E111: Ready to Pivot Your Business with Confidence? | Recipe for Your Pivot

Feeling stuck, out of alignment, or wondering if it’s time to shift your business? In this episode of the Kitchen Table Dreams Podcast, Coach Chef Kimberly Houston dives deep into the Recipe for Your Pivot—so you know exactly when to shift, pause, or reinvent without fear.

🎯 What You’ll Learn:
• How to read the data in your business to know if it’s time to pivot
• The emotional signs of misalignment or unfulfillment
• Why audience feedback can signal it’s time to reinvent
• How to shift your offers creatively without discounting your worth
• Strategies for staying profitable in today’s economic climate

Kimberly shares her own powerful pivot story after a career-altering injury and explains how accepting your full story can unlock new opportunities. You’ll leave this episode with a clear action plan to decide: pivot, pause, or proceed—and the confidence to do it.

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🔑 Key Takeaway: Pivots aren’t failures—they’re powerful tools to keep your business relevant, profitable, and fulfilling.

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Transcript

Kimberly Houston (00:01.198)
Welcome back to the kitchen table. I am your host, Coach Chef, Kimberly Houston. And I'm super excited to be doing this episode with you guys today. It is Q3. It is Q3 of 2025. Hello and welcome. How did the first six months of the year fair out for you? How are you feeling now that we are officially into the second half of the year? How are you feeling? I really want to know.

If you want to drop me a note, you can find me on social media at Kimberly I Houston or you can find us at kitchen table dreams podcast on Instagram. But tell me, I would love to know how are you faring as we move into the second half this year? Today's podcast episode is going to be focused on the recipe for your pivot. This is something that

I have been thinking about, not necessarily I made any pivots this year, but I have made several pivots over the last couple of years and all of them have done me well. If I can say that simply. One of the things that Fawn Weaver, who was our closing speaker at ROI the Millionaire Summit last month, one of the things she said about a pivot is when she was asked,

Do you make pivots in your business? She laughs. She said, yeah, every day. Every day there's a pivot. And she said, the thing you have to understand about pivoting is that pivoting allows you to create new opportunities in the moment to still accomplish your goal. Whether that be faster, quicker, more efficiently, more strategically, the pivot is to get you to that end goal faster.

the problem comes in when people use the excuse of a pivot and they go the other direction completely where you abandon what you are doing. And I had already planned the recipe for pivots. It was supposed to be three weeks from now, but it's been sitting on my heart. And I was like, let's just go ahead and move it up in our recipe series. And so today I want to dig into the recipe for pivots. The whole purpose for this today is

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for you to know when to shift, when to pause, or when to reinvent your business without fear. And so if you will lend me your ear for just a little while, we'll go on a little journey. And hopefully if you are someone who has been wondering if you should pivot, if now is the time to pivot, or if you should keep journeying on, hopefully by the end of this podcast episode, you will know. If you know someone who needs to hear this, then do me a favor, go ahead and send it to them right now.

I can promise you that this is going to be something that could fundamentally change the course of their life. let me let you guys in on a little secret, I guess. I'm pretty transparent on the podcast, but let's say you're new and you don't really know my journey, right? So there have been multiple pivots that I have gone on in my journey. One of them was, I guess the biggest one was from 2020.

when I was injured. One of the things that I've come to realize is that when I tell this story, I always speak about the physical injury, but very rarely do I talk about the emotional injury that happened when I lost 70 % of the strength in my hands. Physically as a chef, if you lose 70 % of the strength in your hands, that's a problem.

So much so that I was told to close my business effective immediately.

That requires a pivot. If you ever have a doctor tell you that you can no longer do the thing that you are known for, the thing you have studied for, the thing you have poured endless amount of time into investing, into growing and building, and they tell you to close it immediately because you are physically unable to handle the workload anymore, that's heartbreaking.

Kimberly Houston (04:23.278)
And for such a long time, I only talked about what that looked like physically, right? I went to physical therapy for six months. It took me six months to be able to write my name again. It took me a really long time to be able to dress myself without any assistance. And so I've spoken about that on the podcast numerous times. But the thing that I did not talk about was the emotional toil that I went through because there was absolutely a crisis of identity.

