Are you a solopreneur looking to find success and balance even as you work from home? If that’s the case, you have to recognize what’s going to make you balanced and healthy to run your business is doing what’s good for it and not how other people dictate.
In this episode of Building Better Businesses with Catalyst Consulting, we have Ceci Garrett, a clinical social worker specializing in trauma-informed, family systems-based treatment for hoarding disorder. Her style is person-focused and empathic with a ton of relationship-building and clutter-busting.
Listen in to learn the importance of having accountability partners as a solopreneur to help you get through failures and bad experiences. You will also learn the qualities to look for in a therapist/coach to avoid choosing wrongly.
[0:46] Get to know Ceci’s personal life, professional life, and a fun fact about her.
[5:04] How she’s helping Christian women solopreneurs have accountability while working remotely.
[12:38] How to stop coding bad experiences as failures and instead look for other workable options.
[19:13] Ceci’s career journey and how she ended up in her current business as a child of trauma.
[25:18] The importance of having an accountability community when working from home.
[32:22] The top three things that explain what she does to help solopreneurs with their processes.
[41:11] Tips on the qualities you need to look for in a counselor/ therapist/ coach to avoid being wrong.
[48:26] Why you shouldn’t let benchmarks set by other people determine how you run your business.
“The reality is that success is often lined with the road of discomfort.”- Ceci Garrett [13:30]
“If you’re an entrepreneur, your number one responsibility is yourself because you can’t help anybody with anything if you’re not taking care of yourself.”- Ceci Garrett [29:11]“The point of solopreneurship being in business by yourself for yourself is because you didn’t fit well somewhere else.”- Ceci Garrett [49:00]
Check out her Community group, Exousia Sisterhood, in Mighty Networks: https://exousia.mn.co/
Her freebie for entrepreneurs is her FB group--Exousia Sisterhood: https://www.facebook.com/groups/399427792142901
Know someone with a hoarding issue? Go check out the website: https://cecigarrett.com
A freebie workbook for adult children who have a parent who hoards (PWH). https://cecigarrett.com/free-workbook/
To learn more about Ceci and her offerings, check out her stuff below:
- Email: [email protected]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CeciGarrett
- Website: https://cecigarrett.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecigarrett/
Check out my featured affiliate ads from today's episode:
- Brittany Ratelle (Legal Templates, gets you 30% of any item) https://lddy.no/12luy
- Monday.com (Project/Task Management) https://mondaycom.grsm.io/catalyst