Profit By Design

Being in business is tough. Hard times come, and sometimes they go on for a long time. Have you found yourself asking, “Is it worth it? Will it EVER get better?” You are not alone–but are experiencing common feelings of most entrepreneurs. The big questions are: How do you know if it’s time to quit? How do you know when to keep going and persist? Join Dr. Sabrina as she dives into this topic and shares the reality that challenges will come to small businesses, how to persist, and when to let go. Whether you're on the brink of giving up or seeking ways to persevere, this episode offers practical guidance to help entrepreneurs thrive in the face of challenges. Stick around until the end of this episode because Dr. Sabrina shares her story of wanting to throw in the towel, how things change, and what the Tap the Potential team has learned along the way. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Links and Resources: Ready to take your life back from your business? Want more time for what matters most and more money in your bank account than ever? Book a call with us today! Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Welcome to a very special episode. You have my guarantee that you will find this conversation inspiring and impactful for your business and your life. Please take the time to listen. I’m joined by Deanna Cotten, the owner of Jumpstart Business Builders. She helps business owners acquire the tools, resources, and coaching to grow six-figure businesses. Deanna and I were introduced by a mutual client and hit it off immediately because of our shared passions and goals in helping business owners. You’ll hear Deanna’s story of the challenges she faces as an entrepreneur, wife, mother, and friend. Her perspective will inspire you to connect with what matters most and make impactful changes to align your work with a thriving life. Hearing Deanna’s account of her legacy mindset as she faces down a terminal diagnosis with strength, unwavering faith, and grace, will inspire you to be better in every area of life. Join us to learn more! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Links and Resources: Ready to take your life back from your business? Want more time for what matters most and more money in your bank account than ever? Book a call with us today! Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour Connect with Deanna Cotten and Jumpstart Business Builders Website Deanna's Go Fund Me LinkedIn

Does this sound familiar? You are on the hamster wheel, always working hard just to keep up with the demands of your business and trying to be everything to everyone—and still coming up short. This is a common scenario for entrepreneurs, but things CAN be different! In today’s episode, I’m diving into the mindset that is undermining us in our self-limiting beliefs and how our personality styles can contribute to the role strain that we experience as entrepreneurs. Join us to learn more! Do you want to create more vacation time for yourself where you can fully unplug from your business? Would it help you to free up 10 or more hours each week? Would your life improve if you could pay yourself at least $50,000 more this year? If you’ve answered yes, yes, and yes, you need to sign up for our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart. Running from March 25-29, this free workshop shows you how to set up your business so that you can enjoy your life. What are you waiting for? Sign up today! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Links and Resources: Let us help you plan for your 4 Week Vacation®️! We will analyze your business, diagnose the problems, and help you put the right systems in place. Book a call with us today! Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Today’s episode is the follow-up to last week’s episode on how to make your time worth $10,000 an hour. Today we shift from you, the business owner, to your team members and how you can support them in making their time more valuable to the team. Dr. Sabrina reveals how to support your A-player team members in delegating effectively so they invest their time in higher-value activities to support the business. We have resources to help you! Download your copy of the Chart of $10,000 an Hour Activities now! This chart can be a powerful reminder to keep your time and work focused on your highest-value activities. Also, through our Better Business Better Life program, we can support you in many ways to help your business be sustainably profitable. Join us for today’s episode to learn more! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Links and Resources: Take the Peoplemap Assessment and use code “beagift” for $50 off! The next session of Leadership Bootcamp begins on April 4. This six-week program helps you achieve unsurpassed growth by tapping into your A-player team members. Ready to take your life back from your business? Want more time for what matters most and more money in your bank account than ever? Book a call with us today. Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It begins on Monday, March 25. Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Your time is valuable. Don’t waste it on clients and customers who don’t fit your ideal client profile. A much better strategy is to identify the sweet spot of your business and have a system for attracting the right people and deterring the wrong people. Today’s episode covers a popular topic with the Tap the Potential family of business owners: how to make your time worth $10,000 an hour. I’ve been using these strategies and teaching on this subject for many years, and I’m excited to share this information with you today. In today’s Part 1, the focus is on you, the business owner, your $10,000 an hour mindset, and how to handle delegation. Part 2 will focus on your team members and how to get them thinking about making their time worth more than $100, $1000, and even $10,000 an hour. I’m bringing you the latest research on entrepreneurship and what we know about those who are thriving and those who are burning out. Download your Chart of $10,000 an Hour Activities now, refer to it often, and listen for lots of life-changing wisdom coming your way. You’ll learn how to avoid the most common and costly missteps and the secret to multiplying your profit by 100-900% in less than 12 months. I’m sharing two powerful questions to get you laser-focused on the $10,000 an hour activities in your business. Join me now for Part 1! