March 21, 2025 • 17 mins
Solopreneurship comes with incredible perks—freedom, flexibility, and pursuing your passion. But let’s be real—it also has a dark side that’s rarely discussed: loneliness, self-doubt, and the mental weight of doing it all alone. In this episode of Her Business Elevated, I’m pulling back the curtain on the emotional challenges of running a one-person business. You’ll learn how to combat isolation, build a strong support system, and reframe self-doubt so you can thrive. Plus, this episode is part of Podcastathon, supporting Savvy Ladies®, a nonprofit empowering women through financial education. Learn more at savvyladies.org. 📌 Action Steps:
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey there, and welcome back to her business elevated podcast.
I'm your host, Dimitria, your friendly content creator, digital marketer
and solopreneur, and I can't wait to teach you how
to turn your profitable passion into a plan of action.
Welcome to episode seventy eight. I'm thrilled to share that
this episode is part of Podcastathon, which is an international
(00:34):
movement creating a massive wave of inspiring audio content and
the goal is to raise awareness for incredible charities around
the world this week. So I'm a specially honored to
support Savvy Ladies, which is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering
women through financial education. They've helped over twenty five thousand
women gain confidence and independence with free resources, webinars and
(00:58):
expert financial guidance. Free financial helpline has already assisted thousands
and with your support, they can reach even more. So
if you'd like to join me in making a difference,
consider donating, volunteering, or spreading the word. You can learn
more at savvy Ladies dot org. Because financial knowledge is power.
And if you want to know more about Podcastathon and
(01:18):
the great work they're doing to support charities all over
the world, you can visit podcastathon dot org. Now. I
love talking about the winds of being a solopreneur, like
the freedom, the flexibility, and turning your passion into a business.
But I'm going to get real with you on this show.
And I know that you must know this already. If
(01:39):
you are a solopreneur, you completely understand what I'm about
to say. But solopreneurship is not always sunshine and success or.
As they say at Walk in the Park, there is
a dark side that doesn't get talked about enough, and
that is the loneliness, the self doubt, and the mental
weight of running a business on your own. So today
(01:59):
we are going to pull back that curtain. We're going
to get real about what it means to be a
one person business and how to fight back against the
isolation and imposter syndrome that often comes with it. If
you've ever felt like you're doing all this by yourself,
all alone, this episode is for you. So we're going
to dive straight in, Grab your cup of coffee, your
favorite beverage, and sit back, relax, and let's get ready
(02:23):
to get into this conversation. I call this a conversation
because I'm hoping that you will stop by and start
a conversation with me over on my YouTube channels. So
(02:45):
I invite you to go visit me at YouTube dot
com slash at Dmitriya Zinga that is my full name,
and you'll find me there as I upload videos. If
you want to leave a comment, that would make my day,
because I would love to communicate with you there. But
there are also other ways to reach me, and I
will leave all of that information in the show notes,
but I would love to get a conversation started about
(03:07):
entrepreneurship and what it means for you and how this
is going. I'm just going to say that I don't
consider myself a traditional business owner. I've never had teens
to work with or employees. I've often worked alone as
a solopreneur at home or in coffee shops or coworking spaces.
So while that might sound ideal at first, the lack
(03:28):
of that daily collaboration can sometimes lead to feeling isolated.
And if you are not new to the show, you'll
probably recognize some of the topics today, and some of
the things I'll be saying is very similar to things
I've already mentioned, such as on episode sixty seven, where
I talked about building connections as a solopreneur, going from
loneliness to thriving, but I'm just going to go into
(03:49):
a bit more detail on today's show. So here are
some signs that you might be struggling with solopreneur loneliness.
And the first is that you can go days without
having a real conversation about your business. Secondly, you might
feel disconnected from your peers, from your industry, just somehow disjointed.
And Thirdly, you might struggle with decision fatigue because you
(04:10):
don't have anyone to bounce your ideas off of. So
I'm going to address how to combat some of these things.
