Podcasts about Bottleneck

Could you step away from your business for a month? A week? A day? If the answer to any of those scenarios is "no," then you're not running a business; you're stuck with a job. Chyle Edic, owner of Efficiency-Edge, LLC, helps owners of small-to-medium-sized organizations break their micromanaging habits and shift their attention to growth and, possibly, a vacation. Jason caught up with Chyle to discuss the operational miscues and employee issues that keep owners from realizing their company's ultimate potential and how tools like Entrepreneur Operating System (EOS) can deliver targeted, financially rewarding improvements. CONNECT WITH JASON LinkedIn CONNECT WITH CHYLE LinkedIn Efficiency-Edge *** For full show notes and services visit: https://www.distributionteam.com Distribution Talk is produced by The Distribution Team, a consulting services firm dedicated to helping wholesale distribution clients remove barriers to profitability, generate wealth, and achieve personal goals. This episode was edited by The Creative Impostor Studios Special thanks to our sponsors for this episode: Profit2, helping distributors charge the right price; and INxSQL Distribution Software, an integrated distribution ERP software designed for the wholesale and distribution industry.

The federal government recently announced the Major Projects Office and Build Canada Homes agencies designed to administer funds and accelerate infrastructure—but will they streamline or weigh down progress with bureaucracy? Riccardo, Melissa Di Marco, and David Ho pull up chairs to a roundtable discussion of this timely and complex topic. In this episode of Uncharted Conversations, they explore the often default solution of agency development when issues arise and whether those at the helm are genuinely equipped to solve these particular problems. Questions of risk aversion and fragmented decision-making prompt skepticism from both private infrastructure bodies and Canadian citizens. The three seasoned experts unpack the structural and political realities that influence how agencies perform, reflecting on past examples, and consider whether the present country-wide urgency might push leaders to act differently this time.The conversation poses an essential question: Are these agencies being created to lead, or just to manage? Infrastructure in Canada today faces overlapping jurisdictions, unclear mandates, and high public expectation. Success will depend on more than just good intentions—it will require clarity of purpose, empowered leadership, and swift execution within a narrowing window of opportunity.Key TakeawaysThe challenge of clearly defining what problem an agency is meant to solve;How funding concerns can block and distract from forward progress;The sometimes murky relationship between provincial and federal in major programme delivery;The risk of adding bureaucracy instead of leadership in moments of urgency;The opportunity for optimism in the face of Canada's infrastructure crisis.Quote:“I think if somebody tried to create a new version of a provincial infrastructure agency today [like Infrastructure Ontario], they would be burdened with expectations of fixing almost everything, and I think might be quite unfair.” -David HoThe conversation doesn't stop here—connect and converse with our community via LinkedIn:Follow Navigating Major Programmes: https://www.linkedin.com/company/navigating-major-programmes/Follow Riccardo Cosentino: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cosentinoriccardo/Read Riccardo's latest at https://riccardocosentino.com/   Follow David Ho: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtho-ontario/Follow Melissa Di Marco: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-di-marco/ Music: "A New Tomorrow" by Chordial Music. Licensed through PremiumBeat.

What if the biggest barrier to scaling your B2B business wasn't your operations, market conditions, or even your team, but you, the founder? In this episode of Predictable B2B Success, Vinay Koshy speaks with Brian Smith, founder of Strategy Ladders, serial entrepreneur, and seasoned leadership coach who's helped thousands of entrepreneurs unlock the next level of growth. Brian's journey spans boat-washing on a Florida island to closing multi-million dollar deals, and he's distilled years of experience into a simple but powerful premise: your offer is your business, and your mindset is the real growth engine. Discover why most strategic frameworks keep you trapped, which common “security blanket” hires are holding you back, and why focusing 100% on sales, especially when juggling firefighting and growth, is the first rule of scaling smartly. Brian challenges conventional wisdom with thought-provoking insights on operational bottlenecks, founder mindsets, and the art of constructing an offer so compelling that your brand (and business) can scale beyond your personal involvement. Whether you're stuck at six figures or dreaming of an exit, this conversation is packed with tactical stories and no-nonsense advice you won't hear anywhere else. Tune in and rethink what's really driving your B2B success. Some topics we explore in this episode include: Brian's entrepreneurial background and the creation of Strategy LaddersKey challenges in scaling B2B service businessesThe founder's role as a growth bottleneckMindset and emotional filters that hinder business progressRapid, high-quality decision making for growthThe importance of refining business offers and clear positioningStrategy Ladders' unique advisory approach—including expert pairing and mindset coachingExamples of overcoming mental roadblocks (sales resistance, undervaluing services)Building clarity and authority in business messaging, especially on LinkedInCreating a growth-oriented culture and strategic hiring (“growth hires” vs. “clone hires”)And much, much more...

Without question, the church cannot be who she needs to be without the guidance, direction, power, influence, and help of Holy Spirit.  With Holy Spirit the church is most powerful.  Without the flow of Holy Spirit the church is far less and hence will accomplish far less.  What hinders or bottlenecks the flow of Holy Spirit?  Brian Higbee explores this and explains how to break the bottleneck of the flow of Holy Spirit.  Check it out.  

Sometimes, the good has to go to make room for the great.In this episode, business and mindset coach Gina Keeping shares a personal story about a morning parking spot that turned into a major aha moment about bottlenecks in business — and how we can unknowingly hold ourselves back from growth, clarity, and freedom.If you've ever felt like you're spinning your wheels, redoing instead of refining, or waiting for the “perfect time” to take action — this one's going to hit home.You'll learn how to recognize when you're the bottleneck in your own business, how to shift out of survival and into CEO-level clarity, and why sometimes the key to scaling your business isn't doing more — it's doing things differently.This episode will help you: ✨ Identify where you might be slowing your growth or blocking opportunities ✨ Shift from overthinking into decisive, aligned action ✨ Let go of what's good to make space for what's great ✨ Create momentum without burnout or hustleSo if you're ready to move from stuck to strategic and step into a business that finally feels freeing instead of draining, hit play now — and let's talk about how to get out of your own way.

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This week's World of DaaS LM Brief explores Big Data Wire's article on how electricity, not data or compute, is emerging as the ultimate constraint on AI progress. As global data center demand surges, performance per watt efficiency and access to reliable power are becoming the new competitive edge. Some nations and companies are pursuing nuclear-powered computation hubs to secure a strategic energy advantage.Listen to this short podcast summary, powered by NotebookLM.

In this episode, we're addressing one of the biggest challenges current eng leaders are facing – balancing yesterday's constraints with tomorrow's potential! Chrystal Henke Ball (VP of Engineering @ Yahoo) shares insights on why it's important to constantly challenge your assumptions and how vision can sometimes work as a bottleneck for your organization. We dissect how the traditional product lifecycle is evolving to become more fluid and what that means for the collaborative relationship between product, eng, and design. Additionally, Chrystal defines grit, why it's important for leaders to model it, and strategies for cultivating the trait within your eng team in order to move past short-term challenges and focus on long-term goals! ABOUT CHRYSTAL HENKE BALLChrystal Henke Ball a seasoned engineering leader, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Yahoo, where she leverages her experience to accelerate product development across core products such as Yahoo.com and the Yahoo News app. Prior to Yahoo, she led engineering organizations at Google Search, Pandora, Pachama, and Arcadis, building highly available systems, guiding architectural transitions, spearheading novel solutions, and delivering delightful user experiences. Chrystal excels at designing purpose-driven, scalable architectures, streamlining development processes, and mentoring teams to work effectively and openly together. ToolHive Unlocks the Full Value of MCP & Your AI AgentsSo you've invested in AI agents for code generation, but they're limited to experiments or even stuck on the shelf. To do real, valuable work, those AI agents need access to your data and systems.ToolHive helps you confidently connect the pieces by making it simple and secure for you to use the Model Context Protocol (MCP).ToolHive includes a pre-vetted registry of MCP servers, containerizes every MCP server for consistency and leans on built-in security to keep your secrets safe.Leaders trust ToolHive to put MCP into production and put their AI agents to work.ToolHive is open source, so get started for free at toolhive.dev SHOW NOTES:Navigating the challenge of balancing constraint vs. innovation (3:05)Considerations for balancing current capabilities w/ your roadmap to change (4:34)Frameworks for categorizing what's fixed vs. in flux to aid decision-making (6:14)Conversation points for checking your assumptions (7:36)The new leadership challenge: vision as a bottleneck (14:45)Evolving feedback loops to address a more fluid product lifecycle (19:43)Defining product vision in today's fast-paced, fluid landscape (23:57)Defining grit as an essential trait & ways to cultivate it as an eng leader (31:57)Building AI-incorporated products with trust as a foundational principle (40:46)Rapid fire questions (43:01) LINKS AND RESOURCESTalking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know - Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.Terrestrials - A show for people of all ages that explores the strangeness that exists right here on Earth. In each episode, host Lulu Miller (co-host of Radiolab) will introduce you to a creature or earthly phenomenon that will defy your expectations of how nature is supposed to work. Along the way, you'll encounter a chorus of experts, including scientists, surfers, hip hop artists and…a "Songbud" named Alan (indie punk musician Alan Goffinski) who creates original songs for key moments of confusion, discovery or awe. New episodes drop Thursdays. Listen in with your whole family. Or all alone. This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You're Not Supposed to Know Everything in Your BusinessThis week, something weird (but awesome) happened. I realized I didn't actually know how part of my own business worked and that was a good thing.While onboarding a new social media manager, I was asked a simple question about our content process  and for a moment, I froze. I didn't know the answer. But that moment turned into a powerful realization: as a business owner, you're not supposed to know every detail.In this episode of The Unfiltered Sessions Podcast, I'll unpack: ✅ Why not knowing every process is actually a sign of growth ✅ The difference between oversight and micromanagement ✅ What it really means to lead from a 30,000-foot view ✅ How to let go of control without losing direction ✅ Practical steps to get out of the weeds and start leading like a CEOIf you're still buried in the day-to-day tasks and struggling to let go, this episode is your wake-up call. Delegation isn't a weakness, it's the next step toward true leadership.

