I’ve been thinking a ton about different seasons of life lately, and it’s made me realize there are also different seasons we go through in our businesses.

The ugly truth is that not all seasons in our businesses are positive. Just like in life, it’s completely normal to go through hard times. Unfortunately, it’s easy to feel like a failure for experiencing a less-than-incredible season, which is a narrative that needs to be rewritten.

In this episode of The Modern Editor Podcast, I’m walking you through the variety of seasons you may experience in your editing business so that you can normalize it instead of wondering if you’re doing something wrong.

• (1:44) Not All Business Owners Experience the Same Seasons
• (3:07) The Learning Season
• (3:50) The Planning Season
• (4:23) The Networking Season
• (7:25) The CEO Season
• (9:02) The Pivot or Expansion Season
• (9:58) The Maintenance Season
• (11:23) The Dry Season
• (14:29) The Back-End Season
• (15:52) The Front-End Season
• (16:50) The Burnout Season

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Springtime comes with a sense of renewal and new opportunities that always make me feel reinvigorated. To celebrate, this episode is a re-air of a previous episode where I offered six tips to refresh your editing business.

Of course, you don’t have to wait for a certain season to follow these tips, but it’s natural to feel the itch to do a little spring cleaning at this time of year. Taking advantage of that fresh spring energy is the perfect way to set yourself up for success in quarter two. Consider this your spring cleaning checklist for your editing business.

• (2:23) Clean Up Your Workspace
• (3:56) Declutter Your Desktop
• (5:23) Refresh Your Bookmarks and Extensions
• (6:10) Clean Up Your Email Subscriptions
• (8:13) Organize Your Subscriptions and Memberships
• (9:29) Declutter Your Social Media Following
• (10:52) Spring Cleaning Your Business = Quick-and-Easy Wins

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Welcome to our fourth and final episode in our editor wellness series! In this episode of The Modern Editor Podcast, we’re talking all about social and intellectual wellness for freelance editors.

There’s a lot to mull over in this episode, including the difficulty of making friends as an adult, cultivating critical thinking skills, and why you shouldn’t outsource your brain.

As always, this episode could bring up some emotions. Please take what works for you and leave the rest. Give these concepts time to sink in so you can apply them to your life in phases rather than all at once.

• (2:08) The Social Downside of Working Solo
• (8:50) The Challenge of Making New Friends as an Adult
• (11:33) What Is Intellectual Wellness?
• (14:56) Don’t Outsource Your Brain
• (19:11) Our Brains Are Our Superpower
• (20:14) Your Wellness Is the Core of Your Editing Business

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