January 11, 2024 • 16 mins
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Soooo I'm ready to re-emerge from my 2023 cocoon and get back into the groove with my love of talking and sharing on this podcast!
Today I share experiences and reflections on my personal and professional life and why 2023 was the year I burned it all down and now I'm ready to start rebuilding!!
I've been feeling the nudge big time to get back to sharing on this platform and have conversations about ALL THE THINGS including, but not limited to: menopause, career changes, personal development, entrepreneurship, and whatever else happens to be on my mind at the time. 💁🏼♀️
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(00:00):
Hey guys, and welcome back tohow it's really going with Shana
Recker.
And this is the podcast where Ijust tell you how it's really
going in life and share all thethings that are happening.
In my world.
And as you guys know, I havebeen away from this podcast for
a while.
If you've been in my audiencefor a while, you will know that
I haven't released an episodesince September of 2023.
(00:23):
And that's because last year wasa bit of a shit show.
My entire year, I feel like wasthe year.
I literally burned everythingdown in my life and well, not
everything.
But a lot of the business sideof my life, I burned it all
down.
And I don't know what happenedat the end of last year,
beginning of this year, butsomething feels like.
(00:46):
I'm finally ready to startrebuilding.
And I don't, I still don't knowwhat that looks like, but I am
feeling way more inspired tostart creating again.
I don't know if you guys feltthe same.
I don't know if 2023 was a yearlike that for you.
I have talked to quite a fewpeople who have had that same
feeling and experience about 20,23, where it's like.
(01:08):
A lot of things came to an endfor people.
For me, it was my coachingbusiness.
I ended that at the beginning of2023 and kind of felt lost last
year as to what do I do now?
I had built that business.
I'd been building that businesssince 2016 and.
I just got to the end of it lastyear and was just like, I can't
(01:30):
do this anymore.
I don't want to do this anymore.
I learned a lot about business.
Ethics and coaching ethics.
You can go back and listen topast episodes last year.
You'll know all about it.
Because I re I talked about itand recorded podcast episodes
about it.
But I I, I, wasn't quite surewhat to do with this podcast,
which is why I stopped recordingin September because the podcast
has always been something thathas supported one of my, like my
(01:52):
coaching business.
I have kind of.
Evolved my coaching businessover the years.
And it has always been a supportfor that business.
And it's been a way that'shelped me.
Find new clients.
It's been a way for me to helpbuild audiences and that kind of
stuff.
Plus, I fricking love talkingabout different things and
giving my opinion on things whodoesn't.
(02:13):
And so I've loved, I've had thispodcast since 2016 and I've
loved recording for ever likeever since day one.
But once I decided to shut downthe coaching side of my
business, and I really didn'thave much of a business once I
did that.
And I took a job actually at ahair salon, working the front
(02:34):
desk, which was something thatI'd never thought I would do,
but.
Last year, I was just in a spotwhere I didn't know what I
wanted to do with my lifeanymore.
And I just knew I had to stopdoing what wasn't working for
me.
And I needed to create someincome and figure out what was
next.
(02:54):
And so the podcast kind of wentto the wayside.
I did go to the wayside becauseit didn't.
I didn't feel like.
I had anything that I neededthat I wanted to share or had
anything that was relevant.
Business wise to share.
And so I just stopped.
Now.
The last couple of weeks.
(03:15):
And actually, I wouldn't saythat.
Since I stopped.
The podcast has always been onmy mind.
Like it's always been on my mindand in fact, I've probably
recorded four or five episodes.
Over the last three or fourmonths that I just never posted
or put up because I was like, bythe time I was done recording
it.
You know, I got busy and then Iwas like, oh, who cares?
(03:36):
No one wants to hear that.
It was kind of dumb anyways.
Like I just be like, my mindwould go, no one wants to listen
to you.
Talk about that.
So just don't even worry aboutit and blah, blah, blah.
And so I did actually recordsome things.
I just never posted them.
And then recently I have reallybeen thinking about the podcast
and wanting to get back to this.
(03:57):
And I posted a little lifeupdate on my Instagram and I
just asked, you know, I waslike, you know, one of the
things that's been on my mind ismy podcast.
You know, if you guys havelistened to it in the past,
like, you know, how do you feelabout me?
