471: Dealing with Shame Around Hiring Help
The BizChix Podcast: Female Entrepreneurs | Women Small Business | Biz Chix
Natalie Eckdahl
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt ashamed or embarrassed for hiring someone to take care of your children, clean your house, or wash your car?
Or have you been perhaps on the opposite side and you have questioned someone else's choices about paying for those services?
Join me and Elizabeth Cook, our Accountability Coach for the $ix Figures Lab, to talk about how women entrepreneurs deal with shame around hiring help.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt ashamed or embarrassed for hiring someone to take care of your children or clean your house or wash your car? |
| 0:10.0 | Or maybe you've been on the opposite side and you have questioned someone else's choices about paying for those services. |
| 0:17.5 | This episode is not about business strategy per se, but it's about something that can get in |
| 0:24.5 | the way a lot of times when women are up-leveling. |
| 0:32.6 | Before we dive in, may I welcome you to the BizChicks podcast, which has been a resource for |
| 0:38.9 | women's service entrepreneurs since 2014. I'm your host, Natalie Eckdal. I'm a business |
| 0:46.6 | strategist, former competitive swimmer, out-of-the-box thinker, author, speaker, mama, MBA, |
| 0:58.5 | and CEO of BizChicks, Inc. Our business is dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs leave a lasting legacy through their business by creating more |
| 1:04.8 | impact, more profit, and more time for their VIPs. My VIPs are my husband Mark and our three children, ages 6 to 19, and are Bengal cats, |
| 1:15.7 | Missy and Max. |
| 1:17.4 | I have a very full life running a home family and this dream business where we coach and train |
| 1:23.5 | high performing women entrepreneurs. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm a fan of keeping things real here and want to share that |
| 1:28.7 | I'm able to accomplish all I do and still have time for my loved ones because I have help at home |
| 1:34.8 | and in the business. I always encourage women to get as much help as they can afford. And may I |
| 1:41.3 | remind you that just because you can do something does not mean that you should. |
| 1:50.8 | Today's episode is co-hosted by the incredible Elizabeth Cook, our accountability coach |
| 1:57.1 | in our Six Figures Lab group coaching program. Elizabeth graduated from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University |
| 2:05.8 | and also has her own business as a copywriter and communication strategist. |
| 2:12.1 | You will notice her skills as a former newspaper reporter come through in this episode as she encourages me to expand |
| 2:18.8 | on ideas or ask clarifying questions. Elizabeth started out as a listener and then joined us as a |
| 2:25.5 | community manager in a previous program we hosted and a copywriter on our team and now helps me |
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