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What to Do When You've Tried Everything in Your Business and Nothing Is Working

September 11, 202630 min read

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Most business owners hit this wall at some point. The team did not pan out, the brand did not land, the funnel did not convert, and the reality on the ground looks nothing like the vision that got them started. The effort was real, the plans were good, and still nothing is hitting. What follows is usually a heavy, tired kind of frustration that is hard to talk about, because admitting it feels like admitting defeat.

In this Double Kaufman episode of The Amanda Kaufman Show, co-host Rebecca Kaufman puts Amanda in the hot seat on exactly that feeling, inspired by a client success survey where comment after comment read like "I've tried this, and this, and this." Amanda, founder of Clairvenu, lived through her own version of it not long ago, including the mentorship moment that shook her out of it. She walks through the self-compassion step, the uncomfortable truth about what "everything" really means, the language shift that separates feelings from facts, the 15-minute rule, an honest audit of what you have actually tried, and how to break up with the perfectionism that keeps so many owners stuck.

Start With Self-Compassion, Then Let Yourself Get Mad

The first move when nothing is working is compassion for yourself, followed by permission to be dissatisfied with the status quo instead of numbing it.

How It Matters: Entrepreneurs have already chosen a different path, which means many of them are in a habit of doing everything alone. When things do not work out the way they were supposed to by now, frustration, anger, and deflation are normal. Piling negative self-talk on top of feeling like you are losing is, in Amanda's observation, just not motivating for most people. Worse, many owners end up feeling bad about feeling bad, which numbs them from being mad enough to actually work through the problem. The result is a tolerating, icky energy that goes nowhere.

How to Do It: Be kind to yourself first. It already stinks to feel like you are losing; you do not need to be mean on top of it. Then let the extremes through. Amanda has been in the personal development world for over a decade and knows the pressure to look perfectly regulated with every duck in a row, but motion is attached to emotion. Letting yourself be genuinely dissatisfied is what allows you to lock in and do something different. As Rebecca put it, the advice is to engage with the problem fully rather than reaching for avoidance.

Common Mistake: Waiting until you feel positive, enthusiastic, and optimistic before doing the work. That is not realistic. If the only time you make a change is when you feel like it, the change rarely comes.

You Have Not Tried Everything, and That Is Good News

Once you have accepted the feelings, the honest next step is a hard one: you have not tried everything, or you have tried it at a shallow level.

How It Matters: Amanda calls this a mean thing to say, and also exactly what she needed to hear. A few years ago she was on a coaching call after a big team, a big brand, and a big funnel had all failed to work out. The elite entrepreneur she had hired looked at her work and said, bluntly, "Amanda, the problem is it's just not good enough." It was one of the most brutal mentorship moments she has had, and it landed because he had actually looked at her stuff rather than handing her an answer without ever seeing it.

How to Do It: Sit with the possibility that you are doing the right thing and simply not doing nearly enough of it. Amanda's pattern interrupt was the question "what if it takes way more than I think?" The answer, for her, became a podcast released three times a week. When you feel like you have done everything, you are probably just beginning to recognize how much there is that you could do.

Common Mistake: Treating "I tried it" as a finished box to check. Trying something once, with a little bit of effort, focus, and risk, is not the same as trying it with excellence.

Swap "I Feel Like" for "I Think That" and Look at the Data

"I feel like I've done everything" is not a feeling; it is an opinion, and naming it that way changes what you do next.

How It Matters: People are conditioned to say "I feel like" whenever they do not want a statement challenged, because nobody can argue with how you feel. Amanda holds herself to a standard: when she says "I feel," she follows it with an actual feeling word, and she needed a feeling wheel to get past "good" and "bad." Pulled apart, the sentence usually becomes "I think that I've tried everything, and I feel tired," which raises the useful question of what is informing that opinion.

