How Weight Loss is Like Building a Business

Episode 15. Today's episode is a little different. I'll take you behind the scenes on my journey building my two businesses as a brand new entrepreneur and the parallels I am seeing in terms of weight loss and our obsession with outcomes. I talk about the challenges of not focusing on the outcomes and the importance of doing so. Have you grabbed my free guide all about how to clarify your values and tie them to your most important goals. If not, you can check it out here! Insider's Peek into My Entrepreneurial Journey I recorded part of this episode in February, right after launching my podcast. I then am re-listening and reflecting on where I am at as of early April. The good news is, I took my own advice pretty well! That can be hard sometimes, right? I have been in an incredibly busy season of my business as I just finishing launching my brand new program, The Body Respect Program. I'm happy to report that I have been able to mostly enjoy the journey and the process. I attribute most of this to not being focused on the outcomes. Outcomes meaning how much money I make, or how many people respond to my posts or get on my email list. I've actually gotten increasingly better at this over time. When Effort does not Result in Immediate Outcomes I tell the story about how last fall I did my first (and pretty much only, haha) Facebook Live. In the only entrepreneur world it's talked about how doing live video is good. So I said, ok I can do hard things. After doing it, I immediate found myself checking my email list. I was so ready for the validation of 100 new people signed up for my list and 500 new viral likes. I am exaggerating of course, but somehow I felt like since putting myself out there was so hard, I would clearly see some immediate benefit. Nope, haha. How this Ties to Weight Loss I couldn't help but consider how this applies to weight loss. I talk often to people about how when they are making habit changes they of course want to see results on the scale. This cl