It feels good to be back, and there's a reason why episodes seemed to suddenly halt: In short, I'm experiencing some kind of burnout. In this episode, I share what I’m learning about the why and how of burnout. 

To be clear, I am not recording this from a place of overcoming burnout. Instead, I want to show the importance of hearing from someone when they're in the throes of an experience. It's easy to forget how difficult something was once we're on the other side of it, and those of us going through it cannot go through it alone.

In the coming months, I'm going to be sharing a series of episodes that explore burnout and anxiety, particularly as they relate to those of us who have small businesses and are entrepreneurs. I hope to be in conversation with others going through this, as well as connect with practitioners who offer support to their clients and patients. 

In this episode, I discuss how I’m experiencing burnout, the three types of burnout I’m learning about, what the contributing factors were for me, and delve into my personal experience. 

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Topics Covered:

• Therapy as a tool for working through burnout
• How each of the three kinds of burnout manifests
• The importance of maintaining a spiritual practice 
• Key differences between anxiety and burnout
• Creating appropriate boundaries to avoid leaking energy
• The toll burnout takes on things that are usually a priority for you

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Today, I am joined by Jill Prescott, who is what I like to call an ‘edge-walker,’ or someone who doesn’t follow the status quo. Her career began as a financial services manager in an automobile showroom and then drastically shifted to entrepreneurship in a wave of spirituality, a life-altering event, and stepping into her true identity.

Like so many of us, Jill grew up inside the box of societal norms. She put on a performance in her relationships and career, but when she finally said goodbye to the things she thought made her life, she stepped into her calling and found a passion she could not live without. 

In our conversation, Jill illustrates the value of finding your identity and explains how taking time away from your business to pursue other interests actually helps you generate more income. Listen in as we discuss ways to navigate entrepreneurship and spiritual growth. 

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Topics Covered:

• Finding the difference between the identity society gives you and the identity of your true self
• How to follow your intuition and questions to ask yourself to find who you are
• What it means to be constantly evolving
• How your mental health journey can transform your life and career
• Tips for building your business from the ground up
• How to balance business and relationships

Resources Mentioned:

• Jill's TEDx Talk: Being vulnerable gave me freedom from sexual abuse and bullying. Content Warning: Jill's TEDx Talk discusses childhood sexual abuse and rape.

Guest Info: Jill Prescott

• Check out Jill’s corner of the web: jillprescott.ca
• Find Jill on Instagram: @jillprescott
• Find Jill on Facebook: Jill Prescott Spiritual BadAss
• Email Jill: jill@jillprescott.ca

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In my conversation with David, my Dad, he unravels his 40-plus years of business practices. He invites us to trust ourselves and our employees more; to not be afraid to flesh out an idea or try new things. He talks about the great things that come from empowering your staff through responsibility and generosity of spirit and the value of building your business on something meaningful and communicating that love through extraordinary customer service. In summary, people never forget how you make them feel.

Listen in on today’s episode as we discuss the key elements to always include in your business model along with several life lessons that may even aid you in creating a stronger circle of genuine relationships. Lastly, I encourage you to explore who in your community and in your world holds a great deal of experience, wisdom, and expertise in a particular area. And who among those people have you not had a conversation with and listened to in a while?

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Topics Covered:

• The importance of trusting yourself, explore an idea and try new things
• Build a community by asking people to join you
• Empowering staff leads to great customer service
• Meaningful differentiation in marketing your business
• Get good at hiring people and hire people to complement your skill sets
• Trusting suppliers and knowing more about them
• Focus on process instead of goals

Resources Mentioned:

• Minding The Store by Stanley Marcus

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Marketing your business as an entrepreneur is not easy. If you’re like me, everything in your business reflects who you are, that means your marketing needs to be empathic, honour your relationships, and your cycles. What are all the different ways you are marketing your business? Which are fun, and which are not? Which is working?

Listen in on today’s episode as I discuss different ways you can market your business using humane and ethical marketing. I encourage you to explore how often you consider your own humanity in the creation of your marketing.

