Professional Troublemaker excerpt: How to embrace change and growth in life and business

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Podcast host and author Luvvie Ajayi Jones on how she embraced the changes needed to grow from a blogger to the CEO of a media company (by iLuvvit)

In it, she says change and growth is not something to feel guilty about when establishing your business and brand.We fear change and then attach the guilt of what we could lose to it, further making it harder to welcome with open arms.

It was a change I didn't readily accept because I was stuck in a cycle of guilt and fear that my audience would think I'd left them behind. That thing that got me to where I was? Turns out it needed to be left behind to get me to where I needed to go. As I've leveled up in my career, I've had to be less accessible at certain points in time to people I love. Sometimes I'm so useless that I need my assistant to be the one booking brunch time with my friends. I could have been hit with the"Oh, now I gotta go through someone to see you?" And I have been. But the friends I am closest to are the ones who go,"I've already asked your team about your availability. See you in a week.

 

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