Beyond 7 Figures: Build, Scale, Profit Scale Yourself First Before Your Business: Leadership Growth Strategies feat. Stephanie Vaughan
In this episode of the Beyond Seven Figures podcast, my co-founder Stephanie Vaughan and I dive deep into the insights from our very first breakthrough summit - and let me tell you, the results were extraordinary. We brought 15 seven and eight-figure CEOs into a room for a couple of days, and every single member gave it a perfect 10 out of 10 score, with the most common feedback being that it was the most transformative CEO event they'd ever attended in their entire lives. Stephanie took them through a powerful four-part leadership assessment covering identity and fear, boundaries and burnout, beliefs and blind spots, and vision and power - proving once again that you can't scale a business without scaling yourself first.
My co-founder Stephanie Vaughan is our head of coaching at Predictable Profits, and she has this incredible ability to get high-revenue entrepreneurs to look in the mirror and identify the internal barriers that are keeping them stuck in the founder's trap. What makes her approach so effective is that she doesn't let leaders get away with looking outward for their business problems - she forces them to examine their own patterns, behaviors, and fears that are directly impacting their company's growth. The transformation we witnessed at our summit was visible on their faces, and people are still buzzing with aha moments days later.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- You cannot scale a business without scaling yourself first - personal development must precede business development for sustainable growth.
- Fear-based leadership creates artificial ceilings in business growth, while vision-based leadership opens up new possibilities for expansion.
- Most entrepreneurs look outward for business problems when the real bottleneck is often their own leadership patterns and behaviors.
- Operating from emotion rather than strategy leads to poor decision-making that limits business potential and creates reactive rather than proactive leadership.
- Your morning routine and personal state directly impact your business performance - starting with gratitude and intention sets the foundation for strategic thinking.
- Company culture should be defined by specific behavioral expectations rather than flowery language, with clear values that guide daily decisions.
- Hire people based on cultural alignment and fire based on cultural misalignment to maintain organizational integrity and performance.
- Regular self-reflection through quarterly assessments helps identify which personal habits contribute to or detract from business outcomes.
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