In this episode of INSIGHT: Scaling lessons from the street – can we get a SHOUT OUT for self-care?? 🥰🥰🥰

The old analogy holds true – if you’re on a plane, and the oxygen masks drop – put YOURS ON FIRST before you help anyone else. Because if you’re oxygen deprived – you’re pretty much effed 😜😜😜!

In all seriousness though – self-care is extremely important and never more so than when you’re a busy entrepreneur taking care of business – never mind the kids and house and dog and partner and so on!!

Sadly, societal norms STILL expect women to do the bulk of the work. It’s because we’re so damn nurturing and organized! 😆 But it takes a toll! 

Fear not, because lawyer Andrea Henry from Henry Business Law is in the house today – and she and her co-hosts Susan Diaz, cp.digital; Megan O’Neill, meganoneill.ca; Shelagh Cummins, shelaghcummins.com; and Wendy Brookhouse from Black Star Wealth are here to PREACH 🙏 the importance of self-care, for yourself AND your business!

Make sure you:

🌟 Listen to your body

🌟 Know your limits

🌟 BELIEVE your business will NOT collapse if you prioritize your health!

Your first step toward self-care is to click here, and take a half-hour break to listen to these ladies inspire you to take a stock-check of yourself.

Andrea Henry’s story alone might just stop you in your tracks and motivate you to re-evaluate what’s important – and what isn’t. 🛑 

Want a sampling of what you’ll hear? Read on!

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Get Your Financial House in Order! 

“I'd like to chime in a little bit - I see on the money side of things and having that house in order is actually self-care. There are studies that show, you know, 74% financial challenges can impact your emotional health, 40% of mental health issues have a root in finance. So, if you're not looking after your money, it is affecting your self-care in a great, great manner. I tell everyone, just get a plan, go see someone who understands that money isn't just math. And that can guide you through that process and help you set up systems because, again, that will help your self-care and allow you just to focus differently. And think about the stress and anxiety around money. This is where I get on my little bandwagon, if you will, because this is kind of my driving purpose. How I will change the world is by increasing people's financial health and their financial confidence.”

Embrace Micro-Moments

“For me, it's in micro moments. I don't have the luxury of a lot of time at my disposal of unscheduled opportunities. And so, I start my day, with a visioning where I'm actually walking myself through my day, and I use my productive planner, religiously, and everything's laid out and I know what’s coming. There's a sense of calm in that. And I find that then sort of goes across all the different facets of my life. But there’s also that whole idea of what I call micro renewal, the energies that we forget to target. I think when we think self-care, we think about, you know, going and working out, eating healthy food, getting our nails done, getting our hair done. Well, I dislike getting my nails and hair done. And maybe I'm different from the entire female population!”

Find Your Number One ‘Value’

“One of the things that I think that happens and we're all women here and I'm assuming that most of the people listening to us will be women - is I think that we get really disconnected. I can get really disconnected from myself. I used to work with couples, and I would sit down when couples came into my office and they were trying to improve their relationship. And I would get them at the end of our time, I used to ask them to list their five values in the order of importance. So, you know, I'll just give an example - one of mine is fun. And I think that listing your values will give you a clue in what you need to pay attention to. So say fun is one of your values? Or, for me, its nature, like being in nature is a big value to me, I need that I've always had it, I didn't really necessarily understand it was a value until I sort of sat down and started to go through what are my most important values. Because whatever is number one, is what you need to pay attention to!”  

Ditch Old, Negative Beliefs

“The way I operate is that I have lists and every single activity would go on the list, you know, and whether it was 10 minutes out the door to pick up my daughter, or whether it was open the door to collect the groceries or whatever it was, I put it on my time. And that was really quite revolutionary to me, because I discovered how much time I was putting into all of these things, which seemed insignificant, and it fed heavily into, you know, my feelings about myself and my beliefs. And I was like, ‘Well, my mom always said I was lazy, and I really must be lazy if I can't get through my four things on my list!’ when really they multiplied into many other dependencies. Right? So that was a big one for me. Doing the work I did - the deep work which is like, you know, spotting the patterns and then doing the belief work and you know, that kind of stuff to see where this is coming from.” 

There’s LOTS MORE where that 👆👆👆came from – so be sure and click and listen. And please – make time for self-care. Put that oxygen mask on! Because if you don’t do it – who will??