Starting it back up again, andjust talking about anything
like, this is the thing.
Me starting up this podcastagain, isn't going to be about
business and entrepreneurship.
(04:18):
I'm certain I will talk aboutthose things.
But it will be about all thingsgoing on in life.
In my life and in the world.
My thoughts and opinions onthings.
And.
That's, that's kind of thedirection I feel.
I really want to go with it andmake it.
Like a show about everything.
Versus, you know, over the yearsI've always felt that I've had
(04:42):
to have a niche for my podcastand it had to be, you know,
business and about coaching andabout entrepreneurship and
building a business and allthose things.
And this feeling in my headgoes, well, what if you just had
a podcast that you just turnedon the mic and talked about
whatever was on your mind inthat moment or whatever you felt
like needed to be shared in thatmoment?
What if you just.
(05:03):
Intuitively.
Guided yourself through apodcast.
And the funny thing is, is mypodcast has had many names over
the years.
The first podcast name that Ihad for it was keeping it real
with Shana Recker, which kind ofironically, that's really what
this is all about.
This, this is always what I'vewanted to my podcast to be about
(05:23):
is about.
The real sides of things likebeing authentic, truly authentic
about how things.
Our how to build a business,like being authentic about that,
the good, the bad everything inbetween.
I've always.
Really enjoyed sharing all sidesof things going on in my world,
whether it was myentrepreneurship world or, you
(05:43):
know, sometimes.
Episodes, you know, got a littlebit more personal, but.
That was the first name of mypodcast.
Then it evolved into, it's had afew different names over the
years.
That was the pursuit podcast forawhile.
And then.
I forget the last name, but themost recent name is the how it's
really going podcasts with ShanaRecker and I think it's just so
(06:05):
interesting that name still fitseven though.
I'm shifting a little, not alittle bit.
I am going to be shifting thecontent that's on here.
From everything fromentrepreneurship to middle-age
being a middle-aged woman, goingthrough menopause to talking
about kids, to talking aboutgetting jobs, to talking about.
(06:25):
Just life in general.
And.
So it's funny that the namestill works.
So I don't think that's a, Idon't think that's just a
coincidence.
And it's funny that the firstname that I ever had for this
podcast, keeping it real withShana Recker is also kind of
where I'm coming back to.
It's just about turning on themic and keeping it real and
talking about what's reallygoing on.
(06:47):
And as a 48 year old woman.
With grown children and goingthrough all the things.
I think more of us need to turnon the mic and have these kinds
of conversations, because Idon't know about you guys, but a
lot of times over the past year,I felt like I was going crazy.
I felt like I was alone.
I felt like nobody else is goingthrough some of these life
(07:07):
changes that I'm going through.
Like, why is this happening tome?
You know, and I think.
The more we can talk about thesethings.
The more we can realize thatit's, it's actually quite
normal.
That we're not going crazy, thatthere's a lot of women who are
suffering at this time of theirlife.
And.
I do think that the menopause ispart of the reason why I wanted
(07:29):
to you.
Shift gears in my life and stopworking my business and figure
like, and really just not surewhat to do with my life anymore.
I have, I'm a hundred percentconfident that there are
hormones that had to play.
That were.
Playing a role in that.
And you know, it was also a lotof the things that I talked
about just before I closed on mypodcast with the coaching
(07:51):
industry and bad businessethics, I had a really bad
experience with a.
Horrible business coach.
And I just.
Yeah, it was just a, it was justa really interesting year.
And.
This past few weeks, even thepast couple of months, I've
actually started to feel alittle bit more energized.
(08:13):
I felt, I feel a little bit morecreative.
You know, even last year, Ilike, I literally burned
everything down.
When I see that I don't even,I'm not even slightly joking.
I got rid of all my personaldevelopment books.
I stopped listening to personaldevelopment completely last
year.
And I used to be like a personaldevelopment junkie, like.
I had, you know, I've been toconferences and books and all
(08:35):
the things.
And I stopped listening andreally there's a lot of things I
even stopped believing in lastyear.
And I found myself notnecessarily wanting to go full
into like the personaldevelopment side and mindset and
all that stuff again, but just alittle bit of.
Like, Hey, what are some goalsthat I want to create this year
for myself?
(08:56):
What are some things that Ireally want in my life?
Like.
