Welcome to All In With Ali podcast, the podcast for female entrepreneurs and business owners

who are ready to create the life and business of their dreams.

I am so happy you are here.

And I am so not you are here. And I am so not happy about the topic that we are going to talk about today. Actually, that's a lie. I'm more than happy to talk about it. It's just not, you know,

it's not like the most sunshiny of topics. It's not like a big

wind that I'm coming here to talk about or like some crazy strategy that I pulled off that

I want to break down for you. It's the dark side of entrepreneurship. That's what we're going to talk about today. And I don't think I've

ever talked about this and this way. In the beginning of this new iteration of the podcast,

I committed to you and I set an intention to share more behind the scenes and share more

just in general of life of what it takes for me to run this business because it's so much

more than business, right? It's everything. All of it funnels into the business in one way, shape, or form.

And not only that, but as we've covered before, we are dynamic women. We're not here to do

just one thing. As a matter of fact, we were designed to be able to do many different things.

That's one of our gifts as women. That's just something

that we're really good at. So again, there's so much that goes into life. And if you're

anything like me, if something's off in your life, it's going to make its way somehow into your business

in one way or another, depending on what the thing is. So I thought that I would commit an episode

about what I would call the dark side of entrepreneurship if there were one. And obviously we all have

different perspectives and there's so many different ways to look at all of these things. And of course,

we can make the argument that it's all happening for us and you know that I'm quite the optimist.

I definitely do my best to make

those correlations and find the silver lining and the plus side of all the things for sure. And also

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