I was honored to be interviewed by my friend, Laura Vanderkam, for a piece on FastCompany.com on How to Combat a Ridiculous Work Schedule and Stop Feeling So Overwhelmed. Here’s a snippet:
When Crystal Paine launched MoneySavingMom.com in 2007, she thought it would be a small offshoot of the blog she had been keeping. Then the economy crashed, and millions of people wanted to know how she fed her family for $35 a week. She soon found herself running a company that was growing so fast her hosting service went down every afternoon. She couldn’t stay on top of advertising queries. “I pulled all nighters,” she says. “Your body forgets how to relax and sleep.”
At first, she thought she could soldier through–things would be better after the next big project–but “that’s never how it is with a startup,” she says. “It took me months to realize it’s never going to get better. I needed to step back and make better choices if I wanted this thing to run for the long haul.”
She wrote about her journey back to sanity in a new book, Say Goodbye to Survival Mode. While the book is primarily aimed at the moms of young kids who comprise the majority of her 1.5 million monthly readers, Paine’s advice is also relevant to entrepreneurs working crazy hours at all kinds of startups. Here are her tips for clawing out from total chaos.
Read the full article.
Cynthia says
Neither links are going to the article. They both go to fast company but to someone else’s article : (
Crystal Paine says
Hmm, I checked and it went to the correct article for me. Here’s the link:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3025206/work-smart/how-to-combat-a-ridiculous-work-schedule-and-stop-feeling-so-overwhelmed
Cynthia says
It’s going to the correct place now. I’m sorry I don’t know what happened on my end. Sorry about that : )
Crystal Paine says
No worries! Glad it is working now!
Laura Vanderkam says
Thanks for linking to the piece! I appreciate it.