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Tim Francis

Tim Francis

Tim Francis

What if burnout isn't caused by working too hard but by working on the wrong things for too long? In this episode, Tim Francis joins Russ and Joey to share the unexpected turning point that forced him to rethink success, productivity, and the role of the entrepreneur in their own life. From financial collapse and physical breakdown to rebuilding through systems and delegation, this conversation reveals what it really takes to protect your energy while scaling a business.The conversation also explores the mindset shift required to avoid burnout and shares practical tools, including time audits, productivity systems, and delegation frameworks, that help entrepreneurs regain control of their time and energy.Top three things you will learn: -Burnout is often a systems problem, not a workload problem-Eliminate, automate, delegate is the core framework for time freedom-The entrepreneur is the number one asset in any businessAbout Our Guest:Tim Francis is an award-winning entrepreneur from Canada and the founder of ProfitFactory.com and GreatAssistant.com. In 2011, Tim was struck by a rare illness, leaving him unable to walk for 3 months. He nearly went bankrupt and was forced to restart. Tim promised himself he'd “never be a burnout entrepreneur again,” a driving motivation that led to the creation of Profit Factory.Today, Tim helps entrepreneurs transition from Business Operator to Business Owner, helping them successfully arrange, then delegate to a production team around them. Entrepreneurs appreciate their newfound freedom to work ON the business, take time off, travel, or start other ventures.Disclaimer: The opinions expressed on this podcast are solely those of the hosts and guests and do not constitute financial advice. Always consult a licensed professional for financial decisions.This episode is sponsored by a podcast show partner. We may receive compensation if you use links or services mentioned in this episode.The hosts may have a financial interest in the programs or services mentioned in this episode.Connect with Tim Francis:- Website - TimeFreedom.ProfitFactory.com/WWWS- Website - https://greatassistant.com/applyBuild a Passive Income Machine in 3 Steps:Here's how to flip the script and start building wealth the way the wealthy do

A Cradle Catholic's Long Road Home Tim Francis grew up in New Carlisle, Ohio, in a faithful Catholic household — but by the time he reached college at Ohio State, the faith took a back seat to partying and eventually substance abuse. His journey into addiction in his early twenties set him on a dark path that would last years. The Mom Who Kept Praying While Tim was drifting, his mother Patricia Ann was praying — rosaries, Mass, Holy Hours, prayer journals, and letter campaigns. She was sending Tim cassette tapes of Scott Hahn's conversion story as early as 1988, even when he wasn't remotely interested. She never pushed, never gave up, and never stopped interceding. A Slow, Surprising Return Tim's path back to the Church wound through a megachurch Bible study, debates with Catholic apologists Tim Staples and Father Mitch Pacwa held in his own living room, and a stunning Fox documentary on a woman with the stigmata — a tape his mother sent him. Each thread, years apart, was quietly part of the same answer to the same prayers. The Book — and What Came From It Tim is the author of From the Crack House to God's House: The Power of a Mother's Prayer, a raw and honest account of his journey that he says will make you "hate me and love my mom." He also has a new book in the works: The Men Who Knew the Apostles, expected out within the month. A Message for Moms with Kids Away from the Church Tim's direct word to Catholic moms: don't stop praying. Use every tool available — including the stigmata documentary his mother sent him, available on his website — and ask the Holy Spirit to go before your children as they watch it. Learn more and find the stigmata video at ScienceTestFaith.com #CatholicWomenNow #TimFrancis #PowerOfPrayer #CatholicMom #PrayingMom #RosaryWorks #CatholicFaith #FromTheCrackHouseToGodsHouse #CatholicConversion #IowasCatholicRadio #CatholicSpeaker #MothersPrayer #CatholicTestimony #ComingHomeToCatholic #ScienceTestFaith Listen Live · Program Schedule · Our StationsLINKSYou can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Tiktok! More on our website.If you would like to support Iowa Catholic Radio you can donate Here! More from Iowa Catholic Radio:Sunday Dive with Katie PatrizioMan Up! with Joe StopulosCatholic Women Now with Chris Magruder and Julie NelsonThe Uncommon Good with Bo Bonner and Dr. Bud MarrBe Not Afraid with Fr. Fabian Moncada and Fr. Bruce RiebeBe Not Afraid en Español con el P. Fabián MoncadaMaking it Personal with Bishop William JoensenFaith and Family Finance with Gregory WaddleThe Great Men of the Bible with Joe Stopulos Liturgy & DevotionsThe Daily Gospel Reflection with Fr. Nick SmithThe Daily Mass from St. Francis of AssisiThe Daily Mass from St. Pius XThe Daily Mass from St. TheresaSunday Mass from the Basilica of Saint JohnWant to support your favorite show? Click Here Iowa Catholic Radio - Connecting People to Christ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

"I had three questions. Is it real? If it is real, is it from God? If it is from God, what does it mean?” ---------- Arguments about faith can sound a lot like the Genesis song “That's All” — “Well, I could say day, you'd say night. Tell me it's black when I know that it's white.” We debate Eucharist, Church authority, and who's “right,” but God's desire is simple: a relationship. This week, Tim Francis shares how God broke through his skepticism. Raised Catholic but long fallen away, Tim joined a Texas megachurch until his persistent mom sent him miracle videos—including an Australian documentary of a Bolivian woman who precisely predicted both the day and the hour that the stigmata of Christ would appear upon her body. This, among other encounters, reignited Tim's faith. For the past 15 years, Tim has traveled the country, leading countless young people back to God through the miraculous—just as God once awakened him. Enjoy the podcast! ---------- Share Your Story If you have a Touched by Heaven moment that you would like to share with Trapper, please leave us a note at https://touchedbyheaven.net/contact Our listeners look forward to hearing about life-changing encounters and miraculous stories every week. Stay Informed Trapper sends out a weekly email. If you're not receiving it, and would like to stay in touch to get the bonus stories and other interesting content that will further fortify your faith. Join our email family by subscribing on https://trapperjackspeaks.com  Become a Patron We pray that our listeners and followers benefit from our podcasts and programs and develop a deeper personal relationship with God. We thank you for your prayers and for supporting our efforts by helping to cover the costs. Become a Patron and getting lots of fun extras. Please go to https://patreon.com/bfl to check out the details. More About Trapper Jack Visit Our Website: https://TrapperJackSpeaks.com Patreon Donation Link: https://www.patreon.com/bfl Purchase our Products ·       Talk Downloads: https://www.patreon.com/bfl/shop ·       CD Sales: https://trapperjackspeaks.com/cds/  Join us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/TouchedByHeaven.TrapperJack Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trapperjack/ Join us on X/Twitter: https://x.com/TrapperJack1  

Hour 3 for 10/10/25 Drew finishes his conversation with Tim Francis about skepticism and science and faith (3:09). He is then joined by Dr. John Littell as they discuss infertility (12:50), and the problematic COVID vaccine (28:33). Tim Francis: https://sciencetestsfaith.com/ Dr. John Littell: https://www.johnlittellmd.com/

Hour 2 for 10/10/25 Drew prays the Chaplet of Divine Mercy with Brooke Taylor (6:12). Drew is then joined by Tim Francis who talks about Science and Faith and his journey towards God (34:36). Later, Tim discusses miracles influencing skeptics to become believers (42:16) Tim Francis: https://sciencetestsfaith.com/

In this episode of The Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast, I sit down with Tim Francis, founder of Great Assistant. Tim has helped over 800 entrepreneurs and investors hire trusted, high-level domestic executive assistants—not virtual assistants overseas, but real partners who become an extension of you.   Tim's story is remarkable. From losing $350K in the 2008 crash, to developing a rare illness that left him unable to walk for months, he had to rethink everything about business and life. That journey led him to discover the right way to hire and lead executive assistants, and ultimately, to build Great Assistant.   We dive into his hiring process, why most entrepreneurs fail with assistants, and how the right assistant can free you up to focus on strategy, high-level skills, and relationships—the “surgeon in the room” work that only you can do.    If you've ever felt overwhelmed juggling all the moving pieces of your real estate business, this conversation will show you how to scale sustainably.   Key Talking Points of the Episode   00:00 Introduction 00:53 Who is Tim Francis? 02:35 The 2008 crash, $350K loss, and developing a rare illness 04:24 Spiritual turning point: chasing truth and mastery, not fame and fortune 05:40 Failing with five assistants and discovering a new hiring process 08:22 Hiring Sarah—the paralegal who changed everything 10:16 The Great Assistant formula: pairing trained assistants with trained leaders 13:15 Hiring volume: why they review 50–200 candidates per role 17:06 The difference between VAs and executive assistants 19:21 What makes a great assistant: complement, not clone 20:50 The surgeon vs. nurse analogy—strategy, skill, and access vs. admin 22:15 Practical example: prepping comps and organizing negotiation notes 25:28 Why you must live out of your calendar, not your inbox 26:49 Expense vs. revenue mindset—why an assistant is a profit center 29:53 Tim's upcoming book: arranging life to minimize regret 32:45 How to connect with Tim and Great Assistant   Quotables   “Your assistant will always be an expense on paper. But your relationship with your assistant will be the biggest profit center of your career.”   “We don't want a clone of you—we want a complement. You throw the balls in the air, and they catch them and close the loops.”   “A great assistant isn't about saving time, it's about helping you fulfill your potential in this lifetime.”    Links   Episode 152: Discover the Power of a Great Assistant, with Tim Francis https://sites.libsyn.com/101440/episode-152-discover-the-power-of-a-great-assistant-with-tim-francis   Get a Great Assistant by Tim Francis https://greatassistant.com/book   Great Assistant https://smartrealestate.com/greatassistant   Apply for a Discovery Call with Great Assistant https://greatassistant.com/apply   Tim Francis https://www.instagram.com/realtimfrancis   QLS Live + QLS 4.0 at $199 smartrealestatecoach.com/qlspodcast    Just QLS 4.0 at ½ off smartrealestatecoach.com/qls  Coupon code: pod   Apprentice Program 3paydaysapprentice.com Coupon code: Podcast   Masterclass smartrealestatecoach.com/masterspodcast   Wicked Smart Books wickedsmartbooks.com/podcast   Strategy Session smartrealestatecoach.com/actionpodcast   Partners smartrealestatecoach.com/podcastresources

Fr. Chris and Fr. Daniel Klimek discuss practical ways we can help our loved ones connect or re-connect with the Lord. Tim Francis also shares his journey back to the faith.

