Welcome to the Shalene show. Shalene is a New York Times best-selling author celebrity fitness trainer and obsessed with helping you live your dream life

Thanks so much for joining me on this edition of the Shalene show

First if I can just say thank you so much to all of you for the support I received after my last podcast episode

I don't even remember the title of it something about what to do when you want to pinch someone's head off

Which is kind of a funny kitschy title, but for those of you who listen to it

You know that about 20 30 minutes into that rather long episode. I shared a very very personal story about myself and my husband

And it was emotional and I cried and I guess I didn't know I was gonna share that I mean I did

But I didn't know I was gonna get so emotional about it

And so thank you for those of you who left me a review and you said that was one of your absolute favorite episodes

And it means the world to me. So thank you so much for your support. Thank you for being there for me

Thank you for listening and I thought I would follow that episode up with this episode about personal policies and business policies

I love you guys. Thanks so much for always being there and off to the show

Today I want to talk to you guys about kind of a follow-up to the episode that I did on

What to do when you want to pinch someone's head off because in that episode I talked about how you deal with that when it's someone you work with and

I've also talked to you in that episode about how to employ those techniques that I shared when it's someone that you love like your boyfriend

Or girlfriend or your husband or your wife and I I shared some really really personal stories

Between Brett and I on that episode it was my last episode of the Shaline show and

One thing that came from that experience and it's something that we had done kind of in the past was to create

Policies so I want to share with you how important it is for all of us to have policies in our businesses

Have you ever worked at a place that was so big like was such a huge organization that there were so many

Policies and procedures. It was like ridiculous like people couldn't be creative

People were so afraid to break policy or procedure that it was very stifling and there are so many policies and procedures that

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