Dr. Sabrina invited Steve Bousquet back to the show to hear more about how he has grown his team from twelve team members to twenty-seven team members over the last few years using strategies that are taught in Dr. Sabrina’s How to Hire the Best book series. Today, Steve shares his entrepreneurial story, his highs and lows when it comes to building a team, and how he has had to grow personally in order to grow his team. If you’re needing some ideas on how to attract and retain the A-players to your business that will help give you your life back, you’ll want to listen in to this inspiring and insightful conversation! Steve’s story is included in Dr. Sabrina’s newest book, How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members, which just published November 18th, 2020! Don’t miss it! Steve Bousquet, a blue-collar executive, founded S&B Lawn and Garden Care in 1983 while in high school. Graduating from college with a BA in Economics, Steven continued operating his landscape company with the new name American Landscape Service. Steven added Lawn Science to the company in 1991 to form American Landscape and Lawn Science LLC. In recent years, Steve has grown his team from 12 team members to 27 team members, using the How to Hire the Best™ System. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Steve summarizes his backstory around being deeply in debt and his need to understand his numbers. Without profit, there is no business. Having consistency and profitability in your business is necessary in attracting A-players to your team. Steve shares why he thinks his team members are so loyal. Tap the Potential’s Breakthroughs on the Bayou Retreat inspired an epiphany in Steve that ultimately allowed him to grow his team from 12 team members to 27 team members over a four-year period. Dr. Sabrina explains the costs of high turnover rates. When you don’t have turnover, that money becomes profit! The benefits that Steve has seen since implementing one-on-ones with his employees have been numerous. Steve had to work on his own personal development in order to be the leader he needed to be for his team when he was able to turn his business finances around. If you’re not willing to work on yourself, you won’t be able to keep the A-players that you attract to your team. Be intentional about creating the culture that you want for your business.  How Steve started showing up as a leader and the impact it had on his team. Links and Resources: BUY THE BOOK ON AMAZON: How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD QUIZ: How to Hire the Best  COURSE: How to Hire the Best Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Enjoy Listening to These Previous Episodes with Steven Bousquet! Ep 90: Intentional Leadership with Pumpkin Plan Strategies with Steve Bousquet Ep 14: Getting Out of Your Own Way in Business with Steven Bousquet Books Mentioned: How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How to Hire the Best: The Rural Business Owner's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential by Greg Crabtree and Beverly Blair Harzog Who by Geoff Smart and Randy Street Connect with Steve! American Landscape and Lawn Science LLC on Facebook Steve’s WebsiteMentioned in this episode:TapthePotential.com/assessmentWould you like to have your own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities, the things that you know with confidence? If I focus on this area, it's going to improve the ease of doing business and the profitability of our business. Not only that, it will improve your quality of life. You can take our Better Business, Better Life assessment at TapthePotential.com/assessment, and you will have the opportunity to receive your very own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities. Plus, we will also send you a signed copy of my book The 4 Week Vacation™. Head on over to tapthepotential.com/assessment.

When you think about hiring someone to work for you, do you consider them employees or team members? In this Chapter Five sneak preview of How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members, Dr. Sabrina’s latest book in her How to Hire the Best series, learn how a simple mindset shift can make a huge difference in how you make your hiring decisions and how those decisions bring value to your business plans. Dr. Sabrina also shares tips on leading with confidence and polishing your delegating skills. Stacey Seguin, a valued team member of Tap the Potential, interviews Dr. Sabrina in this peek inside the book that addresses one of the biggest hurdles that entrepreneurs face—finding the right team to support and further their business vision. Don’t miss this conversation around the Tap the Potential Solution™ to creating a business that gives the business owner more time for what matters and more money in their bank account than they’ve ever had! As a Tap the Potential strategist, Stacey specializes in Profit First and Pumpkin Planning and supports Tap the Potential by providing clients with guidance towards advancing their company goals and assisting them in problem-solving any business challenges they may encounter along the way. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Dr. Sabrina shares one of her wins for the week, which is developing a quiz that helps entrepreneurs determine if they’re ready to hire. The power of “yet”: Shift your “I can’t” into an “I’m not able to do this YET”. Dr. Sabrina explains the difference between employees and team members. It’s necessary to get the self-doubt gremlins out of our heads so that we can operate from a place of confidence and trust. Having diversity on a team—not only in terms of ethnicity, but also in terms of personalities, strengths, perspectives, and backgrounds—means making better decisions as a team because we’re tapping into that diversity. It’s better to hire people who have A-player qualities that fit with your immutable laws than it is to hire people for their skill set. Skill sets can be trained, developed, and nurtured, but you cannot turn somebody into an A-player with training. Dr. Sabrina addresses how to distinguish between the performance of an A-player and someone who is not an A-player. When errors are made by an A-player, it is often due to a gap in our systems somewhere. Use errors as opportunities to strengthen those systems. If something in a team