You're listening to the business-made simple podcast where we help you discover what's wrong with your business and show you how to fix it.

If you're having to be somebody and that you don't want to be for any period of time, it's draining.

If we're just going through the motions, we forget who we are. We forget why we started in the first place.

I think so often we start getting so focused on the overhead.

How much do I need to make each month to be able to make sure I'm coming out ahead?

What's my profit look like? And we start compromising with ourselves.

It really gets down to this idea of what's right for you.

Let's put ourselves, our priorities, what we want, front and center, and then wrap life around that.

Because that allows you to be the best version of you.

Tonya Dalton, it's good to talk to you.

It's good to be here. I'm excited about this.

Your book on purpose is coming out in October just in a couple weeks.

Congratulations. You also recently, because we do our recon around here,

you recently took a little month break from your podcast. You just shut it down.

I did.

And you did what a lot of people are afraid to do.

You got off the merry-go-round.

And it was spinning fast.

And you took a little break. Tell me the backstory of what happened.

Yeah. Well, you know, I want episode, what are we in episode?

Like in some more in the 230s at this point.

And I put out a weekly episode every week, pretty diligently, pretty, you know, due to flea.

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