These are issues that solopreneurs truly have, and it's just
the real deal. It's what I call the dark side
of solopreneurship, and it just happens if you are doing
business on your own. This is what can sometimes happen
and lead to. It's what business can lead to for
(04:32):
you as someone who's just doing it on your own.
And I want to commend every one of you who
are becoming solopreneurs and doing this thing by yourself. I
want to encourage you not to give up, because there
are ways to obviously make your life a lot less
lonely again, go back and listen to episode sixty seven.
But I'm going to share with you on today's show
(04:52):
some ways once again that you can combat that loneliness.
So let's just go over a few of those again.
And the first is to build your b business community.
You can have your own community. So if you're not
able to find something somewhere and I'm sure there's something
in your community, in your actual community, meaning your city
or your neighborhood or somewhere where solopreneurs like yourself are
(05:15):
also hanging out and doing business, so you can build
your own. You can join entrepreneur groups on Facebook or LinkedIn,
or even create your own groups. You can attend in
person networking events. Another thing is to find an accountability
partner or a business bestie. And so that's something that
I'm looking forward to doing in the future, partnering with
(05:38):
someone who understands what I'm going through and is also
doing his or her own thing. So I think it's
really great to have someone that you can engage with. Also,
speaking of engagement, you can engage more. It's not a
bad idea to engage more on social media. And this
doesn't just mean posting, but actually could connecting with the
(06:00):
people in your industry responding to dms. But in addition
to that, just really getting out there on socials and
seeing what people are talking about and hopping in on
those conversations. So that's one of my action steps actually
for this upcoming week, I plan to be more engaged
in my socials, which I've admittedly taken a back seat
on my own instagrams, So that's something that I am
(06:22):
wanting to get better at. As I'm managing social media accounts,
helping other solorepreneurs with their business ventures, helping them manage
their accounts, I've kind of neglected my own, so I
will be working on that. But one action step for
you that you could do this week is to find
one entrepreneur group to join, introduce yourself. That's all you
(06:42):
have to do. Just get on there and introduce who
you are, and then see how involved you want to
be and how you want to plug in for the
next year. My second piece of advice for you is
after you build your business community or get engaged in
one is to create an office vibe. Without an office,
you don't actually have to have to create that vibe.
So you can work from a co working space, which
(07:04):
I do very often at a local coffee shop, and
you can do it a few times a month. You
can do it a few times a week. For me,
I prefer about once or twice a week at a
coworking space or at a cafe. The rest of the
time I'm at home. I do have an office at home.
But again, if you don't have an office, a co
working space works wonders in your mentality and just how
(07:26):
you feel your energy levels. It will help you to
make progress, I think, or at least it does for me.
So you can also schedule virtual co working sessions with
fellow entrepreneurs on Zoom or some other way that you
want to connect online. But I think that working with
other people can be helpful if you are the type
that gets things done because of that accountability. Now, if
(07:47):
you get more done not having people in your space,
then maybe you're the type that needs to just be
in your space at home, in your office or in
a coworking space, but not necessarily working in tandem with others,
and to create that office space with other people. If
that's something you need, is you can use voice notes
or video messages like in slack, you know, in order
(08:09):
to stay connected with other people. So an action step
for you this week is to plan one day where
you're going to work somewhere outside of your usual space.
I promise you it really does make a difference in
kind of shaking things up a little bit, just to
give you a different view, a different outlook, so that
you can take a deep breath and have a fresh
new perspective on your business and what you're actually working on.
(08:32):
It's amazing how just a different environment, just a change
of your environment and your space, can make a big
difference in your mental capacity and how much you're able
to produce or even how good you feel about working.
