Jodie Hayward

And I also know how many hats you have to wear as an entrepreneur.

But too many people...

for too many people business because their life becomes a business like life has to now fit around the business rather than business fitting around life you know which isn't how it should be and their identity is the business they are the business first and foremost

That's a surefire way to create an unsustainable company that's never going to grow without you, you know, if that's what you're looking to create.

But you also become so entrenched in all of the day-to-day little fires that you're putting out that you can't keep up.

If you were to imagine, I literally used to use this all the time because I'm very visual in my thinking.

I was like, my nose is just, it's just my nose above the water right now.

And then sometimes I'm two foot under and the bubbles are running out.

Do you know what I mean?

Literally how it felt.

But there's a difference between choosing, and this is what I see over and over again, choosing to slow down in order to speed up.

It feels so counterintuitive sometimes.

But when you're running on nervous system dysregulation, telling yourself stories like, you know, I thrive in chaos.

Just give me a deadline.

I'll get it done.

You know, you're literally living on low-level anxiety and nervous system dysregulation.

And guess what?

You're going to burn out.

And if you burn out, you don't have a business because you've made yourself that business.

So when I come into businesses...