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Welcome back to Hatrack with Hannah! In today’s episode, Hannah takes a deep dive into your burning questions about aligned entrepreneurship. From untangling your self-worth from your bottom line to knowing when it’s time to evolve the business you worked so hard to build, this conversation is all about running a business that supports your actual life—not the other way around.

Key Topics Covered

 Alignment vs. Fear

• The Big Question: How do I know if I'm making business decisions from alignment or fear?
• Key Takeaways:
  • Alignment doesn't mean being fearless; fear will often be present during growth.
  • Fear-Based Signals: Urgency, "shoulds," physical tightness, needing constant reassurance, or acting to avoid discomfort.
  • Alignment Signals: Spaciousness, clarity, calmness (even if accompanied by nervous excitement), and honoring your capacity.

Untangling Worth from Business

• The Big Question: How do I stop tying my self-worth to my business success?
• Key Takeaways:
  • The Golden Rule: Your business is something you do, not who you are.
  • Data vs. Story: A launch missing its financial target is just data; believing you’re "bad at business" is a story.
  • Reframing inner critique: Shift from "My business isn't growing, so I'm failing" to "Something about my strategy isn't working, and I can learn from it."
  • Remember the Hat Rack: Business is just one hat you wear. Lean into your other roles (friend, partner, creative, human) during slow business seasons.

Defining Aligned Success

• The Big Question: What does aligned success actually look like?
• Key Takeaways:
  • Success isn't automatically "more" (more clients, more revenue, more noise).
  • Redefining "Enough": Success without a definition of "enough" becomes an endless goalpost move.
  • Aligned success means honoring your whole life—leaving room for your health, relationships, rest, and personal values without self-abandonment.

Outgrowing Your Business

• The Big Question: Can I outgrow the business I worked so hard to build?
• Key Takeaways:
  • Permission Granted: Yes, absolutely. Outgrowing a model, niche, or offer doesn't mean you failed—it means the business did its job and helped you evolve.
  • Beware of the Sunk Cost Trap: Past investment does not equal future alignment.
  • You don't always have to "burn it down." Realignment can simply mean tweaking your pricing, shifting your offer, delegating, or redesigning the business to fit who you are today.

