I Dropped A Day In Clinic… Then Everything Shifted

In this episode, I’m talking about something I think so many business owners are silently struggling with - burnout 🔥 

I open up about what burnout actually looked like for me behind the scenes, what led me there, and the moment I realised something had to change.

After constantly overworking, overfilling my diary, and convincing myself I just needed to “push through”, I finally made the terrifying decision to drop a day in clinic.

And within 5 minutes of announcing it… an opportunity I’d been quietly manifesting landed in my DM’s 👀 

This episode is about why creating space matters, why so many people stay stuck in survival mode, and why nothing changes if nothing changes.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, stretched too thin, or scared to take control of your life or business because of fear, this one is for you.

Plants don’t grow any larger in the same pot forever - and neither will you 💐 

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Transcript

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Hi guys and welcome back to the skindustry. I have actually just recorded this entire episode and realised it was recording through my MacBook microphone and not this one. So I don't know how that's gonna sound, so I am gonna record it again just in case. So if it sounds okay, you won't be hearing this one. If it sounds like shit, welcome to the second version. How annoying it was such a good one as well, but I'm gonna bring the same energy. So today's episode is obviously two weeks after the last episode. Because last week I had a little bit of a wobble and I hit burnout in magnificent style. So I'm gonna talk today all about what got me there, how I realized that's where I was at, and then what I've done about it to solve that, and what happened after I did that, which is super exciting. I think burnout is a word that people throw around a lot. Like, you hear this word a lot on socials, I think it is a bit of a buzzword at the minute, but when you're actually in it, it feels so different. Like, and for me personally as well, every time I've hit burnout, I've not really realized it's been coming until it's actually hit me, until I'm in it, and I think, oh shit, this is not good. It wasn't just feeling a little bit tired and a little bit like, oh god, I'm just so busy. It was waking up and feeling completely and utterly exhausted in every way, shape, and form of the word. My body physically felt exhausted, my eyes were burning, had headaches, I felt like I could barely like move. I was that tired. Mentally, I was exhausted, like the brain fog I had, zero motivation, I was super emotional, I just wanted to like just stop everything. But obviously, when you're self-employed, it kind of doesn't work like that. Just every fibre of my being was exhausted, just completely, utterly exhausted. Like that is the only word I have that can describe the feeling is just complete exhaustion. I was waking up feeling exhausted. I felt like no matter what I did, it wasn't enough, or I couldn't do anything because I physically couldn't bring myself to do it. I was just constantly thinking about work and constantly thinking about, oh, I've got this to do and I've got that to do, and it's just never ending. I had zero space for me. I what was the sort of cherry on the cake was I had my level four last week, so I was at Pretty Faces for three days. So I was there Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday doing my level four. So I had two exams, two written exams, and then the practical assessments. And it was heavy. Like I love going, I love going to Pretty Faces. Like Gabby and Faye that and Charlotte that do the courses are just unreal. Like if you're thinking of doing your levels, definitely, definitely go to Pretty Faces. It's just unmatched. But I was there and then I drive I was driving to Liverpool as well, so I was going from my partner's house, so it was only like a 15-minute drive compared to the an hour and 20 it would be from my house. But still, basically an hour in the morning, being there all day, it's a lot of information, it's a lot of learning, it's very like taxing on the old brain. Then an hour home, then I was revising for my exams, also then just like doing general like life admin, cooking tea, tidying up, doing any washing, whatever, and also trying to relax a little bit in the evenings. Then back the next day and doing it all again, and then finished on Thursday. Friday I was back in clinic, back to back all day. Friday and Saturday I was in clinic, fully booked. Friday night I went to the cinema to watch Devil Wears Part of 2. Great, would recommend. And I woke up on Saturday morning because we didn't get back from the cinema until midnight, so that was a late one. And then it always takes me a little bit of time to wind down after like being with people, like especially my friends, because we're all just yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. And so yeah, I