How to Do It: Make the swap out loud. "I think that I've tried everything" immediately invites "how come I think that?" Then, as Rebecca urged, connect to the data, because your brain is not always nice to you. Look at what the numbers say you actually did and how it actually performed, rather than the experience you are having of it.

Common Mistake: Describing the experience you are having and treating it as the reality of what your business is doing. The two are not the same thing, and the data is the tiebreaker.

Use the 15-Minute Rule and Learn to Ask for Help Well

The first habit to cultivate is asking for help, and Amanda's 15-minute rule makes that habit automatic.

How It Matters: When Amanda is unclear about a next step, whether it is tech or strategy, she gives herself 15 minutes to struggle with it. That forces her to engage the problem without twisting up in it. Most people, worried about what others will think if they admit they do not know everything, never ask at all. They spend seven, ten, or fifteen hours on something an expert could resolve in a moment or explain a different way. In the age of AI, that help is often one question away; Amanda leaned on the rule over and over while implementing new financial systems for her business.

How to Do It: First, just do it: ask before the 15 minutes are up. Then get good at it. Ineffective asking sounds like a lot of "I don't know" and "maybe you could help me with this," a stumble through language you are not used to using. Effective asking gets clear about what the problem is, what you would like solved, and what good looks like to you. The person or the AI you are asking rarely needs the backstory; that is your drama filling in the dots.

Common Mistake: Believing the context you are tempted to pile on is necessary. It usually is not, and learning to ask in a way that moves your specific needle takes practice and time.

Make an Honest List of What You Tried and How Hard

The second habit is a real list, or a spreadsheet, of everything you have tried and the degree to which you tried it.

How It Matters: Most owners who feel stuck have a mental "already done that" list. Written down with an honest effort rating next to each item, that list tends to reveal a lot of things attempted with a little bit of effort, a little bit of focus, and a little bit of risk. Somewhere on it is very likely a strategy that would work if it were done with excellence before it was crossed off.

How to Do It: Build the list and score each item. Then, and Amanda admits she should have led with this, check in on what your goals were in the first place. A clear goal makes it obvious which items deserve a second, deeper attempt and which were never going to move the needle.

Common Mistake: Confusing the length of the list with the depth of the effort. A long list of shallow attempts feels like "everything" and is not.

Break Up With Perfectionism by Aiming for Excellence Instead

Owners who struggle with the "everything" problem also tend to be perfectionists, and perfectionism is anxiety about your performance dressed up as high standards.

How It Matters: Perfectionism is a very high standard for everything paired with a belief that anything less means you are no good and will be cast out of the herd. The rude part is that until you allow yourself to be a little bad at something so you can practice, meet yourself where you stand, and grow, you are unlikely to develop real excellence in that domain at all.

How to Do It: Stop being so judgmental. Amanda's perfectionism was her own perception of what excellence looked like, plus an attachment to that story. It is the same judgment that keeps people from leaving the house unless they are perfectly put together, or turning on a camera until the message is flawless and the audience is ideal. Make excellence the goal instead of perfection, so you can keep adding improvements as you go. Rebecca's lighting setup on this very episode, and the five-minute freak-out about it, is a fair example of a standard rising after seeing the last cut, which is a good thing as long as it fuels the next improvement rather than stopping the work.

Common Mistake: Making perfection the goal and then being unable to ship anything that falls short of it. Excellence compounds; perfection stalls.

Conclusion

When nothing seems to be working, the way through is not more of the same frustration. Start with self-compassion, then let yourself get mad enough to engage. Accept that you have not tried everything, at least not deeply. Swap "I feel like" for "I think that" and go look at the data. Give yourself 15 minutes before asking for help, and learn to ask well. Write down what you actually tried and how hard, and check it against the goal you set. Then trade perfection for excellence so you can keep improving in public. If you feel you have exhausted every option, you probably have blind spots, and an outside perspective from someone you trust who has the expertise can be the fastest way to find them. That is the real job of a coach: not to hold you to their standard, but to ask the questions that reveal your own.

