258: To Do—A Small Business Owner’s Checklist (Rolling in D🤦🏻♀️h Crossover)
Jan 12, 2024
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In this episode, Jenny Blake discusses the tasks and considerations for small business owners, including health insurance, payroll reports, and canceling subscriptions. They also talk about delegating email management and explore Inbox Done. The episode covers various items on a small business owner's checklist, such as credit card balances, bookkeeping for tax time, planning an event, and dealing with challenges like stolen reviews. They also brainstorm ideas for a new book and explore the zine scene.
Balance personal and business responsibilities by renewing health insurance, managing healthcare costs, and addressing the effects of long COVID.
Consider internships in media institutions, navigate the challenges of book publishing, and continuously generate new ideas for content.
Deep dives
Key Point 1: Managing personal and business responsibilities
The podcast episode discusses the challenges faced by a small business owner in balancing personal and business responsibilities. It highlights the need to renew health insurance, tackle healthcare costs, and address the effects of long COVID. The episode also emphasizes the importance of simplifying expenses, continuing personal growth through yoga and self-improvement, and making time for leisure activities and hobbies.
Key Point 2: Navigating career choices and book publishing
Another main focus of the podcast is on career choices and book publishing. It talks about considering internships in media institutions and the challenges faced in the publishing industry. The episode also explores the excitement and struggles of book publishing, dealing with reviews and book sales, and the constant pressure to generate new ideas for content.
Key Point 3: Daily challenges and self-reflection
The podcast delves into the daily challenges and self-reflection of a business owner. It touches on email management, financial concerns, planning events, overcoming self-doubt, and contemplating life changes. The episode highlights the need for self-care, addressing mental health, and seeking personal growth amidst the difficulties of running a business and managing personal life.
What’s on your business owner to-do list? Here’s a peek at mine, full of items large, small, and existential. This is another crossover from Rolling in D🤦🏻♀️h, a recent essay that was an unexpected runaway hit—the most popular to date in the six months since I started on Substack.
I had no idea (as usual) whether it would resonate or not when I hit “publish,” until my friend Adam texted to say how much he could relate. “Your comments are blowing up!” he said, sending a screenshot of other people letting me know that I wasn’t alone in my itemized anxiety.
Enormous thanks to those of you who have already subscribed, read, commented, and shared—it means the world to me!
📝 Permission
To reward yourself with something fun after you complete the most annoying #adulting item on your to-do list.
✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next
Delegate one thing you are dreading on your own to-do list.