Things I Do the Second I Want to Quit My Business and Become a Barista | Ep 131

👉 Join the Travel Creator Business Plan Community and get the systems, support, and strategy to grow your creator business. Sign up here! ✈️Some days you're the smartest, most beautiful person to ever grace the earth. Other days you want to crawl into the back of a dumpster and hope somebody sets it on fire. This is an episode for the second kind of day.Okay so. Real talk: running your own travel creator business does not come with a "smartest and most beautiful person alive" setting every single day. Sometimes it comes with a "maybe I should just go polish up my resume and see if I could even get hired as a barista" setting. And if you've never had a barista day, congratulations, I don't believe you.In this episode I'm walking you through exactly what I do when I hit one of those days — when the highs are high, the lows are LOW, and I genuinely consider giving it all up for a full-fledged coffee bar situation instead. This is not a "hustle harder" pep talk. This is the actual toolkit I use to get myself off the floor and back to running my travel influencer business like the boss I am 80% of the time.We're talking:Why baristas get up at 4 AM and what that has to do with anything (spoiler: it's about structure, not caffeine)Letting yourself actually feel the barista feelings instead of toxic-positivity-ing your way past themWhy your best ideas never happen while you're sitting at your computer — get the fuck outThe Parkinson's Law trick I use to get killer work done before 3 PM so I can have my whole evening backMy feel-good folder — the one piece of proof that you've won before and you'll win againScheduling movement, changing your environment, and giving yourself something (anything) to look forward toWhy phoning a friend in the business-building world might be the most underrated business hack nobody's talking aboutLetting yourself do the "unnecessary" fun work — yes, even the mean-girl-style carousels — because it gets you excited to come backThis episode is basically permission to have a bad day, followed by an actual plan to get out of it. Because knowing how to create good content and knowing how to run a content creation business are two completely different skills — and nobody's talking about the second one. Except me.Sign up for my newsletter, the Content Compass, the weekly newsletter for travel creators who are already landing brand deals and are ready to build the business behind their content.Get five shifts that will take you from travel creator to business owner with actionable next steps included. AND two private podcast episodes. Get the Creator to CEO Playbook for $5Say hi on InstagramJoin Us 👉 The Travel Creator Business Plan Community!The only business-building community designed specifically for travel creators.  You’ll get:  ✔ monthly business systems  ✔ coworking + Q&A calls  ✔ a private community of creators building real businesses  ✔ guidance to help you move from “content machine” to “CEO energy”Sign Up HERE