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Engineering Calmer Agencies & Consulting Firms: Calm is the New KPI

Engineering Calmer Agencies & Consulting Firms: Calm is the New KPI

Business:Entrepreneurship

How Trauma & Perfectionism Affect Your Business with Nicole Lewis-Keeber

How Trauma & Perfectionism Affect Your Business with Nicole Lewis-Keeber

2020-05-26
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What kind of relationship do you have with your business?

Are you ride-or-die BFFs? Or is your business a mean, demanding boss that makes you dread going to work?

Like any relationship that we are in, the relationship that we have with our business can be complex and they take understanding, consideration, and work.

This month, we've been talking about the various ways that business owners get in their own way, the different ways this shows up, and some practical strategies to avoid making these mistakes over and over.

If you're someone who gets in your own way by resisting systems, check out the first episode in the series with Michelle Warner about how process can be a competitive advantage.

If you're someone who gets in your own way by putting ALL the things on your to-do list until you're ready to crash, the episode with Tonya Dalton is a great one for you.

If you are, well, pretty much anyone who deals with money (hint: that's all of you) go listen to last weeks episode with Agnes Kowalski about money mindset.

And if you're someone who struggles with the need to control everything or if you get stuck in perfectionism or the need to do things the "right" way, today's episode is for you.

Nicole Lewis-Keeber is a business therapist and mindset coach who works with entrepreneurs to create and nurture healthy relationships with their businesses. She's a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Masters in Social Work and she writes and speaks about the impact of small-t trauma on businesses.

Her biggest, more important work is in combining therapeutic processes with business coaching to help entrepreneurs build emotionally sustainable, and financially stable businesses.

Listen to the full episode to hear:

  • How your past experiences might be showing up in your business and creating limitations to growth
  • How perfectionism and the need for control in your business are rooted in the need to feel safe
  • How if you're one of those people who just can't seem to find the right system for your business... it might not be the systems. 
  • How all your weaknesses and issues become ingrained in your business -- because YOU are the one who created it

Nicole’s Links:

  • Trauma and It's Impact on Business - Free Course
  • Nicole Lewis-Keeber Coaching
  • Instagram: @nicole.lewiskeeber
  • Facebook: Nicole Lewis-Keeber Coaching

Susan’s Links:

  •  Scalespark Dollars + Decisions Roundtable
  • Twitter @ScaleSpark
  • LinkedIn @thesusanboles

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