Taking a break to build your business

If you had to pick one you, to be for the rest of your life, which you would you pick?


I’d pick the me in the middle.

On the top of a mountain, covered in mud.


But the beautiful thing is though, I don’t have to choose.

I get to be all of them.

⛵ Captain mom (Full time, badly paid, excellent perks, driving by the seat of her pants)

🌄 Camp Director Tess (summers in the woods with a bunch of teenagers and no electricity)

🎙️ Coaching Professional Tessa (9 months a year, clean, wears a dress, knows what she’s talking about)


Every summer I take a break from coaching to be a Summer Camp director, and I worry about my business. How will it survive if I don't have clients for 3 months? What if I don't post on LinkedIn, will I lose all my traction? What if people think I'm not a 'serious' business owner?

Every year, without fail, my business has grown. In spite of all these things.

Or maybe Because of?

After a summer to breathe, reset my brain and get away from the hustle, I come back to a more robust sense of who I am and what I want to do.

I strip away certain parts of my business and lean into others.


As an entrepreneur and business owner it is so tempting to think you have to be ALL IN, ALL THE TIME.

You don't. You need and deserve a break. You don't have to take another job, but I assure you your business will survive if you take a month, or 6months, away from it.

It may even thrive.