You know, really evaluate whatdo I love and what don't I love
and what do I have time for inmy life now?
And what don't I have time formy life now.
And what boundaries do I need tocreate?
And kind of really likereestablishing.
Some direction for myself.
Because last year, I just feltlike I had no direction.
(09:17):
I didn't want to do anything.
I really barely even wanted totalk to anyone.
Let alone.
Turn on the podcast, Mike.
And plus I just didn't feel likeanyone wanted to hear it, you
know, and it was like, who wantsto hear me complain about being
perimenopause and moodiness andjust all the things and not
wanting to.
You know, work my business andfeeling annoyed about everything
(09:39):
and also social media burnout,which I had a hundred percent
for sure.
Last year.
You know, I still am a littlebit PTSD from all the social
media burnout that I had overthe years of just constantly
feeling like I needed to beonline and constantly feeling,
validated by what's happening onsocial media and.
I could feel that I had anunhealthy relationship with
(10:00):
that, and that had to come to anend, which is, another reason
why I really wanted to get outof an industry that required me
to.
Be online all the time, And so.
There was a lot, there was alot, and I will unpack more of
some of that.
as we go through this new spacethat I'm in and this new
podcast, and I love to talk moreabout all of those things,
(10:22):
because I'm sure I'm not alonein a lot of that stuff.
But I really just want to createa space where you can pull up a
chair and listen and, I feellike I'm talking to you at the
other side of this table.
I'm at right now.
And we can talk about the thingsthat are going on in life and to
help normalize some of thecrazy.
(10:44):
Which.
It's like, we're not crazybecause it's normal, but it
still feels crazy and it's okay.
And it's okay to be crazy.
Cause some days I still feellike super crazy, but one day at
a time.
And that's just really, what Iwant to do with this podcast is
just.
One day at a time share what'sgoing on, how it's really going
(11:05):
so that we can collectively go,Hey, listen, we're not in this
alone.
We're in this together.
And let's move through ittogether.
And hopefully you enjoy what wetalk about here and hopefully
you enjoy.
The conversation.
And for those of you, who'vebeen listening to this podcast
with me over the years.
I appreciate if you're stilllistening right now.
I appreciate that.
You're still here.
(11:25):
Even though we haven't had anyepisodes out since September.
And I'm not going to make anypromises, but I'm going to do my
best to have some consistency tothis podcast.
I have, since just as a quickupdate.
So I, so I shut down thecoaching business.
I started doing done for youservices, as you guys know, if
(11:45):
you don't know, I, my backgroundis graphic design and I am a
Kajabi expert.
So I work in Kajabi platforms.
I help clients build out thebackend of their business.
So I don't do business coachingor advertised business coaching
anymore.
But the beautiful thing is, isthat my clients are often online
coaches.
Online service providers.
(12:06):
And so I get to through them,hiring me to do their done for
you work like the Kajabi workand the design work.
Still get to engage in a lot ofbusiness coaching because
oftentimes they are looking foradvice and strategies on how to
do things in their business.
So I get to still do somebusiness coaching with my
clients, which I feel like I'vefound this perfect balance in my
(12:27):
life.
Of doing the work that I love.
I love creating.
So creating websites, landingpages, sales pages, just getting
their businesses organized andworking for them.
But then I still also get to dosome of that business coaching.
I just have really found a sweetspot.
And the thing is, is I'm not onsocial media, promoting my
business right now.
Like I, if you go to my, I amShana, Recker Instagram.
(12:49):
I haven't posted since I don'teven know when.
I share videos of websites thatI create.
But my clients are coming to mesolely through referrals right
now.
And, because I'm a Kajabiexpert.
I do get some referrals throughthe Kajabi network, but there's
no forcing, there's no pushing,there's no feeling of half twos
and sheds in this business.
(13:09):
That I'm in right now.
And that feels really, reallygood.
And it feels way more inalignment with the person that I
am right now.
And it's not to say thatbusiness coaching wasn't for me
or that I wasn't good at it orin that kind of stuff.
It was just more, it was for meat a different time in my life.
And I'm at a time in my life nowwhere I just don't need the
extra stress I'm already goingthrough enough.
(13:32):
That having a business that justseems to roll with me.
Like it's just happening.
It feels so much more.
At ease for me and I really loveit.
