Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Britney Saunders and welcome to Big Business, the
Speaker 1: place where business is far from boring. And today I'm
Speaker 1: recording on gaddigul Land. Now I somehow manage to build
Speaker 1: an empire from the garage underneath my house, and I'm
Speaker 1: here to share it all with you, from the wins,
Speaker 1: the mistakes, the challenging times and the funny moments in between. So,
Speaker 1: whether you're in business yourself, perhaps you're not in the
Speaker 1: game at all, maybe you're looking for some inspo, or
Speaker 1: you simply just want to hear the tea, this is
Speaker 1: the podcast for you. Coming up on today's episode, we
Speaker 1: are going personal. As much as business isn't personal at all,
Speaker 1: it also is in every single way.
Speaker 2: And I thought today I'm going to share with you
Speaker 2: some of the stuff that I fucking struggle with. I'm
Speaker 2: just going to put it out there.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about some of the things that
Speaker 1: I face every day. I don't want to say that
Speaker 1: they're challenges, and they're definitely all a very me problem.
Speaker 1: But I think this will give a lot of other
Speaker 1: business owners out there something to relate too, and you
Speaker 1: can know that you're not alone with having these types
Speaker 1: of thoughts and feelings when it comes to the things
Speaker 1: that you struggle with in business. So, without further ado,
Speaker 1: let's just get straight down to business.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Funnily enough, when you start your own business, if you
Speaker 1: are just starting it yourself like I did at home,
Speaker 1: you're kind of starting it for yourself. It's almost selfish
Speaker 1: in a way. Not that it's a selfish thing to do.
Speaker 1: I think it's a fantastic thing to do to want
Speaker 1: to start your own business, but you ultimately are doing
Speaker 1: it for yourself, and from those early days, you're going
Speaker 1: to be doing everything yourself, just like the way I was,
Speaker 1: like doing every single job in the business, and you're
Speaker 1: doing it all for you, all for your own life,
Speaker 1: and all for your own enjoyment and success, I guess.
Speaker 1: But one of the unspoken parts of business, which I
Speaker 1: touch on a lot in this podcast, is how much
Speaker 1: if you grow that business be you. You know, if
Speaker 1: you get to that point where you're moving out of
Speaker 1: your spare bedroom and you're you're stepping into a commercial space,
Speaker 1: and if you're hiring a team, whether it's one or
Speaker 1: two or seventy employees like me, you'll realize pretty quickly
Speaker 1: how much your business is no longer about you anymore,
Speaker 1: and how it is actually about everyone else. And by that,
Speaker 1: I mean it's about all of your staff, and it's
Speaker 1: about all of your customers. And weirdly enough, my business
Speaker 1: has got nothing to really do with me, even though
Speaker 1: from the outside, from either a perspective of a customer
Speaker 1: or a perspective of my staff member who knows like
Speaker 1: from both fate isn't about me at all, even though
Speaker 1: from the outside looking in.
Speaker 2: It might seem like it's all about me.
Speaker 1: For me, and in my mind as the CEO and
Speaker 1: founder of Faith, my business has got fucking nothing to
Speaker 1: do with me, and it has everything to do with
Speaker 1: everyone else. And that's the price that you pay if
Speaker 1: you want to scale a business big beyond you. It's
Speaker 1: not going to be about you anymore. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I think I myself put myself at the
Speaker 1: back of the priority list. And this is something that
Speaker 1: I'm trying to work on because as business owners and
Speaker 1: bosses and managers, our priorities can get put to the
Speaker 1: very back of the priority list. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how I'm fucking feeling, because what matters is how
Speaker 1: everyone else is feeling. And these are the kinds of
Speaker 1: things that I'm going to be touching on today. And
Speaker 1: I'd like to also start out by saying this is
Speaker 1: very much just.
