Get your business together. Get yourself into what you do and see it through.

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 six, staying motivated and happy.

All right, hello, good morning or good afternoon or good evening.

So my client Stephanie and podcast listener recently

sent me this email. She said hey there Kathleen, happy Sunday. she sent it on a Sunday. I have a quick question for you.

I've been totally taken out by the Chicago winter. Short gray days and never leaving the house because of the snow compounded by not having any close friends nearby.

I'm tired all the time and my motivation and energy are at like negative 50.

Do you have any quick coaching tips for not crawling into a hole

and staying there until April?

I imagine I'm not the only creative entrepreneur whose life and business are being affected by winter

depression right now.

So I figure you might have some insight.

Oh boy, do we have some insight? At this very moment I am recording this

podcast from bed because it's a gray winter so So we totally get it, Stephanie.

You are definitely not alone.

I have been, I know I've been seeing stuff on Instagram a lot lately.

People just like working from bed or shots of people like outside their window

like dreaming of sunnier days. So there are lots of creative entrepreneurs who are

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