EP382: Natalie Ruskin - Finding Your Why: The Metrics That Matter

Michael Palmer: As entrepreneurs, as solo entrepreneurs, we are our own boss. And I don't know about you, Michael, but one of the biggest barriers I experience is my own distractibility, my own attention and how I'm focusing it because I don't have external deadlines all the time the way I did when I worked at the CBC. Welcome to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back. Welcome to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest is a coach and host of a new podcast, A Success of Our Own. Natalie Ruskin, welcome to the show. Thank you so much, Michael. It's great to be here. It's great to have you. You know, and spoiler alert, Natalie and I are longtime friends. We always have good conversations about all sorts of stuff, one of those being one's own personal development and journey through career and life and balance and all that good stuff. And so I'm excited to have you on the show. I'm really excited about your new podcast. I think our listener will absolutely love listening to it. But before we get into all of that, Natalie, tell us a little bit about you, your career journey leading up to this point.

Guest: Sounds great, Michael. I'm chuckling to myself because I'm sitting here in my closet with like yoga blocks stacked up and this makeshift situation for the microphone. And you'd think that I didn't know anything about broadcasting equipment, but I did spend 10 years working for Canada's public broadcaster in news and current affairs. So I spent many of my years in my like 20s and 30s in dark edit suites. And yet, getting the microphone to work this morning was a very interesting journey of practicing the second half of my career, which is self-compassion and mindfulness and acceptance. Because for sure in the past, I would've felt all these thoughts of like, I'm such an imposter, I'm such an amateur, what's he gonna think? And then I would start to shut down And with that first question you asked, it would've sent me into a bit of an anxiety spiral around how I'm being received and how I'm coming across as incompetent. So I kind of alluded to my story, very