To hear the full conversation with Amanda and Rebecca Kaufman, listen to Episode 360 of The Amanda Kaufman Show on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.

Frequently Asked Questions

What should I do first when I feel like nothing in my business is working?

Start with self-compassion, then let yourself be dissatisfied instead of numbing it. Amanda's observation is that negative self-talk rarely motivates anyone, and that avoiding the frustration keeps you from getting mad enough to change anything. Feel it, then engage the problem fully.

Have I really tried everything if my business still is not growing?

Almost certainly not, or not at the depth required. Amanda suggests making a written list of what you have tried and rating how much effort, focus, and risk went into each item. Most people find several strategies they attempted at a shallow level that deserve a second attempt done with excellence.

What is the 15-minute rule for asking for help?

When you are stuck on a next step, give yourself 15 minutes to struggle with it, then ask for help from an expert or from AI. It keeps you engaged with the problem without spending ten or fifteen hours on something someone else could resolve in a moment. Once asking becomes a habit, work on asking clearly: what the problem is, what you want solved, and what good looks like.

How does perfectionism keep a business owner stuck?

Perfectionism is anxiety about your performance paired with a belief that anything less than your ideal makes you no good. Until you allow yourself to be a little bad at something so you can practice and improve, you cannot build real excellence. Amanda recommends aiming for excellence rather than perfection so you can keep shipping and improving.

Where can I get help diagnosing what is actually not working in my business?

Amanda's free live training, How Serious Service Businesses Build High-Converting Funnels & Acquisition Systems That Run 24/7, walks through how the pieces of a service business fit together so you can see where yours is breaking down. Register at https://clairvenu.com/training. If you want an outside perspective on your specific situation, apply for a free Revenue Clarity Conversation at https://clairvenu.com.

Transcript

Rebecca Kaufman (00:01)

Hello and welcome to the Amanda Kaufman Show. You got a double Kaufman episode coming at ya. So we got Miss Amanda, the star of the show. And then you have me, Miss Rebecca, the little sister extraordinaire, who's here to pull all of the little brain nuggets out of her head and into your guys' beautiful ears. So today we've got a topic that might seem a little heavy, but honestly, if you're in an entrepreneurship, you're always gonna hit points of frustration. It's kind of inevitable.

And so when you get into that space of like, I feel like I've tried everything and nothing is hitting, nothing is working, we're two from here.

Amanda Kaufman (00:41)

my gosh.

I'm really excited about this one because I have experienced it not that long ago. So that feeling of like, my God, I've done everything. I've tried everything. I've got like Rosie the Riveter behind me of like, we can do it. It's like my we can do it up and went. Like I was just really struggling with traction. and I think that's what we're really talking about. You know, I I hear the it the inspiration for this episode was a recent client.

success survey that I did where I was asking all kinds of nosy questions and reading the comments and the comments so often sounded very heavy to your point

Rebecca Kaufman (01:19)

Okay.

Amanda Kaufman (01:21)

where it's like I've tried this and I've tried this and I've tried this and I've done this and yeah so let's talk about it.

Rebecca Kaufman (01:26)

Right after this message.

Okay, so we've met this entrepreneur where they're at. They've tried everything, and the problem is not solved. What are our options? What do we what do we do from here?

Amanda Kaufman (02:31)

Just want it more. I'm just kidding.

Rebecca Kaufman (02:34)

Just harder, God

Amanda Kaufman (02:35)

God. I mean I I I get it. I think like the first thing is probably around self compassion and a and a

Recognition, you know, whenever you get into like that really frustrated place, it's not fun. And you know, already as an entrepreneur, you've probably decided to walk a different path. So it's it's very possible and quite likely that you are in a little bit of a a cycle or habit of of of just

doing it alone and just kind of feeling like that lone wolf. So you know, if you if you are getting kind of frustrated, angry, or even deflated because things aren't working out the way that you thought that they would by now, I mean, I think the first thing is that self compassion. Like don't be mean to yourself. It's already sucks that you feel like you're losing. So like being mean on top of that, and having like really negative self-talk, for most people, my observation is that it's

It's

just not terribly motivating. Some people can take that kernel of anger and activate, like, kind of a rage cycle that'll give them a good, good, solid push out of it. I'll show you.

