The Perfectionism Project

In today's episode I'm sharing 5 tips to help you make business friends.

Making business friends is one of the most powerful things you can do to help you and your business.

But when your perfectionism handbrake is on, making business friends can be a really scary thing to think about. It involves reaching out to people who might reject you and being judged.

You probably already know how incredible it'd be to have business friends. Maybe right now you're surrounded by people who don't get your business, or perfectionism or personal development or maybe even all three. And you're really craving friendships with people who are on a similar journey.

If you're wanting tips to help you make business friends, today's episode is just for you.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• Why your perfectionism handbrake makes it hard to find friends
• How to stop feeling awkward about making new friends
• Why you should reach out to people who are the same stage of business as you
• A tip that will dramatically increase the likelihood of someone saying yes to you

Featured In The Episode:

• Join our - FREE 5-Day Stop Overthinking Challenge
• Join the PGSD waitlist - samlaurabrown.com/pgsd
• Follow me on Instagram @samlaurabrown

In my group coaching program, Perfectionists Getting Shit Done, we do multiple live coaching calls each and every month to help our PGSDers release their perfectionism handbrakes - by getting coached themselves and watching others get coached too. And today I'm sharing a snippet of one of these coaching calls with you!

Sabeela (@healingheartscoach on Instagram) submitted a request to get coached because she reached 'the dip' in her business. She was feeling as though she had no more motivation to go on but she hadn't yet gotten any results. This is often where many perfectionists decide to quit. But Sabeela courageously decided to get coached inside of Perfectionist Getting Shit Done to find out the real reason she was struggling to get out of the dip.

Thank you Sabeela for giving me permission to share this call on the podcast, I appreciate you!

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• What the dip is and why it's a completely normal stage of building your business
• Why being in the dip isn't a bad thing
• The real reason that you're struggling to get out of the dip
• An assignment that will help you to get out of the dip as quickly as possible

Featured In The Episode:

• Join our - FREE 5-Day Stop Overthinking Challenge
• Join the PGSD waitlist - samlaurabrown.com/pgsd
• Follow me on Instagram @samlaurabrown
• Sabeela's Instagram Account - @healingheartscoach
• Sabeela's Facebook Page - Sabeela Tayub

In today's episode I'm going to be sharing 4 practical steps that'll help you overcome the fear of disappointment.

The fear of disappointment is something that most perfectionists are very familiar with. When your perfectionism handbrake has been on for a long time - you've disappointed yourself, you've let yourself down, you've given up on goals and you've not followed through on plans.

It can come to be that you develop the fear of disappointing yourself again in the future. And then you start to do all sorts of weird and wonderful things to try to avoid disappointing yourself again. But this plan doesn't work out because what you end up doing is creating more disappointment and you still aren't reaching your goals.

Tune into today's episode to learn 4 practical steps to overcome the fear of disappointment.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• The real reason you feel disappointed when you don't achieve your goals
• Whether it's worth trying to avoid feeling disappointed
• Why setting realistic goals won't help you to avoid disappointment
• My 4 step process for overcoming the fear of disappointment

Featured In The Episode:

• Join our - FREE 5-Day Stop Overthinking Challenge
• Join the PGSD waitlist - samlaurabrown.com/pgsd
• Follow me on Instagram @samlaurabrown

It's rarely the case that perfectionists don't know enough or that they don't have enough strategy.

Perfectionists love to learn. That's why one of the most common signs your perfectionism handbrake is on, is that you spend most of your time procrasti-learning instead of doing.

Tune into today's episode because I'm sharing three hard truths about procrasti-learning and how it's hurting your business. I hope you find it helpful!

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• Why perfectionists unknowingly fall into the trap of procrasti-learning
• How to turn your love of learning into a successful business
• Why procrasti-learning isn't making you more intelligent and what to do instead
• The difference between school and business and why you can't take the same approach

Featured In The Episode:

• Join our - FREE 5-Day Stop Overthinking Challenge
• Join the PGSD waitlist - samlaurabrown.com/pgsd
• Follow me on Instagram @samlaurabrown

In my group coaching program, Perfectionists Getting Shit Done, we do multiple live coaching calls each and every month to help our PGSDers release their perfectionism handbrakes - by getting coached themselves and watching others get coached too. And today I'm sharing a snippet of one of these coaching calls with you!

Kristen (@kristencainstyle on Instagram) submitted a request to get coached because she was feeling overwhelmed with all of the options she had for her business. She was able to figure out what to focus on next to build her business, her pricing, how to package her services and more.

