How to Run Your Biz Without Hating Your Boss

Episode 8: Is Your Business Eating You Alive?

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🎙️ Episode 8: Is Your Business Eating You Alive?

The problem isn’t your workload. It’s who’s in charge.

In this solo episode, Michelle gets real about what it feels like when the business you built starts running you. Not always in dramatic, burnout fashion, but in the quieter, more dangerous ways: constant mental load, reactive decisions, and the slow erosion of your time, energy, and identity.

Including one very real moment: trying to take a break over Christmas, visiting family, intentionally leaving the laptop behind… and coming back to a messy business. When your business is running you, it follows you, quietly taking up space in your mind no matter where you are.

If you’ve ever felt like your business owns you, like you can’t step away, can’t think clearly, and definitely can’t “just take a break” this episode is for you.

In This Episode, We Explore:

  • What it really looks like when your business is “eating you alive”
  • How lack of clarity turns your business into a reactive machine
  • The identity trap of creative entrepreneurship — and why it’s so hard to separate yourself from your work
  • Why over-giving and under-protecting your energy leads to long-term burnout
  • The difference between reacting to your business and actually running it

    • This is about taking back control. Because the truth is, most business owners were never taught how to run a business. You were handed a machine with no manual and expected to figure it out while also doing the work itself.

    Grab your notebook and pencil, grab your coffee, your tea, or whatever else helps you cope with your business-induced anxiety… and let’s get started!

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    How to Run Your Biz Without Hating Your Boss is the podcast for creative entrepreneurs and service-based business owners who want to thrive professionally without sacrificing their values, peace, or creative integrity. Michelle and Sara share the hard-won wisdom you won’t find in generic business coaching or “just follow my simple formula” advice.

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      • Boa Constrictor by Shel Silverstein

      Oh, I'm being eaten

      by a boa constrictor
      A boa constrictor
      A boa constrictor
      I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
      And I don't like it - one bit.

      Well, what do you know?

      It's nibblin' my toe.
      Oh, gee,
      It's up to my knee.
      Oh my,
      It’s up to my thigh.
      Oh, fiddle,
      It's up to my middle.
      Oh, heck,
      It's up to my neck.
      Oh, dread,
      It's upmmmmmmmmmmmfffffffffff…

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      How to Run Your Biz Without Hating Your BossBy Michelle Markwart Deveaux