My third tip for you is to manage your self doubt,
and you can do that by shifting your mindset. So
(08:53):
there's going to be a lot of times as an entrepreneur,
a solopreneur, that you're going to have some moments of
doubting what you're doing and doubting yourself and your ability
to do it. And that's because if you're solo, and
even if you're not, just to be perfectly honest, even
if you're working with people a lot of people or
working as on a team as an employee. There are
(09:15):
still those moments of self doubt that we all face
as a productive part of our society, working making money,
launching our careers, growing our careers. There's always going to
be those little moments when we doubt that we're able
to truly accomplish what we've been tasked to do. And
it's the same with a solopreneur, and probably even more
(09:37):
so in certain areas because we actually feel the weight
of every little bit and piece of the puzzle that
needs to fit together to create our business. So you
have to give yourself just a little bit of grace
because honestly, you have a huge role. You play a
huge role, and it's not to be taken lightly. So
you're doing a great work, You're doing a big work,
(10:00):
and so never be so hard on yourself that you
just can't move forward. In order to be successful in
the work that you are setting out to do in
your business, you have to keep putting one foot in
front of the other and keep moving forward. And I'm
saying that to you as I'm also preaching to the choir,
I'm talking to myself as well, And so this is
(10:22):
all helpful advice that I'm also giving myself and following.
When I'm not telling you guys on a podcast, I'm
also putting these principles into place in my own life.
And so I'm just here with you. I understand what
we are going through being solo. And one of the
things that I do to help me is I keep
(10:43):
a journal of wins of every time I do something
that is celebratory. Like I mentioned in my last episode,
I will celebrate every little thing, even the things that
are not related to my business, that are just related
to my well being throughout the day, that I got
enough sleep, that I woke up on time, that I
(11:04):
opened the blinds of my windows and stepped outside for
a minute, and I learned French, or I practiced the piano,
or those things that are just making my life whole,
wholesome and beautiful and lovely. I celebrate those things, and
to me, that means more than like how much work
was I able to accomplish in my business, how productive
I was in my business. You know, productivity will come
(11:28):
and go depending on the season of my life. Being
that I am a woman going through hormonal changes and
going through the things that women go through and so
I at this season of my life am concerned more
about self care than I am about productivity. But being
productive is such a huge part of running a business
that I realize I have to take care of me
(11:48):
before I take care of the business. And if I
want to be a productive business owner, and if I
want to accomplish all the work that I have ahead
of me, I have to take care of me first.
So I keep a journal of wins to celebrate myself,
to celebrate all the things that I'm able to do,
and then I celebrate the things that I'm able to
accomplish in my business just by checking off those boxes.
(12:11):
You know, I'm that type a personality, So checking off
a box every time I'm able to accomplish something means
a lot to me. And I don't really need a
lot of reward. Just that little check is enough for me.
Sometimes I'll go get myself amocha or something from the
cafe just to feel good about the week when I
do go to a coworking space. But I keep track
(12:33):
of the things that I was able to accomplish so
that I can go back and reflect in weeks and
months prior how much I was able to accomplish and
it makes a big difference in my outlook, and it
helps me to feel motivated to keep going. It also
gives me opportunities to reflect, to stop and to reflect
and see, am I going in the right direction? Yes,
(12:54):
I've accomplished all of this. What do these accomplishments actually
mean for my life today? And what will it mean
for me in the future. Is it actually making a
dent or a difference in my future? And what I'm
planning for this business and for my life and the
lifestyle that I would like to create for me and
my family, and what I would like for us to
(13:14):
have in the future, how I would like to secure
us in the future. So I have to think about
what I'm doing and how that's all coming together. If
it's not coming together, then I have to ask myself
why And is it just a timing situation or is
it just some tweaking that needs to be done, Or
am I offering the wrong thing to the wrong people
or the right thing to the wrong people or vice versa.
(13:37):
Just looking at what I'm doing and what I've accomplished
versus if I haven't accomplished very much, or if what
I'm doing isn't making a difference or leading me to
my final destination. And that's why I love keeping a journal,
just so that I can see what's happening, but to
manage my self doubt, I also like to reframe my
failure as feedback. And I talk about reframing a lot
(13:59):
on the show, because so much of what we do
doesn't always work out the way we want it to,
and so it feels like failure, and so I talk
about reframing that failure because if we internalize that as failure,
anytime something doesn't work out in our business, or we
tried a product launch and it just failed, or we
tried a business concept or providing a service that just
(14:21):
flopped and no one signed up for it, then we're
going to internalize those multiple failures as an internal failure
on our part, that we are failing at business, when
in fact, it's not that it has anything to do
with us so much as it has to do with
what service or product we provided at the moment was
not a tangible need for our particular audience. And maybe
(14:42):
we need to figure out who our audience is and
bring the right people on board, or we need to
look at what our current audience is asking for and
give them what they need. So there's that kind of
meeting in the middle situation that we have to figure
out are we reaching the right people, and if not,
how do we get the right eyeballs on our products
(15:04):
and services so that we are actually able to run
this business effectively. It's not so much that we're a
failure at business. It's just that we don't have everything
aligned so that we are meeting our audience where they are.
