Coaching Corner: Finding the Balance Between Business and Family with Ashley Lopez Part 1

Published: May 2, 2022, 7 a.m.

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In Part 1 of this 2-part Coaching Corner Episode, I talk to lash business owner Ashley Lopez about finding balance between working on her business and spending time with her husband and kids.

Ashley is from Galloway, New Jersey and prior to opening her lash business in December 2018, she was in the corporate world. The corporate world was not very friendly with kids. Since she had a cosmetology license she thought, \\u201cWhat can I do with this to have a more flexible schedule, be with my kids, but still make the money that I was making at my corporate job?\\u201d

Her main struggle right now is finding the balance between investing in the business and also being able to have the capacity to be present with her kids.

Some business owners experience mom guilt- when they\'re paying attention to their business, they\'re like \\u201cI should be with my kids\\u201d. You can also experience the opposite- \\u201cI\'m with my kids, but I should be with my business\\u201d. Isn\'t that interesting?\\xa0

So if you were spending so much time in your business, and you felt guilty that you weren\'t spending time with your kids, we would look at when can you spend time with your kids that\'s dedicated and focused on them so that you feel like they\'re getting what they need? You can do that in reverse with the business as well.\\xa0 How much time in a week do you want to be able to spend working on the business, not in it-but ON the business?

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In Part 1 of this 2-part episode, we talk about:

[14:23] The one factor that is to blame for you not having clarity in your business and feeling like you\\u2019re all over the place.

[34:39] What does it mean to illegally misclassify your team members and how to fix it.

[38:35] How to overcome overwhelm when you just don\\u2019t know where to start.

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If building out a team is something that you really want to do, we have our momentum mastermind applications opening up again at the end of May. It is a six month group coaching program for those that wanting to build out a team legally and profitably. You can get on the waitlist for it by going to www.thelashpreneur.com/mastermind and that way you\'ll be notified when we open.\\xa0

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