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and reflected who I was, not just what I did. I created my website with Show It because it's

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free trial and first month free when you subscribe. Discipline isn't a flex. It's a form of

self-care. Every time you show up, you're saying, I believe where this is going, even if no one

else sees it yet. I'm not going to lie. A few weeks ago, I woke up at 1.30 in the morning and I couldn't sleep. I laid in bed and I kept her playing events from the day in my mind. I'm a classic overthinker. I overthink, overthinking, if we're going to be honest. If overthinking were a competition, I would be Michael Phelps. I'd have more gold medals than two Michael Phelps combined.

My sisters make so much fun of me that they sent me a meme that stated 90% of the things I

worried about never happened. This is proof that worrying works. Okay, so I'm joking a little bit.

Listen, I know overthinking and worrying does more harm than it does good, but on this

particular night, my overthinking literally woke me up. My brain was like, now, girl, we're going

fix this and we're going to fix this right now. And here's the ironic part. There was nothing I could

fix. Nothing. And when I say fix, what I really mean is control. As entrepreneurs, it's easy to mix those two things up.

Fix is a disguised words for, let me see how much control that I can use so I can get the

result that I want. Anybody else? Is that just me? You ain't got to lie. Like, let's be real

right now is you and me having conversation. Entrepreneurs are notoriously controlling, which helps us get results.

But what happens when you can't control the uncontrollable?

I thought about writing a perfectly poised episode on a framework of how to release control

or my five steps to letting go and just being or a dissertation on how control is a myth. I could do that,

but a real raw conversation would be a lot more helpful and honest between us. So what we're

going to have here today is the real, real. Like, we really have to know that we can control

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