Speaker 2: To me experience.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this is going to be the
Speaker 1: same for every business owner. Some other business owners in
Speaker 1: a similar position to me might feel completely different. And
Speaker 1: I've even had people tell me that I need to
Speaker 1: stop thinking this way or feeling this way. But this
Speaker 1: is just like me opening up and sharing my thoughts
Speaker 1: and feelings about some of the things that I personally
Speaker 1: struggle with now. A lot of the things that I'm
Speaker 1: going to touch on, I when I stop and think
Speaker 1: about it, I think maybe a lot of these stem
Speaker 1: from me posting on social media for over ten years
Speaker 1: and how conscious I have become of how I portray
Speaker 1: myself and how other people portray me. Even though it
Speaker 1: seems like everything that I post online is everything about
Speaker 1: my life and I just say whatever I want, especially
Speaker 1: when I'm jumping on my stories, it just seems really
Speaker 1: unfiltered and like I'll just say it how it is,
Speaker 1: or blurred out a random thought. I will admit that
Speaker 1: what I post online, even though it is yeah, candid
Speaker 1: and raw and real, and fun. It's also like thoughtfully curated,
Speaker 1: like I think about everything that I say, even when
Speaker 1: I'm just rambling, like I'm thinking about I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 1: being conscious of what I'm saying, and I'm subconsciously wondering
Speaker 1: how people are going to take on board what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of my feelings have stemmed
Speaker 1: from that mindset that I've had of being I guess
Speaker 1: watched on social media for such a long time, and
Speaker 1: I'm so conscious of how other people perceive me, and
Speaker 1: I think that has trickled into my business. So my
Speaker 1: first point here, and these are in no particular order whatsoever.
Speaker 1: So the first I don't know whether to title these
Speaker 1: as struggles or feelings, but the first thing that I
Speaker 1: personally struggle with in my business journey is feeling extreme
Speaker 1: guilt when it comes to taking a holiday, whether that's
Speaker 1: two days away, whether that's four days away or five
Speaker 1: days away. I absolutely struggle with it. And I've said
Speaker 1: this a lot of times. I've said this to my
Speaker 1: friend Matt, who I co host the High Scrollers podcast with,
Speaker 1: and I've said this to a lot of people that know.
Speaker 2: Me, and they always say, like, why the fuck do
Speaker 2: you care?
Speaker 1: Like especially my friend Matt. I'm sure most of you
Speaker 1: would know him. He is just so funny, and he says,
Speaker 1: who gives a fuck? Like just go on the holiday,
Speaker 1: Like you've built this business, Like, who gives a fuck?
Speaker 1: Just go on the holiday, go away for three months,
Speaker 1: you know, Whereas every time Aj and I have gone
Speaker 1: on a trip, and most of the time that we've
Speaker 1: gone on a trip, it's been like we're having a
Speaker 1: little week away, or we have like a friend's wedding
Speaker 1: or whatever. I don't know why, but I and again,
Speaker 1: maybe some of you other business owners out there can
Speaker 1: relate to what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I feel so much guilt around.
Speaker 1: Taking time off work because I'm worried of what my
Speaker 1: staff would think. And I know saying that out loud
Speaker 1: sounds so stupid, but it's something that I honestly struggle with.
Speaker 1: I feel so much guilt walking away from the workplace,
Speaker 1: especially if I'm going to do something leisurely, like just
Speaker 1: simply going to feed because we can. And I'd love
Speaker 1: to lose this mindset. And I guess I see a
Speaker 1: lot of other business owners on social media who have
Speaker 1: really successful businesses, and you know, they're flaunting being overseas
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 2: And like flashy cars and crazy.
Speaker 1: Countries that they're going to and all the places that
Speaker 1: they're staying. And I don't know why, but I think
Speaker 1: I'm scared of coming across that way. And again, I
Speaker 1: think this all stems from like social media and me
Speaker 1: not wanting to come across like out of touch or anything.
Speaker 1: But I'm always really worried that my staff would have
Speaker 1: the mindset of, oh, like she's just going on this
Speaker 1: flashy holiday. Like you know, I'm worried about what they
Speaker 1: would say and that sounds so or what they would think,
Speaker 1: and I know that sounds so stupid to say out loud.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess I never want to be that boss that
Speaker 1: is never there or like she's always going on holiday.
