The Power of Oxygen 1st
When my son was little, I was a single mom who was doing it all alone. I was putting everyone else first and my own needs last. To everyone around me, I was successful but little did they know that my success was tied to pushing, stressing, sleepless nights and early morning workouts pushing my body and my limits to the extreme. Until one day I was flying alone and nearly crashed an airplane and I realized that I needed to take care of my own needs first before anyone else. You see, when you’re a pilot, if you have any issues in the plane, you put on your oxygen mask 1st, not your passengers. They need you to land the plane.
This podcast is all about this journey to healing, to getting clear on the desires of your heart… and stepping into them with courage while leaning into, asking for and receiving support. I hope you feel inspired to do less, to follow your passions and infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live: a life filled to the brim with epic ADVENTURE.
The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 76: Take Your Business on a Date - A New Way to Lead
Have you ever considered taking your business on a romantic date? Not to fix problems or create strategies, but simply to fall back in love with what you've built?
In this soul-stirring exploration of entrepreneurship, we dive into the surprising truth about business burnout—it often stems not from doing too much, but from losing intimate connection with our vision. When resentment and exhaustion creep in, perhaps what's missing isn't another productivity hack but a meaningful reconnection with why we started our businesses in the first place.
Picture yourself waking up without immediately checking emails, instead dressed powerfully for the day ahead, with sacred time blocked just to flirt with your business again. Imagine sitting at your favorite coffee shop with a journal, asking your venture what it truly needs from you. This shift from micromanaging to marveling, from KPI mode to curiosity mode, creates space for genuine revelation.
By asking powerful questions—What's lighting me up lately? What should I delegate? How would I lead if I treated my business like someone I love?—we create the conditions for authentic alignment. When we stop letting fear and money lead and start listening to our inner wisdom, everything flows differently. The team syncs, clients appear, and resources begin moving again, all because we're operating from a place of overflow rather than depletion.
Your invitation: Block 90 minutes this week for a CEO date. Light a candle, pour your favorite drink, and remember you're building something sacred. And while you're nurturing your business relationship, check out our new Hiring ROI Calculator at dotrockconsulting.com to help you delegate with confidence and create more space for the work that truly fulfills you.
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Hey guys, this is the Power of Oxygen First podcast and I'm your host, dot Rock. I am an entrepreneur, a mom, a stepmom and a scaling consultant who is obsessed with the art of hiring, support and that dirty word we call delegation. I'm a recovering perfectionist who pushed my body and my limits to the extreme until one fateful day I learned that, just like pilots, I needed to take care of myself first. This podcast is all about the journey to healing, to getting clear on the desires of your heart, stepping into them with courage and leaning into and asking for support. I hope you feel inspired to do less, to follow your passions and infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live. Well, hello my podcast. Friends, welcome back to the Power of Oxygen First, where we remind the leaders, the visionaries and the entrepreneurs of the world that taking care of your business really actually starts with the hard part taking care of you. Remember, I'm Dot, your hiring whisperer CFO turned HR queen, and your personal permission slip to stop running on fumes. So today's episode, we're going to talk about romance with your business. Yes, you heard that right. So my podcast on Tuesday was about being very intentional, about going on a romantic date with yourself. Like pre-scheduling the restaurant, picking out the outfit, all the things and just soaking in the time with yourself, unplugging. But now we're going to talk about what romancing yourself in your business would actually look like. Experiencing yourself in your business would actually look like, because I believe in my heart of hearts that sometimes the burnout, the resentment and the exhaustion that we experience in our businesses, it doesn't come from too much business. It comes from not being intimate enough with how you want your business to be and what work you really want to be doing. So today we're going to take your business on a date. So let's close your eyes and imagine this and no, do not close your eyes if you're driving but come on like just soak into the feeling that I'm about to describe.
Speaker 1:You wake up, not in a panic to check Slack or respond to emails, but with a slow inhale. You put on something to wear that makes you feel absolutely powerful, even if you just have Zoom meetings today. You put that on because you feel amazing in that outfit. Your calendar is clear just for the next hour or two and you block out time not to fix your business but to flirt with it again. You take yourself out, but to flirt with it again. You take yourself out, maybe to your favorite coffee shop or a cozy nook with a candle in your journal and, instead of sprinting through your to-do list, you ask your business what do you really need from me right now? And you sip your latte and you wait for the answer. You're not rushed.
Speaker 1:You start remembering why you started this whole business thing For me. I started it so that I could pick up my son from school every day. I started it so that I could travel with him. I started it so I could be a more present mom, so that he didn't have to have planned activities after school without me until I got off of work. Why did you start your business? You start remembering the spark, the dream, the vision, the part of you that was wildly excited about helping people, creating freedom and doing it differently. For me. I was so excited about doing HR differently for small businesses. I was so excited to help small businesses hire, onboard and fire. It's what I am passionate about.
Speaker 1:So you're sitting here at the coffee shop shop and you're not in KPI mode, you're in curiosity mode. You're not micromanaging, you're marveling, you're noticing. So you open up your favorite little notebook that one that makes you feel like a creative genius, and you just jot down some really big, dreamy questions. What's lighting me up in my work lately? What do I want to stop pretending I enjoy and delegate to someone else? If I knew I couldn't fail? What would I take off my plate If I treated this business like someone I love? How would I show up differently?
Speaker 1:And then the plot twist while you're sitting there sipping your latte, you let your business speak back to you. You tune in, you listen. You don't interrupt with guilt or strategy, you just receive what it has to say. You sit there and you order dessert, metaphorically or literally. There's plenty of sweet things at the coffee shop, because running a business isn't just about spreadsheets and standard operating procedures. It's actually about making room for delight.
Speaker 1:So toast yourself to the CEO, who's learning how to enjoy the business again, to the founder, who is done, just surviving, and is ready to fall back in love with their own creation or start a new creation. So just imagine you walk away from this business date with a softened heart and a sharpened vision. You realize you don't need a new business coach, a 17-step funnel or a 5 am miracle routine. What you need is to reconnect to your very own little voice that whispers. This is what I want, because when you're in alignment, when you really take care of yourself, when you let yourself listen and you stop letting fear and money lead, everything flows. The team sinks, the clients show up, the money starts to move again because you're not chasing and it's because you're leading from this beautiful place of overflow and that, my friend, is the power of putting on your oxygen mask first. So here's your invitation. This week, I encourage you to block out 90 minutes on your calendar and if that's in a month from now, please just do it. Call it CEO date night CEO date morning. Light a candle, pour your favorite drink and take your business out and remember you're building something sacred. Your little ones are watching. Make it beautiful, plant the seeds to let those flowers bloom and grow and make it feel the way you want. Until next time, breathe deep, lead gently and give yourself the kind of care your business deserves.
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Speaker 1:I hope you enjoy it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening to another episode of the Power of Oxygen First podcast. I hope you walk away feeling inspired to do less, to follow your passions and infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live. Infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live, and I hope that you start leaning into the art of receiving support. I'm here to support you on that journey. Find me at dotrockconsultingcom or dot underscore rock underscore on Instagram. I'd love it if you'd go, follow me and shoot me a quick DM and let me know what takeaway from this episode hit you the hardest, sending you love and adventures on this beautiful day.