member hits a nerve in us, we need to ask ourselves how it might be related to our own behaviors and choices in our business and how we handle things. We need to be aware of how we are living our life as a leader because that will translate into how the business is run. When we have lives away from our business, we are better at how we show up at work. Links and Resources: Are You Ready to Hire? Take the quiz and find out! Receive customized feedback on how to help simplify your hiring journey and make it stress-free to onboard the A-players for your business! NEW BOOK! How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD www.howtohirethebest.com John Bates' TEDx-Worthy Speaking Course Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Referenced Episode: Episode 112: Transitioning to a Sustainable Business with Don Zerby Books Mentioned: COMING NOVEMBER 18th! www.howtohirethebest.com How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD COMING FALL 2021! The 4 Week Vacation™ by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How to Hire the Best: The Rural Business Owner's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike MichalowiczMentioned in this episode:TapthePotential.com/assessmentWould you like to have your own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities, the things that you know with confidence? If I focus on this area, it's going to improve the ease of doing business and the profitability of our business. Not only that, it will improve your quality of life. You can take our Better Business, Better Life assessment at TapthePotential.com/assessment, and you will have the opportunity to receive your very own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities. Plus, we will also send you a signed copy of my book The 4 Week Vacation™. Head on over to tapthepotential.com/assessment.

If you’re stumped on how to create that consistent and dependable pipeline that brings those A-players to your team, don’t miss this exciting (and informative!) conversation between Dr. Sabrina and Stacey Seguin as they provide us with a Chapter Four sneak preview of How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members, Dr. Sabrina’s latest book in her How to Hire the Best series.  Stacey Seguin, a valued team member of Tap the Potential, interviews Dr. Sabrina in this peek inside the book that addresses one of the biggest hurdles that entrepreneurs face, and that’s finding the right team to support and further their business vision. Don’t miss this conversation around the Tap the Potential solution to creating a business that gives the business owner more time for what matters and more money in their bank account than they’ve ever had! As a Tap the Potential strategist, Stacey specializes in Profit First and Pumpkin Planning and supports Tap the Potential by providing clients with guidance towards advancing their company goals and assisting them in problem-solving any business challenges they may encounter along the way. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: One of Dr. Sabrina’s wins and successes for the week was recording the launch video for her newest book with zero stress. If you want to stay on top of the release information or want to be an Ambassador for the book, please visit www.howtohirethebest.com. Capacity is a stress point for business owners. Dr. Sabrina explains the difference between time capacity for the entrepreneur and business capacity for serving clients. Dr. Sabrina shares how she lost some clients when she first started adding to her team and how that turned out to be a GOOD thing. Make sure that as we’re bringing in A-players to our team that we’re inviting them to work with our best clients and customers, and that we have that sweet spot clearly defined. Inflection point is that moment of total recognition that how we’re doing things now no longer serves us and is not sustainable to our growth. Getting to the palace of comfort in our business opens up more capacity to do more new things. As entrepreneurs, we tend to be impatient. We want things done, and we want them done now. We get frustrated when things don’t happen on our timeline. We can ask ourselves what is the real harm in pushing goals out? It is not procrastination; it is making a thoughtful choice toward making a bigger impact. What opportunities are created if we give ourselves more time? Having a full pipeline of people who want to come work for you gives you the advantage of more easily bringing in more A-players when you’re ready to take on more clients that are within your sweet spot. Tap the Potential’s Better Business, Better Life™ program has identified steps to take so that you can free up more of your time and get to that point where you have the time to analyze the top clients and do your wish-list interviews. Dr. Sabrina explains that there is a way to set up your pipeline to weed out unqualified leads and attract the qualified leads. Flipping the switch: moving from the business owner who does everything to empowering your key team members in making decisions based on the immutable laws of your business. Dr. Sabrina walks through the steps it takes to get to the “flipping the switch” moment. Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Please Enjoy Listening to This Referenced Episode: Episode 112: Transitioning to a Sustainable Business with Don Zerby Referenced App: Voxer: Walkie Talkie App Books Mentioned: COMING NOVEMBER 18th! www.howtohirethebest.com How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How to Hire the Best: The Rural Business Owner's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz Who by Geoff Smart and Randy StreetMentioned in this episode:TapthePotential.com/assessmentWould you like to have your own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities, the things that you know with confidence? If I focus on this area, it's going to improve the ease of doing business and the profitability of our business. Not only that, it will improve your quality of life. You can take our Better Business, Better Life assessment at TapthePotential.com/assessment, and you will have the opportunity to receive your very own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities. Plus, we will also send you a signed copy of my book The 4 Week Vacation™. Head on over to tapthepotential.com/assessment.