I tried to get on the Instagrammore with this side of my
business, but I just feel like,I don't know.
I just don't know what to say.
I think I'm actually going touse that Instagram account for
(13:54):
the, for this podcast.
And post when I have newepisodes and things like that
out.
But It is still there.
And if you are following mestill on there, you will
probably see some stuff comingout from the podcast on there.
But yeah, I'm just kind ofplaying it by ear and seeing
what happens, I do still have mypart-time job at the salon,
(14:14):
which I absolutely love thathappens last year as well.
And it was just a job I took toone bring in some extra income,
but to just to do somethingdifferent in my life and just
see what happens and you guys, Ilove that job so much.
It is so fun.
It's so.
It, the people are amazing.
The clients are amazing.
I love the work.
It's just a nice break in myweek that I get to go there and
(14:36):
do that.
So that will still be happeningin my life.
But yeah, other than that, I'mdoing the Kajabi websites, some
graphic design.
I work at the salon one day aweek.
I've got kids, I've got dogs,cats, you name it.
Just trying to figure it out aswe go here.
So that's what we're going to betalking about here.
All things, entrepreneurship,business, life, menopause, kids,
(14:58):
you name it.
Whatever I feel like talkingabout in the moment, personal
development will definitely besome of it too.
But if you want to join me forthe ride, let's do it.
Let's see what this is allabout.
Let's see.
How this is really going to workout.
Cause I really don't know.
And I'm excited to try and I'vegot this nudge to just turn on
the mic and talk whenever itfeels right.
(15:18):
And that's what I'm going to do,and I'm not going to prejudge my
own work because I can tend todo that.
And that's why I don't end upposting some things.
I'm just going to do the do, andI'm going to do some small
edits.
Cause I know I say I'm a lot andyou know, and like, and all
those things.
So I will probably edit some ofthat out.
But other than that, I'm justgoing to post it.
(15:38):
And if there's anything you everwant to chat about or me to chat
about on this podcast, you guys,my DMS are always open on the
Instagram account that Imentioned the, I am Shana Recker
account.
If you are following me here onthe podcast.
Thank you so much for beinghere.
And I look forward to justsharing more of how it's really
going and we'll see whathappens.
(15:59):
I'm going to keep this one shortand sweet.
We will see you on the nextepisode, what it's going to be
about.
I don't know.
And I'm excited to find out.
All right, everyone.
We'll talk to you soon.
Bye.
For now.
Hey guys, and welcome back tohow it's really going with Shana
Recker.
And this is the podcast where Ijust tell you how it's really
going in life and share all thethings that are happening.
In my world.
And as you guys know, I havebeen away from this podcast for
a while.
If you've been in my audiencefor a while, you will know that
I haven't released an episodesince September of 2023.
(00:23):
And that's because last year wasa bit of a shit show.
My entire year, I feel like wasthe year.
I literally burned everythingdown in my life and well, not
everything.
But a lot of the business sideof my life, I burned it all
down.
And I don't know what happenedat the end of last year,
beginning of this year, butsomething feels like.
(00:46):
I'm finally ready to startrebuilding.
And I don't, I still don't knowwhat that looks like, but I am
feeling way more inspired tostart creating again.
I don't know if you guys feltthe same.
I don't know if 2023 was a yearlike that for you.
I have talked to quite a fewpeople who have had that same
feeling and experience about 20,23, where it's like.
(01:08):
A lot of things came to an endfor people.
For me, it was my coachingbusiness.
I ended that at the beginning of2023 and kind of felt lost last
year as to what do I do now?
I had built that business.
I'd been building that businesssince 2016 and.
I just got to the end of it lastyear and was just like, I can't
(01:30):
do this anymore.
I don't want to do this anymore.
I learned a lot about business.
Ethics and coaching ethics.
You can go back and listen topast episodes last year.
You'll know all about it.
Because I re I talked about itand recorded podcast episodes
about it.
But I I, I, wasn't quite surewhat to do with this podcast,
which is why I stopped recordingin September because the podcast
has always been something thathas supported one of my, like my
(01:52):
coaching business.
I have kind of.
Evolved my coaching businessover the years.
And it has always been a supportfor that business.
And it's been a way that'shelped me.
Find new clients.
It's been a way for me to helpbuild audiences and that kind of
stuff.
