The Pleasurepreneur Podcast with Regan Figg

Behind The Scenes of My Sustainable Business Model | How I Take Quarterly Breaks Without Losing Momentum

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Episode Summary: In this episode, we're diving into a counterintuitive but powerful truth: rest doesn’t slow your business down—it fuels its growth. I’m sharing why stepping back can actually propel you forward, the hidden costs of pushing through exhaustion, and how prioritizing pleasure and sustainability in your business creates long-term success. If you've ever feared losing momentum by taking a break, this episode will reframe your thinking and show you how rest can become your biggest advantage.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

  • Why constantly pushing forward can sabotage your success
  • How rest and pleasure contribute to long-term business sustainability
  • The mindset shifts needed to embrace rest without guilt
  • A practical framework to integrate rest into your business strategy

Episode Highlights: 

00:00 - Introduction to the episode & why this topic matters 

03:15 - The myth of momentum and why breaks actually help 

07:40 - My personal experience with burnout and rebuilding my business

12:25 - The neuroscience behind rest and creativity in business 

17:10 - Practical strategies to incorporate rest without guilt 

22:45 - Final thoughts and an invitation to take action

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Regan Figg:

Hello and welcome to the Pleasurepreneur podcast. This podcast will help you create what you desire in your business with pleasure, whether that be calling in your ideal clients, making more money or creating a balanced business life blend. I'm your host, regan Figg, pleasure and business coach, published author of A Mother's Pleasure Wife and Mommoth to Three Little Wildlings. However you're choosing to listen to this podcast, ask yourself how can I make this more pleasurable and do just that? I acknowledge the custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded and produced the Wadi Wadi people of Dharawaland. Now let's proceed with pleasure. Welcome back to another episode of the Pleasurepreneur podcast. I'm so pleased to have you here. Today's episode is a Instagram live training that I did last week, sharing with you what's happening for me this week, which is my quarterly week break. So I share with you how I have set up my sustainable business model to include things such as my quarterly week breaks, and how I'm able to maintain momentum in these breaks and use my sustainable business model to do just that to make my business more sustainable, but also more enjoyable and more profitable. If you've been loving the podcast, I invite you to hit follow or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts from and leave a five-star review. That would be amazing. All right now, let's proceed with pleasure. All right now, let's proceed with pleasure. Hello, hello and welcome to this conversation. I'm sharing with you my behind the scenes of my sustainable business model. Thank you for being here.

Regan Figg:

I'm a little bit later than I had intended. I was out with my husband this morning for a surf and it was so good Like I wish I could take you on my board with me and just show you like. This morning there was this wave that I caught and it was just the way the sun was and it was like this glassy wave, just like a wall of water that was glassy and shimmery and it was just like time stood still. It was so magnificent, it was so good. So, anyway, but I'm here and I'm going to talk to you today about what my sustainable what my sustainable business model is, what it looks like, what it includes, and how I came to create this sustainable business model and how you can create one too, because, from day one in my business, I wanted to run my business led with pleasure, driven by my desires, not doing the things that felt like obligation and shoulds and things that I had to do or things that drained me, depleted me, stressed me out and that's not to say that there are some things that I will do that don't feel super pleasurable, right, oftentimes, when we are achieving what it is we desire to achieve, or creating or experiencing what it is we desire to, that's beyond our comfort zone.

Regan Figg:

It can bring up a lot of discomfort, but the thing is, from day one in my business I was like, right, well, for starters, I had pretty much just recovered from perinatal mood disorders after my first babe. Then I was pregnant with my second babe, my eldest two they're boys, they're two years apart and just after, like literally weeks after, I had my second babe, I got this desire that just kept like tapping me on the shoulder to launch my own business. And I put it off for quite some time because I was like, oh no, I don't want to risk my wellbeing, my mental health, et cetera, et cetera. But the work I had done between my first babe and my second for those sort of 18 months or so, the work that I had done really kept bringing me back to prioritizing pleasure and doing the work that I needed to do in order to center pleasure in my life, like all of the conditioning. I had to unpack all of what I call like the postpartum Pandora's box of like beliefs and societal conditionings. So I went through so much of that and so I decided, after I had kept putting off this desire to start my business, I was like you know what I really want to do? It I really want to do, you know, bring women together. And it started out as women's circles and some yoga, breathwork, wellness coaching mixing together, um, before it ended up becoming just purely one-on-one and mastermind coaching with me. And so, yeah, I was like I'm going to do this, but the one condition is what I shared before, like it needs to be threaded with pleasure, like I have to lead with pleasure. I have to be driven by what I desire and not deplete myself, you know, and not do the things that are going to exhaust me. Hello everyone, thank you for joining me.

