How To Scale Your Business Without Burning Out, with Nicole Serena

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Apr 16, 2025

Nicole Serena, a healthcare entrepreneur specializing in patient assistance programs, shares her journey from solopreneur to CEO. She discusses the importance of delegation and focusing on unique strengths to avoid burnout while scaling her business. Nicole highlights the critical need for innovative problem solvers in a pressured healthcare system and explains why business coaching is a valuable investment. With an abundance mindset, she emphasizes the limitless growth potential in healthcare and the need for collaboration in entrepreneurship.

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INSIGHT

Healthcare Industry Needs Innovation

The healthcare industry is under immense pressure and ripe for innovation, especially through entrepreneurs focusing on gaps in service.
AI and patient self-education are disruptive forces transforming healthcare quality and delivery.

ANECDOTE

Nicole's Founder to CEO Journey

Nicole started as a solopreneur doing everything but realized growth requires building a team and delegating.
She shifted mindset to focus on her unique abilities and strategic growth instead of handling all tasks herself.

ADVICE

Prioritize Focus and Recharge

Structure your calendar and workweek to include focused time and free days to recharge.
Unplugging is essential to maintain creativity, leadership energy, and presence for your team and clients.

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Do you struggle with scaling your business because you’re still doing everything yourself? In this episode, healthcare entrepreneur Nicole Serena shares how she shifted from solopreneur to CEO by implementing Strategic Coach^® lessons—delegating to experts, focusing on her unique skills, and adopting an abundance mindset—and how she 10x’d her business without burning out or sacrificing innovation.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

Why the healthcare system is under unprecedent pressure—and where the biggest gaps exist for entrepreneurs.
The critical mindset shift that all entrepreneurs must make if they want to grow.
Why trying to do everything yourself is the fastest path to burnout (and how to avoid it).
Why business coaching should be viewed as an investment, not a cost.
Why Nicole became an entrepreneur in the healthcare industry.
The mindset change that helped Nicole scale her business without sacrificing her sanity.
How to find the right person for every role.
Why the healthcare system needs innovative problem solvers.
The limitless growth potential in healthcare.

Show Notes:

AI has revolutionized healthcare, delivering results in minutes instead of months.

Strategic Coach teaches entrepreneurs to focus on their strengths and build teams for the rest.

Doctors can’t compete with patients who self-educate via social media.

Healthcare is largely a disease-management industry, not a wellness system.

Canada’s healthcare system is fragile—but also ripe for innovation.

Entrepreneurship can be isolating without the right peer support.

If you’re busy trying to be an expert at everything, you may miss out on critical opportunities.

Delegation frees up mental space for creativity and strategy.

It’s important to unplug and recharge so that you can be there for your clients, your team, and your community.

Your Unique Ability^® is your superpower—what only you can do exceptionally and joyfully.

Leading a team can be scary, especially for first-time entrepreneurs.

Strategic Coach connects entrepreneurs to accelerate learning and growth.

Resources:

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Your Business Is A Theater Production: Your Back Stage Shouldn’t Show On The Front Stage

Unique Ability^®

Time Management Strategies For Successful Entrepreneurs (Successful Strategies Only)