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175. This CEO Takes 7 Weeks Off (While Growing Revenue) By Syncing Her Work Schedule To Her Menstrual Cycle

Cubicle to CEO

Ellen Yin

Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

5.0580 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest shares her revolutionary productivity approach that allowed her to take a 7 week work sabbatical: syncing specific business activities and her work schedule with the four phases of her menstrual cycle. Kate Northrup, founder of The Origin Company, author of Do Less, and Money: A Love Story, breaks down exactly what to do during each phase of your cycle and how going with your flow - literally - can make you richer, happier, and more productive. Kate’s work has been featured by Oprah Daily, The Today Show, Yahoo! Finance, Women’s Health, Glamour, The NY Times, Harvard Business Review, and more. We encourage you to approach this conversation with an open mind, and prepare to be blown away by how much natural wisdom our bodies have to help us thrive in business and life.  Connect with Kate: Katenorthrup.com IG: @katenorthrup Read Kate’s book ‘Do Less’ → https://amzn.to/3hxlbvj  Join one of Kate’s programs! → https://theorigincompany.co/programs/ If you enjoyed today’s episode, please: Sign up for our text notifications at ellenyin.com/superfan so you can be the first to know when a new case study has dropped! Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so I can repost you. Leave a positive review or rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe for new episodes every Monday. Want to hear all the ins and outs of what is happening in our business? Check out all our previous quarterly income reports at https://ellenyin.com/incomereport ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to Kivocal to CEO, episode 175.

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Today's guest shares her revolutionary productivity approach that allowed her to take a seven-week

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work sabbatical, sinking specific business

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activities and her work schedule with the four phases of her menstrual cycle. Yes, you heard that right.

1:18.5

Kate Northrop, founder of the origin company, author of Do Less and Money, a love story,

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breaks down exactly what to do during each phase of your cycle and how going with your

1:28.6

flow quite literally can make you richer, happier, and more productive. Kate's work has been

1:34.6

featured by Oprah Daily, The Today Show, Yahoo Finance, Women's Health, Glamour, The New York

1:40.1

Times, Harvard Business Review, and more. I encourage you to approach this conversation with an open

1:45.8

mind and prepare to be blown away by how much natural wisdom our bodies have to help us thrive

1:51.8

in business and life. Welcome to Cubicle to CEO, the podcast. I'm your host, Ellen Yin. I quit my job without a backup plan

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and bootstrapped my first $300 freelance project into $2 million in revenue by age 28.

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On this show, you'll hear weekly case study interviews with leading entrepreneurs and CEOs

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who share one specific strategy that successfully grew their business revenue.

2:18.7

Skip the expensive and time-consuming learning curve of testing everything yourself

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