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In these conversations, your host Amanda Bedell, sits down with trailblazing women entrepreneurs who have excelled in industries traditionally dominated by men.
In these interviews, we unearth strategies, navigate challenges, and uncover secrets that have led these women to the coveted first million, and beyond.
In this episode,
Danielle Dinkelman, a sought-after coach and speaker known for her philosophy of doable, enjoyable changes for lasting results, shares with Amanda some tactical steps to creating more self-care, or, as mentioned in the episode, self-respect for ourselves as we grow businesses.
Amanda acknowledges that self-care can feel elusive and asks for what a practice could look like.
Danielle mentioned a few clues viewers can consider as "self-care," including finding something that feels:
- restful
- playful
- like you're learning
- like you're alive
- like you're yourself.
Danielle recommended two resources for entrepreneurs aiming to achieve their first million while prioritizing self-care.
These resources include the book "Essentialism" by Greg McKeown https://a.co/d/d4MRNOU, which emphasizes the importance of self-care by advocating to "protect the asset" (spoiler: that's you!).
Additionally, she suggested "The ONE Thing" by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan https://a.co/d/cQMwfBl, which offers a valuable strategy for managing overwhelm by posing a crucial question:
"What is the one thing that, if accomplished, would make everything else on your to-do list easier or unnecessary?"
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielledinkelman
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there let's see go hello everyone
welcome to her first million a new
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women business owners in manufacturing
construction and the trades I'm Amanda
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journey with her first million we're
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them in your business um so that we can
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transform and her journey is a testament
to the incredible potential that awaits
inside of each of you so without further
Ado let's Dive Into the Heart of her
first million and welcome my first guest
Danielle hi Danielle hello Amanda
thanks an accident hopefully that
doesn't give us a hiccup but I'm just
gonna give us a second I clicked the
wrong
button um so with Danielle Danielle is a
um it's still kind of thinking so I'm
just going to chill here for a minute
make sure that we don't lose
anything
um so there we go I see that my online
is working now so Danielle thank you for
uh holding there for a moment but thanks
for being here Danielle is a national
board certified health and wellness
coach and the author of the book If
diets don't work what does as a thought
after coach and speaker Danielle is
known for her philosophy of doable
enjoyable changes for longlasting
results Danielle lives in my home state
of Oregon in a city called Oregon City
with her husband and four children she
is trained mu classical musician an avid
bird watcher tree lover pickle ball
addict and rock climbing Enthusiast
which I luckily get to see that rock
climbing wonderfulness that happens on
your Facebook page now that I um am
Facebook friends with you so that's
really fun thank you for being here
absolutely my
pleasure so can you tell us a little bit
about the definition of self-care so to
me self-care um feels like one of those
elusive words that I don't really quite
understand what it is I thought I was
doing it um how do I what is the
definition of
self-care that's a great question I
don't have a structured
definition I think that each of us get
to kind of find what that means to us
and it will look different for each
person for me I know I'm doing self-care
right when I feel okay and when I feel
like I can show up at my at my best for
my family for my friends my community my
work when I start to feel frazzled
stretched too
far overworked just tired or bitter
resentful when things start to feel like
a chore like it's a physical experience
it's also a mental emotional energetic
experience so answer your question
self-care is whatever it takes for you
to not feel that way and on the other
side on the flip side we want to feel
like we can show up we we are giving
from our abundance of energy to all the
things that we care about and and that
there's there's this level of ease and
flow and I got to tell you I haven't
figured that out 100% yet it's an
ongoing process it's an exploration but
I've been engaged in that for some time
now and I feel like I've definitely
learned some lessons for myself as well
as in my coaching experience of what
what that looks like for other people
and it is
different it's different uh how is
self-care connected to business growth
in your opinion in my opinion it's
essential especially with the folks that
we're talking to folks that
that are running businesses that are
incredibly demanding right uh so you
focus on folks that are in the trades
especially women that are in the trades
and I love that I was I was raised by a
Tradesman uh my dad has been uh a
solopreneur uh carpet cleaner for the
last 30 plus years and I that's that's
the that's the space I grew up in and I