Within that, I am a chef. And for a long time, I did not know if I could still identify as a chef. I moved into coaching and then we got Coach Chef Kim, right? We created a website that was Coach Chef Kim because once again, identity crisis. I don't know how to identify myself in this season of my life.

And the reality of it all is, that whether it's coach Kim, chef Kim, consultant Kim, mentor Kim, friend Kim, mommy Kim, it doesn't matter. They're all still pieces of the same puzzle. They're all still pieces of me. There's no way to segment one part of me out for the story of another.

All of these things together have created who I am and they allow me to show up in the way that I can show up as a coach, as a chef, as a podcast host, as a mentor, as a consultant. And so the latest pivot was just accepting me, accepting who I am, the things I've done, the things I've experienced.

and how all those things are now coming full circle, right? I don't have to separate pieces of me in this season of my life because I very simply accepted my story. And so that has been probably one of the biggest pivots. It might've been one of the biggest takeaways for me from ROI, which is that I am enough and I'm not too much.

Kimberly Houston (06:42.126)
Every piece of my story isn't too much. It just makes up who I am. There are puzzle pieces where some people do a puzzle that's 25 pieces and others can do 10,000. I just so happen to be a puzzle with a lot of pieces and that's okay. If you are an entrepreneur and you don't fit in the box, you don't fit through what other people think you should be, who they think you should be, you don't show up in a way that they think you should show up, I'm here to give you

permission to accept that perhaps you just have more pieces to your puzzle. And if people do not have the bandwidth to put that puzzle together, then maybe they need to go find something a little less complicated or a little less intriguing, shall we say. All right, so that's my salt box about that. We're gonna move on. So let's talk about when you'll know it's time to pivot.

One, you can look at the data in your business. So by looking at the data in your business, is there a decline in engagement with your clients or decline in revenue? Last summer, I closed my online content shop. So I was selling recipes in food photography to bloggers and brands. Very lucrative business, loved it. Actually made my first six figures as a

culinary entrepreneur through this particular business. Even though I was wildly successful as a pastry chef, my first six figures came from me doing probably a third of the work, never having to leave my house during COVID. And it was super lucrative, right? It was an incredible business. But last summer, I closed it. And I closed it because

I was creating, creating, creating, and people weren't buying. So when I first started, I could barely keep things in. I mean, 10,000, 15,000, $17,000 months. I was making a lot of money. And the last summer, there was a swift decline. And so I had to go do some research as to what was happening. I knew that the quality of my work had not gotten worse. It actually had gotten better.

Kimberly Houston (09:04.171)
and it had nothing to do with me, but it had everything to do with my clientele and a Google update that had happened. There had been a couple of Google updates where bloggers were no longer getting the same amount of hits on their blogs, which would equal ad revenue for them, which gave them the revenue to be able to pay me. Google had multiple, it was two or three,

really big hits to blogs over the last two years. Last summer it had just hit a point where it was no longer worth it for me. It just wasn't. That in addition to some life changes happening, I decided to close my content shop. It is now 13 months later, actually 14 months because it is July. It is now 14 months later.

and I just reopened that content shop. But I reopened it for a very different reason. I don't need it to make a whole lot of money, but I absolutely need the creative outlet that it offers me. And so that is now something that I've added back into my weekly rotation because it serves me very differently now than it did a year ago. But a year ago,

that pivot needed to happen because it wasn't working, the engagement wasn't there, and there really was a decrease in revenue based on external factors I had nothing to do with. So that's one way to know when you need to pivot. A second way to know when you need to pivot is if you are feeling unfulfilled or misaligned with your current offer of market. If you are in the culinary field, I am talking to you right now.

