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 Burnout is bullshit. Now let me say, I know that I'm about to catch so much shit from people on this episode, if you just look at the title. I know. But I also know that I'm coming from a place of the reality of "been there, done that". I get it, and I don't want people to think that I am dismissing your exhaustion.

I'm definitely not. This is not me minimizing how heavy things feel, and it's definitely not me saying you are not tired or that you're not overwhelmed. What it is is me telling you the truth, though. It's the fact that we call burnout something different than what it is entirely. What burnout is; is a lack of structure.

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I wanna talk about something today that could actually genuinely change the way that you lead in your business. It's not because it's a trendy business concept, but more because it actually forces you to confront one of the biggest reasons that you're probably overwhelmed. It's because you expect a hundred percent in areas in your business from your team where 80% would actually be enough.

The truth is your business doesn't need perfection. What it needs is consistency, standards and predictability, and none of that actually requires a hundred percent from anyone, including you as the owner. You probably have heard the 80/20% rule a lot in business.

A lot of times when I bring this up to owners, I have to explain to them, it isn't about lowering your expectations. It's actually about raising clarity around what actually matters. Leaders who try to control that last 20% - the part that doesn't change the outcomes - are the ones that end up overwhelmed, and with teams that struggle and feel like they're being micromanaged.

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Today we are gonna talk about where I've been. Not necessarily because I owe you an explanation, but because there's definitely a leadership lesson in this that I think every business owner needs to hear, that we don't always talk about.

I didn't necessarily fall off. I didn't burnout. I think burnout is bullshit. We'll talk about that in a later episode though. Don't come for me right now. I just stepped back. It was an intentional, very deliberate and completely unapologetic decision that I decided to make because I really feel like leadership requires clarity, and clarity sometimes requires space. It wasn't a breakdown, there wasn't chaos, it wasn't losing control. A lot of it was strategy, and it was intentional.

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