episode 101: Pursuing Your Passion vs. Growing Your Business
Pursuing your passion and growing a profitable business can co-exist, but oftentimes, there are competing priorities within the context of these two concepts. This creates a lot of confusion due to the misconception about what it really means to do both. Discover the connection between feeling good and aligning with your desires while also achieving things you’ve never achieved before.
If you want to make money doing what you love, tune into this episode to learn how to strike a balance between following your heart and becoming a responsible high-earning business owner.
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Do not miss these highlights:
01:00 At the time of this recording, we will have fully wrapped up our Poolside Profit Plan, which a lot of what I'm talking about is how to design your schedule through the summer.
01:56 I think this topic may activate some feelings within you. Maybe not even positive feelings, and thus negative feelings.
02:13 This is coming from a heart of pure service and really knowing that this message will serve you if you're open to hearing it.
03:24 It's around this idea of what it means to pursue your passion versus grow a business.
04:17 There's a lot of lying in our industry and we have to really break that cycle.
05:43 People have this subconscious belief around money that it is bad, and that we shouldn't be in business to make money because it's bad.
06:05 We're all humans, we're all egotistical. Walking humans are doing things to fulfill something within ourselves.
06:40 This glorious idea of what it means and looks like to pursue your passion, and how that's actually different than growing a profitable, sustainable business.
06:54 But oftentimes, when we misconstrue one for the other, this is when we get into problems.
07:29 If something doesn't feel good, it means that it's not for us, and that is such a huge lie.
07:58 Success is fulfilling something you haven't completed yet or you haven't achieved yet.
08:10 But there's a lot of emotional pain and there's a lot of growth within that that happens.
09:47 What happens is anytime it gets hard or you're feeling not so good about it, you trick yourselves into believing that it's not for you and need to pivot and change directions.
10:05 When you think about pursuing your passion versus growing your business, these things can coexist.
10:20 I am doing things that I feel passionate about and still pursuing a profitable business because it is going to allow me to do things that I've never done before.
11:18 I am 100% anti-hustle. It comes from giving up my own time and freedom for my rporate career.
12:01 When you understand how these things play together, it allows you to make better strategic decisions and start to step into the seat of an actual business owner.
12:26 If you don't develop the skills of a business owner, it will not matter how good or how passionate you are about the thing that you do.
13:24 We should operate in our highest zone of genius and level of value, while also responsibly growing as a business owner.
13:50 You will have moments that it feels so hard, you will doubt it, and you will feel insecure.
14:40 I really think that I need to shift my messaging a little bit because I do say things like this is simple, or easy, or faster, or working less.
15:21 Through the lens of what I see, what I feel, and what I experienced, yeah it's easier.
15:44 It's going to be a journey of high work ethic, and really putting in the effort you need to in order to get where you want to be.
16:15 When we think of this idea of being a business owner versus just pursuing your passion, this is where I think that contrast comes in.
17:03 The majority of you don't quite believe it yet, this message is for you!
17:52 When I hear successful businesswomen talk about their portfolio and how they run their machines, they're still really toggling and wanting to understand what's going on in the weeds of the business.
18:16 I just don't think this is for everybody, I really don't. I think this is for a special breed.
18:47 If you don't want to settle for where you are now and you want to reach for more, the important thing for you to consider is, “Where am I?”
19:33 There are things you have to learn how to do if you want to learn and grow a savvy business.
20:08 Some of the messages that are being put out into the industry create a huge misconception about what requires to build profitable businesses.
20:36 If it feels hard right now, you're on the right track.
22:02 Not fulfilling the desires that are in your heart that you may sometimes ignore because they're so big, but they're there. Don’t just ignore them.
22:13 This topic is coming from a place of true service and love because I've had over a decade's worth of business training.
22:44 NowI feel I've done a really good job balancing a growing million-dollar business and a thriving happy family.
About the Host
Kinsey Machos, a Marketing Strategist, is also a recovering people pleaser, self-sabotager, and corporate hustler. She helps entrepreneurs create and execute magnetic marketing and build expert brands so that they can get known, seen, and heard online.
She believes that creating a business that’s 100% in alignment with SELF is one of the most important things that we can do as women — because there’s an inner magic that we all have if we commit to an infinite pursuit of discovering (and re-discovering) that.
As a wife and a mom of three, the family takes priority. And having a business that’s run AROUND her lifestyle is a daily intention of hers.
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