Have you found yourself in a rut lately? Like a place where you just feel stuck. There are many reasons why business owners find themselves stuck in a rut, but not many know what to do next. The good news is you are not alone, we have all been there before. In this week's episode, we are breaking through that business rut and discussing ways to overcome the feeling of being stuck! I am diving deep into the strategies and tactics that you can use to break free from a this rut and get back on track toward success and growth. Follow along to find the common causes, tips to overcome feeling stuck, and how to maintain your momentum. Biggest Takeaways: 5:33 Common reason why business owners feel like their stuck in a rut 6:57 identifying the root cause of business rut 8:26 Strategies for breaking free from rut 10:21 Maintaining momentum Recommendations: A business rut can leave any business owner feeling stuck, depressed and on the verge of wanting to give up. Sometimes it takes a different perspective or a different voice of reason you can lean on to help you through these painful ruts. The Mastermind group is a community of like-mined business owners who have all been in the business rut before! This community learns on each other and grows together with monthly HR questions answered live, 1:1 coaching with Bella, and a plethora of support. This is a community unlike any other in the industry and knows the pains of being stuck. But they also know the success of getting out! Links: Better Marketing With Bella Bella Vasta Instagram Mastermind Group   Transcript This is episode 320 of Bella in Your Business. Hi there, I'm Bella Vasta from Jump Consulting. You might know me from CBS, NBC, Fox, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, or maybe you've seen me speak on stage or read my book, The Four Dogs That Every Business Owner Needs. In any case, get ready because you're about to get your hashtag Bella Butt Kickin' in this next episode of Bella in Your Business. So what do you say? Let's get ready and jump. Welcome everybody to episode 320 of Bella in Your Business. It is December 15th. We are almost at Christmas, the end of 2022. I'm not going to say where the year go. The year was 12 months long, just like it always is. And it's been a really awesome year. I don't know about you, but I wanted to say thank you. Thank you for listening. And our podcast keeps growing and growing and growing. I just want to make sure that you have hit that subscribe button. Make sure that wherever you're listening to this podcast, whatever podcast player, that you hit that subscribe button. That would help us tremendously and would be a really great and easy way for you to say thank you if you are listening and find value in this. We are also going to be taking a break from the show for the next two weeks. We do this every single year. It’s a chance to kind of take one thing off the plate for our entire amazing team. Chris has been with me for, my gosh, like years. I don't even know how many years. Always doing podcast production, which basically means anytime I cough, sneeze, or my child comes bursting in here and I have to stop the podcast, he takes care of that. He also makes sure that the sound levels are good and adds the intro and outro onto it. So Chris is amazing. And then we get Jillian on the show notes, making sure that that all also happens. So anytime you read, “what’s this podcast about?” that is definitely Jillian. So we’re going to give them a nice little break for two weeks—they don’t have to do this anymore. But guys, today we’re going to talk about feeling in a rut. Have you ever felt that way with your business? Feeling stuck? I really want to talk to you about that today because I think there’s a lot of pressure that’s put on knowing what you’re going to be doing in 2023. And this is when we should be planning. I’ll tell you the truth—in 2021,