Speaker 1: And this is so silly of me to be saying,
Speaker 1: because Matt's right, like I have worked so hard to
Speaker 1: build this company.
Speaker 2: I should be able to go on a holiday whenever
Speaker 2: I want.
Speaker 1: But I struggle so deeply and I have so much guilt,
Speaker 1: and every time we go away, you know, I send
Speaker 1: out a big email to everyone that would need to
Speaker 1: know that I'm going to be away, but I say, like,
Speaker 1: please contact us any time, because I just never want
Speaker 1: to be that boss that's perceived as never being there
Speaker 1: or not being available, or I only care about like
Speaker 1: lining my own pockets from my own company to live
Speaker 1: a leisurely life, when at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I guess, what is the shame in doing that? If
Speaker 1: you want to start a business because you want to
Speaker 1: become super successful, because you want to spend eighty percent
Speaker 1: of the year traveling around the world and reaping the
Speaker 1: benefits from the work that you've done, I don't see
Speaker 1: that as a bad thing at all, But taking time
Speaker 1: off work, even if it's going away for two days,
Speaker 1: I feel extremely guilty, and it's something that I'm working
Speaker 1: on and I really want to undo that mindset because
Speaker 1: I'm worried that I'm going to get to the end
Speaker 1: of my business journey or my life and think, fuck,
Speaker 1: I should have enjoyed it more. I should have went
Speaker 1: on more trips, because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I've worked so hard over the last seven plus years
Speaker 1: of fate to get it to where it is that
Speaker 1: I feel like I owe it to myself to enjoy
Speaker 1: it a little more, and I don't know why I
Speaker 1: have this mentality, but I'm just so mindful of I
Speaker 1: guess my staff feeling like all I want to do.
Speaker 2: Is holiday, which is so stupid. But that's the first thing.
Speaker 2: Moving on to my second thing that I not so much.
Speaker 1: Now, I've definitely come to terms with this and I've
Speaker 1: gotten over it. But a few years back, as Fate
Speaker 1: began to grow, I delegated a lot of tasks.
Speaker 2: I created a lot.
Speaker 1: Of new roles for people and had them come into
Speaker 1: the business and I would hand off tasks to them
Speaker 1: that I once did every single day. Thinking back to
Speaker 1: when I first started Fate and then my team started growing,
Speaker 1: I remember handing over our customer service emails and I
Speaker 1: started to do them less and less. But in those
Speaker 1: early developmental years, I would still help, Like you know,
Speaker 1: I'd still be helping with the emails, same with processing returns,
Speaker 1: same with counting stock, same with packing orders, being in
Speaker 1: the warehouse, being really hands on. At one stage, that
Speaker 1: was something that I did every single day. And as
Speaker 1: the years went by, I began to do those tasks
Speaker 1: less and less because we hired new people and that
Speaker 1: was their responsibility. But I would still be helping quite
Speaker 1: a lot, and I'd be hands on and in the
Speaker 1: warehouse every single day. And I remember back then, like
Speaker 1: those few years ago, I would struggle if I wasn't helping,
Speaker 1: let's say, for example, in the warehouse. If I had
Speaker 1: a day where I wasn't being hands on and helping
Speaker 1: in the warehouse, even though I had people in their
Speaker 1: doing that and getting paid to do that, I would
Speaker 1: feel guilty that I wasn't there to help saying with
Speaker 1: customer service emails. Like whilst it wasn't my job anymore,
Speaker 1: I'd still be very hands on and helping every day.
Speaker 1: And then if I had a day here or like
Speaker 1: two days there where I wasn't helping with the customer
Speaker 1: service emails, I would struggle with guilt. And again I
Speaker 1: think this comes from being so hands on in those
Speaker 1: early days and slowly giving away those tasks that I
Speaker 1: then struggled. It's just like a me problem. But I
Speaker 1: had this feeling and thought of you know, oh, the
Speaker 1: warehouse team are gonna be like.
