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Because being boss is hard.

Let me work and life is messy.

Making a dream job of your own isn't easy.

But getting paid for it, becoming known for it,

and finding purpose in it, is so doable if you do the work.

Being Boss, a podcast for creative entrepreneurs from Emily Thompson and Kathleen Shannon.

Welcome to episode 5.

Grow your business even when you're on vacation.

All right, so today we want to talk about how you can be boss and even grow your business whenever

you're on vacation or even taking something like an extended maternity leave.

So I have a baby who just turned one

around this time last year, and after I had him,

I was getting a lot of questions about how

I would manage work and having a baby. So a lot of people were asking me if I would still work or work with the baby at home, which is probably another episode altogether. But what people found the most surprising about me and my job and

being my own boss and having a baby is that I was taking a paid maternity leave. So not only did I take maternity leave.

So not only did I take maternity leave, but since then I've been able to reduce my working

hours and still grow my business over, I think, 25% from last year. So maybe you're not planning a

family yet but you just want to take like a really long vacation but you're afraid

to step away from the hustle and lose that on business.

That's what we're going to be talking about today.

How can you take a vacation? How can you take an extended leave of absence and still grow your business.

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