This time is one of those times like the 2008 stock market crash where people stopped buying large cakes for their kids parties and moved into cupcakes. And that is what exploded the cupcake scene. If you don't believe me, go look at the history of Sprinkles cupcakes. The first cupcake shop did not appear until after the stock market crash in 2008. That is when they blew up. That's when we got

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Cupcake Wars on Food Network and we got cupcake shops and we started seeing cupcake vending machines, right? It was in response to the industry changing based on external factors within the world. We are sitting in another one of those moments. If people are planning parties for their children, they're gonna plan them differently.

right? That money allocation is going to look different. So the question becomes, do you still feel, number one, fulfilled in what you're doing in your business? And number two, do you still feel like it's in alignment? If the answer to that is no, then keep listening to this podcast. I'm going to tell you about something at the end of this, totally free for you to come to, but I want to help you with that.

Number three, another way to know when you need to take a pivot is your aligned audience feedback indicating their needs have changed. Let's talk about it. So I can tell you 100 % that the people who were listening to my podcast a year ago are not listening to my podcast now. The needs of my audience have changed.

Not only the needs of my audience changed, but that meant my content also had to change. And so I've been making that adjustment as well. Right. Because I read the data, because I watch how people are responding to my emails. I look at what they're clicking inside of the emails. I look at if the emails are even being opened in general. I look at if the emails are being forwarded. I look at

where people are listening to the podcast, where are they in the world listening to the podcast. I'm looking at if people are going to the blog, if they're reading blog posts, if they're following me on social media, right? So I'm looking at all these different things and the people who are in my audience that are aligned with my message, I am looking at what do their needs look like right now.

Kimberly Houston (13:44.296)
I read the social media posts. I'm looking at what people are saying. That's how I know that the culinary industry is headed into a crisis if people don't pay attention to it. Looking at the cost of eggs, we're looking at the cost of many things. And I have been watching this for months and trying to like sound the alarm. There's some things that are coming. There are things that are coming. There are things that are coming.

and I'm only one person, right? And so instead of feeling like I'm screaming into the void, I keep the thought process that even if one new person hears what I have to say, it may change their life. It may change the trajectory of their business. So I'm going to keep saying that. Now, as we are thinking about those three different things when it's time to pivot, does the data show that there's a decline in engagement or revenue? Do you feel unfulfilled or misaligned with your current offer or market?

Or is your aligned audience feedback indicating that their needs have changed? We're looking at those three things when it's time to pivot. I want you to ask yourself, does this align with my core values and current audience, whatever you're offering? If it's a $2 cupcake sale, if it's a new ebook, if it's an online course, if it's an in-person hands-on workshop, does this offer?

aligned with your core values in your current audience. Things that you were already offering, ask yourself about those things you were offering. Is it still aligned or has it expired? There is a season for everything and I 100 % believe that the grace will run out in a season. Okay, so what worked for you yesterday might not be working for you in this season. If it worked last summer, two summers, three summers ago,

It might not be working for you right now and you might be thinking that it's you. Beloved, the world is different right now. It might have nothing to do with you and you just need to adjust based on where your clients are in this season. When you're thinking about is it aligned or expired, if it has expired, this is the thought you're going to have. It is no longer serving my goals nor my community's needs.

Kimberly Houston (16:01.048)
So think about those things. I sent out an email this week to my newsletter list. And in case you're not on our newsletter, if you want to join it, definitely hop over to kimberlyihuston.com. You can sign up there. But I want to read you the mid-year check-in that I told them to do. And it's one that got many responses from people. And so I want to read just...

this small part for the mid-year check-in. It was just five questions to ask. So when you're mid-year check-in, number one, what's been going well lately? I don't need to know if it was perfect. I just need to know what went well, right? What's a hell yes for you in your life right now? What's lighting you up and bringing you joy? That's the first question. The second question, what's no longer serving you?

What are things that you are still doing that drain your energy, put you on a foul mood and annoy the shit out of you, but for some reason you think you don't have the agency to say F this and move on. What's no longer serving you. Number three, what are you proud of from the first half of the year? What have you accomplished? You might not have accomplished everything, but what did you accomplish that you're proud of? Number four, what do you want the rest of this year to feel like?

