From Burnout to Boundaries:Rebuilding Life and Business After Trauma

In this powerful and heart-opening episode of Growing Tall Poppies: Thrive After Trauma, Dr Nat Green sits down with Marta Sauret Greca — entrepreneur, mother of seven, and founder of Whole Truth Communication — to talk about what it really means to rise again after life and business collapse.

Marta shares her remarkable journey from running a high-end marketing agency to losing everything, walking through grief, burnout, and heartbreak — and discovering the beauty of boundaries, faith, and freedom on the other side.

Through honesty, humour, and divine trust, Marta reveals how setting boundaries saved her business, why saying no became her superpower, and how she helps women find “hidden money” and create authentic, soul-aligned success through content that converts.

Whether you’re a coach, practitioner, or purpose-driven business owner navigating your own transformation, this episode will inspire you to believe that everything is figureoutable, and that your “course corrections” are not detours — they’re part of your divine path.

🌱 In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

• How Marta turned business collapse and personal loss into spiritual and financial growth
• The link between boundaries, self-worth, and post-traumatic growth
• What it takes to balance entrepreneurship with motherhood (of seven!)
• Why releasing anger and guilt is essential for healing
• How to reframe “failure” as a divine redirection
• The truth about “not having time” — and how to create it instead
• How faith, mindset, and discernment shape lasting success

💖 Connect with Marta Sauret Greca

• Instagram: @martasauretgreca
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• LinkedIn: Marta Sauret Greca

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Transcript

Dr Nat Green: 0:01

Welcome to the Growing Tall Poppies Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Nat Green, and I'm so excited to have you join me as we discuss what it means to navigate your way through post-traumatic growth and not just survive, but to thrive after trauma. Through our podcast, we will explore ways for you to create a life filled with greater purpose, self-awareness, and a deep inner peace. Through integrating the many years of knowledge and professional experience, as well as the wisdom of those who have experienced trauma firsthand. We'll combine psychology accelerated approaches. Coaching and personal experience to assist you, to learn, to grow and to thrive. I hope to empower you to create deeper awareness and understanding and stronger connections with yourself and with others, whilst also paving the way for those who have experienced trauma and adversity to reduce their suffering and become the very best versions of themselves. In order to thrive. Thank you so much for joining me on today's episode. Hi, and welcome back to Growing Tall Poppies. I'm Dr. Nat Green, and I'm really excited and grateful today to bring you our next guest on the podcast. It's my pleasure to welcome a wonderful lady who's agreed to come and chat with us about both her personal and her professional experience and share her wisdom with us. So I'd love. For you to meet this beautiful lady, Marta Sauret Greca, and I'd love for you to give us a brief introduction of who you are and what you do in the world. Marta.

Marta Sauret Greca: 2:03

Sure. So first and foremost, I, get to mother, my seven children. My oldest is 18, my youngest is one. And, I had a marketing agency for almost, for over 13 years, and it actually started to look like it was. Failing in terms of the circumstantial human realm. Let we'll say it. Mm-hmm. We'll say it that way. And the model that I had built no longer was thriving and I had to let a lot go. And in that process I experienced some other things that we'll talk about. During this episode. I started to dig into that and I started a financial rep business through which I help American families grow wealth. But. In terms of the international standpoint, I now have rebuilt, uh, as a content creation business as opposed to the big marketing agency, high end, high ticket, high end, and high commitment. Now people are wanting more of like, I just can I, take a bite of that? And we do specialize mostly in Facebook and Instagram content, and we just have so much fun doing that for women who are changing the world. Really, uh, coaches and health professionals, and it's called Whole Truth Communication. So we're just disrupting lies of the world with the divine truth.

Dr Nat Green: 3:29

Oh, I love that so much, so much gold in there. And firstly, let me say, I. What a range of ages of children from 18 to one. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my goodness.

