02 Aug Burn out is real

There are so many projects and pitches floating around my inbox and my brain these days that it’s honestly difficult to keep things straight. The problem with not knowing what’s happening next is the possibility of forgetting really important things. Sometimes they’re personal things like birthdays or anniversaries, other times they’re client meetings or flight times…

This week has been stressful in a different kind of way than normal. Sure we had a day of production a big RFP, a 10 minute edit to work on and of course, just running a company to worry about… but even more than that, I think I’ve just been running out of fuel. I am personally not just responsible for building work for clients, I am also responsible for making sure I have a happy and healthy team that I can mentor and motivate to produce amazing videos, but I also have a wonderful wife that I want to spend time with and enjoy life with.

I spend more time with my team each day, than I do with my wife and sometimes when I get home, she gets my leftover energy and attention. Joanne is fully aware that Berad Studio is time and energy consuming, but I need to make sure that everyday she feels loved, cared for and honored. Not because it’s something that she craves, but because it is easy to think of our first love as our last priority and that’s not how I want to run my life or my business.

If I burn my entire candle at work, I won’t have enough left to light up our home and Joanne deserves my best, not my worst.