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Do you ever feel like you're juggling a million versions of yourself and still dropping the ball? Like you're switching hats all day. Professional, partner, current, friend. And no one really sees what it takes to just be you? Yeah, me too. Welcome to Hat Rack with Hannah. I'm Hannah, therapist, entrepreneur, author, podcast host, and also a mom, partner, daughter, friend. Basically a professional hat wearer. I created this space where you don't have to minimize what you're carrying or rush past it. Because the truth is, you can have big dreams and feel overwhelmed by the roles it takes to hold them. Both get to exist. Here we slow it down, call it what it is, take some hats off, and figure out what actually belongs in your rack. So take a deep breath. You can set something down here, and let's get into it. Welcome back, Hat Rack with Hannah listeners. I am so excited to bring the questions that I've been getting from y'all to the pod. So let's get into it. And these are questions on aligned entrepreneurship. And so that will be fun to dive in. So our first question is from Amanda in Nevada. Hey Amanda. How do I know if I'm making business decisions from alignment or fear? Ooh, that's a really good one. So I would start by challenging this idea. Alignment does not mean making decisions without fear by any means. Fear will probably be present, especially when you're building something. So the question isn't, am I afraid? It's is fear driving the decision, or am I able to hear my values and intuition alongside fear? I just want to bring us back to the definition of aligned entrepreneurship before we answer this question. So alignment is your business decisions are connected to your values, vision, capacity, priorities, and the kind of life you actually want to live. It doesn't always mean the easiest or most comfortable choice. Sometimes an aligned decision is actually the scarier one. For example, saying no to an opportunity because it doesn't fit your capacity, or raising your prices even though you're afraid people won't pay. Walking away from something that looks successful on paper but feels wrong. So back to your question, Amanda. Fear-based decision making can look like a lot of shoulds. I should say yes because this is a great opportunity. Everyone else is doing this, so I should. If I don't take this client, someone else will. I need to make money right now. I need to prove myself. What if people think I'm not successful? What if I miss out? What if I slow down and everything falls apart? So fear often creates this urgency or sense of urgency where everything feels like it has to happen right now and you feel pressured to decide immediately. You're making decisions to avoid a feared outcome rather than move towards what you actually want. So I really want to challenge you, Amanda, to bring in the nervous system when we're evaluating this. And I want you to instead ask, what does my body feel like when I'm making the decision? Fear can show up as urgency, tightness, racing thoughts, obsessively checking numbers, needing reassurance, difficulty sleeping, feeling like you have to do something. But alignment might feel like grounded, clear, spacious, calm, even if nervous, connected to your values, and like you can breathe while considering the decision. So going back to your question, how do I know if I'm making a business decision from alignment or fear? Are you feeling this urgency? Are you feeling any of those things? Or are you feeling grounded and clear? An important nuance here is that calm doesn't automatically mean alignment. Anxiety doesn't automatically mean something is wrong. Your body is giving you information. And so it's not necessarily the final answer, but you really want to tune in with your nervous system. I would also dig a few layers deeper and ask, what am I afraid of? Because if we don't know what we're afraid of, then your decisions damn well could be coming from fear, right? But get underneath this decision and is the fear losing money or disappointing someone, being judged, failing, succeeding, being visible, outgrowing people, changing your identity, having to become someone you don't want to be. Sometimes we're not afraid of the decision. We're afraid of what the decision means about us. So this is also a space to get really clear about why we're caring about that perception and how much we want to invest there. So I want us to do an activity together to help evaluate your question, Amanda. I want you to make two separate columns. And in one column, I want you to label it what I know. So facts. And the second column, I want you to name what I'm afraid might happen. So we're separating the facts from the fear. In the what I know column, I want you to write the numbers, the opportunity, the actual risk, factually based, the actual timeline, and what I have capacity for. Second column, I want you to write what I'm afraid might happen. So everyone will leave. People won't take me seriously. I'll never get the another opportunity. I'll regret this. And this can help distinguish information from projection. So in the what am I afraid might happen column, if it starts to bleed into your what I know column or your factual column, I think that's really important to note. But you want to make sure when you're making this decision that you acknowledge all of your fears because that's a part of the work, but that they're very separate from the decision that you're making. And I know that's a hard space to be in because I think it's one where they're easy to combine, but I want us to try and separate them a little bit. Actually, a lot bit. I want us to separate them. And then I want you to go back to our alignment questions. Before making major business decisions, I would still ask, would I still want this if I wasn't afraid of missing out? Would I choose this if nobody knew about it? Does this support the business I actually want to build? Does this fit within my current capacity? Am I saying yes because I want it or because I want to prove something? That one's hard. Does this move me toward my values or away from discomfort? What does my body feel when I imagine saying yes and no? And what would I choose if I trusted another opportunity could exist? This also brings up the conversation, Amanda, of aligned risk. And it's really important for entrepreneurship, but alignment isn't always conservative. And sometimes fear says stay where it's safe. But alignment says this is scary, but this is actually what I want. And so there is a big risk sometimes in the things that are aligned. For example, launching the thing, right? Hiring someone, leaving a job, investing in the business, becoming more visible, saying no to lucrative but misaligned opportunities. Alignment is not risk-free at all. But if it aligns with you and it feels like a driver