didn't get to sleep till really, really late, and then I had to be at work for nine on Saturday morning, and I woke up Saturday morning and I was just I felt like a zombie. Like I was like, oh my god, like what is wrong with me? I do not feel normal. Like I feel like I've run a marathon. I just I'm so tired. I carried on, got on with the day, finished work, and I was just like, I was just zoned out, just had no go in me, no motivation, no nothing. Just wanted to go home, get in my pajamas. I got in the bath. First of all, I got home, I had my tea, and then I was like, right, I'm gonna go for a bath. Two hours passed before I could muster up the effort to get up and go and run the bath. So I didn't get in the bath until I think it was like half ten, which is a really rogue time to be getting in the bath, but whatever. I got in the bath. No, I think it was ten o'clock. It was ten o'clock that I got in the bath because I remember that. Because by the time I got out of the bath, the water was cold. I got in the bath, I picked my phone up, and I went on TikTok and I scrolled non-stop, not switching apps, just scrolling, doom scrolling on TikTok for an hour and a half. And my partner had texted me and I just didn't respond. And then I honestly zoned out. The fact that it I was doing that for an hour and a half, no idea, until I sort of like snapped out of it, opened my text, and responded, like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. I just like doom scrolled on TikTok. And she was like, for an hour and a half. She was like, Are you still in the bath? I was like, yeah, I am. I can't bring myself to get out. The water is cold, there is not a bubble left, and I physically cannot get myself out of this bath. Like, I do not have the required energy nor the motivation to get out of this bath. I am the most exhausted I think any human being has ever been on this planet, which obviously is not true. There's people have it way worse than me, but I was feeling it, you know. I then went to bed, I slept for like it was like 10 hours, and I woke up the next morning and just felt like shit, like absolute shit. And I'd planned because I'd not had any other time that week to come and film the podcast. I'd said, like, right, I'm gonna go in on Sunday, record it, and then I can head over to Chloe at my partner's house, which is like an hour and a bit drive. I woke up, couldn't get out of bed, physically, could not drag myself out of bed. I was so exhausted. So I lay in bed and I was just like flicking through the different apps on my phone, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. I kept thinking, yeah, I'll get up in a minute, I'll get up in a minute, I'll get ready and I'll go to work and record the podcast. I'll get up in a minute and I'll get ready. Yeah, I'll get up in a minute. And it got to half two. And at this point, I had got out of bed, I'd literally got out of bed, gone downstairs, got on the sofa, and that was it. Like, I'd not had any food, I'd not had anything to drink. I was just lay there, just an empty shell of a person. Like I was not okay. And I just thought, like, I cannot go and record this podcast feeling the way I do now. Like, there's no way I can walk in, press record, and go, hi guys, welcome back to the skindustry, and give you all this like energy that I just truly do not have. Like, I not a single piece, not an atom in my body could have done that that day. And then I just felt really bad. Like, I was like, oh god, I'm gonna like disappoint people. People like listening to the podcast every week, like I've been so consistent with it. What if this, what if that, what if you know, people get annoyed or like pissed off with me, like they're gonna be disappointed. Well, when it's not that deep. Like, yes, I love doing this, I love doing the podcast, I love like having this like a platform to like chat to you guys with. And I chat to so many of you all the time, but sometimes I need to just say I can't do it today, guys. Like, I just physically don't have it in me. I'm really sorry. I'd just be honest because so many people responded to my story that I put on saying there wasn't gonna be a podcast, and why saying I really love how honest you are and I appreciate that you're being so transparent with this and rah-rah, that I feel like it made other people feel better for feeling a similar way. I feel like there's so much pressure for us to just put on a brave face all the time and be the happy woman that's you know got her shit together and everything's going great, but then people don't see the outside or the other side of things and think, well, my life's not like that, so I must not be doing well. But people only put their best bits on socials, don't they? We only see the good stuff. So then when our lives don't look like that, it makes us feel like shit. So I wanted to be honest with everybody about why I wasn't doing it and just say, Live, I need a fucking rest, guys. Like, I need a day off. So that's exactly what I did. I got dressed