Julia Katsivo Carter

06/19/2026

We are almost halfway through the year. I want to ask you something honestly: are you further ahead than you were in January, or does it feel like you are running hard and arriving in roughly the same place? That is a question worth sitting with. Not to be hard on yourself — the effort is real. But effort and progress are not always the same thing. What would have needed to be different in the first half of this year for you to feel genuinely satisfied right now?

06/04/2026

We are almost halfway through the year. I want to ask you something honestly: are you further ahead than you were in January, or does it feel like you are running hard and arriving in roughly the same place?

That is a question worth sitting with. Not to be hard on yourself — the effort is real.

But effort and progress are not always the same thing.

What would have needed to be different in the first half of this year for you to feel genuinely satisfied right now?

05/26/2026

There is a pattern I kept noticing at the CRA. The accounts that required the most follow-up — the ones with the most back-and-forth — were almost always tied to records that were reactive instead of intentional. Things tracked after the fact, if at all. The Reverse Calendar is a free template I built to help with exactly that kind of drift. Not where your time should go. Not where you planned it to go. Where it actually went. One week of honest tracking tends to show you more than a year of planning ever could. It is fillable in your browser, print-ready if you prefer paper, and it comes with reflection prompts that help you see patterns, not just hours. No sequences, no follow-up. Just the template. Link in bio.

05/23/2026

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05/23/2026

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05/20/2026

Honest question for this room:

When you hit a revenue goal you'd set for yourself — did it feel the way you thought it would?

I ask because I hear some version of "not quite" more often than you'd expect. And usually there's something worth knowing underneath that answer.

05/19/2026

Something worth saying for anyone who needs to hear it this week:

Running a business while managing a home, a family, a team, and a list that never reaches zero... you can redesign this system.

The exhaustion is a sign you're doing it all with a structure that was never built to hold all of it. Exhaustion is feedback and it's information you can use to design what a different experience looks like for you.

What's one thing you keep meaning to hand off that you haven't managed to yet?

05/16/2026

Permission granted.

Whatever you had planned for this long weekend — the emails can wait, the proposals can wait, the strategic thinking can wait. You built something that is supposed to give you a life. This is what that looks like. Go be in it. What are you doing this long weekend? (Actual answers only — not "catching up on work.")

05/16/2026

Here is something I notice with a lot of small business owners heading into a long weekend: they do not actually stop. They bring the laptop. They check their email in the parking lot of the cottage. They feel guilty if they are not doing something. That guilt is worth examining. If your business cannot run for 72 hours without you, that is not a time management problem — it is a systems problem. What would it take for you to truly unplug this Victoria Day weekend?

05/12/2026

In today's session with MAWB - Mississauga & Area Women in Business I covered an important topic to entrepreneurs (one that doesn't get addressed often):

“Am I on track?”

Business tracking doesn’t need to be complicated or overwhelming. Instead of focusing on complex accounting systems, I encourage entrepreneurs to focus on a few key numbers that provide clarity and confidence in decision-making.

A few key takeaways from the session:

• Revenue tracking should focus on cash collected, not just invoices sent
• The “gap” between your goal and your current revenue is not bad news — it’s valuable information
• Tracking expenses is essential because revenue alone doesn’t tell the full story
• A simple Google Sheet can often be more effective than overly complex systems or CRMs
• Your pipeline matters — many missed opportunities happen simply because follow-ups fall through the cracks
• Consistent tracking helps reduce anxiety and allows you to make business decisions from clarity instead of stress

I also shared my free “Money Map” Google Sheet resource, designed to help business owners track revenue, expenses, and connections all in one place.

If you're a woman in business and you haven't gone to a physical or online MAWB event, I highly recommend you check them out on their website and highly interactive Facebook group. I've been loving this group since 2018.

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