If you and your leadership team are finding yourselves super busy and it’s not on the strategic, it’s just putting out fires and dealing with issues as they’re coming up all day long, just reacting, it could be that you don’t have clear priorities for the organization. So you may say, ” Yeah, we have […]
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How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed in Your Business
Do you ever feel overwhelmed in your business, or maybe you feel like you’re not where you should be, based on all the hard work you’re putting in? Is that frustrating? If you’re in that spot, I want to share with you a strategy to help you bring a little more calm, reduce some of […]
How to Develop Confidence in your Actions
Let’s define confidence – I like to define it as “knowing what to do in a given situation and believing that taking that action is going to lead to a successful outcome”. Pretty straightforward – if we think we know what to do and that when we try it it’s going to work we’ll actually […]
Lonely at the Top: Mental Health Strategies for Business Owners. An Interview with Brian Janes
As a business owner, do you ever feel like it’s lonely at the top? Many business owners do, but don’t always know how to handle the stress that comes with business ownership. Especially these days. That’s why I reached out to interview my colleague and Registered Psychotherapist Brian Janes about mental health for business owners. […]
Supporting Your Staff – Interview with Karen Van Luven, HR Consulting
Karen Van Luven is an HR Consultant I’ve known for a long time, who helps owners of small businesses with their employee challenges. The pandemic brings unique situations with their staff that many business owners haven’t encountered before – mental health, restructuring, working from home, to name a few. One of my biggest take-aways from my conversation […]
How to Stop Working So Hard in Your Business (what we can learn from turkey vultures)
Are you working too hard in your business? Today I’m going to share with you a lesson I learned from a bird on how to run a business more effectively and more easily. I decided to go for a walk in the forest today. Great timing because I’m getting rained on now *light sarcasm* but […]
The Process to Increase the Value of Your Business
As a business owner, your business valuation is something you take seriously. After all, you’ve poured years of continued effort, time, passion, and resources into building your business to what it is today. You’re proud of it. You have a deeper understanding of the journey since its inception, the challenges you’ve met along the way, […]
Interview with Firm of the Future owners Juliet Aurora and Steve Loates
Hear the story of entrepreneur Juliet Aurora who started her enterprise out of pure necessity in the spare bedroom of her house 20 years ago, and how she and her husband Steve Loates grew it into a national bookkeeping firm that has earned Intuit’s highest Accolade: Firm of the Future. Along the way, Juliet and […]
Maintaining your Mental Health – An Interview with Brian Janes of Impact Counselling
Have you ever had one of those days where you’d prefer to just stay home, and not go into your business and deal with all the stress? I think we’ve all been there at one point or another. As business owners, we are subject to a lot of pressure, stress and challenges on a daily […]