Episode Summary

Are you ready to unlock the path to a balanced life and thriving business with a three-day workweek?

This episode explores how women entrepreneurs can prioritize what’s essential in their business and makeover their mindset to create both growth and stability in 2025.

In this episode, you will:

1. Unlock a powerful mindset shift to embrace both the ordinary and change, paving the way for balance and growth in your business and personal life.

2. Learn how periods of “capacity-building” can strengthen your resilience and foreshadow breakthroughs, even during life’s most overwhelming moments.

3. Discover how intentional constraint fuels creativity and innovation, opening doors to new revenue streams and next-level success.

Dive into this episode now to discover the clarity, creativity, and strategies to transform your business and life in 2025!

Episodes Mentioned: 

Ep# 115: How I Moved to Spain and Navigated Spain’s Digital Nomad Visa: Personal Experience and Tips for Women Entrepreneurs Who Want to Move Abroad

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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.

This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online service business with clarity and alignment.

Full Episode Transcript:

Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] What should you prioritize in 2025? Today, I'm breaking down my personal and business priorities. So, who knows? Let's see if ours overlap.

You're listening to the Uncommon Way Business and Life Coaching Podcast. The podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves. So you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy. The Uncommon Way.

And step into the uncommonly successful business and life you are creating. Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed over analyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Welcome, welcome back to the uncommon way. Today I'm sharing a few of my priorities for 2025, both in the personal and business [00:01:00] realms, and I'll share why those are priorities, because obviously the why is so much more important than the what. In the old days, I used to talk more about personal updates in every episode, but as I have constrained myself to create more brief and actionable episodes for you, I tend to save that for episodes like this.

Which is fun. I feel like I'm catching up with an old friend. I hope you'll enjoy this behind the scenes Here are some of the main takeaways you'll walk away with from this episode You'll learn a powerful mindset shift to embrace both the ordinary and change Paving the way for balance and growth in your business and personal life You will learn how periods of capacity building can strengthen your resilience and foreshadow breakthroughs Even during life's most overwhelming moments.

And you'll discover how intentional constraint fuels creativity and innovation, opening doors to new [00:02:00] revenue streams. That you'd never even thought of. Well, let me tell you, for me, this last month has just been extra. There has been a lot going on. How about you? In The Accelerator, we refer to those times as capacity building periods.

Because when you're doing more than normal, it's always increasing your capacity. Your capacity to handle things, your capacity for resilience, although of course, it usually feels like overwhelm. So, It usually feels like too much. It's very similar to working out in the gym. Yes, you are taxing your system.

But it's okay. Because later you leave the gym and that's when those muscles build back even stronger. Right? It's during your off days. And this is a different kind of workout. In life, when life hits us, right, it's a workout for your brain and energy levels. Or when business hits us. [00:03:00] Where we get into trouble is really when we stay at that mental gym from the moment we wake up until we go to sleep, month after month.

And then we wonder why we're not actually seeing gains in our business and life. And it's because you need to offset that capacity building with regeneration. But I am getting into the teaching and away from the updates. I can tell this episode's gonna be a bit rambling, but the point is that capacity building periods aren't a problem as I see it, and they don't mean you're sliding backwards into old habits.

It just means you're stretching yourself. Maybe because you've set a new goal, or you're taking on something new, or because life is happening. Either way, you can do hard things. It's all good. Capacity building moments might feel like overwhelm, but they are the workouts that strengthen your resilience and expand your possibilities.

In my case, in this [00:04:00] last month, life was really happening. In the span of a month or so, I was running a new Black Friday week promotion. My mom came to visit, so we were taking some extra trips around Europe. We found out some information about our Spanish residency that had us scrambling. My son was off from school for nearly three weeks because the whole country shuts down here for Christmas.

Which, when you have a neurodiverse kid like Dylan, you constantly have to find ways to keep him exercised and interested. Otherwise, next thing you know, he's like, trying to have a wrestling match with the dog, even though the legs don't bend in that direction. And then, unfortunately, my husband had an injury and it put his arm in a sling, so he couldn't drive.