Let's be honest: hiring can be one of the hardest parts of growing a business—and one of the most liberating when done right. In this episode, Sara Connell sits down with Tim Francis—entrepreneur, hiring strategist, and founder of Great Assistant—to talk about the real reason most hiring fails and what to do instead. You'll hear the behind-the-scenes story of how Tim went from five failed assistants to building a multi-million dollar team—plus the genius strategy that helped him hire like a pro (and finally reclaim his time). In this episode: Why entrepreneurs should operate like surgeons in the room The 3 things ONLY you should be doing in your business What happened when Tim imagined being legally bound to his next hire for 3 years How dinner parties turned into an empire of 1,000-person events The mindset shift every founder needs before building a team Whether you're just getting started or scaling fast, this episode is your reminder that you don't have to do it all alone.

Are you the surgeon in your business, or are you stuck being the assistant prepping the tools and organizing the room? In this episode, Tim Francis, founder of GreatAssistant.com, breaks down the power of effective delegation and why a great assistant can transform your productivity. Tim shares the "365 Delegation" method—a structured way to delegate tasks that minimizes back-and-forth questions and maximizes efficiency. He explains how top professionals, like surgeons, focus only on the high-value work they are trained for, while their team prepares everything else. The same should apply to business owners! Plus, Tim provides two incredible resources to streamline delegation:

Tim Francis, who grew up Catholic but drifted away, shares his journey of faith with John-Henry Westen, telling the story of how he found himself in a mega-church environment but later rediscovered Catholicism through apologetics debates and, most notably, a miraculous video his mother sent him which documented supernatural evidence: a woman experiencing stigmata and receiving divine messages. This evidence led him back to Catholicism, inspiring him to attend daily Mass, pray the Rosary, and fully embrace his faith.Tim now travels across the country speaking about faith, Eucharistic miracles, and the importance of the Mass, emphasizing that many Catholics lack awareness of the supernatural reality of their faith. His work is aimed at deepening faith through both intellectual and supernatural proofs, encouraging devotion to the sacraments, and helping fallen-away Catholics return to the Church.U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/ ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenews John-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode of Catholic ReCon, testimonies from reverts and converts, guest Tim Francis of sciencetestsfaith.com details one of the most fascinating journeys I've ever heard. From drugs and parties to late-night apologetic meetings and Bible studies, Tim's raw, honest, and grace-filled story is a testament to God's love! In this story, God used Tim's ceaselessly-praying mother, the Sacraments, St. Michael, and other means along the way. ▶TIM'S AMAZING BOOK: https://sciencetestsfaith.com/about/#Catholic #Megachurch #Protestant #Testimony #Drugs #Testimony #StMichael #Apologetics #Caritas #Conversion #Addiction ▶To support this channel, visit eddietrask.com/sponsorship

In this episode of ClickFunnels Radio, hosts Chris Cameron and Ben Harris welcome Tim Francis, CEO and founder of Great Assistant. Tim shares his inspiring journey into entrepreneurship, discussing his early struggles and the pivotal moment that sparked his entrepreneurial spirit. After failing five times to find the right assistant despite his attempts to apply the principles from "The 4-Hour Work Week," Tim reveals the extensive vetting process he undertook, interviewing over 50,000 candidates and investing more than $2 million. He highlights the unique niche he discovered in the assistant space and hints at an upcoming book that promises to share his insights and experiences. Tune in for an engaging conversation about the challenges and triumphs of entrepreneurship and how finding the right support can absolutely transform your business! greatassistant.com greatassistant.com/toolbox

Tim Francis, author, "From the Crack House to God's House" + Susan Tassone, The Purgatory Lady, discusses Purgatory Saints

In this episode, we connect with Tim Francis, a Canadian-based award-winning entrepreneur, and the Founder of Great Assistant and Profit Factory. With over 10 years of experience as a business owner, Tim is a knowledgeable consultant and speaker in entrepreneurship, marketing, and systems… With a recession on the horizon – or even already here – Tim offers valuable insight for business owners who may be facing economic uncertainty. Want to get familiar with Tim's distinct approach to dealing with tough times? Click play to see for yourself! Join us now to learn about: How to mitigate the effects of the recession on your business. The importance of learning from people who have experienced troubles themselves. The number 1 asset any entrepreneur has. How to become a great leader in your company, and how an assistant can help achieve this. The two factors that you can always negotiate with. To find out more about Tim and his work, visit https://greatassistant.com, https://profitfactory.com, and https://www.youtube.com/@realtimfrancis now! Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

“As long as I am still here and I keep myself in the game, I can always build back. I am the number one asset, nothing else.”Are you stuck feeling uninterested, overwhelmed by daily tasks, and feel like you're missing out on reaching your full potential? What if the key to success isn't in the doing or the having, but in simply being? Could embracing this mindset transform your approach to life and business?Sometimes, life forces you to pause and reconsider everything you thought you knew about success. As entrepreneurs and thought leaders, we're often driven by the desire to achieve, to make our mark, and to succeed. But what if our relentless pursuit of success is actually holding us back from true fulfilment?A discussion about the concept of "Be, Do, Have", contrasting it with the traditional Western mindset that prioritizes doing and having over being and how aligning with ancient wisdom can lead to a more balanced and fulfilling life.Tim Francis is a Canadian entrepreneur who has emerged as a thought leader and started hiring personal assistants. His journey stands as an example of resilience, having overcome significant challenges, including financial loss, betrayal by a mentor, and a debilitating illness. These experiences led him to a realization about the importance of truth and mastery over fame and fortune. He has developed a method that has helped over 750 entrepreneurs find their perfect assistant, contributing to substantial growth in his own business and the businesses of many others.To learn more about Tim Francis and how his methods can revolutionize your approach to hiring and delegation, visit Great Assistant's website.Books mentioned:Cal Newport - So Good They Can't Ignore YouLouise Hay - You Can Heal Your LifeNicky Billou - Cathy Capitalist & Johnny JobmakerVisit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

