Consider the Wildflowers

130. How to Plan for a Peaceful (and Profitable) Summer as a Business Owner and Mom

• Season 3 • Episode 130

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Summer hits different when you're running a business and chasing kiddos! Whether you're navigating limited childcare, shifting routines, or just craving a slower pace that won’t derail your goals — this solo episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at how I prep and plan for a peaceful (and profitable) summer that works for both my business and my family.

From the questions I ask to set our seasonal rhythm to how I’m structuring my work hours — and yes, what’s on our family’s summer bucket list — I’ll walk you through my step-by-step summer planning process. If you’ve ever wondered how to do “summer mode” as a business owner, this one’s for you!

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You're listening to Consider the Wildflowers, the podcast episode 130 and the final episode of season three. 42 episodes, countless golden nuggets, and more than a few goosebump moments later. Thank you for being a part of another incredible season. Whether you've been here since episode one or you're new to the show, I am so grateful that you're tuning in and today's episode is going to be really special. We are now entering our summer sabbatical of the podcast, something that we've done since the very beginning and a little intentional time off from new content, which is truly one of the best things I think we have done since the beginning. We envision the next season, we pre-record, just be with our family, enjoy summer. Like it's just such a fun 10 to 11 weeks that we take off and really a chance for myself and hopefully you as a listener to revisit some of your past favorite episodes or just catch up on your like listen next list on your podcast app. uh I'm actually really excited too about season four, which kicks off this August. And we are looking at a fresh new format with even more goodness to help you build a business that truly supports a life you enjoy. So stick around till to the end of this episode and I'll give you a little sneak peek at what's coming for season four. Now let's talk summer. Summer hits differently when you're running a business and raising kiddos, whether you're juggling limited child care, adjusting to changing routines, or just craving a slower pace that won't derail your goals. This solo episode is a behind the scenes look at how I prep and plan for a peaceful and profitable and fun and joyful summer as both a business owner and a mom of two littles. Through this episode, I wanna walk you through my personal summer quote unquote business plan, I guess, and it's gonna be a really, I hope, helpful look at how I'm prepping, how I'm planning, some specific resources I'm using to enjoy my summer. So, kind of the outline for today, how I prep for this season using a look back, look ahead, look. using a look around, look back, look ahead framework. Second, my strategy for slowing down without falling behind in work. Time and money tips for navigating a lighter work season. A really fun, um I'll be sharing our Skidmore Family Summer Traditions and what's on our bucket list, which is one of my favorite things. And also how to make a bucket list without it feeling like more pressure to do summer perfectly. A few of my go-to resources to help you soak up the season and yes, what not to do this summer. Lessons I have learned the hard way about seasons in general. Whether you own your own business, have littles at home, or simply a working parent trying to make summer work, I hope you leave this episode with some practical tools to help you plan a season that supports your business and your life. So let's dig in. Ahem. Okay, so part one, let's just talk about how I prep for this summer. I want to prepare for this next season. I kind of do this in any season, but this specifically for summer that works for our family and my business because obviously I'm doing both at the same time. As a very classic overachiever, recovering perfectionist, what I've learned about myself is that I need to go into each season, especially summer, with a plan. And a plan just for is an intentional design for that season, what I want it to look like, what we want to do, what I want to accomplish. Otherwise, I truly get caught in trying to do it all. FOMO, competition, questioning whether I'm performing at life. business work, mom life well. And so for me, a few years ago, I started hearing friends and on podcasts talking about their summer plan and it really resonated with me. And I've kind of created my own iteration of how I plan for the summer. It truly is like goal setting for your summer. Something I love doing. I love goal setting. I love goal setting for the year and I love goal setting seasonally. And I have found the purpose of setting a summer plan truly is to look back on our days or our seasons or our summer and know that we spent it well, to know that we spent it in an intentional way that we set up for our family, our business, our unique season of life. I want to look back after this season and know that I soaked up the season in a way that I can be truly proud of. And this plan really helps that. So, step one, we just want to prep for the season ahead for summer. And I actually learned