334: Multiplying to 5 Locations with Emily Countryman

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Natalie Eckdahl

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4.8 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How do you move your business from the startup stage to the multiply stage? Emily Countryman, CEO of a chain of wellness centers, joins me on this episode to share her success story at the multiply stage: of scaling up a business with a physical location from one location to a chain of FIVE centers.

Emily shares her struggles with expanding from one center to two, and her advice and key learning points from the experience. Financing the business also becomes a key consideration, and Emily has some insight into how she managed to fund the growth of her business.

Emily and I also discuss teams: from strategies for training new hires and documenting internal processes to part-time vs full-time employees to the importance of communication in building a cohesive team, we dig into the nitty gritty of taking a business to the next stage. At this level, it’s really about transitioning from the manager of the business, to stepping into the CEO role and being the leader your business needs.

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0:00.0	Would you like to understand the stages of small business and how to conquer the stage you are currently in?
0:06.1	Get our free download at bizchicks.com slash stages and we'll walk you through it.
0:11.1	That's B-I-Z-C-H-I-X.com slash S-T-A-G-E-S.
0:18.1	She's busy juggling her own internet business.
0:21.3	A tween?
0:22.4	Whatever.
0:23.4	A toddler.
0:24.4	An infant.
0:26.3	A labradoodle.
0:27.7	And her husband.
0:28.8	What's for dinner, sweetie?
0:30.1	In her spare time, she talks to successful female entrepreneurs.
0:33.9	And a few cool dudes about their journey and how they make it all work. Welcome to the Biz Chicks
0:40.4	podcast with your host, entrepreneur, MBA, and mom. Natalie Eggdal. Hey, Biz Chicks, I hope you loved
0:48.5	the last episode with Mina as much as I did. Mina shared how she rapidly scaled her product business. And today,
0:56.8	I have an incredible entrepreneur, Emily Countryman on. She is sharing her success story,
1:03.7	scaling a physical location, a business with a physical location from one to five locations.
1:10.3	In fact, she says she has a chain of wellness
1:13.3	centers at this point. When I met her and started working with her in 2016, she had one location,
1:20.0	and I'm so excited for you to hear her story. Emily was part of two different Bizchik's
1:25.4	masterminds that I hosted. Her first group was a mix
1:29.0	of levels of business, so entrepreneurs from various different backgrounds and different levels of
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