Rebecca Kaufman (03:44)

I'll show you something.

Amanda Kaufman (03:47)

and I've noticed that that because people kind of live in this sort of place where they actually feel bad about feeling bad about the situation.

Is they they s they also kind of numb themselves from being mad enough to work through it. So it just sort of ends up being like this this very tolerating icky sort of a an energy for a lot of people. So I would say like compassion, man. Like it's not easy. And when people oversimplify it, it that can be annoying too. so yeah, I would say first thing compassion. Second thing.

Let yourself get mad. Right? Not at yourself, but like let yourself be dissatisfied with the status quo. You know, I I think like this need to be like perfect and positive, like all the time, is

Rebecca Kaufman (04:37)

So real regulated all of the time.

Amanda Kaufman (04:40)

perfectly regul. Like if I'm anything but perfectly regulated all the time, then there's something wrong with me. And

I've been in the personal development world for well over a decade. I get the pressure, right, to appear like you've got everything, all ducks in a row. I also think that motion is attached to emotion. So if you're numbing yourself or avoiding or deflecting that feeling,

Or expecting that the only time that you need to do the work or to make the change is when you feel like it and you feel positive and you feel enthusiastic and optimistic about absolutely everything. I mean, that's just not realistic. So I think one is compassion, but two is actually let the extremes through because then it'll allow you to lock in and start to actually do something different.

Rebecca Kaufman (05:32)

See, that's the thing that came up for me is like it feels like the advice is to ultimately engage with the problem fully.

Amanda Kaufman (05:38)

Yeah.

Rebecca Kaufman (05:38)

Like

don't hold yourself back from it. 'Cause I know my favorite drug of choice is avoidance and disassociation. Like, you know what I mean? So allowing yourself to get worked up about it, to get let yourself really look at what specifically isn't working and like really engage in a full way, even if it doesn't feel like the best feeling.

Amanda Kaufman (05:59)

It doesn't. It doesn't. I mean, like, I think entrepreneurs by our nature, we're dissatisfied with the status quo. We want to solve things in a new way. We want things to be different. And and so like embrace it. So okay, you've tried everything. I think the first thing is like the the first thing after accepting your feelings and maybe perhaps leading into them, is no you haven't. You haven't tried everything. Or

If you have tried every everything, you've tried it at a shallow level. And like that is such a mean thing to say. And I would never say a mean thing, except that's exactly what I needed to hear.

I I I'll never forget it. I was sitting on a on a coaching call just a few years ago. I'd had a whole lot of stuff not work out, right? Like I had a big team, big team didn't work out. I had a big brand, big brand didn't work out. I had a big funnel, big funnel didn't work out, right? So I was feeling really bummed because I had all these best-laid plans. I had this great vision for what was gonna happen, and my reality just was not tying out to the vision. And and and I was sitting

I

was sitting call with a very high-performing elite entrepreneur that I had hired to coach me. And he was so rude, he said, Amanda, the problem is it's just not good enough.

I think my heart rose into my chest and then I swallowed it. I was choking on tears. I like, I was like, whoa, like it was, it was probably one of the more brutal mentorship moments I've ever had because I do consider myself to be a high performer and a high achiever. And I do work really hard and I do put in all this effort to have somebody sit there across from me. I think what really made it hurt is he looked at what I did.

He actually looked at it. And so I knew he wasn't just

Rebecca Kaufman (07:45)

so this was it.