this from Kendra Adachi's podcast, The Lazy Genius. I will make sure to link that episode in the show notes. It's a look, look around, look back, look ahead assessment, if you will. So kind of look around, what's true in this current season of life? What does life look like for you right now? And then look back, reflect on the last year around this time. What did summer look like last year for you? What worked? What didn't? A little tip here that worked for me is I really like to have my phone with me when I'm, phone, that did not sound southern. A little tip here, something I like to do when I am going into any goal setting session, but specifically for this look back assessment, I like having my phone with me. I like to look at pictures from the year before as it really helps jog my memory about trips we took, activities we did, things I enjoyed, things I didn't. From there, I want to look ahead. what's coming in the next few months in the summer season that I want to plan for and plan around, whether that's vacations, work launches, new offers, business trips, home trips, child care shifts. All of that I want to look ahead and plan for. So let's do this specifically in my life and hopefully this will help you as you go through it, your own assessment for summer prep. Looking around, um truly this is just such a happy season of our life and I'm just so grateful and blessed for that. My friend calls it your white bread era, which is so Southern and I love that so much. I just am really enjoying this season with my husband and my littles and our home and our neighborhood and just like in just a really happy season. Our oldest is four, our youngest just turned one and they're just really fun. They're silly, they're fun. Our littlest is walking now and so the two girls can play together really well. We're outside a lot. We love having picnics. um Kyle, my husband, is working full time so that's been an adjustment for our family. He is gone four days a week. and I'm the primary caregiver during that time. And that will continue throughout the summer. So that's already made a lot of shifts over the last six months to my work schedule. But I just, I just really love getting this much time with them, even though it has been tough on work, which I will talk about a little bit more. Ironically, going into the summer, we have, I have more childcare than I do typically during the school year. I have a full-time nanny two days a week, which is just such a blessing. She is a college student. She's been with us more than three years now. And so I have 10 dedicated work hours with our nanny and then I'll continue to work in the mornings like I have been doing since my husband went back to work full time. One to two hours in the morning, I wish I could get more, but in this season of life, just, 5 a.m. isn't working for me. So if I can get one to two, two would be ideal solid hours in the morning, that's an additional 10 hours. So 20 hours of dedicated work time is my goal in our summer season. There are some. Looking around, there are some other rhythms that I feel like I'm still trying to figure out that aren't working super well yet. Mill planning in particular, therefore always having groceries in the home. Who's going to the grocery store? Do we do a grocery pickup? Like that's something I still want to figure out and something I'd like to do this summer because it is a point. Stress isn't the right word, but it's just clunky. It's just not working smoothly. We don't always have food in the house. And so we're, it's kind of a waste of time to like run out and pick something up and It feels inefficient. And so that's something looking around that I would like to work on. Looking back, last summer was so much fun. My daughter, my oldest daughter and I spent a lot of time at a community pool with some good friends of ours. I did have an infant, a brand new newborn at home. So we did skip a lot of our typical summer activities because it's just hot. It's hot here in the South and I didn't know exactly how to juggle the heat with a newborn and just didn't want to do it. So I'm excited to bring back some of our favorite summer activities this year. One thing I do remember about last summer, it flew by. It just went so fast. And so I'm even more aware of how much I want to soak up this summer season with two littles that are just going to be so much fun. Also looking back, I just really realized that some of this most simple things were some of my favorite memories, going to the park, going on a walk, trips to the library, days at the pool. em And that's just a good reminder that when we have littles at home right now, like big trips are maybe not as fun as just like a day at the park. um And so that helps as I move into looking ahead. So looking ahead at the summer and then into the fall, we are still in a nap routine and bedtime routine over here. And I really want to find that balance of keeping our nap routine, keeping those naps, especially because my youngest is still doing two naps. My oldest doesn't nap, but she has quiet time. And so how to get out of the house basically and do fun things is a little hard when you're still doing two naps, morning nap, afternoon nap. And so our... non-nap windows are two to three hours, you know, and that's can be a little tough to like go do an activity. So I'm trying to figure