Ep 137: How to Easily Destress Without Changing Anything in Your Business
Episode Summary
What if I told you that stress isn’t caused by your workload—but by your response to it? And better yet, what if you could change that response today?
The high-pressure, hustle-driven way of doing business is outdated. You don’t have to grind to grow—you just need the right tools to step into ease and alignment.
In this episode, you will…
Understand how to take back your power in any situation, no matter how dire it feels.
Discover why pushing through stress isn’t the answer (and what to do instead).
Get simple, effective tools to shift from overwhelm to clarity in minutes.
Press play now and learn how to step out of the stress cycle, take back control, and create a business that fuels you instead of draining you.
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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] Do you dream of feeling calm, cool, and collected in your business someday? I'm going to show you how to have it right now.
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's sell themselves so you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy, 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. You know those days where it feels like it is just one thing after another, your to do list is endless, deadlines are looming, and the [00:01:00] stakes feel impossibly high? You're stressed. And if I asked you why, you'd probably say, Because I have so much to do. Or because I'm short on my revenue goal this month or something like that.
But here's the truth. Stress isn't coming from your workload. Stress is optional. And today, I am going to prove it to you. More importantly, I'm going to give you practical tools to break out of this cycle without changing a single thing about your business. In this episode, you will understand how to take back your power in any situation, no matter how dire it feels.
You'll discover why pushing through stress isn't the answer, and what to do instead. And you'll get simple, effective tools to shift from overwhelm to clarity in minutes. Let's test out this idea. Imagine two business owners facing identical challenges. Client deadlines, revenue [00:02:00] dips, packed schedules. One is panicking.
They're losing sleep and spinning in anxiety. The other is handling it with calm and confidence. Same situation, different response. What gives? It's because their internal stress capacity is different. I'd love to compare myself to Neil deGrasse Tyson. Don't ask me why, he's just always my go to. The man is everywhere.
He's running a planetarium, writing books, hosting podcasts, doing speaking tours. Keeping his calm during live debates with prominent figures and still showing up for his family. I look at that and I think, wow, his capacity is off the charts. And here's the thing. Capacity isn't just about how much work you can get done.
It's about how much emotional discomfort you can handle without losing your cool. And I've seen this shift in myself. The old me would have gotten [00:03:00] completely derailed by having to promote myself publicly, or a day where I had to be on and in front of people all day, or even a stressful conversation on the playground with another mom.
Now, I can navigate all of that in a single day and still end up feeling like it was a good day. The only difference? I have better tools now. I've trained myself to regulate my emotions and my nervous system in the moment instead of being ruled by them. Any argument that you throw at me for why your stress is inevitable, it is a thought error.
If we were on a coaching call, I could walk you through exactly how to unravel it. Let's take one of the most extreme examples, Jenna. This isn't optional for me. I have to keep a roof over my kids heads. Yes, that is a serious situation. And yes, most people would find [00:04:00] that stressful. But the thought error is that you think you need to stay stressed in order to avoid that from happening.
It's like you think it's your duty to be stressed. But your stress response isn't helping you find a solution, it's actually making it harder. So it's your job to de stress yourself as quickly as possible and get back into your power where you're like, I can absolutely find a solution to this. Or another one I hear, if I miss this deadline, we won't get the next contract.
Who is forcing you to work with clients who make you feel this way? You are the boss. You created these conditions. And that means you have the power to change them. Through working with different kinds of clients or constructing different offers. There are so many possibilities. We, as women, have so much power as entrepreneurs, more than we've [00:05:00] ever, in some lineages, ever had.
But we don't always see it. We've been conditioned to feel helpless in certain areas. But it's time to snap out of it. We have a lot of impact to make, and women need seats at the table. We need to be showing up in our biggest ways. So stress isn't your fuel, it's your roadblock. Okay, so, now that you're on board with the idea that stress isn't serving you, what do you do next?
The first step is noticing, I'm in a stress response. And then I need to do something about it. Because otherwise, you'll either continue with less than optimal action, or your brain is going to start looking for quick dopamine hits to counteract the stress. Booze, overworking, doom scrolling, online shopping, but that is [00:06:00] just anesthesia.
It doesn't solve the problem. So instead, I recommend moving your body first. Hard. Fast. Run in place for five minutes. Do some jumping jacks. Why? Because part of your brain thinks you're being chased by a tiger, and you need to convince it that the danger's gone. For some of you, it might be blasting your favorite song and lip syncing into a hairbrush, or for others, it's a short meditation, or a walk, or even a nap.
One of my clients, she recently had a revelation. She was feeling completely drained, unproductive, and stressed about what she still had to do. But then it hit her. Wait, I'm an entrepreneur. I don't have hours I have to keep. I have milestones I need to meet. So instead of muscling through an exhaustion, she was like, I could just take a nap.
Which leads to a complete reset and the [00:07:00] ability to knock work out in record time. Usually, we feel too guilty to do things like that. But what if we didn't? The takeaway here? Stress is optional. You have tools. Use them. Okay, final thought. Here's the truth. Your business isn't what's stressing you out. Your response to it is.
And as soon as you pattern in new behaviors and responses, You unlock a whole new level of power, creativity, and success. So, next time you feel overwhelmed, remember, your stress isn't the signal to push harder. It's the signal to pause, reset, and step back into your power. And if you want help mastering this, if you want to be the kind of CEO who leads with clarity and confidence and even ease, I'll support you with this transition inside the Clarity Accelerator.
Because when your business supports you, [00:08:00] there is no limit to the impact you can make or the life you can create. Alright, that's it for today. Let's talk again on Tuesday. 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 ads to manifestation Just go to the uncommon way comm slash schedule and set up a time to talk.
I can't wait to be your coach
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