Regan Figg:

So, from day one in my business, that has been my priority, and it's so interesting that the one condition that I gave myself in order to launch my business is the main thing that I help my clients with now. So I started out actually coaching mothers to experience more pleasure, enjoyment, satisfaction, fulfillment in motherhood and, as I grew my business, my clients, well, my audience started to respond by saying hey, you look like you're having a really good time growing your business. Can you show me how to do that? And so then I started taking on like business clients, and then I discovered how you know business, motherhood, personal life, family life it all touches each other, you know. And so now, purely the work I do is helping women who have businesses coaches, mentors, service-based, like expertise-based businesses to grow their business in a way that's super profitable, sustainable and enjoyable, with pleasure being the thing that leads us and desire being the thing that drives us. Good morning, yeah, so there's a little recap for you.

Regan Figg:

So that gives you some context as to why I came up with my sustainable business model, which is just a fancy name for, like, what do I need in order to ensure that I can do my work in the world for a lifetime and not a season? What do I need to support me to ensure that this business is sustainable? And also, I've discovered that when I give myself what I need, when I give myself what I need, when I give myself what I desire, when I give myself what I, what brings me pleasure. That benefits others, it benefits my family, it benefits my clients, it benefits my like local community. I'm at the school garden every fortnight because I have time to do that. My business is sustainable. Um, so yeah, and when I'm, when I'm working with my business, that's sustainable. Like I, I have a sense of wellbeing, like I'm looking after myself.

Regan Figg:

So my sustainable business model I'll share with you one of the main things that's like quite a talking point with people in the coaching industry, with my clients and um, and with other peers as well which is I take quarterly breaks. So every 12 weeks or thereabouts, every sort of three months, I have a week off just to do whatever the hell I want. So I have a week off and I'm not touching my socials, I'm not sending emails, I'm not meeting up with my clients, I'm not coaching my clients, I'm not in my like coaching platforms. I'm just having a week to do as I please. Now, sometimes that looks like drinking coffee, reading books, taking naps, surfing, spending time with my family and my loved ones, like all my favorite things. Other times it's like, ooh, I get really inspired and it looks like me like laying in the sun, like jotting down, like these creative ideas and thoughts, and maybe it's for content, or maybe it's for a VIP experience in real life, perhaps coming soon or maybe it's for things I can do with the mastermind or my one-on-one clients. So I just give myself free reign, like I give myself the opportunity to get off socials if I want. But if I feel like jumping onto socials and sharing about my week or whatever it feels alive for me at the time, I let myself do that. It's not just having the break for me, but it's also that recalibration of me letting myself lead by what it is I desire and what brings me pleasure. It's like really me again continuing to hone those skills so that I can share with my clients.

Regan Figg:

So if you have joined me here, I would love to know if you have any questions for me. If you have any questions about my sustainable business model, if you have any questions about me having my quarterly week breaks like, pop them in the chat right now, pop them in the comments and I will answer them for you. I've also got some questions that I've received previously through my stories and emails. If you're not on my mailing list, let me know. Send me a DM and I will get you on my mailing list. I am sharing things with my mailing list. Let me know, send me a DM and I will get you on my mailing list. I am sharing things with my mailing list once a week. Usually it's my podcast episodes or some kind of behind the scenes personal story about my life, um, and also, if you're on the mailing list, you get all the like early birds and special offers first. Okay, so enough about my mailing list. But yeah, I've received a couple of questions about my quarterly week break, my quarterly breaks that are a week long, and so I'll dive in there.

Regan Figg:

So, first of all, you know now why it is I take these quarterly week breaks so that I can really ensure that I am honoring myself and giving myself what I need and giving myself the week to rest and refresh and be revitalized, and I know it makes such a huge benefit. It's such a huge benefit. It makes such a huge impact on my clients because I am at my best. But one of the reasons that I came to this decision was probably a couple of years ago, as my business was starting to pick up and I was calling in more one-on-one clients. I kind of went huh like obviously not all my clients sign up at the same time and then finish their six months at the same time. Sometimes they re-sign so they go on for another six months or they're, like you know, spread out throughout the year.

Regan Figg:

So if I was to ever wait for all of my clients to finish up their six-month contracts at the same time to take a break, that would like probably never happen. So I started to feel this like sense of like obligation, or maybe even just concern of like well, or maybe even just concern of like well, when will I ever get a break then? You know, and so I was like I knew that when we do things out of obligation, when we do things that feel like oh, that doesn't feel so good for me, when we don't prioritize like what it is we really desire, like I want to know that I'm going to have some breaks throughout the year, I want to know that I've got the time to look after myself and just not be so. You know, in my business every week of the year, when we follow what it is that we really desire and let ourselves have what we want, it is easier to sell Now I'm talking about in business. So, for example, if you're trying to do as I was doing and offer something that is like an ongoing offer maybe it's a membership, or maybe it's like coaching with clients that are like one-on-one or in a group experience but you can't actually ever see when you're going to get a break, going to create resistance unless, of course, you never want to break, but that's going to, which wouldn't be very sustainable, by the way, or enjoyable.

Regan Figg:

But yeah, if, if there is any thing in your business that really leads you away from pleasure instead of towards it, that creates resistance Sometimes it's super subtle, sometimes it's very subconscious and it creates the kind of resistance that actually stops you from selling, it might not stop you completely from selling, but if I'm thinking, oh my gosh, the more clients I enroll, the less breaks I'm ever going to get, like, when will I ever get a break? That is going to either consciously like which I was aware of or subconsciously, there's probably things in your business right now that are taking you away from pleasure, that are actually subconsciously blocking you from showing up and selling, in a way that is going to create what you desire in your business, in a way that's going to create the results you want in your business because there is that resistance. Now this might look like maybe you're offering something, maybe you're offering is a really long duration and it feels like, oh gosh, I don't know if I'm going to have the energy for that. Or maybe it is working with certain clients that really don't light you up, the work that you do with them doesn't really light you up. But you think like, well, I should be doing that the work that you're doing, if the clients who you're working with and if the way that you're selling is leading you away from pleasure, that's creating resistance and that resistance is holding you back. It's like resistance and tension from holding you back from selling. So the less selling you do, the less sales you're going to create. Does that make sense? So the more you lead with what feels pleasurable, the more you align the elements of your business with what takes you towards pleasure, the less resistance there is. So if you are like I fucking love my offer, I want everyone in the world to like jump in and do it. It's so good. I can't wait to work with these clients. I adore this type of client. I cannot wait to do this kind of work and see these results be created. I love the way that I can show up and sell. It feels really aligned and natural to me. All of those things, if it feels so good for you, you're going to have that. Shout it from the rooftops. Energy yeah, you're going to show up and sell more. And because you're showing up and selling more, you're selling more, as in like, you're making more sales, you're growing your business, you're making it more profitable. So back to my sustainable business model.

Regan Figg:

I knew that not having any like, not having any foreseeable breaks, was really going to create resistance for me and my business. It was really going to, on a very subtle level, hold me back from enrolling the clients that I knew I could help. And so I was like right, well, what do I want to do? Because how great is this? When we have our own business, we get to decide. We're the ones that give ourselves permission, and that's sometimes not so easy. Right? If we have spent years and years working for somebody else, being employed by someone else, being an employee, we are required to do what I call de-employee-ing, right, like deconditioning ourselves from being an employee, because sometimes we just go from working for somebody else to starting our own business, but becoming almost like the employee to our business, or like the employee to our clients, or like the employee to Instagram, right, where the algorithm and what our clients want or our potential clients want becomes kind of like the boss.

