61. 5 Rules I'm Breaking Right Now as the CEO of My Life and Business

You are not the same woman you were three years ago. You are not even the same woman you were six months ago. You have grown, you have evolved, you have outgrown things, and you accept that as part of being human. So why do so many ambitious moms expect their businesses, their motherhood, and their daily lives to stay frozen in place? In this episode, Emily brings back the tagline that started this whole podcast for her, "Let's have all the conversations and break a few rules," and then she walks through five of them.This episode is for the entrepreneur mom who is tired of following rules she never agreed to in the first place. Recording late on a Maysember Monday after a playoff baseball game, five months postpartum, and admittedly running on fumes, Emily lays out the five rules she is actively breaking right now as the CEO of her life and business: two business rules, two motherhood rules, and one life rule. She walks through what pivoting actually looks like when you have outgrown the version of yourself who built your business, why responding to every DM is survival dressed up as service, how she stopped buying her kids stuff and ended up with calmer holidays and more inventive kids, what changes when you talk to a four-year-old like he is a real person, and the one rule underneath all of the others that perfectionism keeps trying to quietly enforce in an AI era where the internet is starving for something that actually feels human.Questions Answered in This Episode:What does it actually look like to pivot your business when you have outgrown the version of yourself who built it?Why is responsiveness not the same thing as value, and what changed for Emily when she stopped answering every DM the moment it came in?How did Emily reframe gift-giving for her kids, and what did her family actually choose when she sat them down and asked them?What happens when you start talking to your kids like real people instead of managing them, and why does the same principle apply to your marriage and your friendships?What is the quiet, sneaky form perfectionism takes for ambitious women, and why is the polished version almost never the version that lands?How do you tell the difference between rules that are actually yours and rules you picked up along the way without ever agreeing to them?Why is breaking the rule that doesn't belong to you part of the work of being the CEO of your life?Mentioned in this episode:Episode 60: My 9-Year-Old Is Already a CEO THE CEO BESTIES MEMBERSHIP:A Membership For Ambitious Women Building Profitable Businesses Alongside CEO Besties Who Get It.Join the membership: https://theceobesties.com/membership/CONNECT WITH EMILY:✨ Website: www.emilycollins.com✨ Instagram: @heyemilycollins