#56: Curing the Overworked, Overwhelmed Business Owner
The StoryBrand Podcast
StoryBrand.com
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Success as a business owner can feel like a double edged sword. You are accomplishing your dream and growing a business you're passionate about, but you're also doing so much, feeling constantly overwhelmed by the weight of making sure everything runs as it should.
Today's coaching guest finds herself here. Renee Thompson is the founder and CEO of the Healthy Workforce Institute, an organization eradicating bullying and incivility inside the healthcare system. In this episode, Donald Miller coaches Renee on how to evaluate which tasks are the most important and truly need your attention to avoid overworking yourself. After all, if you break yourself, you won't be able to fix what's broken in the world.
If you think of your business like an airplane, this coaching conversation is continuing to show you how to strengthen your wings, or your products, so you can stop living in a state of chaos and actually find time to take a break.
Learn more about Renee Thompson and the amazing work she's doing at HealthyWorkforceInstitute.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the business made simple podcast where we coach you to build your business like |
| 0:06.6 | an airplane. |
| 0:07.7 | The cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the ride engine is your marketing, |
| 0:11.3 | the left engine is your sales, the wings are your products and the fuel tanks are your |
| 0:15.1 | cash flow. |
| 0:16.2 | If you build the six parts of your business correctly, it will fly far and fast. |
| 0:21.2 | How great is that? |
| 0:22.2 | You only need to know six things. |
| 0:24.4 | Every week we help a business owner just like you optimize their airplane, I'm your host |
| 0:29.0 | Donald Miller. |
| 0:30.7 | Many of you, probably most of you, are dealing with the same problem our guest today, Renee |
| 0:36.0 | Thompson, is dealing with and that's this. |
| 0:39.1 | She has to duplicate herself and she doesn't know how to do it. |
| 0:42.5 | She is the product. |
| 0:44.7 | She's the one with the expertise, but she can't service every single client. |
| 0:49.1 | She's got a waiting list. |
| 0:50.7 | She has people waiting to give her a ton of money. |
| 0:55.3 | She has an executive assistant, she's got some good stuff going on. |
| 0:58.3 | But it's just not working. |
| 1:00.5 | Renee Thompson is founder and CEO of the Healthy Workforce Institute. |
| 1:04.9 | It's an organization focused on eradicating bullying and instability within the healthcare |
| 1:10.1 | system. |
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