I've been working with business owners for 22 years, and managed call center teams for 6 years before that as a technical lead so I had both technical skills as well as had to manage metrics and hire and manage 20-25 people. 28 years working on systems for getting the most out of the least, as corporate support is next to nothing for their people and small business owners live and die by their ability to keep as much of their profits as possible. What I've learned is that there are some fundamental elements to running any kind of business well, even if it's a self contained "business" within a larger corporation. Everything hinges, first, on Principles and Priorities. Principles inform priorities. Priorities inform what gets done. Except... QUITE OFTEN... Principles were never clearly defined (nor company culture) and so priority is rarely defined or changes according to mood energy or something else other than principles. Starting here makes EVERYTHING simpler to set up and maintain and serves as a filter for future decisions as well as makes it easier to get on and stay on the same page with business partners and team members. When we talk on Friday, I'd like to go over some of these things as well as have a conversation about how these show up for any of you and what you might like to see created here. Checklists, Templates, Systems, Spreadsheets and Calculators, Tools etc. Additionally, I'd love to hear what you've tried before and what didn't work for you. One thing I'm considering is a set of sprints towards whatever goal you have. They can be spread out throughout the year with milestones to be completed at each sprint. I would guide you on setting reasonable goals for yourself based on your current situation, skills and resources. The goal is help you get traction and increase momentum to a steady but satisfying pace. I've never been a person who can follow another's program. I don't think like anyone else I know. Niether do my clients. So I'm here to create a system that can ebb and flow and bend and grow with and around YOU, according to everything that YOU uniquely are.

I've been crazy busy lately! Spent the summer playing with the girls and assembling my thoughts, team and tools to close out 2024 with a BANG! I did enough sleeping during that pandemic to last me for a decade, and I'm REVVED UP. I put together something I've been using with 6,7 and 8 figure clients for the last 11 years into a simple exercise you can complete within 30-60 minutes that I GUARANTEE will provide an epiphany and help you see what you could be doing to increase profits, (free) time and energy in your business. It's stupid simple, and deceptively simple. And if you don't think it's worth your $20 after going through it (and show me the filled out version) I'll give you your money back. Period. I have several clients who pay $1000 an hour for me to work in their business and so I've learned how to get results quickly and not waste time. Actually, I learned that and THEN I got paid better, lol. I will walk you through how to think about YOUR unique business with YOUR unique values so that the outcome is not about how *I* think you should run your business, but how YOU can be confident and clear about doing things you've already been thinking about. I also am sharing a testimonial from my boy Tyler who ( BLESS HIM, shot this video for me when he should have been in bed sleeping off that sickness!) worked with me in a company called Sheer Strength Labs 12 years ago. (If you've read the book by Ryan Moran, 12 Months to $1,000,000 - I was the ops manager for that company which helped leverage it and it 4x'd revenue after I came in. Ryan didn't give me a testimonial but his partner Matt Davis did.) This is something I'm going to offer for peanuts instead of any lead magnet so people can 1) - actually learn HOW to work smarter instead of just be told to and 2) find out if I'm someone they want to learn from and get more help from. *NOTE* This is a ONE SHOT production. No edits. It's not refined. Video is about 20 minutes broken into 4 parts. I am working on a slightly shorter version but really, the length is about thinking differently anyway.

That is what seems to be happening. 10 Chapters, several pages of introduction preface, so much that's been percolating and evolving over 6 years in corporate management and 22 years of online business management and consulting while dealing with a toxic marriage, divorce, and raising 4 very intelligent and strong willed girls is spilling out like a fire hydrant and won't stop. Though little has happened in this group on the surface, each of you being here and your contributions and comments, votes, messages etc have provided a missing catalyst for me. I am both thrilled with the work and frustrated knowing I will never be happy with it. It's my nature to be that way - a critic and a cheerleader who always sees what can be improved but celebrating wholeheartedly what has been accomplished. For some it will be amazing and powerful. For others it will barely be worth a "meh". I'm not creating for the latter group, and won't worry about those thoughts. I'll hire an editor to help me organize and create consistency and then a designer to make it look good (also layout is SO helpful to distractable minds like mine so I want to make sure that's there for people) And then... I'll release it and create supporting resources. I will do what I have helped clients do for decades... improve iteratively, at a healthy, happy, sustainable pace. As I continue to grow and evolve so will my body of work. It is so very simple - even though getting here has not been easy. Everything has been about getting up each day and putting one foot in front of the other, doing something to grow an improve each day, personally, professionally, mentally, physically etc... I have known that what I needed was people to create for, but I didn't do this. I overthought it. I couldn't decide on structure or price and I let that stop me. But here are two things to consider that I always tell my clients and myself. Everything is always RIGHT. ON. TIME. Pace isn't about perfection but about the journey.

Hey guys, I've been really studying group engagement more (not just mine but others) and noticing that many seem to be very quiet unless they are in the several thousands in members. My primary goal is to create support for small business owners through content as well as be available to those who want more than content but a sounding board or occassionally mentor/advisor. That really doesn't require a group. If there's not conversation in the group, or it takes huge number to have that happening, I have to figure out how to help myself not get disuaded by the lack of energy. (I'm sharing this because it might be something some of you have considered for yourselves.) Something I was ponder is the lack of analytics in Skool. I can't measure reach. I don't know who logs in and sees things. With email I can see that. With other group platforms I can see that. With that data I at least have an idea of who's consuming content. (Which I've barely created, obviously... but I start measuring things from the beginning) Anyway, thought occurred to me to ask how you each prefer to consume content in general from someone you are interested in hearing from. Your inbox, or their platform wherever they are, whether it be a group, podcast or youtube channel. Would love if you could take a moment to cast a vote <3

My Mondays are long and I LOVE it that way. I generally take the weekend off but I ALWAYS take Sundays off. There was a time when that was really difficult for me. When things get quiet, my brain is busy, and it wants to be able to explore and play, create, build, document, MOVE NEEDLES FORWARD. But Sunday is the day that I observe the Sabbath in my faith and so it's very different than any other day of the week. When my brain wants to be busy on Sundays, I put it towards studying gospel related topics, doing genealogy, pondering, journaling or writing spiritual thoughts to share with others. And I LOVE Sunday naps and snuggles. But by the time Monday morning comes around... I'm like a slingshot that's been pulled back all weekend and tension is built up and ready to be released! Some days, like today, I take a few hours in the middle of the day to spend with my girls if they've been with their dad for the weekend. Today we went shopping for seeds and supplies for this year's garden and then finished with our daily ritual of driving while listening to music and talking about life. Then I got back to work while my youngest, who's now 14 going on 32, got to work on planting seeds. I worked on a few projects with a few stretch breaks while she worked on the garden, the got to work on a sewing project. She's working on two different dresses and she quite the seamstress. Tomorrow she'll be making homemade Chicken Alfredo from scratch. We cross paths frequently, she and I, and her sister (my third for four daughters, who's almost 18 and preparing to launch out of the nest) occassionally intersects for meals or trips to the park or late night sister drives with music and something yummy. There is so much freedom in their daily lives that they have no comprehension of because it's always been like this. I've always been home (well, since my oldest was one year old) and crafts and projects and independence with family interaction has always been what home life was like.