for you, don't ignore that either. Just evaluate the risk from your aligned space versus fear-based space. Another question I would ask is which decision allows me to respect myself six months from now? So a little future casting. If I am going to make this decision, will I respect it in six months? And if the answer is yes, then it could be from a very aligned place. And if the answer is no, maybe that is a fear-based space. And I want to name that this question is not which decision makes me look successful or happy or eliminates fear, because that's not what we're evaluating. But asking which decision feels most consistent with the person and business I'm trying to build. I also want to bring this back to self-abandonment. Sometimes fear-based entrepreneurship looks like self-abandonment disguised as ambition. So we're overcommitting, undercharging, saying yes to everything. So I want you to ask, am I building a business that supports my life or have I built a life that supports my business? I know. But when we're in alignment, your business is supporting the life that you want to have, not the other way around. So in closing, Amanda, you don't need to wait until you're completely fearless to make this decision. You do not need 100% certainty. You need enough connection with yourself to hear what is underneath that fear. The fear says, what if this doesn't work? Alignment says, even knowing it might not work, it's still something I believe in and want to pursue. So I think one of the biggest shifts in aligned entrepreneurship is realizing that fear doesn't have to disappear before you make a decision. The goal isn't to become fearless, it's to become connected enough with yourself that fear isn't the only voice in the room. So, Amanda, I hope that helps. Definitely evaluate and ask yourself some of those questions to rule out if it is fear or alignment. And thank you so much for writing in. Okay, so this is from Cam in North Dakota. Hey Cam. How do I stop tying my self-worth to my business success? Yep. This one is hard. First, let's start by normalizing it. This is incredibly common, especially when your business is something you built from your own ideas, values, creativity, or lived experience. When you put so much of yourself into something, it can become difficult to separate it. My business isn't doing well from I'm not doing well, right? And a slow month can sometimes feel personal, and a rejection can feel like a rejection of you. Someone else's success can suddenly make you question your own. But your business is something you do, not who you are. And this is a huge reminder to everyone. I'm going to say to you one more time. Your business is something you do, not who you are. When you are your business, I want you to stop, full hard stop, and evaluate what you're missing in your life outside your business and how you can amplify those things to serve you as a person and not just a business owner. It's really important to do that because we've learned and been taught that our worth is in what we create or the success we build, but that's not fair to you. And that's also not, honestly, what's going to be written on your tombstone. People are going to remember you for the person that you are and how you interacted with people and who your loved ones were and what you did in your community. And of course, the business that you built, but it's not the first thing they're going to think. And so you cannot be your business. So take a step back and evaluate the other spaces in your life as well. Your business, on the other hand, though, can still be deeply meaningful without being your identity. I would remind you that business results are just information. So they can tell you that something needs to change or strategy isn't working, timing isn't right, but they don't tell you whether you're valuable or capable or worthy. So when you're getting critique or things aren't going well, I want you to separate it from yourself and just take it as evidence. Okay, I gotta change the strategy. You're okay, that didn't work. Or even if something does work, but you didn't like how it went. Okay, that didn't feel good. Gotta shift that, right? A way to notice if your business is measuring your worth and if you're in that space, you can monitor your thoughts and see if these things are coming up. For example, if I were better at this, I'd be more successful. Everyone else is growing faster than me. I should be further along. If this doesn't work, I've failed. None of these are serving you. They're actually the blockages in your business that are holding you back. Comparing yourself to others and honestly being an asshole to yourself are not going to serve you. So instead, I want you to ask, am I trying to grow my business right now or am I trying to prove something about myself? Because if you're trying to prove something about yourself, you need to go back to why the hell you opened your business in the first place. And if you're trying to grow your business right now from an aligned space, what is driving us? Why are we doing this to begin with? And taking a step back in order to pivot forward. And this is again where we bring in the nervous system, right? This is our business strategy. It goes along with it. Entrepreneurship as a whole involves a tremendous amount of uncertainty. And your nervous system doesn't always distinguish between financial uncertainty, rejection, lack of clients, low engagement, and triggers. So a slow period can trigger your nervous system into an urgency mode of working more, posting more, saying yes to everything. And you could end up making business decisions from fear and self-protection instead of alignment. So we need to make sure when we are feeling this urgency and when we're feeling our body saying, you have to act, you have to go, you have to go, pausing and taking a second to reevaluate where is that urgency coming from. And nine times out of 10, it's you trying to propel you, but not from an aligned space. So asking the questions of alignment, how is this serving my mission? Like taking it back to the drawing board of view, if you will, and evaluating how your body is feeling in your decision making and separating it from your worth. It's a similar response to Amanda's question, but I also want to name another tool is separating the data and the facts from the story, right? My launch didn't perform the way I expected it. That's data. The story that you're telling yourself or your inner narrative might be I'm bad at business. And data might say I didn't sign the number of clients I wanted, but the story might be people don't value what I'm offering. That inner narrative hurts you. And we don't want to ignore the data, but we don't want the data to turn into judgment about yourself or this inner narrative that makes you pivot to making decisions from a misaligned place. So just