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Each week, network marketing professional and mom-turned entrepreneur Melanie Mitro gives you her tried and true tips for building a business from your kitchen table.

This self-made millionaire went from a stay-at-home mom to the top of a network marketing business in just three years.

She built an online health and fitness business from the ground up

while raising babies and juggling being a mom and wife. Now she wants to help you become the boss of

your own life. For blog posts, business tips, and more. Check out her website at Melanie Mitro.com.

Now let's get to the show. Here's your host, Melanie Mitro.

Well, hey, friends, it is Melanie Mitro, the host of the Women Inspiring Women podcast,

and I'm excited that you are back because this week, we are going to have a conversation around this anti-hustle culture that is taking the world by storm right now. And I'm going to first explain why I

chose that as today's episode before I break it down and talk about the reality and how this

can actually have a negative effect on your business. If we kind of let it, you know, take us over

and we sort of become engulfed in it. And anyway, so I was,

I was scrolling social and I consume lots of content from other creators and other influencers

out there. And I was really starting to notice that there was this like shift in message.

There was this shift to like, I only do things that bring me joy. I, you know,

don't know hustle, anti-hustle, right? The hustle is bad. And working hard, like, you know,

sacrifice is bad. And we should only be doing things that bring us joy, that make us happy, right? And we

shouldn't put the pressure on ourselves.

And so the messaging was like all of that. There was nothing, no talk whatsoever lately about

work, like the work it actually takes. And so I started to think, yeah, I agree, you should

sometimes turn it off. You should have intentional times within your week and even

within your day where you say, I am not working. I am not accessible. I am not going to respond

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