks with Lucy Bayliss, a recruitment business owner who attended Beyond Beliefs, our leadership retreat created specifically for people who feel lost inside their own business. Before the retreat, Lucy was running a stable recruitment agency while experiencing persistent money anxiety that influenced how she handled investment decisions, cash flow visibility and growth planning. Beliefs about financial security absorbed years earlier were shaping her leadership behaviour and affecting how confidently she approached financial strategy. Stepping away from the day-to-day demands of her recruitment business created the space to examine those beliefs directly. During a midnight ceremony that invited participants to release unresolved emotional weight, she confronted the financial stories that had been…

People in this episode

Host: Katy Green

Topics covered

• money anxiety
• leadership
• recruitment business
• financial pressure

Keywords

• business finance
• money management
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Midnight in the Woods, The Recruitment CEO's Inside Guide

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