Couldn't do anything, really. So, I was picking up a lot of extra to dos. And, oh, right in the middle of it all, we decided to buy a house because we are [00:05:00] masters of diming. So, as I think forward about my personal priorities, I want simple pleasures. I want to nest and create stability and a routine that maybe even feels a little boring.

After this year, boring feels like a luxury. Cultivating boring is not something that I would have imagined myself seeking out when I was younger. But then I do remember in my thirties After, when Ben was stationed in Germany, we'd travel for a weekend every few weeks I was travel blogging and I realized how serene and delicious it felt to come home and nest and enjoy the day to day.

It's like after Thanksgiving or the holidays when you're so happy just to have your boring eggs for breakfast. So what I've been thinking about a lot is how [00:06:00] often What our soul actually needs is not what our ego wants. I just sent out an email about this last week talking about how what I thought I needed in the beginning of my business turned out not to be what I needed after all.

I was only interested in tactical knowledge. I wanted to geek out on increasing vanity metrics and likes and open rates and I was really leaning on tactics and conversion copy and funnels and But what really ended up making the biggest impact was when someone pointed me to what I actually needed, which was in the mindset and energetic realms.

Afterwards, when I just got really, really curious and I was like, okay, how could these things make such a shift in my business? And then what are the different components needed to accelerate business growth and how can I offer those [00:07:00] comprehensively to my clients? And I feel like I've been having that ego soul realization again lately because, for instance, the home that I chose is nothing like what I would have imagined myself in.

I thought I'd be in a traditional Spanish villa overlooking the sea. But as we looked around at what's available and what we could afford, Mallorca is very expensive. We were seeing these million dollar Apartments that still had, like, air conditioning units in their windows. I was like, once even said right in front of the realtor, I was like, Okay, this is what a million dollars will get you in Palma.

And this place that we found is really nice, but it's also very modern. There's nothing traditional Spanish about it. And it's small. When we brought Dylan to see it, he was like, But where's the rest of the house? I kid you not. Good. And what I came to realize as we looked [00:08:00] around and saw different styles of places and different locations is that Yes, the way a place looks and the energy that it has is really important to me.

And I do want some place that is lovely to live in. But what really felt right and felt like the priority on a deeper level? was lifestyle. It was really about location, location, location. So, this place is within walking distance to Dillon School, and many of our friends live in the area, and there are lots of shops and restaurants, and as well as the beach, and so it is going to be a huge lifestyle upgrade.

We've been living in this nice residential area up until now, and we do have a view, and while there are lots of pluses to living here, it We realized, you know, we're recreating an American lifestyle. We had stepped right into a situation where you [00:09:00] don't know anybody but your most immediate neighbors and you need a car to get anywhere.

This new place, it's very blue zone, like there will be lots of walking and walking up and down hills. There are trails right behind our building that lead up into the There's a playground where kids actually play. And we're still technically in Palma, although on the outskirts, so we can get into the old town and into the downtown easily and enjoy all the coolness that that city has to offer.

Hey, if you want true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator. I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you, so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this.

Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn. From Facebook [00:10:00] ads to manifestation. Just go to theuncommonway. com slash schedule and set up a time to talk. I can't wait to be your coach. So as I've alluded to, the new place has no sea view. It's a ground floor apartment. But it has a yard and a pool so we can have Dylan's friends over after school.

And Santa has already promised him a trampoline. And it's surrounded by greenery. And it's very private, which is great because we have these huge sliding glass doors in every room. And of course we'll want those open, right? We'll want to enjoy that indoor outdoor lifestyle. It is brand new, like I said, it's fully furnished already and super modern, top of the line everything.

One fun fact is that new buildings here in Spain have a 10 year guarantee, by law, for everything, including appliances! Like, [00:11:00] a 10 year guarantee on our appliances. So you see how this is really contributing to the serenity and stability, right, that foundation that is becoming such a priority. Now, the path getting to that serenity and lifestyle has not been fully serene.