Regan Figg:

Yeah, so back to my sustainable business model. I was like, right, I get to decide. We are at such an advantage if we have our own businesses because we get to make these moves, and I highly recommend you make moves that are going to make your business sustainable, more profitable and enjoyable, because then you're going to feel fulfilled, your business is going to be successful. So many things will come into play. That's what I help you with. This is what I help my clients with. If it's something you want help with, send me a DM and we can have a consult call.

Regan Figg:

So I have a question in the comments. Let me read this out, hello Alana. Let me read this out, hello Alana. Okay, alana said, how did it feel when you first started to do these breaks?

Regan Figg:

Did you feel it took some time to switch off and enjoy A little bit? Yeah, yeah, and I think, too, the thing that I noticed the most was that I almost was like try, I was being a bit of a try hard, Like I was trying too hard to make it look a certain way or how I felt like it should look Like. For example, if I was having a week off, but I had a really cool idea in my mind that was related to my business, I'd be like, nope, you can't look at that, you can't touch that, don't explore that. And then I was like, hang on a second, like, if that's what I desire, like that's what I'm allowed to do, you know? Um, so it became a practice of what do I desire? What's going to nourish me? What do I was going to say, what do I want? But that's the same as like what I desire. Um, yeah, like, really keep continuing to ask the question of like, what do I feel like right now, you know? So, yeah, it did take a little bit of time to switch off and enjoy in that sense, but it wasn't like I didn't feel like, oh, I really need to do X, y and Z.

Regan Figg:

I think I did a lot of that work in postpartum when I was recovering or learning how to look after myself after perinatal mood disorders, learning how to actually center what feels good for me and how to prioritize my needs and how to focus on what is going to be helpful for my wellbeing my wellbeing. So, for example, I didn't really experience any kind of like guilt around, like not being on socials or anything like that. It was purely just like kind of a bit fun actually, like woohoo, let's go, we've got a week off. It felt a little bit cheeky too, um, and that's often how I know that I'm onto a good thing. You know, if I'm like, ooh, am I allowed to do this? This feels kind of cheeky. I'm like, yeah, that's the way we go. Okay, cool, such a great question. Let me know if you have any more.

Regan Figg:

I will take a look at some of the questions that I have here. I could talk about this for so long, but I don't want to. I want to make this kind of short. We're already at like about 15 minutes, but anyway, all right. So I've shared with you what my, what part of my social, sustainable business model looks like, which is quarterly breaks and really prioritizing what brings me pleasure, what I desire. I've shared with you the why why I've chosen to take quarterly breaks.

Regan Figg:

There was a question around like how do I maintain my momentum when I take a week off every quarter and I love this question because it gives me a really great insight into the paradigm with which some people and how I used to see. You know business and growth and success. So often we can think that it needs to be incremental and consistent and like just this, really like, really lean line, linear growth path right, but I've actually come to realize that my business and I we're on an exponential growth path. So sometimes that looks like having to zoom right out and see that like I'm trending upwards. But maybe there's like a month or a few weeks or a few months or a few, you know, in there where it looks like a dip maybe a dip in income, maybe a dip in signing clients, maybe a dip in social media engagement, maybe a whole bunch of people unsubscribe from my mailing list.

Regan Figg:

So for me, like first of all, I don't believe that taking a week off is actually going to hurt my momentum whatsoever I actually see it as like it's almost like you know, if you're driving a car and you're running out of petrol, like you pull into the service station to fill up and then you've got like fresh fuel, you're ready to go. That's what it feels like. It feels like a pit stop. Um, yeah, and so I think then the next question I would ask, if you're concerned about having a week off and that it's going to affect momentum is like right, well, how do you get yourself back on the horse? Because that can be something that might be relevant for you as well, noticing that if you do take breaks or if you do have some time off which is the same kind of thing you might find it's hard to get back into the swing of things.

