Hey Reader!

Tzvi and I are four weeks into a five-week house swap — we're in a home in northern Israel, while the lovely family who lives here is holding down the fort at our place in New York.

Let me just tell you: SO many things have gone wrong.

• Their car (we swapped cars too) has been in and out of the shop most of the trip.
• I left the hose running in their pool and got a panicked text about the excess water alert their water company sent them.
• Tzvi's allergies went nuclear in week one, when we found out the hard way that their "outdoor" cats are not especially outdoor. (He's since loaded up on meds and is fine now).
• The power in our NY kitchen died, leaving this poor family with no way to cook for days.
• I've been eaten alive by bugs, and one bite got so inflamed Tzvi nearly drove me to urgent care before some doctor friends here talked us down.

(Whew 😳 That's not even all of it.)

AND it's been a wonderful trip. I'm already sad about going home. Both can be true, and I'm sure you're thinking, "Well yeah, Rachel, that's obvious." You'd never write back and tell me the trip was a failure because of a water bill.

So why don't we extend ourselves the same courtesy in business? A launch misses the number we had in mind and instantly becomes "a failure." A month of content underperforms and it was "a waste."

That's what this week's episode of Bold Women in Business is all about. I get into the year I couldn't do martial arts, the coaching program I spent way more on than I could afford but don't regret for a second, and why acceptance is not the white flag you think it is.

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Episode 80: Making Difficult... Jul 26 · Bold Women In Business P... 28:54   ​

Boldly yours, Rachel Honeyman CEO @ HoneyBeBold