Marta Sauret Greca: 3:42

Yeah. How do you manage that? It's really a lot of time blocking, to be honest with you. And in terms of of spiritually, it's just trusting in the in, in God that everything will work out as it's been to, in its own divine timing, as exactly as it should. Everything is working for me. Whether I see it or don't see it, I understand it, I don't understand it, but from a practical standpoint, it is a lot of time blocking. As I shared with you, Thursdays for example, are. My nonstop days from the morning to night. Mm-hmm. Um, I have a another day that, it's a half day of working and those are the only days that I will do meetings. And then all the other days I basically, I choose to, uh, just get some work done during nap time or before the kids wake up. So I have the freedom to just be with them the rest of the days. And there are certain days that I go to networking meetings and if they don't happen on those set days. And I just don't go to the networking meeting and you trust that there is no such thing as missing out and everything that's meant for you will be there for you. So I don't have that FOMO of like, I have to be at this working meeting. It's the once of it all and it's like, Nope, it's not on a Thursday or Saturday night. It's just my mind is so trained. Mm-hmm. It could be a year in advance. My friends tease me, they're like, it's in 2026. And I'm like, it's not on a Thursday. I don't know what to tell you because that's the only way that two entrepreneurs can truly run their businesses. We have a system. It works. Our brains hurt if you make us divert from it, so please don't make our brains hurt.

Dr Nat Green: 5:21

Oh, that is like phenomenal. And. I just love that you are so organized. I'm sure you have to be, yeah. Anyway, but that you hold your boundaries that No. Mm-hmm. That's a definite no, and yeah. Yeah. As you know, the people that I interview have been through trauma or adversity, and that is one of the things that comes up as being so important after going through trauma or adversity, is that learning to say no. And hold a boundary, and that's something that most of us struggle with. So how on earth has it always been like that, that you've been able to say no and hold boundaries? No, of course not.

Marta Sauret Greca: 6:06

And I did forget to mention my Sunday. My Sunday I actually turn off my phone. I am unreachable. I do have a father who has Alzheimer's and I'm his primary, uh, care contact. But I have four beautiful siblings. And so they know Marta's not reachable. They have a backup phone number. If it's truly an emergency, they'll call one of them. And obviously I would wanna know if something happened to him, so they would call my husband. We have a whole plan in place, so I don't feel like I have to watch my phone in case something happens to him. And typically all my kidlets are at home with me, so I know they're safe. But, um, no, it actually, I had to, I had this moment of, let's say eight years ago that I was just like, you know, we all have the burnout where we're just working 24 7, but we don't love what the bank account looks like. Mm-hmm. And truly the thing that started to make me have boundaries was that my mom was diagnosed with cancer at that time and she and so I wanted to be there for her. So I just started to say no to things because I just wanted to be, I wanted to be at the doctor's appointments. I wanted to make her smoothies. I wanted to watch movies with her. And, she did survive that. Diagnosis. Um, but it did come back with a vengeance about three years ago, and so I did lose her. So I'm just so grateful that I set those boundaries and wouldn't you know it, that's when the business grew exponentially, because that's what, when I set the boundaries, that's when it just flourished. It grew like a poppy. Oh,

Dr Nat Green: 7:38

amazing. And just, just hearing you, you know, thank you so much for sharing that. And I, we have a very similar story. My mom had cancer, survived that, and it came back and we lost her. That was in 1994, so it was, she was very young. Yeah. So

Marta Sauret Greca: 7:55

you, you get it. Yeah.

Dr Nat Green: 7:56

Quite a while ago. And now my dad. And my stepmom both have Alzheimer's, so,

Marta Sauret Greca: 8:02

oh, yeah. So you get it. It's a

Dr Nat Green: 8:04

tough road and definitely the boundaries are so important and having that so clear. Yeah. But also acknowledging, being really clear on your choices and being present with the people that matter is so important. I, I love that. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Marta Sauret Greca: 8:26

Yeah. And try not to make too many exceptions because you make one little exception. Mm-hmm. And trust me, there's gonna be 10 more little exceptions. You're tempted to say yes, but it's just like, Nope, I'm not available. Because if you were having a client meeting. Another client came up or a family member came up and was like, I need this. You'd be like, no, I'm busy. So why is it that you wanna put yourself on the back burner and not set those boundaries for yourself? No, I'm busy with myself doing absolutely nothing. Thank you very much.