Speaker 2: Where's she today? Why isn't she helping with orders?
Speaker 1: Even though people have gotten employed and paid to do
Speaker 1: that job. It was just something that I really struggled
Speaker 1: with delegating is really hard. Letting go of things that
Speaker 1: you've done for so long is really hard, and then
Speaker 1: feeling that guilt of I'm no longer helping with this task,
Speaker 1: like I don't pack orders anymore, Like I don't pack orders,
Speaker 1: like that's just a job that I don't do it
Speaker 1: fade anymore. And the reason for that is because we've
Speaker 1: got a whole fucking warehouse team of people that do
Speaker 1: that every day. And I'm okay with that now, But
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, I would feel so much
Speaker 1: guilt around the fact that my warehouse team is working
Speaker 1: every day packing those orders, and.
Speaker 2: Like I'm never there helping them.
Speaker 1: And it just took me a really long time to
Speaker 1: be okay with that and knowing that it's okay for
Speaker 1: me to let go of certain roles within the business,
Speaker 1: even though those roles were something that I used to
Speaker 1: do full time. Because I've got bigger fish to fry,
Speaker 1: I've got bigger things to focus on, And it was
Speaker 1: just a matter of time and coming to terms with
Speaker 1: the fact that that's going to happen.
Speaker 2: In a business that's growing.
Speaker 1: You're gonna let go of tasks, You're going to hire
Speaker 1: new people, they're gonna come in to do those roles
Speaker 1: and at one stage you are just going to have
Speaker 1: to step away, and that's okay. Another thing that I
Speaker 1: have struggled with a lot personally over the recent years,
Speaker 1: and I'm still struggling with today, is feeling like I
Speaker 1: can't be there every day for every person on one Now. Obviously,
Speaker 1: my company's at a size now where that is physically impossible.
Speaker 1: I cannot, especially with our retail stores, like I can't
Speaker 1: be on the floor in our Brisbane store every day
Speaker 1: helping our churm side team. But even this spreads just
Speaker 1: to our office and warehouse. So our office and warehouse
Speaker 1: are in two separate buildings. They're like ten minutes apart,
Speaker 1: so they're relatively close. But even just me not physically
Speaker 1: being able to be there every day helping everyone one
Speaker 1: on one in their roles, it's something that I majorly
Speaker 1: struggle with. Like I struggle with guilt of being here
Speaker 1: on a Monday, like I'm in the studio today, I
Speaker 1: feel so much guilt that I'm here, even though.
Speaker 2: Like I'm doing my podcast and that's part of my job.
Speaker 1: I struggle with them being at work and wondering well
Speaker 1: she's just in Sydney doing her podcast kind of thing.
Speaker 2: And again, this is all very much a me problem.
Speaker 1: My staff are more than capable of me being in
Speaker 1: Sydney every Monday, and they're more than capable of doing
Speaker 1: their jobs. But it's just, again, I think this all
Speaker 1: stems from just building this business from the ground up
Speaker 1: and being so so heavily involved in everyone's roles, especially
Speaker 1: in the early days, to the point where it is
Speaker 1: now where I feel like I just can't be there
Speaker 1: every single day, every single moment, and wanting to be
Speaker 1: there to help everyone every step of the way. This
Speaker 1: is something that I'm still working on at the moment,
Speaker 1: and again, like it's it's all in my head, it's
Speaker 1: all me, Like who knows, I can't speak on behalf
Speaker 1: of like my head off of staff, but I have
Speaker 1: these fears that they would think where is she, Like
Speaker 1: she's in Sydney doing her podcasts, And I don't know
Speaker 1: if for sure if that's what they think or if
Speaker 1: I'm just fucking making that up in my head. But
Speaker 1: it's something that I struggle with. But I also am
Speaker 1: trying to come to terms with the fact that, like
Speaker 1: fate is a bit bigger of a company now, and
Speaker 1: everyone is employed and qualified to be doing the roles
Speaker 1: that they're doing, and they all have managers that.
