{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Can We Not? Business Is Hard Enough. ","title":"Can We Not Pretend Perfectionism Is Helping? | Goal Setting and Knowing Your Limits with Andrea Lowe","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2472,"description":"You're setting goals you're scared to miss and grinding through tasks you're bad at because asking for help still feels like failure. Sound familiar?\n\nHost Samantha C. Prestidge chats with Dr. Andrea Lowe, nonprofit consultant and founder of Social Impact Studio Consulting, who helps organizations expand their impact through strategic planning, program development, and community-centered leadership.\n\nAndrea went from 15 years in government and public health to running her own consulting firm — and hit the exact wall that most solo founders hit: trying to do everything herself, including the stuff she was genuinely terrible at. What changed wasn't a system. It was admitting she needed one.\n\nIn this episode:\n\nWhy the A+ student mindset actively works against you when you're running a business\nThe difference between a strategic plan and an implementation plan — and why having one without the other is why nothing gets done\nHow to set goals that are ambitious without becoming the standard you quietly beat yourself up for missing\nWhat collaboration over competition actually looks like in a saturated consulting market\nThe moment Andrea realized doing it all herself wasn't discipline — it was a problem","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rhd2zuzMWrENyZ5LbkvM0U8MVwpELZqhGaR6Ut9TI00/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wYmU1/ZDYxYzVhYjc4YWMw/NTE1MTg1Mzg0MTEx/MDk4Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}