3 Steps to Self Care for Entrepreneurs {Ep 041}

3 Steps to Self Care for Entrepreneurs {Ep 041}

Who read the title for that episode and was like umm… really Brooke? REALLY? If you felt the judgment creep in when thinking about why a small business podcast would have ANY interest in discussing self care for entrepreneurs, I would love to invite you to suspend that judgment for a sec and really listen in.

The past few months have become a MAGNIFYING glass for so many things that our culture needs help with, from schools to workplace issues to overall systemic problems. It’s not that they weren’t there before, but bringing a country and system to its knees because of a pandemic is highlighting the things that we need to work on most. And for me, one of those things that has been magnified and is all of the sudden a GLARING issue in my own life and my family, is self care. So many business owners put themselves LAST on the old to-do list, and self care for entrepreneurs is one of the best kept secrets when it comes to actually growing your business! Because when you take care of yourself, you can better serve everyone around you, including your family, your clients, and anyone else that might need you.

In today’s episode, we are going to chat about taking care of YOURSELF as an entrepreneur and business owner right now, and what self care for entrepreneurs REALLY looks like.

I have seen my fellow CEO’s and moms freaking out because of decisions that have to be made for the upcoming school year, and the guidelines that we are looking at, and MAN it is not an easy season for the CEO’s who work from home and are suddenly in the midst of finding themselves having to DO IT ALL.

Raise your hand if you’re running a business (or more than one!) and have to homeschool on top of that! I so, so feel you right now.

In the past few months, we have had to be super focused on everyone else’s needs because we don’t have the village that we all talk about yet somehow can’t find. And that is happening in the best of times, throw in a pandemic? All bets are off. Let’s look at some actionable steps when it comes to self care for entrepreneurs so that you can take care of yourself in this season so that you can better serve your family, your clients and your students in an amazing way.

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Key Topics

• Self care for entrepreneurs – what that looks like and how to actually IMPLEMENT it.

Major Takeaways

• Tough love (for myself too!) on perfectionism (2:02)
• School year decisions parents are facing (3:29)
• The elephant in the room that no one is talking about in all of this… (4:36)
• You spoke, I heard, it’s coming: homeschooling while running a business, an episode coming soon! (5:32)
• The Big Question (6:04)
• If you don’t know how to take care of yourself, how can you explain it to someone else? (6:42)
• What does self care for entrepreneurs actually look like as a CEO, or mom? Or BOTH? (7:56)
• THEY WILL BE FINE. (9:15)
• I’m done with THIS. (9:36)
• Our judgments say more about this than we think… (10:48)
• 3 Steps to Self-Care for entrepreneurs (11:53)
• Step 1 – A Little self reflection (11:57)
• A way to re-frame your perspective from frustration to change (12:22)
• Questions to ask yourself (12:49)
• Step 2 – Time to take some action (16:32)
• Step 3 – Schedule it! (17:56)
• Time to Check-In – accountability! (20:02)

Now What?

• The asshole brain can be REALLY strong when it comes to thinking about actually taking care of yourself, Kristen Kalp talks a LOT about this, click here to connect with Kristen!
• If you need a revisit on a previous episode with Laura Kinser about mom guilt and running a business, click here!
• I first heard the vase analogy from Rachel Hollis, click here to check out her book Girl, Stop Apologizing!
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