Cash flow is a constant concern for business owners. According to Quickbooks, 60% of small business owners say that cash flow has been a problem for their business.

Even when you’re making a lot of sales, your business can still be strapped for cash because, as you know from experience, the money from these sales don’t always end up in your bank account in time to pay the monthly bills.

Entrepreneurs, especially in start-ups and micro-businesses, who worry about limited cash flow–in other words, scarcity–can find themselves in a fight/flight response.

So what can you do about it? Listen in to find out.

Transcript is here: https://www.shula.ca/stressed-over-cash-flow-how-to-stop-worrying-about-money-as-an-entrepreneur/

This podcast is brought to you by my self-guided virtual retreat. Create your customized mental and emotional wellness plan to keep Your CEO-self in the driver's seat so you don't flip your lid and blow up your business when the crap hits the fan.

Running a Business Can Run Down Your Mental Health As whole humans who own small businesses, a mental health plan should be part of your business strategy.

Boost your business with a mental health plan. Purchase the self-guided mental health plan workshop today. $99 USD includes workshop recording, enhanced transcript and worksheets. The link is https://entrepreneurstherapist.click/mhplan .

Do You Have a Scarcity Mindset?

Recognize these behaviors?

• Paying bills late despite having cash
• Fear of spending money
• Spending immediately out of fear it will disappear
• Avoiding bank accounts
• Withdrawing investments due to market dips
• Taking big risks for quick payoffs
• Impulse spending
• Constant debt worry or shame
• Fear of using your emergency fund
• No financial goals or plans

These are often seen as signs of a scarcity mindset. But is it really scarcity mindset, or is it money trauma?

This podcast is brought to you by my self-guided virtual retreat. Create your customized mental and emotional wellness plan to keep Your CEO-self in the driver's seat so you don't flip your lid and blow up your business when the crap hits the fan.

Running a Business Can Run Down Your Mental Health As whole humans who own small businesses, a mental health plan should be part of your business strategy.

Boost your business with a mental health plan. Purchase the self-guided mental health plan workshop today. $99 USD includes workshop recording, enhanced transcript and worksheets. The link is https://entrepreneurstherapist.click/mhplan .

Does any of this sound familiar?

• I'm just bad with money.
• I'm stuck in scarcity.
• I feel guilty about having money.
• I avoid my finances.
• I could ask for more but I’m afraid to.

Those feelings and struggles around money are incredibly common. It’s like we’re all navigating a complex financial maze, and sometimes the exit seems elusive.

Remember, you’re not alone in this maze. We’re all navigating it together, flashlight in hand!

Transcript and links are here:  https://www.shula.ca/why-money-mindse…financial-trauma/ ‎

This podcast is brought to you by my self-guided virtual retreat. Create your customized mental and emotional wellness plan to keep Your CEO-self in the driver's seat so you don't flip your lid and blow up your business when the crap hits the fan.

Running a Business Can Run Down Your Mental Health As whole humans who own small businesses, a mental health plan should be part of your business strategy.

Boost your business with a mental health plan. Purchase the self-guided mental health plan workshop today. $99 USD includes workshop recording, enhanced transcript and worksheets. The link is https://entrepreneurstherapist.click/mhplan .

Resilience is a crucial quality for entrepreneurs, but it’s often tested by the challenges we face. As business owners, we encounter a barrage of stressors, and our ability to bounce back can be strained.

One concept that sheds light on these conditions is VUCA—an acronym representing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

Coined in 1987, VUCA initially referred to the conditions experienced by leaders. It has since become relevant to entrepreneurs.

The recent pandemic exemplified extreme VUCA—sudden shifts, changing data, unpredictable impact, and forces beyond our control.

Women entrepreneurs face VUCA daily—adversity, decision-making, ever-changing conditions, and multitasking.

VUCA and other business stressors deplete cognitive and emotional resources. It’s hard to thrive under those conditions. It's hard to be resilient.

But it is possible to build your resilience muscle so the toll isn’t so high.

Transcript and links are here:  https://www.shula.ca/thrive-as-an-entrepreneur-in-a-volatile-uncertain-complex-and-ambiguous-world

This podcast is brought to you by my self-guided virtual retreat. Create your customized mental and emotional wellness plan to keep Your CEO-self in the driver's seat so you don't flip your lid and blow up your business when the crap hits the fan.

Running a Business Can Run Down Your Mental Health As whole humans who own small businesses, a mental health plan should be part of your business strategy.

Boost your business with a mental health plan. Purchase the self-guided mental health plan workshop today. $99 USD includes workshop recording, enhanced transcript and worksheets. The link is https://entrepreneurstherapist.click/mhplan .

You’re up late. The rest of the house or office building is dark.

Even during the day, you mostly work alone.

You have coffee dates or mastermind group meetings, but most of them are virtual and when you click “leave meeting,” you’re alone in your office again.

You’ve had a real win in your biz, hard-won and long-fought-for. You tell your beloved and they say, “That’s nice dear,” when what you want is for someone to recognize how much this means and pop the metaphorical bottle of champagne for you.

Or you’re feeling the stresses of being the one who wears all the hats and carries all the responsibility, but no-one gets what you’re going through.

Loneliness is real for business owners. Listen in for how it affects you and what you can do about it.

Transcript and links are here: https://www.shula.ca/feeling-isolated-entrepreneur/

This podcast is brought to you by my self-guided virtual retreat. Create your customized mental and emotional wellness plan to keep Your CEO-self in the driver's seat so you don't flip your lid and blow up your business when the crap hits the fan.

Running a Business Can Run Down Your Mental Health As whole humans who own small businesses, a mental health plan should be part of your business strategy.

Boost your business with a mental health plan. Purchase the self-guided mental health plan workshop today. $99 USD includes workshop recording, enhanced transcript and worksheets. The link is https://entrepreneurstherapist.click/mhplan .

A  scarcity mindset is often described as a belief there is simply not  enough to go around, or a focus on lack, or living from a limited  source.

Much scarcity mindset advice treats the mindset and related  behaviours as if they are choices. In many cases we literally *can’t see  them* because of the effect of scarcity–either real or perceived–on the  nervous system.

Scarcity in this case means scarcity of any resource, including the  perception that there isn’t enough (of anything) as well as the lived  experience of lack (of anything: time, food, money, connection etc.)

The brain reacts to both.

Transcript available here: shula.ca/the-secret-shift-scarcity-abundance/ 

This podcast is brought to you by my self-guided virtual retreat. Create your customized mental and emotional wellness plan to keep Your CEO-self in the driver's seat so you don't flip your lid and blow up your business when the crap hits the fan.

Running a Business Can Run Down Your Mental Health As whole humans who own small businesses, a mental health plan should be part of your business strategy.

Boost your business with a mental health plan. Purchase the self-guided mental health plan workshop today. $99 USD includes workshop recording, enhanced transcript and worksheets. The link is https://entrepreneurstherapist.click/mhplan .

Trauma-Informed: the truth about this popular phrase and how to protect yourself as a consumer

I have long been concerned about the proliferation of the term “trauma-informed” and its variants in the online business space. My belief is that if you use the word trauma in your marketing, it will attract folks who have experienced trauma to you. If your training is inadequate, harm may occur to you, your client and your business.

In this episode, you'll learn about the history of trauma-informed care and how you can protect yourself as someone who may want to work with a trauma-informed service provider (VA, marketing consultant, copywriter) or who is looking for a "trauma-informed" certification.

Show notes, a transcript and links to all references are available here: https://www.shula.ca/trauma-informed-the-truth-about-this-popular-phrase/

This podcast is brought to you by my self-guided virtual retreat. Create your customized mental and emotional wellness plan to keep Your CEO-self in the driver's seat so you don't flip your lid and blow up your business when the crap hits the fan.

Running a Business Can Run Down Your Mental Health As whole humans who own small businesses, a mental health plan should be part of your business strategy.

Boost your business with a mental health plan. Purchase the self-guided mental health plan workshop today. $99 USD includes workshop recording, enhanced transcript and worksheets. The link is https://entrepreneurstherapist.click/mhplan .

Intense emotions from difficult customers can be hard to withstand. It can be even harder when these emotions are directed at you and are about your business.

Your own emotions around this experience can be overwhelming. And no wonder! Intense client emotions like these directed at you can register as an attack.

Listen in to learn how to handle difficult customer interactions without getting overwhelmed, and when it's OK to "break up" with a difficult customer.

Link to transcript and show notes: https://www.shula.ca/rude-customer-difficult-client/

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This podcast is brought to you by my self-guided virtual retreat. Create your customized mental and emotional wellness plan to keep Your CEO-self in the driver's seat so you don't flip your lid and blow up your business when the crap hits the fan.

Running a Business Can Run Down Your Mental Health As whole humans who own small businesses, a mental health plan should be part of your business strategy.

Boost your business with a mental health plan. Purchase the self-guided mental health plan workshop today. $99 USD includes workshop recording, enhanced transcript and worksheets. The link is https://entrepreneurstherapist.click/mhplan .

Entrepreneurship and mental health are intimately connected.  Owning and running a business can be like riding an emotional rollercoaster.  As humans, the state of our mental health—our emotional, psychological and social well-being—affects our ability to cope with everyday interactions and activities.  This is no less the case for entrepreneurs. Our business success depends on our mental and emotional skill, intelligence and stability, and on our skill in handling the instability, stress and threat that comes with entrepreneurship.  Yet for business owners, the relentless stressors and the constant emotional ups and downs erode mental and emotional well-being.  Listen in to learn more about how business ownership affects your mental and emotional well-being and how therapeutic support is your power move as a business owner.

Link to transcript and show notes: https://www.shula.ca/mental-health-entrepreneurship/    #TheEntrepreneursTherapist #EntrepreneursTherapist #EntrepreneurLife #TheEntrepreneursTherapist #EntrepreneursTherapist #EntrepreneurLife #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #mindset #entrepreneurs #SmallBusiness  #BusinessWoman #entrepreneurship #Entrepreneur #Business #BusinessOwner  #WomenInBusiness #WomenEntrepreneurs #WomenEntrepreneur  #StrongerWithSupport #StressRelief #StressManagement #Resilience #Stressed #Burnout #TraumaInformed

This podcast is brought to you by my self-guided virtual retreat. Create your customized mental and emotional wellness plan to keep Your CEO-self in the driver's seat so you don't flip your lid and blow up your business when the crap hits the fan.

Running a Business Can Run Down Your Mental Health As whole humans who own small businesses, a mental health plan should be part of your business strategy.

Boost your business with a mental health plan. Purchase the self-guided mental health plan workshop today. $99 USD includes workshop recording, enhanced transcript and worksheets. The link is https://entrepreneurstherapist.click/mhplan .

Transcript and linked resources are here: https://www.shula.ca/failure-woman-entrepreneur/

This podcast is brought to you by my self-guided virtual retreat. Create your customized mental and emotional wellness plan to keep Your CEO-self in the driver's seat so you don't flip your lid and blow up your business when the crap hits the fan.

Running a Business Can Run Down Your Mental Health As whole humans who own small businesses, a mental health plan should be part of your business strategy.

Boost your business with a mental health plan. Purchase the self-guided mental health plan workshop today. $99 USD includes workshop recording, enhanced transcript and worksheets. The link is https://entrepreneurstherapist.click/mhplan .