Jul 30, 2026 · 23 min · 7 segments
Most of us start online businesses for more freedom and of course... more money. Choosing our own schedule, who we work with, and how we spend our time. But the trade off that most people don't talk…
Lauren MoniqueHost
So yes, that's why we go into it, right? Choosing your own schedule, the freedom, flexibility, all that stuff, right? The trade-off though that I think a lot of us don't always talk about or we don't hear about that maybe like the nine to five world would see is that entrepreneurship can feel risky, right? So you might think about that when you first leave.
And I kind of thought at one point, like once I make enough money to like quit my job and I'm in my business, I'll be good, right? But you don't really realize when you quit your job that there's still, it's not that like entrepreneurship is always risky, but there is an element of you are responsible for everything, right? Like you're responsible for bringing revenue into your business.
If your ads suddenly get expensive, a launch doesn't work out the way you thought it would, or you all of a sudden have a lot of refund requests or your tech breaks or whatever, it's all on you.
And that's why it's so important to make sure that you're actually doing the things that bring in money into your business on a regular basis.
Like you need to make sure you're bringing money in, right? And I mean, I think we know that, but that can feel stressful.
And I think there's such an emphasis on like, you know, like more revenue in business and like the freedom in business.
But if you've been in business for any length of time, yes, you might want that freedom.
But the thing that I think that is maybe not spoken about enough that I think is really, really important is having calm in your business, having predictability in your business, having a sense of regulation and consistency in your business so that you feel safe in your business.
So like I was chatting about this with a friend of mine and we both have a peer master.
It's three friends and I, when we get together on a regular basis, chat on Voxer and we actually chat every two weeks.
Generally we make a time to meet and we were chatting recently and she's a past teacher like me.
And she said, yeah, like, I think that's why regulation consistency is so important to me because there's a, there's a part of me that liked that in teaching.
Like that consistency of like school starts in September and finishes in June.
And maybe the career that you originally chose, if you weren't always an entrepreneur, maybe it did have that level of like security and safety.
And then you get into entrepreneurship and it doesn't necessarily feel that way.
So yes, that's why we go into it, right? Choosing your own schedule, the freedom, flexibility, all that stuff, right? The trade-off though that I think a lot of us don't always talk about or we don't hear about that maybe like the nine to five world would see is that entrepreneurship can feel risky, right? So you might think about that when you first leave.
And I kind of thought at one point, like once I make enough money to like quit my job and I'm in my business, I'll be good, right? But you don't really realize when you quit your job that there's still, it's not that like entrepreneurship is always risky, but there is an element of you are responsible for everything, right? Like you're responsible for bringing revenue into your business.
If your ads suddenly get expensive, a launch doesn't work out the way you thought it would, or you all of a sudden have a lot of refund requests or your tech breaks or whatever, it's all on you.
And that's why it's so important to make sure that you're actually doing the things that bring in money into your business on a regular basis.
Like you need to make sure you're bringing money in, right? And I mean, I think we know that, but that can feel stressful.
And I think there's such an emphasis on like, you know, like more revenue in business and like the freedom in business.
But if you've been in business for any length of time, yes, you might want that freedom.
But the thing that I think that is maybe not spoken about enough that I think is really, really important is having calm in your business, having predictability in your business, having a sense of regulation and consistency in your business so that you feel safe in your business.
So like I was chatting about this with a friend of mine and we both have a peer master.
It's three friends and I, when we get together on a regular basis, chat on Voxer and we actually chat every two weeks.
Generally we make a time to meet and we were chatting recently and she's a past teacher like me.
And she said, yeah, like, I think that's why regulation consistency is so important to me because there's a, there's a part of me that liked that in teaching.
Like that consistency of like school starts in September and finishes in June.
And maybe the career that you originally chose, if you weren't always an entrepreneur, maybe it did have that level of like security and safety.
And then you get into entrepreneurship and it doesn't necessarily feel that way.
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