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Topics Covered:

• Ethical marketing in empathy, honesty, and transparency
• Humane marketing takes into consideration we are human with human emotions living in a cyclical world
• We need relationships to survive and function and marketing needs to acknowledge  that Take a close look at your products and if you are addressing your customers
• Marketing asks that you to be honest with yourself

Resources Mentioned:

• Personal Rhythm Marketing Guide
• The Values Clarity Workbook
• Mara Glatzel

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Presence is more important than time. As we go into the new year, it is very easy to get lost in the shuffle of, “new year, new me.” Instead, what if we were to shift from having a new goal and a “clean slate,” to reflecting on the previous year and honing in on a standard practice or process?

I like to think of goal setting as deciding to do something and then taking the steps to achieve it. And then ask myself, what works for me? What does consistency look like in achieving this goal?

Listen in on today’s episode as I discuss why the process of working towards your goals, dreams, or plans is more important than the progress we make in reaching or completing them. I encourage you to explore your relationship with goal setting and to be curious about doing things differently.

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Topics Covered:

• Goal setting and the pressure that comes with beginning a new year
• Presence is more important than time
• Consistency is more important than perfection, what does consistency mean for me?
• Process is more important than progress; process gets better over time
• Honed skills and becoming the best at one thing
• Are we ending things well? Lack of grieving skills
• What are the practices or processes you want to explore?
• Be curious about doing things differently. What works for me?

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Storytelling is an invitation to connect with others. What a gift it is to share our experiences and adventures with another human being, and have an opportunity to track one another throughout time. As we end this year, let’s investigate: What story are you telling about this year? Who are the characters? What were the moments of rising and falling action? What genre are you living in? 

Listen in on today’s episode as I ask myself these same questions and I leave you with a question and invitation to share your answers with your customers, and me.

Topics Covered:

• Storytelling is the gift of sharing experiences and adventure
• What is my story from the past year?
• Stories that tether us to others and to the past of who we are or where we came from
• Ethical marketing in providing a different approach instead of a solution
• Telling stories brings humanity back into our business practices

Resources Mentioned:

• Tanya Geisler on becoming an empty nester
• Nikiah Seeds on ego entering the room during her work as a doula
• Nyla Falardeau on coming to her work as an intuitive

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Procrastination can be boiled down to the fear of accomplishing something, or is it more complex than that? In today’s episode, I want to open with a story of a woman who’s spent a good part of her adult life wishing, hoping, and thinking about all of the things that she'd wanted to do, make, build or create, but had not. 

We’ve often been taught and then believed we take up space in a negative way. Instead, let’s focus on feeling the boundaries of our physical space. Find the safety and the comfort it brings you when you feel the fullness of the edge of your skin. 

Listen in to explore your relationship with procrastination and why, even through the fear, you can begin.

Topics Covered:

• Avoiding your own delight in pursuing things
• Denying one’s own greatness
• Feeling the boundaries of where you take up space, safety in your physical space
• Procrastination is about the fear of accomplishing something
• What is your relationship with procrastination? What is on your list to complete?

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There is an undeniable connection between nature and our entrepreneurship. Many clients are always trying to honor their work by incorporating what they teach or create into their own operational structure. I am here to share how when you take a breath to look at nature, it will give you the answer on how to improve your business practices. 

Our world operates in seasons, with water and heat as its primary sources. Water is your flow and heat is your energy. Flow keeps the business moving forward and after too much energy, you need a season to recuperate. 

Listen in to look at your business with a different lens, one that can change your perspective in giving yourself grace and asking the right questions at the right time.

Topics Covered:

• Relationship with the weather and our businesses
• Honor the work you put out into the world by incorporating it into your own business
• Drought in business, too much heat and not enough water
• Water likes to flow and take several forms: what does flow feel like in my business?
• Heat is a source of nourishment
• What is my flow in business and how do I tend to it?
• What are my relationships with seasons of energy and seasons of drought?

Resources Mentioned:

• Nikiah Seeds, Redmoon Mystery School Wheel of the Year download.

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