because after I put that on my story, I immediately just felt like relief. And obviously it was a Sunday, so all the shops shut before I didn't have any food in, didn't have anything for my tea. And this was I think by the time I'd moved and got dressed, it was half three, so I was like, I got half an hour, shit. So got in my car, drove to Aldi, and I bought myself the nicest tea. Like it was so simple because again, can't be asked cook, like company else getting up, never mind cooking a meal. So I went, I got myself a Wagyu steak from Aldi, may I add, and it was 10 out of 10, delish. Not the best Wagyu I've ever had. Like, let's be honest, it's Aldi, like it's never gonna be like grade A or whatever they call it, but it was really nice. I'm normally a fillet steak girl, but I saw they had Wagyu fillets, and I was like, I'm having a bad day, and I'm gonna treat myself. So I did. So got that. I got some peppercorn sauce, and I love peppercorn sauce. I got some, I don't know, like rosemary and parmesan fries that I could just bang in the air fryer. So I got them, went home, had some peas with it because I love peas with steak. I was gonna get mange too, and I thought, no, I just love a basic pea, you know. Can't be a regular pea. Went home, cooked myself that. It was unreal, so nice, exactly what I needed. And while I was out, I also got myself loads of snacks. I've been trying to like cool it on the snacks. I'm a very snacky girl, like I'm not gonna lie, I'm such a snacker. I've got such a sweet tooth, and I've been trying not to at the minute because I'm trying to not eat as much sugar because my skin does not love it. And I'm also trying to slim down the smidge for my holiday in July because I've realized it's May, I've got two months. Like it's literally eight weeks on Monday that we go. You girl needs to get that shit together. So I thought, you know what, sack that. I want some snacks, so I got some chocolate, I got sweets, I got like baked goods, I got everything that I love. I took it all home with me, had my really gorgeous tea, lay on the sofa, and just watched. I'm watching suits at the minute. I know that's really old, but I didn't watch it when it was on. And I started it, God, I can't remember when I started it now, a while ago. And I watched it for a while and then I dipped out of it, and then I've recently started it again, and I'm hooked, I'm obsessed, I cannot get enough any spare moment. I am watching suits, so I put that on, and I think I watched like six or seven episodes, like back to back in in that evening, just one after another, just lay on the sofa, duffing my face, so good, such a good night. My friends were having a barbecue that night. Well, that afternoon, it was supposed to be a really nice sunny day, wasn't it? And then the weather changed, so they were gonna have a barbecue. So I was obviously meant to be going to that. I'd said no to that. I was like, I physically cannot come today. Like, I don't have it in me. I just need a day to myself. I didn't go over to my partners, I just needed to be alone, like completely and utterly by myself, not have to speak to another human being, not have to put any like energy on or anything, just rot in my own feelings just for the day and the night. Like, I just needed that, and I think that is so fine. Like, to say no to things and to say no to people is so fine if that's what you need. Like, if you need to just have a day or have an hour or have an evening to yourself, that's fine. Monday morning, I woke up, still felt a bit crap, but better than I did on the Sunday. I wasn't as emotional, kept crying on the Sunday, which is so fine. Don't mind a good cry. But yeah, I wasn't as emotional on the Monday. I woke up, I had my first call in a new course that I'm doing. I'm doing the Functional Skin Academy. Yeah, that's what it's called. The Functional Skin Academy with Faye Knox. Um sorted that. So that was my first call in there on Monday morning, which was incredible. I've been wanting to do that for ages. Like I think I've been harassing Faye for about a year now and finally took it on. So yeah, I had my first call at nine, and then I got ready. I went and had my lashes done, which was I have them done in Bolton, which is where my partner lived. So I drove there, had them done and drove straight home, which I'd obviously spoken to her about and she was so fine with it. She's very understanding of needing space. Drive home. So I got home at like four, I think it was, and then again just chilled out, just watched TV, snacked, had my tea, just had another really nice, like chilled day, and I knew that I was back in work the next day. So on the Tuesday, I got up and I thought something's gotta change here. Something's gotta give because I can't keep giving. So I made a story post and I said, as of June, I am dropping Tuesdays in the clinic to give myself a little bit more time and make space for having an admin day every Tuesday. So while technically I'm taking it off clinic, I'm not off work, if that makes