out how often I'm willing to break our nap routine or let the little stay up later knowing that they get tired and we get tired and we need days to recover when we are off our sleep schedule. em Kyle doesn't work Fridays, which is super fun. It's something I've thought about and I really think this is the year to implement is what we call Field Trip Fridays. And so Field Trip Fridays is kind of that day where we'll go on a big adventure. We'll go to Dollywood. We'll go pick strawberries for several hours because it's like an hour long trip to the farm, you know? And so, naptimes might get skipped. They might get dropped. They might be really short. And so I think Field Trip Fridays is really going to be a fun thing for our family in a way to balance and be okay with staying at home Monday through Thursday, primarily doing smaller things like going to the library or the park. during those days and then filter Fridays can be the big day where it's like we just know we're probably going to be off our schedule today. We also have one day camp this year for my oldest. It's just in the mornings. We're going to do grandma camp, which I'll talk about a little bit later, one to two times a summer with our oldest. And then um we'll likely sign her up for one weekly activity. And so just looking at, again, how does this work with both kids, nap schedules, um and then potentially in the fall, looking at child care for my youngest. um and so transitioning her to one nap. So that's all things I'm looking ahead at for the summer and how that will look. Okay, so step one, once you prep for the summer, move into step two, which is where we create our summer plan, our summer home plan. And that really begins with creating a vision for the season. So again, once we look back, look around, look. This step truly is about how do you want to spend your summer? Really asking yourself, what is important to you? What is the vision you see, the rhythms you see for your home life and your business in this season, in summer? What do you want your days to look like? What pace do you want to take your summer? you, like a slow pace, picking wildflowers, baking cookies? Or are you someone who loves camps and activities and trips, like find the pace that works for you and set that vision. Also looking at how much do you want to be working? How much do you want to accomplish with work? How will your work hours change? I find this is really helpful to do in two steps, creating a vision. So first, creating, you can actually like create a vision board. I do this every year during my blueprint year planning process. So this is just an annual planning process I do every year. I take a lot of students through it, through my course, my blueprint year. But I love creating an actual vision board. What is the feeling, the mood, the pace of summer that you want for your home life and your business life? From there, we take it a step further in creating our summer plan by creating a bucket list. For some, know a bucket list may take the fun and spontaneity out of summer, but for me, it gives structure to my days and builds excitement for things that we have planned without the pressure of trying to do everything. I really love a bucket list because it's a way to name our priorities in this season, the intentional memories we want to make and let go of all the other expectations. So again, once we've prepped for the summer and created a vision for the summer, my third step really is to create a summer bucket list. Now, if you know me for any amount of time, you know I'm a big fan of embracing seasons. Like I have a seasonal pillow decor obsession, we all know. uh Because I think there's this magical way that time slows down when we create traditions in each season. It allows us to really soak up and embrace that season. I really like to take the cue from nature and embrace the change of seasons in every season. you know, like while watermelon might be available at the grocery store all year round, there's something really special about eating fresh watermelon in the hot summer sun sitting on the porch. That's why that's why for our family And so I really think there's something special about having certain traditions you do in certain seasons because I think it establishes rhythms, routines, repeatable patterns, traditions. It's kind of like the idea of why does a birthday feel like a birthday? Like, em why do balloons, a cake, opening presents, blowing out candles make it feel like your birthday? It's the tradition of it. It's the repeatable. em It's the routines. It's the rhythm. It's the traditions. And that's what I want to do in each season. So we have some. traditions that we do every single year and then we have some things that we add to our bucket list just for fun. So you might start your bucket list with um just big trips you want to take. You might think about food you want to eat, popsicles, watermelon, summer salads, memories you want to make like picking strawberries, chasing fireflies, or just daily rhythms you want to adopt for the summer. I had somebody share that they do ice cream Fridays and I like really loved that. So instead of getting sweets every day, it's like Every Friday we go get ice cream and that, think that's really, really fun. Or one day a week we go to the pool, something like that. This creates a feeling for