If you regularly feel stressed out, humor can be your secret weapon for burnout prevention. This week on Decode Your Burnout, I interviewed Heather Tolley-Bauer, a stand-up comedian who shares her wisdom about comedy and tips for successful living. She reminds us that not everything is a laugh out loud moment, but we need to find the things that are and laugh when we can. She also shares one of the formulas for being funny.
Heather Tolley-Bauer is a drop-dead funny, stay-at-home mom, wife, and colorectal cancer-survivor. As a stand-up comedian, she provides all kinds of audiences with much-needed laughs to cope with everything from marriage, middle-age & millennials to parenting, Pinterest, the PTA, a Pandemic and so much more.
She books, hosts and produces a wildly popular show called Laugh-Lines & Stretch-Marks®️, has opened for nationally touring comic Brian Moote, appeared on the Weather Channel's original program, Weather Gone Viral, and was recently selected to perform at the prestigious LaughFest in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Her top 7 tips include:
1. Don’t take yourself too seriously, but take your business seriously. You will not be for everyone, so just be OK with it.
2. You don’t have to have it all figured out before you take action
3. Once you have some tested material under your belt, you can customize the experience for the audience and do it without the message being fully baked
4. If you’re going to do work that takes you away from your family, have it be meaningful
5. As an entrepreneur, you need to know how much it costs you to do business and how much you want to make. This will help you figure out how much wiggle room you have in your pricing when onboarding a new client so you’re never giving away what you’re doing in terms of money or energy. By establishing your bottom line, you give yourself permission to hold the line around your pricing.
6. If you're a people pleaser and you tend to give the farm away because you want people to like you, because it's hard for you to say no, because you feel guilty, or because you think it's selfish to focus on yourself, then take this to heart: Figure out what your bottom line is, which means in your case, what are you already committed to? What do you need for yourself? What are the essentials that you need to protect yourself from burnout so that you can still show up for other people without showing up so much that you’re not showing up for yourself?
7. It’s up to each one of us to define what it means to be successful.
Follow Heather:
Instagram: @hyphen_up
Website: Hyphenup.com
Resources:
Watch the video of this episode: https://youtu.be/QUAN5aIfXDI
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