being aware of that and separating data from what's actually happening, just like we were separating for Amanda, fear from the decision. When I say taking it back to the drawing board, I also would really urge you to create a definition of success that isn't solely financial. What does success actually look like for your business? Am I building a business that supports the life I actually want? Do I like the way I'm building it? Does it allow me to have relationships and a life outside work? Am I proud of how I treat people? Am I doing meaningful work? Am I building sustainability instead of just chasing growth? Revenue does matter, but it can't be the only measurement. So let's get very clear on how you define success in your business outside of the revenue flow. So when I say go back to the drawing board, that's what I mean to find alignment in why you're making the decisions that you're making. I also want to urge you to remember hat rack with Hannah, right? Your business is one hat on your rack. And it should never be the whole rack. You should never have one hat, right? It's one role that you're wearing. You're also a friend, could be a partner, could be a parent, a community member, creative. You wear all these other hats. So if your business has a difficult season, you're still a whole person. And I want you to lean on the other roles in your life to serve you until you get out of that difficult season. That's the best part of wearing multiple hats, is that we have the ability to tune in and out when it serves us. This is also where we're going to practice separating identity from outcome. Instead of my business succeeded, therefore I'm successful. I want you to try on my business had a successful season, and I'm really proud of the work I did. So we're going to change that inner critique narrative into something that serves you, but not something that's toxically positive because we're not here for that either. But I want you to start to affiliate your successes or your outcomes and then reframing them into what serves you. Instead of my business isn't growing, so I'm failing. I want you to reframe it to something about my current strategy isn't working, and I can learn from that. We're changing our inner narrative, and it seems like such a tiny shift, but it's the shift that can keep us in a space of misalignment versus alignment. Another example, my business succeeded, therefore I'm successful. Instead, I want you to reframe to my business had a successful season, and I'm really proud of the work that I did to make that happen. So acknowledging that. Give yourself permission to have seasons. This is a huge point when we are tying our worth to our business, is every business has seasons. And that's okay because growth isn't linear. But some seasons are about expansion and learning and rebuilding and rest and figuring out what you don't want anymore. But when we're not labeling it as a season of those things, growth can feel like a criticism or rebuilding can feel like coming back from failure. But really, these are just normal business seasons. And so let's normalize and give yourself permission to feel through those and actually allow those in your business. Honestly, the growth moments are where we thrive. So allowing for that instead of being in this space of I'm regrowing, which means I'm failing, can really feel better. And just a deeper alignment question I want you to ask. So instead of constantly asking how successful am I, I want you to reframe and ask, is the business I'm building actually supporting the person I want to be? And that can honestly, that question could be your golden thread and something that you always come back to, along with your aligned definition of success outside of the financial piece. Those two things can really help us, and our reframes can really help us to remove our worth from our business. I think this is one of the hardest parts of entrepreneurship because when you're building something that's deeply connected to you, it can feel like every number is a reflection of you. But your revenue is not your worth. Your follower count is not your worth. A launch that didn't work isn't a reflection of your intelligence. And someone saying no doesn't mean you're not valuable. Your business is something you're building, it is not a measurement of who you are. And during building seasons, there is growth and learning, and that doesn't mean failure. And maybe part of aligned entrepreneurship is learning to care deeply about the work without making the outcome responsible for how you feel about yourself. I hope that breaks it down for you, Cam. I know that was a lot, but this is one of my favorite topics to discuss. And it is often something almost like an entrepreneurial trap that we get stuck in. So let me know how that sits for you, and I'll be excited to get some feedback. Okay, our next question is from Lydia from New York. Hey, Lydia. What does aligned success actually look like? My first response wants to be whatever you damn well envision it to be. But we'll break it down a little bit more. So, what does aligned success actually look like? What we're taught it looks like is more money, clients, followers, bigger teams, more visibility, more opportunities, constant growth. But more isn't automatically better. So, what if you can be successful on paper and still feel completely disconnected from your life? It happens all the time. Success becomes problematic when the definition comes from everyone else's expectations instead of your own values. So I want to define aligned success real quick. To me, aligned success is not about having the perfect business or life. It's about creating success that is a relationship with who you are, what you value, and the life you actually want to live. It asks, what do I want? Why do I want it? What am I willing to sacrifice? And what am I not willing to sacrifice to get it? Alignment is less about making everything easy and more about reducing self-abandonment. So your success has to include your whole life. Coming back to the hat rack with Hannah Metaphor, right? Like the hat rack. Your business is only one hat. It shouldn't require you to take off every other hat permanently. And aligned success leaves room for your relationship hat, your family hat, your health hat, rest, creativity, community, being a whole person outside of work. So to me, aligned success includes all the hats that you're wearing. So I would ask yourself, what's the point of building a business that's successful if you don't have a life you actually want to live? And I want to bring in the mind body connection. Yes, your nervous system strategy here. Your body often tells you when something is no longer sustainable for you before your mind is willing to admit it. And this is because of so many learned behaviors that we have and what success actually means, right?