However, as a foreign business owner, the banks have required a mountain of paperwork, which we had to rush to turn in before everything closed for the holidays. Thanks. Because that was the only way the owners would agree to keep the house off the market for us, if we'd already initiated the mortgage process.

And also, there are all of these crazy rules about a home buying that we were not expecting. For instance, there's a 10 percent tax that you pay as a buyer when you buy a house. Each time you buy a house, Yeah, you don't pay property taxes, but still, that adds up, right? Then, because we're [00:12:00] foreign, they'll make us put down 30 40%, which we were not expecting.

And we can't even get a 30 year mortgage, because we're 51, and all mortgages have to be paid off by your 75th birthday, I kid you not. It's like, everything kept adding up, adding up, adding up, but such is the cost of living in paradise. These are manageable problems, luckily, thanks to our situation now.

And, good news, the interest rates are insanely low over here. So, even though our savings accounts just diminished significantly, our monthly payment should be less than we're currently paying, which will be amazing. But, oof, things we learn. That's our new family hashtag since moving over here. Things we learn.

I really need to go back and create a preamble to the episode 115 that I did, which is the one where I shared the behind the scenes of our move to [00:13:00] Spain. Because it turns out it's rather inaccurate. We were misinformed regarding the best way to become legal residents and what that would mean for our taxes.

And we found this out just during this crunch period that I've been talking about. And we were a bit panicked because we were also told that we needed to declare ourselves as tax citizens on January 20th, six months after we arrived. Meaning, we had until then, just a matter of weeks, to figure out how to, like, restructure the business, potentially, and choose a status which would have a huge variation in tax consequences.

Now, that would be a tight timeline anywhere, but it was extra tight because, like I said, everything shuts down here for weeks over Christmas. So we threw thousands of dollars into meeting with various tax attorneys to get different points of view and good news. It turns out, we don't [00:14:00] have to have everything figured out by January 20th.

We have until next summer, six months after the tax year starts. So it was a huge load off, as you can imagine, but obviously this is still a big 2025 priority, going from uncertain tax and residency status to the decision made. And then, once the decision's made, that's just how we remain for all following years.

And going from, you know, nomads living in a temporary home to truly settled, which really facilitates this simple pleasure, this lifestyle that I talked about earlier. I'll just walk my son to school, have some friends over. Go to a cafe or meet at the beach for seafood and go on my hikes and explore Palma.

There's really nothing I want. There's no, like, [00:15:00] travel or big personal development things. There's nothing I want other than being here. Living this life and just enjoying a weekly rhythm. But, in business? That's a different story. There will be quite a few changes. The stability at home, I feel like it facilitates my ability to shape things up, starting with the podcast.

So, I do practice what I preach. I advocate reinvention and also actively listening to your clients and audience, because together, right, those are really the two pieces that make up the magic of your business. It's this intersection of you and your clients. You know, you're evolving, they're evolving, so the clarity around what your business is and who your people are, that's always evolving too.

And reinvention isn't just about changing who you are, it's about uncovering the version of you that's [00:16:00] ready to create the life that you've been dreaming of. You end up creating stagnation and rigidity when you resist that. But you create flow when you embrace it, when you embrace that change. So I'm reinventing the podcast both because of my own reinvention, and due to what I've heard and observed from you and my clients.

We'll still be helping women entrepreneurs learn to work wiser, not harder. But we'll have a focused result that we'll be creating together. You ready? A three day workweek. Still coupled with business growth, but with the constraint. Three day workweeks are something I have personal experience with, especially during the last year, but even the year prior I was working steady 30 hour workweeks, which can easily be accomplished in three days.

Mostly if you don't have kids, but it can be done. These three day work [00:17:00] weeks are insanely powerful for two big reasons that I see. One, it gives you the balance that so many of you have told me you want to feel in business and life. And it turns out that balance is nutritive. It's all about balance. It's like we talked about earlier with the gym analogy, your downtime, that's when those muscles actually grow.

