Dump Your Boss- Corporate America Doesn’t Belong Here
Put a finger down if you left your dead-end job to start a business, just to hire a new boss to micromanage your business? What new boss? You, my guy.
I’ll bet my bottom dollar that you set deadlines, reminders, memos, rules and other things because that’s what you think you’re “supposed” to do. Blog goes out at 8am, every Wednesday, your readers are counting on you. That invoice should go out no later than 24 hours after project completion, to wait any longer or send sooner is soooo unprofesh.
Girl who the hell told you you had to do that? WHO DID IT? I bet it was you. I bet it was all those years of corporate conditioning and movie montages that taught you THE way to run your business.
But guess what? You don’t have to.
Babe, this is your business. YOUR business. You birthed it, you raised it, you kiss its forehead at bedtime.
Release your fortune 500 inhibitions and feel the entrepreneurship on your skin.
The beauty of being a spiritual business owner is that everything -from idea to invoice- is dripping in your personal magic. You get to feel it out, wiggle your fingers and move the needle. You get to make the rules and follow your intuition. Forget what Greg from marketing told you, this is not project 4,641. This is your soulful mission coming into fruition, and should not be holding hands with the hamster wheel.
Most of us are women, or feminine-led. We don’t thrive on a man’s 24-hour rhythm. We have the moon to control our tide, so maybe menses week is not the right time for a 50-person zoom mastermind. Do you hate batching content? Then don't batch; trust your inner voice to channel the right message at the right time.
“BUT RYAN, ALL THE TECH BROS AND MODEL INFLUENCERS SAID THE ONLY WAY TO SCALE MY BUSINESS IS TO-” please stfu. You are not a 23-year-old makeup influencer. (no hate! But that's not who YOU are). You are a magic-wielding, crystal-toting, gifted, soulful, talented woo-woo business owner who marches to the beat of her own inner guidance in every single area of her life. Why oh why would your spiritual business be any different?
Even me writing this blog is an example of this. I had no idea what I was going to write about this week. Then you know what happened? I had an experience that inspired this piece and now it’s on the internet and you’re reading it. Huzzah, I listened and I didn’t judge. And with that, I am one step closer to trusting myself to lead my business in accordance with the heart instead of the ego. Badda bing, badda boom.
So seriously- dump your boss. You didn’t start this work just to become a slave to your societal programming. You weren’t meant to follow the 9-5, majority-day workweek and 2 days off a year. You founded this business to take your life back. So take. It. Back.
You’re a bad bitch (or is it a bad witch?), and your work is simply an extension of your natural talent, grit and gifts. Take back your power, throw that dirty laundry off the balcony and run this show like it’s all about you. Because it is.
<3 Ryan