Thank you Kristen for giving me permission to share this call on the podcast, I appreciate you!

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How setting a goal will help you feel less overwhelmed
• How to figure out what to focus on next when there are so many options
• Why you shouldn't charge an hourly rate and what to do instead
• How to package your services and why you shouldn't create too many options
• How our PGSD coaching calls work

Featured In The Episode:

• Join our - FREE 5-Day Stop Overthinking Challenge
• Join the PGSD waitlist - samlaurabrown.com/pgsd
• Follow me on Instagram @samlaurabrown
• Kristen's Instagram account - @kristencainstyle

As a perfectionist, it's very easy to want to be productive all of the time. And when your perfectionism handbrake is on, you start to feel guilty when you want to rest.

We think that if I can just be productive enough, I'll achieve more and gain more confidence. But what if I told you that by resting, you could get further ahead and feel so much better about yourself and about your business?

Tune into today's episode to learn about the 5 productivity myths that are making you feel guilty when you rest.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• The tool I use to help me determine how many productive hours I have in a day
• Why you don't need to work hard to achieve your goals
• The reason that resting and laziness are rarely related
• How I stopped feeling guilty every time I took a break from my business

Featured In The Episode:

• Join the PGSD waitlist - samlaurabrown.com/pgsd
• Follow me on Instagram @samlaurabrown

In today's episode I'm sharing with you all of the lessons and similarities that there are between being pregnant and running a business.

When you're pregnant, you're going through a lot of change and getting to know yourself in so many different ways. You're responding to change and having to adapt to that. This is the same with running a business because it's a huge personal growth experience.

Tune into today's episode to hear the nine lessons that pregnancy has taught me about business.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• Why pregnancy and business have so much in common
• The reason that hitting the next milestone in business won't soothe your insecurities
• How to honour the season of business that you're in
• The important lesson I got from pregnancy when it comes to trusting my instincts

Featured In The Episode:

• Join the PGSD waitlist - samlaurabrown.com/pgsd
• Follow me on Instagram @samlaurabrown
• Episode 143: My 5 Biggest Takeaways From Business Mastery

This episode is all about how to take time off without your business suffering. This could be because you're having a baby (like me), because you want to go on vacation or simply because you want to create more freedom in your business.

This episode was recorded at 3 different times - before I got pregnant, after I found out I was pregnant and at the end of my third trimester. By sharing this journey from different stages of the process, I hope that you're able to get a detailed look at the 3 step process I followed to turn my business into a job and how you can use it to create a little more freedom and flexibility in your business too.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• 3 steps I followed to turn what I do from a job into a business
• Why I was scared of hiring coaches for PGSD and how I overcame that fear
• The challenges that come with your business no longer needed you as much as before
• Which parts of our original plan didn't work and the adjustments we had to make
• The fears I still have about taking a step back from my business
• What I could have done in the early days of my business to make taking time off easier

Featured In The Episode:

• Join the PGSD waitlist - samlaurabrown.com/pgsd
• Follow me on Instagram @samlaurabrown
• Episode 257: Pregnancy + Perfectionism
• Episode 104: My Money Mindset Routine + How I Manage My Finances

There are so many misconceptions about perfectionism that most perfectionists don't even realise they are one.

As an entrepreneur, there's a good chance that the only reason you're not being productive and succeeding at the level you want is because your perfectionist mindset is working against you. In this episode, I share 5 signs you're a perfectionist, what it means for your business and how to get your perfectionist mindset on your side.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• What perfectionism really is and why being a perfectionist isn't a bad thing
• 5 surprising signs you're a perfectionist (they're not what you'd think)
• Why I didn't realise I was a perfectionist until I started my business
• The reason that most advice doesn't work for perfectionists

Featured In The Episode:

• Join the PGSD waitlist - samlaurabrown.com/pgsd
• Follow me on Instagram @samlaurabrown

In this episode I'm sharing my personal growth update for both April and May 2021.

I've been doing these personal growth updates for nearly three years now and do these so that you can get a sense of what it's really like to build a business as a perfectionist. I hope this episode helps you take a little pressure off yourself to feel like you're always having breakthroughs and kicking goals.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How I did a big PGSD promotion without burning out (while being 9 months pregnant)
• Changes I needed to make to my power planning so that I could get everything done
• Why I've struggled to have clean rest that isn't baby prep related
• Why we're changing who we help with PGSD
• The rollercoaster of emotions I've had about my business over the last two months

Featured In The Episode:

• Perfectionists Getting Shit Done - join the waitlist
• Beach Read by Emily Henry