It's 9am and you've already handled a candidate no-show, fielded a client complaint, and squeezed in a "quick minute" with your top biller. By 5pm, your to-do list remains untouched, your team has left, and you're still at your desk wondering where the day went. Sound familiar? In this episode, Katy and Jane tackle the brutal reality of firefighting management and reveal why your best work shouldn't happen after everyone goes home. If you've ever cancelled a one-to-one because a client emergency came up, or found yourself muttering "it's just quicker if I do it myself," this conversation will hit close to home. Katy and Jane share the framework that helped one of their clients reclaim 26 hours per week—time that was being swallowed by tasks that should never have reached their desk. In This Episode: Discover why the belief "if it needs to be done, I need to do it" keeps you trapped in a cycle of dependency and prevents your business from scaling beyond you Learn the parenting-to-business analogy that reveals exactly when to hold your team's hand and when to step back (and why keeping your team in metaphorical nappies at age 18 mirrors what's happening in your business) Understand how to implement the "open hours, closed hours" technique that immediately eliminated 50% of team questions without damaging relationships or performance Explore the simple exercise that exposes how many hours you're spending solving problems versus preventing them—and why teaching someone to fish beats handing them one every single day Uncover the three-month process one recruitment business owner used to fix their interview-to-placement ratio without having to prep every candidate themselves Ready to Stop Being the Bottleneck? Whether you're the top biller who's also managing the team, or you're drowning in "quick questions" that steal your strategic thinking time, Katy and Jane offer practical systems you can start implementing this week. They're not talking about vague leadership principles—this is the real work of extracting yourself from every process, setting boundaries that stick, and building a team that solves 80% of problems without you. Tune in to find out why your freedom as a business owner depends on making your team slightly uncomfortable, how to document the genius that's currently trapped in your head, and what to track for one week that will completely change how you see your time. Listen now and take back control of your calendar. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Ready to Scale Your Recruitment Business to 7 Figures (and beyond)? Take the first step toward predictable growth with our FREE RESOURCES designed to support recruitment and executive search business owners in building profitable, scalable businesses. Watch Our Free Training: Discover a proven system that can help your team achieve 5, 10, or even 20 extra placements per month, consistently and reliably. Learn how to Attract, Convert, and Deliver high-quality placements over the next 30 days – watch here https://learn.centredexcellence.co.uk/vsl-youtube61658857 Join Our Recruitment Business Accelerator Community: Connect with like-minded Recruitment and Executive Search Business Owners in our exclusive Facebook group. Elevate your skills, gain insights, and learn what it takes to build a 7+ figure recruitment business. Join Here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/526435818123500 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Want to See How This Could Work for You? Let's chat! Apply for a free consultation to see if and how our strategies can work for your recruitment or executive search business. Provide us with some details about your business, and let's explore how you can achieve sustainable growth. Apply here - https://profitaccelerator.centredexcellence.co.uk/apply?utm_source=podcast

In this episode, I delve into the critical issue of becoming a bottleneck in your business as it grows, especially past the 15-employee mark. I discuss the tangible and intangible costs associated with a centralized decision-making process, emphasizing the importance of fostering independence and innovation within teams. I highlight the financial implications of delayed decision-making and explore how a bottleneck mentality can stifle creative input from team members, ultimately affecting morale and growth. Furthermore, I address the personal toll on leaders who feel the weight of control and the need for balance in their lives. By sharing inspiring examples, I encourage leaders to reflect on their roles and empower their teams, paving the way for a healthier organizational culture and sustainable growth. The Cost of Being a Bottleneck Financial Implications of Control Cultural Impact on Your Team Personal Consequences of Bottlenecking The Cost of Being a Bottleneck In this episode, I explore the critical issue of being the bottleneck in your business, a challenge that often emerges as organizations grow beyond the 15-employee mark. Early in a company's journey, it's natural for leaders to be at the center of every decision. But as the team expands, maintaining that same level of control can begin to slow progress, limit innovation, and create hidden costs that restrict growth. I discuss why this transition is such a pivotal leadership moment, one that requires shifting from hands-on management to empowering independence, critical thinking, and ownership across the team. Recognizing when your involvement is helping versus hindering becomes essential to scaling both effectively and sustainably. Financial and Cultural Implications of Control The first cost of being a bottleneck shows up financially. When decisions stall at the top, opportunities are missed, projects slow down, and innovation stagnates. These financial implications often go unnoticed, buried within declining momentum and unrealized revenue. I explain how identifying these bottlenecks can uncover the true cost of control and open pathways to faster, more efficient growth. Beyond finances, the cultural impact can be just as damaging. A bottleneck mentality often breeds hesitation among team members; they wait for approval rather than take initiative. This dynamic suppresses creativity, discourages ownership, and weakens morale. I share how fostering an open culture where ideas are welcomed and independent thinking is valued can reignite engagement, strengthen collaboration, and accelerate innovation across the organization. The Personal Consequences and the Path Forward Finally, I address the personal toll that being a bottleneck takes on leaders themselves. The constant need to control outcomes often leads to burnout, strained relationships, and declining well-being. Many leaders unintentionally trade their health and balance for a sense of control that ultimately limits both personal fulfillment and organizational success. I share real examples of leaders who recognized this pattern and transformed their approach, shifting from control to trust, from micromanagement to mentorship. These stories demonstrate that the path forward isn't about stepping back entirely, but about building a structure that thrives without constant oversight. As I close, I encourage listeners to reflect on their own leadership habits and join our upcoming training sessions designed to help overcome bottleneck challenges. Creating a business that runs smoothly without you isn't just an ideal, it's a mark of mature, sustainable leadership. Through real-world insights and inspiring examples, this episode serves as a call to action for leaders ready to evolve their approach. Discover how empowering your team to think independently not only boosts morale and innovation but also creates a healthier, more sustainable organization that thrives beyond your direct involvement. Explore More: training.coreelevation.com Listen to the Full Episode: Growth Think Tank Podcast

Sometimes the toughest realization in business isn't about strategy, systems, or sales—it's that you might be the one slowing things down.In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of my Q3 review process and share what I uncovered when I got brutally honest about how I was running my business. From decision delays to over-involvement in the details, I realized that the very structure I built for growth was being held back… by me.Tune in as I walk through the questions, reflections, and mindset shifts that helped me spot the bottlenecks I'd created—and how I'm re-designing my role to lead with more clarity, trust, and freedom.If you've ever felt like your goals can't move faster until you do, this episode is for you!

