You Don’t Have Forever: A Wake-Up Call for Women in Business

In today’s powerful and personal episode, Crissy shares the perspective-shifting lessons that came from a recent funeral, a long drive home, and two timely songs.

She asks a bold question every woman entrepreneur must confront:
Where are you showing up like you have all the time in the world… while treating your results like they have a cap?

Inside this episode, you'll hear:

• Why most of us have it backwards when it comes to time and success
• What it really means to treat your work as worship
• The difference between checking boxes and showing up with conviction
• A spiritual nudge to get your house...and your business, together
• How to stop waiting for “tomorrow” and start honoring your gifts today

Whether you're procrastinating a podcast, stuck in a content rut, or just feeling like your results don’t match your potential, this episode will call you forward.

This one’s for the woman who knows she was made for more.   This is your reminder: your business is part of your impact.
Don't waste the gift God gave you. 

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Last week I was at a funeral and it gave me some massive perspective on things. And I want to talk today about how we feel like we have all the time in the world to get things done and there's no limit. But when it comes to our results, we feel like we have a cap. We feel like we have a limit. We feel like that we could never shatter the glass ceiling. And I think we have it all backwards. And so I really wanna go deep with you in today's episode because I know it is going to touch and support someone because God wouldn't have put this on my heart and I wouldn't have had this takeaway from a funeral. if it wasn't meant for someone. So I hope if you're listening that you have a takeaway from this that serves and supports you, gets you to think a little deeper and then also get you to take action a little bit differently. Welcome to today's episode. I went to my uncle's funeral last week and I wasn't close to to my uncle, I mean, when I was younger, but I was very close with my cousins. I babysat them. We've always kept in touch on social media. We live about five hours away. My dad did the funeral. That was really hard for me to watch. When my dad does funerals for our family, it's always really hard to watch him try to keep it together because he's trying to obviously say his piece, but he's also saying goodbye. to someone out loud, right? Where most of us are sitting uh in a seat or a pew and we have the, you know, have Kleenexes and we have the opportunity to cry and think about things. He's up there doing the thing. He's not the only one that does this, but you know, he's my dad. So of course I see these things, but I watched him. I cried a lot. I cried for my cousins, I cried for my dad being in pain and it just, it's really hard not to cry when you see your dad upset and... It just made me think about so many perspectives. And the reason I'm talking about this today is because after the funeral, we're driving home, Ava has on some kind of like Spotify radio and two songs come on that were just going along the lines of I just left a funeral. One is, I don't know who sings this song, but it's called Five More Minutes. I'm pretty sure we played this at my father-in-law's funeral. I can't remember for sure, but I'm pretty sure, because I've heard it before. And then the song Live Like You're Dying, which is a Tim McGraw song. And I felt that these were just continuing messages from me leaving to help me in my own life. And so therefore, I'm not going to keep it quiet. I'm not going to be quiet about it. I'm going to share that, right? The fact is that we're all getting older. The fact is every day we have one less day on this earth. And the fact of the matter is that most of us act like we have all the time in the world. We act like we have all the time in the world, that there is no cap, there is no limit to how much time. I'll get up again tomorrow. I'll get up again tomorrow. I'll get up again tomorrow. And at the same time, a lot of us think that... We have a cap to our results. We have a cap to our success. We have a cap to all these things. We completely have a backwards. There is a cap and there is a limit on the amount of time you have left on this earth. There is not a cap or a limit on the amount of success you can have on the amount of people that you can impact on the amount of results you can provide on the amount of money that you can make. Like there is no cap there. We have it so backwards. We don't have all the time in the world. but that the time that we have, we can create unimaginable, extraordinary results. Success, money, impact, whatever you wanna call it. That is not limited. If we think it's limited, we're going to show up accordingly. And that's what I see most of the time when it comes to procrastination, lack of consistency. We think we have all the time in the world and we know that we don't. We know that we don't. You know you don't have all the time in the Listen, I'm guilty. I know I don't have all the time in the world. But we act like that. We show up like that. We take action like that. And it's, it's gotta stop because we don't. A lot of times we say, don't have enough hours in the day. I don't have enough time to do this. I don't have blah, Yes, you do. I love this analogy and I've talked about it before in the past, but if you, if your house is gross or cluttered or whatever, and somebody says, I'll be there in 30 minutes, your house will get clean in 25. You didn't have time to clean your house, but you found a way in 25 minutes to make it as spotless as possible before that person walks in the door. I'll never forget setting a deadline for a podcast that I started with someone and we waited to the last minute. We knew months in advance what we were doing and we waited to the last minute and we got it all done in seven days. And I don't know how, but we gave ourselves a deadline. And even though we procrastinated, we got it all done. And so you will get things done. and just the amount of time you have. The problem is we think we have all the time. I have all the time to build the business. I have all the time to make the money. While at the same time we're complaining, right? We're complaining about the lack of results or the lack of money or the lack