ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Your business is not just a to-do list and a bank account. It’s an energetic relationship and how you relate to it shapes everything. I talk about connecting to the Heart Chakra within your business, and why that connection can bring more clarity, steadiness, and self-trust than any rigid one-size-fits-all framework.
I walk you through a simple visual practice. Imagine your Heart Chakra, imagine the Heart Chakra within your business energy, and build a bridge between them so you can actually “meet” your business and listen. From there, I get real about boundaries. Your business does not need to follow you everywhere, and you don’t need to work 24/7 to prove you care. Healthy space protects your identity and keeps your creativity alive, especially if you’ve ever felt what it’s like to lose who you are when a career or role ends.
I also dig into integrity and values in spiritual entrepreneurship. Confidentiality, safe containers, and why I refuse the kind of marketing that treats clients as content. Finally, I name the Heart Chakra warning signs in business, like bitterness, overgiving, obsessing over details while losing the vision, or trying to force your business into someone else’s idea of success. If any of that hits close to home, I end with a grounding breath into the heart to reconnect with what’s true.
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My name is Darleen and I support business women to have a Heartfelt Connection to their Business through working with their intuition.
You love your business as it has all started coming together and now you understand that Mindset, Spirituality and Intuition are just as important as the logical parts of business. When you work with your intuition in business you can make sound business decisions that you have confidence in; become more confident in yourself as a business woman; and have the ability to say no to things and people that are not aligned.
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How often do you connect to the heart chakra within the energy of your business?
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Yes, I'm talking about your business having its own energy.
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And today I'm talking about having a relationship with your business, with the energy of your business, through the lens of the heart chakra.
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Now, these beautiful chakras are vortexes of energy within us and around us.
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They're everywhere.
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We have seven major, excuse me, seven main ones within the body, as well as thousands of little ones.
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Like everything.
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And energy is always moving.
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I want to make sure I emphasize that.
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Excuse me.
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I want to make sure I emphasize that because energy is always moving.
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It's never blocked.
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Check out the science.
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Go and speak to a scientist.
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Energy is never blocked.
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Now let's have a look at this beautiful heart chakra.
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And I'm talking about within yourself, but also within your business, because those two relate.
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And having a relationship with your the energy of your business is amazing.
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Now, what's coming through is they're asking for me to tell you to imagine your heart chakra.
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Imagine the heart chakra within the energy of your business, and imagine a bridge between the two, and then imagine a mini you going down into the heart, crossing that bridge, and going in and talking that way.
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Some people are visual and they need a visual representation.
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If you're not visual, I want you to imagine.
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Maybe you need to actually write down what I just said so that it sinks in, and then you can actually do it.
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Because we all have different aspects that are open.
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And this for me, this is my psychic abilities, and they're beautifully open.
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They're open all the time.
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Well, not all the time, because I've got boundaries around that, but they are open and they're open when I want them.
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And right now they're open, and I can actually see myself doing that.
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I am within the energy of my business in the heart chakra.
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Now, when this beautiful heart chakra is aligned, this is where you follow your heart.
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And when you have a relationship with your business, it will support you in following your heart.
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And this is where, when I talked about last episode, I talked about the solar plexus chakra, you can find that.
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Because those gurus have a framework, and you've got to follow what they say.
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And if they say, they might even say, if you don't follow my framework, well, you're not going to succeed.
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You know, the only way to succeed in business is do my program.
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And I'm way past that.
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Like that just gets me.
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And that's why I follow my heart.
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Yes, I've got a coach.
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The coach I work with now, though, supports me.
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And every now and then we'll talk about something that I may like, not like.
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Like ads.
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I never wanted to do ads.
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And then my coach talked about it in a way that made sense and didn't tell me that I've got to spend thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars on ads to get anywhere.
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And that has helped me understand.
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So now I will be doing ads in the future because I'm working with the right coach.
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The coach that explains things to me and doesn't say, you know, you've got to do this and this only, and it's the only way it's going to work.
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And yeah.
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When you work with the right coach, it's amazing.
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Your business will come in.