Plus, I fricking love talkingabout different things and
giving my opinion on things whodoesn't.
(02:13):
And so I've loved, I've had thispodcast since 2016 and I've
loved recording for ever likeever since day one.
But once I decided to shut downthe coaching side of my
business, and I really didn'thave much of a business once I
did that.
And I took a job actually at ahair salon, working the front
(02:34):
desk, which was something thatI'd never thought I would do,
but.
Last year, I was just in a spotwhere I didn't know what I
wanted to do with my lifeanymore.
And I just knew I had to stopdoing what wasn't working for
me.
And I needed to create someincome and figure out what was
next.
(02:54):
And so the podcast kind of wentto the wayside.
I did go to the wayside becauseit didn't.
I didn't feel like.
I had anything that I neededthat I wanted to share or had
anything that was relevant.
Business wise to share.
And so I just stopped.
Now.
The last couple of weeks.
(03:15):
And actually, I wouldn't saythat.
Since I stopped.
The podcast has always been onmy mind.
Like it's always been on my mindand in fact, I've probably
recorded four or five episodes.
Over the last three or fourmonths that I just never posted
or put up because I was like, bythe time I was done recording
it.
You know, I got busy and then Iwas like, oh, who cares?
(03:36):
No one wants to hear that.
It was kind of dumb anyways.
Like I just be like, my mindwould go, no one wants to listen
to you.
Talk about that.
So just don't even worry aboutit and blah, blah, blah.
And so I did actually recordsome things.
I just never posted them.
And then recently I have reallybeen thinking about the podcast
and wanting to get back to this.
(03:57):
And I posted a little lifeupdate on my Instagram and I
just asked, you know, I waslike, you know, one of the
things that's been on my mind ismy podcast.
You know, if you guys havelistened to it in the past,
like, you know, how do you feelabout me?
Starting it back up again, andjust talking about anything
like, this is the thing.
Me starting up this podcastagain, isn't going to be about
business and entrepreneurship.
(04:18):
I'm certain I will talk aboutthose things.
But it will be about all thingsgoing on in life.
In my life and in the world.
My thoughts and opinions onthings.
And.
That's, that's kind of thedirection I feel.
I really want to go with it andmake it.
Like a show about everything.
Versus, you know, over the yearsI've always felt that I've had
(04:42):
to have a niche for my podcastand it had to be, you know,
business and about coaching andabout entrepreneurship and
building a business and allthose things.
And this feeling in my headgoes, well, what if you just had
a podcast that you just turnedon the mic and talked about
whatever was on your mind inthat moment or whatever you felt
like needed to be shared in thatmoment?
What if you just.
(05:03):
Intuitively.
Guided yourself through apodcast.
And the funny thing is, is mypodcast has had many names over
the years.
The first podcast name that Ihad for it was keeping it real
with Shana Recker, which kind ofironically, that's really what
this is all about.
This, this is always what I'vewanted to my podcast to be about
(05:23):
is about.
The real sides of things likebeing authentic, truly authentic
about how things.
Our how to build a business,like being authentic about that,
the good, the bad everything inbetween.
I've always.
Really enjoyed sharing all sidesof things going on in my world,
whether it was myentrepreneurship world or, you
(05:43):
know, sometimes.
Episodes, you know, got a littlebit more personal, but.
That was the first name of mypodcast.
Then it evolved into, it's had afew different names over the
years.
That was the pursuit podcast forawhile.
And then.
I forget the last name, but themost recent name is the how it's
really going podcasts with ShanaRecker and I think it's just so
(06:05):
interesting that name still fitseven though.
I'm shifting a little, not alittle bit.
I am going to be shifting thecontent that's on here.
From everything fromentrepreneurship to middle-age
being a middle-aged woman, goingthrough menopause to talking
about kids, to talking aboutgetting jobs, to talking about.
(06:25):
Just life in general.
And.
So it's funny that the namestill works.
So I don't think that's a, Idon't think that's just a
coincidence.
And it's funny that the firstname that I ever had for this
podcast, keeping it real withShana Recker is also kind of
where I'm coming back to.
It's just about turning on themic and keeping it real and
talking about what's reallygoing on.
(06:47):
And as a 48 year old woman.
With grown children and goingthrough all the things.
