How to Show Up When You’re Not Feeling It

And I mean, I do this podcast to bring truth to what it really looks like to build a personal brand like mine.

I've always been really, really honest, both on social media and on this podcast.

But when I was thinking about like, what am I really going to record today? It felt fake to try to make this a tips episode.

It felt fake to try to make this...

Any sort of like case study.

I think when you're building a personal brand based business, the biggest challenge of the whole thing is that you are the one responsible for showing up.

And I know that could be said about like any business and their CEO or their founder.

But evidently, who's showing up as a personal brand when you're feeling unwell to do the front facing stuff.

And by front facing, I mean things like speaking.

Showing up on social media, showing up in person, doing things where you have to be seen are really, really challenging.

And that is really what I'm finding myself challenged by right now.

Interestingly enough, because I have felt so unwell over the last couple weeks.

Some of that like unwellness has turned into like body image issues, which is not something I've ever really struggled with before.

I've always been like very, very happy and confident in my skin.

But I think because I've been sick, I haven't really liked the way that I look.

I feel like I look unwell.

I haven't had the energy to like put effort into my appearance.

haven't gotten a spray tan in a while, which always helps give me a little bit of a boost.

And so it's things like that, that like, are challenging in this moment because when you're not feeling well and that translates to how you feel about yourself physically, obviously you're not going to want to show up and be seen and looked at, right? I think I'm just going to use this episode to kind of clear out some of this shit because this is also something that I can't continue to like beat a dead horse about like at some point being in a rut or feeling like a mess or feeling unwell like that's not a fun story after a while and so on the weekend I I I guess if we just rewind ever so slightly, since coming back from Spain, I have found content creation really, really challenging.

And I've got things I got to show up and sell.

I've got launch party tickets, got big brand energy.

I've got coaching programs.

I want to launch a little mini course before the end of the year is over.

There are so many things that I want to do and promote that require me to be me and online.

And I was like, I don't want to create content around any of these things.