Making Room for What’s Next, Pasta, & Paper Towels
You’ve got traction.
Clients are happy. Revenue’s steady. Your current thing is working.
And yet — something new is calling.
A second business. A creative pivot. A bigger opportunity.
But how do you make space for what’s next… without burning out or blowing up what’s already working?
This week, we’re talking about the quiet art of building the next thing, while honoring the current one — including the very real financial shifts that come with it.
📦 Start by clarifying what still deserves to stay
Not every “old” thing needs to be tossed. Some offers or structures are still aligned — they just need to be simplified, automated, or delegated.
→ What’s still profitable and energizing?
→ What could keep running without you at the center of it?
→ What’s no longer part of the bigger picture — even if it once was?
💸 Plan for the money to feel weird (before it feels good again)
Starting something new often means investing time and money — sometimes at the expense of what’s already generating revenue. So:
→ Can you temporarily trim your personal expenses or pause non-urgent investments?
→ Can you set aside a financial cushion to cover the dip in attention or income while you ramp up the new thing?
→ Can you partner with a co-founder, delegate to a trusted contractor, or stagger your timeline to avoid trying to do everything at once?
This part is rarely sexy. But it’s what creates true freedom on the other side.
📐 Shrink the current container — slightly
You don’t need to overhaul your calendar or your business model overnight. But you do need margin — space to think, explore, sketch, test.
→ Start with 1–2 hours a week blocked off for “next thing” energy.
→ Use that time to map, journal, research, talk it out — without pressure to monetize it yet.
🧠 Prepare for a temporary identity wobble
You might feel unqualified. Or ungrateful. Or scattered. That’s normal. Expanding your work often means expanding your sense of self — and that takes time.
→ Let it be messy. Let it be slow. Let it be exciting and disorienting.
You don’t have to blow up your business to evolve it.
You just have to stop waiting for the “perfect time” — and start giving the next version of you somewhere to land.
Inside the Weak Ties/Strong Bonds membership, we talk about this season constantly — the space between what’s working and what’s next, and how to build the next chapter without torching the one that got you here.
🪢 Laura & Lauren
Things We Loved This Week
Laura’s Things
🍾💐 Really want to make this for someone and have someone make it for me.
🍝 This cozy one-pan meal that fits in perfectly with my all-carb diet of the past few weeks.
❤️🩹 I can't really put into just a few words why I love this clip, but you should watch it.
Lauren’s Things
🥺 Minnesotans are the best of us, and this is the most beautiful, powerful account of their bravery that I've read so far.
⚖️ Part 2 of this podcast on the legal history of U.S. Civil Rights is just as good as part 1.
👰🏾 My mother once lied to me that my grandma was dying because she wanted to meet my bf. This story makes that look downright innocent.
🧙 I saw Gordon Proctor with the Devil!
🧻 No, really, why is it like that?
