Balancing peak season and your future

After 18 years planning conferences, I’m reworking my 5-year plan while juggling three consecutive event weekends in May, and the stress creep is real. What’s helping you protect your long game right now — I’m blocking Fridays after 3 p.m. and taking 20-minute decompression walks between vendor calls — but I’m curious how others pace growth without burning out?

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I schedule a ‘no-call week’ right after May’s three weekends; autoresponder sets boundaries. You batch vendor calls?

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