How often do you say, “I don't have time?” This is a common excuse we hear from property management business owners and their teams. The truth is, we all have the same amount of time. In this episode of the #DoorGrowShow, property management growth experts Jason and Sarah Hull discuss the myth of not having enough time and the true issue: having the wrong priorities. You'll Learn [01:28] Time: The Biggest Excuse for Staying Stagnant [06:02] You Don't Make Money on Bad Clients [10:20] Building Trust with Clients Without Overcommunicating [19:35] Finding the Bottleneck in Your Business Quotables “Don't optimize for the wrong things. You have to make sure you're optimizing for the right things.” “We all have the same amount of time every day.” “The issue is not time. The issue is priorities.” Resources DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind DoorGrow Academy DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrowClub DoorGrowLive Transcript   Jason Hull (00:00) most of you listening have some properties and some owners in your portfolio that are losing you money. Your operational cost on them is higher than   you being able to pull profit on them.   All right, we are Jason and Sarah Hull, the owners of DoorGrow, the world's leading and most comprehensive coaching and consulting firm for long-term residential property management entrepreneurs. For over a decade and a half, we've brought innovative strategies and optimization to the property management industry. At DoorGrow, we have spoken to thousands of property management business owners, coached, consulted, and cleaned up hundreds of businesses.   helping them add doors, improve pricing, increase profit, simplify operations, and build and replace teams. At DoorGrow, we believe that good property managers can change the world and that property management is the ultimate high trust gateway to real estate deals, relationships, and residual income. At DoorGrow, we are on a mission to transform property management, business owners, and their businesses. We want to transform the industry, eliminate the BS, build awareness,   change perception, expand the market, and help the best property management entrepreneurs win. Now, let's get into the show. All right, so what are we chatting about today? Sarah? Time. Time. Time. Why are we chatting about time?   And this is where most people mess it up because it's so precious here's the little captain's face   It's precious. Okay, Captain for those listening is a little dog that we have. It's one of our dogs. Okay, so the reason we're talking about time is because time is one of the biggest excuses that we get. Are you working and growing your business? I just don't have time. Or have you been making the calls that you need to make to get your business growing? I don't have time. I'm so busy. I'm so overwhelmed. And so it's everybody is out of time.   Nobody has time. Nobody's so busy. There's a meme that it's old, but it's like classic. Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that? Yes, you do. So time, time is an issue. Why is time an issue? We all have the same amount of time every day. We get a whole new 24 hours the next day, every day. The issue isn't time. And we've talked about this, think, before, but the issue is not time. The issue is priorities. You're prioritizing the wrong things. And one of the things we've noticed   with clients. We just recently wrote for our clients a time optimization playbook for property managers. It's got some brilliant stuff in it. A lot of it from her brain, some of it from my brain, and it's really good. But one of things we've noticed, Elon Musk has these principles for how he goes and optimizes businesses. He's made businesses way more efficient. When he came into Twitter and rebranded it to X he cleaned house, thousands of   wasteful employees that were just bloat and not really contributing to code, not really updating it. One of his key principles is don't optimize for the wrong things. You have to make sure you're optimizing for the right things. And a lot of people are optimizing when they should have been cutting stuff out first. So they didn't ask the question, should we even be doing this thing at all? And most property managers we find are optimizing for the wrong thing.   They are optimizing for how do I take every phone call from every tenant and how do I take every phone call from every owner and how do I please everybody and do all this stuff that I have to do instead of what?   Instead of saying, should I even be talking to these people at all? Your owners don't really want to talk to you. They really would love if they could just trust you to do your job and do it well and not have to talk to you. Like that's really what owners want. When they feel anxious because they don't trust you because you aren't doing a good job or you've set incorrect boundaries or you haven't made them feel safe from the beginning or you onboarded them poorly, they now feel anxious. They want to talk to you all the time because why?   They now believe they need to manage the manager. They're trying to manage you. How ridiculous is that? They hire you to manage their property and then they manage you to manage the property. They just traded their job for another job instead of offloading it to you. so we need to optimize for the right things. And so we need to start questioning things. And so some of the things we'll have people do is we'll have them audit their time by doing a time study.   And ours is a little bit different. It focuses on identifying the five currencies of time, energy, focus, cash, and effort, which is a framework I got from one of my mentors, Alex Charfen. And so the idea of the time study showcases all of these. It shows all of these. Sarah's, used to say it didn't show cash, but Sarah was like, you should add cash. And so now it has the money piece in it too.   just said.   You're trading your time. Right. And this is thing I to my clients all the time. I say, if your time was worth, let's just call it a low amount like $50 an hour, you just traded $50 an hour for $13 an hour. It was not a good trade. Yeah. Of course it wasn't. Not a good trade at all. were you doing those things? Instead of using $50 an hour time to do $50 or $100 or $1,000 an hour work, you're using $50 an hour time.   to do $13 an hour work, you have to just look at the things that you're doing and place a dollar sign next to them and then kind of compare that with what your pay rate is and what you want your pay rate to be, not just what it currently is. So I just said, just put a dollar sign next to them. And we did. We updated it. So you might be thinking, how do I deal with all my tenants and all my clients? And maybe you should be asking   Should I even have all of these tenants, properties, and clients? After all, a lot of our clients, when they first come to us, are not making money on every property. They're losing money on some of the properties. They're losing money on some of the owners that they're dealing with. If you actually ran a P &L, a profit and loss statement on every individual owner, every individual unit that you manage, some of them in your business are losing you money. Would you manage for free? Would you do it for free?   People came to you, hey, could you do this? You won't make any money, but I'd like you to manage this anyway. I'll pay you nothing. You would probably say no to that, right? If they came to you and said, hey, I would like you to manage this and you will actually lose money, but it benefits me. Would you do it? You're like, Jason, that's stupid. But right now, most of you listening have some properties and some owners in your portfolio that are losing you money. Your operational cost on them is higher than   you being able to pull profit on them. And so it's the 80-20 principle. 20 % of your properties and 20 % of your owners probably cost you 80 % of your operational costs, right? They're eating it up. So one of the principles we share recently, we've been sharing at some of our Jumpstart sessions because we onboard clients in person. We have them come out to our Jumpstart sessions is this idea of, well, do you remember?   The Hamburglar. Do remember the Hamburglar? The sneaky, shady guy with the bands and over his like this little thing around his eyes and he's sneaking around stealing burgers, right? Well, there is a burglar sneaking around your business and you can't even see him. He's invisible. And he is the interruption burglar. He's just sneaking around stealing money and time throughout your business all day long.   the interruption burglar. One interruption costs between, depending on the studies, you look at 18 minutes to maybe up to 26 minutes of productivity and your team members and you are getting interrupted constantly throughout the day. And then they have to like reset their mind, get back into the flow, get back to what they were doing. But if they're just dealing with interruptions all day long, you are losing probably half the amount of labor that you should be getting.   This is why Sarah was able to run her business so efficiently when she was a property manager and why some of her clients have just as many doors as her, but they have a whole team. A huge team. Yeah. They have a whole bunch of people. Between me and my assistant. And they're not making much money. I didn't even have one full-time equivalent. And you were working maybe 20 hours a week. You had 60 to 90 % profit margin. And these were C-class difficult properties, right?   But Sarah optimizes. She optimizes for the right things. I hate wasting my time. Yeah, she values her time. biggest pet peeve out of everything in the world is wasting my time. So Sarah values her time. One thing Sarah did not give out, Sarah did not give out this magical check that all of you tend to give out to all of your clients and your tenants.   This is this big, giant, glowing golden check that says, steal all of my profits, call me anytime. And you give this to tenants, every tenant and owner, you give them this blank check to steal all of your profitability. I had a client come to me once with 600 units and he was making zero dollars in his business. How is that possible? That's exactly what I asked him. said, there's a previous podcast episode, you can check it out.   It's with Preston Brown. I think he was out in New Mexico and he had 250 units that probably they shouldn't been in his portfolio out of the 600. He fired them. It's almost half. Then he fired half of his staff. Now you think, oh, maybe his workload, his got kind of half. No, it went down dramatically like 80-20 rule. Like he had way more profitability available. He was making a lot of money then. He had a healthy business. So   It's not just about doors. It's about profit. It's about optimizing for the right things. There's no point going and getting more doors if your pricing is terrible, if your time is messy, if you don't have priorities set correctly. Okay, so what else do we run into with clients with time that we'd like to share here with the audience? I think the biggest thing that they tell themselves is just, I'm so busy.   Yeah.   piece of the business they're focused in, they always just say, my God, like I'm just so busy and I can never get everything done. That seems to be the thing that we hear again and again and again. I mean, we even had, he's a former client, but he had asked me several times. We were actually helping him implement his daily huddles after he hired a new team because he completed an acquisition. And he said, okay, what we're gonna track on the daily huddles.   He wanted a 98 or 97 % call answer rate. Optimizing for the wrong things. And I went, okay, I won't say his name, but I said, that's the worst idea I've ever heard. And he's like, no, it's really important that we answer the phone every time that it rings or almost every time that it rings. Because if we don't answer the phone, then people won't trust us because they can't get ahold of us. And then that shatters everything that I'm trying to do and everything that I'm trying to build.   And I think the big misconception is that those two things go hand in hand. For people to trust me, I must always be available. For people to trust me, I must be at their beck and call. For people to trust me, I must get back to them immediately. Okay, well some are freaking out right now. Some are going, I don't believe what Sarah's saying. Because the number one reason in most studies why people supposedly, why they leave property management companies is   a lack of communication or poor communication. Correct. But I think that's a red herring. You can over communicate, and we've had clients do this too. So you can over communicate. You can tell your clients every little single thing that you are doing in whichever method or manner you feel like is appropriate. So you can call them, you can text them, you can send them emails, you can have your system automatically send them notifications.   You can do whatever, but you can tell them, we did this today, and we did that today, and we did this many showings, and we got this many leads, and we're working on this many applications, and this 10 a call, and we did this, and this, this, this, this, this. Can we agree that that is excellent communication? Sure. Do you think that doing that though makes somebody more likely to trust you? I would argue that it doesn't. I would argue that it makes them   less likely to trust you. And the reason is because you're inviting them to babysit you. You're inviting them to be a watchdog. You're inviting them to question you and want to micromanage and monitor. And go, ⁓ what is Jason doing today? What did Jason do on my property today? How many of my tenants did Jason talk to you today?   ⁓ What about how many showings did Jason do today and then if all of a sudden? Well, why wasn't there a showing at my property today Jason? I don't understand now. It seems like he's not doing anything, right? So you're you're training people the wrong way by over Communicating with them and you are teaching them to not trust you because they are inherently Question you   So I love this because the idea in these surveys and a lot of people at NARPM and people in property management have said, communication is key. We answer the phone, which is cool. Answer the phone. You still don't need to optimize for reducing the phone calls. How do we eliminate as many as possible? And so I think it's a red herring. I think it's a false idea that communication is the number one reason because there's something that comes before communication.   and that is you set bad expectations, you set poor boundaries, that leads to anxiety in the tenants and the owners, and then communication becomes this crazy thing that they need more of instead of being able to trust you. The lack of trust is the real problem. It's not communication. There's plenty of investors out there that have good property managers that do not want to talk to them ever.   I just had Dustin Heiner on a previous episode of our podcast. Very savvy investor. Every investor listening to this should probably listen to that guy, a really good friend of ours. He goes and finds a property manager first before he finds a property and he says, I will even pay them a little bit more if I have to because I don't want to ever have to talk to them. I don't want to have to deal with the property. I want to be able to trust them to do job so I can just live my life. He wants it to be passive. He's a good investor.   You're creating bad investors and you're making them anxious by not setting healthy boundaries and setting expectations and making sure that they can trust you. And so they trust you less and less over time because they're anxious. And then what happens? Then they have to and call more and more and they have to babysit more and more. And then they have to watch over your shoulder and then they want more reports and then they want more communication. then it's this constant. And then you have to hire more people. Now they need more.   And now that they've had more, now that they're more anxious and they trust you even less, now they want more of that. And you're just getting in this cycle that's eventually going to be the death of you and your team and perhaps your entire business. It gets worse because yeah, you have to build out this whole team of people you don't even need. You hire a bunch of extra people and these people are not, like if you're hiring that many people, you can't afford to pay them all super well. So you're not getting the most amazing people.   And these are the frontline people that are dealing with your tenants and owners. And then they're frustrated with them because they don't have all the answers and they don't sound confident and competent. And so then they want to talk to you. And so you're getting escalations constantly. And so now you're having to talk with them even more to calm down the anxiety because Susie at the front desk had no clue what they were talking about. And then all of a sudden you have this whole team that's not capable of running the business without you.   So now everything is still coming to you, but you're paying everybody to do things and it doesn't matter because they do things, they fail, people aren't satisfied and they still go, yeah, but I'm still putting out all the fires all day. You're right, you are. And that's because of how you are training people. And you know you have the wrong team if one of your key questions is, why won't my team just think for themselves? If you constantly are asking that question, why won't they just think for themselves? It's because you.   have bad leadership. You've set it up incorrectly and you have not created the right team. You've built the wrong team around the wrong person. You're showing up as the wrong person. You're over involved and you have not been able to create, but you created the wrong environment. And that started with picking, know, setting up the game incorrectly with tenants and owners and not setting good boundaries and not setting good expectations. And it doesn't even mean that you have bad clients. No. It doesn't mean you have bad clients. You're making them bad.   bad properties, doesn't even mean that you have bad tenants, it just means that you're training them to treat you that way. And you're allowing them to treat you that way. And then you're wondering why it's so hard to manage them and why everyone goes, Sarah, how is it possible that you ran 260 units and you were part time? I just don't understand how it's possible. And most people wouldn't understand how it's possible because they're making so many mistakes.   with their time and throughout their entire day, that almost the entire day, I would be willing to bet that about 80 % or more of the average property manager's day is bullshit. Yeah. Complete bullshit. So that's why when you're spending most of your day doing stupid things, yeah, no wonder why I can outwork you. And it's not even hard to do. It's just hard when you're trying to do everything.   And it's hard when you're not training your team, your clients, your tenants. They're all like puppies. You just, have to train all of them. If you want a dog that's going to go to the bathroom outside, you've got to train it. If you want an owner that's going to trust you and not question you and not consistently bother you and wonder what's happening on my property today, you've got to train them to do that.   And some of them may have come to you with those intentions. And then because of how your system is set up, you broke that. And now they're just used to, okay, well, they're gonna tell me every day or every once a week. Now I'm gonna get on a phone call once a week. Here's our weekly call. Here's my weekly email. Yeah. There's several other things related at a time. One that I'll...   related to what Sarah's talking about is if your goals are too low, like your goal right now is a shitty goal, like your goal is survival, or how do I just deal with all this time? That's an awful goal. That goal yields really terrible results. That's not a goal that's going to get you to think differently. It's not a goal that's going to get you to innovate or find a better path or to be able to grow and scale dramatically faster. That's a really low level goal. And so it doesn't raise the floor high enough. And so you're dealing with all this low level garbage in your business.   And that relates to priorities. Time is not, everybody has the same amount of time. It's not about time. It's about prioritization, as we mentioned at the beginning. And so you are intentionally filling your, uses a golf ball analogy. Do you want to share that? No. No. Okay. Well, I'll just, but basically you're filling up, you're filling up your day with all of the riff raff and the little stuff instead of prioritizing the main thing. And so I'll share this.   You need to figure out what your biggest bottleneck is. Anything other than that, there's only one bottleneck in your business. There's always one. It's one at a time. That's your biggest constraint is the bottleneck. And you have to always focus on what is the bottleneck that I need to be dealing with right now. I recently heard Alex Hermosy talk about this and there's lots of different leaks and lots of different constraints in the business, but   You need to figure out where is the biggest bottleneck. That's the priority. You need to prioritize the right things. Right now you're prioritizing the wrong things. Go back, find a previous episode where I talk about the six core functions of business. That will help reveal to you which of those six is the priority. And then you can figure out where's the bottleneck inside of that area of the business, that constraint. These are like six children you need to feed and take care of. And I guarantee you've got your fat healthy favorite. You keep shoving.   food down its throat, and then you've got the other kids that are starving, emaciated, sitting in the corner that you're neglecting. And that means you're not prioritizing the right thing in the business. You're being a bad steward over your own business. And so you've got to make intelligent decisions based on where's the constraint, where's the bottleneck. And that's how you should prioritize your time. And the rest has to fit elsewhere. And you need to set boundaries for your own time because you're not productive.   as often as you're working if you're working a ridiculous amount of hours. Some of your hours are probably a tenth as productive as some of your early morning hours where you're sharp and you're working on things effectively. And so it's not about more time. It's about prioritizing and it's about being more productive and more effective. Some say working smarter instead of harder. And so if you would like to do that, reach out to Sudorgo. We can help you with that.   little bit more about bottlenecks and speaking of bottlenecks, a lot of property managers they end up telling us that maintenance is probably I would say arguably the biggest bottleneck in their entire business because everyone seems to struggle with maintenance and unfortunately it is part of being property manager but it's definitely the most time-consuming yeah   What if you could cut that workload by up to 85 % and even some of our clients have gotten up to 95 % automation for their maintenance coordination? that's exactly what Vendoroo has achieved because they've leveraged cutting edge AI technology to handle nearly all of your maintenance tasks. That's right.   From initiating work orders and troubleshooting to coordinating with vendors and reporting, the AI doesn't just automate, it becomes your ideal employee. It learns your preferences and executes tasks flawlessly, never needing a day off and not quitting. This frees you up to focus on the critical tasks that really move the needle for your business, whether that's refining your operations, expanding your portfolio, or even just taking a well-deserved break because we all need one of those.   Over half the room at last year's DoorGrow Live conference signed up with Vendoroo right then and there. One year later, they're not just satisfied. They're raving about how Vendoroo has transformed their business. Don't let maintenance drag you down. Step up your property management game with Vendoroo. You can visit vendero.ai slash door grow. That's vendero.ai slash door grow today to make this the last maintenance hire that you're ever going to need. All right.   There's the word from the sponsor. Okay, so yeah, there's a lot of different time hacks that we could get into. You know, we help coach clients on this all the time. It's always this constant excuse, oh, I don't have time to work on growing my business. If your business isn't growing, it's dying. And if you're just burning yourself out on the hamster wheel, thinking you're making progress, but you're not, and there's no focus on growth, that's a really   stressful drain. That's a really terrible goal. That's a survival goal. We've got to get you dreaming bigger. We've got to get you seeing bigger. We've got to get you prioritizing better. We've got to get you eliminating a lot of stuff that you're prioritizing and that you're optimizing for that doesn't even need to exist. There's a lot of work in your business right now that doesn't even need to exist. It's just being created because of bad boundaries and bad set up.   If you'd like some help with this, reach out to us at DoorGrow. Anything else you want to add about time? I would say time is not something that you feel like you have a plethora of as a property manager. Then that tells me there are some shifts that you can make, relatively simple shifts that you can make in your business. I will admit I was bored as a property manager. Yeah. Running.   260 C-class properties, I was part-time. I was bored. That's why I'm here at DoorGrow That's how I convinced her. I was like, you got some time? Come help us optimize things Most property managers don't say that they're bored throughout the day and don't go, geez, what am I going to do for the next eight hours? I have no idea what to do. If you would like to figure out how you can run your business in only a few hours a week, that's definitely something I can help you with and it's super fun for me.   I like helping people optimize their time because I know that I can make you a lot more money. And that's exciting for me. I like making people more money. So if that's something that you're struggling with, and if you feel like, hey, I would really love to learn how I can be a part-time property manager, making a lot of money and not pulling my hair out, not hitting my life, then contact us. We can chat with you.   our sales team would be very happy to answer any questions that you might have. this is one of the biggest things that we can do for you here at DoorGrow is clean up your time and then you get to use that time to make more money, yeah. To make more money. Perfect. So if you feel stuck, stagnant, you want to take things to the next level, visit us at doorgrow.com. Also join our free Facebook community. You can get to that by going to doorgrowclub.com.   We only let in business owners and property management companies. And if you want tips, tricks, ideas, and to learn about our offers, subscribe to our newsletter by going to doorgrow.com/subscribe And if you found this even a little bit helpful, don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review. We'd really appreciate it. It helps us out until next time. Remember the slowest path to growth is to do it alone. So let's grow together. Bye everyone.  

