How To Prepare Your Business For Illness

On the Profitable Joyful Consulting podcast, I teach you how to increase your profits and enjoy your business more. In this episode, you’ll learn how to plan for any kind of impending absence in your business, whether it’s a health challenge, urgent family issue, or something else.

Sometimes you need to have time away from your business urgently, and you need to be able to trust that everything won’t fall apart while you’re gone. As consultants we are the brand, but we also have to build something that can function without us for more than just two weeks of vacation a year.

More than just times when you absolutely have to be away, there’s simply no reason for any of us to be driving ourselves as if we were back at corporate. It doesn’t help you. It’s not sustainable and it’s not profitable and joyful.

Learn how to structure a business that lets you live your life – including time away – in this episode.

Key areas discussed in this episode

Our always-on working culture in America
Why we have overworking habits
The big question to ask yourself that will help you understand your relationship to overworking
The healthy mindset shift you need to build a business that’s bigger than just you
Why you should never be the backup for anybody on your team
Putting mechanisms in place to protect you if you need to take a sabbatical from your business