Speaker 3: They can go to honestly take we don't need it.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to get Fate to that point where
Speaker 1: I can kind of step aside a little bit and
Speaker 1: not have to worry about like the day to day
Speaker 1: operational side of the business because there's enough management in
Speaker 1: place at Fate now where everyone has someone they can
Speaker 1: go to.
Speaker 2: But I just still struggle.
Speaker 1: With feeling like I can't be there to help everyone
Speaker 1: every single day when I really want to. But I
Speaker 1: think that's just like the nature of who I am
Speaker 1: as a person. I love to help anyone that needs it.
Speaker 1: And again, like I probably overcompensate with how much I
Speaker 1: say to people, like message.
Speaker 2: Me if you need me, email me if you need me.
Speaker 1: Like when I went to China, I'm like, message me
Speaker 1: the whole time, like I will write back. I don't
Speaker 1: care if it's fucking ten o'clock at night. My staff
Speaker 1: can call me and let me know if they need something.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's just another thing that I'm still learning
Speaker 1: to come to terms with and also giving myself grace
Speaker 1: and just reminding myself I'm just one person, Like I'm
Speaker 1: not a fucking so woman, Like I'm not I'm just
Speaker 1: one person. I'm one girl. It is physically impossible for
Speaker 1: me to help twenty five people full time in their roles,
Speaker 1: Like it's physically impossible, but it's still something that I
Speaker 1: struggle with every day. Another one kind of off the
Speaker 1: back of that, and again, I mean, all of these
Speaker 1: are super personal to me and it might not be
Speaker 1: the same experience for every other business owner, but just
Speaker 1: feeling like I can't ever fucking make everyone happy when
Speaker 1: you're in the same position as me, where you have
Speaker 1: got seventy people employed.
Speaker 2: With the company that you own.
Speaker 1: It's hard enough if you were looking after ten people
Speaker 1: that everyone is going to be extremely happy with everything
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the time, and when it's seventy people,
Speaker 1: obviously you're going to have more chances of people just
Speaker 1: not being.
Speaker 2: Happy with things. And it's really tough when you're a.
Speaker 1: Business owner because it all does feel so personal when
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's not, and you've
Speaker 1: really got to come to terms with the fact that,
Speaker 1: like as a business owner, as a manager, as a boss,
Speaker 1: you can only do the best that you absolutely can,
Speaker 1: and you have to accept that that still might not
Speaker 1: be enough for some people. Sometimes. I think I've definitely
Speaker 1: come to terms with that in my business journey years ago.
Speaker 1: I came to terms with the fact that Fate isn't
Speaker 1: going to be everyone's ideal workplace, because that applies to
Speaker 1: every workplace the same as you, Xander. You're working here
Speaker 1: at Nova, you might think it's absolutely amazing, but not
Speaker 1: everyone is going to think that it's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3: I've been at other workplaces within media and I've hated.
Speaker 1: It, but I'm sure there's other people that have worked
Speaker 1: there that loved it totally.
Speaker 3: Like it's just how the cookie crumbles. Is not every
Speaker 3: environment is every for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think the hard thing or with that is.
Speaker 1: When it's your own business, it can feel so personal
Speaker 1: because in your mind, you have set this business up
Speaker 1: and you think it's set up really well, and you
Speaker 1: think that the way that you do things is really good,
Speaker 1: and then to hear people say that it's not for
Speaker 1: them or they don't like it, you can't help but
Speaker 1: feel like you're getting stabbed in the chest because it
Speaker 1: feels personal, even though it's not.
Speaker 3: It makes me feel broke, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure a lot of business owners will face
Speaker 1: this at some point in their business journey, especially as
Speaker 1: your business.
Speaker 2: Is getting bigger.
