Quitting My 9-5: A Two Month Update

The Pursue Purpose Podcast

On today’s episode of the Pursuit of Purpose podcast, I share about the financial prep and balancing act of my early months in business. With wedding season in full swing, it’s been a hectic but rewarding time, and I’m gearing up for a slower season to enjoy more family moments. Tune in for a quick update on managing finances, family, and growth as an entrepreneur.

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Welcome to the Pursue Purpose Podcast. This podcast is for ambitious women who want to cultivate a meaningful life in the pursuit of their purpose. After achieving the highest level of academic success yet feeling unfulfilled, I was left wondering what was next. I discovered my purpose in helping women feel seen, understand their self-worth, and live their best lives. I quit my scientific career path for a life full of freedom and flexibility, and now I want to teach and inspire other women to pursue their purpose. Thank you for being here and let's get started.

Hey guys, I'm just recording another quick video for you about my entrepreneurial chronicles since I quit my job almost two months ago. I just wanted to give you a little overview of what's been going on the last couple months. On the family side, we got to take a really wonderful trip to the Washington Coast. It was like a Thursday through Sunday long weekend sort of thing, which was really nice because my husband can work remotely and we were able to just do a long drive with the kids and enjoy our time out on the coast. We're not concerned about his new job and a two and a half year old is a little challenging on the plane. We feel like right now it's a good time to do more local travel and be able to take some fun little getaways that are more in the car.

That was really fun. I've been able to just go places with them. I used to just be sitting at my desk all day during the week and really not get to see them that much. So now it's been amazing. I feel like way more connected to them and just having a better relationship with them before I feel like it was harder for them to kind of follow directions or listen. And now I feel like because I'm able to have much more like positive time frames with them, I have more clout when it comes to you know, asking them to do something and they'll actually follow directions and listen. Still a challenge.

I mean, they're five and two and a half. I don't have high expectations, but it's been way better on that front for sure. My son started school this week. So that's been interesting trying to navigate like a new schedule. You know, I was having a really nice time figuring out like like walk like a morning walk and you know, some more like morning routines that helped me just feel more myself throughout the day. It felt like when I didn't get that time to like do yoga in the morning and do a morning walk, you know, the rest of the day felt a little more chaotic and I just wasn't in as good of a mood. So yeah, this week has been hard on that front just because school started and so now we're trying to look out the door faster and there's just more going on in the morning. So trying to figure that out and find a way to balance it a little bit better and find time for myself as well. Today is kind of is a Friday and is kind of like a you know just me all day long doing the mom thing which has been really fun.

So on Fridays we get to go. I took my daughter to a gymnastics gym and just got to play and have fun at the gym and we'll pick my son up after her nap. So it's nice getting a chance to connect with her more one-on-one because a lot of times this past summer at least you know they're together all the time which you know she said she misses him and that's really cute and sweet but they have such a great bond that she misses him when he's at school.

But it's nice to get that one-on-one time with her and then hopefully on the weekend we can carve out someone on one time with my son as well because I definitely think he'll need that. But he's loving school. He goes from like 8.30 to 3. So he's there pretty much all day. His favorite time is his nap time and yeah he's in a little cute pre-k program right now. So he's loving it. Just gets to play with other kids and you know be around kids that are not like a younger sister sibling age you know taking his toys and things like that. So I think he's really enjoying that and then everyone just feels happy when we see each other again you know they don't fight as much and things like that.

So that's been really good. And then on the business side it's been one of my busiest month or two. I started weddings early September. I quit my job mid-July and I kind of stacked my September knowing that this was coming and so what's nice about that is you know the amount of money that I could bring in in August and September is a lot more than the rest of the year because all of my weddings were September, October. So those payments are coming in which feels really good and being able to have plenty to be able to pay myself you know my goal was to pay continue to pay myself like my take-home salary from my previous job and so far that's working out really well.

I had built up about six months of a salary in a you know high yield savings account and basically stocking stuff away if I get additional payments beyond that where I can save more and so that way on the lean months I'm still able to pay myself the same amount every month so then that'll come out of that account. So so far on the business side that's been really working well I would say. It is the busiest time so that feels good. We'll see what happens in kind of the slow season but I think I will also be looking forward to that slow season too just to kind of slow down. It's definitely hectic right now a lot of editing a lot of shoots and running back and forth between like here in the studio where like we were gone all last weekend for a wedding so you know getting time with the family on the off season will be really sweet and beautiful too. So I think yeah right now is the hustle time. Stock away the money time but as far as like paying myself like that's not been an issue and business is good so yeah everything's going really well so far and hopefully we'll continue to be that way you know long into the future but I will keep posting on updates on how it's going. Thanks for listening.

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