And so I feel like that is such a big
part of reframing failure because every mistake is a lesson.
It's not a setback. Necessarily, it feels like a setback
(15:27):
sometimes we call them setbacks, but they are lessons, and
they are lessons that we learn and we learn something
from it and then we move forward. Another way that
I manage my self doubt and shift my mind is
to follow and engage with other solopreneurs who also, like
I mentioned last week, share both their successes and their struggles.
And I talked about Amy Porterfield a few times, and
(15:49):
I love that she shares her successes and her struggles.
And I like to follow entrepreneurs who are vulnerable and
who are willing to share their personal business journeys because
it helps to motivate me and keep me moving forward.
So that is pretty much all I have for you
on the show today, because I just wanted to give
you a couple of ways to fight loneliness but also
(16:11):
to overcome the self doubt because that's such a big
part of what happens when we are feeling isolated or
lonely as we start to doubt ourselves. So I hope
that those action steps will help you. And my final
thoughts for you is that being a solopreneur can feel isolating.
I do understand, but it doesn't mean that you have
to do it all by yourself. You don't have to
(16:31):
do it alone. And by building a community or getting
connected with a community, creating connection points in your workday,
and shifting your mindset, you can thrive even without a
traditional team. You can be the solopreneur that enjoys being
solo until or if you're ever ready to scale to
an agency. But until then, you're a solopreneur that's proud
(16:53):
and happy to be working in your space. So if
this episode resonates with you, I would love for you
to send me a d or tag me on Instagram
or YouTube. I'd love to hear how you're building your
solopreneurs support system. And before you go, don't forget to
check out once again my YouTube channel where I share
even more content on entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and even some mindset.
(17:17):
So just head over to YouTube dot com, slash at
Tamitria Zinga and hit that subscribe button. And that's it
for today, my friends. Until next time, keep showing up,
keep believing in yourself, and keep elevating your business to
your online business success
Hey there, and welcome back to her business elevated podcast.
I'm your host, Dimitria, your friendly content creator, digital marketer
and solopreneur, and I can't wait to teach you how
to turn your profitable passion into a plan of action.
Welcome to episode seventy eight. I'm thrilled to share that
this episode is part of Podcastathon, which is an international
(00:34):
movement creating a massive wave of inspiring audio content and
the goal is to raise awareness for incredible charities around
the world this week. So I'm a specially honored to
support Savvy Ladies, which is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering
women through financial education. They've helped over twenty five thousand
women gain confidence and independence with free resources, webinars and
(00:58):
expert financial guidance. Free financial helpline has already assisted thousands
and with your support, they can reach even more. So
if you'd like to join me in making a difference,
consider donating, volunteering, or spreading the word. You can learn
more at savvy Ladies dot org. Because financial knowledge is power.
And if you want to know more about Podcastathon and
(01:18):
the great work they're doing to support charities all over
the world, you can visit podcastathon dot org. Now. I
love talking about the winds of being a solopreneur, like
the freedom, the flexibility, and turning your passion into a business.
But I'm going to get real with you on this show.
And I know that you must know this already. If
(01:39):
you are a solopreneur, you completely understand what I'm about
to say. But solopreneurship is not always sunshine and success or.
