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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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I wanna talk about something that took me a little bit of time to understand, and it's that when you have standards, that doesn't make you difficult. And it doesn't make you cold. It doesn't make you unapproachable, and it definitely doesn't make you mean. It doesn't matter what people tell you or what people say.

None of those things are true because you have standards and expectations. What it does is, it makes you clear, and for whatever reason, people have gotten real uncomfortable with clarity. I'm not. I'm not sure why, but somewhere along the way, being direct started being misinterpreted as being aggressive - and holding people accountable, now all of a sudden means that you are micromanaging. Then looking at someone who has expectations, suddenly that makes them the villain.

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 Man, I feel like maybe I am going through an identity crisis. I've been spending a lot of time talking about identity of you and your business, and you and your brand, and lately I've been thinking a lot about like - the old me, the version of me. Before the titles, before like all the systems.

Just - the me before, like every decision felt like it carried someone else's paycheck or stability or their future. For you business owners, I know that you understand the weight of that, and probably who you were before all of those things existed. You know, I miss that girl sometimes. The girl that was bold enough to build something without overthinking every angle, you know? The girl who didn't carry everyone's expectations on her back, and the one who didn't have to filter everything through, "is this professional, is this appropriate"? You may or not relate, and either way is fine.

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