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 gadigal 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 winds,
Speaker 1: the huge mistakes, the challenging times and the funny moments
Speaker 1: in between. So, whether you're in business yourself already, maybe
Speaker 1: you're not in the game at all, perhaps you're looking
Speaker 1: for some inspo, or you simply just want to hear
Speaker 1: the tea when it comes to running a business, this
Speaker 1: is the podcast for you. Now. Coming up on today's episode,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be sharing with you some of the
Speaker 1: things I find really challenging in business, and as I'm
Speaker 1: sure you can guess, there's a billion things. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to share with you my top challenges that I
Speaker 1: mentally deal with every single day, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of them stem from my own inner bully, just
Speaker 1: always bullying myself that I need to be doing absolutely
Speaker 1: everything to the best of my ability, and that I
Speaker 1: always have to be perfect and I can never put
Speaker 1: my own feelings first because everyone else matters more than me.
Speaker 1: So without further ado, let's just get straight into it
Speaker 1: and get down to business. Tell you why I'm loving
Speaker 1: this pod, It's because I feel like it's also a
Speaker 1: personal diary. I don't do journaling or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but I feel like this podcast, in particular is my
Speaker 1: personal journal and diary. I get to sit down here
Speaker 1: every Monday and kind of just spill the beans on
Speaker 1: what's on my mind. So today I'm going to be
Speaker 1: chatting with you about some of the things that I
Speaker 1: find challenging as a business owner. And I know I've
Speaker 1: said this a billion times, but business is just challenging
Speaker 1: in general. There's a billion things that I could talk about.
Speaker 1: But in saying that, I don't think having challenges is
Speaker 1: necessarily a negative thing. I think you can learn a
Speaker 1: lot from all of the challenges that you go through
Speaker 1: in business. But I'm just going to share with you
Speaker 1: some of my challenges that I think about often or
Speaker 1: am faced with often, and maybe someone can relate or
Speaker 1: maybe not feel so alone in their own challenges, because
Speaker 1: let's be honest, life is full of challenges, let me
Speaker 1: tell you. So let's just get straight into it. One
Speaker 1: of the things that I find challenging as a business
Speaker 1: owner is the pressure that you put on yourself to
Speaker 1: feel perfect at doing everything, especially in my position where
Speaker 1: I am the CEO of the company. I'm also the
Speaker 1: founder of the company. I started the thing from scratch
Speaker 1: and have built it out to where it is now.
Speaker 1: And now it's not just me anymore. There's sixty plus
Speaker 1: other people involved in this thing, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of business owners and entrepreneurs and especially those that
Speaker 1: have started it from the beginning and are still very
Speaker 1: heavily in it. Like me, I feel so much pressure.
Speaker 1: Not that anyone puts this pressure on me, but I
Speaker 1: feel pressure for myself that I have to be perfect
Speaker 1: at everything, and by that I mean I feel like
Speaker 1: I have to be the perfect entrepreneur. I have to
Speaker 1: come up with every idea that's going to move the
Speaker 1: company forward. Yes, I've got lots of other people in
Speaker 1: my team that are helping bring ideas to life and
Speaker 1: move the business forward, but I feel immense pressure from who,
Speaker 1: No one from me, But I feel immense pressure that
Speaker 1: I am solely the one that's going to make this
Speaker 1: thing keep moving forward. And I feel that pressure more
Speaker 1: and more with the continued growth of my business. I
Speaker 1: just feel like it all falls back on me, and
Speaker 1: that's a really scary thing to deal with mentally. And
Speaker 1: then at the same time, there are so many other
Speaker 1: things that I feel like I need to be perfect at.
Speaker 1: So not only do I feel like I have to
Speaker 1: be the perfect entrepreneur who is always innovating, always coming
Speaker 1: up with the next thing, always trying to be ahead
Speaker 1: of everyone else, I then feel like I have to
Speaker 1: be the perfect boss. And being an entrepreneur and being
Speaker 1: a boss are literally two different things, like they are
Speaker 1: not related. I think it's actually impossible for someone to
Speaker 1: be the best entrepreneur and then the best manager. Like
Speaker 1: you can be a fucking fantastic manager and you can
Speaker 1: absolutely nail that, but then it's really hard to also
Speaker 1: be a fantastic entrepreneur. And I think as a founder,
Speaker 1: I just put pressure on myself that I need to
Speaker 1: be perfect at both of those things. And that's just
Speaker 1: two things I feel like I need to do perfectly.
