17. End-of-life therapy lessons for a balanced business with Kirsty Fanton

Mar 13

Episode summary:

Kirsty Fanton shares the end-of-life psychotherapy lessons that inform her business. Listen up for practical tips for balancing your business and a chronic illness, and how to create a daily check-in practice to manage overwhelm. Kirsty is a coach, ex-psychotherapist, and a great question-asker. She provides copy, coaching, and strategy for online business owners.

Here’s what went down:

Learn how Kirsty focuses each day on moving her business one tiny step closer to her vision and how she wants it to be serve and support her
Prioritisation vs. freedom and flow
As a former psychotherapist, Kirsty shares how her expertise in grief and coping with long term illness informs her business now
Learn what that work taught Kirsty about hindsight and regret—and the three key themes she took away from providing end-of-life therapy
How informed consent can help you manage your business alongside a chronic illness (and how much you can/should share with clients)
How boundaries can help you create the conditions you need to do your best work
Martha shares how she creates buffers to accommodate for her ADHD—without making it her clients’ problem
Legacy feels yucky to Liv because she’s self actualised AF
Get Kirsty’s two key tips for identifying (and managing!) your capacity
Identifying the capacity cost of certain tasks vs. the number of tasks
Kirsty shares the three questions she asks herself during twice-daily check-ins and how to incorporate them into a daily practice