Not what do you want it to look like, not what do you want to build, not what do you want to do. How do you want to feel? The reason I asked this question is that this is going to be the anchor for all of your decisions the rest of the year. So if you tell me that you want to feel peace, you want to feel grounded, you want to feel relaxed, you want to feel a

You want to feel engaged. You want to feel loved, right? Whatever it is you want to feel, put a feeling to it. And then that's the thing we're going to chase, right? You want to feel joyful. I went through a season of I'm chasing joy. If you listen to last year's podcast, most of them are me talking about chasing joy because that's what I needed in my life after my father passed. I wanted joy.

Kimberly Houston (18:23.988)
in my life, right? And so I went and found it. When we're thinking about what we want to feel, that feeling is going to be our anchor. And so this is going to allow us, when we feel out of whack, when we feel out of alignment, we're going to go chase whatever that feeling is you said you wanted for this season. And then the fifth question is, if you had to name this next season of your life with one word or theme, what would it be?

It could be one of those feelings from the one before. It could be something totally different, but whatever that is, that's going to be the GPS for the rest of this year. That's going to be the thing that you're going to focus on that's going to bring you back to center. So just think about those things as you are thinking about whether or not you need to pivot. And if you do need to pivot, I want you to make sure you're pivoting in a way

that leads you to that ultimate goal, but that you're doing it while still being in alignment with where you're going. So let's talk about the ingredients of a successful pivot really quickly. Number one, data. What are the numbers telling you? What are your sales? What is the engagement? What's your growth? What's your retention? What does that look like for you? If you are not dialed into the numbers, I'm going to encourage you to dial into the numbers right now.

Number two, what's your gut instinct tell you? What does your intuition say when you think about continuing on your current path? Do you feel joyful? Do you feel like your body is leaning forward and it's like, yes, we're on the right path or is there resistance? If there is resistance, I want you to go and look into that and figure out what's going on. And then number three, your aligned audience feedback. Are your ideal clients asking for something new or different? Do you send out quotes?

and people reject them or they tell you it's too much or they tell you they can't do this right now. Here's what I'm going to tell you. Once upon a time as a cake artist, I was just like, well, obviously that's not my client. Obviously these people cannot afford me and so they're not my client. Let me tell you something.

Kimberly Houston (20:41.594)
That is true. That is true. That is true. However, I want you to look at the state of the world currently. I know I have an international audience, but if you are in the United States, if you don't have friends who live outside the US, I want you to just start asking people, what are y'all seeing about the United States? Because I have been very, very shocked talking with people who live outside of the US about the news.

that's being reported for the U.S. While you may think that that's not my client, that's not my client, they can't afford me, beloved, there's a lot of people who can't afford a whole lot of things right now who once upon a time could. And so my question would be, instead of you dropping your prices or feeling like you have to negotiate your prices with people, are there new packages that you can create

that you can offer people. So if they send you some Pinterest photo of a three tier superhero cake and there's different superheroes on every single tier, and we know that that cake is going to cost you $425 to pull it together. And they're like, I only got a budget of 200. Can you turn that into cupcakes with superhero toppers, with fondant toppers on it?

where they still get the multiple superheroes, they can still have three flavors of cake the same way they would with the three tier cake. And now you just have fondant toppers on it instead of building out a three tier cake, no delivery, they have to come pick it up. So now you are not spending gas on worrying about is this three tier cake gonna make it to the venue? You don't have to set it up. You don't have to go through those things. They can come get it from you. And you just had to make cupcakes.

whole lot less time. You can probably still fit their budget and just help them see and understand that what you want is outside of your budget. But here's how I can work with you as opposed to, well, I'm going do this three tiered cake for you. Still go through the hustle and bustle of making sure that cake don't fall over while you're delivering it and making sure it gets to the place it needs to be in the middle of the summer, hoping that that cake is not going to melt while you're driving. And you have now had to decrease the price.

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of that and now you feel horrible because while your client loves it you don't feel like you were paid your worth. Can you create new options for people based on where we are in this climate? There are going to be some people who can 100 % afford your price but there are going to be more people who probably cannot and I do not want

anyone to run a business, discount their services because you need the order, but you're not getting paid what you should be paid. Hear me and hear me well, I'm not saying be paid your worth because I don't think that's real, my personal opinion. I'm real expensive and you can't afford me. Even if I gave you the price, it still wouldn't be enough. The amount of knowledge in my head.

You can't afford me. So saying that I need to be paid my worth is kind of crazy. Saying that you need to be paid for the job you did, very different, very different. And if you know what that job is going to take, is there an easier way for the two of you to meet in the middle where you feel like you have been paid? And if you drop down the cupcakes, you're probably going to make more, it would be a whole lot less, a lot less work on you.

and the people will still be satisfied, right? Can you come up with ways to make that happen? That is just something I would throw out there for you as we continue throughout this year, as cuts continue to be made, as people's jobs continue to be upended completely. Just keep those things in mind that the world is bigger than your business right now. And if you want to succeed,

then you have to think smart on your feet and more than likely you're going to have to make money outside of the kitchen. You're going to need to diversify. Okay. Whether you're in the kitchen or not, you still need to diversify. There should be multiple ways for you to make money. Okay. So prep time. Let's talk about what it looks like as you are dealing with the emotional side of pivoting. Number one, fear of sunk costs. Right?

Kimberly Houston (25:32.49)
You are afraid that if you do something, you are not going to reap the benefit of it. You're not going to get your ROI on it. First part is this fear. Fear and excitement live in the same part of the brain. When they're looking at it on machines, looking at it on scans, fear and excitement light up the same part of the brain. You can tell yourself, am excited for a new opportunity as opposed to I'm scared.

Number two, worrying about what other people will think. Beloved, we have hit a phase of life where you cannot care what somebody else is going to think. If they are not paying your bills and they don't live in your house, your opinion is the only one that matters. And then lastly, are you resistant to change? Are you the problem? As someone who has been coaching entrepreneurs full-time for three years, I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt, most times you are the problem.

The entrepreneur is the problem. It's not outside forces. It's not your clients. It's not your mom and them. It's you. It's you. I can, that is data. It's you. Now let's talk about how I can help you out with that one. Number one mindset shift, replace what if I fail with what if it works.

It's the most simple one. What if it works? Oftentimes we go down the rabbit hole of what if this doesn't work? What if I fail and you can see it, you can see what will happen to you. If you do not make this work, I want you to do the opposite. What if it works? I want you to think about that. When was the last time you sat down and really thought about what if it works? Like for real.

What? Write it out. That's what journaling is, friends. That's what scripting is. That's what manifestation is. We are looking at what if it works and calling in the energy of what if it does, right? So if you're thinking about something, you know you need to make a pivot, but you're scared to make the pivot because you don't know if it's going to work or not. At this moment, I want you to say, what if it does? And I want you to write down what would happen if it does? What would your bank account look like if the pivot works?

Kimberly Houston (27:50.166)
What would your life look like if the pivot works? What would it look like if that big idea you've been sitting on actually works? I want you to allow yourself to feel the feelings of, but what if it does? Number two, focus on growth, not perfection. I am a Virgo and I am a perfectionist in recovery. It is hard and it is something I have been working on with multiple coaches until one coach can't help me go to the next level and I go to the next one.

Right, perfection is crippling. We are focused on progress, not perfection. We're focused on growth, not perfection. I want to give you two tips that will help you ease into this transition. Number one, start small with the beta offers or limited time testing. And number two, set clear metrics for your success before fully shifting. What does success look like to you? I can't answer that for you, but the question is, what does success look like for you?