sense. I'm having it as like a dedicated day to get shit done. Because currently I don't have that, I just do bits as and when I can, and some weeks I have loads of time for it, depending on how busy I am. Other weeks I've got literally zero time for it, and I feel like I'm just chasing my tail all the time. So yeah, I was like, that's it, Tuesdays, having them off. I'm done now. I need to do it, someone's gotta give. And within five minutes of posting that story, a DM from someone I really like love and admire in the industry fell into my inbox asking me to do something really exciting working alongside her. I'm not gonna say what it is yet, because one, I'm very heavy on the evil eye stuff. I don't like to talk about things until it's all actually confirmed and it's happening because you never know who's listening and wishing bad on you. And two, it's not like we've not ironed all like the finer details out yet. That needs to happen before I'd be like comfortable speaking about anything because you never know, things might change. So, but yeah, I am feeling very grateful and just like blessed for this opportunity to have come to me. I feel like I have worked for it in a sense, but not necessarily like outwardly. I've just done the thing that I love to do, and because this person has seen that, I've recognized that they've gone, I want you to do this thing with me. And that is incredible. Like, honestly, when I got the message, I nearly burst into tears. Like, I was just like, I cannot believe that this has just happened. Like, I cannot believe that I've just put out, I need to do less clinic, I need to take time so that I've actually got space for myself. And somebody's just reached out to me and basically is gonna give me the money that I would be like losing dropping these days in clinic back for like nowhere near as much like stress. What? Whoa, that's crazy. But the way I see it or saw it, and still do see it to be fair, like this is the way my brain works. Some of you are gonna listen to this, right? And think, okay, she's fucking crazy. That's fine. She's absolutely like woo-woo mental. I am, but it works, and it's true. So what happened, in my opinion? I before dropping that day was constantly, oh god, I'm so busy, oh, I've got no time for anything, oh my god, I've just got no space, like I'm so busy, I'm just uh run ragged, blah blah blah. Negative, negative, negative, negative, negative. I've then switched that and gone. I need to take a day, like I need this extra time for me. Because ultimately that's why I've done it. I haven't done it for anybody else, I've done it for me. And then the universe is gone, oh my god, you've got space for this now. You have space to do this thing that you've been asking for. Because I have been like quietly manifesting this behind the scenes, like literally to myself. And yeah, the universe fully was just like, oh my god, space. Here you go, here you go, take that. What? That's crazy. Yeah, I just feel like this year has just been crazy for me. Like, I've been doing this for a long time. I've been in this industry for 12 years, I've been self-employed and had my own business for 10. That's a long time. And the last six months are probably the best I have felt and the most confident I have felt in myself and where I want the business to go, and what I want from the business, and what I want to give other people from my business. And since I've sort of realized that and been sort of thinking differently and in a different like mind frame, my life is just completely changed. Like, completely changed. The things that keep happening to me are wild, like actually wild. And initially, when they happen, I think like, who's doing this? Like, who is doing this for me? Because I've not done anything for this, but then when I actually think about it, I have all of the work, all of the mistakes, and all of the bad things that have happened to me, especially like in this business, but then also like personally as well, have been leading up to this. And the only reason it's not come any sooner is because I couldn't see it for what it was. I couldn't see it in a positive light, and I didn't look at it as a good thing, I looked at it as a negative thing. I was very like a victim mentality. Whereas now, the negative things that happen, yes, they're shit. Yes, nobody wants negative things to happen to them, but they're also something to be grateful for because if nothing negative happened, how would you ever learn anything? Like you just wouldn't. But I see this a lot with other people all the time. Like I speak to so many of you guys that listen to the podcast, and so many of you are just doing a million and one things, and you've got no time and you're working 50 million jobs at once, and you're, you know, back to back, fully booked for months on end, which is great. I'm not like dissing that at all. But while you are running yourself ragged and you have no time and you have no space to grow, you're not going to. Like, I said to um a girl that