As they say at Walk in the Park, there is
a dark side that doesn't get talked about enough, and
that is the loneliness, the self doubt, and the mental
weight of running a business on your own. So today
(01:59):
we are going to pull back that curtain. We're going
to get real about what it means to be a
one person business and how to fight back against the
isolation and imposter syndrome that often comes with it. If
you've ever felt like you're doing all this by yourself,
all alone, this episode is for you. So we're going
to dive straight in, Grab your cup of coffee, your
favorite beverage, and sit back, relax, and let's get ready
(02:23):
to get into this conversation. I call this a conversation
because I'm hoping that you will stop by and start
a conversation with me over on my YouTube channels. So
(02:45):
I invite you to go visit me at YouTube dot
com slash at Dmitriya Zinga that is my full name,
and you'll find me there as I upload videos. If
you want to leave a comment, that would make my day,
because I would love to communicate with you there. But
there are also other ways to reach me, and I
will leave all of that information in the show notes,
but I would love to get a conversation started about
(03:07):
entrepreneurship and what it means for you and how this
is going. I'm just going to say that I don't
consider myself a traditional business owner. I've never had teens
to work with or employees. I've often worked alone as
a solopreneur at home or in coffee shops or coworking spaces.
So while that might sound ideal at first, the lack
(03:28):
of that daily collaboration can sometimes lead to feeling isolated.
And if you are not new to the show, you'll
probably recognize some of the topics today, and some of
the things I'll be saying is very similar to things
I've already mentioned, such as on episode sixty seven, where
I talked about building connections as a solopreneur, going from
loneliness to thriving, but I'm just going to go into
(03:49):
a bit more detail on today's show. So here are
some signs that you might be struggling with solopreneur loneliness.
And the first is that you can go days without
having a real conversation about your business. Secondly, you might
feel disconnected from your peers, from your industry, just somehow disjointed.
And Thirdly, you might struggle with decision fatigue because you
(04:10):
don't have anyone to bounce your ideas off of. So
I'm going to address how to combat some of these things.
These are issues that solopreneurs truly have, and it's just
the real deal. It's what I call the dark side
of solopreneurship, and it just happens if you are doing
business on your own. This is what can sometimes happen
and lead to. It's what business can lead to for
(04:32):
you as someone who's just doing it on your own.
And I want to commend every one of you who
are becoming solopreneurs and doing this thing by yourself. I
want to encourage you not to give up, because there
are ways to obviously make your life a lot less
lonely again, go back and listen to episode sixty seven.
But I'm going to share with you on today's show
(04:52):
some ways once again that you can combat that loneliness.
So let's just go over a few of those again.
And the first is to build your b business community.
You can have your own community. So if you're not
able to find something somewhere and I'm sure there's something
in your community, in your actual community, meaning your city
or your neighborhood or somewhere where solopreneurs like yourself are
(05:15):
also hanging out and doing business, so you can build
your own. You can join entrepreneur groups on Facebook or LinkedIn,
or even create your own groups. You can attend in
person networking events. Another thing is to find an accountability
partner or a business bestie. And so that's something that
I'm looking forward to doing in the future, partnering with
(05:38):
someone who understands what I'm going through and is also
doing his or her own thing. So I think it's
really great to have someone that you can engage with. Also,
speaking of engagement, you can engage more. It's not a
bad idea to engage more on social media. And this
doesn't just mean posting, but actually could connecting with the
(06:00):
people in your industry responding to dms. But in addition
to that, just really getting out there on socials and
seeing what people are talking about and hopping in on
those conversations. So that's one of my action steps actually
for this upcoming week, I plan to be more engaged
in my socials, which I've admittedly taken a back seat
on my own instagrams, So that's something that I am
(06:22):
wanting to get better at. As I'm managing social media accounts,
helping other solorepreneurs with their business ventures, helping them manage
their accounts, I've kind of neglected my own, so I
will be working on that. But one action step for
you that you could do this week is to find
one entrepreneur group to join, introduce yourself. That's all you
(06:42):
have to do. Just get on there and introduce who
you are, and then see how involved you want to
be and how you want to plug in for the
next year. My second piece of advice for you is
after you build your business community or get engaged in
one is to create an office vibe. Without an office,
you don't actually have to have to create that vibe.
