Building Balance

Solo business mini series part 2.

Running a business of one feels in theory like it should be fairly simple. So how did things get so complicated?

If you’re like me, you started your business to do the thing you love doing, while having balance, freedom, and flexibility in your life. But in reality, maybe it hasn’t turned out quite like that.

Maybe you keep pushing through with to-dos late at night instead of winding down for the day at a decent hour.

Maybe you’re prioritizing business tasks over time with your loved ones, or hobbies, or even health.

Maybe you can’t stop thinking about work even when you’re out with friends, or when you finally get a quiet moment to yourself all you can think about is what else you need to do for your business.

Today I wanna talk about 6 reasons small businesses can get so complicated, and why tasks start piling up (and piling up fast!)

Resources I mentioned in the episode:

Leidy Klotz’s book: Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

Leidy Klotz’s interview on the How To Be Awesome At Your Job Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/684-achieving-more-by-tapping-into-science-less-leidy/id1106548091?i=1000528577751

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Solo business mini series part 1.

It can feel daunting to reduce your work hours to build more balance into your life as a business owner, if you still need to grow your business and generate more income.

Even if your schedule is stuffed with client work (and with everything else that comes with wearing all the hats in your business), you can probably reclaim some of your time for the things you'd like to make space for – without sacrificing your revenue.

It starts with acknowledging where you are right now, so you know where you're building from.

This episode is a bit of a pep talk – an appetizer to what's to come over the next few weeks.

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Would you pause your regular weekly business activities, if it meant that you’d have time for creative thinking and could solve a huge thing in your business that would benefit you long term?

I did *a lot less stuff* in my business in the past week, to let myself think and ponder about the big picture, my messaging, and my positioning – because my coaching business is growing slower than I'd like it to.

And I wanted to share with you what I learned after having stepped away for a while.

Episode mentioned:

Episode 045: https://jennahellberg.com/episodes/045-productivity-for-entrepreneurs-and-creatives

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This week I'm chatting with my best business friend Lorin Galloway, a brand strategist and designer based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Ever since I've known her, she's had great boundaries and structure in place in her business and family life, which is why I thought she would have interesting things to share on the podcast.

Originally I was going to name the episode “Boundaries and structure in business with Lorin Galloway”. But after we chatted it didn’t feel like the title did justice to the main message of the episode: how it’s possible to honor your humanity while running a business.

In the episode, we chatted about:

– How Lorin follows the ebb and flow of life, business, and parenting so that she can honor her humanity while running her business

– Which boundaries and structures she has in place in her business

– What it looks like to experience balance as a business owner

– How she incorporated taking good care of herself into her life when she realized that it was missing

– How she defines success in business (Spoiler alert: it has nothing to do with a 7-figure USD paycheck)

Lorin's website: https://www.loringalloway.com

Lorin's Brand Messaging Guide: https://www.loringalloway.com/brand-messaging-checklist

Lorin's Pop-Up Design Week (she's giving a great discount on this new service for the first few to sign up): https://www.loringalloway.com/pop-up

Lorin runs a full-service brand and website design studio specializing in bringing intimacy to your story and message through meaningful and thoughtful visual details, so that you can grow confidence, clarity, and connection in your business.

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Today I’m going to talk about some psychological phenomena, some human tendencies, that might be making you feel like the successes you’ve seen so far haven’t really had the impact you had hoped for.

When you understand why the highs of your business accomplishments don’t last, you can be more intentional about what you spend time on and make more sustainable changes to your happiness level.

Episodes mentioned:

Episode 046: https://jennahellberg.com/episodes/046-truths-about-entrepreneurship-and-reaching-success-with-stacie-mitchell

Episode 029: https://jennahellberg.com/episodes/029-the-truth-about-being-a-high-achiever

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If you moved through life with the experience that when you put in the work, you also see results and rewards, being a business owner can get a bit frustrating sometimes. 

At first, I talk about what could be going on when that frustration feels extra strong, because when you understand it you can start to be a bit more understanding towards yourself and your situation.

And after that, I talk about what I find helpful when this frustration shows up. Sound cool?

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What would it look like if productivity and work-life balance could coexist? In this episode I'll share how you can use the three pillars of the Finnish lifestyle to make it work: good design, wholeness, and sisu.

The podcast episodes I mentioned:

Episode 018: https://jennahellberg.com/episodes/018-finnish-way-to-get-things-done-while-feeling-happy

Episode 025: https://jennahellberg.com/episodes/025-goal-setting-for-sustainable-business-growth

Episode 027: https://jennahellberg.com/episodes/027-redefining-what-business-success-means-to-you

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If you’re feeling heavy because of what’s going on in the world, whether that’s in your corner of the world or somewhere far from it, I wanted to record a special episode for you.

On Thursday last week I shared an IG post with a few tips with the go-to ways that I try to support myself when I'm not feeling quite like myself. That post seemed to resonate with people which tells me that people really needed that kind of support right now.

In this podcast, I'm going to dive deeper into the 7 ideas that I shared in the IG post, and share a few more thoughts that popped up during the weekend that didn't make it into that post.

The original IG post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CaYDXIiP4cB/

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Let me introduce you to my first-ever podcast guest, Stacie Mitchell. Stacie helps people quit careers, jobs, and other things that no longer fit them – even social media! She's the host of the Something Even Better podcast, and is based in Colorado.

Recently she published an episode where she covered truths about entrepreneurship and working for someone else.

The episode got me really excited, and I thought it would be really fun and interesting to talk to her about all the things that she covered – and realized it would make a cool podcast episode to share.

Listen to hear

- common myths around entrepreneurship and why it's sold to us as an identity

- who benefits from selling this dream of entrepreneurship

- how arrival fallacy and summit syndrome can affect how you feel about success in business

- how you can start looking at entrepreneurship with a more realistic eye

We recorded this episode a week before the invasion, and have talked about whether or not this is a good time to have the episode air –– and decided to stick to the original schedule. We hope the discussion is something interesting to listen to if you want to give your brain something else to chew on for an hour. ❤️

Stacie's website: https://www.staciemitchell.com

Something Even Better podcast: https://www.staciemitchell.com/podcast

Stacie's Quit Social Media resource: https://www.staciemitchell.com/social

Stacie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/staciemitchell/

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I don’t talk about productivity a lot because of how closely linked it is to hustle culture, and I don't appreciate the way productivity is usually talked about.

But *so many* of the business owners I talk to tell me that they feel like they’re not productive enough, that I figured it would be worth addressing.

If traditional productivity isn't a helpful model for business owners and creatives – what is? Let's talk about it.

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