The Floral CEO

  Hello flower friends and welcome back to the n Minnesota of the Floral CEO podcast. And today I wanna give you something simple, something you can use right now, especially if you're having one of those days or one of those weeks or the days when the orders pile up, the kids need you. Your phone won't stop dinging.

That's why I run my life on d and d, and you're pretty sure you haven't even. Take in like a moment since you got the kids off to school or you got your first email in your inbox that you were answering. This is your five minute overwhelm, reset, A quick process that you know, I use to just reset and really when my brain is just feeling.

Like a lot extra. This is my brain often feels like I have 47 tabs open and absolutely none of them are loading sometimes, and sometimes you just need to take a pause to let things load. So if you're listening while you're driving, designing, or hiding in your pantry for two minutes of silence, this one is for you.

So. Before you take action, before you reorganize your schedule, before you get a machete out and wanna hack every single activity that you're doing away from your life, before downright panic comes when you open your calendar, I want you to just stop, pause what you're doing, put your feet on the ground, and take a slow breath.

We often, especially as women, when we jump into fix it mode so fast. That we forget. The first step is to simply interrupt the spiral, interrupt the pattern of overwhelm, of chaos, of spiraling into just feeling like shit. Overwhelm. Doesn't mean you're failing, it means your brain is currently overloaded.

So we stop, we breathe and we create space. Because we deserve space and often, and I know that this is something that I often struggle with. I feel like I need to do everything. I need to get, you know, the kids. Kids need jeans tomorrow, so I better do that WPA events on Tuesday. I gotta make sure I put all those chocolates together better go out and inventory the all the inventory me of linens, better make sure that we got all of the forks I need to make sure that I'm walking the new baby donkey.

I need to make sure that I am going to give the cat medicine. I need to make sure I'm putting the dog's butt medicine for its tail. And I mean like Jesus Christ, we deserve space. We cannot do it all, and we are only human now when everything feels important, absolutely nothing is. So how can we really say what actually matters right now?

Not today, not this week. Do you know, notice that I just talked about Tuesday when I'm talking about this moment, like Tuesday's gonna happen either way. What? Is actually mattering right now. Not this week, not this month, not this quarter, not this whatever, right now. Usually you'll find out that only one or two things actually need your immediate attention.

Responding to a bride who emailed five minutes ago, probably not. She can wait. Finishing the full mockup for next month wedding, definitely not. Sorting creates clarity, and clarity creates calm. All right, now, next, we need to simplify. Now that we know what truly matters, simplify it down even further. What is the smallest next step you can take?

And I've talked about. Um, micro momentum so many times because I know that that's what's going to help move you really forward without you feeling overwhelmed. So. Not the whole task, not the whole project, just the next mi micro step because when you're overwhelmed, your brain can, can't see the whole staircase.

It just needs the next step. Maybe it's sending one reply, pulling one recipe, writing on one line, setting one boundary, drinking one glass of water before you deal with anything else, or simply sitting down to just pause. Simplifying reduces pressure and increases momentum. So a reminder for the days that feel heavy.

You don't need to do everything. You don't need to solve everything. You don't have to have a perfect system or perfect balance, or perfect timing. Your business doesn't need a perfect version of you. It frankly needs a grounded version. And grounding doesn't take an hour. It doesn't require a retreat. It doesn't require an empty house and a quiet mind.

I always laugh when people are like, I need like this whole like immersive experience, this re, I mean like, I love me going on a retreat, you guys, or going to the spa, going to have just hours of time for yourself. But like we, we say that we're gonna wait till this big moment and we have all of this expense of not getting any pause till the, that magical thing is going to happen.

And I mean, like, I'm looking at my nails, I'm looking at my toes. It, it is been busy. Like that was one thing that was really, you know, like my time is going to get a pet and a Manny going to go get a massage, going to go do, you know, all that girly shit that I love to do. I have not been able to do that, and especially because I gotta drive an hour to do it now.

It used to be like, you know what? I got like a. A little bit of time after I go to CrossFit and like literally used to be right on my way home from CrossFit and I, I had a timed that I could go into the Mall of America Park in a certain spot and I could be out with a 30 minute massage in less than 45 minutes.

Like I just don't have that liberty anymore, but that doesn't mean that I can't take five minutes. To like sit down and just look out the window and look how beautiful it is, sit down and just regroup and go, okay, here's my to-do list. Like what is the most important thing that I need to, to work on? What are things like, how can I prioritize this to feel good?

And so that I'm just not running around with the chicken with her head cut off. So. Sometimes all it takes is five minutes of presence, five minutes of breathing, sorting, simplifying, five minutes of shift, like five minute reset is a real thing. You can completely, like I have had my children absolutely, like just being children, losing their shit, and I'm just like, I, I just, you're on overload or.

You, something's going on with your spouse or if you've ever had a, like a fight with your parents, like sometimes five minutes to regroup, five minutes of quiet, five minutes of whatever is, is going to just hit that reset, give you a little recharge so that you can come back, calm, collective, and really able to take that conversation in a different way.

Deescalate your children, like deescalate your emotions so that you don't say something that inevitably you could regret. And I think people feel like we can't pause. We have all the right to be like, you know what guys? You need a break. You're gonna go in your rooms for five minutes and we're gonna talk about this in five minutes.

Because it's not maybe them that needs a break before you say something that you're going to regret before you lose your cool, maybe your cool is your superpower. And if it's getting to this point, like I've had this happen with people that have worked for me, like. One I dearly love, but she just loves to push my buttons because she's kind of like my mother.

And sometimes I'm just like, Jesus, do you think I'm an idiot? Like I, I perfectly know that they don't have water right now because the water's been freezing. So I've been getting them little, I mean, this just happened this week, and so I just said, I'll be right back. And then I came back and I clearly calmly re-explained.

I felt like she wasn't listening, but that five minutes made me feel like I didn't wanna blow up at her. It sometimes you just need a pause. So before I let you guys go, if you're in a season where everything feels heavy, kids work life clients, please hear me when I say this is you are not behind, you are not failing.

You are just caring a lot. And even the strongest florist need a reset. If you want more support, especially heading into 2026, the floral CEO Mastermind, it builds structure, profitability, and breathing room. So overwhelm becomes the exception and not the rule. We have life coaching, we have business coaching.

We work directly on issues in your business, and you have this group of amazing women that are here to support you. And I just. The group is amazing. I would love to see you there. Head to the floral floral ceo.com/mastermind. Thank you so much for listening, flower friends, and you have an amazing flower filled day.