Send us a text In this episode of The Phoenix Table, we sit down with Michele Hecken, a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and author who built her first business from scratch while raising two young daughters, and later transformed it to run entirely without her. Michele opens up about the “messy middle” of entrepreneurship: burnout, guilt, and the fear of letting go. She shares how redefining work-life balance as work-life harmony helped her create true freedom, both in business and in life. Fro...
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Send us a text In this episode of The Phoenix Table, we sit down with Michele Hecken, a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and author who built her first business from scratch while raising two young daughters, and later transformed it to run entirely without her. Michele opens up about the “messy middle” of entrepreneurship: burnout, guilt, and the fear of letting go. She shares how redefining work-life balance as work-life harmony helped her create true freedom, both in business and in life. Fro...
The Real Burn Down: What I Lost and What it Gave Me
The Phoenix Table
19 minutes
3 months ago
The Real Burn Down: What I Lost and What it Gave Me
Send us a text In this deeply personal episode, Sam takes you back to the moment everything she built came crashing down — the collapse of her first business, the grief that followed, and the unexpected clarity it gave her. This isn't just a story about loss — it's about identity, shame, resilience, and the quiet rebuilding that happens when no one’s watching. She opens up about what it felt like to shut down a company, lay off a team she loved, and question her worth when the titles an...
The Phoenix Table
Send us a text In this episode of The Phoenix Table, we sit down with Michele Hecken, a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and author who built her first business from scratch while raising two young daughters, and later transformed it to run entirely without her. Michele opens up about the “messy middle” of entrepreneurship: burnout, guilt, and the fear of letting go. She shares how redefining work-life balance as work-life harmony helped her create true freedom, both in business and in life. Fro...
