468: "I Don’t Feel Alive in My Business Anymore” - How to Fall Back in Love with Work

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Natalie Ellis

Education, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when the business you built no longer feels like you? In this episode, Natalie unpacks what it really means when you feel disconnected from your work, how to tell the difference between burnout and boredom, and why it might be time to evolve your business to match who you are now. You’ll learn how to reconnect with your why, audit what’s no longer aligned, and reignite the spark - without burning everything down. If you’ve been questioning whether it’s time for a change, this episode is your permission slip. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - “I don’t feel alive in my business anymore” - what this feeling actually means 01:45 - How to tell the difference between burnout and boredom 04:46 - Why your business may be orbiting an old version of you 07:31 - The Alignment Audit: 5 reflection questions to get honest about what needs to change 10:42 - What pruning your business really looks like and why it’s not about failure 13:05 - The 3-step process to prune, automate, and delegate your way back to alignment 16:30 - You can’t be creative when you’re depleted + how to make space for the spark 18:29 - Better questions to ask yourself when you're ready to evolve 20:08 - Real stories of women who simplified, realigned, and reignited their passion 23:54 - If nothing changes… nothing changes. Here’s how to start small and make it real. 25:22 - You don’t need to push harder, you need to reconnect deeper 26:12 - Download the free Realignment Reset Guide to take the next step RESOURCES + LINKS Get Your Free Realignment Reset Guide Here. Watch Natalie’s Free 90-Minute Training To Learn Her 5-Step Playbook To Start Or Scale A Freedom-Based Business. Sign Up Here. Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter & Get Insights From Natalie Every Single Week On All Things Strategy, Motherhood, Business Growth + More. Drop Us A Review On The Podcast + Send Us A Screenshot & We’ll Send You Natalie’s 7-Figure Operating System Completely FREE (value $1,997).

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0:00.0	I don't feel alive in my business anymore. That is a sentence I never thought I'd say.
0:04.0	And maybe if you're being honest, it's one that you've whispered to yourself too. Maybe you've
0:07.6	built this business with your whole heart. You've sacrificed sleep, weekend, stability, poured
0:11.8	literally everything into making it work. And now, now it runs. Maybe it even runs really well,
0:17.8	but it just doesn't light you up. It doesn't feel like you anymore. Maybe it just
0:23.0	feels like a job and not a fun one that you actually want. So what I want to say is this isn't just
0:29.4	burnout and it is definitely not laziness. It is not a mindset block. It is likely a symptom of building a business that's just outgrown your identity
0:40.5	or your season of life. Or maybe even a business that's outgrown your values. And I don't think
0:46.7	enough people are talking about this because I don't know, maybe they're afraid it means that
0:50.9	they've failed or that if they do talk about this and acknowledge it, they will
0:55.4	lose momentum or even worse. If they slow down to reconnect, the whole thing might just fall
1:00.3	apart. So in this episode, what I want to talk to you about is how you can reignite the spark,
1:05.8	not by doing loads more, not by pushing harder, not by forcing passion or just like giving yourself a hard
1:12.0	pep talk, but actually by real lining with who you are now, this new identity. So we're going to
1:17.6	talk a little bit about the difference between burnout and boredom and how to connect with your real why,
1:23.0	how to prune, yes, literally cut things out so you can breathe again. And what I'm going to do is share
1:27.4	the exact shifts that helped me and so many of the women I know fall back in love with our work
1:33.1	without burning everything down or starting from zero, which I know is the thing that so many of us
1:39.2	think that we need to do. And so by the end of this, my hope is that you just have a bit more
1:43.7	clarity, not just about what needs to go, but what gets to stay. And so by the end of this, my hope is that you just have a bit more clarity, not just about what
1:45.4	needs to go, but what gets to stay, what gets to evolve with you. And how you can finally feel alive
1:52.1	again inside the business you have already built, which I know is possible. So let's just dive straight in
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