Social Slowdown: Take a social media break, set better boundaries, and market your business without sacrificing your mental health

Would taking the summer off impact the number of new people finding my website, joining my email list, booking consulting calls, or requesting information about strategy sessions?

Ask yourself: How much of that time is content creation vs. consumption? How am I allocating my time across different platforms? How much of this is business vs personal? What percentage of time is active (connecting and engaging with others) vs. passive (scrolling or watching without engaging)? Where do I want to be spending my time, energy, and b

“The reason we're struggling with [social media] is because if you are a woman, if you are a minority, if you are part of an otherwise oppressed population, if you are someone who traditionally society has benefited from our unpaid or lower paid labor, your ‘shoulds’ are benefiting someone else.”

It all worked … until it didn’t.

Pew Research study found that 73% of adults have seen online harassment and 40% have personally experienced it.10

Here are some Building Relationships marketing strategies to consider: Social media:

approximately 15-20% of the population is neurodivergent, meaning that their brains function differently than the ‘normal’ population. It's estimated that around 10-15% of people have dyslexia, 4-5% have ADHD, and 1-2% are autistic.

Website traffic from returning visitors Email open rates and click rates Webinar registration and attendance Social media engagement (such as comments, saves, shares, and likes) Time spent on your website and average pages per visit

leaving behind what you’ve already built! That’s the sunk cost fallacy: The tendency to follow through on something if you've already invested your resources into it—