Dr Nat Green: 8:55

Beautiful. And that is so healthy, prioritizing ourselves, because a lot of us, when we go through trauma it's, hard to do that. Anyone without the trauma even, but Right. We are very much then feeling that sense of guilt or shame or whatever and managing our own story and our own lives and it can be hard to prioritize our health.

Marta Sauret Greca: 9:23

Yeah.

Dr Nat Green: 9:23

I know you, you touched on what happened with your business and, and you were able to pivot with a lot of stress, no doubt through that. So I'm just wondering if you could talk a little bit more and give us an overview of what's happened for you.

Marta Sauret Greca: 9:38

Yeah, so that was, um, I had the thriving business, making money in my sleep, getting to be a full-time mom to my, at the time, five kids. Mm-hmm. And it just. It just, I thought I'd made it and I just spent like, I thought I'd made it. And then as an overextended and overhired and over invested. And so when the revenue started to trickle down, uh, there's nothing to work with. You know, and a lot of entrepreneurs talk about the feast or famine. Well, there's the famine because when there's the feast, you're not preparing for the famine and. I learned that the hard way, and I am still working on that. But it does ebb and flow because then I recreated a, a new brand and started a financial rep business. My husband has a land development company that I, I am involved in one project and, that went through a very, as that was happening with the marketing agency his, land development endeavors were very tumultuous. Uh, very toxic, very stressful. And so that took a toll on our marriage and in the process I had two miscarriages, had two more babies. Lost my mom actually in the, I had a baby the same two weeks that I lost my mom. And in the moments of trying to be there for her because I brought a newborn baby into a hospital that is not for babies, they actually escort two security guards, escorted me out and I wasn't able to be there with her. She died a few hours later. I couldn't get back in time oh. It was just a very difficult time. It's like when something like that happens, you're like, I don't care about. Anything. Nothing matters. This is all stupid. So you kind of have to allow yourself to have those feelings and. Have those conversations with yourself and with God, and, allow yourself to come out of it. And we talked about this on, on my show. Awful. Okay. Awesome. With Dr. Nat Green. You have to decide to be your own savior and heal and get out of it. Uh, as I don't know that I love the words, get out of it, but work through it and persevere and, you know, get back up.

Dr Nat Green: 12:02

Yeah. And I think working through it is key, isn't it? That Yeah. If we avoid it, we never deal with it. And then, and it just goes and hides somewhere in our body and in our mind, and we never get to really process it to be free. Yeah, as free as you can be of it. Yeah.

Marta Sauret Greca: 12:21

Yeah.

Dr Nat Green: 12:23

So when you look back as a result of going through all of that. With the benefits of hindsight, how do you think you've changed as far as who you are as a person?

Marta Sauret Greca: 12:38

I don't think I'm as afraid of failure. I just know it's all gonna work out and I'm not as afraid of people finding out what's going on behind the scenes. I'm very open about it. I'll be the first to tell you my failures because it's so freeing. It's so good to lead from an imperfect mm-hmm. Standpoint instead of pretending like you've got it all figured out and you're making all this money and you've gotta prove that you're making all this money. So you're making all these expensive decisions because of what, for other people? No. Uh, so that's what has changed for me to actually more discernment as well. Taking a pause before I say yes.

Dr Nat Green: 13:24

Mm goodness. I think we can all learn so much from you boundaries, taking pauses, discernment. I love it. Like the poster child for how we wanna run our businesses.

Marta Sauret Greca: 13:39

Yeah. And now I joke, I, you know, when somebody wants a contribution of some sort of, in terms of a speaker I, just say I can, I teach them about money. I can teach'em what not to do with money. Yes. Which is the, you know, you then you. You just face that imposter syndrome head on. I'm a financial rep, but this happened and this is what this looks like and this is what's on record. And it's like, yeah. That's why I can help people the most because they can show me whatever they want and I can almost guarantee it's not as bad as the dumpster fire I had to put out. And then when there's, and not on top of it, it's a dumpster fire that you're trying to keep anybody from smelling. Yes. Or anybody from seeing, or anybody from hearing. That's the hardest part. Mm-hmm. While you're putting out the dumpster fire. So I, there's nothing anybody can show me that I would baulk at, but I, that's just in the US that I can help people with that mostly. Mm-hmm. Internationally, I help with the content creation.

Dr Nat Green: 14:31

Yes. So I assume there's a lot of licenses you've gotta have and yours are valid in the us.

Marta Sauret Greca: 14:37

Correct. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And, and it, it's per state. I mean, just to get technical, it's, it's per state and I just, I keep adding states as more people reach out. Mm-hmm. That's amazing. Before I even have the conversations. Yeah.

Dr Nat Green: 14:51

Well, a lot of my listeners are in the US so feel free to Good. Yeah, tell us a bit more about that.

Marta Sauret Greca: 14:55

Reach out to me about financial rep. So in terms of the financial rep, I just love to help women, especially entrepreneurs, find the hidden money in their lives. There's money hiding everywhere and how to best grow it, protect it, and expand it and respect it because it was given to us and it is a replenishable energy and you will always be provided for. But we do wanna take care of what's bestown upon us. And then from the content creation side, It's completely different, but we mostly specialize in creating content that catches your ideal client's attention and it increases conversion rates because they're already educated and you've already handled all the objections in your content and prepared them for that sales process to go a lot more smoothly. Mm-hmm. And. Yeah, our clients get to experience all the time. People are like, your content is amazing. Who's doing it? And it's like, I'm not even doing it. Or it's, or whenever your posts, I can hear your voice. It's like, I'm not even writing it. Because we just really, we really catfish people really well.

Dr Nat Green: 16:10

And really though that's a, a huge gift. And with all the changes online, over the, you know, it seems to be a constantly changing world. I imagine that there's a lot involved from your perspective to keep on top of that. So tell us a bit about that, how you do that.

Marta Sauret Greca: 16:30

Yeah. Uh, it's also just not feeling like the pressure of I have to know it all. And understanding that there's plenty of experts out there that if I don't know it, I can get their questions on that. Uh, I'm sorry I can get their answer or any questions that we might have and just be honest about, you know, this changed. I haven't seen this. At all. This is a new thing and, we will, you know, address it, but we certainly don't feel the, I used to feel the pressure of, well, we're a marketing agency. We need to know the newest and, and greatest Oh, threads came out. Remember Clubhouse came out, clubhouse, everyone was like, Hey, didn't last

Dr Nat Green: 17:06

long, but yeah, I got on there. No it didn't. But everybody's like, I

Marta Sauret Greca: 17:09

gotta get on Clubhouse. And I was. No, please. Um, so for a social media or for a content creator, I'm actually like, not like an apps geek or a tech geek, I just really love Instagram and their newest features, and I love Facebook. And sometimes they come up with new stuff and it's exciting and sometimes they come up with new stuff and we get to test it out. And I just always remind myself also, how many doctors are there out there who. Everybody trusts and they're just figuring it out. They're just testing things and they're asking their team of doctors anytime. Uh, so there is no human being who knows it all, and it's okay if I don't, I'll just, I'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Everything's figureoutable. That's one of my favorite books by I don't remember her name, Marie. It it, but it's a good book. Everything is figureoutable

Dr Nat Green: 18:00

and it sounds like that is very much how you are living your life. Yeah. Correct. Everything will unfold as it's meant to and yeah, not spending time stressing about everything. Yeah. Is clear that that's one of your big strategies, which is amazing. So when you look back at what you've been through and throughout your healing journey, what would you say some of the biggest roadblocks and obstacles have been for you?

Marta Sauret Greca: 18:31

Just being afraid of people finding things out about, you know, what's going on. Mm-hmm. I don't know that, I know, I'm for sure, that came from some of the childhood trauma. But yeah, just really making decisions more based on what other people are gonna think than what is, truly. Best rather than what are people gonna think?

Dr Nat Green: 19:01

So, you know, there's, there's lots of layers involved in that too, about that external locus of control versus the internal locus of control. Worrying about what people think versus trusting our own.

Marta Sauret Greca: 19:15

Yeah.

Dr Nat Green: 19:16

Ability to make decisions.

Marta Sauret Greca: 19:18

Yeah. So

Dr Nat Green: 19:19

how did you switch that across so that you stopped worrying all the time and started setting your boundaries and being really clear on what you think?

