101: It Was Never a Capacity Issue. It Was This.

In this impromptu, riff-while-the-kids-are-home kind of episode, I share the breakthrough that cracked me wide open:

I thought I had a capacity issue. When the real issue was something else entirely...

If you’ve ever told yourself "I just don’t have the time," but deep down you know you could move mountains if you had clarity and direction — this one’s for you.

We’re talking:

• The real difference between capacity and time constraint
• Why “not enough time” is often just a disguise for something else
• How to get back into your power, fast
• What I realized needs to change in how I run my business moving forward

It’s raw. It’s honest. It’s the exact message I wish I’d heard months ago.

🎧 Press play — this could change everything for you.

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Episode Transcript

Megan (00:00):
I had the biggest breakthrough yesterday that I

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had to sit here and share itright now, even though it's a
crazy day.
I have kids home from school.
We need to be packing for ourupcoming trip.
There's so much to do, but Iknew that this needed to be
shared.
And so here I am sharing it withyou.
I hear all the background noisein the world, um, and we're just

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gonna roll with that, right?
So.
If you know anything about me,you know that I have three kids
under the age of five and I workpart-time.
I mean really less than that onmy business each week.
And it vari, it varies.
Life life's all the time.
And what I was realizing is thatover the past, gosh, year, maybe

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not quite a full year, but eightto nine months, maybe longer.
I have continuously told myselfthat my main constraint, my main
issue was capacity and just,Hey, I'm in a season where I
have limited capacity.
I'm in a season where I can'tspend that much time towards my

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business.
I'm in a season where mycapacity is driving decisions.
And that was a story I believed,and it was interesting to look
back on this yesterday and torealize that a lot of the
changes in pivots and shiftsthat I've made over the past
eight to nine months, whether itwas, um, closing down certain

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programs, rebranding certainprograms, changing delivery, um,
deciding to go from evergreen tolaunching and then deciding not
to launch just all of this.
Back and forth, which honestlyis like a whole separate thing I
wanna reflect on and, and sharewith you.
But it has been happening kindof the past eight to nine
months.

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A lot of changing.
And y'all know, I love tochange.
I love a good pivot.
I love a good evolution.
But to me there's a very bigdifference between this like
grounded pivot and evolutionand, and what you know, to be
kind of this just like.
Constantly changing your mindthing, which is where I was, I
was coming back to, and anytimeI was having conversations with

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mentors, especially last fallaround what I felt like wasn't
working, it was like we allbelieved this story, that the
issue was my capacity and I keptbeing told, and this is no one
else's fault.
I'm not like blaming anyone Ihad a conversation with, but
it's funny to look back and belike, oh yeah, well, I closed
that membership because of mycapacity.

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It's like, well, I don't thinkI've actually had a capacity
issue.
I, it wasn't really about howmuch time I had or not, and I
can see this pattern from thepast, you know, eight to nine
months intermittently, wherethere was this story that I had
limited capacity, that I didn'thave enough capacity to do X, Y,
or Z, and because I believed it,anyone else I was.

(03:07):
Talking to about it alsobelieved it, right?
They're gonna take my word forit, or they're going to
interpret any issues I'm having.
Any problems I'm having ascoming back to this constraint
on my time and this capacityissue and the realization that I
had yesterday was that capacityhas never actually been the
issue for me, because when Iknow what I'm doing and I'm

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convicted in it, I can getinsane.
Amounts of stuff done in verylittle time.
Because I do it simply because Itrust myself, because I do it
imperfectly.
When I know what I'm doing, whenI'm convicted in it, when I'm
grounded in it, I can go and do.
And that in any of these seasonswhere I felt like there was a
problem to solve, I keptthinking the problem was my

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time, was my capacity was that Imaxed myself out when in fact I
don't know that I've hit thatpoint of being actually maxed
out.
Again, I do things quickly andimperfectly and embodied, and
it's channeled and it's verylike reducing friction.
Let's go.
Let's take action.

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That's my gift.
And the real problem that I runinto is not capacity.
It's that somewhere along thelines I lose conviction or I
lose trust in myself and I startto look outside of myself and I
start to convince myself that Ihave problems that aren't really
there.
I.
And I start to tell myself thatmy issue is capacity.

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Oh, I over committed, or I can'tdo all this, or blah, blah,
blah.
But the reality is that forwhatever reason, when I lose
that conviction and I lose thatfocus, and I lose that clarity
on what I'm working on andworking towards, I start to
scramble.
I start to waste time.
I start to create problems.

