Experience gives you options. It doesn’t give you obligations.

One of the things I talk about with studio owners is how easy it is to keep doing things simply because you can.

You can add more classes. You can run teacher training. You can take on more teachers, more equipment, more space, more responsibility. And sometimes those things are exactly the right next step.

But sometimes they’re not.

Running my own studio taught me that being capable of growing something doesn’t necessarily mean growing it is the best decision. Experience gives you more choices, but it also gives you a better understanding of what those choices actually cost in time, energy and attention.

Good studio decisions aren’t always about doing more. Sometimes they’re about getting much clearer about what you want your studio to be, what you want your own role within it to look like, and what is actually worth saying yes to.

That’s a big part of how I approach studio consultancy. Not telling you what your studio should look like, but helping you make better decisions about the one you actually want to run.