Dr. Sabrina’s guest today is Don Zerby, who owns Ecolawn. Don has been following the How to Hire the Best, Profit First, and The Pumpkin Plan systems for at least four years now and today he is sharing his story of his first hire after reading How to Hire the Best, as well as how he has integrated what he has been learning from the Better Business, Better Life™ program at Tap the Potential. Fully implementing Tap the Potential’s solution has allowed Don to create a business that is giving him his life back. Listen in to this inspiring conversation as Don shares his poignant story about why that is so important to him, and be prepared for a few ‘a-ha!’ moments that will be immediately implementable for you. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Don provides an overview of his lawn care business and the organic nutrient program that he developed.  Learning that a deep root system was the foundation for a healthy lawn, Don went on a mission to identify clients whose objectives resonate with his own, as there are components to a healthy lawn for which the homeowner is responsible. After reading the first book in the How to Hire the Best series four years ago, Don made his first hire. This past summer, he received a surprising testimonial from a customer that gave him confirmation that he had hired his first-ever A-player. Don asked his office manager to read The Pumpkin Plan, Profit First, and How to Hire the Best because he planned to implement and execute these systems. Positive feedback from clients he hasn’t even met is now a regular occurrence in Don’s business. Don relates a catastrophic event that occurred three years ago that put him out of work for a month, and how his business operated well in his absence. This experience showed Don how critical it was to create a sustainable business that could operate independently of him.  Don shares some of the important lessons he’s learned in the year that he has been a Tap the Potential client. Identifying your immutable laws and core values produces profound change. Links and Resources: How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Team Members is Available November 18! www.howtohirethebest.com Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Enjoy Listening to This Referenced Episode: Episode 110: Fall Back in Love with Your Business Books Mentioned: COMING NOVEMBER 18th! www.howtohirethebest.com How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How to Hire the Best: The Rural Business Owner's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike MichalowiczMentioned in this episode:TapthePotential.com/assessmentWould you like to have your own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities, the things that you know with confidence? If I focus on this area, it's going to improve the ease of doing business and the profitability of our business. Not only that, it will improve your quality of life. You can take our Better Business, Better Life assessment at TapthePotential.com/assessment, and you will have the opportunity to receive your very own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities. Plus, we will also send you a signed copy of my book The 4 Week Vacation™. Head on over to tapthepotential.com/assessment.

If you’re interested in learning how work culture can improve profitability by 756% over a ten to eleven-year period, don’t miss this exciting discourse of the first chapter of How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members, Dr. Sabrina’s latest book in her How to Hire the Best series.  Stacey Seguin, a valued team member of Tap the Potential, interviews Dr. Sabrina in this peek inside the book that addresses one of the biggest hurdles that entrepreneurs face, and that’s finding the right team to support and further their business vision. Don’t miss this conversation around the Tap the Potential solution to creating a business that gives the business owner more time for what matters and more money in their bank account than they’ve ever had! As a Tap the Potential strategist, Stacey specializes in Profit First and Pumpkin Planning and supports Tap the Potential by providing clients with guidance towards advancing their company goals and assisting them in problem-solving any business challenges they may encounter along the way. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Dr. Sabrina discusses how she’s mindful of the work culture at Tap the Potential and shares her favorite things about team meetings. When there’s a high turnover rate in the business, it is a huge time and energy drain and causes us to lose money when we’re constantly having to hire and train. Warm bodies on the team that are tolerated are another cause of time and energy drain. When you have A-players on your team and teach them how to utilize and work from their strengths, the whole team becomes highly focused on keeping people in their strengths and reduces drag by shifting responsibilities around if somebody is operating outside their strengths. Parkinson’s Law and the Pareto principle: If you aren’t familiar with how these relate to being more effective in our businesses, Dr. Sabrina and Stacey give some insight! You need to understand the psychology of A-players in order to attract them to your team. Part of this involves making a culture that celebrates and supports the A-player mentality. Be cautious that your policies and procedures do not deter and repel your A-players and best clients. As business owners, it’s very important for us to have outside feedback when building our strong teams. Clients in the Better Business, Better Life™ get that perspective and objective feedback from the other program members who are outside the business. We need thinking time and time to reflect on powerful questions. Creating a culture of safety, security, and trust allows team members to feel comfortable with sharing their ideas. Dr. Sabrina covers the steps of transitioning from a present culture to a chosen culture. Dr. Sabrina defines the characteristics of an A-player. If it’s not good for the client, if it’s not good for the team member, it’s not going to be in the best interest of the company. The company exists to take care of the team members, the business owner, and the clients.  Links and Resources: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Explained Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Books Mentioned: Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer The Road Less Stupid by Keith J. Cunningham The 4 Week Vacation by Dr. Sabrina Starling, Phd - Look For It Early March 2021!Mentioned in this episode:TapthePotential.com/assessmentWould you like to have your own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities, the things that you know with confidence? If I focus on this area, it's going to improve the ease of doing business and the profitability of our business. Not only that, it will improve your quality of life. You can take our Better Business, Better Life assessment at TapthePotential.com/assessment, and you will have the opportunity to receive your very own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities. Plus, we will also send you a signed copy of my book The 4 Week Vacation™. Head on over to tapthepotential.com/assessment.