I recently turned 47 years old. The last year has been full of challenges in the business and in my personal life, but things are starting to shift.  In today's episode, property management growth expert Jason Hull discusses his personal and business growth recently and his hopes for the coming business year. You'll Learn [01:17] Business Challenges and Revelations [08:35] Personal Challenges and Revelations [11:32] Learning Empathy [18:25] Don't Give Up Tweetables “There's what people think they need and what they want, and there's what they actually need.” “A lot of you don't even realize you have a garbage product.” “Your business is one of the greatest personal development tools that you have.” “I think God may trick us into starting a business to make money and eventually, he uses it to turn us into better human beings.” Resources DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind DoorGrow Academy DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrowClub DoorGrowLive TalkRoute Referral Link Transcript [00:00:00] I think God may trick us into starting a business to make money and eventually, he uses it to turn us into better human beings. Welcome DoorGrow property managers to the DoorGrow show. If you are a property management entrepreneur that wants to add doors, make a difference, increase revenue, help others, impact lives, and you are interested in growing in business and life, and you're open to doing things a bit differently then you are a DoorGrow property manager. [00:00:30] Jason: DoorGrow property managers love the opportunities, daily variety, unique challenges, and freedom that property management brings. Many in real estate think you're crazy for doing it. You think they're crazy for not, because you realize that property management is the ultimate high trust gateway to real estate deals, relationships, and residual income. [00:00:52] 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. We're your hosts, property management growth experts, Jason and Sarah Hull, the owners of DoorGroww, and now let's get into the show. [00:01:17] I just had on the 30th, and today is July 2nd this may come out at a later date, you might hear it a month later depending on which channel you listen to this on. So my birthday is June 30th. This is also the end of our planning year. [00:01:32] So we offset our planning by two quarters because it really sucks to try and hit your end of the year goals in December when everybody is kind of focused on holidays and family and to try and get them to put their attention on business, it isn't super effective. And I like that to be the middle of our planning year. [00:01:51] And we do our beginning of our year is July 1st. So not only is my birthday, it's also the end of our sort of a planning year for our business. And so I've had a lot of introspection. I mean, this has been a tough previous year for me in a lot of ways mostly on the personal side, you know, business has been a little tough as well to be transparent. And so the challenge in business is that we've developed this really amazing coaching program and I really enjoy doing that piece. So we've shied away from doing websites and focusing on other stuff, even though I still have a whole web development team and they just haven't had a whole lot of work to do. [00:02:30] But we've really put our focus into coaching and improving our programs and decreasing churn, which is a difficult challenge in a coaching business. And we've gotten it down, like half of our clients have been in our program for over a year, which is amazing because when I first even learned the word churn several years back our average retention rate was like five months, like it was super low. [00:02:52] And so we were kind of addicted to sales. And this is the advantage in a property management business is that you're not super addicted to the next big deal, right? You've got residual income. And so I learned when the pandemic hit, I learned I want more residuals coming in so that I'm not beholden to sales because sales stopped that month of May, I believe it was, there was no sales. [00:03:15] Every property manager, they were holding their breath. "Our tenant is going to pay rent? What's going to happen? is this scary?" And so they were like, "I'm not going to spend any money. I'm going to be careful here." So that was interesting and so we had to tighten our belt as a team. [00:03:27] We had to like, cut out expenses. We got a leaner and I think I let some people go on the team as well that were just, you know, maybe not as essential. And we had to tighten our belts to, to survive as a business because we were so focused on sales and we're at a good click. [00:03:46] Like we're a decent sized company. Like we make a good amount of money, but when you continue to have expenses every month and suddenly sales stops and that's the majority of our revenue, that's a bad thing. And those of you that have shifted from real estate sales and hunting and chasing to doing property management and building a residual income business model, you get it. [00:04:05] And I've seen so many of my clients have these great subscription sort of service, right? So I wanted to emulate that and we switched to doing it that way, and making sure we focused on residual income. So we built that up, we built it up really well. We've got a great coaching business. [00:04:20] We've got a great back end. We're really good at helping our clients grow and scale their companies. The weird and ironic thing though, that presented a challenge is that people don't want coaching, right? People don't like wake up in the morning, go, you know what? You know my business needs? I want to get a coach. [00:04:36] This is not generally people's first thought. There's what people think they need and what they want, and there's what they actually need. And so people would come to us and what they thought they needed was leads. I call it the leads myth. And what they thought they needed in order to get their business growing was maybe a better website or SEO or something like this. [00:04:57] And so they would come to us kind of thinking this is the stuff they needed. And then we could help them. Like reeducate them and help them see this is why you've been struggling to grow is because you believe these false beliefs And I would then point out like that like leads from the internet are not the best leads And there's better sources of getting business than just cold leads or cold lead advertising. And maybe having a website is nice, but you can grow a business without even having a website or without even having the top spot on google. And so we would get a lot of clients historically coming to us for a website and that was one major leak in their sales pipeline, but they had, you know, at least ,five major other leaks in their sales pipeline that needed to be shored up. [00:05:41] And they thought, "all I need to do is turn on the leads." So they would turn on the leads full blast, like turning on a hose. And there's all these leaks in the hose, right? One of them's a website. One of them was their pricing. One of them was branding. One of them was reputation. One of them was their sales pitch and their sales process. [00:05:58] One of them was what I call purpose, lack of culture in their team. So their whole product was just like garbage. A lot of you don't even realize you have a garbage product. It doesn't create trust and it has lots of leaks in the hose or in the pipeline. And you're just trying to shove more leads, like spend more money, time, energy, focus, cash, and effort. [00:06:17] And so it wasn't hard to take people that came to us for a website. "Hey, I need a website. I'm starting a business where I'm trying to figure this out, or we're struggling to grow and we think we need a new website. " And then convert them into giving them what they actually needed in order to grow and then help them crush it. [00:06:33] Yeah. But since shifting our focus towards coaching and changing our homepage, "let's focus on coaching." Because I just was so excited about coaching, it actually made it more difficult to get customers. So we spent a lot more money on advertising, doing a lot more marketing to attract people and to like reeducate the market, but that's a much more difficult challenge. [00:06:54] And so we've struggled to really grow our business. And we're at a good size. We're a good size. Like, you know, we're over a million in revenue, but DoorGrow easily the back end of our business, our systems it's better than $ 10 million companies that I've been around. [00:07:10] And we've got great systems. We've got great mechanisms. Our big challenge has just been client acquisition, ironically, right, and we're DoorGrow. And so we're going back to what has been working, which is focusing again on websites, especially in downturn markets like this, or where the real estate market isn't doing well, [00:07:29] lots of people start property management companies. So we did create a startup training for them. So they'd stopped like coming into the industry and screwing it up and making it worse. So we created the ultimate property management startup course material called DoorGrow Foundations. And this is a great tool, and we give it away for like really cheap. It's like 95 bucks flat fee. That's it. We created it just so we could send people somewhere that just couldn't afford to join our programs or do stuff with us, and they can pay extra to get a website and some other things we can give them as well. we're shifting our focus now back to what the market needs. And so I'll be putting out a survey. This is how I get the data and what are they actually wanting to learn? What training are they wanting? What do they want to be exposed to? And we're going to go back to focusing on websites and leads and, you know, those sort of gateway drugs that like bring people to you. [00:08:21] Right? And we'll see how that works. And I think It's historically worked really well for us. So I imagine we'll have our mastermind will get really nice and full and we'll have a ton of people in it. So I'm excited about that.  [00:08:35] The other thing over the last year on the personal side I've just been going through a lot of growth and, you know, when you're put into trials, tribulations, difficult situations, you're going to have a lot of growth. [00:08:45] And one of the challenges has been my relationship with my ex wife, which has affected the custody situation with my kids. [00:08:54] And they were dealing with a lot. It was just a really big mess. And it was a huge amount of stress on me. Huge amount of stress on our business. I don't think my clients realized it, you know, we take good care of our clients, but for me I wasn't able to put as much attention into moving DoorGrow forward, innovating and creating new stuff because I was inundated with dealing with custody situation, trying to get full control of the kids. [00:09:18] She took off to California for like four months and, you know, the kids were with me full time, which I wasn't used to. That you know, created some stress for Sarah and I. And you know, in the beginning when Sarah came into my life, you know, the kids were going through a lot of pain. [00:09:34] Because there was a messy divorce. There was a lot of problems in the relationship. It was just a mess. It was hard for the kids because, you know, I really tried to conceal all the challenges and stuff from them, but they didn't realize all what was going on. I have four kids and at least half of them still have no clue of all the stuff, the dark stuff that went on and the challenges that I dealt with. [00:09:55] But you know, they've had to go through a lot of stuff, and so they weren't very nice, like, to Sarah in the beginning. Any of you that have been a step parent, or in a step, sort of, role, you know, it's the hardest parenting role ever. Period. There's nothing harder. Can you discipline them? [00:10:10] Can you not? Like, there's not hardwired built in love. You know, it's a difficult thing, and they were hurting, and it was just ugly, right. And it was painful. They were really hard on her and they were disrespectful to me. [00:10:23] And so it just, you know, it created a difficult scenario. And so it just made things even more difficult coming into this sort of custody situation and trying to get everything handled. The good news, the light at the end of the tunnel is, you know, God always takes care of me and good things have happened. [00:10:39] She came back to Texas and now we can split time with the kids And she's wanting to get back, you know, and connect with them and get back in their life. And then that takes pressure off me. So I have the kids every other week and can focus on work and takes pressure off my marriage with Sarah and like, so that everything can work out better. So there's this light at the end of the tunnel. So things have shifted. In a way, I didn't even expect it would get this good. Like, and I got all this stuff legally handled the way I wanted.  [00:11:04] So there's a little bit of accountability in place now. And I'm really optimistic and hopeful for the future. And you know, for my ex wife, like she is a great mother, loving mother, and can be a really great, caring person. And so I think that's what the kids need. [00:11:21] That'd be really good for them. I can give them the tough dad love, the kids need mom's love too. So this is some of the stuff I've been dealing with. And you know, this has caused a lot of growth for me also in the last last several weeks. [00:11:32] Recently I went to this seminar put on by a group called SATVATOVE, S A T V A T O V E. A guy named David Wolfe he has a really great relationship book and I read the book and it it has some great content in it. It reminded me of this large group awareness training that I did in the past called the impact trainings out of Utah, which really has, you know, shifted my life. [00:11:53] It was really positive. I think it was born out of est or landmark or some of these sort of large group awareness trainings, but it was a little bit more on the spiritual side. I think, I don't know, but his is more on the emotional side of things. And I went to this seminar and you know, to learn empathy and it's been a really effective thing for my life. [00:12:12] Like it's really shifted how I communicate even with clients, with my family. I'm just able to connect with people more and my basic need, like in Tony Robbins, like five basic needs love and belonging or love and connection is like my primary, ironically because I don't generally have a lot of friends, I don't have a lot of relationships and you know, I've had a difficult time, you know, even communicating sometimes with my kids, and I just come across as very analytical, very logical in a lot of instances, I'm sure a lot of guys could resonate. [00:12:42] But I really connected with some of these tools to be able to empathize and to communicate and to reflect back emotion instead of just reflect back what they're saying to really have them be heard. And there's some real power in that. And in going through that, I also got reflected back to me from you know, I was partnered up with somebody at the event to do the exercises. [00:13:05] And the feedback I got from him was basically that in him hearing my story and some of the stuff I just shared with you all that he's like, "wow, you really care about your family. Like, you know, deeply and you try really hard to take care of everybody." And I just started crying because it wasn't what I was expecting but he was reflecting back the feeling and it really helped me connect with it because I didn't I wasn't seeing it. And I was like, "yeah, that's super true." [00:13:30] Like I just felt it and I broke down and then he said, "And you don't feel that you're worthy of it in return." And that just gutted me. I started crying like full on just... and I'm trying to keep it together. It's a seminar. There's a group of people. We're doing an exercise. [00:13:45] Everyone's talking in the room and here I am like, right. So I've really been thinking