watched him struggle I've watched him be
successful and kind of both on the
business side and the personal family
side seeing that
so you know I think we learn really well
from watching other people's mistakes I
know I do and I I always admired my dad
for kind of this work your guts out sort
of work ethic and that's how I showed up
for a really long time and it wasn't
until I burned out the first time first
of multiples that I started to realize
maybe there's another way to do this and
maybe maybe building a successful
business doesn't have to come at the
cost of whatever it is for you maybe
it's your happiness maybe it's your
physical health maybe it's your your
zest for Life whatever that is for my
dad it's just like been watching his
body just deteriorate and he still wants
to be young and spritely and fun but
then he does those things and then he
pays for him because he he literally
just like sacrifices his body in this in
this business he's in but
so I don't know did that answer your
question it's like definitely you have
to you have to take care of yourself in
the process it is essential to take care
of
yourself and you know what resonated
with me was the burnout piece and so
you've experienced burnout what I've
heard before uh so when I back when I
owned my bakery business so I had a
bakery business in:um I probably slept a handful of hours a
night for multiple years um I had a
wholesale manufacturing facility I had a
retail store I had um staff running
seven days a week three shifts and it
was Mayhem just to say um you know
that's just how it felt it didn't feel
like that in the moment but when I would
talk to other folks about burnout and
self-care um what I heard and maybe this
isn't what they said but what I heard
what I interpreted was that when burnout
happens it happens again Fair fairly
quickly so when you experienced burnout
what did that look like for you what
were the feelings that came up and what
did burnout feel like for
you yeah so one of my more recent
experiences with burnout was actually
after I wrote my book and it's been four
years now since I wrote that and and I
sprinted on it hard I I wrote that book
in six months I wow
like from the Inception the idea to
publishing it was a six-month
process and that's insane if you've ever
written a book that's absolutely insane
so what it felt like for me was hitting
a wall is how I describe it I can't move
forward I have nothing left to give I
don't wanna like I don't want to play
anymore I don't want don't wna I don't
want any of it I don't want my life uh
and all it's all of it it's my work it's
my family like I just was no good to
anyone uh in including myself especially
myself I was just
done yeah I see burnout show up in me
when my brain doesn't work I call it
when my brain doesn't work it just shuts
off um I have to
watch
TV nonstop so um I've literally watched
like four to six movies in a row where
the movies I don't even remember what
they are I don't even care when I'm
selecting them that's how much like I
see that with you what you just said
like I don't care I don't care about my
life uh I also get a little bit of guilt
in the back of my mind I'm thinking I
should be doing something right now
that's furthering my career my family my
goals
um but I do allow myself that one um the
the one full day where those stories
like intertwine and and I do live
through that guilt process but I guess
um I want to kind of transition our
conversation to okay those are the
feelings of burnout how do we identify
what self-care means to us and what are
some of the things that we can um what
are some of the things that we can do
like getting out of the burnout stage
yeah so I look at it a few different
ways if you're already in Burnout you
need to do something drastically
different than what you would need to do
to prevent burnout those those two
things are very different so okay like
recovering from burnout you do need to
stop everything you need to go down to
the absolute bare minimum and you need
to like I I look at it as like healing
your relationship with your self it's
like you need to send a message to
yourself your body your spirit however
you want to think about it loud and
clear that I hear you we overdid it I'm
gonna I'm gonna take a step back and I'm
gonna do it different right and if you
need a coach come talk to me so help you
through that it's different when we are
wanting to prevent getting to that point
right and I have experienced all of it
I've experienced having to recover and
I've experienced now I'm more aware than
I've ever been before of when I can kind
of see the early signs that o okay I'm
starting to I'm starting to overdo it
again
so how to navigate self-care leading up
to that and preventing it is constant te
checking in with
yourself do you
have some quiet time and this is
laughable right for like the I know you
have four children how does this happen
in the
bathroom no not even in the
and I'm even thinking for the Mayhem you
described in your business right this is
this might be laughable to women that
are running a business and probably
having some sort of family and social
life and Community involvement right we
we are whole people living a whole life
so it might be
laughable but that's why it's so
essential it is so essential to find
that quiet time and that can look so
many different ways for some people