Regan Figg:

Now I noticed that probably two summers ago, when I was like I'm going to have the whole of summer of social media, and after about six weeks I was like I really kind to have the whole of summer of social media, and after about six weeks I was like I really kind of want to get back on social media. Um, and I pushed the kind of first rule for like two weeks and I was like hang on. The whole reason I was getting off social media in the first place was because it was what I wanted. Now I want to get back on. I can let myself have what I want. I feel like there's a common thread in this conversation. So, anyway, for me, getting back into social media after a couple of months off, felt like, oh, like almost like I've had some time off so I need to come back in a really profound way, or I need to like come back strong. I like had these like preconceived ideas and expectations of what that needed to look like. So, for me, the more I've taken these quarterly week breaks off, the more I actually I'm still planning for what's happening after my quarterly break. So, for example, I've got the whole of next week off.

Regan Figg:

By the way, I'm going away with my husband for a few days for the first time since we've had kids, like the first time in almost nine years. We're going to a wedding. We're going to Queensland. There's a place with a couple of pools and a sauna and a spa right near the beach. We're going to surf, we're going to drink coffee. I'm so excited. I bought this um mesh gold oversized tee just for that, just to be by the pool. Anyway, um, that's why I'm excited. That's what I'm excited for For next week, as you can tell. But the thing is I already have two coaching call coaching consult calls booked in for the week when I get back.

Regan Figg:

So the work that I have been doing has been building my momentum, has been building my momentum. So the work that I have been doing beforehand, like it's all stacking it, helps to carry me through and in a way that I actually have the evidence that this is true, that I won't lose momentum in a week, is not just either from my quarterly breaks, but also to there's times when, like all of our family has gotten sick and I've had to, like, just do the bare minimum in my business and focus on my family or focus on myself or whatever it is that comes up. Yeah, there are times when say, like my family might need me more than my business does, might need me more than my business does, and so I just believe that the work that I have done has built me enough momentum to carry me through those times, you know. So that's how I feel about momentum, and let's remember like our thoughts are so powerful.

Regan Figg:

What we think creates the way that we feel, and the way that we feel creates a certain type of action or inaction, and the certain type of action that we create or inaction creates a certain type of result. So, if I'm thinking I'm going to lose momentum from having a week off, I'm going to feel like, probably a sense of scarcity, fear. Um, I get this like, oh, like feeling. How do you describe that? Um, yeah, I don't know what I would describe that, maybe like stress or overwhelm, which is then like gonna put me into a stress response which is then not going to help me to clearly make good decisions, or come from a place of feeling really grounded and convicted in convicted, a sense of conviction, in trusting that my business is going to grow, that it's going to have momentum. Yeah, it creates a certain different kind of energy which is probably going to create the result where I'm not having a very good time in that quarterly break and therefore I'm probably not going to get the most out of it.

Regan Figg:

So my thoughts around momentum for my quarterly breaks is that it doesn't impact my momentum in a negative way at all. In fact, it actually enhances my business, it supercharges me and my business. It actually improves my momentum. So when I'm thinking all of those kind of thoughts, I'm so looking forward to my week off and I see it as like me nurturing my business and that feels really good for me. So then it actually makes me want to do other things for my business. So, like this week.

Regan Figg:

Some practical things about not losing momentum is. Some practical things is that I have set up my podcast episode that's going to go out next week. I've set up an email for my mailing list and if I have some time and I feel like it, I might look through a few posts that I've created in the last, say, 12 months and repost them or schedule some stories over that time. But really that's. That's the amount that I'm going to do. Um, clearly, I'm not booking in any like consult calls in the time that I'm gone. I'm not booking. I'm not booking in anything.

Regan Figg:

The way it works with my clients is that when they enroll with me whether that's in the mastermind or working one-on-one I'm very clear about my quarterly week breaks. I'm yet to have someone be annoyed by it or bothered by it. In fact, most of the time it inspires my clients to be like that is a fricking great idea. Good for you. I might do the same, and obviously this is something that I help my clients with. We work out like maybe they don't actually want to have a whole week off every quarter. Maybe it looks like every month they have a.

Regan Figg:

I'm just trying to think of some of the examples that some of my clients have. So, every month, having a four day long weekend only working, like only in Voxer, a certain number of days, so not five days a week, two days a week, which is what someone actually shared with me recently when I was talking about this live what else? Like a Monday off or a Friday, like one day off a week as a do what I please day, or like a goddess day or a freedom day. So, yeah, there's plenty of different ways we can look at how we factor in breaks to make your business so much more sustainable. Um, and some of the obvious ones, like for me, is like, typically I'm not on there we go. Typically I'm not on Instagram over the weekends. Um, and I'm typically not like coaching my clients in Voxer or Telegram outside of business hours. Sometimes I am, if that feels good for me. So, yeah, like, putting in just some really simple boundaries is really helpful.