Your growth isn't stuck because of effort—it's the bottleneck you're not even seeing. If you're feeling stuck, you're not alone. I've been there—busy, burned out, and still flatlining revenue. In this video, I'll show you how to eliminate the noise and pinpoint the one true constraint that's silently limiting your growth. ------------------------------ Watch Next: Mastering Delegation | Learn to Let Go and Trust your Team to Grow Your Business https://youtu.be/RLH1B0XAh2Y ------------------------------ I'm bringing back the powerful “Theory of Constraints” and showing how we use it at Carrot (a 5x Inc. 5000 company) to fix the exact issue stalling growth. You'll get the same tool I give my EPIC clients to find their biggest bottleneck and crush it—fast. ------------------------------ Get my Business Growth Levels and EFF Graphics: https://trevormauch.com/freedom Follow me on Instagram: @trevor.mauch Evergreen Marketing Podcast: https://plnk.to/Carrot Join the Evergreen Marketing Facebook Group: community.carrot.com Take a demo of Carrot: https://carrot.com/choose-demo ------------------------------ Quotes from the Episode:

Every business owner starts their journey thinking they will find FREEDOM — more time, more flexibility, easier hours. But then, a decade later… every detail still runs through you, everything lives in your head, your team can't operate without you, and YOU become the bottleneck of your progress. In this episode of the HerBusiness podcast, I'm joined by Justeen Kirk of ISO Matters, a systems expert who has helped dozens of small business owners create the structure and clarity they need to run organised businesses. Here's What You'll Discover in the Episode: How to recognise the clear signs you've become the bottleneck in your business. The very first system you should take a look at and patch up, before anything else. How Justeen's Freedom Ladder shows you where you are NOW… and how to climb towards becoming a Visionary CEO. Reveal what is keeping you stuck through the concept of the Critical Ten processes. Why your perfectionism is HURTING your ability to systemise (and how to start systemising anyway). The ripple effects your systems have on confidence, leadership, creativity, and even staff retention. How ISO principles can be applied to any small business – without needing certification. And so, so much more… Justeen believes that structures should feel like a support system… not something to add more stress. She has worked with dozens of Australian businesses to move from scattered to supported, because systems are the foundation for freedom and growth. Mentioned in This Episode: The HerBusiness Network Check out the Self-Sustaining Business Blueprint program

Today I'm joined by Sanjiv Yajnik, President of Financial Services at Capital One. We cover why tech integrations are still the biggest challenge for F&I, how lenders are anticipating an EV market slowdown, why "6%" is the most important number in dealership leads and much more. This episode is brought to you by: 1. vAuto - As the industry's premier provider of end-to-end inventory management solutions, vAuto gives every dealer—from a single point store to the largest groups—the data, insights and tools they need to maximize returns from the new and used vehicle inventory investments. Known for its game-changing inventory management innovations, vAuto provides AI-powered predictive data science to help dealers see their future and consistently make the right, ROI-minded decisions with every vehicle they appraise, acquire, price and retail. Visit @ https://www.vauto.com 2. WarrCloud - Your warranty claims process shouldn't drain your profits—or your people. Our award-winning AI technology transforms OEM warranty processing, helping you capture every dollar you've earned. Dealers reduce costs, speed up reimbursements, and uncover new revenue opportunities—while consistently improving OEM claim scores. The future of fixed ops belongs to those who adapt. Let's talk about automating your warranty processing today by visiting @ https://warrcloud.com/get-an-analysis⁠ 3. Capital One – Many dealers believe digital tools can help boost sales. But early findings from a recent Capital One Auto survey revealed operational challenges dealers are still navigating and how trust is shaped. Listen for insights as to what's been uncovered and where the research is headed. Learn more: https://www.capitalone.com/cars/auto-financing/dealer Check out Car Dealership Guy's stuff: For dealers: Industry job board ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://jobs.dealershipguy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dealership recruiting ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.cdgrecruiting.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Fix your dealership's social media ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.trynomad.co⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Request to be a podcast guest ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.cdgguest.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For industry vendors: Advertise with Car Dealership Guy ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.cdgpartner.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Industry job board ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://jobs.dealershipguy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Request to be a podcast guest ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.cdgguest.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Topics: 00:51 Last year's predictions: right or wrong? 02:21 What is the future of EVs? 04:51 Dealerships' role in the EV transition? 07:28 How does tech create transparency? 13:45 Biggest tech integration challenges? 16:37 How to improve the F&I process? 23:13 How do downturns impact dealerships? 29:00 Best dealership tech stack recommendations? 40:34 Top predictions for dealerships' future? Car Dealership Guy Socials: X ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠x.com/GuyDealership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/cardealershipguy/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tiktok.com/@guydealership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linkedin.com/company/cardealershipguy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Threads ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠threads.net/@cardealershipguy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077402857683⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Everything else ➤ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠dealershipguy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Want the latest news, analysis, and price indices from power markets around the globe - delivered to your inbox, every week?Sign up for the Weekly Dispatch - Modo Energy's unmissable newsletter.California's clean energy story is often told through solar and batteries, but the real challenge isn't building the technology, it's connecting it. Across the state, schools, water districts, and city governments want to deploy microgrids to cut costs and boost resilience, yet many projects are stuck in interconnection queues, waiting years to come online. The result? Communities lose out on cheaper, cleaner power, and essential services remain exposed to grid instability.In this episode of Transmission, we hear from Ali Chehrehsaz, CEO of TerraVerde Energy, who has spent over 15 years helping California's public agencies navigate this landscape. He explains why interconnection has become the biggest bottleneck for solar and storage, how agencies can take control of their energy future, and what reforms are needed to deliver resilience at scale. It's a conversation about turning ambition into action and about building clean power where it matters most.Key topics covered:• Why interconnection, not incentives, is now the biggest barrier for solar and storage.• How microgrids can cut costs and strengthen resilience for schools, cities, and water districts.• The lessons from 15+ years of deploying clean energy in California.• Why public agencies are uniquely positioned to lead in the transition.• What reforms are needed to fix the queue and speed up deployment.About our guest: Ali Chehrehsazis CEO of TerraVerde Energy, advising public agencies across California on deploying microgrids, solar, and batteries to cut costs, improve resilience, and accelerate the clean energy transition. For more information on TerraVerde, head to their website.About Modo EnergyModo Energy helps the owners, operators, builders, and financiers of battery energy storage solutions understand the market - and make the most out of their assets.All of our interviews are available to watch or listen to on the Modo Energy site. To keep up with all of our latest updates, research, analysis, videos, conversations, data visualizations, live events, and more, follow us on LinkedIn. Check out The Energy Academy, our bite-sized video series breaking down how power markets work.

Want the latest news, analysis, and price indices from power markets around the globe - delivered to your inbox, every week?Sign up for the Weekly Dispatch - Modo Energy's unmissable newsletter.California's clean energy story is often told through solar and batteries, but the real challenge isn't building the technology, it's connecting it. Across the state, schools, water districts, and city governments want to deploy microgrids to cut costs and boost resilience, yet many projects are stuck in interconnection queues, waiting years to come online. The result? Communities lose out on cheaper, cleaner power, and essential services remain exposed to grid instability.In this episode of Transmission, we hear from Ali Chehrehsaz, CEO of TerraVerde Energy, who has spent over 15 years helping California's public agencies navigate this landscape. He explains why interconnection has become the biggest bottleneck for solar and storage, how agencies can take control of their energy future, and what reforms are needed to deliver resilience at scale. It's a conversation about turning ambition into action and about building clean power where it matters most.Key topics covered:• Why interconnection, not incentives, is now the biggest barrier for solar and storage.• How microgrids can cut costs and strengthen resilience for schools, cities, and water districts.• The lessons from 15+ years of deploying clean energy in California.• Why public agencies are uniquely positioned to lead in the transition.• What reforms are needed to fix the queue and speed up deployment.About our guest: Ali Chehrehsazis CEO of TerraVerde Energy, advising public agencies across California on deploying microgrids, solar, and batteries to cut costs, improve resilience, and accelerate the clean energy transition. For more information on TerraVerde, head to their website.About Modo EnergyModo Energy helps the owners, operators, builders, and financiers of battery energy storage solutions understand the market - and make the most out of their assets.All of our interviews are available to watch or listen to on the Modo Energy site. To keep up with all of our latest updates, research, analysis, videos, conversations, data visualizations, live events, and more, follow us on LinkedIn. Check out The Energy Academy, our bite-sized video series breaking down how power markets work.

