Today, Mel and I are taking over the podcast and talking to you about worktreats! What is a worktreat? Why would someone need one? 

We're going to cover all of the basic questions and more today on the show. 

 

A worktreat, or working retreat: time for CEOs to reflect, plan, and execute on high level priorities.

 

When we talk about CEOs, we're talking about people that own service-based or product-based businesses that may work by themselves or with a small team. Someone who has moved out of "I'm the doer" to "I'm the leader with more responsibilities". 

 

 

Today, Mel and I are taking over the podcast and talking to you about worktreats! What is a worktreat? Why would someone need one? 

We're going to cover all of the basic questions and more today on the show. 

 

A worktreat, or working retreat: time for CEOs to reflect, plan, and execute on high level priorities.

 

When we talk about CEOs, we're talking about people that own service-based or product-based businesses that may work by themselves or with a small team. Someone who has moved out of "I'm the doer" to "I'm the leader with more responsibilities". 

 

 

This week, we're talking to cartoonist and creative mentor, Jessica Abel - founder of the Creative Focus Workshop. She works with ambitious mid-career creative pros and businesses to escape the hamster wheel of busyness and carve out the deep focus needed to finish—and launch—the game-changing work they want to be known for.

Jessica is the author of Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You're Drowning in Your Daily Life, the graphic novel La Perdida, and two textbooks about making comics, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics. Her book Out on the Wire is about how the best radio and podcast producers in the world use story to keep us listening. Jessica’s latest work of fiction is the Eisner-nominated Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars. She is chair of the illustration program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

 

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This week, we're talking to cartoonist and creative mentor, Jessica Abel - founder of the Creative Focus Workshop. She works with ambitious mid-career creative pros and businesses to escape the hamster wheel of busyness and carve out the deep focus needed to finish—and launch—the game-changing work they want to be known for.

Jessica is the author of Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You're Drowning in Your Daily Life, the graphic novel La Perdida, and two textbooks about making comics, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics. Her book Out on the Wire is about how the best radio and podcast producers in the world use story to keep us listening. Jessica’s latest work of fiction is the Eisner-nominated Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars. She is chair of the illustration program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

 

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Are you running your business or is your business running you? Let me help you turn your goals into a reality. Schedule a free consultation today. 

In this episode, I have a conversation with Natasha Vorompiova over at Systems Rock, about doing less for bigger wins in business. Now before you go rolling your eyes and move on to another episode, we get it. Do less. Delegate. give it away. It's all overused and simplified business advice that gurus just love to give. Mainly because it's easy to say and there is some grain of truth to it. Doing less allows you to focus your efforts and go further in a single direction. But what's not normally talked about is that it usually costs both you and your business something to make that transition. Usually it costs time, revenue, and some mental strength on your part. The reality of doing less can be challenging and painful for a business owner who's just experienced the high of a growth season. So in this episode, Natasha and I set out to normalize the pain that comes with implementing a do less mentality. We talk about the signals in your business and team that tell you when it might be time to reevaluate your systems, and where you as a CEO need to start. We also talk about how to prepare your business for those changes so that you can be proactive instead of reactive to them. Natasha is a systems expert, but even she believes that the most successful transition of a CEO who wants to "do less", more focused work comes down to their willingness to be proactive about that transition.

 

Need a refresh? Get in touch with me about a customized worktreat for you and your team. 

In this episode, I have a conversation with Natasha Vorompiova over at Systems Rock, about doing less for bigger wins in business. Now before you go rolling your eyes and move on to another episode, we get it. Do less. Delegate. give it away. It's all overused and simplified business advice that gurus just love to give. Mainly because it's easy to say and there is some grain of truth to it. Doing less allows you to focus your efforts and go further in a single direction. But what's not normally talked about is that it usually costs both you and your business something to make that transition. Usually it costs time, revenue, and some mental strength on your part. The reality of doing less can be challenging and painful for a business owner who's just experienced the high of a growth season. So in this episode, Natasha and I set out to normalize the pain that comes with implementing a do less mentality. We talk about the signals in your business and team that tell you when it might be time to reevaluate your systems, and where you as a CEO need to start. We also talk about how to prepare your business for those changes so that you can be proactive instead of reactive to them. Natasha is a systems expert, but even she believes that the most successful transition of a CEO who wants to "do less", more focused work comes down to their willingness to be proactive about that transition.

 

Need a refresh? Get in touch with me about a customized worktreat for you and your team. 

Today's guest has spent the last three years purposefully experimenting with risk and reward in her business. Stephanie Stiavetti is an online cooking teacher on a mission to change the relationship that her students have with cooking. She helps them to go from hopeless and fearful to confident kitchen ninjas.

 

As you'll hear in our conversation, there are so many lessons and learning to be a competent cook that directly apply to running a business. In this episode, Stephanie and I talked about risk taking play, learning to trust yourself, perfectionism, and the smoky way in which Stephanie helps her students learn these lessons. The conversation is a great balance to last week's episode about the data and more technical parts of experimentation. This week, we're looking at the core of your business - YOU!

 

Where do you want to be 90 days from now? Take the assessment.

Today's guest has spent the last three years purposefully experimenting with risk and reward in her business. Stephanie Stiavetti is an online cooking teacher on a mission to change the relationship that her students have with cooking. She helps them to go from hopeless and fearful to confident kitchen ninjas.

 

As you'll hear in our conversation, there are so many lessons and learning to be a competent cook that directly apply to running a business. In this episode, Stephanie and I talked about risk taking play, learning to trust yourself, perfectionism, and the smoky way in which Stephanie helps her students learn these lessons. The conversation is a great balance to last week's episode about the data and more technical parts of experimentation. This week, we're looking at the core of your business - YOU!

 

Where do you want to be 90 days from now? Take the assessment.

This week we're chatting with business coach, Luisa Zhou. Luisa has an incredible coaching business built on the idea of helping everyone become a little bit more entrepreneurial. Whether it be by transitioning out of your corporate job and starting your own business, or staying in your 9-5 and creating a course to help you share your expertise, she has got you covered.

 

Luisa is internet famous in the online business world for her multi six-figure launches and building a seven-figure business, but often not talked about is how she was able to do it. It comes down to her ability to experiment and test with intention. She has done that by creating a business that makes room for trying and failing, keeping her team nice and lean, and preparing herself mentally for failure. 

 

Where do you want to be 90 days from now? Take the assessment.

This week we're chatting with business coach, Luisa Zhou. Luisa has an incredible coaching business built on the idea of helping everyone become a little bit more entrepreneurial. Whether it be by transitioning out of your corporate job and starting your own business, or staying in your 9-5 and creating a course to help you share your expertise, she has got you covered.

 

Luisa is internet famous in the online business world for her multi six-figure launches and building a seven-figure business, but often not talked about is how she was able to do it. It comes down to her ability to experiment and test with intention. She has done that by creating a business that makes room for trying and failing, keeping her team nice and lean, and preparing herself mentally for failure. 

 

Where do you want to be 90 days from now? Take the assessment.