I don't care about having a legacy and it's ok if you don't either. (Of course, it's ok if you DO want a legacy!) It's sort of a given in the "personal development" and "success" space that we're supposed to want to change the world, have big ass dreams, and leave a legacy. But why? Personally... ❌ I didn't start my business because I wanted to change the world. ✅ I started my business because I didn't want to get a real job and I wanted to do cool, fun work. ❌ I didn't start my business to become a multi millionaire. ✅ I started my business so that I could have the freedom to live anywhere in the world. Again, it's also OK if you DO want to change the world and be a multi millionaire. Whatever you want is gorgeous! I'm just not personally motivated by those things. What motivates you? Is it a big ol' vision of changing the world or something more akin to enjoying your daily life and doing cool work? Maybe somewhere in the middle? Or something else entirely? 
I'm messy and proud of it! And to counteract the message you've undoubtedly received your entire life, let me just say: You’re allowed to be messy. You’re allowed to make mistakes. You’re allowed to drop balls. You're allowed to forget things. You're allowed to procrastinate. AND be successful. My sink is usually full of dishes. My bed is often unmade. My inbox is in a constant state of disarray. AND I’m successful. Because guess what? The same characteristics that make me messy are the ones that spark my creative genius. I'm going to be talking a lot more about leveraging your so-called weaknesses in an upcoming podcast episode. I'd be curious to know: What's the thing you've been trying to "fix" about yourself or think is holding you back? Is it messiness? Procrastination? Forgetfulness? Disorganization? Inflexibility? Shyness? Sensitivity? 
Let's talk work environments! What's yours? I believe WHOLEHEARTEDLY that our work environments influence our work at a fundamental level. And yet so many of us have had less than ideal workspaces for the past year and a half. I sacrificed my home office to my husband in May 2020 because I couldn't stand looking at his work stuff on our dining room table. We live in a 1br apartment with a "flex space" (windowless cubby hole) that was originally my office. Pre-pandemic, I would only sit in the office to take calls. It was too stuffy in there to work all day. Then I would grab my laptop and work from the dining room table or couch. But with Momo working from home for the first time, I felt confined to the office cubby hole. It suffocated me. I hated it. I also hated looking at my husband's messy engineering work (and ugly PC computer...sorry not sorry PCs are hella ugly!) on our dining room table. So we switched. He now works from my cubby hole "office". I now work from the dining room table. And while this has been better than the alternative... Can I just say that I am really f*cking sick of working from the dining room table?! LIKE SO SICK OF IT. I've done my best to "make do". But after a year of this I'm done. Thankfully there is a light at the end of the tunnel because I have: (A) Started working at a coworking space downtown a couple days per week and... (B) Bought a 3br condo that will have enough space for an office for me! I can barely contain my excitement for having my own office space again. August can't come soon enough 🙏 How are you doing with your current workspace? Does it suit you? What would you change about it? What would your dream workspace be?! 
I’m so excited about this week’s episode of the Yay for Business Podcast because I’m talking to entrepreneur, author and creator of Money Bootcamp, @denisedt. Like me, Denise was recently diagnosed with ADHD. Which isn’t so surprising because entrepreneurs are 300% more likely to have ADHD! 🤯🤯🤯 Whether you have ADHD or not, I truly believe this will be such a powerful listen. As entrepreneurs, we should all be creating business models that work for us - NOT changing who we are to fit some pre-established model. Here are a few of the things Denise and I dive into: 🗓️ Why batching and scheduling might be best for you ⏳ How to lean into your desire to procrastinate 🙅 Saying no to things you don’t have energy for 💰 Why outsourcing is your key to freedom (& more money!) ✨ How to focus on your strengths and not lose your magic 🎧 Listen to Denise and I chat all about ADHD strategies and how we harness our magic brains! Link in my bio or your favorite podcast app! 