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Show Highlights: My story: a meltdown, a life lesson learned (“Limits force innovation and creativity.”), and my 25-hour workweek Two powerful questions to ask yourself to get out of overwhelm: What is the one thing I can do today to move my business forward? What is the one thing I can do right now so that everything else will be easier or unnecessary? Turn your survival trap activities into $10,000 an hour activities by aligning them with your vision. Serve your business from your unique gifts and strengths; not everything you spend time on is a $10,000 an hour activity! (Our Better Business Better Life Assessment can help you figure out where your business is and where the gaps are.) Signs of burnout (9 out of 10 entrepreneurs are experiencing burnout!) A system to attract A-players to your team will help you delegate and see more opportunities for profitable growth (Our How to Hire the Best course can help!) Change your mindset: Not every YES is a good YES! Your guide to decision making: Does this activity or opportunity serve the sweet spot of my business, or not? Examples of $10,000 activities Common mistakes that business owners make The golden nugget: Work from your strengths and apply the 80/20 principle to the sweet spot of your business. Dr. Sabrina’s takeaways: “Don’t get overwhelmed by $10,000 an hour activities. You can’t put them all into place at once, so start small. Let us help you get started moving forward from where you are right now. Take the Better Business Better Life Assessment today!” Links and Resources: Chart of the $10,000 an Hour Activities How to Hire the Best by Dr. Sabrina Starling The One Thing by Gary Keller Ready to take your life back from your business? Ready to implement the Tap the Potential Solution to have more time for what matters most and more money in your bank account than ever? Book a call with us today! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a signed paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach, Leadership Bootcamp, Dream Manager and How to Hire the Best. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It begins on Monday, March 25. Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you manage your time,...

“We’re busy, I’m overwhelmed, and my team is overwhelmed. We have more work than we can handle. I know we need to hire, but I’m scared. How do I know if we can even afford it?” Does this sound familiar? If this describes your experience, today’s episode is for you! Many business owners face this common problem, and we are diving deep into this topic today. We’ll address the fears around hiring, hiring PTSD, and the big question of how you can afford to hire a new team member. Tap the Potential provides valuable tools to help in every aspect of the hiring process to grow your sustainably profitable business. Our Better Business Better Life Assessment helps measure your burnout risk, because “doing it all” in your business will lead to burnout. Our research shows that 9 out of 10 entrepreneurs feel burnout symptoms and don’t know how to structure their work to support their lives. Our Chart of $10,000 an Hour Activities teaches you to delegate tasks and make the most profitable use of your time as a business owner. The How to Hire the Best Course (and book) covers everything you’ll hear in today’s show. You’ll learn why traditional hiring practices will set you up to fail in attracting and retaining A-players to your team. We can help you get started in the right direction. Book a call with us today! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Show Highlights: Fact: Hiring A-players is a skill set that you CAN acquire! How the How to Hire the Best Course teaches you a new hiring process with fewer (but higher quality) applicants and a streamlined process for recruiting and training A-players Facing the fear of “Can I even afford a new team member?” (Hint: Part-time team members and independent contractors are always viable options.) How our Chart of $10,000 an Hour Activities teaches you to delegate tasks How most business owners are inadvertently creating glass ceilings by not delegating tasks How to determine competitive wages/salary for the role you need while still offering advancement opportunities How to cut expenses in practical ways so you can hire an A-player How the How to Hire the Best Course helps build your hiring muscle A How to Hire the Best Course success story about Don Zerby of Ecolawn, Inc. Links and Resources: Let us help you plan for your 4 Week Vacation®️! We will analyze your business, diagnose the problems, and help you put the right systems in place. Book a call with us today! Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It begins on Monday, March 25. Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Are you preparing for YOUR 4 week vacation®️ in 2024? Or is this another year of stress and overwhelm moving you toward full-blown burnout? Help is available, and your 4 week vacation®️ is possible! Today’s episode is a live coaching call with Kristin Meyer, the CEO and co-owner of Southern Crafted Shutters. They are an exterior shutter manufacturer and retailer in upstate South Carolina where there is an intentional focus on team and culture. Kristin wants to take a 4 week vacation®️ with her husband, who is the co-owner of the business. If it’s a challenge for one business owner to take a 4 week vacation®️, it is much more magnified when both co-owners plan to vacation at the same time! Kristin is passionate about providing amazing service whether in developing her team, proactively communicating with customers, or partnering with other business owners. She believes that culture is everything and strives to maintain a work environment where people have fun, get things done, and feel like family. One cool fact about Kristin is that she has a coaching certification from Coaching Life, so she brings coaching principles into how she runs her business. Join the conversation and listen to Dr. Sabrina’s coaching that can help Kristin make her 4 week vacation®️ dream a reality! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Links and Resources: Connect with Kristin Meyer and Southern Crafted Shutters: Website, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, and LinkedIn Get 25% off shutter hardware with your shutter purchase by mentioning the Profit by Design podcast. Visit the Southern Crafted Shutters Website. Let us help you plan for your 4 Week Vacation®️! We will analyze your business, diagnose the problems, and help you put the right systems in place. Book a call with us today! Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It begins on Monday, March 25. Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Are you ready for another game-changing strategy to grow your business? A successful internship program can be transformative in bringing fresh perspectives and innovative ideas to the table. This topic prompts many questions about how to hire interns, what they can do for your business, what requirements should be in place for an internship, and how to build a successful internship program. Just imagine the magnitude of possibilities when you believe in and create opportunities for the future of our workforce! Join Kaitlyn Beaver, Tap the Potential’s Success and Connect Team Lead and How to Hire the Best Strategist, for all this and more in today’s episode! Don’t miss today’s free workshop, Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. If you have hiring PTSD and are struggling to lead your team, THIS is the place to start! In this workshop, we will uncover the secret sauce behind maximizing the productivity of A-players. You will discover proven strategies to attract and recruit top talent and ensure a higher success rate, and you'll gain actionable insights to create a workplace environment that nurtures and retains A-players. Sign up to join us today, February 22, at 1:00 pm Central. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Links and Resources: Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. This free, 90-minute workshop is on Thursday, February 22, at 1:00 pm Central. Don’t miss it! Sign up today! Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Sign up today for the Dream Manager Program! Retain, grow, and deeply engage your A-players with one of the most unique and holistic benefits you can provide your team members. The program begins February 21st! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It already began on January 8, but you can still get in on the action and access the program! Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Today’s show focus is very near and dear to my heart: hiring A-players. I’ll explain what small business owners are getting wrong and why traditional hiring practices will only bring difficulties and heartache. The mis-hiring process is painful because of the time and effort involved in screening applicants and interviewing, and statistics show that 75% of business owners are mis-hiring. Join me in today’s episode for a look at what not to do and what will give solid results in attracting A-players to your team. I’ll wrap up with simple tips to help you uplevel your team this year for profitable growth. Because we love to celebrate wins here at Tap the Potential, we have a big win to celebrate with you today. This is the 5th anniversary of the Profit by Design podcast! That means that we have come to you weekly for five years, sharing tips, tools, and strategies to help you design your business to be sustainably profitable. Along with that, we are ranked in the top 5% globally in a field of over three million podcasts, and that is only possible because of our devoted listeners. We appreciate each listener and each piece of feedback we receive! The truth is that a single A-player can outperform 9-12 average team members and greatly impact your leadership experience in positive ways. Don’t you want to leave traditional hiring practices behind and learn how to attract and hire valuable and productive A-players for your team? The first step is to attend our free workshop, Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. It’s on February 22. Click the link to sign up today! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Show Highlights: What we are getting wrong with traditional hiring practices How we inadvertently set up our A-players to fail by not aligning their role with their strengths Why a training and onboarding plan are essential for a newly hired team member How your immutable laws should be developed out of your core values—and be a determining factor in your hiring process Why you shouldn’t expect A-players to stay with you for life Why you need to understand what motivates your A-players, what their career goals are, what opportunities they crave, and what intangible perks they value most Why you do NOT have to offer top salaries and wages to attract A-players How our How to Hire the Best course can help you spend less time dealing with performance issues; start with our free workshop on February 22 Simple tips to uplevel your team for profitable growth this year: Learn how to hire A-players. Hiring soon? Start NOW. Identify your “warm bodies” and make a plan to replace them with A-players in the next 6-12 months. Links and Resources: Coming soon: Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. This free workshop is on Thursday, February 22, and you do not want to miss it! Sign up today! Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Sign up today for the Dream Manager Program! Retain, grow, and deeply engage your A-players with one of the most unique and holistic benefits you can provide your team members. The program begins February 21st! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It already began on January 8, but you can still get in on the action and access the program! Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with...

