Creating your own company from the ground up is not easy by any means. 

Start-up businesses always have their ins and outs, their do’s and don’t’s, and maybe even their “yes, and’s” and “no, but’s”. 

On this resilience episode of Unleashing YOUR Great Work, we get to meet and speak with advisor, author, and founder of BusinessRiff, Mary Scott. Mary has always considered herself a “connector” and has found Great Work in connecting people of many skills and resources to help their start-up businesses flourish. However, starting a business can have it’s drawbacks, and it’s important to remember your own value and self-care when the going gets tough. 

A big fan of getting “off-planet” (a term coined to describe the escape from work life into rejuvenating self-care), Mary gives us the reassurance that if we know what works for us, and more importantly what DOESN’T work for us, we can achieve a conquering mindset of changing the world in what whatever Great Work we have to give.

Starting a business can have it’s drawbacks, and it’s important to remember your own value and self-care when the going gets tough.

Mary Scott is an advisor, author, and founder of BusinessRiff, and she has always considered herself a “connector”, finding Great Work in connecting people of many skills and resources to help their start-up businesses flourish.

In this episode, Mary reassures us that if we know what works for us, and more importantly what DOESN’T work for us, we can achieve a conquering amount of resilience to change the world in whatever Great Work we have to give.

Mary Scott shared the tip that it’s not that any single thing objectively “is” nourishing or relieving, but rather it’s the process of discovering what makes you feel nourished and relieved that matters. 

To do Great Work, we need to protect our resilience. 

To do that, we need to know ourselves.

About the author

Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist and business coach who helps accidental entrepreneurs get more clients and have a bigger impact. She is the author of Great Work, the host of the Unleashing Your Great Work podcast, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.

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