Abagail Pumphrey is the owner of Boss Project, a woman-owned education company & award-winning design agency that helps you design your business around your life (not the other way around.) She started as a freelancer, built an agency, and has since created a community of entrepreneurs worldwide who are building their own online businesses. Abagail educates people on how to create more sustainability, build more revenue, and save more time behind the scenes.

In 2016, a year and a half into her business, Abagail was involved in a five-car collision that changed her life instantly. With a traumatic brain injury, she had a long five-year recovery. Forced to continue working in her business while she was recovering, she says, “I became incredibly aware of just how reliant the business I had built was on me.” Rebuilding from the ground up, Abagail designed a business that gave her more flexibility, that was less reliant on her, and could continue to thrive when life inevitably happens.

In this episode we discuss:

• How business challenges you in every possible way, especially in the beginning—and it entails personal growth

• How there are very few things we can do in business that are unchangeable—we can always pivot, change direction, make adjustments, and even potentially remove decisions we previously made

• How Abagail found herself burning out, giving every ounce of energy she had to running her business—and realizing how important it was to make her business less reliant on herself

• How making money lets you deal with problems without being consumed by the problem

• Abagail’s passion for helping people create more financial freedom, while building businesses that support the life they want—and how she helps entrepreneurs develop an “offer ecosystem” so they don’t have to compete against themselves for the same client with too many different offerings

• How business owners are look for “proof” that they can succeed—whether that’s through testimonials, sales, or their clients getting value or exceeding the goals they set

• The biggest mindset hurdle Abagail thinks people need to get past in order to create ease and flow in their business

Plus, we talk about the idea of “time freedom”—and why you don’t always have to be growing BIGGER in business (it’s all about what season you’re in).