about that a lot the last several weeks is " What sort of self talk do I have? How am I making myself feel not worthy? Why am I allowing that to be in you know in my space internally? And what does that motivate or drive me to do?" And I realize that event like I'm always in group scenarios, even with clients or with anybody, I'm always wanting to showcase and give so much value. And a lot of it's born out of this insecurity that I'm not going to be loved or I'm not enough. [00:14:14] And I need to like show them, I need to show them I have some great ideas and there's some important things here. And it's been a real roadblock to me listening and hearing people in some instances, you know, a lot of clients value me giving them ideas, giving them feedback, sharing things with them. [00:14:30] So it works out okay in some business scenarios, but I've noticed since kind of letting go of that need for self importance in order to kind of be loved or for them to see me as valuable and just recognize I inherently have value and really putting my attention on them and connecting with them and reflecting their feelings and their emotion. [00:14:50] It's such a richer experience for me to get inside of other people's world and to connect with them. And that empathy has really allowed me to get more of what I actually was craving, which is more of that love and connection. Like I feel so connected to everybody now and I'm really enjoying this. Right. I mean, you can hear the excitement of my voice. [00:15:08] I'm really enjoying... it's made things deeper in my marriage with Sarah. It's made things deeper in my connection with my kids and helping them feel understood and heard and to allow them to feel. It's been with clients. I just feel like, you know, people don't care what you know, until they know that you care. [00:15:25] And they, I feel like clients can tell even more that I care. I've always cared, but I'm able to show it in a way that they get it, you know, a lot better. And so I'm really enjoying the results of you know, reflecting back this empathetic communication where I'm showcasing more warmth, empathy, and genuineness. [00:15:45] And then another part of his book and the seminar was about the difference between these three different types of communication, which are passive, aggressive, and then assertive. And really, there's passive, assertive, and aggressive, is probably how it really should be. Because passive is one extreme, aggressive is another extreme, assertive is the more true path. [00:16:06] And the difference in passive is it's indirect. There's some pain involved usually. There's some fears involved, there's not direct communication. And we're not really clear in our communication. And aggressive is hurtful and abrasive and doesn't really allow people the space to absorb or hear and comes across too strong, and so we don't get really what we want and we don't communicate effectively what we're trying to communicate. And assertive is you know a much more effective mode of communication. [00:16:33] So i'm focusing also on avoiding any sort of passive or aggressive communication I'm seeking to be more assertive in my communication and more direct and that also allows me to get more of what I want, you know, from my relationships and from the people I'm talking with in that. And especially if I'm coming from the space of care and I've showcased care. [00:16:52] So this is kind of my journey and I'm 47 years old as of June 30th. I'm just a couple of days into this 47 years old. And what's wild about that to me is I'm three years away from 50. And if you're watching me on video, I know you're thinking, this guy doesn't look like he's almost 50. I've heard that so much around my birthday. [00:17:13] Like I hear it every year. And so I don't know, good genes? Maybe it's my mom. I don't know. Maybe it's I'm an optimist eternally and I'm just trying to be positive all the time. I have no idea. But people are always like, "what doctor are you going to? What's your secret?" I don't know. I don't have a secret. But I've really been enjoying connecting with people emotionally, and so I'm grateful. My friend, Tim Francis, here in Austin set up the SATVATOVE event. He's been involved in it for a long time, and I just noticed how he would communicate, especially in difficult situations. [00:17:43] And he was just so masterful at handling difficult situations with grace and with diplomacy. And, I mean, to the point where I even said, "Tim, where the hell did you learn to talk like this? Like, where did you learn to talk like this?" Like, it's just, it's so impressive to me. And he was like, "Oh, SATVATOVE whatever," I'm like, "whatever that is." [00:18:02] Right. So eventually he put together a seminar here and said, "this is going to be awesome. Like, come do it." And I'm like, "okay I'm in." And it was amazing things. So I'm grateful to Tim, for my buddy, Tim for doing that. And yeah, we, it allowed us to connect even more and develop a better friendship at the event as well. [00:18:19] So I appreciate Tim. Appreciate you a lot. Yeah, so I just feel like my relationships have really been deepening. And so, if there's a message to take away from this is that I know that life can be tough. I know you're dealing with stuff and running your business, your business is one of the greatest personal development tools that you have. [00:18:39] It forces you to recognize some of your shortcomings because the marketplace will reveal it. And it forces you to make changes and you're always having to learn and to evolve. And so you start a business. I think God may trick us into starting a business to make money and eventually, he uses it to turn us into better human beings because he's clever like that. And so, you know, you can't in the long run build a sustainable business in which you are not focused on positive things. Like you have to benefit people in the marketplace. You have to take care of people. [00:19:11] You have to care about people. Otherwise, if there's a lack of care and a lack of empathy, which " show care" is one of our core values at DoorGrow, then people will recognize that people won't feel it. And I've had past clients that didn't feel care. [00:19:24] They didn't feel it. Like maybe I was too in my stuff or maybe I was you know, too focused on what I need to do or too stressed or whatever. And I'm sure that I've fallen short in some instances, but that's really why I have my business is I legitimately really enjoy being able to help move people's lives forward. [00:19:40] And there's nothing more rewarding than that. And that's why I just, I'm so tempted to just lean into the coaching and do the coaching, even though the marketplace wants something else. If I give the market what they're asking for. and help all of you in the way that you think you need initially, then I will get a lot more people that I can help in the way that you really need, which is a passion of mine. And yeah, lot of introspection lately. I also went through a really great book recently called inner work and it to the basic principle of it was that how your consciousness level or your focus or area of consciousness. Whether it's a low level, which is like focused on wounds and hurts from your past and stuff like this, or whether it's very positive and like love and acceptance or somewhere in between your level of consciousness dictates your entire view of the world. [00:20:27] And it. Makes the whole world seem different, but really it's just you. And so depending and a great example in the book, it was like, you know, related to like debt or loans. Some people's perception of that is like Dave Ramsey style, like it's always evil, it's horrible, whatever. And then there's people that are making millions of dollars because they know how to leverage debt and to get into real estate and to do things effectively, which is smarter than just using their own cash. [00:20:52] Right. And so. It's just a difference in your perspective and your belief about that. And so by changing your consciousness, it changes everything around you. And so I've really been focused on how can I be in a state of love, be in a state of happiness, be in a state of joy, regardless of what is going on externally and not allow the external to control me or to dictate? Who I am? And so that's been a really interesting perspective as well. And so yeah, i'm excited for this coming year because I think this is going to be a good year for DoorGrow I think it's going to be a good year for our clients. I think it's going to be a good year for my marriage. I think it's going to be good year for the kids. [00:21:31] I think there's going to be a lot of healing this year. And a lot of positive things moving forward. And so If you've had a tough year, maybe it's been a little tough, or you're in the middle of it right now. It's tough right now. Don't stay there. Like, don't stop. Don't quit. Don't give up. Keep going. You know, there's people counting on you. No one's coming to save you. There are people that if you open up your consciousness, if you change your perspective, there are people that can help you. I would be honored to help you. There's plenty of people out there that are willing to help and willing to serve, especially in property management. [00:22:04] Go into the DoorGrow club Facebook group, or join any property management, Facebook group. There's tons of people willing to help. You can get to our Facebook group by going to doorgrowclub. com. If for some reason you're listening to this podcast and you're not yet in there, go join the group. We reject 60 to 70 percent of the people that apply to join the group. [00:22:21] You got to be a business owner. You got to have a property management company or be starting one. If you're a property management entrepreneur, that group's for you. There's other groups that are just for property managers or employees or people in industry or vendors. Like, there's other groups you can go join. [00:22:35] But for those that are my people, you know, you're entrepreneurs, you're weird like me. You value fulfillment and freedom and contribution and support more than safety and certainty like the rest of the world it's more important to you, then you're an entrepreneur than you're my tribe and come hang out with us in the DoorGrowClub group. For those of you that you're like, "man, I haven't redone my website. He's talking about a website I haven't redone that or taken a fresh look at it in like five years. Your website is ugly, and your website sucks." It's pretty much guaranteed by about the five year mark, it's time trends have changed. It's like fashion. Like it's like wearing, you know, I don't know what's an outdated fashion. It's like wearing bell bottoms or something. I don't know what's out. Maybe that's back and cool, but it's like wearing something that's out of style. And people just look at your business, go, "Oh, they're kind of old. They're kind of outdated. Oh, look at this modern company. They look fresh." And then it's also about whether or not it's focused on conversions. Like, is it focused on helping people get their questions answered and and capturing leads so that you're getting, making money, not just looking pretty. And so if you want to test your website out to see if it's effective in making you money, regardless of how pretty it is, go to DoorGrow, go to a DoorGrow.com/quiz, and you can take our website quiz. And most websites, even brand new ones, usually get a low grade, like a D or an F. So take that quiz and see how good of a grade your website gets. And if it's low, recognize that's a big leak because everything drives towards your website typically, at least online, and people always check out your website when they're trying to get more info about you, even from offline. [00:24:16] And so that's a big leak. And if you have that leak, I can pretty much guarantee you have probably all the other major leaks that we see in businesses. You might have pricing similar to everybody else, 10 percent some sort of flat fee like 99 bucks, whatever you're priced like all the shittiest companies focused on the shittiest prospects on the internet. [00:24:37] And so that can be improved. We're able to help clients close more deals more easily at a higher price point using our three tier hybrid pricing model. That we've innovated and I got the original idea shout out to Scott Brady on hybrid. And then I put my own tweak on it based on pricing psychology that I knew. [00:24:54] And so, adding the three tiers, applying the Goldilocks principle, you know, some of these tactics and it's been really effective for our clients. Your branding might be off. You might be branded as a real estate company. You're like, why would that affect property management? Well, they're different target audiences and there's several other issues. [00:25:10] And so, take the website quiz, doorgrow.com/quiz, get your website grade, and then you'll be able to set up a call with us and then we can go through and showcase some of the other leaks you might not be seeing. And if we get all these leaks shored up, growth is a lot easier. Like we've had clients just by showing up, those leaks are adding doors. [00:25:30] And that's it. And they don't need to pay for leads anymore. They like cut off all their cold lead advertising. And then we do have like, six, seven major growth engines that can be installed in your business that are organic and that cost you nothing. And they actually take less time than cold leads would take to follow up on because you have to nurture them and it takes a lot of time to warm them up. [00:25:49] So we focus on warmer leads. and organic leads. And that's how we're able to help clients grow faster by eliminating the cold lead advertising. So we're cutting down their marketing budgets and then they're spending less money and they're spending less time and they're adding more doors. So we'll help you figure all this out. [00:26:05] Set up a call to talk with me or somebody on my team, and we'll help you figure this out. And you know, business can be tough. Business can be hard. One of the things that's made it a lot easier for me is I have mentors. I've got people I can reach out to. I just went to an event. It was awesome. [00:26:20] I went up to Charleston and met with some awesome entrepreneurs and people that are ahead of me. And I just, I love being able to deliver and bring that value back to my clients. And so I'm always investing. And so there's plenty of mentors ideas out there. Just keep learning. [00:26:35] Don't give up. Don't stop. Keep moving forward. And if I or my team could help you collapse time on your journey and entrepreneurism, just even a little bit, like if we could help you collapse time, even a little bit, you know, towards making more money, more revenue, having more impact, adding more doors, like anything we do will be very worth it. [00:26:55] That's basically it for today. I hope that all of you maybe found yourself a little bit in my story, in my journey, as me reflecting on my 47 years of life and where I'm at now. And you know, what the future is for DoorGrow. And I'll be honored to help you in your journey as you grow and scale your business. [00:27:12] And so reach out to us, you can check us out at doorgrow. com and that's it for today until next time to our mutual growth. Bye everyone [00:27:19] Jason: you just listened to the #DoorGrowShow. We are building a community of the savviest property management entrepreneurs on the planet in the DoorGrowClub. Join your fellow DoorGrow Hackers at doorgrowclub.com. Listen, everyone is doing the same stuff. SEO, PPC, pay-per-lead content, social direct mail, and they still struggle to grow!  [00:27:46] At DoorGrow, we solve your biggest challenge: getting deals and growing your business. Find out more at doorgrow.com. Find any show notes or links from today's episode on our blog doorgrow.com, and to get notified of future events and news subscribe to our newsletter at doorgrow.com/subscribe. Until next time, take what you learn and start DoorGrow Hacking your business and your life.

