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Squirrel. In this episode, I'm going to tell you the smart way you can quit

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your corporate job and start your business when you have ADHD squirrel.

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Hi. I'm Katie McManus. Business strategist and money mindset. Coach. And welcome

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to the Weenie cast. One of the most

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exciting questions that I get as a business coach is how do I quit

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my corporate job to go full time in my business? And

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let me tell you, I have helped a lot of my clients do this. There

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are a lot of things to consider, but it is one of the most

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freeing, satisfying

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and empowered things you're ever going to do. But it does

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have a lot of things that you have to figure out. There are a few

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ways you can do this when you're starting a business. You can either quit your

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job to start your business and have all your time

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available for your business, or you can do

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what I tend to recommend, which is starting your business on the

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side of your nine to five. This does a couple of things. It gives you

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that buffer so you can build up a monthly revenue while you're

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still pulling a salary. All that money that you make from your business

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in that time, you can put into savings, which will give you a runway.

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If you are good with money and you've saved and you've

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planned for this, there is nothing wrong with you quitting your

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job and going full time in your business. It

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really depends on how strong your stomach is

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for risk. If you can handle the not knowing

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when things are really going to pick up, then do

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whatever you want to do. But if you tend to be risk

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averse, if you tend to not thrive

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when the pressure is on, then I highly

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recommend building it as a side hustle.

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Whichever way you decide to go, the first thing you want to consider

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when you're thinking about going full time in your business and quitting your corporate

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job is doing the money math. This is

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figuring out how much runway you have to go with. And

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runway typically means, like, how much money do you have to live off of while

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you're ramping up your business? Are you going to be going off of

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savings? Are you going to borrow money? Do you have enough

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monthly recurring revenue coming from your business already that can

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cover some stuff? One of

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the things that most people are most stressed out about, especially in the United

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States, is what am I going to do about health insurance? Right?

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Because typically when you're employed, that's one of the main reasons people like to be

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employed, is because you get health insurance through your employer. They

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subsidize a good chunk of it so you don't have to pay for the full

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policy yourself, and it's just automatically taken out of your paycheck every

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week. Now, thanks to former President Barack

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Obama getting healthcare insurance on the open market

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is so much easier for Americans now.

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It's also a lot more affordable. A lot of

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employers, when you quit, will give you the option to stay on

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their insurance plan through a program called Cobra. Do your own

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research on this. But I have found that Cobra

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programs are so stupidly expensive.

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I paid for Cobra for a little bit when I first went out on my

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own, and let me tell you, it was $500 more

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expensive than the insurance that I qualified for through covered

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California. So do your research. Figure out what

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you can get on the open market. If you're married and your spouse has

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the option to put the whole family on their

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insurance, that's also an option. That's an option I did not have because when

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I started my business, I was single, single, single. The other thing you want to

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think about after you give notice, because this isn't really something you can ask before

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you give notice is you want to go to HR and you want to ask

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them if you can carry over the disability insurance

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that they have on you when you go full time on your

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own. When I started my business, this is something that I

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thought of after the fact, and I went to a financial advisor to try

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to figure out if this is something that I could sign up for. And they

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told me the hindsight story is that it would have been

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better if I'd thought of this six months before, like after I'd given notice

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and was about to quit, because it's a lot more affordable if you get it

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through an employer. And some policies will allow for you to carry

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on a single policy as you break out on your own. Other

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things you want to think about are, like, what are your retirement

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accounts? How much money do you want to be able to put towards those? What

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are your daily, weekly, monthly expenses, what is

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your absolute baseline for survival, and what will set

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you up for success?

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You also want to plan for the unexpected. I

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highly recommend having an emergency fund

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for things that come up. A flat tire, an unexpected medical

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bill, your child being accepted to some

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premier athletic club where you're going to have to spend

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a stupid amount on fees and travel. That's something that

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I did not have when I started my business. I did not have an emergency

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fund. I ate through my savings. And you know my whole story.

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I got myself into some serious debt in those first few months

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of me being full time on my own, and I don't want that for you.

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Do as I say, not as I do. Once

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you figure out all that math, you're going to have all the information you need

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to be able to create a plan as to when and

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how you're going to go full time in your business. When you're

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thinking about leaving your job. You also want to consider

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what is your notice period going to be, how much notice

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are you going to give this employer? Now, I want you to remember that the

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more notice you give, the better the relationship is going to be long

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term. So if you're able to give them a couple or a few

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months notice so you can really wrap up projects, you're going to

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be on fairly good terms with them going forward. Now, one of the

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things that your employer probably doesn't want to lose is your institutional

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knowledge. So one of the things that you can offer when you

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give notice if you've been involved in certain projects that are

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ongoing, if you've already been mentoring other people

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within the company and helping them climb the ranks, is you can

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offer to continue coaching those individuals

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or working in an advisory capacity on those

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projects. I've had numerous clients like quit

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their jobs and through the quitting process, land

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clients that help them ramp up their initial monthly

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revenue. And it's one of the best feelings ever to be able to quit your

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job, but still kind of be involved and still make money from the company

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that you escaped from while you're starting work on your

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dreams. A few models you can do here is you can do classic

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coaching for any individuals who are going to be taking on responsibilities you

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had or who maybe will be taking over

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projects that you are doing. You can do the consulting model where

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you are involved in a few meetings a week and just

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continuing to put your two cent in on what should happen.

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So coaching is one way that you can continue working for your employer

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after you quit. Another way is to be an advisor, a paid

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advisor. So basically you would be available for the occasional phone call

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and maybe one meeting a week to be able to point people in the

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right direction, answer questions, tell them who

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to turn to for certain problems. You could also continue

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doing some consulting work where you're doing some of the work that your

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previous role required you to do. This is especially possible

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if there's no one else in your company who's qualified to do that or

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who has the capabilities of doing it within their available time.

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Now, you can only do this if you leave on good terms. They're not hiring

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you if you kick over a bunch of chairs, emptied the garbage on the floor,

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and try to burn the building down on the way out. Okay,

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if this has been a miserable job, if you've hated everyone, if it was

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toxic, if you need to just walk out one day, you do, you

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boo. I support you in whatever you feel you need to

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do. But I'm also a big fan of you making money.

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So if at all possible to

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maintain that relationship and continue making money from this company

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while you're working for yourself. I think that is a win win

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situation. Now

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let's talk about managing the fear and the

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anxiety that comes up when you go out on your

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own, right.

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Your nervous system has gotten acclimatized to

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getting a weekly biweekly paycheck. It's on a

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schedule for here's when we get the resources that allow us to get other

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resources that cover our survival needs. When you

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break away from that and you start your own company, that

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cycle goes away and your nervous system really does

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have to recalibrate to whatever schedule

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it is that you're bringing in money. This is particularly hard

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for people with ADHD who tend to be

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impulsive spenders. And especially when

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we are stressed out, we tend to spend to get a little

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dopamine drip. I'm sure you've had that experience of having

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a really rough day and thinking, you know what, I'm just going to swing by

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Target on my way home and buy a little

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knickknack and treat myself and I'm going to feel a whole lot better.

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Now, that's fine when you have consistent income coming in every

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other week from your job. But if you're in the early stages of

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your business and you're not making a lot of money and it's not

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consistent, you want to find other ways

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to manage your anxiety and to give yourself that dopamine drip.

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Because here's what ultimately happens is what used to give

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you that feel good energy when you were full time employed,

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it would give you that little drip of dopamine that would help you turn

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that day around and actually enjoy your evening with whoever you're spending time

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with. When you're full time

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employed and stressed out about money, it'll help for about

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five minutes. You'll walk out of the store with your bag, you'll

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feel good about this silly thing you bought, but five minutes will

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pass and you'll start punishing yourself, thinking, god,

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I'm such an idiot. Why did I spend money on this stupid

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thing that I don't need when I'm not sure when money's coming in

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again? Which, as you know, when we start punishing ourselves

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for something, we tend to get into kind of a downward spiral and

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we start looking at all the things that we're doing wrong. And

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once we start looking at all the things that we're doing wrong, we start spiraling

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even more about how this is never going to work. And we

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all know that for you to have a successful business, one of

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the first steps is you have to actually believe that it's possible. If you

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spend too much time in this downward spiral of, oh my God, this is

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never going to work, you're right. It's never going to work.

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And so these little decisions that you set yourself up for of

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going and doing some emotional spending, you want to be

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very conscious about when you do this because I'm not

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saying you can't do it at all, but you want to

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be very aware of what the consequences

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are going to be. Some things that really helped me when I went full

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time and I really had to figure out how to manage my anxiety

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was meditating, going for walks, talking to

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friends. I started going back to

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therapy when I started my business. I've been in and out of

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therapy as an adult. I think most of us have.

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Sometimes I'll get on the phone with someone who has experienced a lot of trauma,

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either through work or relationships, and

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they are burned out on being part of a system.

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So they want to break away from their corporate job and they think that starting

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a business is going to be that ticket to freedom.

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Unfortunately, if you have any underlying shadow work

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that needs to be addressed, starting a business will bring it all to the surface

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all at once and you will have to address it as you're trying to

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build this. Do the mental and emotional work first. I

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cannot recommend therapy enough for new

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entrepreneurs. You are walking into the unknown. You're

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doing something that you've never done before. There is no guarantee

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that it's going to work. And literally,

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unless you are independently wealthy and you are doing this for fun,

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what hangs in the balance is your ability to survive.

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That's what money represents for us in this world.

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If we don't have money, we can't afford food, we can't afford shelter, we can't

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afford water. All very important things,

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I will say. Also, a big part that got me through that fear

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and that anxiety was working with a coach, working with

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someone who even when I doubted myself and my ability

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to succeed, they believed in me. Someone who could talk

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me off the ledge and point me in a direction, just say,

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hey, go do that. That was a

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massive help for me to manage my fear and my anxiety as I started

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full time. Things you want to be very careful of.

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I know during the pandemic, a lot of people turn to

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wine to manage their anxiety. I remember there was that

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classic TikTok or reel of that man who went for a run through

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his suburban neighborhood and as he's running, he's filming

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all the recycling bins and all the bottles of booze

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and all the empty containers and just saying, yeah, we're all

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freaking out about this. When you're starting a business,

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it's really easy to reach for things that will numb the

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feelings of anxiety and fear. But as we know

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from research and from experience in the world, people with

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ADHD do have a predisposition to addiction. So you want

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to be very careful with that, something that will create a

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little more anxiety and fear for you. And I'm sorry to laugh, but this

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happens for absolutely every one of my clients. ADHD and

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neurotypical is that you are

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going to have what I call kind of freedom overload

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in those first few months of working for yourself. Especially

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if you've worked in a structured nine to five corporate job

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where you showed up. You had to sit at your desk, you had to go

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to the meetings, and you were constantly paying attention to your corporate

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calendar. When you go full time on your own, you're not going to

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be as busy as you were in your nine to five. You're going to have

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a lot to do, but you're not going to be beholden to a very

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specific schedule because you make the schedule and

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I guarantee you in your first two or three months, you will

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miss calls that happens to every single one

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of my clients. They miss a call, either a sales call or a

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client call, because they get out of the habit very quickly of

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checking their calendar. And I say this not to be

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like, don't do this, this is terrible. But to normalize it

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and to tell you you're not alone. If this happens to you,

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it happens to the best of us and it's not going to be the end

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of the world. One of the tricky bits about having ADHD is we oh, what

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am I going to say next? Well, you'll have to keep listening to find out.

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But first squirrel, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel.

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One of the tricky bits about having ADHD is we thrive in

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structure, but we also have a very difficult time creating

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structure for ourselves. So some things that

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will really help you ease yourself into some kind of structure for

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yourself as you go full time is signing up for stuff that will

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create structure for you. So for instance, signing up

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for a daily yoga class that you have to go to,

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committing to doing a boot camp maybe. There

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are regular networking meetings that you can go to

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in your area that help you create a structure around it.

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Things that make you do something that's outside of your

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home that you have to prepare for and you have to plan travel around and

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then you have to come back to your desk. Your inclination when you start this

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business is as soon as you have free time to make all that

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free time available to all of your clients and all your potential

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clients and anyone who wants to talk to you at any point. This

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is going to be one of the biggest mistakes you make in starting your business.

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I don't know a single store that's owned by one person and

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has only one employee that's open for 24 hours a day.

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Because if you're just one person, you're going to have to sleep, you're going to

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have to eat, you're going to have to go to the bathroom at some point.