PROCRASTINATION IS NEUTRAL. I am SO tired of seeing neutral human qualities like the tendency to procrastinate villainized. For those of us who are NOT neurotypical (whatever that means) or who "struggle" with procrastination I'm here to offer a very different perspective: PROCRASTINATION IS NEUTRAL. It's simply a thing that exists (for a reason!) If you accept that you procrastinate how might you structure your life accordingly? How might you shift your expectations about when you’ll do things? How might you use deadlines differently? How might your self talk change? If you have a tendency to procrastinate (like me!) I would like to offer you an opportunity to start considering how you could LEVERAGE this quality. Let's break it down: According to James Clear, "procrastination is the act of delaying or postponing a task or set of tasks". Cool. So what's the big deal? Why are people so convinced that this tendency is inherently negative? Procrastinators (like me!) often work best with fixed deadlines and due dates and accountability to others. So you could: ✅ Announce/declare due dates publicly (I do this all the time!) ✅ Hire someone to hold you accountable. Years ago I was struggling with getting my blog out on time so I hired a VA and told her "The blog ALWAYS goes out on Tuesday morning". Guess what? We always got it done because I didn't want to lose face. ✅ Stop lying to yourself that you're going to get it done in advance and try having compassion for the fact that you are a human being and this is how you operate. ✅ Book a space (AirBNB, recording studio, office) to work on a very specific project. I do this regularly now to record podcast episodes. ✅ Pull a @DeniseDT and channel your procrastination into creating social media content (or something else that is still productive but not what you're *supposed* to be doing). QUESTION: How do you think that embracing your procrastination habit would change your life?! Please note: I am not going to be engaging in debate about this. If you don't agree, keep scrolling. 
How do I decide how much "personal stuff" to share on social media? As a human being with a personal brand, I am constantly walking a fine line between my desire for privacy and my desire to connect through my content with you. Sharing vulnerably and honestly is often some of the BEST content because it's what resonates with others on a soul level. It can also be challenging because the internet can be a nasty place (when I set a boundary with someone in my last post, they told me that they hope you will all see through my BS soon...so just thought I'd let you know!) About 10 years ago I had an anxiety attack that put me in the hospital. I was SO scared to talk about it, but my mom encouraged me to share it because she said "I'm sure other people will be able to relate and hearing your story will help them". She was right. Here's the caveat: I have a personal "rule" that I don't share anything that I haven't healed enough to at least have a layer of scar tissue. In other words, I don't share gaping wounds while they're bleeding. But once they're healed ENOUGH, I ask myself, "Would sharing this be helpful to my audience? Can I handle the people who will misunderstand what I'm saying?" Example: I let myself process my ADHD diagnosis thoroughly before sharing it. At first, it was raw and sensitive. I wasn't ready for other people's opinions sprayed all over me. At this moment. I have A WHOLE LOT that I know I'm going to want to share about pregnancy and ADHD that is still a gaping wound. (Even just saying THAT will elicit some sort of unsolicited advice. Please don't. I'm not interested). The point? You don't owe your audience any details about your life. You owe yourself the privacy to process things before you share them. You don't have to share about your family, your home life, or anything that makes you uncomfortable. That said - if there are stories that you DO feel comfortable sharing (even if it's a little scary at first!) doing so is one of the most POWERFUL ways to connect with your audience on a deeper level. What are your thoughts on this? 
The problem with "self improvement" is that we are constantly being fed the message that we need to be more like someone else in order to be successful. The truth? I felt pretty damn good about myself UNTIL I became an entrepreneur. Being immersed in this world chipped away at my confidence by making me feel like I needed to be more like "so-and-so" in order to be successful. I spent a handful of years obsessed with "self improvement". I wanted to make myself tidier, more of a morning person, more organized. I wanted to train myself to be an ideal CEO. But inevitably my efforts would fail. I would sleep in until 9am. I would leave a mess of dirty dishes in the kitchen sink. I would fall off of my routine. And then a coach would tell me that I was acting out of integrity. I just needed to "try harder". After thousands of dollars spent in coaching, I started to wonder if I was too broken to fix. But it's all a bunch of f*cking bullshit! You don't NEED a morning routine. You don't NEED to meditate. You don't NEED to wake up early (research is showing that your chronobiology is fixed). You don't NEED to have an instagram-ready workspace. You don't NEED to hustle and sacrifice. You don't NEED to take cold dips, exercise like a fiend, or hire a personal trainer. You don't NEED to be an extrovert. You don't NEED to be good at finances/organization/planning. You don't NEED to give up fun time with friends grabbing spontaneous beers on a Wednesday. You don't NEED to stop watching TV. You don't NEED to "stop procrastinating". You don't NEED to follow a calendar. You can do/be whoever the F you already are. In fact, my beautiful friend, you don't really have a choice. Now that I'm older and wiser, here's what I know: I AM PERFECT JUST THE WAY I AM. I am messy. I am spontaneous. I am creative. I am forgetful. I am loud. It was when I stopped trying to "improve" myself and instead started to EMBRACE myself that things got easier. Here's a stone cold fact: YOU ARE PERFECT JUST THE WAY YOU ARE. 