of whatever. And so I want to shift your perspective on this because number one, we know we don't have all the time in the world. Number two, we know, and if you don't know, I want to, I don't normally say convince, but I'd love to convince you that you can create unlimited success. And also if we have an end date, right? My dad said this in the funeral. He said, know, Alvin, which was my uncle, was terminal, but we're all terminal. We all have an end date. We all know it's coming. We all know when it's coming, but we know it's coming for all of us. None of us get an out, right? And so when we think about that, what are we doing in our day to day? And this is gonna get a little spiritual because I feel like it needs to. And... What are we doing in our day to day? And is it honoring God? He gave you this gift. He gave you this business idea. He gave you this talent. He gave you these platforms. What are you doing with the time? I put a post on social media, I don't know, months ago, and it was talking about our work should be a form of worship. Right? Is what you're doing honoring God? Is it honoring you? Is it honoring your ego? Is it honoring like your vanity, like your popularity? Like what is it honoring? You get to choose. Is it honoring your procrastination? or your thought process that you have all the time in the world. My dad said at the funeral, we have to get our houses together. Now, obviously he was specifically talking about mostly spiritually, right? Getting our houses together. But I want to challenge you to get your business house together. Get it together. What do you want to leave your family? Do you want to leave a legacy? Or do you just want to show up, make a few bucks here and there? not make impact, not glorify God. What are you thinking every day that you wake up? it's another day. And I'll wake up tomorrow and I'll do the same thing. And I'll wake up the next day and I'll do the same thing. It's only Groundhog Day if you allow it to be. This is very similar to if you've heard me talk about checking boxes, right? We can get up every day and check the box I woke up today. Yay, I did all the things that I normally do. Yay. Or I woke up today. Thank you God for giving me another day on this earth and I'm gonna glorify you and honor you in the process of that. Which one feels better? I'm not saying we're gonna jump out of bed every single day, friends, but I'm gonna say if we have more intention and focus, we will. And that is how you live like you're dying. You have a focus. You have a purpose. Are you showing up like it? Or are you showing up like the blind leading the blind? Like, I don't know what I'm doing. Are you showing up like, I'm just gonna do what feels good today? Or are you showing up like, this is my path, this is what I'm doing, this is my direction, this is my plan, this is how I'm gonna be successful. And I'm gonna do it with purpose and I'm gonna do it with conviction because I know that there is impact that needs to be made. I know there are lives that need to be changed and I know there are people that I am here to serve. And nothing is gonna stop me. You get to decide. Where are you thinking I'll have time to do it tomorrow or I'll have time to do it next week? But you say that every week and every time it's, know, maybe you've thought about starting a podcast and you keep saying, I'll do it next week, I'll do it next month, I'll do it next year. And you just keep saying it, but nothing ever changes. Where are you saying I want to talk about my offers more, but you keep saying that, but you don't do anything. Where are you saying you want to be more invisible, you want to be more visible and more intentional with your content? But you just keep saying it, keep throwing up the same crap that's not converting your audience. You are here for a reason. If you don't know what that is, figure it out. If you know what that is and you're not acting and showing up and taking action accordingly, it's time to change that. I don't want you to live like you're dying with like urgency and anxiety and all of these things. Like I gotta get it done, I gotta get it done. And know, frantic energy. I want you to build your business with passion and love and conviction. And so that everything you do is so potent. You don't have to have that frantic energy. Everything that you do, like if you check off a box man, you check off that box with so much conviction instead of like feeling good and getting a little dopamine hit because you checked a box. Like you check it off with conviction. You check it off with love. You check it off knowing how much you served and supported people by making that check. Where are you showing up in your business like you have all the time? Or where are you showing up because you like or lack of showing up because you think you have no time because your focus and intention and conviction isn't there. We impact people every single day, whether you mean to or not, in person, at the grocery store. when you smile at someone. if you slam your horn or you're slamming your horn on someone, like you're making an impact, good or bad, however that looks to you, right? But the question is, am I owning that my business is part of my impact? Am I owning that how I show up and market my business is part of my impact? Am I acknowledging that the results that I get people is part of my impact? Am I acknowledging that the programs or the products or the offers or the services that I sell are part of my impact because they can help someone else create greater impact too. Where? Does your work get to be more, this is a form of worship, where does your work get to be more of I'm honoring God with this? Where does your work get to be more focused, more intentional, more convicted? This is not about hustle. This is about doing the things with focus and intention that honor and glorify God and also. create a life for you with unlimited possibilities, unlimited potential, unlimited success, because you are focused on the time you have in this moment and you're focused on the conviction and the passion you have for what you do. I challenge you to think about this. I challenge you to journal about this. I challenge you to reach out to me and chat about this. We have a God-given gift, and if we aren't using it, we are wasting it. And I don't wanna see any of you waste the gift that God has given you.