Speaker 1: And by that I mean in my role, I'm obviously
Speaker 1: in charge of continuing to move our company forward. I'm
Speaker 1: always thinking of the next marketing idea for us to do.
Speaker 1: I'm always thinking of the next collection that we're going
Speaker 1: to come out with. And yes, I've got people obviously
Speaker 1: helping me in all of these areas. Now I couldn't
Speaker 1: do all of this on my own, but I think
Speaker 1: it's just being that owner founder that I feel like
Speaker 1: it all falls back on me. And then I also
Speaker 1: like think, you know, for example, on Mondays, I come
Speaker 1: down to the podcast and I always think, fuck, like
Speaker 1: what if someone needs me back in the office today,
Speaker 1: or I feel bad if I'm not there for someone,
Speaker 1: And it's crazy because as big as fate has gotten,
Speaker 1: the more I've felt that way. What's wild is I
Speaker 1: have people working for my company that I've never even met,
Speaker 1: and then I feel this guilt that I should be
Speaker 1: getting around to all of our stores to make sure
Speaker 1: I know everyone, and that I should be managing everyone
Speaker 1: directly and helping them in their role and asking them
Speaker 1: if they're okay. And then I have this guilt that
Speaker 1: I don't do that. But I think that's just me
Speaker 1: putting unrealistic expectations on myself. But I think that feeling
Speaker 1: will never ever go away. Another thing that I feel
Speaker 1: is challenging is always feeling the pressure, especially being like
Speaker 1: a social media based business, and I'm sure every business
Speaker 1: would feel this, just feeling that constant pressure of needing
Speaker 1: to stay on top of your game on social media,
Speaker 1: always making sure that we jump on the trends, or
Speaker 1: we always try to have the mindset of we need
Speaker 1: to set the trend because you don't want to seem
Speaker 1: like you're copying everyone all the time, and just always
Speaker 1: having our finger on the pulse when it comes to
Speaker 1: social media, like jumping on that trend, creating that trend.
Speaker 1: That's another pressure that I feel. I think, just all
Speaker 1: in all, a thing that I find challenging is feeling
Speaker 1: like I need to be doing all of the things
Speaker 1: all at once perfectly. And I also feel I make
Speaker 1: up scenarios in my head that everyone expects that of me,
Speaker 1: which is really wild. For example, our office and our
Speaker 1: warehouse are separate now, so for the entire history of Fate,
Speaker 1: since the very beginning, the office and warehouse have always
Speaker 1: been in the same building, and we've moved a lot,
Speaker 1: as you would know, over the years. We've gone from
Speaker 1: one or we've gone from my shed to a little
Speaker 1: bit bigger shed, and then like we had our shop
Speaker 1: and our warehouse and our office all in one building
Speaker 1: at one point. Then we had our second last warehouse,
Speaker 1: and you know, the office was there in the warehouse,
Speaker 1: and then was it this year that we moved Who
Speaker 1: fucking knows, I'm pretty sure it was this year our
Speaker 1: office and warehouse separated for the first time, so our
Speaker 1: team got split in half, and that was a huge
Speaker 1: decision for us to make because people that saw each
Speaker 1: other every day have since been split up. And by
Speaker 1: doing that, I think it's been great in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. I think our office has become a lot
Speaker 1: more serious since splitting from the warehouse, because the warehouse
Speaker 1: is kind of chaotic and fun and music blaring every day,
Speaker 1: and the fact that our office used to be upstairs,
Speaker 1: like there'd be a lot of crossover and you go
Speaker 1: downstairs to go to the toilet and you say hello
Speaker 1: to everyone in the warehouse kind of thing. And ever
Speaker 1: since we've split our office and warehouse, our office has
Speaker 1: gotten a whole lot more serious, less like joking around,
Speaker 1: which has been really interesting to see. But my job
Speaker 1: is partly in the office and partly in the warehouse,
Speaker 1: So every day I'm either at the office or warehouse,
Speaker 1: or a lot of the times i'll go to the
Speaker 1: office in the morning, then go over to the warehouse
Speaker 1: and then I might stay at the warehouse for the
Speaker 1: rest of the day, or I might head back to
Speaker 1: the office in the afternoon. And I feel guilt And
Speaker 1: this is one hundred percent just on me, Like it's
Speaker 1: no expectation from anyone on my team, but I feel, Oh,
Speaker 1: if I'm spending too much time at the warehouse, what
Speaker 1: does everyone at the office think I'm doing? And I
Speaker 1: know that's so dumb. And then I'll always message me like, hey, girls,
