This is She's Equipped with Jennifer Allwood, a podcast for Christian women in business who want to earn more from their God-given talent, grow their impact, and lead with faith.

Well, hey, friends, welcome back to the podcast. This is episode 32 of the She's Equipped podcast. We're going to be talking today about why you keep repeating some of the same business patterns in your business. Okay, so I'm a little bit of a story time here. First of all, I would like to think that I'm really good at telling stories, but I'm guessing if you were to ask my children and my husband, they will tell you I'm terrible at telling stories. Let's just pretend for the sake of this podcast that I'm exceptional. Okay. So we're going to be talking about why you keep getting stuck

as with the same patterns, doing the same things over and over in your business, even though you know

that maybe you are called for more. Okay. And so I want to tell you this story that I'd heard a long

time ago, okay, about a family that like at every holiday, they get like a holiday ham, okay?

I don't know where the ham's from. That's not the point of story. But at every holiday, they buy a ham and they cut like the ends off both sides of the ham. We don't ever have ham at holidays. So I can't relate to this. But they cut off like the ham, you know, the ham at both ends. And then they put it in like a roasting pan and like put it in yep okay so you know the

daughter saw her mom did it um they saw that the grandmother did it and then the next generation was

doing it too nobody ever knew why they like cut the ends off the ham and just threw the ends away

and just put it in the oven without the ends and so everybody just assumed it was like part of the

family recipe maybe it was like part of the family recipe. Maybe it was like,

oh gosh, oh gosh, that is like a glucose alarm on my phone. Yes, I'm wearing a glucose monitor.

Long story. But it's like the little round thing on the back of my arm and apparently it has

lost its signal. And it goes off regardless of if I want it to or not. I don't know why.

I don't know why it's going off. It might do that alarm again, friends. So sorry. But, okay,

everybody thought that cutting off the ends of the ham was just like part of the recipe. Maybe it's the family's secret to flavor.

Maybe the reason why the ham always tasted so good. Like nobody actually knew.

And so finally one day, somebody like asked, like, why do we actually cut the ends off of the ham and

throw them away? And the answer, as they talked to enough people in the family, was this, like,

years ago, the grandmother didn't have a big enough pan to, like, fit the big ham that she bought that year.

So she cut the ends off. Not because it made the ham any better, but because it, like, made it fit.

And so it started out, like, as a limitation and then quietly became, like, a family tradition.

Does that make sense?

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