Profit by Design

“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 profitabilityHow 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 disengagementWhy the ability to attract, engage, and retain talent will be the #1 strategic objective going forward for every successful organizational leaderThe key for every business manager or organizational leader: to support team members and create an environment that helps them become the best version of themselvesHow our Dream Manager Program helps you lead with innovation, a strategic plan, and visionWhy your business vision should align with your personal visionAn overview of the Dream Manager Program, how it works, and what you can expectLinks and ResourcesSign 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 BusinessBetter 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 HourMentioned in this episode:Jumpstart the New Year!Spending too much time working and not paying yourself enough? In 30 days, you could reclaim 10 hours a week and finally enjoy weekends — while your business runs well without you. Click here to join us for the free Better Business Better Life Jumpstart: How to Reclaim 10 Hours per Week (and pay yourself more!) happening Feb 3rd and 4th >>> tapthepotential.com/jumpstart Show up for yourself. 

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 ResourcesMaster 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 HourMentioned in this episode:Jumpstart the New Year!Spending too much time working and not paying yourself enough? In 30 days, you could reclaim 10 hours a week and finally enjoy weekends — while your business runs well without you. Click here to join us for the free Better Business Better Life Jumpstart: How to Reclaim 10 Hours per Week (and pay yourself more!) happening Feb 3rd and 4th >>> tapthepotential.com/jumpstart Show up for yourself. 

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 ResourcesMaster 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 HourMentioned in this episode:Jumpstart the New Year!Spending too much time working and not paying yourself enough? In 30 days, you could reclaim 10 hours a week and finally enjoy weekends — while your business runs well without you. Click here to join us for the free Better Business Better Life Jumpstart: How to Reclaim 10 Hours per Week (and pay yourself more!) happening Feb 3rd and 4th >>> tapthepotential.com/jumpstart Show up for yourself. 

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.Links and ResourcesMaster 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 HourMentioned in this episode:Jumpstart the New Year!Spending too much time working and not paying yourself enough? In 30 days, you could reclaim 10 hours a week and finally enjoy weekends — while your business runs well without you. Click here to join us for the free Better Business Better Life Jumpstart: How to Reclaim 10 Hours per Week (and pay yourself more!) happening Feb 3rd and 4th >>> tapthepotential.com/jumpstart Show up for yourself. 

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.Links and ResourcesMaster 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 Mentioned in this episode:Jumpstart the New Year!Spending too much time working and not paying yourself enough? In 30 days, you could reclaim 10 hours a week and finally enjoy weekends — while your business runs well without you. Click here to join us for the free Better Business Better Life Jumpstart: How to Reclaim 10 Hours per Week (and pay yourself more!) happening Feb 3rd and 4th >>> tapthepotential.com/jumpstart Show up for yourself. 

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 ResourcesMaster your time and profit as you plan ahead for 2024! Give us 20 minutes of your time, take the Better Business BetterLife 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 StrategicPlanner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner.Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour  Mentioned in this episode:Jumpstart the New Year!Spending too much time working and not paying yourself enough? In 30 days, you could reclaim 10 hours a week and finally enjoy weekends — while your business runs well without you. Click here to join us for the free Better Business Better Life Jumpstart: How to Reclaim 10 Hours per Week (and pay yourself more!) happening Feb 3rd and 4th >>> tapthepotential.com/jumpstart Show up for yourself. 

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.Links and ResourcesGive 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 StrategicPlanner for 2023 at www.tapthepotential.com/planner.Download Dr. Sabrina’s Introductory Training: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an HourMentioned in this episode:Jumpstart the New Year!Spending too much time working and not paying yourself enough? In 30 days, you could reclaim 10 hours a week and finally enjoy weekends — while your business runs well without you. Click here to join us for the free Better Business Better Life Jumpstart: How to Reclaim 10 Hours per Week (and pay yourself more!) happening Feb 3rd and 4th >>> tapthepotential.com/jumpstart Show up for yourself. 

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 HourMentioned in this episode:Jumpstart the New Year!Spending too much time working and not paying yourself enough? In 30 days, you could reclaim 10 hours a week and finally enjoy weekends — while your business runs well without you. Click here to join us for the free Better Business Better Life Jumpstart: How to Reclaim 10 Hours per Week (and pay yourself more!) happening Feb 3rd and 4th >>> tapthepotential.com/jumpstart Show up for yourself. 

"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 Mentioned in this episode:Jumpstart the New Year!Spending too much time working and not paying yourself enough? In 30 days, you could reclaim 10 hours a week and finally enjoy weekends — while your business runs well without you. Click here to join us for the free Better Business Better Life Jumpstart: How to Reclaim 10 Hours per Week (and pay yourself more!) happening Feb 3rd and 4th >>> tapthepotential.com/jumpstart Show up for yourself. 

Last year’s Thanksgiving episode about gratitude is one of our most popular episodes, so I’m bringing it back! For every single listener, I hope this season is full of reconnection with your loved ones. Remember to slow down and savor these moments and take this opportunity to let work go so you can be fully present with the most important people in your life. I hope you enjoy this replay episode.   This show focuses on ways we can all work gratitude into our daily experiences. An intentional gratitude practice can be a way to lift our spirits every single day. When we acknowledge what we are grateful for, we recognize that the source of goodness lies, at least partially, outside of ourselves. That sense of connection with something larger than ourselves is beneficial in many ways. According to positive psychology research, gratitude is consistently associated with greater happiness, positive emotions, improved health, more resilience, and better relationships. Don’t we all need more of those things in our lives? Join me for a closer look at the benefits of gratitude!   Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production.   Show Highlights: Remember that the success you wished for and worked for brings more challenges–and it’s the same success that someone else is wishing for right now. How gratitude helps us to focus on the good—and grow more of it How our gratitude impacts our team AND our personal self-esteem as business owners How gratitude causes “synchronized activation in multiple brain regions” to produce more serotonin and dopamine (from a 2008 study) What leading gratitude researchers discovered about gratitude, optimism, and improved health What the impacts are when a business owner expresses gratitude–both on their team AND on themselves What came from a 2016 study called The Grateful Workplace about a growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset How to be a grateful boss and cultivate gratitude within your team (Dr. Sabrina shares a team-building gratitude exercise!) Dr. Sabrina’s simple suggestions for cultivating more gratitude on the personal side 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 HourMentioned in this episode:Jumpstart the New Year!Spending too much time working and not paying yourself enough? In 30 days, you could reclaim 10 hours a week and finally enjoy weekends — while your business runs well without you. Click here to join us for the free Better Business Better Life Jumpstart: How to Reclaim 10 Hours per Week (and pay yourself more!) happening Feb 3rd and 4th >>> tapthepotential.com/jumpstart Show up for yourself.