Scaling up is not always the main goal when you have a business. Sometimes, what you need is scaling down. 

In this episode, the amazing Nicholas Kusmich, owner operator instantly turned CEO overnight, shared how his life and career shifted by scaling down and “netting up.”

What’s “netting up”? Listen to this episode as we talk about its definition, and about the importance of reevaluating your life, how to achieve bliss in business, how to realign and orchestrate your life around the true purpose and core values, and many many more!

Live and have a business that feeds your lifestyle rather than a lifestyle that feeds your business.

SHOW NOTES: 

0:00:00 Exploring Success and Happiness with Nicholas Kusmich

0:02:50 Riding the Wave of Success: From Owner Operator to CEO Overnight

0:04:55 The Power of Netting Up: How Nicholas Found Success by Scaling Down

0:07:31 Life at Home and Business Behind-The-Scenes

0:19:05 Alignment with True Self and Core Values for Business Success

0:22:00 Advice for Stepping Out from a Miserable Life

0:26:10 Winning is an Internal Game

0:31:49 Taking Micro Steps to Reach Your Goals

0:36:28 Nicholas’ Recommended Books 

0:40:22 Reflection on Reconnecting with Faith and Nature

0:45:27 Creating a Business That Feels Good

0:49:22 Understanding Intuition and Unresolved Trauma

0:53:53 Living a Fulfilled Life and Building a Business For You

QUOTES

“I encourage everybody to ride the wave when it serves one to you.”

“The problem with scaling up is, yes, your top line revenue number goes up, but your bottom line revenue goes down. And I'm like, that equation doesn't make sense to me . . . I'm trying to figure out this thing where I can continue to grow my bottom line revenue while reducing the craziness, the circus, all that other stuff that's attached to scaling up.”

“I make decisions through this lens of netting up.”

“What the hell am I actually doing? Isn't everything I'm doing supposed to be for my family? And yet I'm away from my family for the sake of profits?”

“Why are we working so hard for a future that one day maybe, when we can work hard and play hard right now?”

“When we prioritize bliss, and again, people will call it different things, but we prioritize self care and us and joy and bliss.”

“What I'm going to encourage you to do though is don't get addicted to the grind. That is a season to get you off the ground into where you need to be with the anticipation that you are building a lifestyle business and be okay with that. I want to give people permission to be okay with a lifestyle business because that took me a long time to do.“

“The moment you can orchestrate the entirety of your life around the value of autonomy, you will find joy. And that just hit me. And I said, I give myself permission to be in alignment with who I am. I know that that's not everybody, but I know that that's me. And so for me, I started to orchestrate a life around autonomy because that was a core value of mine, and hence I'm able to do this.” 

“Find the value that drives you and pushes you forward, that you feel the best, and when you're aligned and orchestrate your life and your business around that, and the amazing thing will happen.”

“It's important to be in alignment and be honest with yourself and be truthful . . . Be you. Be all of you.”

“Sometimes fun even starts by just being quiet in a quiet place and being alone and just like, centering in on yourself and be like, can I be quiet just for a moment, and just find myself here? And then you might start here.”

“Buy back your time. It's a beautiful alignment idea of understanding your value and understanding how you can live or have a business that feeds your lifestyle rather than a lifestyle that feeds your business.”

“Build a business. Not just a business, but build a life for you.”