I think more of us need to turnon the mic and have these kinds
of conversations, because Idon't know about you guys, but a
lot of times over the past year,I felt like I was going crazy.
I felt like I was alone.
I felt like nobody else is goingthrough some of these life
(07:07):
changes that I'm going through.
Like, why is this happening tome?
You know, and I think.
The more we can talk about thesethings.
The more we can realize thatit's, it's actually quite
normal.
That we're not going crazy, thatthere's a lot of women who are
suffering at this time of theirlife.
And.
I do think that the menopause ispart of the reason why I wanted
(07:29):
to you.
Shift gears in my life and stopworking my business and figure
like, and really just not surewhat to do with my life anymore.
I have, I'm a hundred percentconfident that there are
hormones that had to play.
That were.
Playing a role in that.
And you know, it was also a lotof the things that I talked
about just before I closed on mypodcast with the coaching
(07:51):
industry and bad businessethics, I had a really bad
experience with a.
Horrible business coach.
And I just.
Yeah, it was just a, it was justa really interesting year.
And.
This past few weeks, even thepast couple of months, I've
actually started to feel alittle bit more energized.
(08:13):
I felt, I feel a little bit morecreative.
You know, even last year, Ilike, I literally burned
everything down.
When I see that I don't even,I'm not even slightly joking.
I got rid of all my personaldevelopment books.
I stopped listening to personaldevelopment completely last
year.
And I used to be like a personaldevelopment junkie, like.
I had, you know, I've been toconferences and books and all
(08:35):
the things.
And I stopped listening andreally there's a lot of things I
even stopped believing in lastyear.
And I found myself notnecessarily wanting to go full
into like the personaldevelopment side and mindset and
all that stuff again, but just alittle bit of.
Like, Hey, what are some goalsthat I want to create this year
for myself?
(08:56):
What are some things that Ireally want in my life?
Like.
You know, really evaluate whatdo I love and what don't I love
and what do I have time for inmy life now?
And what don't I have time formy life now.
And what boundaries do I need tocreate?
And kind of really likereestablishing.
Some direction for myself.
Because last year, I just feltlike I had no direction.
(09:17):
I didn't want to do anything.
I really barely even wanted totalk to anyone.
Let alone.
Turn on the podcast, Mike.
And plus I just didn't feel likeanyone wanted to hear it, you
know, and it was like, who wantsto hear me complain about being
perimenopause and moodiness andjust all the things and not
wanting to.
You know, work my business andfeeling annoyed about everything
(09:39):
and also social media burnout,which I had a hundred percent
for sure.
Last year.
You know, I still am a littlebit PTSD from all the social
media burnout that I had overthe years of just constantly
feeling like I needed to beonline and constantly feeling,
validated by what's happening onsocial media and.
I could feel that I had anunhealthy relationship with
(10:00):
that, and that had to come to anend, which is, another reason
why I really wanted to get outof an industry that required me
to.
Be online all the time, And so.
There was a lot, there was alot, and I will unpack more of
some of that.
as we go through this new spacethat I'm in and this new
podcast, and I love to talk moreabout all of those things,
(10:22):
because I'm sure I'm not alonein a lot of that stuff.
But I really just want to createa space where you can pull up a
chair and listen and, I feellike I'm talking to you at the
other side of this table.
I'm at right now.
And we can talk about the thingsthat are going on in life and to
help normalize some of thecrazy.
(10:44):
Which.
It's like, we're not crazybecause it's normal, but it
still feels crazy and it's okay.
And it's okay to be crazy.
Cause some days I still feellike super crazy, but one day at
a time.
And that's just really, what Iwant to do with this podcast is
just.
One day at a time share what'sgoing on, how it's really going
(11:05):
so that we can collectively go,Hey, listen, we're not in this
alone.
We're in this together.
And let's move through ittogether.
And hopefully you enjoy what wetalk about here and hopefully
you enjoy.
The conversation.
And for those of you, who'vebeen listening to this podcast
with me over the years.
I appreciate if you're stilllistening right now.
I appreciate that.
You're still here.
(11:25):
Even though we haven't had anyepisodes out since September.
And I'm not going to make anypromises, but I'm going to do my
best to have some consistency tothis podcast.
I have, since just as a quickupdate.
So I, so I shut down thecoaching business.
