Hey Reader,

I'm kicking off a new series on the podcast today - and I want to share a little behind the scenes.

It's been a challenging few months as I've been easing back into work mode after losing my mom in December. Some days, I'm clear and focused and wildly productive. Other days, I'm on the struggle bus navigating waves of grief.

Navigating this has been so challenging because the high-achiever side of me is ready to go and not very nice to side of me that is feeling all the feels right now.

And I keep noticing the same thing in conversation after conversation with women entrepreneurs: we set the bar impossibly high, plan for the best version of ourselves, and then quietly beat ourselves up when real life shows up instead.

So this month I want to have a different conversation. One that starts with an honest question: what do you actually have the capacity to sustain right now - not on your best days, but on your real ones?​

​This week's episode is the beginning of that conversation, and it's personal. Here's what we're getting into:​

• Why building your business around peak capacity is one of the most common - and costly - structural mistakes women entrepreneurs make
• The three types of capacity that actually determine how much you have to give (and why time on your calendar is only part of it)
• What spoon theory taught me about running a business with chronic illness and why every CEO needs to understand it
• How my business held when my available hours dropped from 25 to 5 per week
• What my therapist warned me about using productivity to avoid grief
• The one reflection question I want you to sit with this week

​Listen to this week's episode of Promote Yourself to CEO here →​

And while you're thinking about capacity - if you've been seeing the Get Paid Calculator out in the world (yes, that's us running ads!), this is a good week to grab it.

One of my favorite features is the client capacity checkpoint tab. It shows you exactly how many clients you can realistically work with... and if the number you need to hit your revenue goals is higher than what you can reasonably manage, that's not a math problem. That's a design problem.

Exactly what this month's series is about.

​Get the Get Paid Calculator here →​

Looking forward to hearing your insights about this week's episode,

Racheal