The Year I Operationalized My Business and Felt Lost

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Oct 30, 2025

What happens when success feels empty? A deep dive into the struggle and loneliness that often hide behind a thriving business. Discover how stepping away from daily operations leads to unexpected uncertainty. Jasmine shares insights from a transformative retreat in Hawaii, where she faced the question of purpose without distractions. Unveiling the realities of operationalizing a business, she explores failure, persistence, and the blend of wisdom and compassion needed to navigate the in-between moments of entrepreneurship.

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Retreat To Find Clarity

Jasmine flew to Lanai with no laptop or social media to grow herself before launching another business.
She used solitude, journaling, and a wellness retreat to reset and investigate her next move.

INSIGHT

Operationalizing Revealed An Identity Gap

Operationalizing a company can free founders but also creates an identity gap when the next idea doesn't emerge.
Replacing yourself surfaces the need to grow personally before new creative ventures arrive.

ANECDOTE

No 'Next Thing' After Success

After operationalizing Social Curator, Jasmine expected a new idea to arrive naturally but instead encountered months of silence.
She felt like a builder without a clear next project and struggled to find footing.

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What happens after you build the business of your dreams… but have no idea what comes next?

In this vulnerable solo episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on what it really looked like to step away from the day-to-day at Social Curator, operationalize the company, and wait for “the next big thing” to arrive.

Spoiler alert: It didn’t.

I share how I found myself on a remote island in Hawaii with no social media, no laptop, just a journal—and a lot of questions. Despite outward success, I felt stuck, unsure, and disconnected from my purpose. This is the behind-the-scenes of navigating a personal and professional identity shift, facing silence after momentum, and learning to sit in the unknown.

If you’ve ever hit a wall in your business and thought, “What now?”... you’re not alone.

Let’s talk about what happens in the in-between.

Because friend… if you don’t quit, you can’t lose.

Click >>PLAY<< to hear all of this and:

[00:00] Why I Flew to a Remote Island with No Social Media or Laptop (What happens when you strip away all distractions to grow yourself?)

[01:04] Building a Business Can Look Glamorous—But Let’s Get Real (The truth about struggle, loneliness, and grit behind the scenes)

[02:52] When Success Feels Like a Slugfest (How I stayed in the game when quitting looked easier)

[03:51] Operationalizing My Business: Why I Replaced Myself (The decision to step away from daily operations at Social Curator)

[04:44] The Idea That Never Came (What happens when you expect inspiration… and get crickets?)

[05:31] From Rebirth to Real Talk (Why 2023 didn’t go as planned—and what that taught me about timing)

[06:25] Independence Isn’t About Doing It Alone (Shifting from external expectations to internal alignment)

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