Before You Burn Out - Self Care Tips for Women With A Side Business
December 18, 2025
If you’re a midlife woman juggling a job and a service-based side business, it can quickly feel exhausting. In this episode, Shandra shares a real burnout moment and reframes self-care as the everyday choices that make your life and business sustainable.
If you’re a midlife woman in a job and growing a service-based side business, you’re effectively working two jobs. Add end-of-year deadlines, school events and social commitments, and it’s no wonder you feel stretched and exhausted.
In this episode, Shandra shares a very real burnout moment from her own career – and how that experience shaped the way she now supports women to grow sustainable side businesses. You’ll explore self-care as the everyday decisions that make your life and business sustainable, not just bubble baths and spa days.
Key Takeaways:
- Do an “energy traffic light” review: Learn how a simple traffic light review can highlight what drains or restores your energy.
- Lower the bar (on purpose!): Why “bare minimums” can be the smartest form of self-care in a busy season
- Protect your non-negotiable pockets of time: How to create tiny protected pockets of time for you and your business
You’ll also hear about a free one-page Self-Care Traffic Light Review you can download to map out your own next steps – plus how to get 1:1 support if you want next year to be less running on empty and more clients.
Do you enjoy this kind of food for thought?
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For more tips, tools, and resources to help you grow your side business to be a thriving business in part-time hours, come and join our free Facebook group:
Side Business Australia Private Facebook group link: