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Episode Summary
Your business plan thinks it's a machine, but your soul knows it's a living ecosystem. This episode is for everyone who's tired of treating their business like it should run on autopilot while wondering when entrepreneurship became so... soul-crushingly exhausting.
What if your business could actually breathe? What if instead of optimizing for efficiency, you designed for aliveness? This isn't about throwing strategy out the window - it's about remembering that sustainable growth happens when you stop forcing outcomes and start nurturing conditions.
What You'll Hear:
- The reason your business keeps having mysterious energy crashes (hint: machines have meltdowns, ecosystems just need snacks)
- The memo that got lost in the mail about presence being the new productivity
- What happens when your business stops treating your soul like an all-you-can-eat buffet
- The fine art of spotting sophisticated burnout when it's wearing its best business casual outfit
Reflection Prompt:
Where is your business politely trying to tell you it needs more room to breathe?
Try This:
Do a "Business Aliveness Check-In":
- Take inventory: what feels forced versus what flows like you're dancing with it
- Find one area that feels like swimming upstream in peanut butter and ask: "What wants to emerge here if I stop controlling the outcome?"
- Choose one tiny experiment in flow this week and see what your business whispers back
Mentioned in this episode:
- Inspired by Intuitive Business
- Connects to Alive by Design
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