Are you struggling to set boundaries with your team and hold expectations? This is a common struggle for business owners. If you find yourself having the same conversations over and over with your team members just to see nothing change, this episode is for you! We are diving into practical ways to set boundaries and hold expectations for them, along with the challenge of the tough conversations you need to have with team members who criticize your choices as the leader and business owner. Join us to learn more! As part of our support to help you uplevel your team, we have a very exciting opportunity coming up very soon. It's called Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. This free workshop is on Thursday, February 22, and you do not want to miss it! Sign up today! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Show Highlights: Why solutions only come when we challenge our existing beliefs and thought patterns Why it is critical to clarify expectations with your team members and be specific about each person’s role and daily/weekly responsibilities How to start by identifying the most problematic team member and begin weekly one-to-one conversations to clarify expectations (Refer to Episode 271, How to Deal with an Underperforming Team Member.) How to recognize an uncoachable team member How to implement performance reviews and performance improvement plans with a clear stopping point in mind for a team member who isn’t hitting expectations within 4-6 weeks How to deal with longtime team members who criticize your leadership decisions and create a toxic culture How to ask for feedback and identify it as “healthy” or “toxic” How to talk to your team about profitability and their role in the company’s success; get your copy of our Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Links and Resources: Mentioned in this episode: Episode 271, How to Deal with an Underperforming Team Member.)Coming soon: Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. This free workshop is on Thursday, February 22, and you do not want to miss it! Sign up today! Get your copy of A Guide To Talking To Your Team About Profit! Sign up today for the Dream Manager Program! Retain, grow, and deeply engage your A-players with one of the most unique and holistic benefits you can provide your team members. The program begins February 21st! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It already began on January 8, but you can still get in on the action and access the program! Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Welcome to today’s episode! Last week, we covered how your organization’s future and your team members’ potential are intertwined. You also learned why Tap the Potential’s Dream Manager Program is the solution to the monumental problem of employee disengagement. Today you’ll learn the vital importance of putting your personal strategic plan in place, how identifying your dreams supports your business vision, and how to energize your A-players and keep them engaged. Join us to learn more! Leading the charge for this topic is Melissa Kay, the Lead Strategist and “Chief Dream Officer” at Tap the Potential. Joining her is Kaitlyn Beaver, Sales and Marketing Team Lead at Tap the Potential. Kaitlyn shares her experience with the Dream Manager Program and how having a personal strategic plan supports her role as an A-player on our amazing team. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Links and Resources: Schedule your call with Kaitlyn Beaver today! Sign up today for the Dream Manager Program! Retain, grow, and deeply engage your A-players with one of the most unique and holistic benefits you can provide your team members. The program begins February 21st! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It already began on January 8, but you can still get in on the action and access the program! Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

“The great corporate battle in the coming decades will be the war for talent.” Do you feel overwhelmed by the challenge of attracting and retaining engaged A-players on your team? Is employee disengagement sinking your ship? In this episode, Melissa Kay, Tap the Potential’s Lead Strategist and “Chief Dream Officer,” shares how your organization’s future and your team members’ potential are intertwined. We are diving deep into team member disengagement, what the core issue is, how it can end your organization, and what you can do about it right now. Join us to learn more! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Show Highlights: The ugly truths about disengaged team members and how they are sabotaging your morale, productivity, sustainability, growth, and profitability How Tap the Potential’s Dream Manager Program (concept taken from Matthew Kelly’s book, The Dream Manager) provides a revolutionary way to reverse the staggering trend toward disengagement Why the ability to attract, engage, and retain talent will be the #1 strategic objective going forward for every successful organizational leader The key for every business manager or organizational leader: to support team members and create an environment that helps them become the best version of themselves How our Dream Manager Program helps you lead with innovation, a strategic plan, and vision Why your business vision should align with your personal vision An overview of the Dream Manager Program, how it works, and what you can expect Links and Resources: Sign up today for the Dream Manager Program! Retain, grow, and deeply engage your A-players with one of the most unique and holistic benefits you can provide your team members. The program begins February 21st! Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It already began on January 8, but you can still get in on the action and access the program! Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Do you feel like you never have enough time to get everything done? You are not alone! Most business owners identify time management as one of the biggest challenges they face. When you started your business to have more time freedom, you probably didn’t envision getting caught in the survival trap and experiencing real symptoms of burnout as your business grew. If you are unsure of how to prioritize your time, have too many meetings to attend, and don’t know what to focus on next, we can help. It all starts with learning to manage your time strategically. Join us for this episode with Melissa Kay. The first step in managing your time is understanding the value of your time as a business owner. We have two valuable tools that can help! Get your copy of the Chart of $10,000 an Hour Activities and the 2024 Strategic Planner today! Links and Resources: Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It already began on January 8, but you can still get in on the action and access the program! Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Set yourself up to double or triple your profit and owner’s pay in 2024! How does that sound? Join Dr. Sabrina for Part 4 of our Strategic Planning Series as she walks you through what it means to design your business to be sustainably profitable. You’ll learn how to get out of the survival trap, plan for growth that increases profit and owner’s pay, and discover the most often overlooked business expenses. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Links and Resources: Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It already began on January 8, but you can still get in on the action and access the program! Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Are you caught in the survival trap? If you take a few steps forward but aren’t building the momentum you want or getting the results you need, it could be that you need to design your clear compelling vision. Why not start now to improve your quality of life in 2024? Download your copy of our Strategic Planning Series Workbook today; you’ll also get the Tap the Potential 2024 Strategic Planner as a bonus gift. What are you waiting for? We love celebrating specific wins with our clients around revenue increases, returns on investments, reducing debt, doubling owner’s pay, strengthening a team of A-players, and taking fully unplugged 2-week and 4-week vacations. What’s possible for you in 2024? Do you imagine more time for family, friends, exercise, hobbies, healthy eating, and reconnecting with the things that bring you joy and fulfillment? Join us for the Better Business Better Life Jumpstart on January 8-12. This free, five-day workshop will give you a growth plan that delivers! We will help you design a sustainably profitable business and find more time for what matters most in 2024. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Show Highlights: Why visioning is the most powerful and effective motivator for positive change—if you trust the process and are willing to change How to guard against the survival trap and use your vision as your decision-making filter Why a focus on doubling profit or doubling owner’s pay is better than trying to double your revenue How to see your vision at the end of 2024 and identify the steps and systems that got you there Powerful questions to ask yourself and your team: “What are our clients saying about what they are experiencing in our business? What is our team experiencing? What are our top clients saying about our team members? What actions and words are allowing me to show up as a strong and confident leader?” How to take your team members through this visioning exercise as part of their development Links and Resources: Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It’s coming soon on January 8-12! Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Our clients’ successes, big or small, help fuel our team at Tap the Potential. We have supported business owners in 2023 through some very challenging circumstances, and I want to brag about our clients who have been resilient in achieving major wins this year. If the end of 2023 finds you still in the struggle, I hope today’s show inspires and encourages you. You can absolutely have a profitable and growing business in 2024—-AND a great quality of life! Our clients have reached major revenue milestones this year while paying down large sums of debt and increasing their owners’ pay. Many business owners have embraced leadership roles to feel pride in the culture they have created by upgrading their teams with A-players. Most significantly of all, they have created a great quality of life by setting priorities that make time for what matters most in their lives. The end of the year is a great opportunity to stop, reflect, plan, and design for the year ahead. In Part 1 of this series, I guided you through some powerful questions to support you in strengthening resilience, along with the habits of highly resilient people. Today, I want you to pause, take inventory of your well-being as an entrepreneur, and check in on the strength of your business. Take our Better Business Better Life Assessment to learn which systems to strengthen in 2024 so that your business is stronger and healthier. Begin by downloading your copy of the Strategic Planning Workbook and refer to it as you listen to today’s show. Let’s get on track to celebrate YOUR wins in 2024! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Show Highlights: How to use the “Gift to Yourself” and the “Wheel of Life” exercises (Strategic Planning Workbook, p. 7 and 9) Use a list to own the wins and successes of 2023 and acknowledge the losses, disappointments, and breakdowns. Create a list of what you want to see in 2024 from the perspective of “these things have already happened;” give yourself space for the learning that needs to happen with a realistic timeline. Go through each area on the “Wheel of Life” and identify your current level of fulfillment. (Take the Better Business Better Life Assessment to identify areas of burnout!) How to focus on your “Veggies First” by prioritizing sleep, exercise, good nutrition, energy-gaining activities, and living in alignment with your core values The most impactful, powerful question to ask yourself as an inquiry Why our businesses need to play a smaller role in our lives for optimal health and life Where to start in improving your quality of life: Take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free, signed paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Read the book! Stop work at a set time each day. Take weekends off and unplug from work–completely. Have ongoing conversations with team members about your commitments to healthy boundaries for everyone. Links and Resources: Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

It is an exciting time of year with all the joys that the holidays bring! As the year winds down and we have time to reflect, it’s the best time to strategically plan for the year ahead. This episode kicks off the first in our four-part Strategic Planning Series, and today’s focus is on you, the entrepreneur—because the success of your business begins and ends with you. In the middle of all the challenges and failures, we have to be resilient to bring our best forward. We must stop and reflect on how we can learn from our failures because our best opportunities lie within those failures. To help set you up for success, we have the Strategic Planning Workbook for you to download as a guide for these next four episodes. As a bonus, your download includes the Tap the Potential Annual Strategic Planner to help you identify and prioritize your $10,000 an hour activities. Entrepreneurship is a roller coaster ride that fills your life with challenges, setbacks, struggles, and wins. As I have studied thriving entrepreneurs and what makes them different from those who burn out, resilience is a key factor. Think of resilience as a muscle that you can build; every setback and challenge makes you stronger and allows you to work those resilience muscles. One way to help strengthen those resilience muscles is to take advantage of our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart that is coming up in January. This free, five-day workshop gives you a glimpse of what it’s like to work with our expert team as we guide you through the Tap the Potential Solution to take your life back from your business. If you have worked during family vacations, missed your kids’ important events, or skipped family dinners because of work, we can help turn your life around. If you’ve put your dreams on hold and quit taking good care of yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally, these are signs that you need to be in our Jumpstart. Sign up today! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Links and Resources: Master your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. This free, five-day workshop will help you realize your vision of sustainable profitability in 2024. It’s coming soon on January 8-12! Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

Have you ever found yourself scratching your head wondering how to deal with someone who has a very difficult personality? Dealing with a difficult client, customer, or team member is a situation that a lot of us encounter in business because we deal with different personalities all the time. I have identified three types of personalities that are typical of difficult clients and customers: those who have strong personalities and want things done their way, those clients who just don't make decisions, and the clients who fail to give you what you need when you need it so that you can do the work for them. We are diving into these scenarios in today’s show, and I’ll give you the language for these conversations. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to prevent these difficulties from coming up in your business, regardless of the varied personalities of your clients. Join us for practical and helpful advice! I want to remind you about our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart that begins on January 8. The sad truth is that you may already feel burned out if your business has taken over your life. If this year resulted in working on the weekends, working during your family vacation, missing a sporting event with one of your children, or saying no to family dinners, you need this workshop! If you've put off your dreams, skipped regular workouts, and been regularly sleep-deprived, we can help! You will learn to develop a growth plan that delivers and how to design your business to be sustainably profitable. I will walk you through how to calculate the profit potential in your business and design a plan for profit in the year ahead—and for the years to come. I’ll show you how to discover profit that is hidden in plain sight and see a clear path for simplifying to grow, which will free up your time. There is no charge for this free workshop, so sign up today! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Show Highlights: How to prevent the problem of dealing with difficult clients: Identify qualifying criteria for clients and customers and notice red flags. Niche down to a clearly defined sweet spot in your business. Get in front of the problem with screening questions during client onboarding. Offer monetary incentives when deadlines are met. Strategically build the education process for clients. What to do if you have difficult clients right now: Use face-to-face conversations and phone conversations (over texts and emails) with documented follow-ups. Use the language of support rather than judgment. Give them a checklist of deadlines for crucial decisions. Lay out clear expectations with incentives. How to have the “This is not working; we cannot serve you in the future” conversation How to handle the client or customer who causes stress for your team by not meeting deadlines and making decisions How to handle the client or customer who tries to take over and will not follow your process Links and Resources: Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. The next session begins on Monday, January 8. Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

When was the last time you increased your prices? Does it strike fear in your heart and make you uncomfortable to have these conversations with clients and customers? You are not alone! Price increases are necessary, and they must be strategically planned. Let’s talk about how to know when you need a price increase and how to address this with clients and customers! Our upcoming Better Business Better Life Jumpstart aligns perfectly with the focus of today’s show. In this free, five-day workshop, you’ll learn how to design your business to be sustainably profitable, identify your unique value (tied to price increases), and how to attract top-quality clients and customers while building your team of A-players. Sign up today and set the stage for a better quality of life for you in 2024! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Show Highlights: Why the fear of losing clients and customers over price increases is not always a negative thing How to combat the fear of price competition by knowing your unique value proposition How to use the reality of the 80/20 rule to justify a price increase AND a value increase How to deliver a price increase: what to say and what not to say When you should NOT consider a price increase Why an annual evaluation (at a minimum) and price increase is necessary Links and Resources: Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. The next session begins on Monday, January 8. Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour

"Assuming you have all the courage you need, what action could you take that would have the greatest impact on your life?" Answering that one powerful question can help you to avoid fear getting in your way. It will allow you to address what is best for yourself and prevent difficult or uncomfortable situations from persisting for years. Avoiding tough decisions can hinder both your personal and professional growth. That can be devastating for entrepreneurs! Dr. Sabrina draws from her personal experiences and shares some anecdotes from her clients to encourage entrepreneurs to confront their challenges. Join her as she highlights the value of overcoming obstacles, seeking support, sharing experiences, and making decisions aligned with core values to create a richer and more fulfilling life! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production. Show Highlights: How fear can prevent entrepreneurs from making difficult decisions Dr. Sabrina shares how an entrepreneur's courageous decision to end a significant relationship led to his focus on self-discovery and business growth How having courageous conversations can lead to overcoming obstacles and improving your life Dr. Sabrina shares some powerful questions to help you get over whatever holds you back in life The benefits of reflecting on the results of the tough decisions you failed to make How aligning with your core values will bring you satisfaction and happiness Dr. Sabrina emphasizes the importance of having a supportive environment when making any major life changes How the perspective of an outsider can help in seeing situations from a different angle Links and Resources: Sign up for our free workshop, Unlocking Profit Potential: The Power of A-Players and How to Attract Them for 10x Growth. It happens on Thursday, November 16; don’t miss this opportunity! Master your time and profit for the 4th quarter! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business Better Life Assessment, and receive a free paperback copy of my book, The 4 Week Vacation®️. Learn more about our courses, Coach Approach and Leadership Bootcamp at www.tapthepotential.com. Our Better Business Better Life Jumpstart can help your profitability in every way. Sign up today! Join the Tap the Potential Community on Mighty Networks: www.tapthepotential.com/group Let us help you and your business! Book a call with us today! Let us help you manage your time, your most valuable resource! Get your FREE copy of the Tap the Potential Strategic Planner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner. Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour