Why Your Business Is No Fun | LAYC 86

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Welcome to the Lift As You Climb podcast, where it's all about the

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journey and the joy of discovering who you are now, deciding who you want

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to become, and embracing your genuine identity, influence, and impact.

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In each episode, we'll explore how life's experiences have prepared us for what

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we choose to do next and how to create our Encore, write our own script, and

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star in the next stage of our lives.

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I'm your host, your Encore strategist, and transformation catalyst, Isabel Alexander.

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Let's talk about why your business isn't fun anymore.

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And yes, it's okay.

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This is a safe space to talk about it, to think about it, and let's

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get very honest with each other about it's a natural evolution.

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If your role and your company isn't growing at the same pace, in sync

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with you, then it's understandable that it's not fun anymore.

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It's not fun, it's not fulfilling, it doesn't make you feel free

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to really be who you are.

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The good thing about getting older is that you get a chance to look

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back in your rearview mirror.

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By the way, I'm particularly grateful and excited about getting older.

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There was a time in my life I thought, oh my god, 69, this is

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wow, positively ancient, jump off the cliff with the dinosaurs.

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But now, I recognize it's just given me an entirely new perspective, an opportunity

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to reflect back and to look at myself from a safe distance and laugh and smile.

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What I had learned over the years, I learned by doing, by getting experience,

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by falling down, by making mistakes, by fucking things up royally, but gosh,

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I'm so glad I learned, and so here I am now in this place of saying, yeah!

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It made total sense that I wanted to leave my apparently to the

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world very successful company.

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I had achieved status, eight figure business, in a male dominated

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industry, primarily, that I had no formal education for, and I had

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no prior business training for.

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I got to a stage one day, and it was like, oh my, God, please don't

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make me go there again today.

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Please don't make me do that today.

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Please don't make me have to fake it till I make it.

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Please don't let the world know, or my staff know, that on the

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inside I'm a quivering mass of imposter syndrome, being like, I

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don't know how to make this better.

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I don't know how to grow anymore in this role.

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I don't know what I don't know.

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And that was, in hindsight, the truth, because that's where I fell

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into that whole identity crisis about not knowing who I was at that stage

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of my journey as an entrepreneur.

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I had been working so hard, hellbent for leather for 20 years just figuring

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it out every day, like pants on fire, let's figure this out, making up

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new shit all the time, learning and, oh my gosh, then I got to a stage

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of I don't want to do that anymore,

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I want to learn different things, I want to learn in different ways, I want

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to have different experiences, And I know that's happening with many other

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entrepreneurs around me and I want to be able to help you and to help you

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through what my journey has been on where you get to the stage of saying,

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okay, I want to have fun and that's okay.

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That's actually highly recommended, because in being in that place of

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playfulness, creativity, imagination, expansion, You create more value.

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You create more value for yourself, which is number one.

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We've been spending a lot of time unlearning some training in the past

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about putting everybody else first.

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So please, let's stay on that new track of self education that recognizing that the

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more we do for ourselves to make ourselves feel the happiest, the most fulfilled,

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the most excited about our lives, the more value we are actually creating around the

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world, and that is lifting and climbing.

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You lift your own spirits, you lift your own goals, you lift your own

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perspective, and then you are able to empower others to do the same.

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I want to talk with you about more fun in your years, more fun in your life, more

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time in your life, or life in your time, depending on the perspective of Efren, the

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contractor that I talked about earlier, because I think that was such a brilliant

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philosophical way to look at life.

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I want to share with you some ideas on figuring out how you decide, because

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you're in that caterpillar stage right now of figuring out what's your next

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iteration of Butterfly, and how to get to what that script looks like, what's the

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stage you're going to play on, who's the cast and crew that's going to support you,

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and then how you produce this beautiful next stage of your life starring you.

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That may include...

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the business that you have right now, but it's just transformed, or more

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importantly, your relationship and your role with the business transforms.

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Or maybe it doesn't.

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Maybe it becomes something entirely new.

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But whatever it is, I promise you, stick around.

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It's going to be fun figuring it all out.

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See you soon.

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Thank you for spending this time with me.

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vision for your legacy and impact.

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