493: Boundaries with Clients
The BizChix Podcast: Female Entrepreneurs | Women Small Business | Biz Chix
Natalie Eckdahl
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Have your clients been calling or texting you outside of your work hours or even on the weekends? Maybe you have a client that’s making requests outside of your original agreement and you feel like it’s taking away from your personal time.
Setting boundaries early on with clients sets a clear expectation and prevents you from feeling resentment or disliking your business.
In this week’s episode our Accountability Coach, Elizabeth Cook, joins me to talk about the importance of setting boundaries and how you can design your ideal work week while preserving your client relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | Do your clients make requests outside of your original agreement? Are they calling or texting or |
| 0:07.4 | messaging you outside of normal business hours and even on the weekends? Maybe you're starting to |
| 0:15.3 | resent certain clients and possibly starting to hate your business. Guess what? There is a way out of feeling like this. |
| 0:26.2 | Today I'm joined by our accountability coach, Elizabeth Cook, and we're talking about boundaries |
| 0:32.7 | in business. Before we dive in, may I welcome you to the BizChicks podcast, which has been a |
| 0:40.8 | resource for women's service entrepreneurs since 2014. I'm your host, Natalie Eckdal. I'm a business |
| 0:49.3 | strategist, former competitive swimmer, out-of-the-box thinker, author, speaker, mama, MBA, and CEO of BizChicks, Inc. |
| 0:59.7 | Our business is dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs leave a lasting legacy through their business |
| 1:06.1 | by creating more impact, more profit, and more time for their VIPs. |
| 1:12.1 | My VIPs are my husband Mark and our three children ages 6 to 19 and are Bengal cats, |
| 1:18.7 | Missy and Max. |
| 1:20.4 | I have a very full life running a home family and this dream business where we coach and train |
| 1:26.5 | high performing women entrepreneurs. |
| 1:29.1 | I'm a fan of keeping things real here and want to share that I'm able to accomplish all I do |
| 1:34.2 | and still have time for my loved ones because I have help at home and in the business. |
| 1:39.9 | I always encourage women to get as much help as they can afford. |
| 1:49.8 | And may I remind you that just because you can do something does not mean that you should. |
| 1:53.8 | Boundaries with clients. |
| 1:56.0 | Are you ready to discuss this today, Elizabeth? |
| 1:57.1 | I'm ready, Natalie. |
| 2:01.2 | This is something that's been coming up actually a lot recently in our Six Figures Lab group coaching program. And it's honestly something that I have helped clients |
| 2:08.4 | with since I started coaching. And I thought I would be really interesting today to just kind |
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