I was talking to the other day, and honestly, when I said it, I thought, am I a philosopher? Because that slaps. I'm sit gonna say this on the podcast. The way I explained it to her was a plant will not grow any bigger if it's in the same pot. So you go and buy a pot from BQ or a plant from BQ, it's in that little plastic pot that they come in with the holes in the bottom. If you leave that plant in that, it will stay that size forever. For as long as it lives, it will stay that big. It physically cannot grow anymore because its roots don't have space to grow. If you take that plant out of that little tiny plastic pot and put it in a big, shiny ceramic, whatever you call it, pot with loads of fresh new soil and loads of new space to grow, what's it gonna do? It's gonna grow. It's gonna get big, it's gonna get some big new juicy leaves and stalks and grow some massive new roots. But it's only gonna do that if it has that space. And we work the exact same. If you don't have space to grow, you're not going to. You're not gonna get any bigger. You're not gonna grow those big juicy leaves and some big roots, thick roots. You're gonna stay the exact same way. And changing things is really scary. Trust me, I have done it a million and one times. There's never been a time where I've not inside been going, oh my god, I this is gonna go wrong, everyone's gonna leave, I'm not gonna have any clients, I'm gonna be bankrupt and my life's gonna be ruined. I am one for catastrophizing sometimes. I will give you that. But the more I've done it, the more I've sort of realized what's the worst that could happen. Like realistically. Let's take me dropping a Tuesday, for example. Realistically, what is the Worst thing that could come from me dropping this Tuesday. I have a couple of clients who can only do Tuesdays because of work. They can only come Tuesday daytime because of work. But then my options are, well, I do evenings and I also do every other Saturday. My Saturdays are probably my quietest days, so it would mean that they would potentially come on a Saturday and fill that day up a little bit more. That's fine. The other side is they might leave and not come back. And while I love and appreciate all of my clients, if that's what happens, that's what happens. If that's what it takes for me to not feel this way anymore, so be it. Because I would rather me be okay and not have an actual mental breakdown than keep one client. And I think everybody would be fine with that. Like I don't think I'm saying something that's like super negative here. I see so many people doing it, and when I speak to them about it, their main thing, their main reason for not changing it is fear. Fear of, well, how am I going to afford it? Fear of, well, I don't know how to do it. Fear of, well, what if this happens? What if that happens? And I get it. All of those are very valid fears, but all that is, is your brain telling you this isn't a safe place. We know what's safe. Safe's in here. Inside this little box is safe because we've been here. We know what's in here. It's fine. I've got control of this. When you look at leaving that space, your brain goes, I don't know what's out there. I don't know what could happen. We're not safe there. You need to not do that. And that's where anxiety and these feelings of like imposter syndrome and like self-doubt come from. It's your brain trying to protect you. That's literally all it's doing. Your brain's trying to keep you safe, and it doesn't understand that it's fight or flight, basically. So your brain doesn't understand that you're not actually being chased by a tiger right now. You're just trying to put a boundary in with a client. Like it's not that deep. Your brain doesn't work that way. It doesn't see things the way that we see them. It just works electrically, basically. You need to see those feelings of like fear and self-doubt and imposter syndrome as growth and change. And that can only be a positive thing because you are making space for yourself to grow. You are giving space for better things to come in, basically. The same as the plant. Plant is never gonna grow in the same pot forever. It just will not, it will only grow if you give it a bigger pot. You are the plant. You need to give yourself a bigger part. Creating space and maybe even losing things in the process, like clients or like a little bit of money to begin with, isn't losing, it's making room for bigger and better things. Like I've lost however many clients over the years from changing days or changing hours or changing policies or boundaries or treatments or whatever. But by trusting that stepping back from that thing that is no longer serving you, you're actually making space for something bigger and better is a good thing. Like it's a positive thing. And that doesn't mean going quitting your job overnight. Like that's not what I'm telling you to do. I don't want anybody coming and telling me after listening to this podcast that I have financially ruined them because I told them to quit