Intentional Pauses [Encore!]

And now for how this connects to the present.

I've been thinking a lot about intentional ends since I'm amidst a lot of professional transition and growth.

And one piece of this growth has been a real deep dive into my personal and professional story and a revamp of my website, christineco.com.

If you want to check it out, it looks so pretty.

which really made me think about the intentionality I have felt about ending things.

For example, Boston Mamas, which I ran for a really long time, 16 years, I think, and intentionally decided to shutter in 2022.

There was also Posh Peacock, my very first design business, which I ran for a number of years.

And then in the advent of really robust tech platforms for self-serve design, which was not what I was all about and was not what I wanted to build, I decided to shutter that.

There was also Brave New World Designs, the incredible resistance apparel company that my husband Jonathan and I co-founded in 2016.

It was such an incredible ride.

And after four years, we realized we had come to a natural end point and put the shop on pause and haven't reopened it since.

Who knows? We might someday.

We might not.

But it had reached a natural end.

And then, of course, there was Hello Relationships, my one-year podcast also with John, which met a moment during the pandemic.

All of these projects had a very specific mission, a specific course, and when the course was run, I was intentional about closing them down.

I really have found that it's important to be true to when things have run their course or whether you literally need to edit your life given your life circumstances.

And so that leads me to another lesson I want to add to today's encore that is relevant to an announcement.

The lesson is that sometimes when there are things you love and want to keep doing, you can think about how to reshape them into something that works better for you in the present.

And so my announcement is that next Monday will be my last mini edit episode.

The moment for me that connects to that lesson is that I looked at the collection of things I do, and I will be honest, Edit Your Life is not a huge revenue driver for me, not by a long shot.

It is definitely a passion project.

So by some estimations, as I was looking at the flow of my life and my work and how busy things have felt, it could have been the first thing to the chopping block.

But I do love creating the show.

I love talking to amazing guests.