Speaker 1: like I'm working with SIGGI in the warehouse today. If
Speaker 1: anyone needs me, like, just send me a message, Like
Speaker 1: all of my staff know, especially my staff that I
Speaker 1: work with every day, Like you can message me at
Speaker 1: any point and I will help you. But I like
Speaker 1: guilt trip myself into thinking my staff at the office,
Speaker 1: for example, are going to think I'm never there because
Speaker 1: I'm at the warehouse. And it's just it's like you
Speaker 1: get in your own head and build these own expectations
Speaker 1: that you think your team has of you, that they're
Speaker 1: gonna be going, Oh, Brittany's just at the warehouse again today,
Speaker 1: Or like if I spend let's say one week, I'm
Speaker 1: really heavily in the office. Then I always think the
Speaker 1: warehouse staff can be like, well, where's Britney kind of thing.
Speaker 1: That's another challenge that I've found myself facing in my
Speaker 1: own mind since we've split those two things, is spreading
Speaker 1: myself evenly enough that I'm always seeing because you hear
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people work for companies. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: the CEOs never hear kind of thing. And I would
Speaker 1: hate for anyone to feel that way about me, And
Speaker 1: I think that's like a fear I have in my head,
Speaker 1: and it's just really tricky finding that balance, especially with
Speaker 1: how much we're growing. Is just feeling pressure to be
Speaker 1: everywhere at the same time helping everyone immensely, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, I just I have this guilt surrounding it.
Speaker 1: It's definitely a challenge that I deal with every single day.
Speaker 1: Coming from my background of obviously being a YouTuber and
Speaker 1: influencer and content creator, I struggle a little bit these
Speaker 1: days to find the balance between working and creating content.
Speaker 1: Now you ask anyone or you may know yourself, creating
Speaker 1: content is one of those things that's always so difficult
Speaker 1: for everyone, like finding the time to make content and
Speaker 1: I think I myself in particular, because I was a
Speaker 1: content creator for a full time job for so many
Speaker 1: years and I shared my day to day life on
Speaker 1: YouTube and Instagram and everything. I really struggle sometimes to
Speaker 1: keep up with that, and I struggle to keep up
Speaker 1: with my personal brand, you know, of like doing my
Speaker 1: instert stories and everything when I'm working full time. And
Speaker 1: now I know being an influencer is a job. Obviously
Speaker 1: I have loads of friends who are influencers for a job.
Speaker 1: But when influencers go, oh, I've just been so busy,
Speaker 1: I haven't done any story today, I'm like, for fuck's sake,
Speaker 1: for fuck's sake, because that used to be me, that
Speaker 1: used to be my job, and I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: thor I haven't made a video this week. It's like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck have you been doing? Honestly, I find
Speaker 1: it really tricky, you know, when it comes to posting
Speaker 1: on social media in a multitude of ways. Now. Number one,
Speaker 1: because I'm working every day, like I work five days
Speaker 1: a week, and then you know, it's I find it
Speaker 1: really tricky to like document my day on my stories
Speaker 1: like I have for many years, because I just get
Speaker 1: to work and then my day is about everyone else,
Speaker 1: Like my day isn't about me. If I want to
Speaker 1: go to work and get anything done myself, I can't
Speaker 1: because if I'm going into work, I'm there to you know,
Speaker 1: work with everyone else. But I just struggle to kind
Speaker 1: of create content throughout the day. And then every now
Speaker 1: and then I go, Okay, I'm gonna consciously make an
Speaker 1: effort to do stories of me at work today and
Speaker 1: chow around what I am getting up to. And I
Speaker 1: love doing that because people love seeing what I get
Speaker 1: up to at work, because I guess it's like a
Speaker 1: different field that they're not used to sing. But it's
Speaker 1: really hard to do that when you're actually just working,
Speaker 1: like year nine to five or in fate world, it's
Speaker 1: eight to four, and then I get home at night
Speaker 1: and I'll catch up with AJ and then I've got
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff that i want to do on
Speaker 1: my laptop, and then we have dinner and whatever, and
Speaker 1: then I've gotten to the end of the day and
Speaker 1: I've done no stories. And I sometimes go days these
Speaker 1: days without doing stories. I think I have this guilt
Speaker 1: around not constantly posting on my own social media because
Speaker 1: that was what I used to do all the time.
