June Recap: I disappeared and LOVED it
You may have noticed (or not π), that I've been a bit quiet for most of May and June. I mean literally no emails, no podcasts, no social media... and pretty much vanished in terms of the online world.
This was not intentional and really isn't a big deal, but I do think there are a lot of lessons learned here. For the past (almost) four years, I've been hustling and grinding to get this business up and off the ground, scalable and able to support a team of 6 full-time and part-time employees.
If you ever hear anyone say that they have a secret sauce, course, or solution to scale a profitable business overnight, don't listen to them. It's a lot of blood, sweat and tears... literally.
There have been some high highs and low lows and if you have been around at all this year, you have known that this year is the year of healing and learning how to continue to grow my business without compromising my health, my family and my team.
So what have I been up to?
Well, the most important - the pool life ππΌ ! We got a yearly membership to our local pool club and have been spending every second of every day there. AND I got my brother married off and gained the sweetest new sister in the process. However, low-key jealous because they have spent the last few weeks hoping around the Greece islands... π
I was on Luann's podcast, The Well-Designed Podcast, at the end of April and that episode brought us some super fun new clients that we are beyond excited to be working with. We also have been taking some leaps and bounds with our CFO clients. One has been through the transition of taking her team from contractors to employees the past few months and with another client we are doing a full team time audit and pairing that with her pricing strategy to get her to hit her profit goals!
Oh and homesteader LoriAnn is in full force... After a tough start to the year, our garden is looking incredible. Right now we are in the sweet stage where everything is planted but the preserving hasn't started yet. And let me tell you.... I went a little wild with the amount of plants I did this year lol. I may or may not be considering making it bigger though π
The Takeaway
Itβs okay to take breaks. Itβs okay to outsource. And in fact, itβs been much better for my mental health to not put the pressure on myself to record the podcast or get on IG stories or whatever it is that as business owners, we often tell ourselves we βhave to doβ. The business is still running smoothly and I have a team behind me getting the essential things done. Earlier this year I talked about recovering from burnout, and this break is sort of a continuation of that recovery process. Iβve been talking with my team about the direction I want the business to go and slowly, as it makes sense for us, weβll add in some of the things that Iβve stopped doing the past couple months.
Take this as your reminder to TAKE A BREAK. Whether itβs a month or two, a week, or just a weekend. Give yourself the gift of rest and you might be surprised by the positive impact it can have on your life and business! Shocking, right? In our hustle-culture society, donβt forget to take a break. Itβs a breath of fresh air.
