Hunting For Our Replacement | Episode 149
Real Business Owners
Trevor Cowley
5 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Trevor and Kale talk about the skill sets and demands required for a start up business vs the skill sets and demands that are required to run a business at $15 million.
They open up about the pains and lessons they have learned on their growth into a multi million dollar operation and they discuss what will be required of them and the staff to move into their next phases of growth.
Trevor and Kale discuss their strategy to replace themselves from the daily executive responsibilities of the companies. They are on the hunt to hire a high level executive that has experience leading companies in the 50+ million dollar range and share their perspective on what to look for.
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| 0:00.0 | Every single one of you listening has a stress, has a headache, has problems, and you're |
| 0:05.6 | either really fixing the problem or you're band-aiding it. And the idea is, if you only know how to |
| 0:11.3 | band-aid, bring an individual in that can actually fix the problem. Bring outside perspective in. |
| 0:18.1 | Real business and real business. Whatever your situation is currently is not your forever |
| 0:22.7 | situation that's really what real business owners is man like we don't care where |
| 0:26.8 | you come from where are you going our goal and our job is to reduce the mistakes |
| 0:31.9 | that you have to make or the money that you have to lose you want to be an |
| 0:35.4 | entrepreneur you want to be successful don't give up you learn adjust and continue to lose. You want to be an entrepreneur. You want to be successful. Don't give up. |
| 0:37.6 | You learn, adjust, and continue to move forward. Welcome back to the Real Business Owners podcast. |
| 0:43.5 | This is Trevor Cowley. As always, Kel Goodman. What up, what up? Guys, it's good to be with you today. |
| 0:50.2 | Here's the deal. You know, we, you guys know that we've been going through the process of trying to phase ourselves out of our business in terms of the day-to-day stuff, right, putting leadership in place. |
| 1:01.6 | And, you know, we wanted to talk about a topic that is close to home, right? |
| 1:06.3 | That hits close to home for us anyways. And not saying that necessarily the leaders that we have internally |
| 1:11.8 | are, you know, bad leaders are actually amazing leaders. They're doing an amazing job, |
| 1:17.3 | taking on certain roles or duties that we used to have to do. And now they're doing it. So they |
| 1:25.2 | are taking things off of our plate, taking stress or headaches away. |
| 1:28.5 | We get two steps out, one step back in. Yeah. So it's, yeah, we're kind of playing that dance, |
| 1:32.8 | you know, we think we're on the way out and then we get pulled back in, right? Because again, |
| 1:37.6 | there are certain situations that maybe they haven't seen before. They just want advice or help. Or us. You know what I mean? I mean, the bottom line is, is like, |
| 1:44.6 | dude, |
| 1:44.7 | we're expecting them to step up and lead something that's even beyond our level at this point. |
| 1:49.6 | Like, |
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