This episode might be one of my favorite conversations yet, because we dive headfirst into something every entrepreneur has dealt with: building something amazing, only to want to burn it all down three months later. Sound familiar? Yeah. You’re not alone. I’ve done it. Anthony’s done it. You’ve probably done it too. But here’s the thing, I don’t think that’s sabotage. I think that’s evolution.

I kick things off with a hilarious (and strangely relevant) story about my youngest son becoming the number one ranked professional air hockey player in Wisconsin. Yup. That’s a thing. And while it started off as just a funny mom moment, it quickly turned into a metaphor for entrepreneurship: you can turn anything into a money-making opportunity if you love it enough. But... it might not pay the bills. Passion projects are beautiful, but not everything we love will feed us, and that’s okay. You still need them. They’re fuel.

Then, Anthony and I get into the nitty gritty of what it really means to "burn it all down." The truth is, sometimes starting over is not sabotage. It’s a pivot. It’s iteration. It’s reinvention. If you’re like me, and you need stimulation and momentum to stay motivated, blowing things up might not be destruction. It might be clarity in motion.

We also get real about timelines. How long do you let something sit before you decide it’s not working? 30 days? 90 days? A year? And what if the thing that feels like a failure was just ahead of its time? I share my experience with “Neighborbee,” and how shutting it down wasn’t a failure, it just wasn’t the right time or built the right way. But the idea? Still fire. Still necessary. Still coming back.

This is the episode for you if you’ve ever second-guessed blowing up your business, questioned your need to change direction, or felt like maybe your pattern of reinvention was just self-sabotage. Spoiler: it’s probably not.

We talk dopamine, creative energy, how some of us need newness to stay engaged, and why the messiness of entrepreneurship is where the real magic lives.

If you’ve ever felt like you were the only one who kept wanting to throw the match on your own worK, you’re going to feel very seen in this one.

In this episode of The Queen of Automation, I got raw and honest about something that doesn’t get talked about enough, what happens when you screw up. After three solid years with a client I truly admired, I dropped the ball. We missed things, and they decided to move on. It stung hard, not just because they were paying clients, but because they’d become friends. Watching the brand we’d built together start to fall apart under bad automation and worse AI content was painful.

So I opened up about what to do when that happens, when you’re the problem. It’s easy to say “move on” or “put your big girl pants on,” but that doesn’t touch the part where your confidence takes a hit. I kept working, stayed professional, even helped them with tech stuff afterward just to make things right. And then, out of nowhere, they reached out saying it’s been terrible working with their new team. That moment gave me the chance to respond with honesty, not sales, to own the mistake, say I was sorry, and leave the door open.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever dropped the ball and felt that pit in their stomach afterward. I share how I handled it, what I learned, and why owning your mistakes is one of the strongest things you can do as a leader. Because being great at business isn’t about being perfect, it’s about how you handle it when you’re not.

At the end of the day, operations are only good when they work, and sometimes, they don’t work because of you. When that happens, own it, fix it, grow from it, and keep going.

We’re back, finally, and if I’m being honest, I forgot we were recording today until Anthony reminded me. It’s been a few weeks, and my brain’s been sprinting in a thousand directions as usual. But the second we hit record, it all came rushing back in the best possible way. This episode was one of those unfiltered conversations that starts off feeling casual and ends up hitting harder than you expected.

Anthony and I got deep into the disconnect between how fast our brains move and how painfully slow and linear the world around us expects us to be. If you’re neurodivergent, ADHD, autistic, overwhelmed, overstimulated, or all of the above, you already know what I’m talking about. That constant tension between how you think and how you’re expected to function. It’s exhausting, not because we’re incapable, but because the system we’re operating in wasn’t built for brains like ours.

What came out of this conversation was something I think a lot of us need to hear right now. It’s not about slowing down your brain. It’s about learning how to work with it instead of constantly fighting it. For me, that means surrounding myself with people who challenge me and support me, using things like vitamin patches to keep my dopamine where it needs to be, and leaning all the way into the power of focus, not fake productivity, not multitasking, but actual, intentional deep focus. One thing at a time. Not because I’m bad at multitasking, but because it’s a lie. And it’s breaking our brains.

We also touched on something that doesn’t get talked about enough, the way most tools and systems are designed to flatten thought complexity. They try to make everything so simple that it strips away the nuance. But the truth is, our complexity is where the brilliance lives. We’re not trying to reduce it, we’re trying to support it.

There were moments where I found myself saying things I didn’t even know I needed to hear. This one reminded me that just because I need to approach things differently doesn’t mean I’m doing it wrong. And if you’re navigating a world that constantly tries to compress your creativity into boxes that don’t fit, you’re not doing it wrong either.

It felt good to sit in that space with Anthony and just say it out loud, no script, no filters, just the truth.

Let me know what hit home for you. I think this one’s going to stick with a lot of people.