263 Every Entrepreneur Experiences UPS & DOWNS!
The ebbs and flows of entrepreneurship are inevitable!
The ebbs and flows of entrepreneurship are inevitable:
sometimes the sales are booming, other times your sales strategy needs to be re-examined; one day the income is rolling in, the next day you’re living on the edge of your seat and feel like your business is about to combust.
Despite these ups & downs, we usually wake up in the morning with a renewed zest and a passion for creation and feel like it's ALL worth it.
In this episode, I'm sharing the REALNESS behind it all and that NOBODY is immune to the Roller Coaster Ride / Ebbs & Flows of running a business!
In this episode, we chat about:
The Roller Coaster Ride of Entrepreneurship
Your business is a by product of working on yourself
The larger you grow the more negative comments will come your way
Access the transcript for this episode:
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You're listening to the visionary life podcast. I'm your host, Kelsey Reidl.
Each week, I'll bring you conversations with the most visionary humans on this earth, in hopes that you'll be able to absorb their wisdom, avoid their failures and feel less alone on the roller coaster ride that is entrepreneurship.
This season, I'll be chatting with creative thinkers, masterful marketers, brick and mortar shop owners, brand builders, and people just like you who have a story to share or a vision that inspires.
If I can share one quick secret with you before we get into the episode. It's that we all have a little bit of visionary inside of us, you know, that spark that nudges us to pursue our full potential in this lifetime.
But perhaps somewhere along the line, it got covered up, I'm here to tell you that it's never too late to explore that inner voice and access the brilliance deep down inside of you. It's in you. It's in all of us. Let's dive in. Hey, visionaries.
Welcome to a little mini episode, I'm going to keep this one really short, because we have another incredible episode just before this one with Sara Monica, where her and I are sitting around my kitchen table after we went into a cold plunge and we're jamming on the ebbs and flows of business.
But today, I kind of want to expand on that conversation, something that I have been sharing and talking about and being very vulnerable. With this community and with Instagram and on my blog.
Something that I've often shared is that entrepreneurship is a roller coaster ride. Entrepreneurship is a roller coaster ride entrepreneurship is a roller coaster ride, and anybody who portrays the fact that they are always on the upswing, they're on the climb, and they never come down the other side and sometimes feel that pit in their stomach when they're dropping.
They're probably not showing the full picture. And I know it's easy to look at somebody else's business, especially online. With platforms like Tiktok, and Instagram and YouTube. We can watch somebody's life and their business from afar, and think that they have their stuff together.
We think that the numbers they're sharing are real. We think that this glamorous lifestyle they're living doesn't come without challenges, that they too, are they are immune to life's challenges, the pain points that many of us face.
But we have to realize that when somebody is thriving or seemingly thriving in one area of their life, it is likely because they are suffering in another area. And again, not to go too deep on the Instagram influencer. But I see so many people who idolize people who have an online presence. Let's say it's a person with 50,000 followers, who is living in Bali right now who's working two hours a day who's frolicking along the beach, portraying their luxury lifestyle and the money is a rolling in. We have to look at that with critical eyes. And I'm not saying to walk around trying to disprove everybody or to be so skeptical that you're coming at it from this place of jealousy or negativity. I just want to remind you that not everything that you see on the outside is a direct reflection of what somebody is dealing with on the inside.
And I did love all of the comments that I got on my episode with Sarah Monica because I feel like we were really being truthful about in her case, the challenges of motherhood, and my case, hitting the seven year itch of running a business. And I hope to do more of that real talk. But I also would suggest like scroll back in my archives, I am very vulnerable. And I hope to provide the realness associated with running a business. It is not all easy.
And the larger you grow, the more you are going to fall prey to negative comments to challengers to clients wanting refunds to people taking advantage of your work. And there's this old Chinese proverb that says that the tallest tree always catches the most wind. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't want to become a taller treat shouldn't mean you don't want to grow.
