Lisa Buyer on Entrepreneur Burnout, Quitting is the New Self Care and Connecting with Joy

Episode 10 August 18, 2021 00:31:42
Lisa Buyer on Entrepreneur Burnout, Quitting is the New Self Care and Connecting with Joy
Digital Detox Secrets
Lisa Buyer on Entrepreneur Burnout, Quitting is the New Self Care and Connecting with Joy

Aug 18 2021 | 00:31:42

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Lisa Buyer

Show Notes

If quitting is the new self-care, then Lisa Buyer’s entrepreneur burnout is the perfect example. 

Creating space for positivity and deleting the negative energy is not an easy task. Living in the new normal, yoyo pandemic digital world of 24/7.

Yoga. Therapy. Wine. Nothing seemed to help Lisa Buyer regain power over her business and personal life. She knew that hitting the reset button was long overdue. But how and where to even begin? Well, here’s Digital Detox Secret #1: Admit that you are part of the problem and be open to change. 

In this special solo episode of the Digital Detox Secrets podcast, Lisa Buyer opens up about her struggles with entrepreneurial burnout, where she sought relief, and how she shifted The Buyer Group Public Relations Agency into a non-client-based business model. Complete with PR courses, collaborations, coaching, and media, Lisa is on a mission to improve digital morale by educating and inspiring all brands.

#TheDumbestDecisionEver: Reinventing Your Business Based on Feelings and not Facts

July marks the first time in two decades that Lisa has no clients. After owning an agency for 20 years, it’s a giant leap of faith. While this new shift from consultancy to scaling an agency allowed her to cut ties with the negative and create space for the positive, the idea was initially pursued all the wrong reasons.

Lisa Buyer's 3 Digital Detox Secrets

Digital Detox Secret #1

Free yourself from making decisions for the benefit of others. In Lisa’s case, she wanted to create a legacy business for her children to take over one day eventually. This selfless mindset, while admirable, was #TheDumbestDecisionEver. Her kid’s interests and passions did not align with the entrepreneurial and digital PR world.

Digital Detox Secret  #2

Digital boundaries are nonexistent. Similar to traditional news media, PR is neverending. There is always a hot story to write, a client to consult, and a deadline to meet. Lisa learned that caring about a project/campaign more than your client is a blaring red flag. 

Digital Detox Secret #3

Client contracts and commitments mean zilch. Every entrepreneur has lost a client or two… even dozens along the way. Not every individual or company is going to mesh well with your PR approach, and unfortunately, that may be discovered much later than expected. There is no room for naivety when it comes to agencies serving clients. To be frank, Lisa Buyer says that this system is broken. Clients can take a pause or leave at any moment and without penalty, so it’s essential to account for such setbacks when establishing your client base and business model.

Entrepreneur Burnout Camp: 10 Days at Canyon Ranch

Fed up with toxic client drama and handling the front line of her agency, and after experiencing a glimpse of suicidal thoughts, Lisa knew it was time for her own digital detox; after all she wrote the book on it. 

Hello Canyon Ranch!  The integrative health and wellness destination is where people go to unplug, recharge and escape. Its mission is to inspire healthy living while turning hopes and intentions into the highest enjoyment of life. 

Canyon Ranch guides you to your best life throughout life. Find your path to well-being. Some journeys start here. Some are re-aligned. Others turned around. But all are impacted. Evidence-Based Progress. Integral Answers. Personalized Guidance.

Thirty days after returning, Lisa made a bold and triumphant professional and detox decision: to inform her clients that in about two months, she was hitting the reset button and ending all client and consulting services… sort of. 

Today, Lisa Buyer’s new and improved clarity

The Four Skills of Successful People

“Authentic self-expression is the key to happiness.” --Lisa Buyer

A valuable takeaway from Canyon Reach that has greatly contributed to Lisa’s newfound outlook on tapping into your creative superpower. As the founder of the Science of Excellence consulting firm, he instills the powerful mantra that small steps lead to big changes.

For those who are following a similar transitional journey to Lisa’s, feel free to jot down these essential skills, researched by Mauer:

  1. An awareness and acceptance of fear in yourself and others. When afraid, there is an inclination to reach out for support, both emotional and technical.
  2. This fear welcomes a built-in nurturing voice that gently reassures you that it is okay to make mistakes, be afraid and ask for help. 
  3. An awareness of the need for attention as well as generosity in giving and receiving appreciation.
  4. A sense of mission and vision emphasizes the emotional state that one strives for when pursuing goals.

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