44. How Freedom to Rest Became Chronic Profit with Alison Tedford
Description
We feel like there’s just so much put on productivity and that rest is the opposite of that. When in reality, it’s part of that, right? That is the time where you can innovate. That is a time where you get new ideas. That’s when you’re breaking away from your routine and stepping outside of yourself and letting new things come in.
If you had the freedom to rest, what would you do? What could you do? Could you take the freedom to rest and create Chronic Profit?
That’s just what today’s guest did. She launched a marketing business alongside her 9 to 5, and after 4 months, left for her own business that she worked from her couch. She created a life where she could give her body the rest she needed, and I think you’ll be in awe of where she is now. #nospoilers
This week’s episode interview is with author, marketer, and mom Alison Tedford. Alison is an Indigenous entrepreneur and author from Abbotsford, BC, Canada. Her experiences building a business while managing chronic pain led her to write her first book, Chronic Profit.
Alison and I endeavored to talk about rest from both a disability perspective as well as a mompreneur lens and the revolutionary idea that self-care as a business investment is your most valuable asset.
In specifics, we talk about:
- how Alison started her own business,
- how working for herself allows Alison to work when and how and where she works best,
- the story of Alison’s publishing deal for Chronic Profit,
- how asking for what she wants and needs leads Alison in launching her creative projects,
- the ways we hope the pandemic changes the world,
- how the freedom to rest leads to greater creativity,
- the communication Alison shares with her would-be clients so they respect her mode of operation,
- why you need to think of your own rest as an investment in your most valuable business asset, and
- memes, of course.
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- Alison’s website
- Alison’s book Chronic Profit on Amazon and on Bookshop
- Alison on Instagram @alisontedford
- Alison on Facebook @alisontedford
- Alison on Twitter @alliespins
- Alison on LinkedIn
- The Society of Notable Women Online Community (hosted on Facebook)
- My Thought Cleanser, a sorbet to reset your brain
- My email tool: Active Campaign
- My online meeting tool: Zoom
- My website hosting fave: Siteground
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Transcript
She is an indigenous entrepreneur and author from Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Her experiences building a business while managing chronic pain have led her to write her first book, Chronic Profit. Allison. Thank you so much for being here today.
Alison: Thank you so much for having me. I’m so excited.
Cristin: It’s so, wonderful. So we’re doing a series on rest right now. And so I had mentioned in Julie Neale’s group, who, I’m pretty sure that is how I know you is through Julie. That’s entirely possible.
Alison: We, Julie and I worked together and and I love her. I was a fan of her podcast before I worked with her and yeah, it’s just, [00:01:00 ] it’s exciting.
Cristin: Yes. I think she’s delightful. And often I feel like oftentimes on this podcast, I’m like, I think Julie introduced us, it just seems like that’s her superpower. So that I’m pretty sure is how I know you and how I’ve started to follow your work and read everything about what you’re doing.
And I had mentioned that I wanted to do a series on rest. And you mentioned that this was totally in your wheelhouse. So I thank you for coming in to talk about this particular topic. And I think it very much connects with your book that you wrote about chronic profit because obviously chronic illness and. working is particularly, I feel like in COVID-19 land, people are starting to get much more clarity around the complexities of, work while you’re dealing with an illness, any kind, let alone a chronic illness. And so do you mind sharing a little bit of your story with us.
Alison: For sure. I started my career working in government. [00:02:00 ] And but I had chronic health complaints and I wasn’t really sure what was going on that made it a bit harder to get accommodated in the workplace. And I just knew I needed to be living life differently. So I ended up sub-contracting as a social media manager and fell in love with it. And basically ran away and joined the circus.
So within four months I had a full-time business and I waved goodbye to my friends at the Canadian government and started w
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