their job. That's not what I'm doing. But bigger things like that, you need to have a plan and a strategy in place, which is something that I can help you with if you need that. But it does mean taking control and taking ownership as well. Like I think we need some self-awareness that the only person that's putting us in these situations is us. Nobody else is. We're self-employed, we run our own business, you're your own boss. If you feel like the boss is an arsehole, you're looking in the mirror, babes. It's you. You need to take control and take some accountability of the things that are keeping you stuck and what you can do to change that. Looking at what's not actually working and then being brave enough to change it. And being brave is really fucking cool. Like, I don't know about you, but I think that's really cool. You can do it. Like, you literally can. It's ultimately quite easy. It just doesn't feel easy because of the way our brains work. And you just need to have that sort of confidence in yourself. Some people that comes a lot easier for like more naturally for some people really struggle to have confidence within themselves. So if you are that kind of person, what you need is a strategy of right, this is what I want. How am I gonna get there? What steps do I need to implement to get me to my goal? Because ultimately that's how anything works. You don't just wake up one day and can run a marathon. You have to train for it. You have to go right. So I'm gonna start with couch to 5k if you've never run before. Like if I was gonna train, if I decided right next year I'm doing the London marathon, I don't run. I have never run ever. So if I was like, right, I'm wanting to do the marathon, what do I need to do? How do I train for this? I'd have a training plan. I'd think, right, how am I gonna get from A to B? What do I need to do in the middle to get from A to B? I need to download the Couch to 5K app. That's step number one. I need to sign into the couch to 5K app. Step number two. I need to actually do it. Because I've done this before. I'm gonna write myself here. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna start running. How hard can it be? I downloaded the app, I signed in, and then I never opened it again. I had it on my phone for about a year, never opened it again. Not once. But that's my fault. That's nobody else's fault. That's my fault. I didn't reach that like goal that I've set for myself to start running because I didn't do it. Nobody else stopped me. I only got myself to blame. And sometimes that can feel like a really hard thing to hear that like you could potentially be the one to blame. Obviously, I know when it comes to work and like especially you've got another job and you've got like a kid or whatever to feed or a mortgage to pay, yes, it is much harder, but you can do it. You just need to get from A to B. You just need to make that plan and put the steps in motion one by one, and you will get there eventually. It is as simple as that. If you are struggling with making that plan, you don't know where to start, you feel a bit lost with it, you want to do this, but you don't know how to do that to get to that point, message me. Just let me know. Because if I know somebody that could help you, I can point you in that direction. Or if I can physically help you, I will help you. Like there are so many people out there that can help. You just gotta ask for it. So I knew that one of my goals was to work less and be able to go on holidays without stressing about the money while I'm not there, because that is something that's really stresses me out. I don't know why I get so stressed about it, but I do. So I thought, right, how am I gonna do that? And want to set up like an online program and some like like passive income, you know, like courses and stuff to sell online. I don't really know how to do it. I know how to make them, but how to actually get it out there and make it do well, I don't know. Like I struggle with that. I've done things in the past that have just not really done that well. And it's down to like my launch strategy and not planning things properly and just winging it. So after obviously we did the podcast, me and Lauren the other week, hearing her talk about, I was thinking while you were recording it, I thought, you're what I need. You're literally the person that I need to help me do the things that I want to do and do not know how to do. So I signed up with her. I signed up on her six-month programme to get all of these things put in place for me so that I can just take a bit more of a step back. I'm not having to, you know, absolutely kill myself off to earn enough money to go away with so that I won't panic. Because no matter how much money I earn before I go, I always panic anyway. