Business Tears
May 20, 2026 · 14 min · 13 segments
What do your hardest business days actually mean about you? In this episode, I explore the emotional reality of entrepreneurship through what I call business tears: those moments of frustration…
May 20, 2026 · 14 min · 13 segments
What do your hardest business days actually mean about you? In this episode, I explore the emotional reality of entrepreneurship through what I call business tears: those moments of frustration…
This is actually something I recorded on my cell phone, just a little quick audio note.
A couple of weeks ago, maybe a month ago at this point, I had had a few really hard weeks, a few really hard weeks of tech issue after tech issue after tech issue.
Like, there was only one other time in my business where this happened, and I've been trying to think of when, but it was, like, at the point of feeling like...
I don't know how to describe it, just the m- greatest amount of powerlessness and stuckness, like when you're in quicksand.
And the feeling I had was just so overwhelming that I had to intensely cry it out.
And I don't wanna spoil anything, but the next day, I was left with an explosive amount of energy because I was willing to have compassion, I was willing to normalize this experience, and then I was willing to let that emotion move through me.
And I told my team, "We're gonna save this episode for a week that we just feel like this is the time.
Like, I just know at some point this is gonna be the time." So flash forward a few weeks, and then I have an entire disaster...
[chuckles] If you listened to last week's episode, it was a lot of things all at once, and I had the completely opposite reaction.
I recorded a video and put it on my social, and then I'm like, "We gotta put this on the podcast." And so then I started thinking about this, this reaction of business tears and then the opposite reaction of complete and total empowerment, and I decided that now was the time to release this episode right after that episode because if you're in any of my containers, the thing that you know about me is I am constantly trying to bring entrepreneurs and coaches out of black-and-white thinking, this or that.
This is actually something I recorded on my cell phone, just a little quick audio note.
A couple of weeks ago, maybe a month ago at this point, I had had a few really hard weeks, a few really hard weeks of tech issue after tech issue after tech issue.
Like, there was only one other time in my business where this happened, and I've been trying to think of when, but it was, like, at the point of feeling like...
I don't know how to describe it, just the m- greatest amount of powerlessness and stuckness, like when you're in quicksand.
And the feeling I had was just so overwhelming that I had to intensely cry it out.
And I don't wanna spoil anything, but the next day, I was left with an explosive amount of energy because I was willing to have compassion, I was willing to normalize this experience, and then I was willing to let that emotion move through me.
And I told my team, "We're gonna save this episode for a week that we just feel like this is the time.
Like, I just know at some point this is gonna be the time." So flash forward a few weeks, and then I have an entire disaster...
[chuckles] If you listened to last week's episode, it was a lot of things all at once, and I had the completely opposite reaction.
I recorded a video and put it on my social, and then I'm like, "We gotta put this on the podcast." And so then I started thinking about this, this reaction of business tears and then the opposite reaction of complete and total empowerment, and I decided that now was the time to release this episode right after that episode because if you're in any of my containers, the thing that you know about me is I am constantly trying to bring entrepreneurs and coaches out of black-and-white thinking, this or that.
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