Speaker 1: Another thing that I have found really interesting as well
Speaker 1: is how much more mindful I have become on social
Speaker 1: media over the years with the more people that I
Speaker 1: have hired. You know, I came from this background of again,
Speaker 1: like making YouTube videos about my life, getting on my story,
Speaker 1: talking about whatever's on my mind. And weirdly, now, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's over sixty people that are employed by Fate, and
Speaker 1: I haven't fucking gone through and seen how many of
Speaker 1: them actually follow me. I'm not going to do that,
Speaker 1: but I'm so mindful. Now. Let's say, like I am
Speaker 1: laying in bed at night and I want to pull
Speaker 1: out my phone and talk about something random, like whatever
Speaker 1: it is. It could be something and AJ and I
Speaker 1: have spoken about, it could be something that happened at work.
Speaker 1: It so is consciously on my mind that people that
Speaker 1: work for me could be watching this story, and like,
Speaker 1: how are they going to perceive me after me saying
Speaker 1: this thing? And I've always been conscious of what I
Speaker 1: post online for my entire online career, like ten plus years,
Speaker 1: but now more than ever, I'm hesitant with how much
Speaker 1: I share on social media because it plays on my
Speaker 1: mind that someone that works for my company could watch
Speaker 1: that and it could affect them essentially, And it's just
Speaker 1: something that I guess never crossed my mind when I
Speaker 1: started Fate because again, like I started this and hired
Speaker 1: AJ's family friend as my first employee, But I never
Speaker 1: thought back then, shit, maybe one day I'm going to
Speaker 1: be more careful with what I share on social media,
Speaker 1: you know, because it very well may affect someone that
Speaker 1: works for me, or I may have an opinion that's
Speaker 1: different to theirs, and that could affect the way they
Speaker 1: feel about the company that they work for. It's a
Speaker 1: bit of a slippery slope, I would say. When it
Speaker 1: comes to being a public figure, I fucking hate call
Speaker 1: myself that a public figure. Look, it's so wanky, but
Speaker 1: you know, like very it's very interesting to have experienced,
Speaker 1: you know, being a public figure or influencer, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it. Then stepping into a position where
Speaker 1: I've got so many people employed by me and by
Speaker 1: the company that I own, and I pay them every
Speaker 1: single week, and then I still share my opinion online
Speaker 1: about things, and I don't know, maybe some other people
Speaker 1: who are in a similar position to me, where they
Speaker 1: have a following online or a personal brand or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then they employ people. Maybe they feel the same.
Speaker 1: But I've definitely become more careful over the years about
Speaker 1: what I say on social media because I think my
Speaker 1: employees could be watching this, and what are they going
Speaker 1: to think of me when they see me at work
Speaker 1: the next day. It's really fucking alien, if I'm being honest.
Speaker 1: I think it's also made me more mindful of how
Speaker 1: much I share about my personal life online. Back in
Speaker 1: those YouTube days, I would share everything, as a lot
Speaker 1: of you would know if you followed me. Way back then,
Speaker 1: I would share things about my relationship. I remember I
Speaker 1: had a massive public breakup and I shared all about that.
Speaker 1: But I think I share a lot less now, and
Speaker 1: I think that all comes down to what I do
Speaker 1: for a job and my business. And whilst it still
Speaker 1: might feel like I share a lot of my personal life,
Speaker 1: I don't really like. I share small bits here and there.
Speaker 1: I'll update everyone in my house, talk about fun little things,
Speaker 1: but there's so much that happens in my personal life
Speaker 1: that I don't share online anymore. And I think it's
Speaker 1: because I feel like I have employees watching my story
Speaker 1: and it makes me self conscious. I guess another thing
Speaker 1: that I find challenging in business that every business owner
Speaker 1: would definitely find challenging is looking at your daily sales
Speaker 1: and panicking if you have a slow day or a
Speaker 1: slow week or a slow month. And I think, again,
Speaker 1: no matter how successful a business becomes, I don't think
Speaker 1: that feeling would ever go away for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: And I'd be lying if I said that I'm just
Speaker 1: fully confident every day. I'm fully confident in fate every day,
Speaker 1: and we're only continuing to grow and grow. But I
Speaker 1: do feel a certain type of way, like, obviously you
Speaker 1: get into a groove in your business and you know
Speaker 1: kind of how much you make every week and what
Speaker 1: your daily sales are. But it's scary when you have
Speaker 1: a slow week or when our stores all have a
Speaker 1: slow weekend. And what's interesting with having different stores in
Speaker 1: all different areas is they all kind of have the
Speaker 1: same flows. Like it's not like one store is always
Speaker 1: really crazy busy and one store is like drastically different.
Speaker 1: I've noticed that Tuesdays are the lowest days for retail,
Speaker 1: and all of the stores like they send us an
Speaker 1: end of day email at the end of every day
Speaker 1: and they'll just give us a little recap on how
Speaker 1: the day went, They've got slow day today, and it'll
Speaker 1: be all of them like they all have the same
Speaker 1: slow day. So it's really hard, especially in like retail
Speaker 1: and especially online retail, coming off the back of big
Speaker 1: things and going back to low periods. So for example,
Speaker 1: like if you do a massive sale or something like
Speaker 1: obviously your sales are going to be through the roof
Speaker 1: when you do a big sale, or it's Black Friday,
Speaker 1: or maybe you've launched a huge collection that you've hyped
Speaker 1: up for ages. You get like a really big high
Speaker 1: when that happens, like you've made all this money. Or
Speaker 1: like let's say, for example, when we open our paramount
Speaker 1: a store next month, like that, there's going to be
Speaker 1: so much excitement around there and we're going to have
Speaker 1: like a really big sales period. And then when you
Speaker 1: come off the back of that, that's like the scary
Speaker 1: time because I know, you just get so hyped up
Speaker 1: when you've done something amazing or had an amazing month
Speaker 1: or an amazing week, and it's when you go back
Speaker 1: into that lull that you feel a certain type of way.
Speaker 1: And I guess in the back of my mind, and
Speaker 1: I've said this before on the pod, like I think
Speaker 1: every business owner knows like it's gonna have its highs
Speaker 1: and lows. And then I read all these articles about
Speaker 1: these companies going into administration and liquidation, and then I think, fuck,
Speaker 1: what if that's me one day? Like you just have
Speaker 1: this fear that you will never not have, I think
Speaker 1: that not everything lasts forever. So then again I put
Speaker 1: this pressure on myself that this is all on me,
Speaker 1: Like if our stores have a quiet weekend, I'm laying
Speaker 1: in bed thinking, how the fuck can I get more
Speaker 1: people into our stores. It's not all on me to
Speaker 1: get the customers in the door, but I feel that
Speaker 1: challenge that it is on me that I need to
Speaker 1: get customers in the door. And I always speak about
Speaker 1: our community. We have the strongest community at Fate, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure all of you know, like our community are
Speaker 1: always asking us to open that next door, like when
Speaker 1: you're opening here camera Hobart everywhere. I feel pressure from
Speaker 1: our community to keep expanding, which is the most amazing
Speaker 1: thing ever for any business to be in the position
Speaker 1: where your own customers are asking you to open more
Speaker 1: stores near them. I think that's a great problem to have,
Speaker 1: and I am working extremely hard to try and make
Speaker 1: that happen for our community opening those new stores near them,
Speaker 1: which is a lot because people live in lots of
Speaker 1: different places. But then I feel even more pressure when
Speaker 1: my mindset is I need to open more stores, I
Speaker 1: need to keep growing this thing. Our community is asking
Speaker 1: for it. But then when we have a quiet weekend
Speaker 1: in the stores, and then I go, is this fucking
Speaker 1: worth it? Like I want me to open more, but
Speaker 1: like our stores had a slow Sunday, and I panic
Speaker 1: and I start working out how much we made that
Speaker 1: day versus how many people were working in the fact
Speaker 1: that they were all on Sunday rates and rent and
Speaker 1: this and that and the other. That is a challenge
Speaker 1: that I face with wanting to expand but then having
Speaker 1: slow periods. Ellie's in the studio with me today's and
Speaker 1: isn't here, But she just asked, can I log on
Speaker 1: at any point and see how we're going, you know,
Speaker 1: each day? And do I do that often? Yes? I can.