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've just a nightmare when it comes to that sort of thing. Like money really stresses me out, but I've also been working on that in therapy. So it's getting better. But then just having Lauren in my corner, like it's been a week since I signed up with it, and it's already been so helpful, and like I've got so much done and been super productive with the thing that I've been wanting to do for probably 18 months and just haven't known how to actually get started. I just overthink things and just think about it rather than just doing it. So since having my call with Lauren at the beginning of this week, I've done so much, like so much, and I'm like fully on the way to getting this stuff sorted and launched. And that's literally just because I asked the hell, like, yes, obviously it's an investment, yes, it costs me money, but I split it over, I think I split it over 12 months. So the money that it's costing me a month, by the time I've launched these things, I'm not even gonna notice because it's gonna pay for itself. Like, you know. So if you want, if you need help with like that sort of thing, give me a message, I can explain to you like what's sort of involved with Lauren's programme. And if you sound if it sounds like something that you would be interested in, then I can get you her details and stuff and you can get signed up. But honestly, she's incredible. Like, I actually bother like so much already, and it's week one of the six months, so yeah, would recommend if you are thinking of like getting into the online space a little bit more but don't really know how to do it. But yeah, I feel like this is one that was really needed. I feel like there isn't enough honesty around burnout and it actually happening rather than it being like, oh, just this is how to avoid burnout. Okay, great, but what happens if we're in it, you know? What do we do then? So if you are feeling any sort of way of the way that I described I was feeling last weekend, it's so fine. Like it happens and it will happen again. I can't tell you how many times I've hit burnout in the 10 years of being a business owner. It's just the way that I am is just inevitable, I think, because I love doing things all the time and just constantly like growing and evolving and working. We do need to sort it out because it's all good and well trying to avoid it, but sometimes it is inevitable. Sometimes you are gonna hit it, and we need to then know how to get out of it and what's the best ways to deal with it, really, and that is just taking some time for yourself, feeling what you need to feel, having a big fucking crash out if that's what you need. I love a crash out. I always feel so good after a crash out, then after that, putting yourself together and getting shit done. What am I gonna do to stop this from happening again? How can I get myself out of this? What do I need? It's that simple. It really is that simple. But if you do need help, let me know. Give me a message, I can help you get to the bottom of what you can do to get out of this situation. I've been through it a million and one times. I feel like I'm a burnout expert at this point, but I feel like I have never had anybody to go to with it because the industry did not used to be like how it is now. So when I first started out, there was no one. It's only really in the last probably 18 months that I've started having actual like industry friends and people to talk to about all of this sort of stuff. So yeah, the industry is in the best place I think it's been in terms of that. Like we're all very girl power and supporting each other. But I think sometimes it is hard to tell people the negative things. So if you do need to do that, I'm your gal. I don't judge anyone, I'm not gonna judge you for needing help. Like, I'm really not, but yeah, just nothing changes if nothing changes. Like, it's such a cheesy saying, but it literally is the truth. Like, what was it? Was it Einstein that said like repeating the same action, expecting a different outcome is the version of insanity. That's literally what we're doing. We're just doing the same thing, expecting things to change, and nothing ever does until you change it. So, as always, if you feel like this episode has been helpful, tag us in your stories, share it, share the pod with everybody else. The more people that listen, the more things we can do with it. I've got some really good ideas, I've got some incredible guests lined up. One next week. So for the next episode, basically, I've got someone very exciting on that I think you're all gonna love having on. So yeah, the more we share it and the more visibility we have and whatnot, the more super fun people I can get on and chat to and help you guys with. So yeah, tag us in your stories, DM me if you want to. You can subscribe to the podcast, that way you get notifications when each episode goes live. If you can rate it on the app that you're using, whether that's like Spotify, Apple, or Amazon, would really love it if you could do that. It helps to like boost it and push it out on there too. And yeah, I hope you're all having a great Monday and let's go into this week. Super positive and ready to make some really good change. Bye.