Amanda Kaufman (07:46)

telling me it's not good enough from this place of just wanting to beat me up emotionally. He looked at the stuff and he said it wasn't good enough. And I was like, it was it was such a a pattern interrupt though. Do you know how many coaches I've worked, I know you know, but like just for listeners' benefit. I've worked with so many coaches.

Who tell me the answer without ever looking at my thing? And when he looked at it and and said it so bluntly, it was exactly the pattern interrupt I needed because I realized after I looked at my wounds, I had self-compassion afterwards. I sat with that and I'm like, what if it really isn't good enough? What if I made the

overture towards the effort required, but what if it takes way more than I think?

And I and it wasn't until he really just like abruptly kind of like shook me awake that I was like, crap, what if I'm doing the right thing? I'm just not doing doing nearly enough of it.

And here we are, releasing a podcast three times a week, right? Here we are. And and you know, I

Rebecca Kaufman (08:53)

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Kaufman (08:56)

you haven't when you feel like you've done everything, you're probably just starting to recognize how much there is that you could do.

Rebecca Kaufman (09:06)

And that's a rude realization as well. Like as you're learning new skills and you realize just how deep something really can go. Hoy oy. But like

Amanda Kaufman (09:12)

Yeah. Yeah.

Rebecca Kaufman (09:15)

I I think the thing that's that's poking out at me, and I say this all the time on the podcast, so maybe this is a Rebecca quotable, but if you feel like you've done everything.

Connect to the data because your brain's an I don't know if we can swear on this podcast. You can bleep that out, but your brain's not nice a lot of the time. So really looking at the data and being like connected to like, did I actually do everything? And from the data, like what is the data telling me? You know.

Amanda Kaufman (09:45)

Yeah. And like let's talk

about the language too, right? If you're saying like I feel like I did all of this, that's not accurate because that's not a feeling. What you're really saying is, I think that I've done everything. And when you just even change the word from I feel like to I think.

And like the rule that I am trying to live by. I like this is this is a difficult thing. Because we do get a lot of conditioning to say the words I feel. Whenever we don't want somebody to attack what we're gonna say, we say, well, I feel like. Because that's right. Like

Rebecca Kaufman (10:23)

It's an opinion now.

Amanda Kaufman (10:24)

because it's like if like you can't tell me how I feel. If you said if you just swap the word, like I feel like for I think that.

And if you held yourself to the standard of, and this is for me, this is like, listener, you're witnessing something here. I'm I'm holding myself to the standard of when I say the words I feel, follow it with a feeling word. And I needed to get a feeling wheel to help me with this because for the longest time I always said I feel good or I feel bad. That's pretty nonspecific.

So when you start to really pull it apart, what you realize is I think that I've tried everything and I feel frustrated or I feel exhausted or I feel depressed or I feel anxious. And when you get more specific into what the true and authentic feeling is, what you start to realize is that when we say, I feel like I've done everything, what you're really trying to communicate is I'm tired, right? I feel tired, and I

Think that's everything there is. And as soon as you say the words I think, it really starts to raise the question, well, how come I think that? What's informing that opinion? And you start to also see when you say that how often you're expressing an opinion and not an objective fact.

Rebecca Kaufman (11:42)

Yeah, you're ex you're describing a experience that you're having rather than the reality of what your business is doing. And with that,

Amanda Kaufman (11:49)

Precisely.

Rebecca Kaufman (11:50)

we are going to our next message.

Every time I see that ad I laugh. It's fine.

Amanda Kaufman (12:13)

example of like something I hadn't like at the time that I was being challenged by this coach that I that what I was doing wasn't really good enough. I didn't have ads on my podcast and I didn't have funny ads on my podcast. I just had the whole h whole whole heap of nothing.

And that's I think what made it feel bad.

Rebecca Kaufman (12:29)

Alright, so we have given ourselves compassion. We have described a feeling, not a like reality of our business. Okay, what now? We're fully engaged with the

Amanda Kaufman (12:44)

Right.

