Real Business, Real Life
Straightforward conversations about building income in a way that supports your life instead of consuming it.
Planning is often talked about as a way to control outcomes. To stay ahead. To manage time, productivity, and progress. For many creative women, planning has been taught as something you do to yourself rather than something you do for yourself.
It’s no wonder it can feel heavy.
When planning is ro...
Stability is often imagined as sameness. A steady routine. Predictable output. Clear systems that run without interruption. In many industries, that picture makes sense. In creative work, it rarely does.
Creativity moves differently. It responds to energy, curiosity, and attention. It ebbs and flow...
For a long time, I believed that progress had to be fast to be real. If I wasn’t moving quickly, I assumed I was stalling. If there wasn’t visible momentum, I questioned whether I was doing enough. That belief didn’t come from nowhere. It was reinforced by the way business is often framed, especiall...
There’s a quiet pressure in creative business to make everything more polished, more strategic, more optimized. Over time, that pressure can turn even the simplest decisions into heavy ones. What should be easy starts to feel complicated, and what should be supportive begins to feel demanding.
Perf...