Debra Chantry-Taylor: Use Your Holidays to Set Yourself Up for Success

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EOS for a Better Business, Better Life

EOS Implementers Debra Chantry-Taylor, Adam Harris, business owners and experts!

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EOS, The Entrepreneurial Operating System, can truly change your life by helping you live a better life by creating a better business. Are you doing what you love, with people you love, making a huge difference, being compensated appropriately, with time to pursue other passions? As a Certified EOS Implementer, my passion is helping Entrepreneurs & their leadership teams lead a better life through Traction. Join me on the podcast as I chat to those who have done this or experts who can help you... Learn from those who have built a life they truly love, through creating a better business.

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Debra Chantry-Taylor: Use Your Holidays to Set Yourself Up for Success

EOS for a Better Business, Better Life

12 minutes 18 seconds

1 week ago

Debra Chantry-Taylor: Use Your Holidays to Set Yourself Up for Success

In this holiday episode of Better Business, Better Life, Debra Chantry-Taylor tackles a familiar but rarely confronted reality for entrepreneurs: most don’t truly rest over the Christmas break, they simply pause while staying mentally tethered to work.

Debra unpacks the subtle behaviours that sabotage real downtime, from “just checking emails” to quietly solving work problems in your head and explains why these habits prevent genuine recovery. She shares why true rest isn’t indulgent or irresponsible, but essential for clear thinking, strong leadership, and sustainable businesses.

Through her signature lens of fierce clarity and loving truth, Debra outlines five practical steps for a healthy Christmas break, choosing presence, resting without guilt, reflecting lightly, reconnecting with who you are beyond the business, and letting go of martyr behaviour. She also explores why family businesses often struggle at Christmas, and how blurred boundaries can quietly undermine both rest and relationships.

The episode closes with Debra sharing her own plans for switching off properly, offering a grounded reminder that a business strong enough to survive your absence is a sign of leadership done well.

So if you’re heading into the festive season exhausted, distracted, or secretly planning to “just check in,” this episode is your permission slip, and your plan, to truly rest.

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Episode 252 Chapters:  

00:00 – Introduction

00:38 – Christmas Break Realities for Entrepreneurs

02:32 – The Truth About Entrepreneurs’ Christmas Breaks

04:23 – The Importance of Rest for Entrepreneurs

05:20 – Family Businesses and Christmas

08:50 – Preparing Your Business for a Proper Break

11:26 – Debra’s Personal Christmas Plans