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Like when I'm um on a group call with my coach, my business is right there.
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It's talking and it's it's incredible.
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Now, in the heart chakra, it's about giving clients time and space.
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It's also about giving your business time and space as well.
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For me, my business knows when I'm working on my business and when I'm not, it will not disturb me when I'm not working on my business.
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When I'm doing the um when Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, when I'm at TAFE, my business is not there.
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It doesn't come with me.
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Now things might happen, and then I'll have ideas for later.
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My business doesn't come with me though, because I've got boundaries.
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I've got clear boundaries for that.
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And like any relationship, my business needs its own time and space as well.
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It doesn't want to work with me 24-7.
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I don't want to work with it 24-7.
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That's a powerful thing for me to have realized, and I want you to understand that as well.
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Because there are many people out there that say you are your business and your business is you.
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No, because what happens is what if something happened to you and your business just closed down overnight, then you've lost your identity because what they are doing is they are identifying with their business so much that that is their identity.
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There's nothing else.
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Now I can talk about this because I lost my identity when I left the healthcare field.
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I lost my identity.
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I didn't know who I was, what I was going to do.
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Thankfully, you know, my business was there in the background.
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I was still doing little things, I kept going.
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Yet there was still that loss.
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And I had to work through that.
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I had to work through the grief.
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And that's why, excuse me, just clearing myself and for someone else.
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That's why I don't want you to be like those others and identify as your business.
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It has its own energy, and I'm speaking from experience.
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I've done this, this is me, and I've done it with other clients as well.
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Like I take them through all of this.
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So I know from experience that this is true.
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Yes, it's my truth, it doesn't have to be your truth.
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You can identify with your business, and yeah, let's not go into that.
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Please don't identify with your business.
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It is not, it's not worth it.
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I can tell you, it's just not worth it.
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Now, in here in the heart chakra, it's about having a healthy relationship.
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And of course, we are talking about the relationship with your business.
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I want you after this episode to write down what is a healthy relationship for you.
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What is a healthy relationship with yourself, and what is a healthy relationship with your business?
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Because when you write that down, you can then have it in front of you and go, Wow, this is what a healthy relationship is, and this is what I want.
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It's you know, and part of it is meeting your own needs and meeting the needs of your business, and in it here, it's also about running your business with integrity, and that's a big one for me.
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One of the things that I do is I'm big on confidentiality.
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Now, me having a membership group programs, etc., no one knows who is in them.
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No one, no one knows who I've worked with because I am so big on confidentiality that I want that safe space for people.
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And I've had people tell me the space I hold is so sacred.
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It really is so sacred for them, and they love it, they love it.
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Even in a group program, they feel safe.
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And I this is one thing I talk about a lot, it's about the confidentiality because I've seen it where other businesses will screenshot a Zoom call with all of these people on there and share it.
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Now they may have it in their terms and conditions that that will happen.
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Yet, if someone hasn't read those terms and conditions, they might be sort of shocked.
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If I work with someone, I don't want anyone to know unless I say something, and that's why I I only work with one coach now.
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Because I got burned by other coaches who did that kind of stuff, and it's for me, it's wrong, and that's what I'm talking about integrity.
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This is my integrity.
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My integrity is about my values.
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So, what are your values?
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And you're gonna be told that um, you know, there's one person that specifically did values, and you're gonna be told that's the only way.
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Well, for me, no, and people are also gonna say that there's um values, you know, one to five, and it's in that order, and it never changes, and blah.
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For me, that's a load of bull because I'm working with energy so much and I'm working with my business, my personal values have changed, and so have the values within my business.
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That's why confidentiality is always in there.
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Now, that's always in there, and it will never go away.
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Never.
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Okay.
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This is also where you remember um oh before I said about um oh, do I lots of clearing today?
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About giving clients time and space.
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This is also about having the space so that you can expand, you can expand your energy and you can connect to the energy of your business and then talk to it, have the space to talk to it.
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And what's coming through?
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This is really interesting.
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I haven't done this in an episode for ages, lots of channeling.
