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Real Business Owners

Every Business Hits a Wall | Episode 335

Real Business Owners

Trevor Cowley

Business

5704 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Every business hits that wall—the moment when momentum slows, motivation fades, and you start questioning if you’re even built for this. Trevor breaks down why regression is not the end, but the necessary reset before your next breakthrough.Through raw stories from his own businesses, he explains how struggle, friction, and even doubt can be the greatest teachers—if you hold the line and stay in the fight long enough to adapt.This episode is a blueprint for any entrepreneur who feels stuck, frustrated, or ready to throw in the towel.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Being an entrepreneur sounds cool, but the reality of building a business is very, very difficult.

0:07.0

Every level that you hit, there's a lot of things that suck that you just won't want to do.

0:11.6

What you're capable of is on the other side I don't feel like it.

0:15.5

And if you're committed to what it is that you're trying to do, nothing is going to stop you from getting there.

0:24.0

Welcome back to another episode of real business owners with myself, Trevor Callie.

0:27.8

Today is a solo episode.

0:29.6

Guys, it's the fourth quarter.

0:31.6

I do want to remind you to make sure if you owed in taxes last year, be proactive.

0:39.1

You know, reach out to your accountant,

0:45.2

talk to them about tax planning. Usually you can spend a little bit of money to save a lot of money.

0:50.8

If your accountant is not actually reaching out to you proactively asking, hey, do you want to do some tax planning based upon the amount that you owed last year?

0:58.0

That's kind of a red flag right there. If you don't have an accountant that you trust,

1:02.5

reach out to me or reach out to us here at easier accounting. Let's jump into the show. Today I want to talk about, I made an Instagram story in regards to businesses going

1:10.4

through a regression phase. It's completely normal.

1:14.1

I can't tell you how many people that I've communicated with that Phil defeated, Phil, as though

1:22.0

that, you know, maybe they're not cut out for this because at one point they had some traction in

1:26.6

their business. There were some profits. They were making a little bit of money. And then they started to grow their

1:31.5

business. And then their business, let's say, went through the teenage years, right? Tough years

1:37.5

and started throwing some fits. In other words, they started going through some struggle.

1:42.7

Your business, without a doubt, will go through a regression phase.

1:46.0

If you're doing well right now, enjoy it.

1:48.4

But as you scale and as you grow your business, it's without a doubt going to happen

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