Marta Sauret Greca: 19:29

Probably some hypnotherapy probably. That's what it was. I mean, that was not only life changing in that sense but I had a lot of anger as well and other things, and just letting go of that anger because. What's that doing for me? Nothing. Mm. And I do remember when I had started the hypnotherapy that same month I hit the highest revenue month ever, which at the time Wow. Was a$40,000 month. And it was just from, I think energetically releasing not physically and energetically releasing, limiting beliefs probably. In old stories.

Dr Nat Green: 20:08

Yeah. And really, we know that those. Negative emotions, which we all need to have and feel. But anger is such a destructive emotion. Yeah. But it's also really important that we allow ourselves to feel it. So

Marta Sauret Greca: 20:26

yeah,

Dr Nat Green: 20:27

you carried the anger around for a very long time.

Marta Sauret Greca: 20:31

Yeah. Yeah. And you're absolutely right. You gotta feel it. There's nothing wrong with being angry and there's nothing wrong with showing anger. And, but I, I do believe that hanging onto it and utilizing it as the reason of, well, you don't understand what happened to be, you don't understand what I've been through that's not serving you. And I, I do think that it's cancer causing I, do think that when we hold onto to anger, it causes cancer. Mm-hmm. So it's just, it's no fun. Like, why? So you can win in your head'cause you're not winning anywhere else.

Dr Nat Green: 21:08

No. And usually the thing or the person that you're angry at is long forgotten and moved on. Yeah. And we carry that and we're never going to get what we want from the other person. Really?

Marta Sauret Greca: 21:21

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just letting go of those expectations of what could have been, should have been, or what needs to happen. Just letting, those go. It's more about you moving on as you and your best self, no matter what happened. I, and I have heard that from other people is but you don't understand. I have this limitation, this limitation, this limitation. This happened to me, this happened to me, this happened to me, this happened to me. And I am the first, I think I'll give you all the grace in the world. Like by all means, take care of yourself. Rest. Let those feelings exist. They're valuable, they're valid, but eventually. It's not gonna be pleasant for you or helpful to you or anybody around you, for you to just sit in it and not get up. It's time to get up after a while.

Dr Nat Green: 22:11

Yeah. I completely agree. Like it's totally okay to have a, what I would refer to sometimes as a pity party. Mm-hmm. Absolutely.

Marta Sauret Greca: 22:20

Yeah.

Dr Nat Green: 22:21

But it's how long we choose to sit in that. That makes a difference. Of course, important to feel, acknowledge, process, but at some point we make a decision and a choice to either stay in there or move forward. And certainly, you know, the guests that I have on here are people who have been through all sorts of things. Trauma, adversity, a range of things that every one of them has a turning point or a something that they've made a decision that they wanted to do it differently and now they pay that forward and look at the lessons and the learnings. So what would you say are the lessons that you've learned as a result of what you've been through?

Marta Sauret Greca: 23:10

I have learned, I used to think that the fable of the ant and the grasshopper was mm-hmm. like but God's abundance is everlasting. So you don't need to squirrel things away because you'll always be provided for, it's like, yes. And mm-hmm. You also wanna take good care of what you're provided for. And that, uh, our mistakes can be a stepping stone to the greatest realizations and the greatest inventions and the greatest transformations for yourself, and don't carry other people on your shoulders if you've got a broken back, ooh, I love that. You're not gonna heal. You're not gonna heal, you're not gonna get any better, and you can't. Carry them very well. Either. If you're back, you're gonna drop them, so, uh, don't do that. It's not helpful to anybody.

Dr Nat Green: 24:10

Oh, absolutely. I really, I love that. The way you just, oh,

Marta Sauret Greca: 24:15

thanks.

Dr Nat Green: 24:15

Sorry. The way you just framed that was very good. Powerful. So true. Because if you are injured or not. At your best, then you can't carry that load without significant consequences to yourself.

Marta Sauret Greca: 24:31

Yeah. And to them, you're not gonna do a very good job for them.