Speaker 1: It's in the palm of my hand. And it's even
Speaker 1: easier for me to look at now because up until
Speaker 1: now we used to have two separate point of sales essentially,
Speaker 1: so for online we used Shopify, or we still used Shopify,
Speaker 1: and then for in store we had Square, so like
Speaker 1: two different things, and for the history of Fate, it's
Speaker 1: always been that way, like our stores had Square and
Speaker 1: online with Shopify, and just recently over the last few months,
Speaker 1: we've rolled out Shopify point of sale into all of
Speaker 1: our stores so that everything can be connected. Square was
Speaker 1: great and I can definitely recommend Square, like I've used
Speaker 1: it for however many years, four or five years that
Speaker 1: I've had retail stores, and we still have Square in
Speaker 1: our cafe, but we were running into a lot of
Speaker 1: roadblocks with customers. Let's say they bought something online and
Speaker 1: then they bring it into the store, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: put through their system, so it was creating like a
Speaker 1: bit of a logistical nightmare for us. Whereas now we've
Speaker 1: rolled out Shopify Pause to all of our stores, so
Speaker 1: it's all on the one system. So if customers bring
Speaker 1: in their online order, they can just go bang bang
Speaker 1: bang on their little tablet and like process a return immediately,
Speaker 1: whereas they used to have to go on the laptop
Speaker 1: and log into Square and you know all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So I always have looked at out online
Speaker 1: sales because I've got the Shopify app on my phone,
Speaker 1: so I can just open it up and there it is,
Speaker 1: like in the palm of my hand. But then I
Speaker 1: never really used to check how the stores would go
Speaker 1: because then I would like have to log into the
Speaker 1: Square app, and it's one of those apps that kicks
Speaker 1: you out every time you need you got to log
Speaker 1: back in, then you got to get a security code,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. So I never used to like
Speaker 1: check how the stores were going as much, but I
Speaker 1: have always kept an eye online. But since we've switched over,
Speaker 1: it's all on Shopify now, so when I log in,
Speaker 1: I can see it all right there, like as a
Speaker 1: total of what we've made for the day, and then
Speaker 1: you can break it down by location. And I will say,
Speaker 1: since we have integrated them all together, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: it more because it's all there, and it's like a
Speaker 1: bad addiction, to be honest, you do become obsessed with
Speaker 1: kind of looking at the numbers and a, hey, I
Speaker 1: guess it's a good thing. If you are in business,
Speaker 1: you absolutely want to know what your sales are every
Speaker 1: single day. And I've spoken with business owner friends, for
Speaker 1: example Anita from Hero Packaging for a long time there.
Speaker 1: She had an accountant, like we have an accountant too,
Speaker 1: But Anita thought because they had an accountant that the
Speaker 1: numbers were all good and she didn't feel the need
Speaker 1: to like closely look at the numbers. And she regrets
Speaker 1: that immensely because it all kind of went wrong for
Speaker 1: a bit there with her business. So it's definitely important
Speaker 1: to look at your numbers, but it's hard at the
Speaker 1: same time because then you're obsessively looking at those numbers
Speaker 1: and wondering why the numbers are lower one day, and
Speaker 1: then it all goes back to what I spoke about
Speaker 1: at the start with being a owner, founder, CEO. I
Speaker 1: feel like, if those numbers are low, it's my fault,
Speaker 1: which is the weirdest feeling. And then I'm thinking, fuck,
Speaker 1: what can we do on social media? Next? I need
Speaker 1: to make more sales and more money, because at the
Speaker 1: end of the days, that's the goal, right, It's to
Speaker 1: make more money to keep the business moving forward. And
Speaker 1: I definitely feel the bigger that fate has gotten over
Speaker 1: the years, the more pressure I have put on myself
Speaker 1: because there's more at stake, there's more to lose, there's
Speaker 1: more bills, there's more expenses, there's more staff pays, there's
Speaker 1: more superannuation to pay. So I definitely just feel a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure all in all with everything, like it's
Speaker 1: all my fault if it goes wrong, and I don't
