EP 590: Your Business Problem Might Be a Health Problem
30 Jan 2026 · 1 min
Jesse Ewell argues that entrepreneurs often mistake business problems for health problems. Your morning routine, sleep, and physical fitness shape your leadership and sales more than your work hours do. Fix your habits first, and your business follows.
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Welcome to the Habit Based Lifestyle Podcast. I'm your host, Jesse Yule. Today we're going to be talking about the number one reason why your business is stuck. And as we get into this episode today, I want to preface this a little bit. I had a conversation yesterday with a client and we began to talk about business. We began to talk about why he felt like what we were doing wasn't helping him. And as we got deeper and deeper into conversation, some of the things that came up was the thing that I see a lot of times with the people that we work with with is that their business problem is bigger than their business. And what, and I'll get into that a little bit more. But what I want to preface this as is if you're listening to this, you know, maybe you're a health professional, maybe you're someone who has a different business. I want you to, to put this into a place where you can really begin to analyze your own business. Because oftentimes people come to me wanting to improve their business. But a lot of times what happens is that I see some things in their health that are not working and it's affecting them, which means it's affecting their business. So, you know, being stuck in your business has more to do with what you do when you get out of bed than what you do when you step into work. Meaning if I get out of bed and I'm not doing something to work on myself, my work suffers because I now got out of bed and haven't improved myself at all. And then when I step into work, I expect my work to be better, I expect my work to be different, I expect my work to change, but yet I'm not changing myself. And so this, this is one of the biggest issues I see with business owners. Today, even. Even ones that claim they're doing all the right things, how do we know they're not? Because things aren't changing in their business, there should be a transfer. Because if I show up in my business with different energy than what I woke up with, by default, things should begin to shift. Things should begin to change just from that alone. Because I changed my energy, which means I changed my thoughts, which means I change my habits and I change my behaviors. All in between me waking up in the morning and me getting to work by doing those things alone, that. That should drastically change me as a business owner and change my business. So I want to talk a little bit about, about these conversations because I often have these with people where they're like, no, I want to work on my business. And I'm like, hey, I understand that. But I also recognize that if you are not willing to push yourself out of your comfort zone in your body, if you're not willing to push yourself out of your normal thoughts, your normal behaviors, and your normal patterns, if you're not able to grow in your habits, your work, your business is going to stay the same. Now, I could show you a few things to do differently, but by default, you're going to naturally go back to what's comfortable, because that is what you've been accustomed to. Think about it this way. Most people become business owners because they don't want anybody else telling them what to do or how to do it. And that problem, that's a big problem when it comes to getting help. That's a big problem when it comes to you wanting to change your business because you've been accustomed to being so comfortable in the place you're in that it's too uncomfortable to change. And, you know, we can show people on social media that all these things are happening, but at the end of the day, if the bottom line's not changing, then whatever you're doing above that, it just isn't working. So when I work with people, I immediately look at, hey, tell me about your physical health. Tell me what's going on when you get up every morning. Tell me what you're doing for you. Because that indicates to me the things that we need to start working on right away that are going to make the biggest changes. And think about it this way. The easiest thing for us to change is our body, is our physical health, our habits. Those are way easier to change than business. Yes, of course, business is easy to change, but business is the easiest thing to change when we're in the right Mindset, we have the right energy, and the prep work has been done prior to stepping into business. And that is the true power of how, you know, these things work. And being a trainer for over 20 years in the fitness industry, you could watch people get into shape. All of a sudden, they start showing up in their business better, they start being a better leader, they start selling more, they start becoming more confident. All those things by default, start shifting, start changing, start happening. And all we did was just change the habits of their health. And so as their own health was upgraded, their business got upgraded, you know, and. And this is the reality of where we live today is we have to understand that if we ph don't change, then our business is not going to change that much. It can, but it's not going to change that much. Now, some of you may say, well, what about, you know, a fat business owner or overweight business owner that's making great money? You know, I will say this, that. I mean, that happens, right? And that's not everybody. But I will tell you that the majority of people that I work with, you know, if they're overweight, if they're, you know, not working out, even if they're not, you know, overweight and they're just not working out, their. Their business is suffering because of a health problem, not because of a business problem. And the more I look at it, the more I start seeing that, hey, your problem starts the minute you get up every day, and it ends the minute you go to bed every day. What you do at work, you're probably going to do the same stuff regardless. But what you do after work and before work have just as much of an impact on your business, if not more, than what you do during work, okay? Because I know if I can control those things before and after work, when I show up to work, I am a better version of me. I have better habits, I have a better mindset, I have a better outlook on life. And in order for me to make the moves that I need to make in my business, in order for clients to make moves in their business, they got to show up as the best version of themselves. In order to do that, we got to work on our own energy, we got to work on our own habits, we got to work on our own discipline so that we can carry that over into our business. And here's the thing is, is we got to work on being the person that people look up to, the people that want to follow. So if your employees are like, hey, I don't want to I don't want to be in shape like him. I don't want to have habits like him. Either they're the wrong employees or you're just not leading. You want to be the person that inspires other people to get into shape, inspires other people to transform. If you're not that person, you got to make some changes because your team is disconnected from your health and your purpose, and you got to begin to put that out there. So maybe you guys are watching or listening to this and thinking, man, I got a business problem. I'm not producing enough revenue. I'm not producing enough new clients. Well, guess what? That starts the minute you get out of bed. It doesn't start the minute you get to work. And that's the disconnect in how important it is with the routine. I watch people who are overweight. I watch people who are not taking care of themselves show up in my program and do something for a period of time, work out, you know, get. Get their steps in, drink their water, all these things. And then a couple months goes by and they decide they don't need to do those things anymore. And then they wonder why they start regressing and not progressing and it becomes that they just don't keep up with doing it. So in order for you guys to improve your business, you got to improve your health. In order for you to improve your business, you got to improve your discip. In order for you to improve your business, you got to improve your habits. Those things all translate to your physical health. And if you're not physically working on yourself, not actively seeking ways that you can improve, not challenging yourself, then you will be stuck just the same way as you were in business. You can go through the emotions and do those things, and that may be fine for a period of time, but that's not going to get you the results you're really looking for. So you guys want to find out more about how you can upgrade your habits, how you can level up inside of your life, inside of your business? You can simply check the show notes. You can go into our Facebook group habit based lifestyle and business Secrets where we talk about these things and ways that you can upgrade and improve your habits. If you want to personally reach out to me, you can check the link below. You can reach out to me on Instagram or Facebook. Hey, we do love reviews. So if you guys want to leave us a review, that would be amazing. But until next episode, have a great day.
The purpose of this show the purpose of this show is to guide you to realign with habits that get you to live the life, live the life you've always dreamed of. This this is the habit based lifestyle podcast with Jesse.
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