And it's when you get amazing downloads, and skyrocketing creativity, and problem solving. According to neuroscience, and my personal experience, and what I've seen from my clients. But you know what else? When you constrain yourself to do less, it forces you to think smarter and wiser. You innovate. You become more resourceful.

It's those new ways of thinking that open up revenue pathways you've never considered. When you constrain your time, you unlock your creativity. And that's where your next breakthrough begins. I heard an [00:18:00] interview once, which I think was with Jack White of the White Stripes. Don't quote me on that. I do have a tendency to mix up names, but I rarely forget a good moral.

So here it is. He said that he would purposely practice with one string out of tune on his guitar to force his creativity in ways that he wouldn't otherwise consider. The moral is that often, less is more, and constraint breeds creativity. Paradoxical, but true. I'm realizing this is kind of the opposite of what I was saying on the personal front.

Because there I said sprints of doing more increases your capacity. But here I'm saying that doing less also increases your capacity. Especially for creating value, which of course is what creates money. I love paradox. They're, they're everywhere. Now, I have received some positive feedback about the short hot takes episodes that I've been [00:19:00] putting out lately, so I might just go to a twice weekly episode format.

I don't know. Now is where I'd really love to hear from you. It's your chance to make your voice heard. Go ahead and leave me a review on Apple, and tell me what you like most about the current podcast, the things you don't want me to change, and of course, if you have anything that you'd like to see in the future, let me know that too.

Okay, enough about the podcast. Something else we'll be changing up is the sum of the business model. Typically, I've had my mastermind program, and my private coaching. But, we had such a blast with the Black Friday Week promotion, and I know that the people on my list did, too, because they told me. So, watch this space for something similar, happening again this spring or summer, Because I'm going to start releasing more of these surprise offers that you can't get [00:20:00] any other time of the year.

For me, it was really just fun and energizing and they were really well received, so I want to provide more of that for you. And then we will also be launching the new advanced mastermind, Power and Potency. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can see the details by going to the Uncommon Way website under Coaching Services and then click Advanced Mastermind in the drop down.

We'll also link to it in the show notes. But I know many of you know exactly what it is because you have told me how much you would love to be a part of it. In fact, I think that is the The offer that gets the most interest, and I haven't even actually launched it yet. I love it. And I mean, yeah, why wouldn't it be interesting, right?

We are going to be meeting in amazing global destinations, and the focus of our work will be like anything that I have ever heard [00:21:00] of, personally. But enrollment will be limited. You won't be ready without the work in the accelerator, so you want to get in the accelerator now. Some of you have told me, oh, I can't wait until I get to the point where I can just play in business and life like it says on your landing page.

But That play, it doesn't come about because you are earning 7 figures or 8 or any other figure than what you're making right now, which is where most high achievers brains go. Oh, if I hit this specific number, that's when I'll be able to finally relax and breathe. That is not how it works. You are able to play when it has really sunk into your bones that you are the creator in your life.

When you know that you just get to make shit up, and you know you can create whatever you [00:22:00] want to create because you trust yourself to accomplish and manifest your goals. You step into being the woman who finally understands how you create your best results. Not how other people tell you to, but what truly works best for you.

You're no longer afraid of your superpowers. And of course, your business is set up for that kind of play, too. If you're running around like a chicken with its head cut off, doing all the things, you are not going to be able to play. Even when you get to seven or eight figures, you'll still be embodying the same patterns because they're so habituated.

So, wherever you want to go, it starts now, my friend, not later. And if you want that kind of lifestyle, start the training for it now. Join us in the Clarity Accelerator. So that's it, my main personal focus for 2025, and the three [00:23:00] things, I guess, let's see, the podcast, more spontaneous promotions, yes, and power and potency, and the three business efforts and priorities going forward for me there.

Okay, my friend, it has been so fun catching up. Don't forget to leave me a review telling me what you like most about this podcast that you want me to carry into its next iteration. Bye for now.

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