The reason I throw in that question is very simple. If you don't know what success looks like, how do you know when you're successful? This is something I had to reckon with a bit ago. I never gave myself any measures of success. It was like, do the task next. Do the task next. There was never a I will be successful if, I will be successful when. I have released

three books. And at no time when I released any of those books, did I think about what is the measure of success for that book. The newest book that is releasing on July 7th, which is Teach Me How to Bake volume two, it is a curriculum for children ages eight through 12. My measure of success for that book is very clear. Not only do I want to sell it,

but I want it to be adopted as a homeschool curriculum in the state of Massachusetts. I have a very specific goal, right? This project means a lot to me. This project is something that I had absolutely no idea I would even be creative enough to do. And it literally just came in the mail today and it's more incredible than I thought it could be. What I envisioned

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in my brain and then to see it on a computer and then to hold it in my hand. The first measure of success was that I completed it. The second measure of success is that there will be lives changed. There will be children I will never meet who will see these books and they will be taught and they will learn the basics of baking.

That was my measure of success. so what I'm like, yes, book sales are wonderful, but also I want to make sure that this curriculum becomes something that homeschool parents use. And I've already looked up what are the rules and regulations for homeschool curriculum in the state of Massachusetts, because Massachusetts and New Jersey have the best education systems. And I tailored this book to meet those. And so I've been successful.

I already know what my measure of success is. I don't just have to go, okay, on to the next. I can take a moment and breathe and say, I did that because I did. The other part to that is if you're thinking about small beta offers or limited time testing, let me let you in on the limited time test that I'm testing out. Earlier this week, I had an idea and I was like, I wonder if this would work. My next cohort,

will be at the end of September, moving into October. It's really a Q4 cohort, but we're going to start at the end of September because I know I need to give people time and space during the holidays, right? So I'm accounting for that by starting two weeks before the end of September. We're starting around September 21st or 22nd. I decided that I will be talking about this offer.

for the next 90 days. So for all of Q3, I'm only talking about the Kitchen Table Dreams Mastermind. The price of that Mastermind is $9.97 if you pay in full, it's $9.99 if you're paying monthly. But here is a limited time test that I'm working on. Let's say you sign up for it in the month of July. Let's say you listen to today's podcast episode and you're like, really want to do this coaching program for Q4.

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I don't have $1,000 to put towards that. I don't even know how can make that work. Well, here's how. If you sign up in July, you're only paying $160-some-odd a month, right? Because now you have from July through December to pay. have six payments, so that $1,000 is split into six payments. The $999 is split into six payments. That's one.

If you hear something in August and you're like, OK, I'm mis-joining in July, I'm going to join in August. Cool. That means you have five months in order to do this. If you hear it in September, then boom, you've got four months. And then the last time is going to be if you join in October when we actually start, then you have three payments that you can make. Or you can use Klarna or Afterpay or something like that.

In every coaching program I've ever been involved in, not one person has ever had this type of, I don't even want to say sliding skill, it's not really a sliding skill, but I've never seen anyone do this before. I mean, I'm no genius. It may have been done before, but for me, it's not a thing. It's not a thing that is happening. And so you can go from literally paying only

$160 some odd dollars a month over six months or paying $3.33 a month for three months in order to join the program. But for me, I don't lose anything out of offering you a longer amount of time to pay for it. I'm still going to show up in the way that I need to show up when we start in September. The only difference is that you've already started paying on it and so you don't have to be stressed out about it.

as we move throughout the process, right? And so I have been in the position of offering coaching programs where it got too much for people and they're in a contract with me. So you still gotta pay me my money even if you stop showing up, right? And so that doesn't feel great as the business owner to have to chase down money.

Kimberly Houston (34:48.504)
But how can I offer something with ease? How can I offer something for people to be able to handle things in a time where I know economically there may be a little bit of a crunch? That's OK. We're going to make things easy for you, right? And so taking inspired action has never, ever steered me wrong.

And that's just an example of like a limited time test. Either it's going to work or it's not. I don't know, but we're not going to have that data until the end of the year. At the end of the program, when I asked the people who have joined the coaching program, were you able to take advantage of the extended payment offers? And if they say yes, then I asked how they work for you. Or the people who didn't, asked how they work for you. For some people, they may say $3.33 a month is very comfortable, not a problem.

