Learn how to rebuild your business after burnout and create a more sustainable path to growth. Dr. Alicia Newsome shares her transformative journey navigating the challenges of Fibromyalgia while running a business. After pushing through a demanding schedule, including live webinars and sales calls, while seven months pregnant and battling COVID, she realized the unsustainable nature of her approach.
In this episode, she opens up about the true cost of relentless hustle and how a fibromyalgia diagnosis prompted her to rebuild her business model for sustainability. Trusting her team became a crucial health strategy, allowing her to prioritize her well-being. If you're juggling burnout, autoimmune conditions, or chronic illness in your entrepreneurial journey, Alicia's insights will inspire you to embrace a more balanced and compassionate approach to business, one that honors your health and peace.
In this episode, we cover:
• What burnout actually looks like beyond physical exhaustion — the mental looping, the disconnection, the collapse of clarity
• Why Dr. Alicia stopped doing sales calls entirely and how she rebuilt her intake process to be asynchronous
• What it cost her to mimic someone else's success and what it took to reconnect to what was true for her
• The difference between rest that restores and rest that's just survival
• How she built a business that's more profitable than ever without being tied to her desk
• What it means to hire coaches whose lives you actually want to mimic
• Why the standard online business model assumes unlimited capacity — and what to do when you don't have it
This episode is for you if:
• You've been told you just need to push through, hire better, or fix your mindset — but the real problem is the model itself
• Your business requires you to be on all the time to make money, and you're exhausted
• You've followed all the right advice and still ended up burnt out
• You're rebuilding after burnout and don't know how to do it differently this time
• You're pregnant, postpartum, or navigating a health challenge while running a business
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