Regan Figg:

Okay, let me check the time. I'm going to have a look through a couple of these questions. If you've joined me, hi, g, I see you here. If anyone's here and you've got any further questions, pop them in the comment below, in the comment box below, and I will answer them for you. Okay, I've answered like a lot of these questions like how do my clients and audience respond to my breaks?

Regan Figg:

And, by the way, a lot of my clients are like, oh nice, like I'm going to have a week off from not focusing on growing my business this week. The other thing we've done, so, like I've just shared in the telegram group for the mastermind this morning, I'm like I'm going to give you guys a sales challenge to do. There'll be like activities to do every day, if you like while I'm away, and you can be doing that. But most of the time my clients are like, oh yeah, actually I'm going to have I've already got that sort of hour booked out for when we coach together. I'm going to do what I please in that hour, or I'm going to just kind of take my foot off the accelerator of growing my business and focusing on like this progression in my business for a week. So, yeah, it's always. It's always been really well received.

Regan Figg:

Um, what other questions? How do you? Okay, what impact have these breaks had on your business growth? Okay, so, I've kind of sort of alluded to this to start with. Oh, alana, you're saying love all of this so great, I'm so glad. Okay, I hope it's helpful.

Regan Figg:

The question is okay, what impact has this had on my business growth? Look, it's going to be hard to directly, to actually directly be able to measure this, but personally, like subjectively, I feel as though, well, for starters, the breaks came from like easing the resistance. So, as I said, if I wasn't going to have a break for the foreseeable future, I actually felt like, oh, I don't really want to keep calling in clients because then I'm never going to get a break. So, giving myself the break, oh, that like opened things up. I'm like I can take on like my maximum number of clients per week and I know that in 12 weeks time I'm going to get that week off. So that's for starters. So that has helped my business grow in the sense of I actually have no resistance to signing any new clients, um. So therefore, I'm like energetically so much more open to signing clients and attracting clients, um.

Regan Figg:

But also I feel like it has front loaded my pleasure. So I don't take these breaks because I am dying in a heap and I need them and I'm exhausted and I'm so stressed and overwhelmed and I think this is some times where we, you know, we kind of stitch ourselves up here because we think like, oh, I don't need it. I don't need it. And it's almost like don't wait until you're depleted or burnt out or overwhelmed or stressed, or like rushing and yelling at your kids and like making silly decisions in your business, et cetera. Don't wait for that in order to start implementing something like this.

Regan Figg:

Now, this is like prevention. This is me front loading, my pleasure, this is me filling my cup so that I have more to give, but also it's me enjoying my fucking life. You know, life is way too short to just be focusing on work every week of the year or every day of the year, you know. So, yeah, I know, and, like I know G's here, if any of my other clients are here or watch the replay you can share, like your thoughts in here as well. But I know I've received feedback before about how supported my clients feel, ongoing and yeah, I have clients resign and resign, and that's because of the support I can give them, because I am revitalized and I'm energized and I am able to give them that support and that guidance.

Regan Figg:

I know if I am depleted, if I am having a sense of resentment towards my business. If I am stressed and overwhelmed, I am not going to be the best coach that I can be, I'm not going to provide excellent service like I do. So therefore, just that fact alone has helped create success in my business. What else am I thinking about now? I didn't particularly plan this live. I just thought I would jump on and answer these questions.

Regan Figg:

Let me think if there's something else that I can say for how it's grown. Well, I think too, like it actually gives a really great. Like it gives a really great sense of integrity for me. Like this is my business. Like my business is about helping you grow your business with pleasure. You know I'm walking my talk. I have kind of allowed myself to follow what would feel good for me and do the things that are going to ensure that I have a profitable, sustainable, enjoyable business. And so, therefore, because I've had to journey through that and you know experience and unpack that social conditioning and do that de-employee-ing and, you know, meet that resistance to time off or certain things that I have set up in my sustainable business model, I'm then able to help my clients do that. So this is kind of like field work. You know it's field work. It's also me coming from a place of integrity. It's also me walking my talk. It means I can really support my clients to do that which is obviously going to benefit benefit my clients, help to grow my business, et cetera. Cool, all right.

