EP | 712 - The Fastest Way to Stop Panicking About Your Business
The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
4.9 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
If you are in a season where you feel like your business is on fire, and you cannot tell if it is actually on fire or if you are just mentally setting it on fire because you are stressed, this episode is for you.
Because I said something on an Open Office Hour call recently that I want to tattoo on the inside of every entrepreneur's eyelids.
When I do not have clarity on what is actually happening in my business, my default is: everything is wrong.
Everything is broken.
Everything is failing.
Everything is about to fall apart.
And then my brain does what brains do, it starts trying to solve 17 problems at once, and I spiral, and I feel heavy, and I feel panicky, and then I start making dumb decisions from that energy.
So today, I want to give you a simple framework that will stop that spiral fast.
Not in a fluffy, "just journal and breathe" way.
In a CEO way.
In a "give me the truth so I can take action" way.
Time Stamps:
(0:30) Actual Fire vs Emotional Fire
(2:31) Open Your Tracker
(3:28) What Spiraling Really Means
(15:50) Don't Discount Out Of Fear
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If I fix one thing, what's the one thing that would make everything else easier? |
| 0:05.9 | That is how you think about constraints in your business. And that's how a CEO thinks. There's |
| 0:10.8 | probably 48 data points on this sheet. You should fix one at a time. Hey, hey guys, welcome back to |
| 0:19.5 | the FitBiz podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | So I'm going to be real with you guys for a second. |
| 0:27.7 | If you are in a season where you feel like your business is on fire, |
| 0:30.8 | and if you cannot tell if it's actually on fire, |
| 0:34.5 | or if you're just mentally setting it on fire because you're stressed out, |
| 0:37.6 | then this is what I want you to listen to. |
| 0:41.4 | So often the problems that we have are between our own ears. |
| 0:47.3 | Something I said on an open office hour recently that I literally want to like tattoo on every entrepreneur's forehead is when I do is when I do not have clarity what is actually |
| 0:53.2 | happening inside my business, the default is |
| 0:56.3 | everything is wrong, right? We go there. That's what we think. We think everything is broken, |
| 1:02.5 | everything is failing, everything is about to fall apart. And then my brain, your brain, |
| 1:07.4 | what our brains do is it starts to solve 17 problems at once. And then you spiral. |
| 1:14.1 | And then it feels heavy. And then you get panicky. And then you start to make very dumb decisions |
| 1:18.6 | from that energy. So today, I'm going to give you a really simple framework that will help you |
| 1:22.8 | stop the spiral fast. Not in like a, I need your journal and breathe kind of way, but like in a CEO way, |
| 1:31.1 | in a give me the truth so I can take action kind of way. Does that sound good? Does that sound |
| 1:36.4 | like I could help you, stop the spiral? Here's what I'm going to do for you in the next like |
| 1:40.4 | 10 to 15 minutes of this episode. I'm going to show you how to, one, stop your spiral |
| 1:45.1 | in real time when you're freaking out about your business. Number two, identify the real constraint |
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