In this episode of the Her Empire Builder Show, Tina Tower dives deep into the critical transition every successful entrepreneur faces—the CEO shift. Tina shares her own business milestones and the mindset and strategy changes that helped her break through growth ceilings, from $300k to $1M, and beyond. This episode is packed with actionable insights for course creators ready to level up and scale their businesses, all while protecting their lifestyle and energy. Resources: Join Her Empire Builder: https://www.herempirebuilder.com/join Free CEO Guide: DM Tina “shift” on Instagram or Facebook for her CEO shift worksheet and weekly CEO meeting guide. Recommended Article: “1000 True Fans” by Kevin Kelly. Tool: Monday.com for project management and systems. Key Topics Covered What Is the CEO Shift? Understanding how “what got you here won't get you there.” The difference between hustling to build your business, and shifting into a CEO mindset for scalable, sustainable growth. Finding your sweet spot for income, responsibility, and lifestyle. Milestone Markers and Personal Anecdotes Tina's evolution at $300k, $1M, and $2M revenue levels. Evaluating the cost versus joy of going to the next level in business. Early-Stage Must-Haves Grit and personal hustle: building momentum, forming connections, and delivering exceptional service. Embracing speed, overcoming perfectionism, and learning all roles in the business. The Bottleneck and the Shift Recognizing when your current approach has become the bottleneck. Letting go of “doing it all,” and learning to trust team, systems, and processes. Thinking Like a CEO Shifting from controlling everything to leading with vision and trust. From reacting to leading intentionally and trusting your own intuition. Letting go of the need to over-deliver out of guilt or fear. Optimizing for Scale Streamlining with systems, automations, and AI before hiring more team members. Auditing your role and workload to focus on high-impact tasks. Scheduling dedicated CEO time for strategic planning. Energy Management The importance of protecting your energy as the “engine” of your business. Creating habits and boundaries for sustainability and joy. Common Traps That Keep Course Creators Stuck Believing no one can do it as well as you can. Over-delivering from guilt/fear. Equating busyness with importance. Confusing growth with scalable leverage. Action Steps Audit and delegate tasks. Start documenting and automating systems. Schedule regular CEO reflection/planning time. Clarify your vision and align your offers and audience. Protect your energy with self-care and clear boundaries. You didn't come this far to stay small. Define what your next level looks like, align your actions, and don't stop until you get there. Consistency and evolution are the keys to building a brilliant business and lifestyle.   Where to find Tina: Her Empire Builder: https://www.herempirebuilder.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tina_tower/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@herempirebuilder

Andrew Feldman is Co-Founder & CEO of Cerebras, building the world's fastest AI inference and training. Cerebras recently closed a $1.1BN Series G round at an $8.1 billion valuation, backed by top names including Fidelity, Atreides, Tiger Global, Valor Equity and 1789 Capital. Under his leadership, they've leapfrogged GPU limits in inference, operate at trillions of tokens per month, and are filing to go public soon. AGENDA: 02:43 Why We Did Not IPO and Raised $1BN From Fidelity 05:03 Analysis of Chip and Compute Landscape Today 07:14 NVIDIA Showing Signs They Are Running Out of Ideas 13:57 The Real Questions to Ask on Chip Depreciation 24:54 Energy Requirements for AI: Is it Feasible? 29:25 Mag7 Value Concentration: Feature or a Bug 31:57 Talent is the Bottleneck and Trump Makes it Worse 32:55 The War for Talent: Secrets No One Sees 34:22 Evaluating the Data Centre Economy: Many Will Lose Money 38:01 Three Changes the US Could Make to Beat China in AI 42:30 Why 80% of our Revenues are in the UAE 47:26 Quick Fire Questions 58:59 Why Work Life Balance is Total BS  

Can you really delegate out when you are your business? Don't people hire you to work with…well, you? That's the question Justin Moore and I wrestle with. We talk about the challenge of running personality-driven businesses, why it's so hard to step away, and how to build a company that serves your life instead of consuming it.Justin shares how he's built a coaching business with a team he trusts, why impact is his North Star, and the mindset shift that helped him let go of control. We also get real about balancing work with family time, the guilt that comes with stepping away, and why building a lifestyle business is just as valid as chasing a big exit.Things get real – it's something all business owners need to think about. Wondering how you can step away from your business? Take the Business Overwhelm Diagnostic.Top TakeawaysUse a North Star mission (like impact) to guide decisions about hiring, delegating, and growth.Letting go of control is a mindset shift—delegating doesn't dilute your business, it expands your reach.A lifestyle business is not a failure; you don't have to build for an exit if you love the work.Balancing work and family isn't about hacks—it's about daily choices to be present in the moment.Show NotesSponsor Magnet Podcast (hosted by Justin and me)Sponsor Magnet (Book)Creator WizardKey Person of Influence (Book by Daniel Priestley)Write Useful Books (by Rob Fitzpatrick)One to Many: The Secret to Webinar Success (by Jason Fladlien)CEX (Creator Economy Expo)Lulu (Publishing)What do you think? Send your feedback to streamlinedfeedback.com ★ Support this podcast ★

Today Eoghan McCabe and Fergal Reid of Intercom join The Cognitive Revolution to discuss building their AI customer service agent Fin, exploring how they achieved a 65% resolution rate through rigorous optimization and custom model training rather than relying on base model improvements, while pioneering outcome-based pricing at $0.99 per resolution. Shownotes brought to you by Notion AI Meeting Notes - try one month for free at: https://notion.com/lp/nathan Sponsors: Linear: Linear is the system for modern product development. Nearly every AI company you've heard of is using Linear to build products. Get 6 months of Linear Business for free at: https://linear.app/tcr AGNTCY: AGNTCY is dropping code, specs, and services. Visit AGNTCY.org. Visit Outshift Internet of Agents Claude: Claude is the AI collaborator that understands your entire workflow and thinks with you to tackle complex problems like coding and business strategy. Sign up and get 50% off your first 3 months of Claude Pro at https://claude.ai/tcr Shopify: Shopify powers millions of businesses worldwide, handling 10% of U.S. e-commerce. With hundreds of templates, AI tools for product descriptions, and seamless marketing campaign creation, it's like having a design studio and marketing team in one. Start your $1/month trial today at https://shopify.com/cognitive PRODUCED BY: https://aipodcast.ing CHAPTERS: (00:00) About the Episode (03:43) Keeping Up With AI (09:56) Evaluating Models and Evals (13:04) Incumbents vs. Startups (18:54) Product Risk and Judgment (Part 1) (19:00) Sponsors: Linear | AGNTCY (21:34) Product Risk and Judgment (Part 2) (23:42) The Klarna Layoff Story (Part 1) (32:11) Sponsors: Claude | Shopify (36:13) The Klarna Layoff Story (Part 2) (36:14) Driving Resolution Rate (45:00) Intelligence Isn't the Bottleneck (50:10) Closing the Automation Gap (56:20) Human vs. AI Accuracy (01:01:03) The Nuance of Speed (01:04:48) Considering Paradigm Changes (01:09:31) Outcome-Based Pricing Model (01:19:12) Casual Hacking and Insights (01:26:05) AI Adoption and Ambition (01:36:00) Outro

In this episode of Disruption/Interruption, host KJ interviews JB Baker, VP of Marketing and Product Management at ScaleFlux. They dive deep into the challenges and innovations in data storage and memory for AI workloads, discuss the hidden costs of data center inefficiency, and explore how ScaleFlux is disrupting the industry with advanced flash storage solutions. JB also shares insights from his endurance athlete mindset and offers advice for innovators. Key Takeaways: The Data Bottleneck in AI (2:01) The biggest challenge in AI infrastructure is not processing power, but storage and memory that can't keep up with demand. Hidden Costs in Data Centers (7:12) Up to 40% of data center power is spent on cooling, not processing, leading to massive inefficiencies and costs. ScaleFlux’s Disruptive Solution (15:38) ScaleFlux’s custom SSD controllers enable real-time data compression in hardware, doubling performance and reducing costs for enterprises. Endurance Mindset in Business (23:18) JB applies lessons from endurance sports to business, emphasizing persistence and continuous improvement as keys to innovation. Quote of the Show (3:41):"Those cores can process so much more data per second and so much more data per watt. But when the entire infrastructure isn't balanced, you're losing out on these efficiencies. And so there it is, creating hidden costs." — JB Baker Join our Anti-PR newsletter where we’re keeping a watchful and clever eye on PR trends, PR fails, and interesting news in tech so you don't have to. You're welcome. Want PR that actually matters? Get 30 minutes of expert advice in a fast-paced, zero-nonsense session from Karla Jo Helms, a veteran Crisis PR and Anti-PR Strategist who knows how to tell your story in the best possible light and get the exposure you need to disrupt your industry. Click here to book your call: https://info.jotopr.com/free-anti-pr-eval Ways to connect with JB Baker: LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jbbaker https://scaleflux.com How to get more Disruption/Interruption: Amazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/eccda84d-4d5b-4c52-ba54-7fd8af3cbe87/disruption-interruption Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disruption-interruption/id1581985755 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6yGSwcSp8J354awJkCmJlDSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So many entrepreneurs hit a point where the business they built for freedom begins to feel more like a burden than anything else. In this episode of The Kelly Roach Show, Kelly shares how to identify and break through the hidden bottlenecks keeping your company heavy, hard, and slow. Instead of chasing external fixes, Kelly reveals why INTERNAL reinvention is the true path to sustainable growth and freedom. This episode is all about how to simplify your systems, strip your business down to essentials, and stop tolerating the things holding you back so you can move with speed, agility, and clarity. Timestamps: 2:30 – The cumulative effect of years of layering systems, policies, and infrastructure that create bottlenecks. 4:45 – The #1 natural advantage of entrepreneurs: agility and speed. 6:15 – How bottlenecks kill momentum and why reinvention must start from the inside out. 8:20 – An exercise you can follow 10:30 – Why hustling works when building to $1M but not when you're growing from $2.5M to $10M. 12:15 – Cutting expenses, offers, systems, and staff down to essentials. Resources Download Kelly's FREE Reinvention Playbook: https://thekellyroach.com/reinvention Join The Virtual Business School membership for real-time, hands-on business growth support- all for just $59/month, no contract! https://go.virtualbusinessschool.com/virtualbusinessschool-page-3054    Follow Kelly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellyroachofficial/           Follow Kelly on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kelly.roach.520/      Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyroachint/  

Feeling like you're doing everything in your business... and wondering how you could possibly scale? This episode is a must-listen if you're stuck in the messy middle, juggling growth, orders, marketing, customer service and everything else. You're not alone, and you're not doing it wrong. But something has to shift if you're going to grow and stay sane. We cover: How to spot when you've become the bottleneck (and what to do next) Why your growth will plateau if you don't let go of low-value tasks What real CEO-level focus looks like in a product-based business A simple mindset shift that helps you delegate (without panic) The difference between hiring help and actually freeing up your time If you're maxed out and feel like scaling is impossible, this episode will help you see what's really getting in the way and how to start shifting it. ✨ Want help stepping into your CEO role and scaling smarter? The 7-Figure Scale Collective is where we do exactly this. Apply here: www.jodieminto.com/mastermind Links & Resources

Send us a textHealthcare sits on mountains of valuable data, but compliance bottlenecks prevent organizations from unlocking its potential.In this Executive Feature episode of Caretalk, Shubh Sinha, CEO and co-founder of Integral, explains how his company is changing that by treating data infrastructure and compliance as one unified system rather than separate processes.

