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Business Seasons: Working With Your Natural Rhythms

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Sarah Duran

Fractional COO at Fruition Initiatives.

Lakewood

I’m Sarah Duran, a fractional COO and business coach for solo business owners who’ve realized they built expensive jobs instead of businesses. I created The Solopreneur Collaborative, a peer coaching community where established freelancers and consultants get the structure, accountability, and strategic thinking time they never seem to have on their own. I’m also a mom, wife, avid gardener, voracious reader, and lover of the outdoors.

About this FieldTrip

Hustle culture tells us to be “on” all the time.

But nature doesn’t work that way; it has seasons for planting, growing, harvesting, and resting.

So does your business.

Most solopreneurs burn out because they’re trying to be in constant summer, but sustainable businesses honor natural rhythms: high-energy seasons and low-energy seasons, times to experiment and times to maintain, periods of growth and periods of rest.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll identify when your energy naturally peaks and dips, when your industry has busy and slow periods, and when life demands more or less from you. Then you’ll create a visual seasonal plan that works with these rhythms instead of against them.


Agenda

  • Introduction: We'll explore why constant hustle leads to burnout and how nature's seasonal model offers a better framework for sustainable business.

  • Identify Your Rhythms: Through guided reflection, you'll map when your energy naturally peaks and dips throughout the year, when your industry has busy and slow periods, and when life (your body, kids' schedules, holidays, personal commitments) demands more from you.

  • Create Your Seasonal Map: Using paper, markers, and/or a customizable digital template, you'll build a visual seasonal business plan. You'll assign different types of work to different seasons: when to launch new offerings (planting), when to focus on client delivery (growing), when to promote and sell (harvest), and when to rest and reflect (fallow).

  • Share & Apply: Small-group discussion about your seasonal map and
    identifying your next right action based on the season you're in.


What to know or bring

  • I will provide a Google doc template, but if you'd like to make your plan with paper, you can bring any materials you need (e.g., paper, markers, pens)


What to expect

Workshop format!

A hands-on session where participants get to build, craft, or create something tangible.

It will be recorded!

The recording will be shared within 24 hours in the follow up email for a 4-day window, and available at the top of this page. Make sure to register for access!

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Your Host

Sarah Duran

Fractional COO at Fruition Initiatives.

Lakewood

About Sarah Duran

I’m Sarah Duran, a fractional COO and business coach for solo business owners who’ve realized they built expensive jobs instead of businesses. I created The Solopreneur Collaborative, a peer coaching community where established freelancers and consultants get the structure, accountability, and strategic thinking time they never seem to have on their own. I’m also a mom, wife, avid gardener, voracious reader, and lover of the outdoors.


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