So I I think that it does depend on what you are struggling with specifically, but more generally, I would say you probably could use a few habits of cultivation, cultivating a few habits. So the first habit is the habit of asking for help.

Rebecca Kaufman (13:05)

Yes, indeed.

Amanda Kaufman (13:06)

I have a 15-minute

rule. So basically, when I am unclear about a next step or I'm trying to figure something out, whether it's my tech or what my strategy is, I have a 15-minute struggle with it rule. And so what that does is it forces me to engage that.

topic or that that difficulty or that challenge, but not twist up into it. So what most people do because they're so worried about what other people are gonna think of them if they admit that they don't know everything is they just never ask for help. So they'll struggle for seven, ten, fifteen hours on something that an expert would be able to resolve literally like that or explain in a different way. And I think what's really why

Is you know, we're in this age of AI. I recently was implementing some new systems for our business finances, and there were questions that I had along the way. And I kept leaning on this 15-minute rule over and over and over again. And I'd simply go to AI and ask. And you know, one of the things about asking for help is at first the big skill is doing it. So that's where the 15-minute rule comes in.

After that, it's actually mastering the ability to ask for help in a really efficacious way. So if you're ineffective at asking for help, what that sounds like is a lot of and and I don't know, and I'm unclear, maybe you could help me with this. There's a lot of stumbling through your language because you may not be accustomed to actually asking.

So once you start getting good at asking, you start to realize that usually the person you're asking or the AI that you're asking, it doesn't need a whole lot of context. That's your drama filling in the dots.

What it usually needs is clarity about, so what's your problem? Like what what is it that you would like to have solved? What does good actually look like to you? So part of that is learning to ask in such a way that is really moving your specific needle, and that takes practice and time. So help. Second big thing.

Is make a real list or a spreadsheet of what you have tried and the degree that you tried it. And what you're gonna find is you're gonna find that there's a lot of stuff you tried with a little bit of effort, with a little bit of focus, with a little bit of risk, right? And so there's probably something on your already done that list that if you did that with excellence.

before you took it off the list. Before you took it off the list, right? And I think the third big piece is to to check in on what your goals are in the first place. I should have probably led with that. so what I what I mean by that is most people when they're struggling with the everything problem, they also tend to be a perfectionist.

Rebecca Kaufman (15:56)

No way. What?

Amanda Kaufman (15:58)

For real, yeah.

Speaking from experience, but you know, from working with my clients,

Rebecca Kaufman (16:02)

Don't know what that's like.

Amanda Kaufman (16:04)

yeah, perfectionism. So, what is perfectionism? It's this really high standard that you have for everything, and it's also a fear or a belief that if you do anything less than that.

that you will be no good and you will be cast out of the herd and you will have all of these negative consequences if you do that. Perfectionism is really anxiety around your performance.

That's it. You're anxious about your performance. And the really rude part of it is until you allow yourself to suck a little bit so that you can practice, so you can meet yourself where you stand and then grow from there. Until you do that, which means less than perfect performance, you are unlikely to develop the skill of excellence in whatever that domain is. So

I think like in terms of breaking up with perfectionism, here's what helped me, and I hope it helps you, or whoever is listening that is wrestling with this. Stop being so judgmental.

So, so the perfectionism was a discernment of what I perceive excellence to be. I, Amanda, perceives what excellence is. And then it's forming an attachment to that story.

So that's the reason that a lot of people like they can't leave their house unless they were perfectly coiffed and put together. Or they're they can't turn on a camera and speak because they don't have the specific most perfect message dialed in at all times. And they don't have it in front of the most perfect audience. It's all judgment.

Rebecca Kaufman (17:47)

and like maybe they started this podcast and handed their lighting setup and just had to freak out about it for like a solid five minutes. It's fine. We don't do this.

Amanda Kaufman (17:55)

We don't do this, do we? and I mean that's so real because it makes sense. You said earlier, I can't remember if was this episode or a different one, that you saw kind of the final cut.

