🗞️ slow down or double down? navigating business as UNUSUAL in 2025 [OHT 092]
What does it look like to show up for your day-to-day work when it sometimes feels like we're livestreaming Earth: The Final Season?
What are we doing here, fam? 🙃
This fresh episode is part palette cleanse, part context-setting.
Before we round out our first 100 On Her Terms® episodes, I want to acknowledge the bigness of what we're witnessing and co-creating on the world stage right now (and for the foreseeable future).
The weather is extreme -- literally, socially, financially -- and it’s up to us as humanity’s current class of grownups (!) to learn to navigate business as UNUSUAL (which is clearly now just... the usual) with resilience and curiosity.
Whether you’re currently showing up out of duty, desire, or a blend of both, it makes sense if you’re feeling some dissonance or hesitation.
This episode isn’t about opting out.
It’s about staying in the game without losing your rhythm, your values, or yourself.
How do we hold awareness of the “big stuff” without minimizing the “little stuff” that strengthens our ability to carry it? ❤️
What are the capacity-building practices and tools that actually WORK - for us, for our kids, for our communities - and how can we make them second-nature? 👀
Join me to consider:
👓 The bifocal lens that helps me hold the both/and
🗓️ Why your calendar is actually your base camp, not a distraction
🎯 The myth of waiting for the “right" time to share your work
♻️ What I’m seeing (and sensing) from the women I’m here to support
⚡️ A reminder that your work still matters especially now
(If you like eavesdropping on real-time meaning-making, you’ll like this one.)
Hopeful these messy musings can spark real conversation on staying grounded, creative, and response-able in uncertain times.
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Hi! 👋 I'm Nikki.
...Elledge Brown.
Creator of the On Her Terms® universe.
Pro word nerd and mom of three.
I'm a creative advisor, coach, and strategist for entrepreneurial women who love their work, their families, and their alone time.
I'm also a military spouse and former park ranger and college professor with a penchant for almost excessive verbal processing. (You've prob picked up on that by now.)
After over a decade in business and momming, moving from my fave Hawaiian island to my fave Texas town, reckoning with and recovering from my own brand of #onherterms burnout, I've been deep in introspection + experimentation over here:
Got it. Not a dress rehearsal. What do I really want my life to look like? What do I want it to feel like? In each area of life, what are my terms for this season? When I get really honest and ditch the should dos and the have tos…what's left? What’s true? NOW WHAT?
This podcast is a space to track that journey, to share my field notes, to anchor in the stories and lessons my clients and I are learning along the way.
Join me here to refresh your OWN definitions of what matters most to you. Motherhood, ambition, fulfillment, creativity, relationships, inspiration, REST, success, community, and about a squillion other words and concepts that deserve thoughtful consideration.
Can't wait to hear your take.
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