that's a meditation practice for
me it's
waking up before my kids wake up and
even if it's 5 minutes 10 minutes 15
minutes gloriously if I can get 30 40 60
minutes if I can wake up before them and
come into a space that's mine and just
be still and just be quiet and just
observe how am I feeling in my body my
neck hurts uh my hips are kind of sore
um my chest is tight maybe it's hard to
take a full breath okay checking in with
the body and then it's checking in with
my mind like where where do my thoughts
want to run to right and if you've if
you've looked into meditation you you
know that there's practices around that
of just observing and not judging the
thoughts you're not trying to change
them you're just being The Observer
that's a place to start and then
checking in emotionally where are my
emotions right now am I am I feeling
happy am I feeling sad am I feeling
angry can we identify that can we name
it right so wow you could do that whole
thing what did that take that took maybe
45 seconds for me to walk through that
right and and I can tell even just in in
you Amanda that you like feel more
centered and grounded right now because
you are just doing that with me right
which is awesome it is that easy okay so
we need to give that space and maybe
you've practiced this before and so I
have no idea where you're coming from
with this but even those that are
listening to this right now did that
impact you to be asked those questions
could you carve out some space even if
it's 5 or 10 minutes to start that is
just yours to be still and be silent and
start asking those questions what I
would then do from there is to finish a
session like that with the question what
do I
need what do I need what does my body
need what does my mind
need what is what is my heart need
whatever it is like better if can go
full picture and holistic with it in all
of those
dimensions and then what can you do
today to answer that question you know
and the hardest this I've worked with
people that live in the Mayhem that you
described and this is really hard work
this is a really really hard thing I'm
asking but it is so powerful and it is
the biggest gift you can give yourself
is to answer that question and to meet
your own needs it might
mean I
need I need to end work a little earlier
today so that I can just have some chill
time with my partner maybe that's trust
whatever comes into your mind honestly
like trust the thing and then the the
brain that comes in and says you can't
do that you don't have time for
that you can say I hear you I think I'm
going to try it
anyway you know so that's where I would
start and I would trust where the
intuition and where those thoughts take
you of what would feel really supportive
to me today there's lots of different
ways we can frame those
questions that's a place to start so I
might take us back a little bit and and
I love those tools that you just gave us
but just to reinforce what that means I
guess uh for me I have always been
someone that's been in my head and you
know we work in places where uh there's
a lot of male energy around us all the
time male dominated Industries can be in
any industry but trades manufacturing uh
it uh Tech uh we are women who are
already doing so much to stay ahead in
our fields in our business to um you
know we ow sometimes have to show up
overprepared um and I can see you know
past Amanda so I've done a lot of work
since I left my bakery business and
healing uh my healing Journey has
brought me to a place where I can do
exercises like that but if I look back
at:she would have she would have been like
listening to H quiet time yeah no like
am I gonna break down you know some of
the questions that I had for myself and
the reason why I never sought out even a
business coach or anyone that had coach
at the end of their names was because it
had a lot I Associated it with therapy
and I didn't need a therapist and to be
honest when I dig deeper into that it
was I was scared that if I told the
truth of what was going on in my
business or if I stopped and thought in
any
capacity um that I would break uh I
would turn into a crying model I don't
love crying I think um you you know that
that
vulnerability when someone told me in
or:be your superpower Amanda and I said
what the heck is that and that sounds
terrible and weakness and is written all
over that I'm gonna keep this wall up
and I'm gonna keep thinking um because I
can think my way out of anything um but
it turns out that I can't um so if we
can back back into why is self care so
important to business owners on their
road to that 1
million well can I just
say that if we are
women in a male dominate dominated
industry
which I I feel that way I I mean I'm in
I'm in the B2B space my my company
provides an employee wellness program to
other companies mhm
I'm in the business
world I feel like I have to keep up I
have to show up I have to overperform
over prepare all of those things to keep
up right to
compete that's a lot that's a
lot I think there's way I think there's
another way and
I I think that if we
embraced our feminine energy our
intuition our heart-c centeredness our
compassion our our nurture instincts for
ourselves and others I have
seen amazing women building amazing
businesses with amazing
culture that to
me is it gives me hope for the future
that our business world can evolve and
