“The money temporarily comes easy when you mask. Because you’re fitting a mold. But then what happens when you really are tired of fitting that mold and you are just yourself?” – Kirsten [00:23:15] Does this sound like you: When you were younger, you realized that in order to fit in, you had to hide …
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“Yes, totally agree. I think that it’s, it’s also, as an entrepreneur, one thing that, one of my struggles is There’s no end to my to do list. And so sometimes it can feel like you wrapped up at four and like the millionaire things didn’t get done, but that’s normal, normal. Like people that …
“I’m becoming more and more comfortable in who I am. Not because I’m changing, but because I’m becoming more and more in touch with who I am.” – Kirsten [02:13] When I was younger, the idea of being in my 40s felt so old. But I just turned 45, and as it turns out, it’s …
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“If you are a working mother, this is a universal experience of like the two are never separate. Like even other there’s literally never a time. Even now that my children are teenagers and, you know, a 12 year old, there’s never a time that they’re not integrated into how my day works or integrated …
“I lost the magic of loving my business as an extension of me. The part where my business was an expression of who I am and expression of what I want to share with people got muddied.” – Kirsten Screen [00:06:22] Earlier this year, I was on a trip that was supposed to be fun. …
“Managing people in other people’s businesses is hard because you don’t get to make the decisions. You just have to make sure they fall in line with the decisions that were made above your head. But when you do build your own thing, you get to decide this is the standard to which I want …
“My only regret ever about entrepreneurship is that I didn’t do it sooner.” – Kirsten [00:02:48] When I look back, the only regret I have in my career is that I didn’t jump into entrepreneurship sooner. Yes, at the time it was scary, and it was hard, and I did make mistakes. But I’d do …
“Your kids will be fine. Your business will grow. Will it grow at the same speed as somebody who doesn’t have somebody who doesn’t have kids? Maybe, because guess what? The one thing that motherhood does bring you is an efficiency that is unmatched. There is not a person more efficient in the world than …
“And I’m just thinking like, there has to be a better way. And I remember seeing a tax strategy, like certification and training. And I just like took it, paid for it out of my own pocket, didn’t have a business at the time. And I was like, this is what I’ve been looking for. …
“Right now, you could throw a rock in Instagram and hit five people who deem themselves business coaches, who have never run a legitimate business to save their lives, but are really good at telling other people what to do.” – Kirsten Screen [00:02:32] Are you sick of the coaching space on Instagram? The consensus …