Dr Nat Green: 24:35

No. So when you look at where you were and. And the heartache and heartbreak and the trauma that you'd gone through with your business and, and then you've alluded to some childhood trauma. Mm-hmm. What do you think looking back and with the people you know that you've worked with are specific qualities or personal attributes that you see being important to go from trauma to post-traumatic growth?

Marta Sauret Greca: 25:08

The belief that it's possible, the belief that it's not, this isn't just the way that it is, that. You can have a better life if you, if you want it, if you're willing to put in the work for it. Sometimes, because some, you know, the healing journey isn't pretty, uh mm-hmm. Sometimes it's not easy as much as somebody's gonna give you the tools, it's gonna, it's gonna be an experience and you've gotta set the time aside for it. So you've gotta be willing and, and, you know, and that, I experienced that in the financial. Rep realm as well, where somebody shares some goals and here's what's going on. And I say, yeah, well let's meet, I can help you with that. Like my first session is complimentary. We, we go through everything and I present a plan and unless you move forward with me with the plan, you don't, you don't owe me anything. And they're like, I just, you know, I don't quite have time, you know, or mm-hmm. And that's typically, that doesn't happen if it's a warm. Warm connection. A warm lead that Yeah, they've, that doesn't, that's just if like I have, a, an issue, a loving issue with someone who reaches out and says, I just wanna pick your brain. Well, that sounds painful, and I love you who, because I, I just love people. I love you and I wanna connect with you. But if I know that I can help you. Absolutely gonna pitch you my services. Yes.'cause I know that I can help you and I, um I'm not gonna just. We're not gonna just pick our brains. We're gonna move, we're gonna move forward. We with our brains. You know,

Dr Nat Green: 26:47

so funny. I dunno how many times I have someone ring. Oh, can I just pick your brain?

Marta Sauret Greca: 26:53

Oh, can I just chat about this? That's really

Dr Nat Green: 26:54

painful. Yeah.

Marta Sauret Greca: 26:55

Yeah. Very painful. I mean, I'm gonna use

Dr Nat Green: 26:58

that next. I'm,

Marta Sauret Greca: 26:58

and, and people, and you know, people do say that often to me and I, yeah. Don't correct them. I love them. I know that they don't mean anything, you know, that they're just, what they're saying is like, I just wanna connect and grow. But it, it is funny to me that, that when it's like. Well, you, you and I, we like each other's energy. It just makes sense that we would, that I would help you if I know I can help you. And oftentimes it's that limiting belief of I don't have time. Well, that's, that's so not true. You know, it's about bandwidth. Maybe you don't have the bandwidth, maybe it's not a priority for you. Mm-hmm. I get that you've got other things that are priority. I totally get that. But it's that limiting belief of, uh, yeah. It's just, this is just the way it is and I don't have time.

Dr Nat Green: 27:44

And really when you hear someone say, I don't have time. When you've got two businesses, seven children, a husband who's an entrepreneur as well, and you're juggling all that, I'm just think you must just laugh. You don't have time. And do I giggle a bit?

Marta Sauret Greca: 28:02

I, I mostly giggle when it's, and this sounds terrible, but I am not, I'm not sexist guys. Okay. But when it's like a man who doesn't have any children and he's like. Uh, I, you know, I have no time and I'm like, what are you talking about? I, you know, what I would do to just have a job I would do with all that time, you know? But we create time, right. In reality, consciously what they're saying is they don't know that they're saying this, but it's not a priority. Whatever this thing is that I say that I want, it's actually not a priority because if it was, we would create time. In fact, you very much can create time.

Dr Nat Green: 28:39

Yeah, definitely. And. Yeah, I mean obviously you, you've created time, you've done that. So tell us a little bit about how you feel you can create time.

