Not Just Candle Talk: Burn the Rules. Build Your Legacy
This isn’t your average business podcast.
Not Just Candle Talk is the unapologetic, unfiltered audio home for ambitious entrepreneurs, creatives, and side-hustlers ready to do business on their own terms — no fluff, no fake motivation.
Founded on real experience and raw truth, this podcast dives into the real-life challenges behind the candle business and beyond. Whether you’re just starting out or scaling your empire, every episode is packed with lessons, strategies, and mindset shifts to help you build a business and a life you don’t need to escape from.
Hey, I’m Toni, and I know what it’s like to start from scratch.
When I launched my candle business, I had big dreams but limited resources — no investors, no fancy marketing team, just grit, Google, and a lot of trial and error. I built my brand from the ground up, burned out more times than I can count, and learned to pivot, scale, and get smart about what really makes money in this game.
Not Just Candle Talk was born out of my journey — the highs, the hustle, the hard lessons — and the deep desire to have conversations no one else is having in entrepreneurship. The stuff beyond the surface. The why behind the work.
This Podcast Is For You If…
- You’re tired of overnight success stories with no receipts.
- You want to make real money while staying true to yourself.
- You believe business can be both profitable and purposeful.
- You’re building your brand while managing your real life.
Not Just Candle Talk: Burn the Rules. Build Your Legacy
Protecting Your Peace: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Sustainable Success
Ever notice how entrepreneurs put peace on layaway? "Once I hit six figures, I'll rest. Once I scale, I'll breathe." But what if peace isn't a milestone—what if it's a muscle that needs daily attention?
Welcome to Part Two of Finding Peace, where we dive deeper into the boundaries, habits, and healing every entrepreneur needs to sustain success. After experiencing burnout firsthand and having to scale back my own schedule, I've learned a truth worth sharing: if success costs you your peace, it's simply too expensive.
This episode explores three essential habits for protecting your peace: scheduling non-negotiable silence, saying no to buy back time, and redefining productivity to include rest and play. We challenge the uncomfortable feeling many entrepreneurs experience during calm periods—that traumatic response masquerading as truth that whispers "you're not doing enough." Instead, we embrace stillness as a powerful skill where clarity lives and breakthroughs happen.
Your nervous system deserves stability, not survival mode. Your ambition deserves space to breathe. As you build something meaningful, don't push peace to the bottom of your to-do list. What's the point of creating something beautiful if you're too burnt out to enjoy it? This week, choose peace on purpose—journal it, protect it, speak it into existence with the same intention you bring to your business goals.
If burnout, anxiety, or isolation has become part of your entrepreneurial journey, let this episode be your reminder to prioritize wellbeing alongside success. Share it with another entrepreneur who needs to hear this message, and join me in creating businesses that sustain rather than drain us.
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Hello world, welcome back to Not Just Candle Talk. I'm your host, Toni, and this is part two of Finding Peace. In this episode, we move beyond the hustle and explore the boundaries, habits and healing every entrepreneur needs to sustain success. If burnout, anxiety or isolation has become a part of your journey, this episode is your reminder. Peace isn't the destination, it's the daily decision. Let's talk about protecting your energy, redefining what winning really looks like and the silent power of stillness in your business journey. If you haven't listened to part one, please go back and start there. But if you're ready to go deeper into what peace really means in business and how to keep it, you're in the right place, so let's jump into it.
Speaker 1:Entrepreneurs often put peace on layaway. Once I hit six figures, I'll rest. Once I scale, I'll breathe. But peace isn't a milestone, it's a muscle. True success is being able to feel calm and chaos, not just in stillness.
Speaker 1:Ok, I I'll share my story. I said it before in episodes in the past that I recently scaled back my schedule for a work life balance, so to speak, and it was a must, and I feel so much better that I did it Mentally. Physically, I had to scale back hours onto my weekly schedule. Okay. So that's my short story and that's why I'm constantly doing episodes like this, because it's a real thing and burnout is a real thing and I actually just went through it myself. I just want to put in a real quote real quick If success costs you your peace, it's too expensive, ok. So, like I said, I just wanted to touch on this, um, this episode, do a part two on it, because it's a real thing. I went through it myself and, uh, you know you have to pace yourself in these, uh, in these times, when there's so much coming at you.
Speaker 1:All right, so here are three habits to protecting peace. Schedule number one schedule non-negotiable silence. So that's every Every week. No screen, no goals, just be in the present, okay. Number two say no to buy back time, because not every opportunity deserves your energy, even if it pays. And number three rebuild your definition of productivity. Some of the most productive moments will look like rest, reflection, or play or and play. That's not slacking, that's sustainability.
Speaker 1:Okay, here's a challenge for you entrepreneurs and side hustlers out there what do your boundaries look like? If peace isn't scheduled, chaos will take its place. So this week, just you know, write down or reflect. What does your boundaries look like when it comes to scheduling peace?
Speaker 1:Many entrepreneurs are uncomfortable when things are calm. It feels like they're not doing enough, but this is a traumatic response. It's not truth. So you have to ask yourself are you addicted to stress? Do you equate noise with progress? Share a mindset shift?
Speaker 1:Okay, stillness is a skill and it's powerful, unbelievably powerful. Okay, it's part of alignment, if you will. Peace doesn't mean you're lazy or unmotivated. It means you trust the foundation you've built. Okay, your nervous system deserves stability, not survival mode. Peace is where clarity lives, and clarity is where breakthrough breakthroughs come from.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have another quote for you. Peace isn't the opposite of ambition. It's what allows your ambition to breathe. If you're right now, if you're in the middle of building something big, I know the temptation to push peace to the bottom of your to do list, but don't, don't do it. It's not worth it, because what's the point of building something beautiful if you're too burnt out to enjoy it?
Speaker 1:Okay, um, this week I want you to choose peace on purpose. Journal it, protect it, speak it out loud. We talk about manifesting things. Manifest your peace. Okay, try that. I just want, like I said again, I always I'm going to keep saying it.
Speaker 1:I want to do a, I wanted to do a part two of this uh, protecting your peace, or finding peace, because, uh, I think it's important, you know, I think it's. I think it's one of the things that you have to put on your to-do list. With all the other many things that you're doing throughout the week. You have to put some time aside for yourself, for your well-being, for your mental and physical well-being. So, you know, I might do a part three of this.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I, you know, if I feel like people are they're gravitating towards this type of information. I might do a part three If you guys do me a favor and you could send me a text on on my website and let me know what you think about purpose alignment piece and these type of episodes and the information that's coming out of them. So, uh, at at this point, um, I hope this episode helps you. Share it with another entrepreneur or a content creator, artist who needs the reminder. Share it with them. Let's talk about it. Ok, but until next time, protect your peace and your purpose, and thank you so much again for listening. I'll talk to you soon. Bye.