Over the years, I’ve been part of many teams and companies who talk about maintaining work-life balance or protecting mental health at work. Still, to be honest, I have never seen this be an actual lived experience of employees. I think it’s far too common to demonstrate that we’re always “on,” checking in during vacations, working through pain or brain fog. Owning my own business is an opportunity for me to constantly challenge this status quo about work and productivity and what it means to be a balanced human.

As we approach the end of the year and start to wind down to take some time with friends and family over the holidays, it is common to reflect on the year and think about plans for the new year ahead. Well, that is undoubtedly true for Michelle and me. And, OH, what a year 2021 has been for us.

What you may not know about me is that for two years I started an academic journey by going back to school to obtain an MBA. I started out with a specialization in sales leadership but decided to switch paths and move into a newly offered specialization called consultancy leadership, which seemed so much more relevant to the work we are doing at Method & Motion, yay! My first course for consultancy started last week and our weekly discussion post posed the question, why do you want to be a consultant? And, why would someone hire you? This felt like a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with my purpose and share a bit about my personal story.

This past month has brought about some new working relationships with partner agencies, including the socially-savvy Cleo and the creatively inspired team at Big Red Oak. There is a lot for us to learn from each other and we’re truly demonstrating how brilliant collaboration can be for our clients.

We spend a lot of time talking to entrepreneurs and business owners about the ups and downs of starting and owning a business, experiencing it for oneself is always a different story.