Marta Sauret Greca: 28:52

Well, from the practical standpoint, you just, if you really have a goal, you just block it off for yourself. Say, you know, for my licensure, for example, I had to pass four very difficult tests. I failed one twice, one once. I failed one, twice the other, subsequent two ones, I think I learned my lesson and I on how to pass these exams and I passed them the first time. But you know, it would be very easy for me to say, I don't have time to get all this new licensure. Maybe it's not worth it, but you block it off, um into your, calendar ahead of time, and then you just show up for it and then, um, you create time also by just having that level of discernment of no, you're not available to just, um. Shoot the shit, for lack of a better word. Yeah, Uh, because, uh, because you, it's just not gonna get anybody anywhere. So let's actually have a common goal in mind to improve each other's lives, and then just understanding that everything that you're meant to get done, you will get done. You can have a to-do list. And but don't stress about it.'cause everything that you're meant to get done, you'll get done. And then, um, if you find that something's been on your todos forever and you dread it, maybe somebody else should do it. Maybe you shouldn't even do it. Maybe it doesn't even need to get done. And that was actually one of the big mistakes, which was a huge lesson because I had a team, I felt like when things that I didn't wanna do, needed done, I just. I gave them to my team to do. Absolutely. Well, that cost me money. Yeah. A lot of times didn't even need done period like that. That wasn't even worth the team's time. But because it was no longer on my schedule, it was like, oh, I don't wanna do this, but here my team can do it. Oh, I don't wanna do this, but here my team can do it. Well, that costs me money. Mm-hmm. It. Just having discernment about that too, like maybe this just doesn't need to be a yes anyways. What's the return of investment on that?

Dr Nat Green: 30:58

Yeah, so very much, and that's that financial head of yours kicking in that, well, what's a return on investment? Because

Marta Sauret Greca: 31:05

yeah,

Dr Nat Green: 31:06

I imagine that's very much the lens you need to look through as a business owner. As a business owner. Yeah. As a business owner who's. Had the history that you've had, then now you've learned those lessons and you are very different in the way you approach it because it's all been part of your growth and your learning. Right? So if you could share one thing with our listeners that would help them as they navigate from trauma into post-traumatic growth, what would it be?

Marta Sauret Greca: 31:38

One thing would be to say yes to yourself and when you make a promise to yourself that you that, that you are gonna improve on something for yourself. Maybe you wanna grow a business, maybe you want to lose 20 pounds, maybe you just wanna eat healthier. Maybe you want a certain house or a certain car. Have the confidence to show up for yourself and not let anybody derail you from that. Maybe you want to heal world hunger if that is your goal. First and foremost, believe that it's true because again, I'm very spiritual. If it's on your heart, it was divinely placed there and therefore it your mission And let anybody derail you. Things will derail you. And actually what I mean by that is. Sometimes beyond your control, things will derail you, but get back on the path. And, uh, sometimes understand, and this is the title of my book. If you're watching the video form of this episode, it's called course corrected. Doesn't understand that those, maybe that derailment also is actually your intended path. Uh, it's not your pivot, it's your path. So, spend a lot of time with just yourself to be able to discern through that. And if it's on your heart. Just because you're getting derailed doesn't mean that it's not meant for you. But if you do get derailed, don't be so hard on yourself. Just get back on the path.

Dr Nat Green: 33:10

A lot of wisdom there. I love that one. Really, really important. And is there anything else you'd like to share? That you think is, I would just

Marta Sauret Greca: 33:21

love to connect with all of you on Instagram. Uh, you could see my name probably in the show notes, uh,@Martasauretgreca. That's kind of my funny, content creation when it's where brands actually send me their products and services and I create content for them, and there's a lot. A lot of on there about motherhood and entrepreneurs and I, I think I'm a comedian, so there's just a lot of silly stuff on there But you'll also be able to connect my other Instagram through that it, it'll be listed there of the the content creation for businesses for you, for us creating content for you, and also the financial rep business through which I help families find hidden money and grow it and protect.

Dr Nat Green: 34:10

Excellent. And I will put all of those links in our show notes for sure. Thank you. And so really, Instagram's your main one. Is there anywhere could, yeah, I mean, I'm on Facebook.

Marta Sauret Greca: 34:23

I'm on Facebook too. I love Facebook and it's, and that's how I di diversify it on Facebook. I talk about my, um, financial rep business on LinkedIn. I talk about my, my, the marketing efforts. And then I have a specific Instagram for me, creating content for other brands as a, a micro influencer, for a lack of a better word. Oh, fantastic.

