Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,

change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what

motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and

inspire so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today I'm joined by Annie Hyman Pratt, top business consultant and author of The People Part, seven agreements

entrepreneurs and leaders make to build teams, accelerate growth and banish burnout for good.

Annie, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me.

Where are you joining us from, Annie? Oh, from Southern California. Today, I'm actually in San Diego.

Oh, wow. This has been one of the, one of the highs actually of recording remotely and we're going to

talk a lot, I suppose, about our new ways of working and

connecting yes so when it comes to business no matter what industry no matter the mission no matter

how big or how small the company is one universal shared element is of course the people

even in the modern world of technology and increasing automation,

it's very clear that the human element, or as you call it, the people part is more important

than ever before. So I'm really excited to ask you all of my questions and to dive in deep into

the new book. But first, could we start with some of your own experience? Because Annie, I know

that you've successfully scaled a business and led teams and leaders yourself. So thinking back to

that time, what was that like? What was some of the challenges and some of the lessons learned?

So first of all, I've always loved business, but I started in business in my family's business.

We had a business called the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.

And it was before Starbucks, my parents started it in the 60s.

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