Before you go to SOPs, I want you to exhaust templates.

I want you to exhaust tasks.

I want you to exhaust structures that you can use. Decision trees, process maps. Literally every other tool in our process building arsenal, I would want you to use before SOPs. The only thing that comes after SOPs is automation. But those are the last two steps, not the first two.

Happy Thursday morning, everybody. Welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast, the show helping you to build a more profitable location independent business.

So the question today, how can we manage our team and run the day-to-day operation of our businesses in less than five hours a week so we can spend the rest of our time focused on growth, focused on sales, focused on innovation, you know, visionary stuff. Today's guest is Layla Pompter, the founder of Process Driven. You can find her on YouTube where she deep dives

into how founders can use simple processes to manage their businesses more effectively. In fact,

today we're going to share five specific processes that you can implement some by the end of the episode to make your life as a founder easier.

We'll also touch on a broad range of topics after that, like the visionary integrator thing, what founders should be doing more of, as well as how to grow a powerful YouTube channel.

We'll also touch on interestingly towards the end of the episode. Also, Layla regularly more of as well as how to grow a powerful YouTube channel.

We'll also touch on interestingly towards the end of the episode.

Also, Layla regularly surveys her audience and she will share some of the top tech tools that bootstrappers are using to run their businesses more effectively.

All that more with today's guests, Layla Pompter.

Let's roll the conversation.

The first question is the easiest. Let us know what your name is and what it is you do. My name is Layla Pompter. I run process

driven. What I do is I work with small teams of three to 50 people who are struggling to get

done and I help them build the systems they

need to actually execute whatever it is their business is built to do. And I do some YouTube.

One of the things that is a core belief of yours is that being organized and process driven

is a skill. It is not a personality trait or a talent. Yes. Absolutely. Can you let me know about that?

The truth of the matter is I'm not a particularly organized person. I wanted to be an art teacher when I was in

school. I thought that would be the epitome of success until I realized what art teachers get paid,

unfortunately. And when it comes to running your business, there's all these different skills we have to learn.

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