Business Burnout Recovery: Letting Go of a Team and Rebuilding Better | Amy Stout

What do you do when your six-figure business looks great on the outside and you're falling apart on the inside? Amy Stout took a sabbatical, lost her biggest clients, let go of her whole team while pregnant, and rebuilt a simpler business that now earns more with half the expenses.

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IN THIS EPISODE

Landing her first client by cold pitching 10 influencers: email, a personal video, and a follow-upHow a virtual assistant business grew by referral into a six-person teamWhy highly customized services are hard to scaleBurnout that showed up in her body: fatigue, eczema, asthma, and moreTaking a seven-week sabbatical, and coming back to clients leavingFinding out she was pregnant, and deciding to let go of her entire teamHow one client's advice led to a new ads offer that signed four clients in a monthExpenses cut in half and profit tripled after the pivotWhy pivoting is a skill, not a failure

ABOUT AMY

Amy is a mom, entrepreneur, and the host of The Peaceful Entrepreneur, a podcast about building a business (and a life) that doesn't burn you out. She runs ABIDE Outsourcing, an ads agency serving Amazon influencers.

CONNECT WITH AMY

The Peaceful Entrepreneur: https://www.thepeacefulentrepreneur.com

ABIDE Outsourcing: https://www.abideoutsourcing.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyamyelizabeth/

ABIDE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abideoutsourcing/

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