Dr Nat Green: 34:47

So I'll definitely put that in there. And I know our listeners, a lot of them are really letting me know lately that they're struggling on social media. So

Marta Sauret Greca: 34:58

yeah, help, I'm really excited

Dr Nat Green: 35:00

to see how you might be able to help and, and help a lot of our listeners as well So

Marta Sauret Greca: 35:07

yeah we've we've helped women who have millions of followers and 5,000 likes or women who wanna get to that point. It's a journey. But, um, my own reels go viral to millions on a regular basis. And also, you know, if I could just offer one more piece of absolutely encouragement. Absolutely. Sometimes you post that thing and you're like, well, that didn't go anywhere. Go back and look at your stuff. I guarantee that it. just leaving it up over time It actually got way more views than you even you stopped paying attention So and And even you gave yourself credit for it but really it's about the conversion of what business is coming from it And it's the same thing with investments a little bit over a long time just leaving it in there It's it grows and grows

Dr Nat Green: 36:01

Yeah So it's that not expecting that immediate

Marta Sauret Greca: 36:04

Yeah

Dr Nat Green: 36:04

Response And sometimes it can

Marta Sauret Greca: 36:06

but sometimes it does And sometimes it can But I'm just saying don't Don't discount yourself because it's it's there The growth is there sometimes

Dr Nat Green: 36:15

already Yeah, So Marta I'm really also interested in where you yourself a year from now and what your big picture plans are for you your family your business

Marta Sauret Greca: 36:27

Yeah definitely uh having millions of assets under management uh, as a financial rep and also through the content creation side of it. It having, I'm happy to help more clients attract, uh, more of their ideal audience members. I helped a hundred brands alone the past year and I, I'll probably be more involved with my husband's land development endeavors. I, um, I truly enjoy that as well

Dr Nat Green: 36:53

so much. As little

Marta Sauret Greca: 36:54

as I'm involved now, you know, I still enjoy that a little bit. Yeah. Schedule that

Dr Nat Green: 37:00

in somewhere in there in your calendar. Yeah. Yeah. So one, one question that I like to finish up with my guests what do you think your youngest self would think of what you've achieved and where you are

Marta Sauret Greca: 37:15

now? I don't know that she could have ever imagined it. I mean, the house that we live in, I don't know that she could have ever imagined the property that I get to live on the seven kids. mean, my youngest self loves dogs as much as my oldest self loves dogs, so she would be loving on my little Aussie doodle. Uh, and just that, you know, I get to speak on stages, uh, and. Have, you know, the things that I'm doing, I think she would be, she'd like wouldn't even be able to comprehend like what is all this

Dr Nat Green: 37:54

Oh, that's amazing. So, yeah, you've come so far and thank you so much for coming on today and sharing your. Wealth of knowledge and all your wisdom and your story. I really appreciate it and I know our listeners will, and we will put all the links in the show notes. And as Marta said, she'd love to connect with you. She loves chatting and connecting and loves people, so feel free to reach out. Just don't pick my brain. No, Picking brains. And so. If they DM you, that would be the easiest way.

Marta Sauret Greca: 38:30

Yeah. They could say, can I pick your brain? I would say for sure. I'd love to meet with you. Yeah, so hi Marta. I'd love to connect with you and meet with you and not pick your brain. You'll know where they've come from. Exactly right. Exactly right.

Dr Nat Green: 38:48

Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for joining me in this episode of Growing Tall Poppies. It is my deepest hope that today's episode may have inspired and empowered you to step fully into your post-traumatic growth, so that you can have absolute clarity around who you are, what matters the most to you, and to assist you to release your negative emotions. And regulate your nervous system so you can fully thrive. New episodes are published every Tuesday, and I hope you'll continue to join us as we explore both the strategies and the personal qualities required to fully live a life of post-traumatic growth and to thrive. So if it feels aligned to you and really resonates, then I invite you to hit subscribe and it would mean the world to us. If you could share this episode with others who you feel may benefit too, you may also find me on Instagram at Growing Tall Poppies and Facebook, Dr. Natalie Green. Remember, every moment is an opportunity to look for the lessons and to learn and increase your ability to live the life you desire and deserve. So for now, stay connected. Stay inspired. Stand tall like the tall poppy you are, and keep shining your light brightly in the world. Bye for.