our business world can heal our business
world can get to a place of wholeness
that it doesn't have to be male male
dominated energy whether that's men or
women showing up in masculine energy
that it has to
be just this way and it has to be all in
our head but if we can normalize
dropping into our heart dropping into
our gut if we can normalize
that wow I I want be a part of that
economy so just putting that out there
that's exciting to
me
that's collaborative is what I hear I
hear intuition I hear and you know which
is one shift that I made in the in
communicating with people is using the
word replacing the word I think with I
feel o yeah so that's one trick that I
learned recently I mean this has just
been the last maybe six months is um I
just
transitioned the that word instead of
any time I wanted to say I think this
this this this this this it's I feel
that I and then it just helps bring me
you know Place me back into feeling and
uh even if this sentence ends up the
same um it it just shifts it just a
little bit yes for me personally but
with you you know you know stressed out
business owners because you see them all
the time when you're um in that space um
employe employee Wellness that you do
now um you see these stressed out
business owners how can we improve our
self-care so we've got meditation as a
tool or not necessarily meditation but
that um that meditation 1.0 which can
take anywhere between 45 seconds to 5
minutes whatever you have time for
yourself tapping in we talked about that
what are some other ways that we can um
improve our
selfcare yeah I think it's the other
it's the other side of the conversation
that you have in that I'm going to call
it a check-in like yeah don't call it
meditation don't call it Stillness
silence and don't call it anything that
you feel resistance to call it something
that you can be like yeah I could do
that I could check in with myself I
think most people could be okay with
that the self-care practices the steps
is listening to yourself and answering
it right like you wouldn't you probably
wouldn't have an employee call you up
and
say oh my gosh my kid is super sick I I
need to I need to check out today I have
to go do this thing you wouldn't say
like that's not okay you're fired you
wouldn't do that you would say oh my
gosh totally yeah take care of it we we
got this covered thanks for letting me
know you would show up for that person
in that way right you would give them
space you would give them permission
right you would help them feel safe and
okay to do that thing give that to
yourself okay
so pick pick something
small I I would I would say pick
something small but
significant and then commit like like
draw a line in the sand so I'll give you
an
example actually for me uh we were
talking about bouldering right talking
about rock
climbing I I am still grappling with the
fact that I take an entire
morning I I leave at I leave my house at
9:30 every Monday morning and I do not
come back until 12
o'clock wow I know right okay that's
like like I almost feel like
self-conscious like admitting that I
take that much time for myself and isn't
that funny that I think that that's not
okay isn't that interesting so yeah are
there tradeoffs that I build in around
that to to make that functional make
that work for my business yes for
example yesterday I was up at 6:00 am
working on a report for a
client okay no big deal like that's the
trade-off that I'm choosing right and as
business owners you get to choose your
trade-offs yeah you get you get to
design your day you get to design your
business you get to design your world
that's part of the really cool thing
about being a business owner so be
careful of the shoulds and the have toos
and the I can'ts that show up because
it's like Is that real or is that just
in my head could I just like break that
rule could I make a new rule my new rule
is I go climbing every Monday
morning I check out and it is one of the
most
productive three hours of my
week because I come home totally high on
endorphins I'm so excited to do it again
next week
it's productive so find something so
don't don't take three hours out of your
day right now if you're doing nothing
for self-care please don't do that I'm
giving you an extreme example but I am
saying draw a line in the sand so for me
like I've made it's on my calendar and
it's on my work calendar my assistant
that helps me manage my calendar she
sees that and she might be judgmental
about it and that's okay but it's I know
that this helps me show up at my best so
what what is a small thing that you
could start doing that would help you
show up a little better so I'm going to
give you some categories to think about
yeah something that would feel
restful we really suck at resting you
you gave us great example of that right
we traditionally we really suck at
resting and that could be you know not
getting enough sleep that's one piece it
could
be uh gosh I have a puzzle in my family
room right now that's restful to me to
just like give myself permission to okay
I just finished that meeting with my
coaching staff I'm gonna take five
minutes I'm just gonna go like do this
puzzle like that's restful letting
yourself be okay so and this is
brainstorm stuff that you can be doing
of like what would feel restful the
other piece what would feel
playful that climbing for me is playful
it's play it's a puzzle on the wall that
I get to do with my body and it is so
freaking
fun play is productive okay it opens our
minds it clears our thoughts it's so
productive it's so cool so what would be
playful I also really enjoy playing
pickle ball okay I'm going to go hang
out with girlfriends tonight playing
pickle wall do something that's playful
have a dance party in your kitchen when
you're making dinner
tonight you know like plan a fun silly
date with your partner like something
playful okay uh and then like there's
other categories you can play with for
me I feel more myself when I'm learning
something when I'm like
intellectually engaged and excited about
something so I always love having a book
that I'm learning
something you know find out what those
other categories might be for you like
what helps you feel alive what helps you
feel more
yourself right and for me I'm a learner
that's my thing and then I think play
and rest is for everybody everybody
needs that and everybody generally sucks
at it and we all need
especially as grown-ups yeah especially
as grown-ups oh my goodness we take
ourselves way too seriously and and I've
only figured that out maybe about five
years
ago so it's a process so permission
right and starting
small but then being really if you can
be so rigid about your work like get
rigid about your play like get really
strict about your rest protected um all
of that
we we do all of the amazing things for
our business for our work for our
team take a look at that like observe
yourself and like can you hold a mirror
up and say am I am I giving
myself all of that amazing care because
that's what it is care
respect okay I'm I'm offering that to
others am I offering that to myself
that's another like if you don't like
the word self-care call it self-respect
that is really it it self-respect is
helpful for me because I self-care feels
like it could be a buzzword it's used
all over um it could mean massage like
it could mean all kinds of things that
um and but at the
essence at the end of the day when I was
in that space with my bakery um
self-care ha was the furthest away from
my um ethos because I was in survival um
my cash flow was so
tight um I kept getting Revenue but the
profit was not there uh I was missing
the profit piece I couldn't figure it
out um so I was in a high stress
situation and when people said play to
me I was like what are you talking about
and I see my s it's patterns right so I
see myself doing that even now as I'm
building out this new I have a new
membership model and I'm almost like I'm
starting again another startup um within
my startup and I I notice myself slip
and I know for viewers who maybe like I
was um in my first business you can say
oh yeah self-care whatever or you hear
this idea of play or rest
and it feels like it's for someone else
but the times that I have allowed myself
to rest I'm so surprised at the AHA
moments I have even while resting the
creativity that comes back um even last
week I worked straight through even on
at night I you know I've got um some
life changes that are happening with me
that have made it where my weekends are
really full so I don't have my weekends
to work on my business anymore anym
which is really good but that means that
I pack it all in in the weeks and I just
keep going going going so then the
creativity Falls um I am less productive
I do just what I need to do in order to
make that next thing happen and then I
start to feel that almost burnout so
we're going full circle in our
conversation today but one of the things
that has come up in my um in this
journey as I continue to like kind of
play out what uh this all looks like in
you know a really successful business
seven figure business and being
healthy um one of the things that I see
in my clients and I even see myself in
these moments are that it I feel
restrictive I feel as though I don't
breathe fully
in and fully
out and that breathing piece even just
doing that so when you're saying a baby
step when you're
saying um You Don't Have To Call It
self-care you don't have to call it self
respect you don't have to call it
meditation but just a full breath in and
one full breath out you will be so
surprised how much you don't fully
breathe yeah yeah and yeah the body will
tell
you the body
knows let it talk to you when you try
that and and you feel a constriction
it's like interesting what's that about
let's lean into that let's have a
conversation with ourselves let's check
in what's that
about and then the other really cool
thing that I've discovered this year in
October I had declared that I'm going to
move my body 20 minutes and I call it
movement not exercise yeah uh for me um
exercise is added stress and I already
am a very stressful filled person um and
so for me I had to take the word
exercise out and replace it with
movement so movement for me is 20
minutes it doesn't matter how fast or
how slow I go um movement 20 minutes a
day no matter what and it has it has you
know become something that is running
where I've even ran up to eight miles
recently and so uh those baby steps
build on each other and I think this
kind of leads
into one of my signature questions that
I love to ask my guests and kind of
wrapping this whole thing up can you
recommend any valuable resources books
or workshops that you'd recommend for