Serious question: What are your questions/hesitations/fears about taking time off from your business? I'm on a mission to combat the "always on" culture of entrepreneurship (and work in general). Rest is work, people! When you rest, you allow your nervous system to turn off the "fight or flight mode" and turn on the "rest and repair" mode. That's when all healing happens in your body. If you don't, your body remains in a state of chronic stress, the cause of most (if not all) disease. Rest is LITERALLY work. And even if that weren't so... Your worthiness as a human being has nothing to do with how much you DO or WORK. Simply just *existing* is enough. Our business is taking 2 full weeks off in July. No one on the team will be working during those 2 weeks. Last week I did a whole podcast episode on HOW and WHY were doing this. Make sure to listen to that episode! Taking 2 weeks off in the summer and 2 weeks off in the winter is a top priority for us this year, and we want to teach our clients how to do the same thing. TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS: When was the last time you took time off from your business? Are you planning any vacations this summer? What questions/fears/hesitations do you have about taking time off from your business?! . P.S. By vacation I don’t mean “laptop lifestyle” nonsense. I mean leave your computer at home, log off, and take an actual break. 
Which is better: Services or courses? 🤔🤔 Let’s look at the pros and cons: 👍 PRO of services: You can make money right away using the relationships you already have. You can start booking clients for your services tomorrow! 👎 CON of services: There’s a limit to how many clients you can work with. Because you have to put in the work for each client, you can only work with so many at a time. 👍 PRO of courses: You can serve more people at a more accessible price point. Your workload doesn’t change whether you’re working with 10 clients or 100 clients. 👎 CON of courses: You need a sizeable audience in order to sell. Selling a course is a numbers game. And it can take time to build up your audience. Here's the good news: YOU CAN DO BOTH! You do not have to choose between services or courses. In fact, I want you to turn your service into a course. And in my free training, I will walk you through exactly what that transition looks like. 🎧 Tune into this week's episode of the Yay for Business Podcast to learn more about the benefits and downsides of services and courses - Link in bio or your favorite podcast app! ➡️ And head to my website (link in bio) to access my FREE training all about the transition from services to courses. Just click "FREE TRAINING!" in the top bar! 
This past month I batch recorded a TON of podcast episodes. It feels SO GOOD! Having a "hard" deadline like popping out a baby is definitely helpful...but these are strategies that I'd recommend to any content creator. Here are the secrets (for me at least): 1. Pay to book a studio/hire an editor/whatever you need to do to put skin in the game. 2. Don't try to do too much prep in advance. I use rough outlines for my podcast episodes, if that. I only choose the topics in advance and I only choose topics that I already know about and have an opinion on (no research necessary!) 3. I use my clients as my muses. I often tell our Yay for 100K clients that my podcast is really for THEM but I make it available for everyone. Most episodes are inspired by client questions during our weekly coaching calls. (This works for me as a Human Design "Generator" because I get my best ideas in response to the world, conversations, etc). 4. Let go of your unrealistic standards. Honestly just get it done. Done is better than perfect. I say dumb sh*t all the time in my podcast episodes and then laugh about it! Hopefully this makes me MORE relatable than if everything was polished to perfection. 5. Get pregnant 🤣 Ok not really but also maybe? Having a hard deadline for when I need to have content ready has motivated me to book these studio sessions in the first place!! Do you batch your content? If so - what are your secrets?! If not - what are your questions?!