Luke Gazdic joins Ailish Forfar and Justin Cuthbert ahead of his debut on Hockey Night in Canada and right in time for Leafs/Oilers, Matthews/McDavid (1:53). He takes us behind the scenes of his former team and confirms that Ontario born players always get pumped to face the Leafs. Over to playoff races and news of Tom Wilson's 6-game suspension for his stick swinging incident against the Leafs. Next, to Brian Anderson (25:45) from TNT who calls MLB, the Brewers and this week – March Madness. We close with Tim Francis (38:49) who was the high school coach of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in Hamilton. He takes us back to his upbringing, SGA having an Olympian as a parent and how his mother set him up for athletic success on and off the court as well.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

If your organization hasn't implemented cyber-readiness practices, or doesn't know where to start, this episode is for you. Travelers Institute® President Joan Woodward spoke with Mullen Coughlin's Carolyn Purwin Ryan and Travelers' Tim Francis to get a deep dive into five key cybersecurity practices you can begin implementing today.Referenced in the show:Visit the Travelers Institute® Cyber Readiness Hub: https://www.travelers.com/travelers-institute/cyber-security/cyber-readinessFind more resources on the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency's website: https://www.cisa.gov/---Visit the Travelers Institute® website: http://travelersinstitute.org/Join the Travelers Institute® email list: https://travl.rs/488XJZM Connect with Joan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joan-kois-woodward/

On today's episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking about layoffs and bankruptcies piling up in logistics amid this shocking downturn. Gnosis Freight's Jake Hoffman tells us all about the tech driving container life cycle management and how it is empowering shippers. Travelers' Tim Francis is talking about its Risk Index Report and has some startling revelations about the scope of cyber crime in supply chain. Acme Works' Bill Hall shows off his heavy machinery and shows us how the Hammar Lift works. Not only will we see some side loaders in action but we'll also break down what's going on in drayage. Spartan Carrier Group's Carlos Llanes Jr. and Tim Perkins talk about giving thanks in a down year, how it's beating the market and its new good Samaritan driver award. Plus, how not to fry a turkey, truckers at F1 in Vegas, when gantry cranes go wrong and more. Watch on YouTube Visit our sponsor Subscribe to the WTT newsletter Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking about layoffs and bankruptcies piling up in logistics amid this shocking downturn. Gnosis Freight's Jake Hoffman tells us all about the tech driving container life cycle management and how it is empowering shippers. Travelers' Tim Francis is talking about its Risk Index Report and has some startling revelations about the scope of cyber crime in supply chain. Acme Works' Bill Hall shows off his heavy machinery and shows us how the Hammar Lift works. Not only will we see some side loaders in action but we'll also break down what's going on in drayage. Spartan Carrier Group's Carlos Llanes Jr. and Tim Perkins talk about giving thanks in a down year, how it's beating the market and its new good Samaritan driver award. Plus, how not to fry a turkey, truckers at F1 in Vegas, when gantry cranes go wrong and more. Watch on YouTube Visit our sponsor Subscribe to the WTT newsletter Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Francis, enterprise cyber lead at Travelers, discusses a recent survey that shows for the ninth straight year, cyberthreats were among the top three concerns of the 1,200 companies surveyed.

In this week's episode of Catholic ReCon, testimonies from reverts and converts, guest Tim Francis of youshallbelieve.com shares his story of parties, his nondenominational stint, his living-room apologetics session, and his reversion to the Catholic Church. #Catholic #Stigmata #Eucharist #Protestant #Testimony #CatholicChurch #Belief #Faith #Satanic #BlackMass #nondenominational #Apologetics If you'd like to share your personal testimony, please fill out the form here: https://bit.ly/3bdE6pr Wherever you are on the journey, God bless you. For more information, visit eddietrask.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eddie-trask/support

Welcome back to the Real Life Leadership Podcast! Today, we're releasing a special episode from the Grow & Scale Now summit with Tim Francis. He is an award-winning entrepreneur from Canada, and the founder of ProfitFactory.com and GreatAssistant.com.  He's a graduate of the University of Alberta, and a Certified Scrum Product Owner.   In 2010-2011 Tim was blindsided by a rare illness called Erythema Nodosum, leaving him unable to walk for 3 months.  Tim nearly went bankrupt and was forced to re-start.  He promised himself he'd “never be a burn-out entrepreneur again,” a driving motivation which led to the creation of Profit Factory.   Entrepreneurs chronically stuck working IN their business turn to Tim to achieve the Freedom and Control they've long sought.  Tim helps entrepreneurs transition from Business Operator to Business Owner, helping them successfully arrange, then delegate to a Production team around them.  Entrepreneurs appreciate their newfound freedom to work ON the business, take time off, travel, or start other ventures.  Employees appreciate how organized and clear the business is once Tim has intervened.   Tim's been a guest lecturer at NYU in New York City, at the University of Alberta in Canada, and has been a Masterclass teacher on Mixergy.  Sam Carpenter of Work the System says “One of the best, if not the best, is Tim Francis.  I support his work and coaching”, and past-client Ryan Levesque says: “Tim's help systemizing what we do across our company has set us up to go from seven to eight figures and beyond.”   Enjoy!   -   Connect with Tim:  Website: https://profitfactory.com/360delegation/      Order Chantel's Book, One Meal And A Tasting: https://chantelrayway.com/onemeal/    Join CanZell HERE: https://joincanzell.com/    Check out the CanZell Cloud HERE: https://canzellcloud.com/    Claim Your Free Ticket For The Grow And Scale Now Summit! https://growandscalenow.com/    Chantel: https://www.instagram.com/thechantelray/     For more resources, visit http://www.reallifeleaders.com/podcast    Have a leadership question you want answered? Email podcast@reallifeleaders.com and you might even be in an episode!  

In this episode of The Insuring Cyber Podcast, Corvus Insurance CEO Madhu Tadikonda and Tim Francis, vice president and enterprise cyber lead at Travelers, join the podcast to … Read More » The post EP. 56: As Cyber Risks Grow, Can Insurers Keep Up? appeared first on Insurance Journal TV.

In this episode of The Insuring Cyber Podcast, Corvus Insurance CEO Madhu Tadikonda and Tim Francis, vice president and enterprise cyber lead at Travelers, join the podcast to … Read More » The post EP. 56: As Cyber Risks Grow, Can Insurers Keep Up? appeared first on Insurance Journal TV.

In this episode, we connect with Tim Francis, a Canadian-based award-winning entrepreneur, and the Founder of Great Assistant and Profit Factory. With over 10 years of experience as a business owner, Tim is a knowledgeable consultant and speaker in entrepreneurship, marketing, and systems… With a recession on the horizon – or even already here – Tim offers valuable insight for business owners who may be facing economic uncertainty. Want to get familiar with Tim's distinct approach to dealing with tough times? Click play to see for yourself! Join us now to learn about: How to mitigate the effects of the recession on your business. The importance of learning from people who have experienced troubles themselves.  The number 1 asset any entrepreneur has.  How to become a great leader in your company, and how an assistant can help achieve this.  The two factors that you can always negotiate with.  To find out more about Tim and his work, visit https://greatassistant.com, https://profitfactory.com, and https://www.youtube.com/@realtimfrancis now! Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Welcome once again to The Million Dollar Relationships podcast. Today we are going to learn about the inspiring story of Tim Francis! Tim is the Founder of Great Assistant, which helps Entrepreneurs get an effective and affordable Assistant who takes over the minutiae he hate doing so they can get back to the work they love. For 6 straight years, he failed again and again with Assistants; then, 6 years again, he finally cracked the code.  Timothy's own Assistant, Denise, handles 98% of his email inbox and has allowed Timothy to focus on bigger opportunities. Timothy and his team have now placed over 250 Assistants. such as appearing on Inc.com, and Forbes.com, and appearing as a guest lecturer at NYU in New York City.   In this episode, Tim takes us on his journey from being a varsity athlete to struggling with an illness that prevented him from walking, only to find hope through personal development courses and the support of his community. With the help of mentors, Tim paid off $200,000 in debt, hired an assistant from North America, and tripled his income in one year. His experience shows that if you stay humble and help those around you, it can lead to incredible success. He also shares his business, Great Assistant, which has now helped over 500 clients across the continent.   Tune in to hear how Tim went from rock and roll dreams to finding truth and mastery in entrepreneurship.     [00:00 - 18:23] Tim's Journey: Learning from Life's Challenges ·         Tim started his financial journey by reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad and playing college indoor volleyball. ·         He entered the real estate market during a boom and acquired over a million dollars' worth of property in a year. ·         He lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and ended up with a net worth of negative $200,000 after the real estate collapse. ·         In 2010 he developed erythema and was unable to walk, stand, or work for 3 months ·         He won one of his city's top 20 under 30 awards but felt like a failure due to his recent losses. ·         He made significant changes to his lifestyle after the medical emergency, focusing on physical and mental health and setting clear goals for his future.   [18:23 - 33:23] The Power of Empathy ·         Empathy can be developed through shared experiences, especially challenging ones. ·         Entrepreneurs connect with each other through sharing war stories, and scars, and keeping it real. ·         The ability to connect through shared experiences can lead to stronger relationships and a deeper understanding of one another. · Tim shares why his first job experience had a profound impact on his life and business. ·         Tim honors the people that had a profound impact on his life. [33:23 - 40:08] Why Relationships are Essential in Our Lives ·         Tim finds it hard to say what wouldn't have happened if he didn't have those relationships. ·         He thinks he would still have become an entrepreneur but not at the same level of success or as soon. ·         Tim views relationships, environment, and people as accelerators of personal success. ·         Tim attributes his success to the environment of unconditional love and support he grew up with.    [40:08 - 43:13] Closing Statements ·         Follow Tim on Facebook and  LinkedIn and be sure to check out Tim's Great Assistant at https://www.greatassistant.com/kevinthompson. There is a great deal for MDR Listeners! ·         Final words   Thanks for tuning in!    If you liked my show, please LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, and subscribe!    Find me on the following streaming platforms: Apple Spotify Google Podcasts IHeart Radio Stitcher     Tweetable Quotes   "Hard work is not enough. It's not about running faster but about the effort and character that you have.” – Tim Francis  