summer because it always happens in the summer. Does that make sense? So we have a first day of summer kickoff tradition, which I love and I'll share with you. I have done this typically in the past before having kids like on the actual first day of summer, but now I feel like it makes more sense. for our family, for the littles to understand, we do this as an end of summer kickoff. And so I want you to think kind of five senses here, taste, smell, read, see kind of that. That idea. Oh god, this is so hard. And so we have this first day of summer kickoff. And for us, we love to go to Pelican Snowball, which is a shaved ice place here, a local shaved ice place, which is amazing. And we love to do this on the first day of summer or as an end of year. Now that we're kind of transitioning it to like end of school year, summer kickoff. That's like that taste sensation. So Pelican Snowball. Smell, I love to get a new summer candle that we only burn in the summer. I always read my new Magnolia Journal summer edition on the first day of summer as kind of a kickoff. I love kind of foreseeing the sea senses, what you see. I love changing out my home decor to feel more colorful in the summer. And then last, what we listen to, what do we hear? We pick a summer playlist on Spotify. So think five senses. And it really is fun to like kick off summer this way. We also have annual summer traditions that we always do or almost always do. And these are things that usually have a date. So the first thing that I do is use my calendar and I use the essential calendar, the three month view, like the summer seasonal calendar, which is amazing. Again, I'll link that in the show notes. These are kind of like the non-negotiables for our family. So I love, there's a event here, a festival here called Fun Fest. I've gone since I was a little girl. They have a balloon launch every year, hot air balloon launch. And so we always go to that. We also go up to Jonesboro, which is a town in Tennessee. It's our favorite Fourth of July parade. So we always go up there for Jonesboro days, which is really fun. Freedom Fest is our local fireworks here near Knoxville, Tennessee. And so we love going to Freedom Fest. That is our July 4th fireworks tradition. Of course, we always visit Dollywood. We love going to Dollywood as an end of school kickoff. We want to plan one family beach trip. And then last year we started a neighborhood summer block party. I'm not sure if I'm ready to put that as a non-negotiable yet just because it is our neighborhood, not just us. But these are things that are events that always happen in the summer that are really special for our family. So I put those on the calendar first. From there, I create like summer fun, whether it's feelings, activities, memories we wanna make that we want to do. We have again, some that we do every year and then some new things as our kids grow, our families grow. And so what I do with this is instead of putting it on the calendar on a date, I use this sticky note. And I got this idea again from Kendra Adachi of the Lazy Genius podcast where we put all these on little Post-it notes. And then when we feel like doing them during the summer, we move that Post-it note to the day that we do them. So I love that flexibility. It gives us a list of things that we get excited about doing. We can create this. I mean, as my kids get older, we'll do this as a family. Right now, I just do the things in Staples we love to do. And then I'll move them to the date that we do them. So like going to the splash pad, running through a sprinkler, playing with bubbles, having a cookout and bonfire with friends. eating popsicles or making homemade popsicles. An outdoor movie night is really fun. We have a projector and screen and so showing an outdoor movie, eating popcorn. We want to eat from a food truck at least once and go to the zoo at least once. Going to the pool, of course, all of that are activities and summer memories that we want to make, but the dates might be flexible. Those are things we always love to do. And then we also have a few new things I would like to do this year as our oldest is getting older. I would love to go bowling as a family. I think she would really love that. I want to take our oldest to a movie like she's never actually gone to movie theater yet. And then I think we should try again at swim lessons. We did the swim lessons for the first time last year. It was a whole thing. I think she would do better this year and she did great last year, but mama didn't. But I think just continuing to do swim lessons would be great, especially with how much we go to the pool. From there, I add in any camps or summer activities, anything that can be added to the calendar. So my oldest is doing a dance camp. It's just mornings, one week she's doing that. Grandma camp, which is where she's going to stay with her grandma for a few nights, one to two times this summer. So getting that on the calendar and then choosing one summer activity. We have limited it to one because of how quickly and easily our littles get tired. uh She's done gymnastics for the last couple years and loved it. So it'll likely be gymnastics again. Now for me with these fun projects and memories, the more specific I get, the better. So if we're talking about ice cream, I love like ice cream Fridays or pool days, one trip to