Short spoken piece arguing that women's menstrual cycles include phases of reduced outward activity that are nevertheless productive—reframed as a 'visionary' phase (period phase). The speaker links this phase to leadership in successful businesses, suggesting that slowing down can enable strategic, big-picture thinking often missing when entrepreneurs remain constantly busy.
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When we really look at productivity in the way that women's cycles work, it's like there is an element of pulling back, there is an element of slowing down. Doesn't mean that you're stopping everything. Like, those times are still productive. It's a different type of productivity. What I call, like your. Your period phase. It's like, that is I've started describing it, and if I were to go back and rename it, I would name it like the visionary phase. And you think about, like, really successful businesses, the leader is predominantly in that visionary space, right? He's the one, or she is the one directing the ship, directing where to go, overseeing the whole big expanse of it. But when we're caught in the weeds of just the doing all of the time, we lose out on that. Like, the most effective businesses are the ones that have that real strong visionary at the lead at the helm. But what happens is that for most of us, especially as beginning entrepreneurs, we're like, we just got to keep going. We got to keep producing, we got to keep hustling, and we. We don't ever get ourselves back into that vis space. And so what most women may think is like a lazy week or an unproductive week is actually becomes your most productive week.