The Business of Taking Care: Self-Care for Sales Leaders
- Nov 16
- 4 min read
How prioritizing self-care as a sales leader, reshaped my mindset, healed my body, and transformed how I lead — proving that the best sales strategy starts with balance.
Welcome to the new me
In sales and leadership, we spend years building our reputations, our pipelines, and our businesses — but rarely do we stop to rebuild ourselves.
This year, I had to embark on a self-care for sales leaders journey.
Starting in May, I began a personal transformation that challenged everything I thought I knew about resilience. It wasn’t about productivity or sales targets — it was about health, healing, and redefining what it means to lead from a place of wholeness.
For the first time in my life, I made me the project.
After years of balancing client demands, travel, events, and the constant push of performance, my body finally told me what my calendar wouldn’t: “Stop.”
Doctor visits in the winter led to more testing, and a major turning point — surgery and the realization that my body could no longer carry the stress it once could. The physical reset was unavoidable, but the emotional shift that followed has been even more profound.
I started preparing for surgery from the inside out — focusing on gut health, hormones, regardless of being physically and energetically depleted.
Gut health tests showed I was going to need a drastic reboot with probiotic, prebiotic, new enzymes and a focus on releasing inflammation from my mind and body.
But, I am here to tell you this journey has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done — because it’s forced me to slow down and redefine success on my own terms.
After surgery, my focus shifted to recovery and rehabilitation. I began intermittent fasting to help begin the difficult challenge of "dieting" while pushing my metabolism into gear.
I began working with a physical therapist in September to strengthen my core and restore balance in my body — something I had ignored for far too long.
Intermittent fasting has taught me discipline and end of September I purchased a Lumen device to develop a daily accountability partner to show me how my metabolism is shifting— It’s helping me see food as fuel, not as reward or restriction.
This isn’t about perfection — it’s about awareness. And I needed to get into that awareness! Every day, I'm learning a little more about how to support my new body, this next version of me that feels stronger and more aligned.
Change Is Good — Personally and Professionally
This journey hasn’t just changed my health — it’s shifted my career perspective too.
After two fulfilling years representing Grassi Pietre SRL, we have decided to take a break. I'm in process to finding my next supplemental income brand who needs me as much as I need them. I'm so grateful for this journey & new opportunity coming soon.
Rep Methods remains my home base, and I’m now opening a few additional coaching slots for professionals ready to refine their approach, rebuild their confidence, and sell with intention.
Change used to scare me. Now, I see it as proof that growth is working.
Every season teaches something new, and this one has reminded me that letting go isn’t the same as losing. Sometimes, it’s how we make room for better alignment.
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What Self-Care Really Means to Me Now
Self-care used to be something I tried to squeeze in between flights or calls. Enough with the posts about how we have to get to yoga and meditate. YES, we do need those things, but now I've got a foundation to build everything else around.
It looks like rest without guilt. It looks like strength training and stretching to repair my body. It looks like saying “no” to anything that doesn’t align with my health or peace.
I’ve learned that true leadership — whether in business, relationships, or self — starts with listening. And I’m listening now more than ever.
If You’re in a Season of Rebuilding
Maybe your version of this isn’t surgery or a career shift. Maybe it’s burnout, transition, or simply realizing that what once fit your life doesn’t anymore.
Whatever your rebuild looks like, don’t resist it. Renewal is part of the process.
You can’t build a better business — or a better life — from burnout. You have to start with you.
I’m not the same person I was six months ago. I’m stronger, more grounded, and far more intentional.
Self-care isn’t slowing me down — it’s setting me up to last longer, lead better, and live fuller.
The business of taking care is the business of becoming.
If you’re ready to refine your mindset, rebuild your habits, or realign your business with who you are now, I’d love to work with you.
If you’re in a season of rebuilding — personally or professionally — I’d love to help you find your rhythm again. Through Rep Methods, I work one-on-one with professionals ready to realign their mindset, rebuild their systems, and move forward with confidence.
💻 Visit www.RepMethods.com to learn more about my coaching approach, read past blog features, or schedule your next clarity session.
Your comeback starts with clarity — and that’s what we build together.
XOXO,
Alison Mullins
C: 804.238.3461
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