So you can work from a co working space, which
(07:04):
I do very often at a local coffee shop, and
you can do it a few times a month. You
can do it a few times a week. For me,
I prefer about once or twice a week at a
coworking space or at a cafe. The rest of the
time I'm at home. I do have an office at home.
But again, if you don't have an office, a co
working space works wonders in your mentality and just how
(07:26):
you feel your energy levels. It will help you to
make progress, I think, or at least it does for me.
So you can also schedule virtual co working sessions with
fellow entrepreneurs on Zoom or some other way that you
want to connect online. But I think that working with
other people can be helpful if you are the type
that gets things done because of that accountability. Now, if
(07:47):
you get more done not having people in your space,
then maybe you're the type that needs to just be
in your space at home, in your office or in
a coworking space, but not necessarily working in tandem with others,
and to create that office space with other people. If
that's something you need, is you can use voice notes
or video messages like in slack, you know, in order
(08:09):
to stay connected with other people. So an action step
for you this week is to plan one day where
you're going to work somewhere outside of your usual space.
I promise you it really does make a difference in
kind of shaking things up a little bit, just to
give you a different view, a different outlook, so that
you can take a deep breath and have a fresh
new perspective on your business and what you're actually working on.
(08:32):
It's amazing how just a different environment, just a change
of your environment and your space, can make a big
difference in your mental capacity and how much you're able
to produce or even how good you feel about working.
My third tip for you is to manage your self doubt,
and you can do that by shifting your mindset. So
(08:53):
there's going to be a lot of times as an entrepreneur,
a solopreneur, that you're going to have some moments of
doubting what you're doing and doubting yourself and your ability
to do it. And that's because if you're solo, and
even if you're not, just to be perfectly honest, even
if you're working with people a lot of people or
working as on a team as an employee. There are
(09:15):
still those moments of self doubt that we all face
as a productive part of our society, working making money,
launching our careers, growing our careers. There's always going to
be those little moments when we doubt that we're able
to truly accomplish what we've been tasked to do. And
it's the same with a solopreneur, and probably even more
(09:37):
so in certain areas because we actually feel the weight
of every little bit and piece of the puzzle that
needs to fit together to create our business. So you
have to give yourself just a little bit of grace
because honestly, you have a huge role. You play a
huge role, and it's not to be taken lightly. So
you're doing a great work, You're doing a big work,
(10:00):
and so never be so hard on yourself that you
just can't move forward. In order to be successful in
the work that you are setting out to do in
your business, you have to keep putting one foot in
front of the other and keep moving forward. And I'm
saying that to you as I'm also preaching to the choir,
I'm talking to myself as well, And so this is
(10:22):
all helpful advice that I'm also giving myself and following.
When I'm not telling you guys on a podcast, I'm
also putting these principles into place in my own life.
And so I'm just here with you. I understand what
we are going through being solo. And one of the
things that I do to help me is I keep
(10:43):
a journal of wins of every time I do something
that is celebratory. Like I mentioned in my last episode,
I will celebrate every little thing, even the things that
are not related to my business, that are just related
to my well being throughout the day, that I got
enough sleep, that I woke up on time, that I
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opened the blinds of my windows and stepped outside for
a minute, and I learned French, or I practiced the piano,
or those things that are just making my life whole,
wholesome and beautiful and lovely. I celebrate those things, and
to me, that means more than like how much work
was I able to accomplish in my business, how productive
I was in my business. You know, productivity will come
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and go depending on the season of my life. Being
that I am a woman going through hormonal changes and
going through the things that women go through and so
I at this season of my life am concerned more
about self care than I am about productivity. But being
productive is such a huge part of running a business
that I realize I have to take care of me
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before I take care of the business. And if I
want to be a productive business owner, and if I
want to accomplish all the work that I have ahead
of me, I have to take care of me first.
So I keep a journal of wins to celebrate myself,
to celebrate all the things that I'm able to do,
and then I celebrate the things that I'm able to
accomplish in my business just by checking off those boxes.
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You know, I'm that type a personality, So checking off
a box every time I'm able to accomplish something means
a lot to me. And I don't really need a
lot of reward. Just that little check is enough for me.