Speaker 1: But your workplace in your business is not going to
Speaker 1: be everyone's cup of tea. And the sooner that business
Speaker 1: owners accept that, and as soon as business owners accept
Speaker 1: that people will come and go, the sooner you'll feel
Speaker 1: more at peace with yourself, because if you don't, you
Speaker 1: will just be constantly beating yourself up that you're not
Speaker 1: good enough, because in your mind, your workplace is perfect
Speaker 1: and amazing, but humans are so complex and there's so
Speaker 1: much out there for people to choose from these days
Speaker 1: that your business that you have set up and you
Speaker 1: have so much pride in and you're so proud of,
Speaker 1: isn't going to be everyone's an amazing best workplace for them.
Speaker 1: And that's okay, And that's something that I have become
Speaker 1: extremely okay with, because if you don't, if you don't
Speaker 1: accept that, you're just you're just going to beat yourself
Speaker 1: up for your whole business journey. I have one more point,
Speaker 1: and also, I'd like to say, with all these thoughts
Speaker 1: and feelings that I'm having. If you're a business owner
Speaker 1: and you employ people, or you have a company that's
Speaker 1: in a growth period and you've got a lot of
Speaker 1: people involved, I'd love to know if you feel any
Speaker 1: of these the same way that I do, so feel
Speaker 1: free to DM me on my Big Business podcast account.
Speaker 1: I also think I really need to start a little
Speaker 1: broadcast channel that's just a little side note, Xander, because
Speaker 1: I've got like a broadcast channel that's just general, but
Speaker 1: I want to make a business one. Then we can
Speaker 1: like discuss together all these episodes. So I need to
Speaker 1: bloody do that. It's another thing for my to do list. Okay,
Speaker 1: actually I've got two more little points. One just popped
Speaker 1: into my head. Something else I struggle with, which I'm
Speaker 1: sure every single business owner out there will struggle with
Speaker 1: feeling like I am never achieving anything, or that I
Speaker 1: can't achieve enough in a day. I think that's just
Speaker 1: the beauty of business. It's never ending, and when you
Speaker 1: have accomplished something so amazing, it's like yay, but then
Speaker 1: oh shit, now got to do these twenty other things.
Speaker 2: And that's just the way it is in business. I'm
Speaker 2: so okay with that.
Speaker 1: If you feel like you're in business and you're just
Speaker 1: not achieving anything because the to do list just keeps
Speaker 1: getting longer and longer and the goals keep getting bigger,
Speaker 1: especially if your.
Speaker 2: Business is growing.
Speaker 1: Please know that you're not alone in that one. And
Speaker 1: I think it's all about just taking a moment to
Speaker 1: appreciate all the wins, even if they're absolutely tiny, because
Speaker 1: yet business is never bloody ending. And the last thing,
Speaker 1: which is more niche to me, I guess. But another
Speaker 1: thing that I kind of struggle with or am extremely
Speaker 1: mindful of and have become way more mindful of over
Speaker 1: the years, is I have never been more aware and
Speaker 1: conscious of what I post about on social media because
Speaker 1: I have staff now, I don't know out of all
Speaker 1: my staff members how many of them are following me
Speaker 1: on social media. It's definitely not a requirement on their behalf.
Speaker 1: I do not care if they follow me or not.
Speaker 1: They do not need to be a follower, a listener,
Speaker 1: a fan who knows some of them might even listen
Speaker 1: to these episodes, Xander, I wouldn't have a clue. I
Speaker 1: know April does, but I don't know as for the rest. Hi,
Speaker 1: April Hi, she kind of has to listen to.
Speaker 2: It's part of her job.
Speaker 1: But like I said in the beginning of this episode,
Speaker 1: I've been posting my life and things about my life
Speaker 1: online for over ten years, but especially in the last
Speaker 1: few years where Fate has become so big and I
Speaker 1: have so many people on our books, I have never
Speaker 1: been more aware and conscious of what I say here
Speaker 1: on my podcast, especially on my Instagram stories, in reels everything,
Speaker 1: because the scary thing is, like, I could say something
Speaker 1: on my story one night that could fucking really upset
Speaker 1: one of my employees.