the pool a week. I like it to be measurable so I can say, yes, this happened or no, it didn't. Sometimes it might be as simple as like, I just want to do this at least once this summer. I just want to eat from a food truck at least once. I would love to go to a ball game, but that's not the season of life we're in. So I look at season of life, what our family loves, what's realistic for our schedule, and that's what we add to our summer fun memories bucket list. From there, last but not least, we go ahead and plan out and think through projects for this summer. So we have three projects. We did this last year as well. Three to me is like one a month. Feels very doable. Our three projects are this year we need to look for a new car. em We are outgrowing our car a bit. We need some more room to stretch our legs and to fit our dog. Our dog doesn't fit in our car. So looking for a new car would be summer project one. Number two is to finish our outdoor area, our outdoor oasis, especially in time for fall. We spend a lot of time outdoor. We've lived in our house now for about a year. And so we want to continue to make our outdoor space more functional for our family. We like to get a playhouse or swing set for our oldest. We are wanting to put in a fire pit area. We're currently working on a wildflower garden, which I'm so excited about. And so just want to finish those outdoor projects. So by the fall, we feel like we can just spend time out there and just really enjoy it. Our last project is to finish or at least get started on our attic. Currently, I work in our unfinished attic. And, you know, as you can imagine, that's just really not ideal. em Plus, we need a guest room. We have guest visits. an out of town family visit. And so we have been talking about finishing our attic for quite a while now. We just need to get quotes out here, people out here to do quotes and drywall and all that stuff. And so we'd love to just see that project moving forward. Okay, after we've prepped, set a vision, made our summer plan, step four, last but not least, we want to create our summer business plan. As an adult, school lets out for the summer, but that doesn't mean that work stops. So summer does present an opportunity to embrace a change of pace and adopt new rhythms. And I want to embrace that. So I've tried to figure out a way, how can we slow down without falling behind at work? How can we embrace the summer? the shifts in pace, but also see progress in our work. And here are four, here are five steps that have really helped me. One, first and foremost, I really want to get clear on my work hours for this season, for the summer. When am I working? When am I not? We do not, my oldest goes to preschool. She does not have preschool in the summer. However, we do have a summer nanny with us two days a week, which is just so life-changing and amazing. We're so grateful for her. So I'm very clear on when she's coming. We have hours set and then also my summer hours. So my goal is to get in 20 hours of work a week. So first I want to know how many hours do I have to work? For some people that might not change at all, know. Others you might like be like me and not have. formal childcare, so you're finding your own childcare on the side. From there, I want to map out my goals for the business. What do we want to accomplish? What projects do we have? Do we have any launches coming up? What do I want to get finished in this summer season? Am I just preparing ahead? Am I recording season four of the podcast? Like, what am I accomplishing very specifically for work in this season? And always asking that question after you're like, here's all the things I want to get done. Is that realistic? Is that realistic in the time that I have? What is most important to me? Maybe top three priorities for getting done in the summer. From there, I'm really looking at our budget, specifically cash flow. What expenses are still coming out all season long? What doesn't change? Does your team change in the summer? For instance, we take a break from the podcast, so my podcast expenses go down for the summer and roll right back up in August when we relaunched for season four. How much do you need to still pay yourself, your team, your expenses for the business? So how much money and how much cash flow do you need for the season? From there, look at what's coming in. What are you selling? Do you have any passive products? I don't think anything's passive. Do you have anything that's selling continually, like a shop, a course, anything like that that's selling continually? Do you have a launch coming up of a big offer, whether it's a course or something new you're building, a new template? Is something coming up that you're going to sell? Or do you still have ongoing clients that you're working with that that revenue is still coming in? From there, once you look at what's coming in, what's going out, how much do you still need to make to cover all of your expenses or to make the money you want to make in the summer season? How can you do that? Do you need to launch something new? Do you need to take on another client? Like, I'm just looking at cash flow. From there, I always look at the money stuff first, because it's me, hello, because it sets a tone for how much I need to get done in the summer. So from there, I'm looking at time management. What