In this episode of the podcast, Tim Francis joins Troy to talk about the true progress metrics for any business. Tim Francis is an expert in finance who helps businesses create and collect the cash they need to deliver great service by focusing on the four true progress metrics: free cash, market value equity, internal fulfillment, and external contribution. Tim explains why vanity metrics like revenue and number of customers cannot predict if a business will stay in business, and how to use the true progress metrics to gauge how your business is doing. Tune in to find out more.   Key Takeaways: Creating a great client experience is important, but every business needs to have the cash and funds to do that. As an entrepreneur, Tim made some business decisions that led him to have a negative net worth. His business seemed like it was thriving from the outside, but in reality, he was broke. Entrepreneur culture celebrates all the vanity metrics like revenue, clients, locations, etc. but that's not true progress. In fact, those are some of the worst ways possible to determine true success and true progress. To master entrepreneurship, you need to realize that it's a journey, not a destination. There are four true progress metrics: free cash, market value equity, internal fulfillment, and external contribution. Tim explains these four metrics and how he uses them to gauge progress in a business. Internal fulfillment doesn't mean that every day is going to be happy. External contribution is about investing in your staff, in your team, in your customers, and even in your community. Revenue is an important metric to get started, but it's not true progress. No business went out of business because of a lack of revenue. What actually allows a business to stay alive is cash, not revenue. Tim shares an example of how a business could have money but not actually have cash. It's possible to have the right intentions but poor execution. What is Tim's advice for people who think they need to have more customers to make more money and generate more free cash? There is a false belief that sales cures all but that is not true. You can't play hard with cash. It's important to take into consideration free cash before making any big decision. A cash flow forecast can help with that. Connect with Tim and learn from him through his three-day workshop Know Your Numbers.   External Links: Maintenance-one.com Tim Francis, Profit Factory KnowYourNumbersWorkshop.com/standingonservice

Mandi Ellefson's guest is Tim Francis, founder of ProfitFactory.com and Great Assistant, two organizations dedicated to making the entrepreneurial journey easier. After noticing that entrepreneurs desperately needed support in running a business, Tim started Great Assistant to help them hire an assistant, retain them for years, and make them really profitable.  You'll hear Mandi and Tim talk about: Tim shares three strategies for more effective delegation. “Do not use email when it comes to delegating to anybody in your internal team, including your assistant; email's a wasteland of distraction. Use Loom, a free tool you can use in your browser, to screen record and narrate what you want done. And finally, hire an assistant that fits you properly. ” [1:16] Tim and Mandi explore how teams can work effectively in different time zones. [9:29] “There's such a thing as being too early, the timing being wrong, and a lack of a path to profitability. Once those three things are in place, you should be going forward with getting an assistant.” Tim explains why you can't afford to not have an assistant, and when the right time is to hire one. [21:52] “It creates this open space for me to create, and that's when these amazing ideas come; you can't do that if you're so busy in the minutia.” Hiring an assistant not only saves you time, but it also saves you energy. Tim describes how. [32:17] “We're helping coach you and prepare your work, while finding assistance candidates and bringing you three finalists.” Tim talks about the services Great Assistance provides for its clients. [47:23] Resources Tim Francis on LinkedIn | Twitter Mandi Ellefson on LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook Hands-Off CEO - Executive Briefing

