My Business Lessons of 2021

I’m really excited about this episode- I’ve wanted to do an end of year reflection for so long, but have never been able to pull one together! I almost wish I had more hindsight before recording this – 2021 has been a year of lessons and questions… and there are most certainly many answers I don’t have yet. At the same time, I think this may be the most important moment to reflect, when the thoughts and experiences are still raw.

But one thing I’ve found is that I’m ending the year much more in love with my business than I started, and this is because of all the lessons I’ve encountered along the way. From getting back in touch with my feelings in my work, to learning to stay with things when they aren’t quite working, to recognising and responding to the signs of burnout, have a listen to the episode for my top lessons of 2021.

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QUOTES

“I think I was excited for things to change externally in the world in 2021. For 2022, I am more excited for who I am going into it.”

“You make a product, and you're always changing it and changing it and changing it so that you can't refine it particularly, because you're always making it brand new. And I think that often just feeds into soothing our belief or our desire to that working hard is what brings us money… If something doesn't work out how you'd hoped, you don't need to bin it. you can refine it. You can work on it.”

“And if I'm not open, if I make this all about me all the time… rather than looking and being like, ‘What's going on here? What can we do?’ Because here's the thing: I'm not to be fixed. That's one of the lessons: I'm not going to be fixed here, but the components of my business, the elements, the structures of my course, they are moveable and improvable”

“There is a ‘certain way’ to do it. This is how you earn money. This is how you run a business. This is how you show up online. BUT actually your unique squiffy hectic way… can really work and it will work better when you are going with yourself rather than against yourself. And it's so difficult to spot it because for the majority of us who have been traditionally left out of those money-making and those business spaces, we are so used to not fitting in that.”