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You're going to have to be a human. You're going to have to go out

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and have fun with your friends and be with your family. You're going to have

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to have a holiday sometime. When I first started my business. One of the pits

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of chaos that I fell into was making my

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calendar open nine to nine every day, Monday through

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Friday, and having some availability on the weekends. Also. I figured

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this would make me so hyper accessible that people would just sign up for

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anything. This actually just made my life a

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living hell because whenever I'm waiting for

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something to happen, I'm not actually getting done. I'm in waiting mode.

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And so if I had a client call at 10:00 A.m. And then my next

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one at 03:00 P.m., guess what happened between eleven and 03:00

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P.m.? Not a whole lot. I might answer a couple of

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emails. I might respond to people on social media. But I

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wasn't getting into flow. I wasn't able to really get into the bigger projects

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that would have helped me move the needle on my business. So one of

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the things that I really recommend to new business owners is limit the

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times that your clients can book with you. This will help you

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time batch your different activities in your business. You will get

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so much more done than if you make

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yourself super widely available to everyone. This

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also creates that structure for you. If you

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only allow client calls to happen on Tuesdays and Fridays, guess what's

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happening on Tuesdays and Fridays? You're going to be on calls.

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That allows for you to create different systems that you're going to do on Mondays,

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Wednesdays, and Thursdays. On Mondays you create content and that's all

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you do on Mondays that's going to allow for you to really get into

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the flow of that. Maybe on Wednesdays that's when you do your sales

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calls. Maybe that's the only thing that Wednesday is available for.

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And you'll be able to go through sales call and sales call and sales call

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and follow up with everyone with any more information that they need to make a

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decision with you. And then you make the rules here. So maybe you

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take Thursdays off. Like live on the wild side.

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This is your life. This is your business. You set the hours.

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You can do whatever you want. There's this

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incredible amount of guilt that happens when you start

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your business that no one expects. You know that guilt you

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have when a coworker or your boss walks by behind you and

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you've been checking Facebook. That like sinking feeling of,

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oh God, they're going to think I'm not working. Oh my God, they're going to

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think I'm slacking off. It's incredible how you

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will actually feel that immense amount of guilt for being on Facebook

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during the working days of the first six months of you running your business.

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Even if part of your marketing strategy is to post on

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Facebook, you're going to have this

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overhang of all the like, oh, I shouldn't be doing this. Oh,

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I shouldn't be doing this. Oh, I shouldn't be doing this. For that you need

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to be doing for your work because it was something that could have gotten

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you in trouble in your previous job. If

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this happens for you, just want you to know you're not nuts.

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It's normal. It's just something that your nervous system is going to have

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to get over. Because remember, your brain is designed to

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identify danger. When you worked for a corporate company

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and being on Facebook was bad, and if you got caught on it, it could

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get you in trouble. That's a dangerous thing because it could cost you your

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job. So when you start your business, your brain

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doesn't switch over immediately. The danger sensors in your

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brain do not automatically correct for your new environment.

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So you're going to feel anxiety doing stuff on social media when

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you're working in your business. And that's so normal. And I promise you

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you'll get over it. The

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final thing I want to talk about that happens when you break

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away from your full time corporate job and go full time in your

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business is you have to train the people in

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your life to honor your new work

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hours. I

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can't tell you how many times this happened for me and how often this happens

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for my clients that once they go out full time on their own and they

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quote, unquote, have all this free time, their friends and

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family are like, oh, are you free on Tuesday? Because we're

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going wine tasting. Would you like to come with? Oh,

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would you mind babysitting our child on Thursday afternoon?

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Because we have some appointments we have to go to. Oh, I see

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that you are standing around the house not really

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doing anything that's perceivable to me. Would you mind

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doing this and this and this many tasks around the house since you're

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just here not doing anything to your friends and family,

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you will look unemployed. You will

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appear unemployed until you start

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honoring your working hours.

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During the pandemic. When I was locked down with my family, this

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was something that I had to train my parents on because

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I do a lot of work on my cell phone. And I totally get

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how being on your cell phone writing something or

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being on social media looks like you're just fucking around.

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It looks like you're just kind of like texting people and messing

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around and having fun. That was my work.