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What's coming through is they want you to imagine you're in a in a um an area where you that's your aura, your energy of your business within within its own aura, and then in between is a space, and both of you meet in that space to talk.
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Wow, lots of chilling today.
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So cool.
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Now, in here, it's about accepting your clients as they are, it's about accepting yourself as you are, accepting your business as it is, and then actually talking and going, is this who we are?
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Is this who we want to be, or do we want to change?
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Now, it doesn't mean changing your business like doing a huge pivot or anything, it could just mean small changes.
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You know, it might be okay, I don't want to be on that platform anymore because I've been doing it for say a year and things are not changing, I'm not getting anywhere.
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Let's try something different.
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It doesn't need to be dramatic changes.
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People think if you know, if they make a change, it's got to be dramatic.
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No, it doesn't.
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It can be small little changes.
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Now, in here is about nurturing your clients and having boundaries.
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I want you to understand it's the same for you.
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Nurture yourself, nurture the energy of your business and have boundaries.
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As I've talked about, I've got boundaries around when my business and I work together, when we actually have conversations.
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If I go for a walk, my business is not going to come with me because I'm going for a walk for me.
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For me, because I'm a human being, I'm going for a walk for me.
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And of course, in here, it's about self-care.
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It's important also to care for your business.
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What are you doing it?
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What are you doing to show that you care for it?
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Think about the relationships you have with maybe a partner, maybe children, family, friends.
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What do you do that shows that you care for them?
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Bring that in and do it to yourself and to your business as well.
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Because we want to care for ourselves.
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It's beautiful.
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Now, in here, we've also got where when things are not balanced, doing lots of channeling for people today.
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And even if you're watching this six months later, this is still for you.
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That channeling, that clearing is still for you.
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When things are not working in this chakra, this is when you can actually feel bitter about your work.
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And that's when the relationship with your business can start fracturing.
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Fracturing, fracturing, you know what I mean?
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Getting fractures.
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When that happens, when you start feeling bitter about your work, you need to stop immediately.
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I don't care what anyone says, you need to stop immediately because there's something that is not working.
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Think about a relationship you have.
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Have you felt bitter about it?
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What has happened?
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You don't want that to happen with your business.
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Because again, your business, if that happens, your business could close overnight and you lose your identity if you've identified with it.
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Maybe you're losing your heart for your business.
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That's another clear sign that there's a relationship breakdown.
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You overgive to your clients and then you overgi to other people.
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And you may even overgive to your business.
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Like you overgive, so you're working on your business 10, 12, 14 hours a day, five days a week or longer.
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That's overgiving.
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That means you're giving too much to your business.
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That means there's a problem with the relationship.
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You might be stuck on details.
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So instead of focusing on the big plan and then coming back to the details, you might be so focused on the details that you lose the vision.
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And then your business might start talking, going, Hello, what about this?
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And you're going, no, no, no, I need the details, I need the details.
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And your business is going, no, no, we need the big, big vision as well.
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And you're going, no, no.
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That's a relationship breakdown because you're not listening to your business, it is speaking to you.
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And again, in here, it's also about trying to change your clients into what you think they should be.
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You might be doing that with your business.
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You might be trying to change it into what you think it should be because you're listening to those gurus and they're telling you stuff, but your business is talking to you, going, no, no, no.
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And you're going, nah, not hearing you.
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The gurus know what they're talking about.
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I'm listening to them.
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And I think this is where we need to just pause before I end this episode.
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I want you to just breathe into your heart.
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Not small breaths, I'm talking about deep breaths.
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Just breathe into your heart and just imagine that beautiful love going to your business.
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Because when we talk about relationships, it's a big thing.
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It really is a big thing.
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And I thank you so much for actually listening to this episode because it could have brought up stuff for you.
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And I thank you for feeling safe in my beautiful little environment.
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I really thank you.
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And thank you for liking, subscribing, sharing, commenting.
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You're helping me as a small business owner get the message out there.
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And yes, I'm trying to monetize YouTube.
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It's a way of bringing in money as well.
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And I appreciate that you're doing anything you can to help me with that.
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Wishing you a beautiful day wherever you are in this world.