those driving for their first
million absolutely yeah especially from
this lens of
valuing that practice of taking care of
yourself uh is a book called
essentialism by Greg McKuen and he
actually has an entire chapter dedicated
to play and an entire chapter dedicated
to rest
and his chapter on rest I believe is
actually titled protect the asset and
guess what the asset
is it's
you yeah it's you so that
is it if those that are listening find
themselves kind of in what you're saying
Amanda of like your past version of of
you where there was a lot of resistance
to this stuff the self-care thing feels
too
fluffy if you're if you're feeling
resistance to that go check out that
book it is written by a man which I
think is actually amazing because he is
leading the way to this new paradigm
that I want to be a part of which is
more welcoming of the fact that we are
human
beings and we happen to have these
businesses and this work and these lives
that yes require structure and they
require work and they require discipline
and they require all these things and
and we're human we have hearts we have
Spirit we have energy we have lives we
have
relationships we have stories and Trauma
like we get to show up with all of it so
it's a fantastic book it's not woow woo
it's not out there it's actually very
mainstream in a way that's like so cool
to give people that are in that
mainstream mindset permission
and reasons it very much appeals to The
Logical brain to say you better take
care of
yourself I have not read that one so I'm
really excited to have that as a part of
my to-do list for reading um are there
any other tools and resources that you
want to share the other one that I could
share but I I hope that you'll all read
essentialism first the other one that I
could share is a book by
oh Gary Keller is his name it's called
the one
thing in that book he frames up a
question I this is what coaches do we we
we ask questions this is what a good
coach does so I really really like the
question he frames his entire book
around he calls it um the clarifying
question and let me see if I can
remember it what is the one
thing I can
do that will make all other things
easier or
unnecessary that's the question Isn't
that cool that's it it's a way of
helping you in and in the book he kind
of says it kind of helps you line up
your
dominoes right
we as busy entrepreneur
people our to-do lists are so long like
they they regularly overwhelm me my
to-do lists and if I can ask that
clarifying question then I know what the
first thing is that needs to that needs
my attention and that's so useful
because we always we always have a
mountain of things that we could do or
that we should do and if we can just cut
the overwhelm for a moment and just
focus in on that first Domino and treat
it like it is the only thing in the
universe focus on that one thing then
the other dominoes will fall more easily
some of them might not even be necessary
anymore if you do that one thing and let
me tell you your self-care
practices could be that one thing right
like what what you were saying of when
you take that time you notice your
creativity coming back whoa okay by
doing that one thing you made future
things easier because your creative
energy has been opened up
so I I call it a backdoor approach like
do not underestimate the
the the power of finding seemingly
unrelated things that make Domino's fall
easier and that book is a great place to
explore that idea the one thing and that
that question that you ask
yourself is so fundamental because of I
love that you alluded to and what I
heard you say is to do list plural to-do
list our to-do list have to-do list and
we can feel like that list is really
long but when you strip it down to that
asking that one thing that that one
thing that if everything that makes
everything else either easier or
completely
disappear that is a it it is amazing to
look at a to-do list and see you can see
that one thing that that first Domino I
talk about it all the time with my folks
so I love that you brought up the one
thing one of the essential items that we
need or valuable resources for our
companies to hit that million-- dooll
business and Beyond um an essentialism I
can't wait to read it it's a new one for
me I love that you brought that to my
attention protecting the asset um I'm
going to uh put together some of these
resources for everyone and get the links
there in the description uh here in a
little bit after we get done but for
first I want to thank you Danielle for
being here and sharing your insights
with me that is it was super helpful to
go from um you know something that can
be so easy like a word like self-care
and can kind of feel wooy to um
something that's tangible so absolutely
is there any last words that you want to
give to our viewers before we head
out yeah I think just to to tie it all
together when you talk about the to-do
lists
plural that is not the purpose of being
on this
planet oh wow it's not like really do we
get to the end of our day our month our
year do we get to the end of our
life and feel good about ourselves
because we checked a million million
million millions of
boxes I don't think so so I you know I
think it just we need some perspective
and as I Was preparing for our
conversation today I wrote this
down success without
well-being really isn't
success I think we get so fixated and we
