486: I'm Taking a Break

the bossbabe podcast

Natalie Ellis

Self-improvement, Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.9 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Natalie gets candid about pressing pause on the podcast while on maternity leave. In this intimate solo, she shares the fears behind taking a break, the systems and team that make it possible, and the mindset shifts that let momentum keep compounding even when you step back. If you’ve ever worried a break would tank your growth, this episode will help you trust your audience, your systems, and yourself. TIMESTAMPS 00:07 - Why this episode is different and the truth about taking a break 00:36 - The pressure to “keep appearances” vs choosing authenticity 01:22 - Integrity over optics and why pretending to be “always on” isn’t it 01:50 - Naming the fear that downloads and momentum might drop 02:34 - What’s in place before stepping away 05:09 - Automated revenue streams and cash stewardship that stabilize breaks 06:59 - Surprise upside doing even better YOY without pushing for growth 08:21 - Boundaries with partners and comms so nothing falls through the cracks 09:50 - If stepping away feels impossible trusting your audience and your work RESOURCES + LINKS Get My Custom AI As Your 24/7 Chief Marketing Officer, Trained On Over A Decade Of My Business Strategies, $36M+ In Proven Funnels, And My Complete FREEDOM Method™: https://www.bossbabe.com/FreedomEngineAI-Podcast Join The Société: Build Your Freedom-Based Business™ With Systems, Templates, Coaching + Community. Just $97/Month. Imagine Having Natalie As Your CMO, On Call 24/7 To Help You Make The Right Moves In Your Business. That’s Exactly What You Get With Bossbabe AI The Freedom Engine™: AI-Powered Strategy And Systems That Show You What To Sell, How To Sell It, And How To Scale - Without All The Guesswork. Learn More And Unlock It 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	Welcome back to the Bossway podcast. It is just me today. There is no guest. And this episode is going to be a little bit different to any that I have been doing. So I just want to be really honest with you about where I'm at and what is next for this podcast.
0:22.5	So I am currently on maternity leave as you're listening to this. And up until a few weeks ago,
0:29.2	my plan was to use a ton of batched content that I put together so that I could keep
0:35.4	releasing episodes every single week and so that it would
0:38.7	feel like I was never gone, right? And I feel like that's what we're taught to do, isn't it?
0:43.5	To keep the engine running, to keep appearances up. But when I sat with that, it just felt really
0:49.4	off to me. Like the actual doing of it, totally fine. Can do that in a day. We can get, you know,
0:55.7	the three months of episodes done in a day. That's not a big deal. But it just felt really off.
1:01.4	Because it just felt so inauthentic, almost as if I'm showing or proving that I'm still
1:07.5	showing up when actually I'm really honoring taking a maternity leave.
1:12.2	I'm really honoring being with my baby and recovering from birth.
1:16.6	And I don't want to play a part in modeling a version of success that says you have to pretend
1:23.9	you are on all the time and you're not taking any breaks.
1:26.9	I have spent so many years
1:28.3	telling high performing women, myself included, that freedom based business is about alignment.
1:33.4	And if I secretly worked, you know, all night as to create this fake continuity or if I, you know,
1:40.6	was stretching myself thin or I'm like faking it and putting it out like as if I'm still
1:46.4	actually working. I would be breaking my own rule. And I'm going to be totally honest with you.
1:51.3	There is definitely fear here because I have never taken a break on this podcast before. I've been
1:57.0	really open about that in that, you know, I think the consistency is really, really important.
2:02.9	And I definitely have a fear that taking a break could just completely tank my downloads, my momentum.
2:09.5	And that when I come back from maternity leave, I'm going to be starting completely from scratch.
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