You are not your business.
Your business is something you are creating, which means you have a relationship with it.
Like any relationship that we are in, the relationship that we have with our business can be complex and takes understanding, consideration, and work.
And as with our personal relationships, the ones that we have with our businesses are shaped by our past experiences, for better or worse.
We might have been told that we’re supposed to leave our baggage at the door when we come into work–we might even think we succeed–but that’s not how humans work. And when we ignore how our pasts affect our present, we set ourselves up to repeat unhealthy relationship patterns everywhere in our lives.
In today’s episode, we’ll talk about how your foundational experiences might show up in your business and create limitations to your growth, especially when it comes to perfectionism and control.
Nicole Lewis-Keeber is a business therapist and mindset coach who works with entrepreneurs to create and nurture healthy relationships with their businesses. She's a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Masters in Social Work and she writes and speaks about the impact of small-t trauma on businesses.
Her biggest, most important work is in combining therapeutic processes with business coaching to help entrepreneurs build emotionally sustainable and financially stable businesses.
Listen to the full episode to hear:
- How your business is not you, but a thing you’re in relationship with
- How control relates to trust and its impacts on your ability to lead and grow
- How perfectionism is a safety mechanism and tools to help you begin to lower that shield
- Why when you’ve tried all the systems and none of them worked, it’s probably not the systems
Learn more about Nicole:
- Trauma and Its Impact on Business - Free Course
- Nicole Lewis-Keeber Coaching
- Instagram: @nicole.lewiskeeber
- Facebook: Nicole Lewis-Keeber Coaching
Learn more about Susan:
- Scalespark.co
- Twitter @ScaleSpark
- LinkedIn @thesusanboles
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