Work Less, Receive More: Lessons from Our Tea Party Call
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This post summarizes the Say Yes to Desire Tea Party from January 2025. Summary generated with assistance from Castmagic.
Q: You talk about podcasting as healing. What does that actually mean?
I believe that podcasting can be a powerful container for giving yourself permission to hear your own voice. So many of us have spent years suppressing what we actually think and feel, and the act of recording yourself, of speaking out loud without editing yourself into oblivion, starts to unwind that. The foundation I always come back to is: create a space that feels safe for self-reflection first. The listeners and the strategy can come later.
Q: How do you keep content creation simple when there are so many tools and platforms?
The whole flow starts with one audio recording. That's it. From there, I use Canva and Castmagic to turn that single recording into videos, blog posts, and pins. The other key is letting intuitive hits drive what you talk about, rather than forcing a content calendar. And every piece should point somewhere: a booking page, a newsletter signup, a product. Keep the customer journey path simple and obvious.
Q: How does desire fit into business strategy? That sounds a little woo — can you make it concrete?
It's actually very concrete. If you feel a pull toward visiting a coffee shop to work, or going on a retreat, or sleeping in — and you follow that desire (in a financially conscious way) — you come back with more energy, more ideas, more magnetism. Hustle burns that out. Small desires are data. They're your body telling you what creates the conditions for your best work. The business case for honoring them is honestly just: you create higher-level work when you're not running on self-denial.
Q: What about unfinished projects and old patterns? That's something a lot of entrepreneurs struggle with.
This one goes deep. A lot of us have cycles we don't even notice — we start things and abandon them right before completion, or we hold onto old identities long past their expiration date. Moving in the opposite direction of that pattern, actually finishing something and being gentle with yourself while you do it, creates new evidence that you're someone who follows through. That changes how you see yourself. It's uncomfortable work, and it can bring up grief, but releasing those old stories — through crying, through creative expression, through sitting with it — makes room for something more authentic.
Q: Grief and gratitude seem like opposites. How do you hold both at once?
Holding grief and gratitude at the same time is genuinely one of the most adult skills there is. It means you're not bypassing the hard stuff to get to the good feelings, and you're not wallowing in loss either. You're just — present with all of it. That's actually what entrepreneurship requires. There's no shortcut to the deeper attunement that comes from feeling your feelings fully.
