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I’m not hiding, but I do feel invisible
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This week I recorded a podcast interview. It was only my second one this year. I had intended to spend 2025 growing my email list through connections and collaborations, and podcast guesting was going to be a huge part of it…. almost six months into the year, I’ve recorded just two interviews. I realized I’ve been kinda quiet. So here’s a little life update. Not because anything dramatic has happened. But to show how my Comfy Business is growing (or adapting) when my time and energy are largely consumed by other Life Stuff. Son#1 is now 20, and Son#2 is 18. If I were writing this update based on internalised expectations, I’d be telling you how I’m finally free to work all the hours, scale all the offers, do all the things, I’ve 10x’d my business since the start of the year, and my house is finally tidy. But no. That’s not how this next season of life is unfolding. Son#2 is a dependent adult with ongoing support needs. When he turned 18, we were sucked into a whole new world of bureaucracy. At the same time, he aged out of the support that was working so well for him. It’s been I’m spending my time and energy filling out forms, listening to hold music, pressing options on the phone, so I can listen to more hold music, actually being present for my son, and then a whole lot of looking-after myself to keep the wheels on this wagon (last Friday I had popcorn for breakfast while watching Fight Club - it was very cathartic). Most weeks, I’m working around 12 hours. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Enough to keep the business going, and work with my mentoring clients. My business still pays me far better than a local part-time job could, and I’m grateful for the flexibility it gives me. But there’s also that quiet edge of frustration: I want to be doing more. Creating more. Earning more. I’m not sharing this for sympathy. I don’t need sympathy because our lives are awesome (despite the doom-and-gloom predictions of health and education professionals who could only see us through their neuromajority bias). It’s just a context update about why I may appear to be quieter and less productive right now. P.S. If you want some help adjusting your business so it squishes in around your life. I wrote a book about it. And giving it away right now felt like the right thing to do, so you can use the coupon code CBPB18 to get the Comfy Business Playbook for free. |
The Comfy Business Newsletter | Laura
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