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Dear Monday
Dear Monday is a podcast about the decisions that change the shape of your life. Most people talk about opportunity in terms of upside — growth, freedom, financial potential. But far fewer conversations sit with what lives underneath those decisions: the obligations, the constraints, the commitments that are difficult to unwind once they're made.
This show exists in that space.
Each episode explores the realities behind ownership — business ownership, franchise investment, career exits, and other high-stakes commitments that reshape financial and personal life.
I spent years inside franchise ownership and deal advisory — walking prospective owners through the discovery process and watching how the industry was designed to move people toward decisions, not through them. Dear Monday is what I built for the moment in between.
The conversations are reflective, structured, and grounded in one principle: Clarity before commitment.
Rather than motivation or hype, Dear Monday offers disciplined thinking about risk, responsibility, and the long arc of a decision. The kind of thinking that belongs in the room before a contract is signed.
Because once it is — the real work begins.
Dear Monday
S1E23 Foundations: A New Normal w/ Isabelle Covington Lay
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This episode is part of Season 1 of Dear Monday—the foundation of the show. These conversations centered on facing life’s demands with courage. As Dear Monday evolves, newer episodes focus on clarity before commitment and the decisions that shape what Monday requires.
Have you ever had the opportunity to glean wisdom from a seasoned believer?! Oh, the stories they tell. Today, we are learning how to accept and embrace a New Normal with both grace and grit. The wisdom that is shared on this episode is priceless. So, friend -- lean in. God has a word for you!
AFFIRMATION From This Episode:
Today, I accept my new normal.
I am the diamond that God pulled from the depths of the earth. I am the secret weapon that wins the war. I am the one He preserved for such a time as this. I have gone through seasons of tribulation, light affliction and despair. This is my time to settle into everything that God has said about me. I speak it now and declare that it is so. Amen!
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