Show Notes
In today's episode, my guest is Jo Hooper - a former crisis communications specialist who now runs Get Wildly Free, a coaching business centred around empowering clients to say 'no!'
Jo talks us through how it all came to be, dating back to her early PR career where saying yes to everything was the norm; to the point that she ended up balancing client crises with walking her boss's children to school, before the pressure eventually tipped into two clinical breakdowns. It's a conversation that doesn't shy away from how bad it got, or from the realisation that rest alone was never going to undo years of running on empty.
From there we progress to YOLO - a phrase Jo leans on regularly, and one that turns out to carry real weight, tied to losing her father when she was sixteen. It reframes the rest of the conversation: from 'permission slaps' (like permission slips, but with more force!), to the options she believes every business owner already has access to, but rarely lets themselves use.
We even spend a fair amount of time discussing her dahlias, which turn out to be a lot more relevant to the conversation than you might think!
Enjoy the show!
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