Generating revenue must outpace expenses and the gap between the two is cash flow. Where are you at and what function do you need to focus on most to grow and scale your business, right now? Property management growth expert and founder/CEO of DoorGrow, Jason Hull talks about the six core functions of a business. It's a concept he has expanded based upon what he learned from his mentors, Alex Charfen and Tim Francis. You'll Learn... [01:22] Core Functions: Jason took what he learned, applied it to property management. [02:14] Rate and Rank 1-5: Assess your business through the lens of core functions. [03:16] Function #1: Lead Generation - get contact info from potential prospects. [03:39] Function #2: Nurture - take and follow-up on lead opportunities to build trust. [04:30] Function #3: Conversion/Sales - deal w/ objections, convince others, close deal. [06:36] Function #4: Delivery/Fulfillment - do property management work promised. [10:03] Function #5: Customer Lifetime Value - increase long-term retention. [11:08] Function #6: Finances - internal cash flow, revenue, expenses, and profits. Tweetables “Finances was the additional function.” “You cannot have all of these areas be great at the same time.” “Your ability to convert and convince people during the sales process is a skill that develops over time and gets better and better and better the more you do it.” Resources DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind DoorGrow on Instagram DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrowClub DoorGrowLive Alex Charfen Tim Francis LeadSimple Profit First by Mike Michalowicz Transcript Welcome, DoorGrow hackers, to the DoorGrowShow. If you are a property management entrepreneur that wants to add doors, make a difference, increase revenue, help others impact lives, you are interested in growing your business and life, and you are open to doing things a bit differently, then you are a DoorGrow hacker. DoorGrow hackers love the opportunities, daily variety, unique challenges, and freedom that property management brings. Many in real estate think you're crazy for doing it. You think they're crazy for not because you realize 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 and their business owners. We want to transform the industry, eliminate the BS, build awareness, change perception, expand the market, and help the best property management entrepreneurs win. I'm your host, property management growth expert, Jason Hull, the founder and CEO of DoorGrow. Now, let's get into the show. Today, I wanted to talk about what I would call the core functions. This is a concept that I built upon that I learned from one of my mentors, Alex Scharffen, and he had what he would call the five core functions of the business. To me, it felt a little bit incomplete for myself and so eventually in working with Tim Francis, another mentor and coach and friend of mine here in Austin, I realized there was something else missing because I was focusing on those five core functions, but still, financially, I had some challenges. That's why I was working with Tim. He's a really good financial coach. He's one of the financial mentors that I've worked with. Finance was the additional function. I'm going to take you through these core functions and this is a way you can assess your business. As you're listening along, feel free to assess your business through the lens of the core functions, take notes, and identify each of these core functions of the business, and rate them on a scale of one to five. One being the worst, five being it's amazing. The most important thing I think to know about the core functions of the business and recognize is that it's impossible for all six of these core functions and the six core functions to be a level five at the same time. It's impossible. You cannot have all of these areas be great at the same time. As you grow and level up the business, you're going to notice deficiencies or you're going to want to level these areas up. There are levels to each of these six areas in which you can get better and better and better over time. That being said, when something is doing really well, other things are going to feel constrained and be a challenge. The first function that we'll chat about is lead generation. I call it lead gen for short. With lead gen, this is getting contact info and there are lots of different ways you can get contact info of potential people that might be interested in property management or potential prospects. In general, that's lead generation, so go ahead and rate that. The next function that you want to focus on is nurture. This is where you take these leads, these opportunities, and you nurture them, which means you warm them up or inject more trust. You create more of a relationship to warm up these leads to move them towards the next function, so go ahead and rate your nurture. Nurture relates to follow up, it relates to your ability to warm up these leads to build trust, to build relationships, and it could relate in your business the systems and processes related to this like whether you have a sales CRM like LeadSimple or something. Whether you've got the processes built out, you've got a good sales pipeline, you've got workflow you've got follow up, maybe having a follow up assistant, or needing one relates to the nurture category. The next category is where nurture leads them to, which is conversion or sales. This is where you're closing the deal. Number three, conversion or sales. Go ahead and rate your ability in conversion or sales. This is to deal with objections, close the deal, convince them to work with you instead of the other company they're maybe talking to or the other companies they're vetting. Your ability to convert and convince people during the sales process is a skill that develops over time and gets better and better and better the more you do it. Go ahead and rate yourself there. These first three relate basically to the front end of the business or sales. What I will hear a lot is people say, oh, my close rate, I'm like 90%. I'm a badass at sales, but then you ask them, where are you getting your leads? And they're like, they're mostly referrals, they're referrals. Cool. If you have a close rate less than 90% probably and they're warm hot referrals, you probably have a problem. That's the cool thing. If you get the right type of lead generation, nurture almost becomes unnecessary. You don't really have to warm them up. Then conversion also is largely dealt with because you're going to get the deal, you just don't screw it up. Now, when you start dealing with colder leads and colder prospects, my goal with clients is to make sure that you are a badass at conversion or sales and that you notice if that function feels weak right now because you've started maybe focusing on colder leads, or you're just not closing as many of the conversations that you've been prospecting or working with as you want. Maybe that function is weak. We can improve that significantly. One of the easiest ways to collapse time on these first three functions is to just focus on warmer lead opportunities instead of advertising or cold lead opportunities. Cold leads would be like SEO, PayPerClick, content marketing, social media marketing, pay per lead services like [...] et cetera. Those take a lot more time and I've talked about that in other trainings and other podcasts, I'm sure many times. Number four, this is more shifting into the back end of the business or behind the paywall. Once they've converted into a customer, they've signed the contract, they're now a client. The next step, item four, would be delivery or fulfillment. Delivery, fulfillment largely is connected to operations. This is everything that you said you were going to do during the sales process. This is screening tenants, working to find tenants and tenant placement. This is maintenance, coordination, everything. All the work of doing property management. That is what is included in delivery fulfillment—dealing with tenants, all that kind of stuff. Generate reports, owner payouts, all of this that's all under delivery fulfillment operations. What I'll notice a lot in the industry—for those that are struggling to grow—is they won't have operations delivery fulfillment. They'll have number four out of five or a really high level and yet then lead gen is like a one. If lead gen is one and delivery and fulfillment is like a five, you're making a big mistake in the business because what that tells me is you consistently keep focusing on the wrong things in your business. You're doing the wrong things. Any function that you're focused on of these six functions, which we'll finish and go through in a second, any function you're focused on primarily and trying to maintain it to five, that is not your weakest function. That's where your time, energy, focus, attention, cash, effort, et cetera are going, you are making a mistake. That means you are distracted. Those are distractions because what the business needs most right now is whichever of these functions is weakest, that's where your five currencies I talked about time, energy, focus, cash, and effort should be focused on. This is where all that should be going so that you can get a return and you can level that up. The goal is to level up the weakest function, and then if that's now a strength, now your other functions will appear to be weaker in relation. Now those you're going to rate at a lower level and you're going to want to level those up. This is the juggle of running a company and running a business is figuring out what do I need to focus on most right now. If you are at the helm, you are the entrepreneur, you are the leader, you are the business owner, you need to provide this leadership to the business to your team. You need to help them figure out what is our weakest function to focus on. Too often, the business owners continue to focus on the function that they're already good at, that the business already has at a five, and they try to keep it as a five. You have to be willing to let a five slip in order to get something from a one or a two, and that's okay. Get those up to a three, a four, or maybe even a five. If delivery or fulfillment, for example, operation slips to maybe a three in relation because now you're getting so much business, it's uncomfortable, you can't onboard everybody, and things are starting to slip, cool. Now it's time to shift your attention and focus to that function. If you assess this regularly on a quarterly basis and brainstorm with your team through these functions, you will be able to make really good decision-making. The next function after delivery fulfillment or operations, number five, is the customer's lifetime value. The customer lifetime value or CLV includes retention, it includes resell, it includes upsell, and it includes your pricing. You want to make sure that your fee structure is good. That you've got really good fees in place so you're getting paid really well for what you do. That you're maximizing the lifetime value of these clients in that way. Also, you're able to focus on the right types of clients in your lead generation and in closing that are going to have a lengthy retention rate. You're able to retain clients long term, or you're able to convert short term property management clients, not sure short term rentals, but accidental investors, for example, into long term buy and hold investors. You have some process maybe for that. You want to increase the customer lifetime value. If you're losing a lot of customers due to sales right now, then that's the area to focus on right now. There's a weakness maybe on your CLV, for example, or maybe you just need to increase lead generation in order to counteract that. Number six is finances. The financial area of the business means the internal finances for you as the business owner and for the business. This means cash flow, revenue, expenses, profit, reporting, financial decision making. If you do not feel like this is your strength or this is a weakness in the business, this is something that you will need to work on. One of the initial baby steps I like to recommend is usually implementing profit first. You can check out my previous episode with the author of the book Profit First, Mike Michalowicz. You can just search for Profit First DoorGrowShow on YouTube if you want to pull that up or on iTunes, podcast app, or whatever. I'm a big fan of Profit First. We operate with the Profit First system. We've taken things financially beyond that to another level in working with some of the financial coaches and financial books that I've gone through. I think that's a really fantastic starting place. It gets you out of the feast and famine of cash flow cycles getting scarce, then trying to make money, and the hunt and the chase constantly of trying to escape. The way I like to compare finances is, the analogy I like to use is Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones running from the boulder. Everybody remembers this iconic scene in Indiana Jones and I believe the Temple of Doom and he's running from the boulder. He's just taken the statue, it set some sort of booby trap off, and now this boulder is chasing after him. He's running for his life. Indiana Jones running is generating revenue, that's revenue. Revenue has to outpace that big boulder, which is expenses. The gap in between Indiana Jones running and the boulder coming after him, that gap, is cash flow. Some of that cash is already spent so there's really just free cash is the real gap. Some of that cash is already going to be spent, you know expenses are coming due, you have to have it set aside. Profit first is going to help you kind of get this in alignment a little bit more. It's going to help you get better cash flow and it's basic. Some of you are basically borderline accountants, so this isn't maybe as big of an issue. Maybe the finances are tight. A lot of entrepreneurs are more visionary-oriented, they're dreamers. Sometimes they're hiring staff too quickly. They're starting to focus on some of the other functions, building up operations maybe, and they're spending more money. All of these things go hand in hand. Finances also relate to the type of lead generation that you can do, all of these things interplay with each other. My goal for those listening to this episode is to take a look through these six lenses of your business to figure out what does the business need most right now? What does the business need most? For those that are like why does he add the six functions of finances? One of the things that's absolutely possible in some businesses is to generate enough deals, enough sales, and enough business to where you can't deliver quick enough on it to get the return or get paid on it and you can actually run out of money by doing too much sales. Just focusing on revenue all the time in a top-down just revenue focus goal is not always the most effective financial goal in a business. It's the most typical, but that's not always the most effective. You can actually go too fast and grow too quickly if you're not taking into account the financial aspect in relation to the other core functions. Take a look at your business, chat with your team, go through and assess your core functions. We have a more formal brainstorming methodology that will take clients through these functions to really assess their business. At a quick easy glance at your business, you can look through and just ask yourself, where are we at in relation to these functions. You can ask your team as well to get a perspective, and you will then have some pretty good eye feedback and a pretty good idea of which function you need to focus on most in your business. If you find that operations are a big constraint for you right now, what you'll find then is lead gen and conversion will be heavily impacted because you won't really have confidence in your product, in your service, in your offering because you lack integrity. If you are delivering fulfillment of three or less, and you're trying to go out and create new business, you probably feel like you're lying to people by saying, hey, we're really awesome. We're the best property managers. We do a great job. When deep down you're like a two in doing a great job on a scale of one to five. All of these impact each other. Let's figure out what's your weakest function that you need to focus on right now and where does your attention needs to go. If you could use some coaching or some help, we'd love to get you into our DoorGrow & Scale Mastermind. Reach out to us, you can check us out at doorgrow.com. You can also join our free Facebook group by going to doorgrowclub.com. Facebook's getting a little weird lately with censorship and craziness, so we're seriously considering exploring, shifting out of the DoorGrow Club to maybe Telegram or something else. Let me know your feedback on that if that sounds interesting because I think there's going to be more outages with Facebook, more censorship, and more challenges. I'm less and less of a fan of Facebook every day. Let us know, but currently, our internal groups are in Telegram so we're solid there because it seems to be really reliable. Anyway, reach out to us. We're happy to help you figure out how to grow your business and scale your business. We can help you with getting things in alignment on the operation side. DoorGrow OS, building these systems, building a planning cadence, helping to get operators in the business, helping to get people to take stuff off your plate and to offload. There are solutions for each of these functions that we can point you towards as we coach you and as we help you scale and level up your business, so please reach out. That's it for today. As always, my goal is for everybody to grow. To our mutual growth, everybody. Until next time, bye.

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Dr. Tom Curran interviews Tim Francis about the supernatural reality of the Catholic faith, in anticipation for the upcoming Science Tests Faith event in the Puget Sound. Tim talks about his testimony of conversion, Eucharistic miracles, proof of stigmata, and practical strategies to leading loved-ones back to the Catholic Faith. The post May 18 –Science Tests Faith: Tim Francis Interview appeared first on My Catholic Faith Ministries.

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On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking with Heather Zumarraga about her new book "The Man’s Guide To Corporate Culture," Travelers’ Tim Francis talks cyberthreats and risk, Loadsmart’s Felipe Capella talks growth and markets, and Traffix’s Nick Roth takes us on a career journey with his comeback story.Plus, motive unclear in fatal shootings of 2 warehouse workers, XPO announces logistics spinoff GXO, and Walmart retools Dallas store into fulfillment center.They’re joined by special guests Heather Zumarraga, work environment adviser, president of Zuma Global LLC, and a respected business journalist for Fox News, Fox Business News, Newsmax and CNBC; Felipe Capella, president, COO and co-founder, Loadsmart; Tim Francis, enterprise cyber lead, Travelers; and Nick Roth, branch director, Traffix. Visit our sponsorSubscribe to the WTT newsletterApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking with Heather Zumarraga about her new book "The Man’s Guide To Corporate Culture," Travelers’ Tim Francis talks cyberthreats and risk, Loadsmart’s Felipe Capella talks growth and markets, and Traffix’s Nick Roth takes us on a career journey with his comeback story.Plus, motive unclear in fatal shootings of 2 warehouse workers, XPO announces logistics spinoff GXO, and Walmart retools Dallas store into fulfillment center.They’re joined by special guests Heather Zumarraga, work environment adviser, president of Zuma Global LLC, and a respected business journalist for Fox News, Fox Business News, Newsmax and CNBC; Felipe Capella, president, COO and co-founder, Loadsmart; Tim Francis, enterprise cyber lead, Travelers; and Nick Roth, branch director, Traffix. Visit our sponsorSubscribe to the WTT newsletterApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

As a business owner do you know your numbers? In today's Better Wealth, I had the privilege of interviewing Tim Francis, CEO of the company called Profit Factory, a company dedicated to helping parents know their internals numbers. Tim shares his story of the humbling experience of being broke and unable to walk. Listen as his whole world changed to the idea of truth and mastery in the pursuit of entrepreneurship. Tim shares the difficulty of having a successful business that never kept any money, and his journey of discovering how to truly understand the numbers and keep his success.  Knowing numbers is not completely only about math and equations, but rather the ability really to make decisions. Being a business that doesn’t know your numbers is a dangerous place. Tim discusses the biggest problem for entrepreneurs is chasing the next shiny object yet not internally knowing what is going on with their business. Knowing your numbers is the process of prioritizing and making decisions. Listen as Tim shares authentically his passion behind developing truly successful companies that are making money, keeping money, prioritizing, and making good decisions! Check out more about https://knowyournumbersworkshop.com/betterwealth/ (Profit Factory: Know Your Number’s Workshop)! #BETTERWEALTH For more information on BetterWealth or the content you hear on the Podcast visit us at http://www.betterwealth.com/podcast (www.betterwealth.com/podcast). Guest Bio:  Tim Francis is the Founder of Profit Factory and is based in Austin, TX.  Tim teaches the Know Your Numbers workshop, which helps Entrepreneurs who hate Accounting to get their Financials under control. Tim draws from years of experience doing private consulting where he’s helped find millions in profit for clients, and also from his role participating in over 140 Board meetings. Tim is also the Founder of Great Assistant, a team which has helped hire over 300 Executive Assistants for Entrepreneurs across the US and Canada.   Tim’s been a guest lecturer at NYU in New York City, and has appeared on the websites of Forbes and Inc magazine.  Tim is the inventor of The 5 Levels of 80/20 and co-presented The 80/20 Summit with Perry Marshall in both 2016 and 2017. Guest Links:  https://knowyournumbersworkshop.com/betterwealth/ (Profit Factory: Know Your Number’s Workshop)

