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Build a High-Performing Team, Write Your Book Fast, & Lead with Standards with Lia Garvin, Ashley Mansour & Dr. Kelly Alhooie

Sep 15, 2025

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Join Lia Garvin, the "team whisperer" and expert in high-performing cultures, alongside Ashley Mansour, a writing coach who turns stories into impactful books, and Dr. Kelly Alhooie, a specialist in helping healthcare professionals build profitable businesses. They discuss the keys to sustainable growth through team dynamics, the power of authentic storytelling, and the necessity of scalable systems. Listeners will discover effective strategies for leadership, the importance of mentorship, and how writing a book can elevate one's credibility and career.

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Scale Requires Team Readiness

You cannot sustainably scale marketing or inbound without a team set up to handle it.
Lia Garvin says fixing team operations is the prerequisite to true growth.

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Saved A Top Performer With A Title

Lia uncovered a top performer who was about to leave and kept them with a title change and a small raise.
Chris Harder used Lia to assess risk and avoid unexpected resignations.

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Different Team Sizes, Different Failures

Smaller teams often fail because the leader stays in the weeds and becomes the bottleneck.
Larger teams struggle with delegation and must build a leadership layer to scale.

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Empowering Authorship: The Business of Writing

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In 'Present Over Perfect', Shauna Niequist shares a series of essays that chronicle her personal journey from trying to be the perfect person to learning to live in the present. The book invites readers into the authentic and often messy aspects of life, highlighting the importance of letting go of the need for perfection and instead finding balance and fulfillment in everyday moments. Niequist reflects on her experiences with faith, family, and personal growth, offering practical and inspiring insights for those seeking a more authentic and meaningful life.

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The Author's Success Code

nine secrets to write and publish a book that will change your life

Ashley M

In “The Author's Success Code,” Ashley M shares nine essential secrets to help aspiring authors write and publish a book that can transform their lives. Drawing from her coaching experience, Ashley offers mindset shifts, practical tools, and proven strategies for turning people into successful authors. She provides guidance on overcoming the challenges of writing, such as dealing with the blank page and structuring content effectively. The book includes success stories from 22 authors, adding inspiration and real-world examples. Ashley aims to help readers elevate their brand, business, and legacy through authorship.

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The Mountain Is You

Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery

Brianna Wiest

The Mountain Is You delves into the reasons behind self-sabotaging behaviors and offers a comprehensive guide on how to transform these patterns into self-mastery. The book uses the metaphor of a mountain to represent the internal challenges we face and emphasizes the importance of deep internal work, such as excavating trauma, building emotional intelligence, and releasing past experiences. It encourages readers to take responsibility for their actions and to cultivate a resilient mindset to overcome their own barriers to success.

Team, storytelling, and systems are the three levers that can unlock sustainable growth. In this special episode with our VIP Mastermind guests, Lia Garvin, the “team whisperer” who helps founders build high-performing cultures, Ashley Mansour, founder of Writing Coach LA, who helps entrepreneurs turn their story into a credibility-building book in 90 days, and Dr. Kelly Alhooie, founder of PelviBiz, who transforms skilled practitioners into profitable business owners with scalable systems. We dive into weekly rituals that elevate leadership, book frameworks that turn readers into clients, and the operational habits that increase both confidence and revenue. Tune in to learn what it really takes to scale with purpose and lead with authenticity.

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HIGHLIGHTS

00:00 What is a Team Whisperer?

03:00 How do you help teams prevent burnout and avoid quiet quitting?

06:15 Common problems in small and big teams.

09:30 Why leaders resist delegation and how to overcome it.

13:15 How to make yourself irreplaceable in the age of AI.

17:15 Why scaling starts with your team, not your marketing.

21:00 How did you build a 7-figure coaching business from scratch?

28:00 Why everyone has a story (and why audiences want YOUR origins).

34:15 The biggest myth about writing a book.

40:30 Can you really write a book in 90 days?

45:30 Advice for entrepreneurs and aspiring authors.

48:30 The #1 thing medical entrepreneurs need most.

54:15 Kelly’s non-negotiables to grow sustainably.

57:00 How to raise standards without losing your team.

01:04:00 Why medical professionals often lack communication training.

RESOURCES

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