Podcast Episode: Constraints vs. Bottlenecks — What's Really Holding Your Business BackMost solopreneurs waste precious energy trying to run their business the way “big brands” do—with funnels, avatars, and endless content grind. In this pop-up episode of Creative on Purpose Live, Scott Perry reframes how to think about constraints and bottlenecks so you can reclaim time, focus on what actually moves the needle, and build a business that funds and fits your life.You'll discover:* Why constraints (time, attention, money, energy, identity, reputation) aren't bad—they're the non-negotiable limits that shape reality.* How to identify bottlenecks (solvable choke points) and decide whether to eliminate, relieve, or redesign around them.* The danger of false dependencies—websites, funnels, launches—that complicate instead of clarify.* Why raising the floor on weak system components beats pushing the ceiling on what already works.* How conversation-led client attraction can outperform the best funnel—without ads or grind.Resources & Next Steps:Click the link below to read the article.* Click here to subscribe to Transcendent Solopreneurship for weekly insights and ongoing community conversations: * Want direct clarity on your #1 90-day priority? Take a bolder step with the free 5-question Catalyst Exchange (coaching by email). Reply “Catalyst” to Scott at scott@creativeonpurpose.com.This episode will help you simplify, focus, and build a business that doesn't just make money but makes sense.Prefer to watch? Click below for the video replay. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativeonpurpose.substack.com/subscribe

Nick and Michael are back, and this time, they're pulling no punches. In this candid and timely episode, they tackle one of the most sensitive but critical issues in urgent care marketing: knowing when your internal marketer has become a blocker, not a builder.Whether you're dealing with a family-hired marketer, an emotionally tied team member, or someone simply out of their depth, this conversation is for you.Drawing from real stories and recent client experiences, Nick and Michael unpack:

Success in online coaching isn't just about strategy—it's about avoiding the traps that quietly kill your momentum.In this episode, Kendra reveals the five biggest killers of your success, from avoiding a niche and overthinking every move, to juggling too many offers and waiting until you feel “ready.”She explains why simplicity beats complexity, how delegation frees you from being the bottleneck, and why taking action (even imperfect action) is the real driver of growth.Packed with tough love and practical insights, this episode will help you spot what's holding you back and give you the clarity to move forward with confidence.In this episode we cover:Business Killer #1: Niche Avoidance Syndrome (01:24)Business Killer #2: Overthinking-itis (13:10)Business Killer #3: Shiny Offer Addiction (18:24)Business Killer #4: Waiting to be Ready Trap (25:14)Business Killer #5: DIY Until I Die Syndrome (30:15) Resources:Episode 280 - [BEST OF] A Cautionary Tale About Your NicheEpisode 119 - The Truth About Your Niche StatementEpisode 182 - Masterclass: How To Find Your Profitable NicheEpisode 71 - Can You Have More Than One Niche? Watch this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/e8oNrdYou4E Leave the podcast a 5-star review: https://ratethispodcast.com/wealthy

On this episode of The Pilates Business Podcast, host Seran Glanfield dives into the systems and structures every boutique fitness business needs to run smoothly — even when you're not there. If you feel like you are your Pilates studio (answering emails, fixing schedules, handling payroll, and putting out fires), this episode will show you why that approach is unsustainable and what you can do about it. Seran shares how building the right systems not only reduces chaos and burnout but also improves client retention, empowers your team, and sets your business up for real growth. This is the path to a Pilates studio that feels lighter, more sustainable, and much more profitable.Got a question for Seran? Add it here

Still running every meeting and answering every Slack ping? Blake Oliver talks with Chase Damiano of Human at Scale about escaping founder bottlenecks. Learn a six-part delegation framework (responsibility, purpose, success, process, resources, decisions), turn 1:1s into leadership labs, build a team responsibility inventory and a delegation roadmap, and see why great prompts mirror great delegation. Leave with practical steps to hand off meetings, elevate decision-making, and reclaim time for strategy and growth.Chapters(01:17) - Chase's Sabbatical and Transformation (02:36) - Challenges of Rapid Growth and Burnout (03:28) - Finding Purpose and Slowing Down (13:59) - Effective Delegation Strategies (19:11) - Delegation Example: Managing Team Meetings (25:16) - Approval for Meeting Cancellations (25:37) - Delegation Framework Explained (26:02) - Addressing Delegation Failures (30:48) - Team Responsibility Inventory (32:56) - Delegation Roadmap (36:28) - Defining Success in Delegation (42:11) - Encouraging Decision-Making Autonomy (49:21) - Human at Scale: Transforming Operations (51:51) - Conclusion and Next Steps Sign up to get free CPE for listening to this podcasthttps://earmarkcpe.comhttps://earmark.app/Download the Earmark CPE App Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earmark-cpe/id1562599728Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earmarkcpe.appConnect with Our Guest, Chase DamianoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chasedamiano/Learn more about Human at Scalehttps://humanatscale.com/https://humanatscale.com/assessmentConnect with Blake Oliver, CPALinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blaketoliverTwitter: https://twitter.com/blaketoliver/

Today's episode we speak about the how ego could be your biggest bottleneck If anything I said landed and you want to take action on it I have a FREE video explaining the 6 biggest blindspots I see high performing men make! If you are ambitious lad and want perform better in all areas of life and improve by 1% then drop me a message With the number "6" and I will send it over Get me on whatsapp +44 7565 270506 or on Instagram  You have zero to lose and everything to gain

You're working 60+ hours a week, racking up business debt from marketing that isn't working, and you haven't even put yourself on payroll. Every time you try to scale, you hit the same ceiling—more clients means more personal delivery time, which means less time for marketing, which means your pipeline dries up. In this episode, I walk you through a real case study of Jay, a Zoho consultant who thought he had a sales problem but was actually trapped in what I call a "capacity spiral." I'll show you the exact diagnostic process that revealed his true bottleneck and how we restructured his business to increase revenue while working with clients he actually enjoys. You'll learn why you can't hustle your way past structural constraints and discover the three-step framework that transforms overwhelmed consultants into profitable business owners.Resources and LinksPaulhigginsmentoring.comPrevious episode: 634 - Stop Being the Bottleneck and Build Leaders Instead with Rachel PlowmanCheck out more episodes of the Paul Higgins PodcastSubscribe to our YouTube channel: @PaulHigginsMentoringJoin our newsletterSuggested resources

What if your greatest strength as a CEO is also your biggest limitation? In this episode of The Enlightened Executive, Susan Drumm sits down with Allison Maslan, aserial entrepreneur, author, and CEO of Pinnacle Global Network, to explore a critical challenge most high-performing leaders face: 

Why you should listenRachel Plowman shares her authentic 9-month journey transitioning from project manager to COO at radianHub, offering real-world insights for anyone considering or navigating a leadership promotion in their consulting business.Learn practical strategies for managing P&L responsibility, project profitability analysis, and time tracking systems that actually work without crushing team morale.Discover how to successfully delegate while maintaining quality standards, plus proven approaches for client relationship transitions during organizational changes.You might be wondering how to develop leadership within your team or whether your current team members can handle bigger responsibilities. In this episode, I talk with Rachel Plowman, COO of radianHub, who shares her transition from project manager to COO over 9 months. We dive into the real challenges of taking on P&L responsibility, managing project profitability, and building systems that support growth. Rachel provides concrete examples of how they improved margins, implemented effective time tracking, and navigated client relationship transitions during her promotion.About Rachel PlowmanRachel has been in information technology for much of her career, with 5 SFDC certifications. After beginning her career in financial services, she quickly transitioned into product ownership and project management with an emphasis on business analysis and software consulting. She has been in the Salesforce ecosystem as a consultative project manager and business analyst, while raising her family and enjoying life beyond software development.Resources and LinksRadianhub.comRachel's LinkedIn profile531 – Gearing Up for a Sale with Russell BadgettRight Click PromptPrevious episode: 633 - From 10% to 50% LinkedIn Acceptance Rates with Oleg SobolevCheck out more episodes of the Paul Higgins PodcastSubscribe to our YouTube channel: @PaulHigginsMentoringJoin our newsletterSuggested resources

If your business collapses the moment you go on vacation, you don't have leaders—you have helpers. In this episode of the Opt-In Podcast, Melissa Franks, your On Call COO, unpacks the hard truth about bottlenecks in small businesses and why your growth may be stalling because you are in the way.Melissa shares real client stories of founders who couldn't unplug, explains the signs that you might be the bottleneck, and introduces a practical framework for building a team that can operate independently—whether you're in the office, on vacation, or preparing your business for a future sale.You'll learn:How to recognize if you're holding your business back.The four-part framework for creating a self-sufficient team:Clear roles and accountabilityDefined decision rightsSystems and SOPsLeadership developmentWhy empowering your team to lead (not just help) is the fastest path to freedom, growth, and long-term business value.By the end, you'll know the exact steps to start shifting from being the bottleneck to becoming the visionary leader your business actually needs.