Regan Figg:

I reckon we've got time for one more question, because soon I'm going to be coaching in the Pleasurepreneur Mastermind. We've looked at how I've structured my quarterly breaks. That is pretty self-explanatory, like a week off every three months. Sometimes I plan my content, as I said, like this week I've set up an email, a podcast, but oftentimes I actually don't. Like I actually talked to my coach Beck this week. I was like I'm so proud of me because one of the reasons why I employed her, I hired her this year is to just get a bit more organized in my business.

Regan Figg:

I'm very much like a let's do what feels alive for me right now and almost like a. I'm really good at winging it and I'm really good at flowing with like the creativity and like the effervescence that I have in this moment. But I'm at a point now in my business where I'm like I don't, I don't need it to feel so reactive anymore, like I actually could get a little bit more organized. So, yeah, I do this week have some things lined up for, like to come out on my week off. But what's a week Like? I don't know about you, but I think if I'm following someone on socials, um, if I don't see them on socials for a week, I'm not like to like I probably wouldn't even notice. You know, I don't think anyone even notices that I've gone for a week. To be fair, um, yes, and absolutely I notify my clients.

Regan Figg:

So typically I know ahead of time. So, for example, like the mastermind, that is a five month offering, and I typically know ahead of time so I can put it in the contracts so that people can see okay, this is the week we're having off with my one-on-one clients as well. That is always something that I bring to the table when we're having our consult call. I share that with them, just as I would share them, share with them any other details about us working together. And so it looks like, then, working with one-on-one clients, sometimes I like, sometimes they want to just be like, no, I'm cool for the week, like let's just catch back up in, like the next week after that. Other times they're like I'm they, I know that they're working on something in particular and so I can give them prompts and like actions to take in that time. Um, my telegram and my Voxer group coaching spaces are still open for my clients in that time. So that just means that when I get back my first day back in the office, I have some time allocated to sit with a coffee in the sunshine with my phone fully charged and a notepad and I listen in to all of my clients' questions, messages, um, celebrations from the time that I've had off and respond to them as soon as I get back. So I think that answers that question. Bear with me.

Regan Figg:

What mindset shifts were necessary? That's a question that I added in. I don't think that I will Hang on. What mindset shifts were necessary to embrace this model? No, we kind of talked about that. I wanted to talk about, like, any kind of resistance that I had, which we already talked about to start with. There was a little bit, but not a lot, and I think just pretty much after I had that first break I was like this is genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius Like everybody needs to do this. Oh, and the other thing is too that I thought of when I was sharing what some other clients do. Um, oh, and the other thing is, too, that I thought of when I was sharing what some other clients do. Um, actually, I know one of my mentors my past mentors Haley Carr. Like, she works three weeks out of the month. So you could also do something like that, where you structure it where okay, just so you know clients, I am having sessions for the first three weeks and the last week I take off. Um, yeah, so you just structure it as you please.

Regan Figg:

And I feel like the work that needs to happen in order to let yourself do these kind of things is the same kind of work that we do together working together to let yourself honor what it is that you desire, to let yourself actually know, own and embrace what it is that you want, to let yourself actually pursue and prioritize pleasure. That's the work we do together. So actually facilitating these kind of breaks and putting them into your business structure is pretty much just part of that work. Like, how can you let yourself want what you want and give it to yourself? That kind of is the summation of what I help my clients with. Okay, so I think that's pretty much it.

Regan Figg:

Um, I just want to really emphasize and encourage you to do something the same like and I don't mean like you have to have a week off every three months or else, I don't know, your business won't succeed. Um, I don't have that view on this or anything else in business. I'm not going to ever tell my clients like you've got to do X, y and Z. It's always like what do you want? You follow your desire. That is the strategy. It works every time. Um, I just got the anchor man. Um, anchorman in my head. It works every time, 60% of the time. All right, I'm getting a little bit giddy here.