I absolutely include myself in this and
I'm I'm still in my process of like kind
of peeling back the layers on
this success for the sake of success is
like pretty Hollow pretty empty so you
might step back and think like why do I
even do what I do why am I even building
the business I'm building and you might
you might say well I'm in
survival because that that's what you
shared and we you know yeah it's how
we're putting food on the
table if we can get Beyond Survival if
we can get to with your help I love the
amazing things that you're doing for
your folks of really hashing out how to
build a business that's actually
profitable if we can get past survival
into thriving
businesses then
what what are you going to do with that
what do you what do you really want what
is actually really important to you and
those are really confronting questions
that most people don't think that they
will ever get to ask themselves but if
you get help in your business or in your
life to get out of survival mode and
once we like get our head above water
it's amazing
how clarifying that can be of like whoa
I was chasing success for the sake of
success but now that I have it now what
do I
want and that's for me when it comes
down to it I I want to be well
physically mentally emotionally socially
I want to be well all of these ways so
that I can just do good for the people
in my business people in my family
people in my community for myself like
you got to you got to
clarify why you're doing what you're
doing and where are you going and if you
had everything if everything was done
then what and then can you can you
design a life that actually feels good
that
actually is fulfilling and feels
purposeful to you um and rest in play is
a part of that connection is a part of
that collaboration service those are
parts of that that those are the that's
the stuff of Being Human and I I think
we just need more Humanity in our
businesses and in our relationship with
work and it starts with this funny
little thing called self-care it's a
it's a place to start so maybe that's
that's what I'll leave you with of kind
of wrapping that all together but I
appreciate you opening up this
conversation Amanda because it needs to
happen and we need we need more people
like you that that are willing to yes
talk about the nitty-gritty details and
the and the mechanics and like all of
these busy things and to also talk about
the humanity and the heart and the soul
of of Being Human so thank you so much
yeah and that survival mode to Freedom
the Financial Freedom piece I love how
you just wrap that all together um
because you know that's where I go with
folks is when we're in survival mode we
just survive um but our goals are always
to get to a place of Freedom it tends to
be as business owners whether or not we
got into business because we're really
good at our jobs and we wanted to build
something for ourselves or we saw a
problem in the marketplace and wanted to
build something brand new or we're
manufacturing a new product underneath
all of that is still this idea that
Financial Freedom comes from owning a
business and when we get into business
is when we find out that we get
distracted that there's so much chaos we
don't know what to do so um it's with
those options when we get to the
financial piece of having Financial
wellness and it's not the million it
doesn't have to be Financial Freedom is
um you know that profit that's enough
where you can pay your bills that gives
you options and the options are Can you
hire someone can we have a better life
and I dare to say that if we can take
care of
ourselves in the way that we talked
about if I could go back to where I was
and put into play some of these even
simple things as breathing and um that
conversation that we talked about in our
heads um and listening to what's going
on in our heads and either letting that
conversation either go or having that be
oh that's my intuition that's bringing
me pushing me towards something and
listening truly listening to that um
that I would have a different life now
but I dare to say what I'm trying to get
at is that we would have a different
world and a healthier World means that
we have healthier kids with healthier
kids we have a better economy we have
families that are together so that's I
mean it's such a big conversation and so
great to you know just dip our toe in it
just a little bit um and you know you
alluded to it Danielle of that we're
peeling back the layers we're not done
so Danielle's coming here as a wonderful
coach giving you experiences that she's
had so far but and I have my coaches my
Consultants my advisor my mentor I have
four people that are of you know that
can see um outside what I can't see um
we're not done I'm not done so you have
to settle in as business owners we have
to kind of settle in into this
uncomfortable peeling back um the layers
of what it means to get there absolutely
getting there being like having our
successful business whatever that means
to you absolutely oh my gosh thank you
so much for all of these insights
Danielle I feel like we could keep going
for
another hour or more but we'll let our
team or let our viewers soak in what we
have please um thank you again Danielle
for being here and um thank you so much
for these insights we'll have the links
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