289: I Was Running a 7-Figure Business... and Falling Apart Behind the Scenes

She Means Business Show

Carrie Green

Womenledbusiness, Femaleceo, Entrepreneurship, Womanceo, Business, Femaleentrepreneur, Businesswomen, Womeninbusiness, Marketing, Womenentrepreneur, Womanentrepreneur

4.9 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On the outside, I had it all - a 7-figure business, a growing team, and a beautiful family.
But behind the scenes? I was falling apart.

You’ll hear:
✨ How burnout led me to hospital… twice
✨ The pressure to keep scaling (even when it didn’t feel right)
✨ The moment I realised I was lying to myself
✨ A powerful mindset shift that changed everything
✨ The visualisation practice that helped me reconnect with myself

Trigger warning: This episode includes discussion of burnout, miscarriage, and emotional overwhelm. Please take care while listening.

Read the full show notes: https://femaleentrepreneurassociation.com/2025/07/i-was-running-a-7-figure-business-and-falling-apart-behind-the-scenes/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Sometimes you feel like you do things because you feel like you have to do them or you feel like you're supposed to do them.
0:04.8	Even though deep down you've got this overwhelming feeling that it's not the right thing that you should be doing.
0:10.0	Being radically honest with ourselves is so important because otherwise I think we do reach a point where we burn out
0:16.4	because there's only so much we can take of lying to ourselves and pretending that we're okay when we're actually
0:21.4	really desperately not okay. We have to have to have to stop and listen to what that niggle is trying
0:27.6	to tell us. In this session, I really like what is bubbling up in me to talk about is something that I think is really important.
0:39.6	I'd be really curious to know how many of us here have experienced this or felt this before.
0:46.1	But I really wanted to talk about having the courage to be honest with ourselves and having the
0:52.1	courage to listen to ourselves. And actually, I want us to just,
0:58.5	I want us to just pause for a moment while we, you know, during the session and for this
1:04.2	session for you to think about, how are you really, honestly, truly? Like, how are you? And just think about that. Because I think how often
1:16.0	are we not really okay, but we're not really telling ourselves even that we're not okay? And this has been
1:23.1	one of the biggest mistakes that I have made on repeat over the past few years. And I wanted to
1:28.4	talk about this and share this because obviously a lot of the glitzy bits of business get
1:34.7	shared online, but not as often do we talk about the really hard bits and the challenging bits.
1:44.0	And so I really wanted to share my story with you over the past
1:48.5	few years of making this mistake. And for me, I feel like there have been so many times where I
1:58.6	haven't listened to myself. You know, sometimes you feel
2:01.4	that you do things because you feel like you have to do them or you feel like you're supposed to do
2:05.4	them, even though deep down you've got this overwhelming feeling that it's not the right thing that you
2:10.0	should be doing, but you're doing it anyway. And I don't know about you, but I feel like so often
2:15.8	I've been the person that I felt like
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