Regan Figg:

Okay, so I really invite you to consider, first of all, audit your business. Now I'm actually working on something where you're going to be able to do your own pleasure preneur business audit, that able to do your own pleasurepreneur business audit that you do on your own, it's self-guided so that you can start to audit all of the parts of your business to ensure that they're moving towards pleasure, not away from pleasure, so that you can create a sustainable business, a profitable business and enjoyable business. Yeah, cause, remember, if we're doing things that take us away from pleasure instead of towards pleasure. It actually creates resistance. It creates resistance to us showing up and selling and that resistance feels heavy, it drains us. It means that we start to feel stressed. It means that we are not in that pleasure realm where we have our nervous system soothed, where we are able to make really clear decisions. Good clear decisions have clarity, have focus, have motivation. This is what pleasure does for us.

Regan Figg:

So, like, consider, like, go through different parts of your business. You might already immediately know the things that are creating resentment or draining you in your business. Like pull yourself up, take responsibility for the way you're operating your business and let yourself just do it the way that you want. Yeah, so I like get clear on those parts of your business that are creating resistance in your business, that are draining you. They are not going to make your business sustainable, profitable or enjoyable. So go through your business.

Regan Figg:

And the second thing is, like, tune in with, like well, what do you want? Like that feeling I talked about earlier, that like, ooh, am I allowed to do that? That feels a bit cheeky. What feels like that for you? You know, is it a long weekend? Is it just actually having fortnightly calls? Like only booking in fortnightly calls. You don't have to follow the kind of typical coaching industry standard of like hour long weekly calls and five days in Voxer, which I feel like that's kind of industry standard. Like you can not even be in Voxer if you don't want you kind of industry standard. Like you can not even be in Voxer if you don't want. You can run a group session if you want you, or group coaching program you can run purely one-on-one, but you can say, hey, we're only going to be coaching every second week. That's the way it's set up.

Regan Figg:

Like, I want you to consider what are the things that you want that feel cheeky, that feel like it would be really nourishing for you. Like perhaps you don't feel like you're at that point in your business where you can call these shots yet and I'm going to call bullshit on that because that's like the whole when, then fallacy, when I'm working with this many clients or when I've created this much money, then I will let myself take a break, or then I'll enjoy my business, or then I'll be able to consider how I make my business sustainable. I don't agree at all. I think, from day one, start considering how you can do what, how you can do what you desire in your business, how you can ensure that you're looking after yourself through the way you structure and operate your business, and how you can factor in the things that bring you pleasure and what you desire, because when you do, that creates a business that is way more profitable, sustainable and enjoyable. So highly recommend and encourage you to number one, order your business for the shit that doesn't feel pleasurable, that creates resistance and takes you away from a business that is your version of successful.

Regan Figg:

And number two, like, consider, like oh, how can I structure my business in a way that feels really aligned for me, for what I want, for what leads me towards pleasure, for what my values are, and start to implement those things. Yeah, and notice what comes up for you as you go to implement those things, because there will be stuff. This is what I help my clients with. This is why, if you are considering this, I want you to come and have a conversation with me, come and book a coaching consult call with me and we can talk about this. Let me know if you want to be doing this kind of work, whether you're starting day one in your business and you want to create really sustainable foundations for your business. Or you've got a really established business and you're just feeling like, okay, I've got the established business and I'm earning money, but I'm not enjoying it and I'm feeling stressed and I'm exhausted and I've got so many moving parts from one end of the spectrum to the other. I can help you make your business so much more sustainable, profitable and pleasurable. Yeah, and part of that is creating your own sustainable business model.

Regan Figg:

Yeah, all right, my loves. Two minutes to go until I'm in the mastermind coaching call. I cannot wait. Um, yeah, send me a message If you want to book in a coaching consult call. It will not be for next week Cause I'll be away. It'll be for the week after. Yeah, let me know if you've got any questions and if you're catching the replay like, leave me some questions in the comments to respond to if you have any. Otherwise, I would love to hear what your favorite takeaways are from this live. That's it for me right now.