For me, and I can say this because I just took a coaching program that was $2,500 a month. Offering something for $3.33 a month is like child's play compared to things I've paid out of pocket for previously, right? So I'm not here to count your coin the same way you can't be there to count your customer's coin. You don't know where they are, but what can you do?

that still allows you to show up in the fullness of who you are and in a way that will allow them to be able to have that you are accessible to them. You might not be affordable, but how are you accessible to all people? So how do we put all this into action? This has been a whole lot. I'm going to wrap it up for you, put a cute little bow on it. So we're going to put this into action.

Kimberly Houston (36:34.366)
Number one, list your current offers in your projects that you may or may not want to release. This is Q3. If you have not started working on your Q4 offers, baby, you are behind. Let's get on there right now. What are you offering in Q4? Because parents are already thinking about what their kids getting for Christmas. They're already looking into those things. What are you offering? Okay. So list out your current offers in your projects is number one. Number two,

Rate each on alignment with your values and your audience needs. Are these things in or out of alignment with where your audience is right now? And then number three, make a decision. Pivot, pause, or proceed. Very simply. That is how we put this into action. You're going to make a decision. Pivot, pause, or proceed. I would encourage you to schedule a personal CEO day to review your business alignment quarterly.

Are the things you're offering still in alignment with where you're going? Are the things still in alignment with your current clients? And if they're not, then you need to be taking a look at those things as to how you can get back into full alignment with all those things. The key takeaway I need you to know right now is that pivots are powerful. They are how you keep your business relevant, profitable, and personally fulfilling. Remember that pivot.

should help you get closer to your goal, not turn you around and take you away from it. Also, I said that I would mention at the end of this episode something that can help you. So on Wednesday, July 9th, I am going to be doing the first of three free webinars. In our first webinar, we are going to be talking about, I'm pulling it up. I'm sorry, I should have had that together.

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All right, so our first webinar, the one for July, is going to be the five shifts every creative needs to scale. So this one is going to highlight or pinpoint any ways that you may be sabotaging your own success and offering solutions for that. I'm a very, very solutions-oriented coach. And so that is what our first webinar is going to be for the month of July. We're going to talk about five shifts to every culinary or creative entrepreneur.

needs to scale their business that is going to be on July 9th. You can sign up for that in the show notes as well. Totally free. Bring your business bestie if you need to. But we're going to spend 60 minutes together. There will be a little bit of time for Q &A, hot seats to kind of help you walk through that. In August, webinar number two is going to be Signature Offers that Sell the Secret to Consistent Cash Flow Without Burning Out.

So throughout the month of July, I will be on the road teaching a class on bakery burnout for the RBA Roadshow as well as the ACF National Convention out in Vegas. I will be doing breakout sessions on bakery burnout at both of those. And so I'm going to turn that into a webinar for the month of August. And then in September, we will talk about the visibility blueprint.

how to attract dream clients on repeat. And that is going to be our last webinar prior to us kicking off the Q4 six-figure creative entrepreneur mastermind. And so that's how those three are going to roll. You can sign up for it. Again, it will be in the show notes. I would love for you to come and hang out with me. Teaching people and helping entrepreneurs move to the next level is my jam. It's quite literally.

one of my favorite things and one of the reasons that I won an award at ROI because it is what I do. Some people, you're just like, man, this person is just living and breathing this thing they do. I live and breathe coaching. I just always have. It is my thing. It is the thing I can do in my sleep. After I went to ROI, that was one of the takeaways is that I understand it is a lot of

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need to work with me. And I wanted to offer opportunities for people to still be able to move the needle in their business, even if it's not as much as it would be if you were coaching with me in the mastermind or if you were one of my one-on-one clients. But it's still a way for me to be able to help entrepreneurs move forward, particularly in this particular climate. So if you're interested, make sure you check down in the show notes. If you're not on our email list, definitely come and join me. Go to kimberlyihusen.com.

and you can sign up on that homepage. Until next time, friends, stay sweet, and I hope you guys are successful.