Hustle culture has convinced a lot of business owners that if they aren’t constantly pushing, launching, working, and growing, they’re somehow falling behind.

Claire brought up something in this conversation that gets lost in all of that: you’re a human being before you’re a business owner. You have a family, relationships, vacations, kids going back to school, anniversaries, and a life that doesn’t disappear because you decided to build something.

There are absolutely seasons when you need to lock in and sprint. The problem is when sprinting becomes the permanent pace. Eventually the business you built because you loved it starts feeling like something you can’t escape.

You don’t need to hustle harder. You need to build a business that actually has room for the person running it.