Speaker 2: Even if it was like nothing about them, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's one thing to have a following online and
Speaker 1: be mindful of how different everyone is and people's different
Speaker 1: views and values and being careful of what I say
Speaker 1: in general, But then to think that you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of people that you employ that might also be
Speaker 1: tuning into everything you say, Like, that's just a whole
Speaker 1: other thing where I'm thinking, Fuck, I better not say that,
Speaker 1: because who knows that might upset someone that works for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's where context is important, and even that includes
Speaker 3: the context of your relationship with people. Yeah, and so
Speaker 3: you might throw something out online and I could be
Speaker 3: looking at it being like, oh, yeah, cool, but then
Speaker 3: someone else in the context of your relationship with them
Speaker 3: would take that differently. So I can totally understand how
Speaker 3: that you can be worrisome of what you're throwing out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's just another thing.
Speaker 1: It's one thing for me to jump on my story
Speaker 1: and give my thoughts on something that's happening I don't know,
Speaker 1: on social media or in the world or whatever. And
Speaker 1: it's one thing to have everyone that follows me like
Speaker 1: come back to me in the dans.
Speaker 2: Be like, nah, I disagree, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But then it's just like a whole other level if
Speaker 1: it's someone that you're paying and if they're working at
Speaker 1: your company, and it's just I wouldn't say I necessarily
Speaker 1: struggle with it, but it's something that I've become like
Speaker 1: super wary of and super mindful of, and I'm just,
Speaker 1: I guess a bit more careful.
Speaker 2: But then at the same time.
Speaker 1: I feel like I hold back from posting because I'm
Speaker 1: scared of what my staff will think. Again, this is
Speaker 1: all just like a me fucking problem. Really, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I just need to get the
Speaker 1: fuck over all of it. But I thought I would
Speaker 1: share some things that I personally just think about constantly
Speaker 1: and have a bit of struggles with every now and then,
Speaker 1: or maybe every.
Speaker 2: Fucking day, who knows.
Speaker 1: But this year, I'm really just trying to enjoy every
Speaker 1: moment and remind myself that this is my first time
Speaker 1: owning a business. And I think, especially for staff, that's
Speaker 1: one thing that I would love staff to know, Like
Speaker 1: if you're working for a business and it's owned by
Speaker 1: one person, like you know how you see those things
Speaker 1: and it's like this is my mum's first time living
Speaker 1: life as well, Like she's just figuring it out. Same
Speaker 1: goes for like your boss, Like I'm not fucking perfect.
Speaker 1: I would never say that I'm a perfect boss. I
Speaker 1: would say I have so much to learn. I have
Speaker 1: so much growing to do. And I'm kind of this
Speaker 1: year giving myself grace in that, rather than getting all
Speaker 1: caught up in my own worries and thoughts and laying
Speaker 1: in bed at night thinking, fuck, I'm not doing anything right.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to give myself grace and say, this
Speaker 1: is my first time owning a business. I am still
Speaker 1: learning as I go. I'm making this shit up as
Speaker 1: I go. Quietly literally and just being okay with that
Speaker 1: and just yolo having fun. Anyway, I'm going to end
Speaker 1: today's episode with a tip.
Speaker 3: Was your tip of the week?
Speaker 2: Yolo?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's my tip of the week. My tip
Speaker 1: of the week is, yolo, you only live once. We
Speaker 1: are not perfect. Fucking hell, business owners are not perfect.
Speaker 1: We are just people as well. We're just crazy people
Speaker 1: that took a risk one day and sometimes, like in
Speaker 1: my position, it snowballs into a big thing. Yolo, you
Speaker 1: only live once. That's the worst tip of the week.
Speaker 1: I think that I've ever done my favorite. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, Yolo.
Speaker 2: Let's bring back, let's get back. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if I'm doing like a staff performance review, just yolo, Yolo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, next episode we record, Yeah, Yolo.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that's my tip of the week, and I'll catch
Speaker 1: you in my bonus episode later in the week. And
Speaker 1: remember to chase after your dreams as if they owe
Speaker 1: you money.