Between her two part-time teaching jobs, Llewellyn says she works about 15 hours per week. She says it's given her the time to launch her dream business., an online platform that offers community groups, events, and workshops to help people connect with professionals and navigate their health and wellness journeys — an idea that she says was inspired by her own struggle to get help.
"Small luxuries" were the first things they cut, she says, adding that she did an"audit" of all their memberships, subscriptions, and streaming services and decided what they could live without. They also put any big vacations on hold, changed where they shopped for groceries, and cut back on eating out.
"I was always going to work on someone else's dream or idea, and I was most likely going to be tied to a 9-5 schedule," she said."And once I realized that, the security of a paycheck, the benefits, the bonus, it all became less of a priority."Despite her burnout, Llewellyn says that her goal was never to work part-time forever.
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