074: What life really looks like as an entrepreneur with Marcia Sheehan
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074: What life really looks like as an entrepreneur with Marcia Sheehan
Being an entrepreneur can be overwhelming. Juggling strategic planning and finances with the creativity and goals that you want to achieve. Knowing when to grow, and knowing when to walk away from an idea. Following your intuition and making strategic choices. Balancing your professional and personal life, sometimes from the same space (whether it’s the couch or your home office). It’s fun … and it’s exhausting.
It’s easy to experience burnout and fatigue and to struggle with boundaries on the best of days. And the importance of taking time for you is more prevalent than ever.
Today I’m talking with Marcia Sheehan, co-founder of HerHideaways, a self-care retreat space for high-achieving women looking to add a little spark back into their lives. We’re chatting entrepreneurship, from surprising moments to difficult ones, and everything in between. And most importantly, discussing the importance of filling your cup: allowing yourself to be creative, to be in community with others, to take time for self-care, to cultivate fulfillment in your personal life.
Find what brings you joy, and light the spark.
What you’ll find in this episode:
How to possess faith and belief in the journey you’re on
Balance between control and surrender (control what you can and let go of the rest)
Understanding how to deal with stress and how that can affect your business
Balancing the professional and the personal when working from home (it’s a state of mind)
Why you shouldn’t force something that isn’t working
The importance of taking time for personal fulfillment
Links from the Episode
About Marcia:
Marcia Sheehan is a serial entrepreneur who focuses her work on providing self-prioritization opportunities for high achieving women. This work began in 2015 with her second business, a women's society. In 2018 she founded and launched the Connector Conference. In late 2019 her and a co-founder launched HerHideaways, a retreat service located in Occoquan, VA USA. Everything Marcia creates is to ensure that the women who do so much for everyone else are reminded of their worthiness of rest and the benefits of putting themselves first every once in a while.
Quotes:
“Can I still experience joy or peace or inspiration or creativity even if the world's on fire?” - Alyssa
“You have to constantly be trying to find what is going to work for you, to give you that sense of control over what you can't control.” - Marcia
“There's always this balance, I think, between control and surrender in your business.” - Alyssa
“That intuitive kind of connection where you're in a space of like, I feel good about this thing I'm trying to do, it feels really aligned for me. [...] And then being able to trust that, OK, it's going to work out the way it needs to.” - Alyssa
“I try to encourage people not to let themselves die completely inside because life is hard and we have our issues and everything, but you have to keep the spark.” - Marcia