#57 Protecting your mental health when running a business

Welcome to episode 57 of Shoot Edit Chat Repeat, the podcast for people photographers & creative entrepreneurs. Hosted by two leading UK portrait photographers, Vicki Knights & Eddie Judd.   Today is Mental Health Awareness Day, so we have a special episode for you. We invited our lovely friend and business coach, Emily Hodge for a chat about how we can protect our mental health when running a business.   A 2018 study showed that 58% of entrepreneurs have suffered with their mental health, and 55% said that running a business negatively affects their mental health.   We wanted to dive into this a bit further and talk through the factors that the entrepreneurs stated that negatively affect their mental health. Things such as workload, isolation, lack of support, positivity pressure, money & failure. We discuss our experiences, and give suggestions and tips to help.  You can see Emily Hodge's website here. ​​ Mental Health charities mentioned: MIND  Heads Together Calm The Samaritans  ​​   Thank you to The Design Space for sponsoring this episode. Click here for lots of free information about how to be the boss of your own website and for 20% off all their products. Thank you to Shootproof online galleries for sponsoring Repeat Recs for this series. Get 25% off your first 12 months subscription by using the code SHOOTEDITCHATREPEAT.    Our Repeat Recs for this week: Vicki - Daylio app, Happy Place podcast Yoga You Tubers - Yoga with Adriene, Cat Meffan, Boho Beautiful, Fiji McAlpine Eddie - Positive Planner book, Cycle tracking app Clue, podcast Hormonal We'd love to know what you think of this episode. Please leave us a review if you've enjoyed it, it helps other people to find the podcast. Email:  [email protected] Instagram Facebook Vicki Knights' workshops and mentoring for lifestyle photographers ​​Eddie Judd's Lightroom presets & workshops