Because it is my best guess that if you are here, it's because you're not okay coasting through life. And I was recently listening to a podcast and they shared this quote or this anecdote around the fact that the only way to coast is downhill. This episode is sponsored by the visionary method, the visionary method is a seven step system that's going to help you create and launch your business successfully. We've had 200 People go through it, and it's going to help you to generate your first 50,000 in revenue. Even if you're starting at zero, you can learn more at www dot Kelsy rydel.com/tvm. And we are not here for that, or at least, I am not. And I know so many of the visionary method, community members, and those of you who tuned into visionary life, you're not here to coast either you are not, not down with that downhill life. And you know that if you are not progressing in life, that you're likely regressing, and it is totally okay to have days where you just chill, and you give yourself a break. And in fact, I've been trying to lean into that too.
But I usually wake up the next day, and I try to move my roller coaster cart uphill, I tried to get on the upswing, I try to get out of my coasting mentality, and put the pedal to the floor and say, Let's make shit happen, let's create energy where there has never been energy before. Let me work on my inner fire my inner light, so that I can literally shine it on more and more people. Because the craziest thing is, as you tune up and turn on your inner light, like if you literally picture a dial that you are putting your thumb and your pointer finger around, and you're turning it to the right, it's like one of those dimmer switches. If you turn it up, it's really, really bright. And that means that you're gonna cast this light on a wider area than if it's a dim light. And that wider area is literally representative of the platform that you're building, the community you're building, the people you're serving.
And so why I share that is that, obviously, running a business does not come without challenge. But we can actually get better and more resilient at managing those challenges. And when we grow tall and the wind starts to hit us, if we know that I need to focus inward, I need to ask myself, What do I need right now? What would feel nourishing in this moment? How can I strengthen my body or my mind or my spirit? Do I need to meditate? Do I need to go on a walk? Do I need to get my physical fitness back and get a gym membership? Have I not been out and chatted with friends in a long time? Like, what are you working on? Because when you work on yourself, your business is a byproduct of that because you're the founder, you're the creator, you're the CEO, the chief visionary officer.
So where I go with this entire conversation is to remind you that nobody is immune to the depths. And it is those who navigate the dips with more grace, who offer themselves compassion, who realize that this is not a quick journey. At least it hasn't been for me, I'm seven years in. And the biggest thing that I did that I would recommend to others is do not put yourself at financial risk, try to mitigate the risk and the pressure that you're going to need to put on yourself by doing whatever it takes to release that pressure.
Because I never wanted to come at my own business with force. And with desperation on those down swings, I wanted to realize that yeah, I might have months that are kind of dry, and that I don't produce a ton of leads. But if I can mitigate that risk, and for me that looked like working other jobs because I didn't have a bucket of money to dive into. So, you know, I had to mitigate risk in certain ways that did involve my time and me participating in other income generating activities.
But that allowed me to stay strong on the downswing to know that there was no desperate energy on that downswing or when somebody gave me a mean comment. I could take a day off the next day and know that I'd probably come back even stronger in 48 hours so you are not alone. If you are having one of those days.
You are not alone in If you feel like a failure today, you're not alone. If you feel like an impostor today, ask yourself the question what lights you up? Where is your energy right now, if you've already got your business built, you know that marketing is energy. So if you're coming at any piece of your visibility strategy with a desperate energy, you probably noticed that it's falling flat. If you're coming at any piece of your visibility or your growth strategy with low dull energy, you probably realize that it's not producing. So come back to yourself.
Ask yourself the tough questions, know that you are not alone. Support yourself with peers, and people who are on a similar path. Because when you open up to them and tell them what's going on, I guarantee you, they're going to say, I've been there too. So don't feel like you have to navigate this alone. And, of course, I am always here to support you in building your business and becoming more visible and in creating your most visionary life. So I hope this was helpful. It's just a quick one today, and I will see you all next week.
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