Summary: Thanks for joining us for episode 79 of The Ancestral RD podcast. If you want to keep up with our podcasts, subscribe in iTunes and never miss an episode! Remember, please send us your question if you'd like us to answer it on the show. Have you been dreaming of running your own online business? We know firsthand the simultaneous feelings of excitement and apprehension that come with making this major career and lifestyle decision. Today we share our personal stories of creating and maintaining a successful online business. Join us as we discuss what made us decide to begin our online businesses, the pros and cons of running an online business, and the importance of knowing your values when making this decision. Today’s discussion is sure to spark insight into important considerations to help you decide if starting an online business is right for you! Here's what Laura and Kelsey will be discussing in this episode: What made Laura and Kelsey decide to start their online businesses Differing kinds of stress involved in working for yourself with an online business vs working for someone else The importance of knowing your values and what stressors you are willing to deal with to have the job you want How to dip your toe into starting an online business The significant role social media and creation of online content play in an online business Pros and cons of running your own online business Links Discussed: This episode is sponsored by SunBasket.com. Receive $30 off your first order here! TRANSCRIPT: Kelsey: Hi everyone. Welcome to episode 79 of The Ancestral RDs podcast. I’m Kelsey Kinney and with me as always is Laura Schoenfeld. Laura: Hey everybody. Kelsey: How’s it going, Laura? Laura: Good. I was just on vacation in South Carolina. We happened to have this amazing beautiful week of weather two weeks after a major hurricane that wiped out half the island. Kelsey: Wow. Laura: Yeah, it was crazy. It was really fortunate the weather turned out the way it was. It was low 80s the whole week and sunny. I definitely got a nice tan and I got to lay out at the pool. It was really good timing because as some people may know, well I guess this podcast is coming out a couple weeks after this is happening, but we just launched this fall class of our “Paleo Rehab” program last week. I don’t know if anyone listening does program launches, and if you’re listening to this particular episode you may be interested in this kind of thing, but program launches tend to be fairly stressful. Although I will say that this one was way less stressful than the last couple were. Do you feel like that as well? Kelsey: I agree. Maybe we’re finally getting it down. Laura: Right, well we didn’t make any major changes this time around to the program itself, which last time we were changing a lot of things about it. Kelsey: Mm hmm. Laura: Then the time before I feel like that was our first major launch. So I think this one, it was more just advertising the program as opposed to doing anything really outrageous in terms of change in the program. Last time we involved Chris Kresser in the launch, so that was its own level of craziness that made it sort of stressful. Not that he did anything to make it stressful, but when you work with someone at that level it just kind of ups the ante a lot. Kelsey: It’s our own mental stress in that. Laura: I know. Oh yeah, definitely. Just the pressure we put on ourselves. But this time around seemed a little, I actually would say a lot less stressful than last time. Kelsey: Yeah, I would too. Laura: Maybe it was because I was technically on vacation and didn’t have any clients last week and was able to kind of just jump on the computer when I needed to, to do the stuff we needed to do. Then the rest of the time I was either taking a walk on the beach, or laying at the pool, having a pina colada at like 3:00 in the afternoon.
