Join Up Dots Mailbag: What I Learned the Hard Way After Quitting My Job

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Join Up Dots Mailbag: What I Learned the Hard Way After Quitting My Job On this episode of Join Up Dots, we dive into the real questions that come up after taking the leap from a job into building your own business. Listeners from around the world ask about finding clarity before quitting, knowing when it’s the right time to go, dealing with bad clients, avoiding burnout, and coping with that scary sense of uncertainty when freedom first hits. I share what I learned the hard way, the mindset shifts that made the biggest difference, and how to stay grounded when the journey feels wobbly. If this episode sparks something for you, share your thoughts or story using #JoinUpDots #LeapToFreedom #EntrepreneurJourney. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. Your feedback helps us reach more people and continue bringing you valuable content. See you in the next episode!

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0:00.0	Life shouldn't be hard.
0:02.0	Life should be a fun-filled adventure every day.
0:05.0	So now start joining up dots.
0:07.0	Tap into your talents, your skills, your God-given gifts,
0:11.0	and tell your boss, you don't deserve me.
0:14.0	I'm outta here.
0:16.0	It's time for you to smash that alarm clock
0:19.0	and start getting the dream business and life you will of course
0:24.6	are dreaming of let's join your host david ralph from the back of his garden in the uk
0:30.8	or wherever he might be today with another jammed pack episode of the number one hit podcast
0:36.8	join up dots yeah good morning to you good morning to you and another jammed pack episode of the number one hit podcast, Join Up Dot.
0:39.2	Yeah, good morning to you. Good morning to you and welcome to the Join UpDots podcast. How are you?
0:46.2	If you were listening to Monday's episode and you heard that I was going to see Katie Perry at the London O2 and my tickets hadn't come through
0:56.0	even though it was that evening. Rest assured, they came through. They came through and we went to
1:01.5	see Katie Perry in concert and I'll be honest, I'll be honest, I think she was trying a bit too hard.
1:09.1	When the songs were just being played, as you know them on the radio, it was good.
1:14.8	It was great.
1:15.6	But then there was too much flying through the air and doing this and doing that and stuff.
1:21.2	I kind of think it was somebody at that moment in her career where she's kind of thinking,
1:26.9	Christ, what do I need to do
1:29.1	next? I do everything. And a lot of the time, it's not the right thing to do everything. The right
1:35.7	thing to do is to do the sort of the basics, I suppose, the basics, the stuff that you're best at
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