Welcome to another episode of Heart & Hustle! Follow us for more and let us know where you found us!!Tati: • IG - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tationathomas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• TikTok - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tati_thomas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Travis:• IG - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@timefortravis⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• TikTok - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thejuicebeloose⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LINK⁠⁠🔑 Key Takeaways For Listeners✅ Leaving a successful brick-and-mortar does not magically create ease. It creates a brand new set of problems that require just as much intentional leadership.✅ Opposite wiring is not a relationship flaw. It is a logistics puzzle. Morning and night routines have to be designed around each person’s natural rhythm, not forced into one template.✅ You can have more free time and still have zero true alone time. Those are different problems and they need different solutions.✅ When you walk away from a business, you also walk away from built-in community. You have to intentionally rebuild social circles, proximity, and mastermind-style relationships.✅ Volunteering and “side roles” like coaching can quietly eat up your emotional and creative capacity, even when you love them. That load needs to be acknowledged, not minimized.✅ Seasons matter. After years of grinding 60+ hours a week, there has to be space for rest, recalibration, and family-first living without shame.✅ If you do not learn how to have fun in the process, your success will feel hollow when you finally get there. Fun is not a reward at the end. It is a discipline inside the journey.In this episode of the Heart & Hustle Podcast, “We Left Our Shop… Here’s What No One Tells You After,” Tati and Travis get brutally honest about what life actually looked like once they stepped away from their brick-and-mortar card shop to be home as a family.On paper, it was the goal. More time with their daughter, no more 10-hour days at the shop, freedom to build brands they love and create their own schedule. In real life, it came with a lot of unexpected adjustments that no one really prepares you for.They break down:• What happens when a “sleep princess” marries a “once I’m up, I’m up” entrepreneur• The clash between night-owl creativity and a brain that needs to shut off by 10 p.m.• How it feels to go from built-in community at a busy store to “it’s just us and cheer”• The difference between having more free time vs actually having alone time• Why cheer coaching, parenting, and a high-energy puppy quietly drain way more emotional bandwidth than they expected• The internal guilt of taking time for yourself as a mom, dad, and married business owners• Travis’ 13 years of 60+ hour weeks and why he decided to “live life young” instead of waiting until retirement• Tati’s real-time confession that she needs to learn how to have fun again in this new seasonIf you are a married entrepreneur, a parent who wants to be more present at home, or someone who has ever dreamed of walking away from your job or business to design a life-first lifestyle, this conversation will hit home. Tati and Travis talk through morning routines, night routines, work life balance, identity, and what it takes to truly rewire how you operate once the old structure is gone.This is not a highlight reel episode. It is a behind-the-scenes look at the messy middle. The part where you got what you asked for, you are grateful for it, and you are still figuring out how to feel like your best self inside it.You will walk away with language for what you might be feeling in your own transition, permission to admit the hard parts out loud, and a reminder that these are not problems to “fix” overnight. They are new muscles to build as you become the person who can actually hold the life you say you want.If you love honest conversations about relationships, parenting, entrepreneurship, and personal growth, hit play, subscribe to the show, and share this episode with a friend who is in their own “life after” season.

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