Change feels scary until you realize it doesn't have to be a big deal. This week I'm walking through the exact decision I just made — moving Tipsy Business from Tuesdays to Wednesdays — and using it as a live example of the difference between hard change and easy change.

🔗 House Rules (free): https://www.twocanco.com/house-rules 🔗 PowerPlay: https://www.twocanco.com/power-play

In this episode:

• Hard change vs. easy change & why the gap isn't logic, it's identity
• Reframing procrastination and last-minute recording (it's not a character flaw)
• How to spot what's actually "hard" for you so you can move toward easy
• Why I'm moving the podcast to Wednesdays — for now

Here's your template!

"you could spend this summer with [insert pain point], or you could [insert pitch/desire point]" Name the thing they're stuck in, hand them the easier way out.

Here's how it plays out:

🖋️ Stationer: "You could spend your summer staring at a screen trying to make sense of your guest list. Or you could download my free guest list template."

📦 Product-based: "You could buy another cheap [thing] on Amazon that's probably going to break after the second use, or you could just buy [your thing] now instead of later."

🎨 Live event artist: "You could have another boring wedding favor that everyone leaves on the table or throws away, or you could hire me to blow their minds."

Steal it, customize it, post it today.

Send it to me when you post it so I can celebrate with you that it's DONE!!!!

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Welcome back to Tipsy Business! After a little time off, I'm pulling back the curtain on one of the most chaotic (and honestly, most fun) weeks I've had in my business — no childcare, no team, and I doubled my usual workload, all while pregnant and running two businesses.

• 🏠 House Rules (free private podcast): Listen here
• 📖 Read the original post this episode is based on: Instagram Post
• 🎥 BTS in real time — Day 3: Watch here
• 🎥 BTS in real time — Day 3, Part 2: Watch here
• 🎥 BTS in real time — Day 4: Watch here
• 🎥 BTS in real time — Day 5: Watch here

In this episode, I'm breaking down:

• Why I had zero support in June — my in-laws were in San Diego with my sister-in-law's new baby, my mom was in Europe and then Kansas City, and I was suddenly doing double the work in my product-based business with none of my usual help.
• The 2 things that made this week actually fun instead of a nightmare — a simple running list of money-making tasks for small pockets of time, and a list of easy activities/outings for my toddler. No hour-by-hour schedule required.
• The mindset prep that started a month before — how I mentally and physically got ready once I found out I'd be solo for a while.
• What I never do, no matter how busy things get — I don't wake up before my son, I don't work after bedtime, and I don't work weekends (with one exception this week I'll explain).
• The real, unfiltered week — including a very not-perfect Friday (4 rounds of toddler throw-up, one at the zoo, obviously with no backup outfit) and how "things don't have to go perfectly for me to hit my goals."
• The actual hour-by-hour breakdown of how much I worked each day (spoiler: it was about 1–2 hours max, mostly during naps and small pockets of independent play).
• The full money breakdown: $4,767 total — $1,835 from Etsy, $1,593 from Minted, $39 from Michael's, and $1,300 from coaching, plus a look at fees (about 13% across platforms) and ad performance (a 37x return on ad spend on Etsy).
• A June recap: how the month wrapped up at almost $13K, plus $4K in signed contracts for future payment, and why I chose to slow down and rest once support came back instead of cramming in more work.

If you've ever felt like you're winging it in your business, leaving money on the table because you don't know what to do next, or telling yourself you have to work nights and weekends to get ahead — this episode (and House Rules) is for you.

Have questions about this episode? DM me on Instagram — I'd love to chat. See you next week!

https://www.twocanco.com/house-rules

If you've ever been told to niche down, pick one thing, or stop having so many ideas… this riff is for you. Put your headphones in, turn it up, and come home to yourself.

You were never too much. You were always the perfect amount.

If you like the way this makes you feel, come back to it often. And then apply to join the Art of Ease Mastermind, where you'll be right at home with a bunch of multi-passionate creative souls who will love having you in this space.

https://www.twocanco.com/aoe-mastermind

I'm getting honest about my relationship with AI — how I actually use it, where I draw hard lines, and why this conversation matters so much to me as a coach to artists.

I cover why I switched from ChatGPT to Claude, what finally pushed me to make the move, and why I think it's the superior product ethically and functionally. I also come clean about Grammarly — spoiler, I didn't even know it was AI until I looked it up writing this episode.

We get into the big stuff too: Disney firing 1,000 artists after using their work to train AI, the ethics of scaling a business entirely on AI agents, and why I'm unwilling to make "fuck you money" without paying people. Plus a note for artists on why your value has actually increased in the age of AI slop.

And yes, there's a story about mud pies. You'll see why it fits.

https://www.twocanco.com/aoe-mastermind

https://www.twocanco.com/power-play

The Universe is not testing you :)

https://www.twocanco.com/power-play

What if the secret to a better business was less grinding and more tending?

I spent the weekend planting 15,000+ seeds and couldn't stop thinking about business. In this episode I walk you through the garden metaphors that changed how you show up. From trusting the sprout you can't see yet, to why not marketing is the same as not watering, to why pulling the weeds you've been avoiding would change everything.

In this episode:

• Little sprouts & why we dig everything up when it's not working yet
• Watering = marketing (and how to make it feel easier)
• Pulling weeds — the 37% yield loss stat that hits different
• Thinning + pinching: slow down to speed up
• Seasons: you can't harvest all year

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