Why Stepping Away Makes You MORE Successful

Earn Your Happy

Lori Harder

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Are you in a season of doing more or a season of becoming more intentional? In this episode, we share the lessons from Chris’s Europe trip and my decision to stay home and fully root into this season of life. We talk about the guilt, the fear, and the identity shifts that come with stepping away from your business and how creating the right team, structure, and trust allows you to expand without burning out. Get ready to see why stepping away is exactly what your business and life need right now. Check out our Sponsors: Granola - Granola is an AI-powered notepad built for the way real people actually meet. Get three months free at http://granola.ai/earn. Shopify - Try the ecommerce platform I trust for Glōci, Sign up for your $1/month trial period at http://Shopify.com/happy Indeed - Spend less time searching, and more time actually interviewing candidates who check all your boxes. Indeed is giving Earn Your Happy listeners a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT to help get your job the premium status it deserves. Just go to http://Indeed.com/podcast right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on Earn Your Happy. Rella - Rella is a project management platform built specifically for social media managers and teams. Go to http://getrella.com and use code EARN for 10% off your first three months or annual plan. HIGHLIGHTS Why stepping away can actually strengthen your business. How travel expands your perspective and resets your priorities. What Ferrari and Pagani teach about betting on yourself. What it really takes to create true freedom in your life and business. How to trust your timing even when it looks different from everyone else’s. The decision that ensures you actually live the life you’re working for. RESOURCES Apply for the Elite Entrepreneur Mastermind HERE! Get on the waitlist for Mentor Collective Mastermind HERE! Try glōci for 40% off your first order with code HAPPY at checkout - head to getgloci.com FOLLOW Follow me: @loriharder Follow Chris: @chriswharder Follow glōci: @getgloci

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by Granola. Granola is an AI powered notebook built for the way real people
0:06.9	actually meet. You can try it totally free for three months. Just head to granola.aI forward slash earn.
0:13.0	Shopify. Try the e-commerce platform I trust for Glosi. Sign up for your $1 per month trial period
0:18.0	at Shopify.com forward slash happy. Indeed, need to hire. This is a job
0:22.8	for Indeed sponsored jobs. Just go to Indeed.com slash podcast right now and support our show by saying
0:28.7	you heard about Indeed on Earn Your Happy. Rella, go to getrella.com and start your 14-day free trial.
0:35.8	Use code earn for 10% off. Your first three months and
0:39.0	see why social media teams are ditching the tool chaos. I knew that this year for me,
0:45.2	I just want to root down. Like that's all I want. I want to be building community here. I don't
0:52.5	feel like traveling right now at all. I am just in a phase where all I want is community and I want to be rooted. I want to be building community here. I don't feel like traveling right now at all. I am just in a
0:55.3	phase where all I want is community and I want to be rooted. I want to be in my home and I want to be
0:58.9	building Glossi. I want to be building our masterminds. I want to feel really solid and in what
1:04.3	I'm doing in my life's purpose. And we're back with another episode of He Said She Said.
1:14.8	And I'm back from Freakin Europe, like a trip of a lifetime, a brother's trip of a lifetime.
1:20.4	Why didn't just have a weekend? I had a week. I had eight days in Italy with my brother doing
1:24.7	all of my dream things. So if you guys don't know, we've got a dear
1:28.6	friend Rob Mergoy, lifelong friend. And he is the master at curating experiences, especially in
1:34.3	Europe. It's what he was born to do. And a lot of lorries of my best experiences in our life
1:39.4	have come, have been born out of his creative, you know, imagination and out of his contacts.
1:47.0	He's the most connected guy I've ever met.
1:48.9	Well, anyways, Nick and I went on a trip because it was very guys themed.
1:54.8	It was, I told Rob once.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lori Harder, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Lori Harder and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.