Quiet Confidence With Dr Tess Crawley

When you’re used to being progress-focussed and conscientious, it takes a lot to pull your foot off the accelerator pedal. But sometimes that’s your smartest next move.   In isolation, we’re all juggling. Juggling working from home and educating from home. Juggling the desire to go out with the need to stay in. Juggling the sense of overwhelm with the desire to just say “fuck it”! Juggling exhaustion with peddling faster to keep our businesses afloat.   The most common thread of conversations I’ve been having with business owners lately is about this juggle.   The first month of lockdown was met with panic in the small business community. How can I pay my staff?  How can I stay open?  Will this destroy me?   And then we started seeing some of the fanciest footwork I’ve seen in a long time.  Small businesses weren’t just pivoting, they were pirouetting!   And now we’re starting to hit a wall. That constant push forward has been equal parts exciting and draining, as has t