For a $10,000, 0% interest, business loan to help me scale! Here’s what chatty said about it when I dropped this screenshot with no prompt at all. Congrats, Sybil. This is a pretty meaningful milestone. A $10,000 Kiva loan at 0% interest is not just “free money.” It is leverage. The important question now is whether the leverage is being used for expansion with a clear return path or just to relieve pressure temporarily. From everything you’ve been building, you already seem to have a direction: • inventory for products already showing traction • Amazon optimization and ads • growth of Income Without Burnout and your VIP ecosystem • physical + digital product expansion• systems that compound instead of one-off launches That matters because debt used to accelerate validated systems is very different from debt used to chase hope. One thing I would challenge you to think through carefully before accepting: Can you clearly map how this $10k turns into either: 1. more recurring revenue, 2. higher margin, 3. faster inventory movement, 4. stronger brand reach,or 5. reusable assets that compound over time? If not, slow down before spending quickly just because the money is available. You already mentioned one very smart shift recently:sending part of inventory to cheaper storage instead of overloading FBA. That’s operational thinking, not emotional spending. Keep that energy. You are also in an interesting position because you are not starting from zero anymore. You have: • existing MRR • product sales • audience trust • community momentum • proof of execution That changes the risk profile significantly. This is less “Can I make money?” and more: “How intentionally can I allocate capital to multiply momentum without multiplying stress?” Big difference. And honestly, many entrepreneurs never reach the point where lenders trust them repeatedly. The fact that Kiva approved you again says something about your track record and repayment behavior.

Where did you find me? Where did you find this community?

I just finished reviewing my last 12 week cycle, and the clearest lesson for me is this: Growth came from executing my tactics consistently over 12 weeks and revising as I went. FYI, my reflection is not done yet either (Amazon statements still to come!) At the beginning of the 12-week cycle, my recurring revenue goal for Skool + affiliates was: $1,200/month My goal was: Reach $1200/month recurring revenue from Skool and Skool affiliates by the end of the 12-week cycle. Average during the cycle: About $1,800/month April alone:$2,532 Total Skool-related revenue during the cycle: About $5,958 Breakdown: • Income Without Burnout: ~$3,193 • Affiliate income: ~$2,377 • Claude Coworker Lab: ~$388 What made the difference was continuing to execute even while adjusting the plan in real time. Some tactics worked really well. Some did not. Some needed tweaking halfway through. But instead of constantly starting over or chasing new ideas, I kept refining the same overall direction week by week. Things that helped most: • weekly co working calls → led to VIPs • consistent posting → led to community • collaborations → led to introductions • weekly reflection → led to better next steps • tracking execution → led to more productive weeks • improving systems → led to efficiency • revising tactics instead of abandoning goals → led to finishing strong My average execution score was about 82.5% across the cycle, excluding one major outlier week. That number matters to me because it reflects follow-through, not just idea creation. I’m really proud of this execution score and know this is a huge reason I blew goal #1 out of the water. Goal #2 ended up being a stretch goal, but I’m continuing to give Amazon a real shot through the rest of this year. More on this soon (earlu June statements come out). While Skool profit margins are incredible, I honestly do not think I would have a successful Skool community if I was not actively building and selling outside of Skool too.

I want this to become an ongoing thread inside Income Without Burnout. Post here anytime you are intentionally stepping back from business to prioritize your real life, health, family, rest, hobbies, travel, fun, or simply slowing down for a bit. Tell us: ☀️ What you’re doing ☀️ How long you’re slowing down for ☀️ What’s bringing you joy lately ☀️ What you’re learning about balance, rest, or life outside of work I think we need to normalize this more publicly as entrepreneurs. Not every successful person is working nonstop. Not every productive season looks intense. And honestly, many of us built our businesses because we wanted more life… not less. This community is about building income without burnout. That means making space for: ☀️ vacations ☀️ lazy weekends ☀️ walks ☀️ hobbies ☀️ family dinners ☀️ mental health days ☀️ time in nature ☀️ naps ☀️ celebrations ☀️ doing absolutely nothing sometimes So whenever you take a break, come post here and let us celebrate that with you too. ❤️

As I sit here with my coffee in my robe, I ask myself…what is work and what is not? I just responded to a member comment asking when the Deck Analyses from the summit submissions will go live. My answer was simple: my son graduated from high school on Friday and I’m taking the weekend off for family. And yet…here I am posting on Skool. 😂 Is that work? Not for me. One of my favorite daily actions is talking with you all. The social, community building posts are my bread and butter. I genuinely thrive on the relationships and interaction here. In many ways, I mirror real life here, just in a business setting with all of you. There are parts of entrepreneurship that drain me and parts that energize me. That distinction matters more than “hours worked” honestly. For me, this part feels like connection, creativity, and contribution. It fills me up instead of emptying me out. I think that’s part of building income without burnout too. Designing a business where at least some of the “work” feels like life giving play. So now I’m curious… What part of your work does not really feel like work to you?