Is it just me or summer summer-ing? It's July and I've only been to the beach once :-(
A client recently told me, "I've never worked harder, but somehow I feel further away from the business I wanted to build."
Her calendar was packed. She was answering emails, solving team questions, following up with leads, and making a hundred decisions a day. From the outside, she looked successful.
Behind the scenes, she was exhausted. And despite working around the clock, the profit she was taking home still wasn't enough to support the next stage of growth.
It reminded me how easy it is to mistake activity for momentum. You can send 20 emails to potential clients every day, but if they're not reaching the right people, you're just creating more work for yourself.
The lesson we uncovered together? Growth problems are usually structure problems, not ambition problems.
What I picture when you say "booked and busy".
A busy business reacts to every request and relies on the founder to keep everything moving. A healthy business knows what deserves attention, protects its profit, and keeps moving forward even when the CEO steps away.
If you've been wondering whether your business or organization is actually healthy or just busy, I want to share a resource that's helped start some really honest conversations.
If you'd like, let's grab a virtual coffee or tea and spend 30 minutes walking through it together after you’ve taken it. We'll walk through it and look beyond revenue to evaluate founder dependency, operational gaps, decision-making, and capacity. Just reply back here - I read every email and let me know if you could use a thought partner.
Because it's time to stop measuring growth by effort and start measuring it by the strength of the business you've built.
Join me at The Social Scene, hosted by Face Candy Studio, for a curated afternoon of shopping, drinking, and meeting other amazing women. I'll be there pouring right back into my cup!
Join Access Justice Brooklyn on July 29 at 6 PM at the Weeksville Heritage Center for a free conversation on how deed fraud and historic racial injustice continue to impact Black homeownership in Brooklyn.
Walk away with a professional headshot, a podcast experience, and connections that could shape what's next. The Portrait Social will be filled with ambitious people, great conversations, and great energy.
Could you benefit from resources to help you run your business with more ease? Is having access to a community of like-minded business owners important to you?
