You had the big fortnight. Everywhere at once, lit up, running on adrenaline and not a lot of sleep. Then came the week after, where you could barely face the inbox and the work stacked up like the clean laundry you still haven't put away. And somewhere in there you wondered, privately, whether you're actually any good at this business game.

Every business has a heartbeat. There's a rate at which the money comes in, a rate at which the work goes out, a rate at which your clients hear from you and your team gets your attention. That rhythm exists whether you set it on purpose or not. If you don't set it deliberately, it gets set by how your energy is feeling today, by whatever is loudest in your inbox, by whatever fire everybody is standing around pointing at. In this episode I'm making the case that the tempo of your business is a decision you get to make, and that the only pace worth building is the one you will still be running in five years without hating it.

What you'll walk away with:

Why "I work best under pressure" is usually a business with no set tempo, and not a working style you were born with

How to get your sleep, your caffeine and your nervous system out of the job of holding the rhythm

What your team is actually doing while they brace for the next crash, and what that bracing costs your momentum

How to run a genuinely seasonal business on a plan instead of being ambushed by your own calendar every single year

The one exercise to do this week: draw your real year, then mark which spikes you chose and which just happened to you

What to listen to next:

Working week that survives school holidays

Pricing and paying yourself properly from a seasonal business

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Watch on YouTube: Sarah Greener | Business Without Choosing

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WORK WITH SARAH:

// The Done By Three Club: The only business model for Mum’s with an established business wanting to be Present Before 9, Done by 3 and Profitable in between. Learn more: https://go.themoxiemovement.com/the-done-by-3-model

// The Moxie Business Advantage: Application only program to provide complete business support and structure - 4 Spots available each month. Apply via a quick 15 min phone call to see if we are a fit and that we can help. https://go.themoxiemovement.com/mbt-podcast

//Season 27 Retreat: If you're ready to stop juggling and build a business that actually works for your life, we'd love to welcome you to our Season 27 Retreat in Russell, New Zealand. Over three powerful days, you'll create your 2027 strategic plan, install practical systems you can actually use, and leave with the clarity, confidence, and momentum to lead differently. Find all the details and save your spot here: https://themoxiemovement.com/season27

You used to be the woman who held all of it. Every number, every name, every next move for the next three months, all of it in your head, no notes needed. Then across a stretch of months you couldn't date if you tried, the words started going missing, and you decided the problem was you.

This episode is for the woman running a real business right as her body decides to rewrite the rules on her. Perimenopause. Brain fog rolling in at 2pm. Sleep worse than the newborn years. Names of people you've worked with for years, gone mid-sentence. Sarah names the season most business advice acts like doesn't exist, and she pulls apart the two things you've been treating as one thing: your competence, which has not moved an inch, and your confidence, which walked clean out the door. You'll finish this one knowing that leading through this season is not a smaller version of you. It's a set of operating conditions, and a real leader builds for the conditions she's actually in.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

- Why your competence has not dropped, even on the days you are certain it has, and how to stop rebuilding your whole business off a feeling that no longer matches the evidence

- The shift that changes this whole decade: letting your systems hold what your memory used to hold, and why that is the most experienced move you'll ever make, not a retreat

- How to lead through this season instead of hiding through it, when everyone needs you at once and there is no grace left for falling apart

- Why building for the capacity you have now, not the capacity you had at 25, is the exact skill you'd praise in any other operator

- What to do with the shame that you're not coping, which turns out to be the most expensive symptom of the lot

WHAT TO LISTEN TO NEXT:

Building systems that hold when your head can't

Load at home and making it visible

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Watch on YouTube: Sarah Greener | Business Without Choosing

Read on the Blog: The Moxie Movement Blog | Business Growth for Women

WORK WITH SARAH:

// The Done By Three Club: The only business model for Mum’s with an established business wanting to be Present Before 9, Done by 3 and Profitable in between. Learn more: https://go.themoxiemovement.com/the-done-by-3-model

// The Moxie Business Advantage: Application only program to provide complete business support and structure - 4 Spots available each month. Apply via a quick 15 min phone call to see if we are a fit and that we can help. https://go.themoxiemovement.com/mbt-podcast

//Season 27 Retreat: If you're ready to stop juggling and build a business that actually works for your life, we'd love to welcome you to our Season 27 Retreat in Russell, New Zealand. Over three powerful days, you'll create your 2027 strategic plan, install practical systems you can actually use, and leave with the clarity, confidence, and momentum to lead differently. Find all the details and save your spot here: The Moxie Movement // Home

Your sales were up on last year. And you still sat there feeling like you were losing a game you did not remember signing up to play. If you have ever heard someone mention their exit multiple the way other people mention the weather, and felt it land in your throat, this episode is for you.

There is a specific kind of business most of us are actually building. Built on relationships, trust, reputation, repeat clients, the slow good work that compounds over years and sends three more people back to your door. It is an ancient and honourable way to build something. Then we hold it up against a scorecard built for a completely different kind of business, the one designed to scale fast and be sold. In this episode Sarah names the difference between a commerce business and a capitalist one, why measuring the first against the second will always leave you feeling behind, and how to give yourself permission to want the business you actually chose.

WHAT YOU WILL WALK AWAY WITH

- Why sales up can still feel like losing, and what that feeling is actually pointing at

- The difference between a commerce business and a capitalist one, and which one you are really running

- How to spot the borrowed scorecard you picked up because it was lying around and everyone else was holding it

- What really good and really mine looks like when nobody else is watching or measuring

- The exact line to use next time someone asks about your exit strategy

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Sarah's book, Built For You. It holds the questions she uses to map out what right size actually looks like for your business. DM Sarah on Instagram @sarahgreenercoach with the keyword "BUILT" and she will send it over.

WHAT TO LISTEN TO NEXT

- Giving yourself permission to want a different size business

- Building something to keep instead of building to sell

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WORK WITH SARAH:

// The Done By Three Club: The only business model for Mum’s with an established business wanting to be Present Before 9, Done by 3 and Profitable in between. Learn more: https://go.themoxiemovement.com/the-done-by-3-model

// The Moxie Business Advantage: Application only program to provide complete business support and structure - 4 Spots available each month. Apply via a quick 15 min phone call to see if we are a fit and that we can help. https://go.themoxiemovement.com/mbt-podcast

//Season 27 Retreat: If you're ready to stop juggling and build a business that actually works for your life, we'd love to welcome you to our Season 27 Retreat in Russell, New Zealand. Over three powerful days, you'll create your 2027 strategic plan, install practical systems you can actually use, and leave with the clarity, confidence, and momentum to lead differently. Find all the details and save your spot here: https://themoxiemovement.com/season27