Speaker 1: think I'll ever escape that feeling. And I think that's
Speaker 1: a normal feeling no matter what kind of business you're
Speaker 1: in or at what point you're in your business journey,
Speaker 1: the feeling never goes away. So if any of you
Speaker 1: are feeling that that immense pressure that it's all falling
Speaker 1: back on you, I'm right there with you. I mean,
Speaker 1: I could go on. I only wrote a few of
Speaker 1: these in my phone as little like little thoughts. Last
Speaker 1: night I wrote this down, but I could go on
Speaker 1: and list a million more things. I almost want to
Speaker 1: get like a psychologist on here one time or something
Speaker 1: and tell them all these feelings that I have and
Speaker 1: they could unpack it for me, so kind of like
Speaker 1: a therapy session. But on a big business episode, we
Speaker 1: need like an entrepreneur psychiatrist to come on, because I'm
Speaker 1: sure that all the feelings that we feel as entrepreneurs
Speaker 1: and business owners and leaders and bosses and managers, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's like a psychological explanation as to why we
Speaker 1: feel all the things that we feel. And I know
Speaker 1: that all these feelings that I have are valid. And
Speaker 1: if any of you are in the same position where
Speaker 1: you just feel this constant pressure from everything but you
Speaker 1: don't know where it's coming from, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, the feelings come
Speaker 1: from ourselves, and I think it's I don't know who
Speaker 1: else speaking to or iris from the quick flick she
Speaker 1: was talking about how she just always has that inner
Speaker 1: bully within herself. I think it's definitely that it's just
Speaker 1: that pressure that we put on ourselves to be the
Speaker 1: best at all the times, and if anything's going wrong,
Speaker 1: it's all on you. And I think that's something that
Speaker 1: we have to accept as business owners, and when you're
Speaker 1: starting a business, like I had no idea that i'd
Speaker 1: feel these feelings back in the day when I started
Speaker 1: Fate because I had no idea what I was doing.
Speaker 1: But it is completely normal to always feel pressure as
Speaker 1: a business owner, and I think it's important to not
Speaker 1: let that pressure consume you. I think it's important to
Speaker 1: stop and smell the roses. I spoke with Tommy in
Speaker 1: my episodes that I did with him from wedding chats.
Speaker 1: He's very big on celebrating all the wins and I'm
Speaker 1: absolutely all for that. And just know, if you are
Speaker 1: feeling any of these feelings that I've spoken about in
Speaker 1: today's ep you are not alone. I'm sure it's every
Speaker 1: single business owner out there feels this type of way,
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter where you are in your journey.
Speaker 1: You could just be starting out, maybe you're a year in,
Speaker 1: maybe you're two years in, maybe you're a few businesses in.
Speaker 1: It is so normal to have these feelings, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to put this out there to normalize having these
Speaker 1: conversations that we feel as entrepreneurs, because, as you know,
Speaker 1: it can be a very lonely journey and it can
Speaker 1: be stressful and you feel all the pressure. But just
Speaker 1: know you're absolutely not alone. I'm right there, Bladdy with you. Anyway,
Speaker 1: my friends, that is today's episode. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: been a bit negative. I don't mean for it to be.
Speaker 1: But also, like I say in a lot of my episodes,
Speaker 1: I don't want this to be a podcast about business
Speaker 1: that's super boring or just about how great everything is.
Speaker 1: Because I could obviously make a load of episodes about
Speaker 1: how great everything is and open in stores and launch
Speaker 1: new products and whatever. But I want to talk about
Speaker 1: the nitty gritties when it comes to business, So that's
Speaker 1: why I chose this topic for today's e F. As always,
Speaker 1: I hope you have enjoyed listening. If you haven't already,
Speaker 1: please feel free to rate my pod five stars and
Speaker 1: you can keep up to date with me everywhere on socials.
Speaker 1: You know where to find me. If I disappear for
Speaker 1: a few days off my stories, it's because I'm busy,
Speaker 1: bloody working in not prioritizing content. But life's all about balance,
Speaker 1: isn't it. I'll be back on Wednesday for my bonus
Speaker 1: e F and remember to chase after your dreams as
Speaker 1: if they owe you money.