The Customer Is Always Right (Or Are They?) 🤔🍪

From The Greenhouse · 00:14:58

Show by Maintaining Melinda / Melinda Brillinger Founder Of The Bloom

Welcome back to The Greenhouse Podcast. In this episode, host Melinda Brillinger takes us back to an empty parking lot. She had paid good money for a networking event, spent the week dipping Oreos 🍪, signing copies of her book and picking out a new dress, and she pulled up right on time to find not a single car. The venue had never even been booked. This time, she was the customer, and she was not a happy one.Have you ever swallowed your frustration just to keep the peace? Have you ever wondered how to serve others well without abandoning yourself?Melinda unpacks the sign we have all seen in mechanic shops and hair salons, the customer is always right, and what happens when pleasing others costs us our peace, our integrity or our self respect. She shares what sitting in that car taught her: you can lead with empathy and still hold people accountable, because grace and accountability aren't opposites, they're partners 🤝. This episode is a warm, gentle reminder that serving others should never come at the cost of abandoning yourself.🌿 Your Tiny Seed Action for Today: Think of one place in your life, your work or your business where you have been too gracious at the expense of your own boundaries. Write down one kind, clear sentence you could say to ask for what's right ✍️.Connect with Melinda: Tend to Your Roots: If you're ready for some help setting that boundary, join Melinda for Seed to Sprout, 90 minutes on Zoom where you leave with one clear step. The next session is Tuesday, October 20 at 7pm Central 🌱. Save your seat at maintainingmelinda.com/sprout-session/Not quite ready? Take the free Energy Leak Quiz at maintainingmelinda.com/quiz to see where you've been running on empty.And Melinda is in the Top Host contest, she would be so grateful for your vote 💜 tophost.org/2026/melinda-brillinger

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