And then you and then you had like a different standard that you were applying today. And look, that is actually a very good thing because what it does is that as you improve your lighting and you improve your speaking and you improve your presence and your framing and like all of those things, yeah, maybe a little bit of the motivation is like, it wasn't perfect.

And don't make perfection the goal, make excellence the goal. So then you can keep adding improvements as you go. And I mean you look beautiful. This is a great framing.

Rebecca Kaufman (18:37)

Okay.

Amanda Kaufman (18:38)

I love it. Yeah, it's fantastic. But that's also the reason I wasn't freaking out with you.

Rebecca Kaufman (18:44)

Yes, that's a fair comment too. Well, and something that's striking my brain is yes, ask for help, ask for support. But it's very likely that if you f feel that you've tried

Amanda Kaufman (18:55)

Thank

Rebecca Kaufman (18:56)

everything, you probably have some massive blind spots to what you have in terms of possibility. Like the something you're overlooking for whatever reason. Like we all do it. We're all like we all do it.

So

Amanda Kaufman (19:09)

We we do. I do.

Rebecca Kaufman (19:12)

having some sort of external perspective on your stuff from somebody you trust who has the expertise to give that to you massively can help.

Amanda Kaufman (19:21)

It's one of my favorite things about coaching. I I was actually in a high performance call. We do high performance along with the with the systems and the sales and the marketing. We do high performance every single Monday. And today we were talking about we were doing physiology mastery.

And that session is so interesting because people get really guilty all of a sudden because they're like, you know, I haven't been keeping up with what I eat and I'm not sleeping well and I'm not I'm not managing my screen time and like whatever, you know, people have the the the resistance to their performance that we work on. And I I shared with them, I was like, you know, the job of the coach is not to hold you to a to my personal standard.

So, my job though is to ask questions that help to reveal perspective so you can decide what you want to do. And to just really drive it home, I said to them, I'm like, if you decide that you want to spend four hours a day scrolling the TikTok and eating Fritos, like

Do you, boo? Like that's your choice, like a thousand percent. And and the reason that the coaching is so useful is I can ask you questions, gentle ones, like how much screen time are we using today? Or what was the last thing that you had before bed last night? And it's not asking the question again from like this this need that I have to control what everybody eats or what they consume, but rather to offer the service of asking questions that allow you to choose your

own version of excellence.

Rebecca Kaufman (20:56)

P.S. That's a thousand percent what sales is too. Love you. Okay, bye. And that's my two cents on that. We have one more message for you before we let you go.

Alrighty guys, I really hope you got something useful out of today's episode. If you are in that space right now, we are cheering you on. Save this episode for the next time it comes up, because it's gonna come up again. Don't worry, it's fine. It's coming back around. but if you have any questions, if you have any tools that you use to get yourself out of that funk, drop them in the comments too. If you have anybody who needs to be on this podcast, let a girl know. We need to get them on here. So with that, enjoy the rest of your day.

Amanda Kaufman

Amanda Kaufman

Amanda is an entrepreneur, coach, author, speaker, and content creator based in Fort Worth, Texas. She’s the Founder of Clairvenu, and works with entrepreneurs to smash the ceiling on their growth so they gain unstoppable momentum, free their time, and stay in their genius zone. Her personal journey exemplifies the power of perseverance and authentic connection as she helps her clients Do What Matters and let the rest go through coaching, speaking, writing and activating content. With over 18 years of business consulting experience, Amanda Kaufman overcame personal challenges like social anxiety and body image issues to build a personal brand starting with just 8 friendly names on a post-it. She rapidly built a successful entrepreneurial coaching company, quitting her corporate job within four months and retiring her husband within nine months. Amanda taps into the power of personal freedom, psychological discipline, influence, and systems to free time, improve cashflow, and re-ignite the spark of entrepreneurship for her clients through coaching, courses, and curated experiences. She’s a mother of 4 humans, 2 cats, and has been married 15+ years.

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