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When you’re miserable in corporate, starting your own business feels like the ultimate escape, but if you don't address your corporate survival habits first, you're going to drag them straight into your new venture. You will literally trade one bad boss for five difficult clients.

In this episode, we break down the 10 corporate habits that quietly sabotage new entrepreneurs, and how to spot them before they tank your business.

The 10 corporate habits we cover:

1. Low self-worth
2. Fear of visibility
3. Asking for permission
4. Poor boundaries
5. Lack of trust
6. Over-delivering
7. Hyper-independence
8. Perfectionism
9. Feeling guilty
10. Not giving yourself grace

You don't have to carry this baggage into your new future.

Ready to see where you stand? 

Take the Corporate Leap Assessment at BreakUpWithCorporate.com to identify your habits and build a clean exit on your own terms.

BreakUpWithCorporate.com by Debbie Mitten, Business Mentor at Virtually Debbie.

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If you are trying to leave a toxic corporate job to start a business, you probably think working for yourself is the ultimate escape. 

Changing your surroundings won’t fix your problems if you keep using the same old rules to run your life.

A toxic workplace operates exactly like a bad relationship. The gaslighting, the broken promises, and the constant feeling that you're never doing enough force you straight into survival mode. The things you had to do to keep the peace and stay safe when you were a kid become the exact ways you handle work today.

If you don't look at what's really going on right now, you will walk straight into entrepreneurship and build the exact same prison you just escaped. You’ll just be letting a difficult client push you around instead of a bad boss.

Whether you are plotting your escape or already struggling to build your business, survival habits like people-pleasing, perfectionism, and deep trust issues tag along for the ride. You didn't risk everything to work for yourself just to build a different version of a miserable job.

In this episode, we are looking in the mirror and getting radically honest about why we really struggle at work and how to finally break the cycle.

Connect with Debbie and book a strategy session:

Website: BreakUpWithCorporate.com

BreakUpWithCorporate.com by Debbie Mitten, Business Mentor at Virtually Debbie.

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If you're a woman who has ever fantasized about quitting your job and building something of your own, this show is for you.

Welcome to Break Up With Corporate. I'm Debbie Mitten, a business mentor and recovering corporate survivor with 37 years inside the machine. I started this podcast for the woman who's exhausted, undervalued, and quietly planning her exit.

We cover how to plan your escape, how to build a sustainable business and how to make sure the burnout, perfectionism, and people-pleasing you learned in corporate doesn't follow you straight into entrepreneurship. 

Short episodes. Real talk. The occasional f-bomb.

Find me at BreakUpWithCorporate.com and let's get you out.

BreakUpWithCorporate.com by Debbie Mitten, Business Mentor at Virtually Debbie.