I don’t believe we’re meant to do the same thing forever. In fact, I think most entrepreneurs are multi-passionate, multi-hyphenated creatives. And this is a sentiment that became even more obvious after we asked you what types of episodes you’d like to see on The Power in Purpose podcast. You want to learn about pivoting in business–what it’s like, how to start, and what to expect when you decide to leave behind your business/career and start something new.
In this episode, I’m giving you permission to pivot–and sharing what I learned when I sold my first business and followed my purpose and how you can start making a change in business today.
Maybe you’re feeling burnt out and you’re looking for something new and exhilarating. Or, maybe you don’t have the same love and joy you once did when you started your career. Pivoting can be scary, hard, and honestly stressful.
But there’s not a day that goes by where I’m not grateful I took the leap and decided to shift course in my career.
If you’ve been feeling that nudge… or heck, that aggressive push to try something new, this episode is for you.
I know what pivoting is like firsthand; in October of 2019, I sold my 6-figure business of 12 years so I could coach and mentor wedding pros full time. After so many years doing (and being known for) one thing, pivoting was exciting and exhilarating.
But it was also hard, full of imposter syndrome, and felt like totally starting over. Today, I’m sharing the good, the bad, and the hard when it comes to pivoting.
This episode is part of our mindset series.
If you’d like to explore more episodes in this series, click here to binge them all.
In today’s episode of The Power in Purpose Podcast on pivoting in business:
- Why pivoting might be the right move for you
- 7 steps to take to start pivoting
- The 6 lessons I learned when pivoting my career
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It’s Friday Introductions, but today I’m not introducing myself. I want to introduce you to my friend @marthabitar!
Martha is the co-founder of @flodesk, the founder of @buildwithstencil, and someone I have admired for a very long time. But over the last four months, I’ve had the opportunity to build Cue alongside her and see her brilliance in action—and I have learned more about business, building, leadership, and what’s actually possible than I could ever fit into an Instagram caption.
But what I admire most about her has very little to do with what she has built! She is one of the most generous people I have ever met. And I don’t just mean with her time, knowledge, or resources. Martha builds for generosity. She thinks about what she can give people, what she can unlock for them, and how she can make them feel like they, too, are larger than life.
She also might disagree with me on this, but Martha is fearless.
I have brought her ideas that felt enormous. I’ve watched other women bring her ideas that felt almost impossible. And I have never once heard Martha say, “No, we can’t do that.”
Instead, it’s: Anything is possible. Yes, let’s build that. Yes, let’s do that. Of course we can do that. Let’s figure out how.
And when you spend enough time around someone who believes that way, something starts to change in you, too. Things you thought were too big start to feel buildable. Things you thought were reserved for other people start to feel available to you. You start challenging the status quo, building things you never thought you were capable of building, and becoming more of the person you always knew you were.
Martha has done that for me. And I’ve watched her do it for so many other women over these last four months.
She cares deeply about people. She believes in people. She makes people feel capable. And somehow, while building enormous things of her own, she still makes room to help other people build theirs.
Everybody needs a Martha in their corner.
I feel incredibly lucky to have this Martha in mine.
And now I’m crying. So, happy Friday!!!
What’s the best wedding planning software out there?
This is question I’ve been asked at least 10x a week for the last 10 years— and I never had an answer— because most planning software sucks.
So, after all these years of not having the right place to point people, I decided to do something about it.
In just a few weeks you’ll get the chance to already join the 100 planners who are using my new software, Cue! I can’t wait for you to see what we built!
Comment CUEWAITLIST below and I’ll send you the link to grab your spot in line!
The more I watch wedding planners use Cue, the more I realize how much wedding planning software has forced planners to work around the technology they use every day.
We’re deep in beta testing Cue right now, and watching real wedding planners use something we’ve built from the ground up has been incredibly gratifying.
But there’s something I can’t stop thinking about.
The number of tools, tabs, spreadsheets, documents, emails, and workarounds planners are using to manage ONE wedding is kind of wild.
And some of the feature requests we’re getting are so logical that my first thought is sometimes, Wait… wedding planning software doesn’t already do that?!
Our beta testers are helping us see exactly where existing tools create more work instead of less. And it’s reinforcing why we’re building Cue differently.
There’s one request in particular that has sent us down a VERY interesting rabbit hole. 👀 More on that soon.
In the meantime, I want to hear from you:
What’s a no-brainer feature you think wedding planning software should have that somehow… still doesn’t?
Drop it in the comments. I’m listening. 👇🏻
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