Today going over my first year of running a creative business full-time! I’m going over what what I learned and what the first year looked like being a full-time entrepreneur. Retrospect is proving to be a very good teacher. While it’s been a great year, have a listen to my year in overview and what I learned from hiring experts when you need them and making self-care a priority.

Topics we cover:

— First year of going into business full-time and being your own CEO
— Financial Advice for the first year
— Hiring out Help
— Importance of Planning
— Differentiating yourself and your business
— Hiring a Business Coach
— Hiring experts to help you as a person, not just the business
— My self-care and health journey with an auto-immune disease
— Self-care routines and rituals like meditating and journaling and initiative eating
— How creating a schedule as a freelancer helps ensure self-care and a successful business
— Lowlights and Highlights of the year (and not the kind you get at the hair salon)

Show Links:

— Profit First
— Cleveland Clinic’s Functional Medicine Department
— Autoimmune Disease Overview
— Eryn Morgan at Eagle and Mouse, Success Strategist
— Ashley Pardo, Certified Nutritional Therapist
— Behind the Brand Podcast Episode with Ashley Pardo
— Cultivate, Holistic Living with Sarah Morford
—Amy Kuretsky, Health Coach
— Create an Ideal Schedule When you Work for Yourself from Pinegateroad
— Audible

Tweet it!

— Tweet: It got a little crazy @pinegateroad
— Tweet: I wish I wouldn’t have gotten help so quickly @pinegateroad
— Tweet: I was trying to live that free life @pinegateroad
—Tweet: I don’t do things, Pinegateroad does @pinegateroad
—Tweet: I can’t even eat any gluten @pinegateroad
—Tweet: It’s taking my business as a priority but in order to do that, I had to make my health a priority @pinegateroad
—Tweet: I feel like I was flip-flopped for years @pinegateroad
—Tweet: A lot of times people think your health care is your self-care @pinegateroad
—Tweet: It’s about what sparks joy in you and making the a priority @pinegateroad
— Tweet: I found out that I really do need a legit schedule @pinegateroad

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