In this special holiday episode I have both a special guest and a special co-host. My co-host is Jim Kuiphof and we got a chance to talk with Tim Francis about Cyber Insurance and Liabilities pertaining to ransomware attacks. Jim in a Director of Information Security for Spectrum Health and Tim is a Enterprise Lead for Cyber Insurance at Travelers.These are just some of the questions and topics that we covered:What is cyber liabilities insurance and why do some think they don't need it?While ransomware attacks are increasing in the public eye, some websites are reporting that ransomware attacks aren't being reported and that is a problem. What trends are you seeing in the insurance industry right now?Are attacks truly going up or it is just that there is more 'visibility' in to this area of cybersecurity?Why are some incidents just not being talked about?A HUGE thanks to the following sponsors, as we raised over $1,500 for three charities!Sentinel OneRecorded FutureTravelers InsuranceAlso a shout out to Brock from Okta, Ryan from Optiv and Allan from Recorded Future for supplying some great prizes!

We cover: * Why vanity does not equal success * How fame & fortune is like a cat * The Lamborghini & the bikini lie And much more Timothy Francis is an award-winning Entrepreneur originally from Edmonton, now living in Austin, TX. He's been a guest lecturer at NYU in New York City, and has appeared on the Forbes and Inc. Magazine websites. Tim's company, Profit Factory, teaches financial literacy for Entrepreneurs and Investors. After the 2009 crash, Tim's net worth plummeted to -$200,000. The stress and exhaustion of those losses led to Tim developing a stress-related illness called Erythema Nodosum. He couldn't walk for 3 months. After a divine encounter, Tim discovered his true purpose in life. As soon as he could walk again, he got back to work. It was a long journey to pay off all debts, but he did it, and learned priceless lessons about business, money, and life along the way. Today, Tim owns two companies, Profit Factory and Great Assistant. Stay connected with Tim Website: knowyournumbersworkshop.com Website: reatassistant.com/apply Catch up on past conversations as well as see the entire lineup of contributors at the "A Handful of Hope" website: https://jessebrisendine.lpages.co/a-handful-of-hope (https://jessebrisendine.lpages.co/a-handful-of-hope) Stay connected with Jesse: Website: https://jessebrisendine.com/ (https://jessebrisendine.com/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessebrisendine (https://www.facebook.com/jessebrisendine) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JesseBrisendineCoaching/ (https://www.facebook.com/JesseBrisendineCoaching/) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessebrisendine/ (https://www.instagram.com/jessebrisendine/) Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessebris (https://twitter.com/jessebris) Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/JesseBrisendine (https://www.youtube.com/user/JesseBrisendine) Grab Your Free Copy of The Happiness Guide:  https://jessebrisendine.leadpages.co/happiness-guide/ (https://jessebrisendine.leadpages.co/happiness-guide/)

In this episode Jim and Tim discuss: Strategies that you can use to successfully delegate tasks How to use virtual assistants to give you the freedom to live the life you were meant to live How to make sure your virtual assistants have everything they need to succeed Key Takeaways: When Hiring a virtual assistant, the best value for your dollar is to hire someone from the US or Canada for 17-20 dollars/hour If you invest time and money into your assistants, they will more than pay for themselves As an entrepreneur, your job is to provide the vision. It's not to do the work “If you want a great assistant, you need to be a great leader” - Tim Francis   Connect with Jim Padilla:   Facebook YouTube  LinkedIn  Twitter   Blog   See behind-the-scenes how we build 7-figure personal development and lifestyle businesses!   See how our team can make you money on launches and live events.     

In this episode Jim and Tim discuss: Strategies that you can use to successfully delegate tasks How to use virtual assistants to give you the freedom to live the life you were meant to live How to make sure your virtual assistants have everything they need to succeed Key Takeaways: When Hiring a virtual assistant, the best value for your dollar is to hire someone from the US or Canada for 17-20 dollars/hour If you invest time and money into your assistants, they will more than pay for themselves As an entrepreneur, your job is to provide the vision. It’s not to do the work “If you want a great assistant, you need to be a great leader” - Tim Francis   Connect with Jim Padilla:   Facebook YouTube  LinkedIn  Twitter   Blog   See behind-the-scenes how we build 7-figure personal development and lifestyle businesses!   See how our team can make you money on launches and live events.     

There are plenty of great assistants out there in the world, but not all of them are great for you and your business. In this second of two installments of the Team Success podcast, Shannon Waller continues her interview with entrepreneur Tim Francis, the owner of Great Assistant, a thriving business that has helped hire[...] The post How To Find A Great Assistant Part 2 — With Guest Tim Francis appeared first on Your Team Success.

Are you just operating your business, or are you an actual business owner? Today's guest is someone who can transform you from the former to the latter. John Livesay sits down with Tim Francis, founder of Profit Factory, where he helps entrepreneurs figure out what they are not doing correctly that's causing them to not be profitable. Reevaluating why you became an entrepreneur in the first place, Tim talks about the ways we have been misled to chase fame and fortune instead of truth and mastery. He explains why we should seek to improve our businesses and help everyone because that way, the fame and fortune naturally follows. Furthermore, Tim also discusses what it actually means for you to be a creator of content in comparison with someone who just consumes it. Learn how to become profitable and more as Tim shares with you his Know Your Numbers workshop and his other company, Great Assistant, where he highlights the importance of how virtual assistants help you save time.Wanna Host Your Own Podcast?Click here to see how my friends at Brandcasting You can helpGet your FREE Sneak Peek of John's new book Better Selling Through Storytellinghttp://sellingsecretsforfunding.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=655c123123cd21ff7a24d914e&id=6f12bc74af John Livesay, The Pitch WhispererShare The ShowDid you enjoy the show? I'd love it if you subscribed today and left us a 5-star review!Click this linkClick on the ‘Subscribe' button below the artworkGo to the ‘Ratings and Reviews' sectionClick on ‘Write a Review'Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Successful Pitch community today:JohnLivesay.comJohn Livesay FacebookJohn Livesay TwitterJohn Livesay LinkedInJohn Livesay YouTube

Tim Francis combines a level of genius with true Canadian kindness. One of his passions is helping entrepreneurs maximize their time by offloading the hundreds of time sucking, low level tasks. If you feel constantly overwhelmed with the myriad of low level tasks that continue to hold you back from your greatness, or, if you just want to know what freedom tastes like, go to Great Assistant and learn more about how Tim and his company can help give you freedom.   Resources from this episode: Tim Francis - Great Assistant Get a copy of Perry Marshall's excellent book 80/20 Sales and Marketing - The Ultimate Guide to Working Less and Making More for one penny plus shipping (we worked out a special deal for our listeners) Just click here If you like the show, tell your friends, and give us review. If you love it - share all over the place! Why? Because it will help someone improve their life and business. Thanks!  

Tim Francis is an entrepreneur from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is the owner of Tim Francis Marketing and the founder of Profit Factory. Tim has a BPE degree from the University of Alberta, and a Certified Scrum Product Owner. Tim is a sought out consultant and speaker in entrepreneurship, marketing, and systems. Tim has been an entrepreneur for over 10 years now. His first business was in 2001 when he was a franchisee of College Pro Painters. In 2009 Tim was awarded one of Edmonton's coveted “Sizzling 20 Under 30” awards as one of his city's brightest up-and-coming business leaders. In March 2015, Tim was a guest lecturer at NYU in New York City. In July 2015, Tim spoke atop a mountain in Utah at the exclusive, invitation-only Baby Bathwater mastermind. A perfect storm of stressful events were major contributors to Tim falling dramatically ill in 2011 with a case of Erythema Nodosum. He was unable to walk or work for three full months. Amidst searing frustration, bitter disappointment and creeping self-doubt, Tim was forced to scrap everything and start from scratch. The soul-searching of those three months, and the businesses birthed from that crippling time have led to a business renaissance for Tim, enjoying greater success than ever before. Away from business, Tim's been a multi-award-winning athlete in both High School (ESSMY in St. Albert) and at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton. Tim was selected to the prestigious House of Commons Page Program (Ottawa) in 2000. Tim obtained a Health Promotion degree from the University of Alberta in 2006. Tim has also spent time in the entertainment industry as a TV host (2005) and a touring rock drummer (2002 – 2008). In his final year as a drummer, Tim appeared at the Western Canadian Music Awards with his rock trio, Smoothride. Today Tim lives in Austin, TX, and celebrates his mobility 3-4 times per week participating in Crossfit. About The Project EGG Show: The Project EGG Show is a video talk show that introduces you to entrepreneurs from around the world. It is broadcast from studios in Metairie, Louisiana to online platforms including YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and Stitcher, and hosted by Ben Gothard. Our goal is to give you a fresh, unscripted and unedited look into the lives of real entrepreneurs from around the globe. From billionaires to New York Times best selling authors to Emmy Award winners to Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients to TEDx speakers – we present their real stories – uncensored and uncut. Subscribe To The Show: https://projectegg.co/podcast/ Get Access To: 1. Resources: https://projectegg.co/resources/ 2. Financing Solutions: https://projectegg.co/epoch/ 3. Payment Solutions: https://projectegg.co/sempr/ 4. Services: https://projectegg.co/resources#services 5. Courses: https://projectegg.co/resources#courses 6. Software: https://projectegg.co/resources#software 7. Book: https://projectegg.co/resources#books --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/projectegg/support