are the most important tasks for me to get done this summer? What are the most income producing? The most important to me, what are the projects that matter to me the most? Is there anything that I can delegate to team members? And of course, like carving out those undistracted hours for me that's in the morning before everyone gets up. My friend calls this her tiger time, like getting the most important things done first, the things only I can do. If you have not listened to episode 127, what work-life balance really looks like as a mom and CEO of the, it's, would highly recommend taking a second, marking that one 127 and getting, listening to it. I gave some great time management tips there of how I manage my workload with less than 20 hours a week. Last one, at least budgeting for help at home. So your team might be the same or look different in business wise, but also budgeting for help at home, childcare, if you have a cleaner that comes. Maybe you're ordering milk kits to save time. What are ways that you can maximize your time with your family, maximize your summer fun, maximize your work hours, and take away any kind of tedious tasks or things that are really eating into your ability to soak up the summer. Now, before I leave you with your awesome summer plan for work, for home, I do want to tell you some things that I have learned the hard way, maybe what not to do this summer. And you probably feel these as well. First, don't try to run at the same pace if the season looks different for you. This may not be the time to hit your biggest goals. Now, it may. Like I kind of mentioned, I have the most child care in the summer, which is just so ironic. So I'm excited about what I can get done in the summer. many of you listening, this might be a season where you have more responsibility at home and less time to work, like you have kids with you all the time, and that's okay. And for some of you, it's full steam ahead, like you're still working full time. So don't try to run at the same pace if this season looks different for you. Second, don't compare your summer to anyone else's. I like slow, simple days in the summer. I get exhausted if my suitcase is always packed. I sometimes get a little anxious when people are like, what'd do this weekend? Or what'd you do for this, you know, Memorial Day? Or July 4th? I feel so much pressure to have like this grand answer of like, I flew to New York and I shot, you know what saying? But I am getting more comfortable just saying like, I sat around and played with my kids and that was perfect. You know, and so find... What you want your summer, that's going back to the summer vision, what do you want your summer to look like and don't compare it to anyone else's. Number three, don't overload your schedule or your work commitments trying to cram it all in. I have some friends that sign their kids up for summer camps every single week and that's great. I actually had some of our preschool friends sign up for this very specific camp here in Knoxville. and it was from eight to two every day. And I went back and forth on it for weeks if I wanted our oldest to go to camp and ultimately decided like, you know what, I'm just not ready for that yet. I want her home with me and that's okay. I just want to soak up the summer with my girls and I know I'll never regret this time with them. So like what works for someone else may not work for you. So my biggest tip here, and again, probably goes without saying, but don't overload your schedule, especially on the work side. This may again not be your season. to launch your next big project, it's okay. It's okay. Number four, don't ignore the numbers. Even in those slower seasons, staying close to your financials will help you make smart decisions and avoid panic and Q4. So looking at where are you tracking towards your goal? We have a great resource in the Creative Money Shop, a financial template you might love called our Business Stat Tracker. So this will help you see where you're tracking towards your sales goal for the year. how you're doing on your budgets for the year. We also have our income and expense tracker. I'll link both of those in the resources where you can look very detailed at how you're tracking towards your goals for the year. And so this will help you plan. Do we need to plan a launch for Q4? Do we need to look at a Black Friday sale? But not feel the pressure to do it all the summer. Last but not least, as kind of mentioned before, don't forget to plan for the fall, whether it's financial planning for the fall, business planning for the fall. or anything you want to do now that'll set up your fall for success personally and professionally. Don't forget to plan for the fall. Okay, there you have it, how I prep and plan for the summer. Really truly taking this time to ask myself, what do I want the summer to look like makes all the difference, particularly in the season at home where there's so much pressure of like, there's only 18 summers, which I do not agree with, but it does calm my perfectionist heart because I do have this need to... feel this need to do life perfectly, whatever that means. And so the summer plan just helps me take a deep breath, relax, enjoy my family, and also know I'm making the progress on things that matter at work. I'm looking at our financial goals. I'm looking at what