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And I can't tell you how many times I'd be like mid writing a whole

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marketing post for my business. And my dad would start telling me

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about something really interesting that he saw in the news and he'd start telling

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me his story. And I felt so bad in those moments because I'd have to

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stop him and be like, dad, I'm right in the middle of writing something and

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I have a train of thought and I don't want to lose it. Can you

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hold this for a little while? Can you tell me about this later? Because I

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can't focus on this right now. Because I'm going to forget what I'm trying to

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say here and I'm actually sitting here doing work right

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now. There's also to combine the

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previous point with this point. You'll be sitting at home and on

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social media and you could be on social media taking a break

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from the work. You could be playing a game on your computer, taking a break

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from the work, and your spouse or your child or your

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roommate will walk past and you're going to feel judged by

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them. And they may make a snide comment of, oh, must be

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nice to do that. Must be nice to not have to do work

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all day. If you let those comments get to you,

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you're going to be less productive. Those comments are dopamine

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killers. You

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one of the best things that you can do for yourself as you're building this

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business is to keep your mood positive.

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And some things that keep your mood positive are playing games on

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your phone, watching cute cat videos on YouTube,

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death scrolling on Instagram, or TikTok for funny

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reels. Those things actually do make you

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happier in the moment, which makes you more able to

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learn, which gives you more access to your creativity. Both

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are incredibly important things for you to

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have when you're starting this business. This is going to be something that you

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have to learn so much in so little time with a lot of

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pressure on you. Being able to learn faster is just going to

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help. If watching 20 minutes of cat videos is going

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to help you be happier and learn better, go and watch the cat

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videos. Don't let anyone shame you for that. At its core,

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you just have to get really good at setting boundaries with your loved ones.

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I will also add that starting a business and going full time into it

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and betting on yourself in this way is one of the

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bravest, hardest things you're ever going to do.

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And I know you're smart and I know you're capable and I know you have

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figured out tough things before. This is not

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a test to prove how smart you are, though. This is not a test to

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prove how capable you are of figuring shit out. This is

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starting a business. So if you get up and running

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and if you're struggling to land clients and if you're

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struggling to figure out what to do for your marketing or how to create an

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offer or any part of the business, I want you to recognize

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that you were never taught this in school. They don't teach

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entrepreneurship in elementary school, middle school, high school, or

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college unless you take a very specific

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entrepreneur class, which I have had clients who've

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taken entrepreneurial classes and they said that it was completely

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useless in actually starting a business. You also did not come out of the

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uterus naturally knowing these things. Some things that you

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did come out of the uterus with, knowing how to breathe, knowing to

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blink, knowing to cry when you're hungry.

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Okay? Nowhere in that list is knowing how

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to find a niche, create an offer, market the

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offer, sell the offer, all those things. It's not something

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that you have to expect yourself to know inherently. And

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also, I want to remind you, the only reason I train on this is

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because I had a ten year career in sales and

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marketing. I just so happened to work in

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industries that had business models

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that were very similar could be transferred over into

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service based entrepreneurship. I hit the

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jackpot with all the things that I did that led me up to knowing how

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to do this stuff. If you didn't have that list of

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experiences, it's okay that you don't know what you're

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doing. It's acceptable. It's not proof that you're not smart.

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It's not proof that you're not capable. It's not proof that you can't figure out.

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You absolutely could. But how long do you want to take?

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Figuring it out is the big question. If you're

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independently wealthy and you're doing this for fun and you just really

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love complicated puzzles and putting random

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shit together and just throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing what works, then

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absolutely take as long as you want. But if you need this business

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to actually make money so you can pay the bills, then you have

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to figure out, what is that figure it out timeline.

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And when is that moment that you're going to have to say, you know what?

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I either need help or I need to give up. And if you hit that

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point, or if you realize you just don't want to waste the time trying to

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figure it out, then I want you to go to the link in the show

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notes and I want you to book a generate income strategy call with

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me, and the link for that is

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Weeniecast.com strategy.

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On this call, we will break down exactly what your big dream is for

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this business. Talk through all the things that you're getting stuck on in building

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it by yourself. And if it's a fit for both of us, we'll talk about

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different ways to work together. And if it's not a fit for both of us,

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I will point you in the direction of some resources that will massively help

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you.

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120 pound Irish wolfhound. And Luna doesn't like dogs that are

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bigger than her. She is really vocally mean

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to them. Squirrel. Squirrel,

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