Nedra Glover Tawwab: Stop Doing Work That's Not Yours

A lot of the women that are listening, they are the strong ones. They are making it all happen. They are also burnt out and they are stuck. Once you take that on as your identity, you start to think that I am the only person who can do these things. Are we excluding people or are they excluding us? When you have a big busy job, you have to figure out those other areas in life. Where you need to be a little more flexible with being the leader. When I just carry it all and then get resentful.

That's the problem. Right. My guest today. Is a dear friend of mine. One of the girls. That one over there, she's big money. And was my guest today. Her name is Amy Porterfield. Amy Porterfield is the ever amazing best selling author of two weeks' notice, Miss Amy Porterfield. Let me tell you something, I had to learn the hard way.

For years, if something in my business needed to get done right, my answer was basically. I'll do it. It will be faster if I just handle it. I know exactly how I want it. And I wore that like it was a strength, like it was the whole reason any of this worked. And then at some point I looked up and realized I'd made myself the thing everything ran through. Decisions waited on me, projects stalled until I weighed in. I'd built this whole business, and that business couldn't really breathe without me standing in the middle of it.

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