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I start to spend more timetrying to figure out what to do.
Then spending time actuallydoing the work that matters.
So I end up creating a capacityissue because I'm spending so
much time trying to figure outwhat to do or change something
or thinking through or doingsomething on the backend that I

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end up creating a timeconstraint because I'm spending
so much time on the wrong thingthat when it's time to do the
work that matters, it feels likethere's very little time left
over.
And because of all of that, Iend up putting myself in this
like, reactive last minute or,you know, urgency standpoint
that we all know when we'recoming at anything from this

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place of urgency or scarcity.
It's never going to work out howwe want it to.
It doesn't mean it's gonna failor flop or anything, but it's,
it's not going to be the same aswhen we're coming from that like
convicted, grounded place.
And when I know what I'm doing,what I'm convicted in, what I'm
doing.
It can be freaking magical.
The amount I can get done, andnot from like a productivity

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standpoint, but just like howquickly, how quickly I can move
forward and how quickly I cantake action and how, how large
my capacity actually is, evenwhen there isn't a lot of time,
and just this really importantdistinction for me, that
capacity and the amount of timeI have are not actually the same

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thing and that I can hold alarge capacity.
Even in seasons where I havesmall amounts of time, it's just
about having conviction in thework I'm doing, staying focused
on what I'm working towards, andcontinuing to focus and get

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guidance more internally from myintuition, my own self, my own
experiences.
My own work with my clients, myown life than it is from looking
outside of myself thinking thatsomeone else has it figured out.
My biggest seasons of momentumand growth in my business were

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when I was very focused in onwhat I wanted to do, even when
it didn't make sense, when I waschoosing to do less and to do it
imperfectly.
To not worry about doing it all,not worry about doing the
highest ROI, the most strategic,the most leveraged, and instead

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saying what allows me to moveforward quicker?
Doesn't have to be effortless,doesn't have to be easy, right?
It's all going to challenge usin new ways.
But the seasons where I was ableto grow exponentially and to
feel fully embodied andconvicted in my work, I was

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doing far less.
Not, not necessarily like lessprograms, less stuff like that.
My delivery has always beenincredible.
I've always loved working withclients in multiple levels.
I've always loved showing up inbig ways, but I mean more of
less in terms of all thedifferent things we can do, all
the different ways we can growour business and show up and
make sales and do all thethings.

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My biggest seasons of growthwere when I was focused and I
was comfortable.
Saying no to all the differentthings we can do, and I said,
Nope.
I'm gonna do this.
I'm gonna do this.
I'm gonna serve my clients inthese ways, and then I'm going
to start doing and I'm going tobe okay not knowing what this is

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going to look like.
A year from now.
I'm going to be okay knowingthat it's one step at a time,
but I'm going to go.
Fully into that next step.
And I'm going to be comfortableknowing I don't know everything
and knowing that I don't knowwhat step two will be, but I
know what step one is, knowingthat I may be making a choice

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right now.
That isn't my choice forever,but it is my choice right now
and I'm so glad I had thisreminder yesterday and, and.
This new realization that mycapacity is not linked to my
time, and that there's adifference between how much you
have capacity for energetically,mentally, emotionally,

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spiritually, yes, in time also,but in actual time available.
The issue isn't my capacity.
The issue has been my focus.
The issue has been not knowingwhat I'm doing, not trusting
what I'm doing.
And I, it feels vulnerablesharing that because this is

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work I help my clients with allof the time.
But I think it just goes to showthat, hey, I'm not perfect and I
am so passionate about the workI help my clients with because
it's fully embodied.
This is stuff I am constantlymyself going deeper on.
Growing with refining and havingnew realizations on.

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And I hope for you that you maybe in a season where you have
limited time.
And I'm not here to say capacityin a time sense isn't real, but
I wanna create a distinction foryou that the issue, the problem,
the constraint, may not actuallybe your time available for your
business.

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It may actually be your.
Focus and confidence andconviction and knowing what to
do with that time.
Are you spending so much timethinking and planning and
deciding and strategizing thatyou're not spending enough time
actually doing, and that mightbe why you feel like you have a

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capacity issue.
Because when you sit down towork, whether it's five minutes
or five hours, you don'tactually know what you're
working on.
And what you're working towards,because that's where I can see
now.
I've been in that pattern on andoff, and it has led to some

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frustrations and it has led tosome decisions that I can look
back on and say, you know what?
I've made that decision tryingto escape something.
I created my own problem thatled to that change or that
decision.
You know, I made this shiftthinking it was gonna solve my
problems, but I realized I wasfocusing on the wrong.
Dang, that wasn't the realproblem, and I hope that hearing

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this can change something foryou.
Whether it feels applicable nowor again in the future, that
this can be something that popsin your head that you know,
maybe the issue isn't truly yourcapacity, that it truly isn't
your time, but it's what you'redoing with that time.
It's your focus, it's your ownconviction, and that that is
something we can work on.
That is something you can veryquickly.

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Shift and change andrecalibrate, and I wish I had
realized that this is what ishappening so that I could work
with my mentors at the time, mysupport system at the time to
work on the problem thatactually mattered, not the
problem I kind of created.
That led to a ripple effect.
So here's to all of us doing thedamn thing in seasons with

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limited time in seasons withreal constraints on the, you
know, physical time you can puttowards your business, but also
to this realization that ourcapacity to what we can hold
space for is not limited by thattime constraint.
And that we have a great amountof capacity to have this

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incredibly full and fulfillingbusiness, even in limited
amounts of times where we canserve a vast amount of people,
we can work with incredibleamounts of dream clients in lots
of really fun ways, and that wedon't have to limit what we view
we can do based on our time whenwe know.

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What we're focused on when we'reconvicted in our work, when
we're embodied in it and we'redoing it imperfectly and we were
just taking it one step at atime, fully trusting ourselves.
We can do a lot.
So here's to us, let's go do thedamn thing.