Sometimes I'll go get myself amocha or something from the
cafe just to feel good about the week when I
do go to a coworking space. But I keep track
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of the things that I was able to accomplish so
that I can go back and reflect in weeks and
months prior how much I was able to accomplish and
it makes a big difference in my outlook, and it
helps me to feel motivated to keep going. It also
gives me opportunities to reflect, to stop and to reflect
and see, am I going in the right direction? Yes,
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I've accomplished all of this. What do these accomplishments actually
mean for my life today? And what will it mean
for me in the future. Is it actually making a
dent or a difference in my future? And what I'm
planning for this business and for my life and the
lifestyle that I would like to create for me and
my family, and what I would like for us to
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have in the future, how I would like to secure
us in the future. So I have to think about
what I'm doing and how that's all coming together. If
it's not coming together, then I have to ask myself
why And is it just a timing situation or is
it just some tweaking that needs to be done, Or
am I offering the wrong thing to the wrong people
or the right thing to the wrong people or vice versa.
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Just looking at what I'm doing and what I've accomplished
versus if I haven't accomplished very much, or if what
I'm doing isn't making a difference or leading me to
my final destination. And that's why I love keeping a journal,
just so that I can see what's happening, but to
manage my self doubt, I also like to reframe my
failure as feedback. And I talk about reframing a lot
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on the show, because so much of what we do
doesn't always work out the way we want it to,
and so it feels like failure, and so I talk
about reframing that failure because if we internalize that as failure,
anytime something doesn't work out in our business, or we
tried a product launch and it just failed, or we
tried a business concept or providing a service that just
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flopped and no one signed up for it, then we're
going to internalize those multiple failures as an internal failure
on our part, that we are failing at business, when
in fact, it's not that it has anything to do
with us so much as it has to do with
what service or product we provided at the moment was
not a tangible need for our particular audience. And maybe
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we need to figure out who our audience is and
bring the right people on board, or we need to
look at what our current audience is asking for and
give them what they need. So there's that kind of
meeting in the middle situation that we have to figure
out are we reaching the right people, and if not,
how do we get the right eyeballs on our products
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and services so that we are actually able to run
this business effectively. It's not so much that we're a
failure at business. It's just that we don't have everything
aligned so that we are meeting our audience where they are.
And so I feel like that is such a big
part of reframing failure because every mistake is a lesson.
It's not a setback. Necessarily, it feels like a setback
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sometimes we call them setbacks, but they are lessons, and
they are lessons that we learn and we learn something
from it and then we move forward. Another way that
I manage my self doubt and shift my mind is
to follow and engage with other solopreneurs who also, like
I mentioned last week, share both their successes and their struggles.
And I talked about Amy Porterfield a few times, and
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I love that she shares her successes and her struggles.
And I like to follow entrepreneurs who are vulnerable and
who are willing to share their personal business journeys because
it helps to motivate me and keep me moving forward.
So that is pretty much all I have for you
on the show today, because I just wanted to give
you a couple of ways to fight loneliness but also
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to overcome the self doubt because that's such a big
part of what happens when we are feeling isolated or
lonely as we start to doubt ourselves. So I hope
that those action steps will help you. And my final
thoughts for you is that being a solopreneur can feel isolating.
I do understand, but it doesn't mean that you have
to do it all by yourself. You don't have to
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do it alone. And by building a community or getting
connected with a community, creating connection points in your workday,
and shifting your mindset, you can thrive even without a
traditional team. You can be the solopreneur that enjoys being
solo until or if you're ever ready to scale to
an agency. But until then, you're a solopreneur that's proud
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and happy to be working in your space. So if
this episode resonates with you, I would love for you
to send me a d or tag me on Instagram
or YouTube. I'd love to hear how you're building your
solopreneurs support system. And before you go, don't forget to
check out once again my YouTube channel where I share
even more content on entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and even some mindset.
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So just head over to YouTube dot com, slash at
Tamitria Zinga and hit that subscribe button. And that's it
for today, my friends. Until next time, keep showing up,
keep believing in yourself, and keep elevating your business to
your online business success
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