offers we want to get out there. I'm looking at how many more clients we want to take on. Like, I'm not just pushing pause on work. And I don't have to. We can do both. But this is how I do both well. As a quick recap. Step one, let's prep for your summer. Look around, look back, look ahead. Step two, create that vision for the season. What do you want your summer to look like? Step three, create your summer plan for work and home. Your summer bucket list, which is so fun, summer projects, and your summer business plan. As mentioned, I kind of peppered these throughout. Here are a few resources that have really helped me as I plan my summer. I love the essential calendar. I don't know the exact term, but I'll link it in the resources. three month view by season. So I have a summer three month view, which is really fun. So everything that I'm doing for the summer, I go ahead and put on my calendar events that are happening, like the fireworks we're going to or Jonesburg Day, fourth of July parade, like that have specific dates. I use Post-its as mentioned for things that we want to do, but it doesn't have to happen on a specific day. I love using washi tape, a coupon, so I'll link all that and the resources. Kindredachi's podcast on creating a summer plan has been really helpful for me. I learned a lot listening to that several years ago. Also, Nancy Ray has some great podcast episodes on her summer plan and how she plans her summer. it. Love the Magnolia Journal. It's something I read on the first day of summer every year. I'll link some favorite candles. And of course, my favorite task management app, which is Asana, A-S-A-N-A, helps me put all of my work tasks out of my brain and onto the computer. Again, if you haven't listened to episode 127, how to balance home and work life as a mom and CEO, that's a really good one. I'll also put a couple of resources from our shop that help plan on the financial side and how you're tracking towards your goals. We have our business stats tracker, which is amazing. It's kind of an all in one tracking your marketing and financial data. It's so good. And then our business income and expense tracker, which is so good. It's looking at in detail. month to month income and expenses for your business. All right, before I leave you, I have to give you a sneak at what's coming for season four. So after three years, three years y'all, I can't believe it, of hosting an interview style show, we have done over 120 amazing interviews with incredible entrepreneurs. I'm excited to try something new in season four. So I hope you love it. We are going to move to a solo show format just for season four. I can't wait to share more directly with you. So what you can expect to hear from me is bite-sized strategy, mindsets around business, money, home life. I want to give you CFO level insights for small business, what I'm looking at on the data side, on the number side, how we're planning, all that good stuff, behind the scenes of running my own business, just little peeks at what's working for me and this season of business. And also for my clients and my students, I do have this really unique opportunity. to see the behind the scenes of hundreds, sometimes thousands, depending on how many students we're working with, of clients. And seeing the numbers, seeing what's working, marketing trends, industry haps, what's going on. And I want to be able to share some of that with you all. just friend over friend, having coffee, let's talk about it. Of course, still plenty of heart. just, I feel like because I'm not on social media. other than my Finance Friday newsletter, which I love. This podcast is the primary way for us to get to know each other. And I've been hearing a lot, like I know everybody loves the interviews. I love the interviews. I learned so much from the interviews, but I am desiring to pour a little bit more of myself and give a little bit more of what I'm learning to you. So I hope that you're excited about season four. We will likely bring back interviews at some point in the future because they're so amazing and I love them so much. And there's so many incredible entrepreneurs out there to talk to. But I just, I'm excited to get to pour into you a little bit more and share more of what's going on in my world and the numbers world, my insights after what, 13 years of business, 19 years in finance, first season four. I'm so grateful for each of you that pressed play on this podcast. If you have found today's episode helpful, would you just grab the link, share it with one friend? The show primarily grows through word of mouth. And so if this has been helpful, share with a friend. And Wildflower, you just finished another episode in the finale of season three of Consider the Wildflowers the podcast. Head over to Consider the Wildflowers podcast.com for show notes and resource links from today's show. Whether you're poolside on a road trip or working in the margins like me, I hope this summer plan brings you fun, peace, profit, and a deep gratitude for the beautiful juggle, even if it feels a little complicated sometimes. I'll leave you with this thought from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. As always, thank you for listening to the best summer yet. I'll see you right here in August for season four.

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