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You to pay attention to when you're realigning your success and if it's aligned, is there constant exhaustion, irritability, anxiety, resentment, sleep disruption, feeling constantly on, dreading something you used to enjoy? These aren't necessarily signs that you've chosen the wrong career, but they are information. And this is an important distinction because discomfort doesn't always mean misalignment and growth can also be uncomfortable. But chronic depletion and resentment and consistently overriding yourself deserves attention and can be a big red flag in regards to misaligning from yourself, which can bring you further from your definition of success. Like we were talking about earlier, aligned success doesn't mean playing small, it means making aligned risks. So sometimes people confuse alignment with discomfort or avoiding risk, but really you can be incredibly ambitious and you can want wealth, visibility, impact, growth, leadership. But the question is, can I pursue what I want without abandoning who I am to get there? Very similar to my response to Cam's question earlier, but different. I want you to define instead of success, like with Cam's question, I want you, Lydia, to specifically define what is enough for you. If there's no definition of enough, there is always another goal. Client, launch, milestone, follower, revenue number, right? So ask, what does enough money look like? What does enough work look like? What does enough growth look like? Visibility look like? What does enough actually feel like? Enough is not a lack of ambition, but it's knowing when the goal is serving you instead of consuming you. And I think that can be really helpful to then going into what our definition of success is. And some signs to understand when you're experiencing aligned success can really look like you celebrating growth without immediately moving the goalpost. I'm very guilty of this one. I really love to move the goalpost. I'm always striving to reset my goals and often never take the second to acknowledge or celebrate my wins, which is a huge sign of misalignment, right? So you can celebrate growth without immediately moving the goalpost. That's a form of aligned success. You can say no to opportunities that don't fit. I'm not saying there won't still be guilt there, but it's knowing the opportunities that feel best to you and accepting those and not taking on the ones that don't serve you. And your business supports your values, right? So you have boundaries around your time and you don't need every decision to be validated externally. You can have a bad month without questioning your worth. You have room to rest, you can change your mind. You actually enjoy parts of the life that you're building outside of your business. You're wearing your other hats. So I want to take it a few levels deeper. Instead of how successful can I come, I want you to ask, what kind of success would actually feel good to live inside? And who do I have to become to achieve this? And do I actually want to become that person? Because sometimes we're chasing a version of success that requires us to become someone we don't even like being. And I'll give an example. I really want to do retreat work. I'm dying to do it after just co-hosting this retreat. I'm just really wanting to get into this work. And one of my number one values is to be able to wear multiple hats, obviously at different times, and be with my family. So if this retreat work takes me away from my family once a quarter, it better be worth it to me, or else it's a misalignment from my values. And so I'm currently defining what this retreat work success would look like for me and what I would need in order to take time away from my family for it to feel like it fuels and serves me. So just as an example, right? For me, aligned success isn't about rejecting ambition. It's about redefining what ambition gets to look like. I can want growth and still want rest. And for me, family time, right? I can want financial success and still want my relationships. I can want a big business and still want a life outside of it. So aligned success is when the business you're building doesn't require you to abandon the person you're becoming. And maybe the real question isn't how successful can I be, but can I build success in a way that still feels like me? I hope that helps, Lydia. A little all over the place, but a few steps to look at. And also taking from Cam's question, making sure to evaluate your definition of success. And I will be eager to hear how that lands for you. Our final question for this series is from Teresa in Colorado. Hi, Teresa. Can I outgrow the business I worked so hard to build? The answer is yes. So let's start with permission here. Absolutely, you can outgrow the business you worked your ass off to build. One of the hardest parts of entrepreneurship is accepting that the business you built may not always fit the person you are becoming. It's hard, especially when we put our energy many years into those businesses, right? We often think, but I work so hard for this. And that can keep people in businesses that no longer serve them. And because of that, we feel that changing means we're ungrateful or we've failed. But growth can actually change what we need. And that's okay. I've alluded to this before in my conversations, but when I started building my business, I was single and in my 20s and had all the time in the world, right? But the business that I built for that version of me has had to significantly change across my lifetime, specifically to make room for the hats that I now wear. So I want you to think about like where you started and who you were then. What did you need then? What were your priorities then? What did you believe success looked like all the way back then? What did you have capacity for? And what did you want to prove? And then ask, is this business still designed for the person I now am today? And oftentimes it's not, and that's okay. But your business might have been exactly what you needed it to be for that season. And it doesn't have to align forever. This is when we get to change