Are you secretly holding your franchise back? In this episode, Erik reveals how he became the bottleneck in his own businesses—and the hard lessons that helped him break free. From scaling mistakes to fixing bad decisions, discover the truth every franchisee must face if they want to grow profitably.   ⏱️ Timestamps   00:00 – How franchisees sabotage their own teams 02:45 – Why scaling back can actually grow profits 04:25 – The nightmare of “Store #3” 06:15 – The pricing mistake that killed momentum 07:58 – Spotting the “underperformer clubs” 10:26 – Why you need to step OUT of your locations 12:15 – How sabbaticals reveal hidden weaknesses 14:34 – Don't follow the loudest voices in franchising 17:59 – The real definition of winning in business 19:43 – Why paid ads can't fix broken operations 22:35 – Stop focusing on what you can't change 25:53 – Franchisees & franchisors: more aligned than you think   Connect with Erik Van Horn:

In this Mission Matters episode, Adam Torres interviews Jesse Gilmore, Founder of Niche in Control. Jesse explains why most agency bottlenecks start with the founder, not demand, and walks through his Leverage for Growth framework. He shares a practical time audit plus a 4-step method—Eliminate, Automate, Delegate, Time-block—to free capacity, build systems, and scale from operator to visionary. Jesse also highlights his book, The Agency Owner's Guide to Freedom, which provides mindset shifts and strategies to help founders buy back their time and build businesses that run without them. Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule. Apply to be a guest on our podcast: https://missionmatters.lpages.co/podcastguest/ Visit our website: https://missionmatters.com/ More FREE content from Mission Matters here: https://linktr.ee/missionmattersmedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, I uncover the real cost of being the bottleneck in your organization. I challenge CEOs to recognize how getting stuck in daily tasks prevents them from focusing on their true responsibilities—developing their teams and shaping strategic vision. By examining how they spend their time, leaders can see the hidden ways they may be slowing down both their own growth and their company's. I break down the financial, organizational, and personal costs of this bottleneck effect, sharing real-world examples from my coaching practice. More importantly, I offer strategies to break free, shift from operational overload to empowered leadership, and unlock true scalability. Listeners are also invited to a free training designed to accelerate this transformation.

Welcome to the Celestial Insights Podcast, the show that brings the stars down to Earth! Each week, astrologer, coach, and intuitive Celeste Brooks of Astrology by Celeste will be your guide. Her website is astrologybyceleste.com.  

Learn how to build systems that make your business run smoothly without you being involved in everything If you're bringing in good revenue but somehow your profits keep getting smaller, this episode is for you. Look, most of us focus on getting more clients and making more sales, but here's what I've learned - your biggest problem might be in how you're actually managing your projects. In this episode, Gray MacKenzie shows us why agencies are working harder but making less money, and the simple systems that can help you stop being the bottleneck in everything your team does. Gray MacKenzie runs Zen Pilot and has worked with over 3,000 agencies. He's the highest-rated ClickUp expert in the world, so when he talks about project management, I listen. What I love about Gray is he gets that we entrepreneurs hate being micromanaged, but we also can't keep running our businesses like everything's on fire. This guy has helped agency owners discover they were actually losing money for 10 years on website projects without even knowing it. His thing is showing business owners exactly why their teams say they're busy all the time but the profits aren't matching the work being done. KEY TAKEAWAYS: How poor management is secretly draining your profits How to track what projects actually cost so you stop losing money on services without realizing it Why you need to reserve 25-50% of your time for unplanned work instead of trying to schedule every minute How to use team task assignments as data to understand why you're constantly exhausted Why bad project management will kill your growth faster than client acquisition problems How to build the culture you want by enforcing standards, not just talking about them Why switching project management tools every two years won't solve your real problems How to spot when "I'm too busy" actually means "we can't see what's happening" Growing your business is hard, but it doesn't have to be. In this podcast, we will be discussing top level strategies for both growing and expanding your business beyond seven figures. The show will feature a mix of pure content and expert interviews to present key concepts and fundamental topics in a variety of different formats. We believe that this format will enable our listeners to learn the most from the show, implement more in their businesses, and get real value out of the podcast. Enjoy the show. Please remember to rate, review and subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss any future episodes. Your support and reviews are important and help us to grow and improve the show. Follow Charles Gaudet and Predictable Profits on Social Media: Facebook: facebook.com/PredictableProfits Instagram: instagram.com/predictableprofits Twitter: twitter.com/charlesgaudet LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/charlesgaudet Visit Charles Gaudet's Wesbites: www.PredictableProfits.com

EPISODE SUMMARY Feeling overwhelmed by everything on your plate? From client work to admin to endless content creation, it can feel like there's never enough time in the day. The logical next step seems to be hiring help, but without a strategy, you can end up with more chaos, more payroll, and not necessarily more freedom. In this episode, Natalie breaks down how to hire like a founder - strategically, intentionally, and for ROI. You'll learn how to identify the real bottleneck in your business (whether it's admin, delivery, or sales), when to choose a person versus an AI tool, and how to design roles around outcomes instead of to-do lists. If you've been stuck in panic hiring or paralyzed by the fear of building a big team, this conversation will show you how one smart hire (or system) can unlock the next level of growth without adding unnecessary overhead. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Why you don't need a big team to scale, you just need the right hire 01:13 - The danger of panic hiring and how it keeps you stuck 02:36 - The real question to ask before you ever post a job description 03:27 - Bottleneck #1: Admin and operations (why AI might be your best first hire) 04:49 - Bottleneck #2: Delivery and fulfillment + how to systematize or bring in specialists 06:16 - Bottleneck #3: Sales and traffic: why this requires a different kind of support 07:51 - The simple audit that reveals your true bottleneck 09:14 - How to define roles around results, not tasks 10:36 - Why ownership (not just assistance) creates real ROI 11:47 - Teaching every hire to connect their work to revenue 12:16 - The clarity test before you hire anyone 13:36 - The real goal: leverage, freedom, and growth RESOURCES + LINKS Want to know if your next move should be hiring a person or implementing AI? Download the FREE One Smart Hire AI prompt here and get instant clarity on your biggest business bottleneck. Join The Société: Build Your Freedom-Based Business™ With Systems, Templates, Coaching + Community. Just $97/Month. Imagine Having Natalie As Your CMO, On Call 24/7 To Help You Make The Right Moves In Your Business. That's Exactly What You Get With Bossbabe AI The Freedom Engine™: AI-Powered Strategy And Systems That Show You What To Sell, How To Sell It, And How To Scale - Without All The Guesswork. Learn More And Unlock It Here. Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter & Get Insights From Natalie Every Single Week On All Things Strategy, Motherhood, Business Growth + More. Drop Us A Review On The Podcast + Send Us A Screenshot & We'll Send You Natalie's 7-Figure Operating System Completely FREE (value $1,997).

Billions are being poured into healthcare AI, yet most innovations never make it past pilot projects. Why? And more importantly—how do we fix it? In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we sit down with Marco Smit, serial entrepreneur, life sciences executive, and AI commercialization expert. With leadership experience at Roche, Genentech, Gesund.ai, CareSyntax, and now Domelabs.ai, Marco has seen the full spectrum of healthcare AI—from hype to hard-earned success. He shares why so many organizations fall victim to “pilotitis”, the critical role of AI governance, and how startups and health systems can build scalable, evidence-driven solutions that actually deliver ROI. From navigating the complex regulatory landscape to choosing the right investors and partners, Marco offers a pragmatic playbook for moving AI from the lab to real clinical impact. Whether you're a startup founder, health system innovator, or medtech investor, this episode is packed with actionable insights on avoiding hype, accelerating adoption, and building AI solutions that last.

Breaking into the medical device market is hard enough, but what happens when patient demand for your product far exceeds what clinics can deliver? For many MedTech companies, this bottleneck quietly stalls growth, even when the device works brilliantly and patients are eager to use it. In this week's episode, sponsored by Physician Growth Accelerator, we talk with Sahil Diwan, co-founder and CEO of SafKan Health, the company behind OtoSet, the world's first automated ear-cleaning headphones and the only FDA-cleared earwax removal device that works in just 30 seconds. Sahil reveals why most medical device companies don't do enough direct-to-consumer marketing, how patient education can unlock untapped market potential, and what it takes to turn an underutilized product into a growth phenomenon. What we discuss in the episode: The surprising scale of the earwax problem—and why it's often underserved How OtoSet went from early clinic adopters to viral social media sensation The capacity constraints that limit device utilization in provider settings Building a certified clinic network and launching company-owned centers Why going direct to the patient can create a powerful growth flywheel Lessons for MedTech leaders on marketing, patient education, and market access Resources from this episode:  Get the free MedTech Talk Tracks for Action Visit OtoSet Social Media:  Connect with Sahil on LinkedIn Connect with Zed on LinkedIn

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