I started doing done for youservices, as you guys know, if
(11:45):
you don't know, I, my backgroundis graphic design and I am a
Kajabi expert.
So I work in Kajabi platforms.
I help clients build out thebackend of their business.
So I don't do business coachingor advertised business coaching
anymore.
But the beautiful thing is, isthat my clients are often online
coaches.
Online service providers.
(12:06):
And so I get to through them,hiring me to do their done for
you work like the Kajabi workand the design work.
Still get to engage in a lot ofbusiness coaching because
oftentimes they are looking foradvice and strategies on how to
do things in their business.
So I get to still do somebusiness coaching with my
clients, which I feel like I'vefound this perfect balance in my
(12:27):
life.
Of doing the work that I love.
I love creating.
So creating websites, landingpages, sales pages, just getting
their businesses organized andworking for them.
But then I still also get to dosome of that business coaching.
I just have really found a sweetspot.
And the thing is, is I'm not onsocial media, promoting my
business right now.
Like I, if you go to my, I amShana, Recker Instagram.
(12:49):
I haven't posted since I don'teven know when.
I share videos of websites thatI create.
But my clients are coming to mesolely through referrals right
now.
And, because I'm a Kajabiexpert.
I do get some referrals throughthe Kajabi network, but there's
no forcing, there's no pushing,there's no feeling of half twos
and sheds in this business.
(13:09):
That I'm in right now.
And that feels really, reallygood.
And it feels way more inalignment with the person that I
am right now.
And it's not to say thatbusiness coaching wasn't for me
or that I wasn't good at it orin that kind of stuff.
It was just more, it was for meat a different time in my life.
And I'm at a time in my life nowwhere I just don't need the
extra stress I'm already goingthrough enough.
(13:32):
That having a business that justseems to roll with me.
Like it's just happening.
It feels so much more.
At ease for me and I really loveit.
I tried to get on the Instagrammore with this side of my
business, but I just feel like,I don't know.
I just don't know what to say.
I think I'm actually going touse that Instagram account for
(13:54):
the, for this podcast.
And post when I have newepisodes and things like that
out.
But It is still there.
And if you are following mestill on there, you will
probably see some stuff comingout from the podcast on there.
But yeah, I'm just kind ofplaying it by ear and seeing
what happens, I do still have mypart-time job at the salon,
(14:14):
which I absolutely love thathappens last year as well.
And it was just a job I took toone bring in some extra income,
but to just to do somethingdifferent in my life and just
see what happens and you guys, Ilove that job so much.
It is so fun.
It's so.
It, the people are amazing.
The clients are amazing.
I love the work.
It's just a nice break in myweek that I get to go there and
(14:36):
do that.
So that will still be happeningin my life.
But yeah, other than that, I'mdoing the Kajabi websites, some
graphic design.
I work at the salon one day aweek.
I've got kids, I've got dogs,cats, you name it.
Just trying to figure it out aswe go here.
So that's what we're going to betalking about here.
All things, entrepreneurship,business, life, menopause, kids,
(14:58):
you name it.
Whatever I feel like talkingabout in the moment, personal
development will definitely besome of it too.
But if you want to join me forthe ride, let's do it.
Let's see what this is allabout.
Let's see.
How this is really going to workout.
Cause I really don't know.
And I'm excited to try and I'vegot this nudge to just turn on
the mic and talk whenever itfeels right.
(15:18):
And that's what I'm going to do,and I'm not going to prejudge my
own work because I can tend todo that.
And that's why I don't end upposting some things.
I'm just going to do the do, andI'm going to do some small
edits.
Cause I know I say I'm a lot andyou know, and like, and all
those things.
So I will probably edit some ofthat out.
But other than that, I'm justgoing to post it.
(15:38):
And if there's anything you everwant to chat about or me to chat
about on this podcast, you guys,my DMS are always open on the
Instagram account that Imentioned the, I am Shana Recker
account.
If you are following me here onthe podcast.
Thank you so much for beinghere.
And I look forward to justsharing more of how it's really
going and we'll see whathappens.
(15:59):
I'm going to keep this one shortand sweet.
We will see you on the nextepisode, what it's going to be
about.
I don't know.
And I'm excited to find out.
All right, everyone.
We'll talk to you soon.
Bye.
For now.
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