and grow. And outgrowing doesn't mean failure. You can outgrow and offer niche, business model, pricing structure, role, team structure, schedule, identity, even. But the business didn't fail. It may have actually done exactly what it was supposed to do. And it helped you become the person who you can now see what's next and can grow into. I think this leads us to the sunk cost trap. We can say I've invested too much, or people know me for this, or what will people think, or I can't start over. This is what I've always done, right? I have a caseload or I have a clientele. But past investment doesn't automatically mean future alignment. Ask, am I staying because I still want this or because I don't want the work I've already done to feel wasted? And then we bring in our somatics, right? Sometimes your body can recognize a shift before your brain does. You may notice dread, resentment, exhaustion, lack of creativity, feeling trapped, constant resistance. There's an important distinction here, though, that not every hard season means you've outgrown your business. Entrepreneurship is hard. And if you've repeatedly tried to solve the same problem and the underlying feeling is I don't want to do this anymore, that's worth listening to. Absolutely. I just want to name Teresa. I've totally been here and it's really difficult. And there have been times where I've been like, is this business still for me? And then I'll shift the model or I'll shift this. And I have to really realign and reground into what I want. And it sounds like that could be the space that you're in if you're asking this question. And so I also want you to name and work through outgrowing versus avoiding. So ask yourself, am I outgrowing this or am I afraid of the next level? Because sometimes we want to leave because we're scared to scale or uncomfortable being visible, afraid of responsibility or exhausted and need support rather than a complete pivot. But other times the discomfort is actually information. You don't necessarily need to burn it all down. You may need to evolve it though and make shifts. What alignment can look like in the evaluation of if you've outgrown your business, it can mean simplifying things, raising your prices, finding others whose zones of genius it is to support you in their zones that are not yours. So delegating, changing your audience, taking something off your plate, returning to something you've stopped doing. So like going back to your mission and realigning. And alignment isn't always I'm leaving or I'm gonna burn it down. Sometimes it can just be I'm gonna redesign it so it fits me now. For example, I used to work with teens and I love that work, still do, but I primarily now work with couples, new parents, right? I've always worked with suicidality amongst the age span because that's just something that is amongst the age span. But I used to see 90% teens, and now I definitely don't. And I see many more couples and people in their parenatal phases of their life. And that's just like what I've developed in and what I've started working with from my own experiences too. And that's okay. It's a growth space, and I redesigned it so it fits me now. Still same principles, but different. And I'm not burning it all down, I'm just shifting, and that's okay. I want you to give yourself permission to grieve, and this piece is important, but you can be excited about what's next and grieve what you're leaving behind. Like the old identity, clients version of yourself who built it, the dream you originally had, the amount of effort you invested. You don't have to make the past wrong to choose something different. I can be grateful for what this business gave me and still recognize that I don't want to carry it forward in the same way. So just as we acknowledge our wins, you also want to acknowledge the grief and shifting. And that's okay, but it's something to also acknowledge. And then I also want to just give you, Teresa, like a little homework. I want you to like journal or voice note or whatever your modality is and ask yourself some of these deeper questions in order to evaluate if you've outgrown your business. What do I actually want now? What no longer serves me? What am I holding on to because I've worked hard for it? What would I build today if I were starting from where I am now? What parts of this business still feel alive? What parts feel like an obligation? What would I change if I wasn't worried about disappointing anyone? That's a hard one. And am I trying to preserve the business or preserve an old version of myself? Let me know how that journaling goes or voice noting or whatever your preference is. But I think sometimes we treat entrepreneurship like we're supposed to pick one thing and stay committed to it forever, right? But you're allowed to evolve. You're allowed to change your mind, you're allowed to outgrow something you worked incredibly hard to build. And maybe the work isn't to burn the whole thing down. Maybe it's to take what you've learned, honor what got you here, and ask what this next version of your business needs from you. Because the goal isn't to stay loyal to an old version of yourself just because it's worked. The goal is to honor you enough to let yourself evolve. You don't have to abandon what you built. You get to decide what comes with you into the next season. Thank you so much, Amanda, Cam, Lydia, and Teresa, for your submissions. I really appreciate them. And I appreciate how vulnerable you are in working through this aligned entrepreneurship journey. If anyone else has hot rack submissions they would like to send in, please send them my way. I would love to see them. Also, just a reminder that we are currently still in our alignment challenge. I will be going live today with some feedback and answering some of those questions myself. But I can't wait to hear how that's been feeling for everyone and what that work has looked like for y'all. If this hits home for you, please share the pod, send in a hat rack submission, share our Insta, and DM me and get connected with me. I appreciate y'all and thank you so much for tuning in today. Hope you have a great rest of your week.