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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
This was weird for me.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
I mean, I'm sure you experience this on a much larger scale every day.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
But I was having people come up to me all the time being like, oh, you're the cleaning product lady.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
The cleaning lady.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Yeah, you're the cleaning lady.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
And, like, everyone's like, oh, I've seen you, like, dancing on Instagram.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
I'm like, yeah, that makes sense.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
I see you.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
And so, yeah, I just, I felt, and because I guess we were saying earlier about how,
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Also, when things were, when it was tough, I had to kind of put on this brave face and I had to do that on my personal social channels as well.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Like I found it really hard to create any authentic content because I love doing that too, but over that time on my own.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
So I just feel like the two got like very intertwined and I got very lost in like who I was and what I was excited about.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Yeah, yeah.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
And so, yeah, when we did wrap it up and I realised that A, that the response was great, B, that I had more opportunities and C, that like I was fine and I was happy.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
I just realised that, yeah, I'm my own person and there is so much more to life than this like just one chapter of my life.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
And I think when you're so invested in something and like you've got the blinkers on, it's so hard to see what else is out there.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Yeah, so true.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Yeah, I think I was really doing that.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
Like I just thought it was everything.
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How it feels to close down a business - with Pleasant State Co-Founder Sian Murray
And only when I stopped did I realise like...