Episode 90
Failing To Love Your Business Sets You Free | LAYC 90
In Episode 90 of the Lift As You Climb podcast, host Isabel Alexander delves into a topic that can be challenging for many entrepreneurs: the fear of failure, especially when it comes to loving your business.
She explores the pressures we feel to maintain a facade of success and why it's essential to acknowledge when we're no longer passionate about our businesses. Isabel shares her own experiences and the realization that it's okay to seek new challenges and prioritize personal growth.
Join her as she discusses the journey from being deeply involved in your business to becoming the chief investor in your own life.
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About the Host:
Isabel Alexander
Your Next Business Strategist and Transformation Catalyst
Dynamic, a self-made entrepreneur who overcame obstacles with an unrelenting positive nature, a farm girl work ethic, and a conscious choice to thrive rather than survive, Isabel Alexander cultivated an award-winning, $10+ million global chemical business and grew it from dining room table to international boardrooms.
Isabel’s strengths include the ability to initiate and nurture strategic relationships, a love of lifelong learning and talents for helping others maximize their potential. An inspiring speaker within both industry and community, she is a driving force behind those with the courage to follow her example of thriving against the odds.
With 50+ years of business experience across diverse industries, Isabel is respected as an advisor, a coach, a mentor, and a role model. She believes in sharing collective wisdom and empowering others to economic independence.
Founder:
Lift As You Climb Movement (www.facebook.com/groups/liftasyouclimbmovement)
and
Chief Encore Officer, The Encore Catalyst (www.theencorecatalyst.com) – an accelerator for feminine wisdom, influence, and impact.
also
Author & Speaker ‘Who Am I Now? – Feminine Wisdom Unmasked Uncensored’ (www.IsabelBanerjee.com)
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/isabelalexanderbanerjee/
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Transcript
Hey, today I'd like to talk to you about the F word.
Isabel:I know we're all grown ups here, right?
Isabel:Got our big girl panties on, we're talking about tough stuff, and
Isabel:we're talking about fun stuff.
Isabel:And that's not the F word I want to talk about right now.
Isabel:Although I hope that this will be a little fun as we explore not the F
Isabel:word for fuck, but, the one that seems to scare us even more in a social
Isabel:conversation and that is failure.
Isabel:Why is the word failure, so frightening to us all.
Isabel:Oh my gosh, there goes another F.
Isabel:And particularly in the context of what's going on in the conversations I
Isabel:have right now with my networks about the feeling that we're failing if we
Isabel:don't love our businesses anymore.
Isabel:How COVID, the pandemic, man, that was such a hard time for business
Isabel:owners and even more troublesome, more of a burden for women business
Isabel:owners because they were usually also juggling a lot of other personal stuff.
Isabel:Caregiving, relationships, missing occasions, missing
Isabel:people, missing friends.
Isabel:So, Going back to failure, and the feeling of failing our business, if
Isabel:it doesn't turn us on anymore, if we're not excited about it, if it's
Isabel:not everything that the whole world thinks it is, that we are faking it.
Isabel:The F's are just rolling today, ladies.
Isabel:If we're faking it every day that we show up and put a smile on our face, but we're
Isabel:really gritting our teeth because we have to answer one more complaint, come up
Isabel:with one more piece of wisdom, provide one more piece of solution, find the
Isabel:financial resources, talking about F's.
Isabel:They keep rolling here.
Isabel:And yet, none of this.
Isabel:It's all failing to make us really want to jump out of bed every day and go, Woohoo!
Isabel:This is everything and all that I need.
Isabel:And I think that's what really is the issue here.
Isabel:We're supposed to be content.
Isabel:We're supposed to be extremely happy with this life that we have built.
Isabel:After all, it was our choice, right?
Isabel:We made the decision to be a business owner, to sacrifice a lot
Isabel:financially and relationship wise, and healthcare and personal care
Isabel:time, and all of those things.
Isabel:So, suck it up buttercup, right?
Isabel:Wrong!
Isabel:What we're failing to do is give ourselves some grace and some
Isabel:perspective, some distance from the situation around us, circumstances
Isabel:outside our control, and also evolution, natural evolution of our lives and who
Isabel:we are and what's interesting to us and what is now like that's enough.
Isabel:I've learned all of that.
Isabel:I've gotten all of the juice out of all of that.
Isabel:I felt that myself personally, when I got close to that 20
Isabel:year mark with my company.
Isabel:That it was like, Hmm.
Isabel:Okay.
Isabel:You know what?
Isabel:This wasn't easy all the time, and as sure as hell was, not always fun.
Isabel:But I'm really glad for what I've done, what I've learned about
Isabel:myself, and proven to myself.
Isabel:Let's be honest, I think that was the big thing one day that
Isabel:I went out, woke up and went,
Isabel:Okay, I proved to myself that I could do it, in fact, and I wanted, then,
Isabel:in that moment, I knew, maybe didn't admit it really fully to myself,
Isabel:but I knew it was time for me to explore other challenges and other
Isabel:opportunities to grow in my life.
Isabel:And that was when I began that process of unwinding me from the
Isabel:company that I had built, and the identity that was wrapped up in that.
Isabel:So , if you're feeling like , you're faking it right now, if you're
Isabel:feeling like you're lying , to others and yourself about how you
Isabel:really feel about the company that you have toiled over and built and
Isabel:sacrificed for, You're not alone.
Isabel:There are so many of us, Baby Boomers especially, who are reaching that stage of
Isabel:maturity in our business and maturity in our priorities in our life, what we value
Isabel:now, that are ready to make a change, and that's the most freeing thing that
Isabel:you can I realize is that it's okay to acknowledge the fact that you don't love
Isabel:everything about what you do right now.
Isabel:And then the real freedom comes from figuring out.
Isabel:So what are you going to do about it sister?
Isabel:And that's what I do.
Isabel:That's my joy and working with women entrepreneurs and clients is helping
Isabel:them figure out that Encore script to get them from where they are now, that
Isabel:hands on, micromanaging, chief asset, chief , cook and bottle washer in their
Isabel:company to The chief investor or to the person receiving the check for the sale
Isabel:of that company or to whatever it is that they choose to do to get more of
Isabel:what they want now in their life, more time, more freedom, more flexibility,
Isabel:more financial security, and more fun.
Isabel:So if you'd like to talk about that, stick around.
Isabel:We're going to share deep dives on these conversations in the upcoming episodes.
Isabel:And I'm also going to share with you some of my most incredible, inspiring
Isabel:female entrepreneurs who'll share their journeys, their stories, and
Isabel:their pearls of wisdom on these topics.
Isabel:Talk to you soon.