Dr. Sabrina, The Business Psychologist™ is passionate about the overall wellness of entrepreneurs, and their businesses. Her business, Tap the Potential, is hard at work every day making sure that 1.) They practice what they preach, and 2.) Through the Better Business, Better Life™ program, entrepreneurs are working to elevate their own roles, while engaging team members and building proper systems so that the owner can take back their life—living the mantra, “Work supports life, not the other way around.” With the release of her next book, The 4 Week Vacation™ (due to release in early March 2021), Dr. Sabrina has one major intention: save entrepreneurs from entrepreneurial burnout. To do this, she’s encouraging all entrepreneurs to be a part of a global research project by taking a free assessment to gauge their risk for burnout. It’s a win-win, as each participant receives the results to identify any weak points to immediately begin making improvements on their business, and their life. Listen in, and be a part of a movement. Hopefully, you too can take back your life! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: The assessment takes about 20 minutes (at the most!) to complete. When you fill it out, you will receive immediate feedback on your own level of entrepreneurial burnout, as well as the areas of your business that you can work on right now to strengthen and to improve not only your business but also your quality of life. You will not only receive value in receiving feedback from your assessment, but you will also receive Dr. Sabrina’s “3 Steps” PDF! The “3 Steps” PDF contains the three steps needed to take your life back from your business. This is Dr. Sabrina’s ‘Thank you!’ for taking the time to complete the assessment. When you complete the assessment, you have the opportunity (but not the obligation!) to debrief it with Darren Hopman, the Tap the Potential Success Team Lead. He can dig in further with you regarding what you’re personally experiencing as an entrepreneur and help you discover what you can do in your business to have a higher quality of life if this is something that is relevant to you. Dr. Sabrina shares some of the preliminary results that she’s seeing in the research. October is “Emotional Health Awareness Month”. Please remember how important self-care is. It’s critical to take time to pause and do a ‘temperature check’ to know how you are doing. Taking Dr. Sabrina’s assessment will help you evaluate your level of burnout. It’s also critical to allow yourself time away from your business. Dr. Sabrina offers suggestions on how to take care of yourself, including her “Veggies First!” philosophy. These are the most important things you can be doing right now to take care of yourself and to help strengthen your business.   Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts!Mentioned in this episode:TapthePotential.com/assessmentWould you like to have your own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities, the things that you know with confidence? If I focus on this area, it's going to improve the ease of doing business and the profitability of our business. Not only that, it will improve your quality of life. You can take our Better Business, Better Life assessment at TapthePotential.com/assessment, and you will have the opportunity to receive your very own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities. Plus, we will also send you a signed copy of my book The 4 Week Vacation™. Head on over to tapthepotential.com/assessment.

On today’s episode, Tap the Potential’s valued team member, Stacey Seguin, returns to the show to interview Dr. Sabrina about her upcoming book, the latest in her How to Hire the Best series! Listen in as Stacey and Dr. Sabrina discuss How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members, the story behind the book, and just why business owners are falling back in love with their businesses. Don’t miss this exciting conversation with its many nuggets of wisdom! As a Tap the Potential strategist, Stacey specializes in Profit First and Pumpkin Planning and supports Tap the Potential by providing clients with guidance towards advancing their company goals and assisting them in problem-solving any business challenges they may encounter along the way. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Dr. Sabrina announces the two winners of signed copies of David Jenyn’s latest book, Systemology! The big win for Dr. Sabrina this week has been having the Audible version of her upcoming book ready to be uploaded. Dr. Sabrina’s expertise in psychology played a part in solving the most common issue among her clients. “It’s just the way it is” versus “What if it’s not true?” Dr. Sabrina explains “dominant discourse” and how this presents challenges to small business owners. When Dr. Sabrina found small business owners who had at least one A-player on their team, she discovered a common theme: they had no idea how they attracted these people and they didn’t know how to replicate the process to find even more. Stacey details what she thinks is the perfect trifecta of important books for business owners: Profit First - For the financial piece The Pumpkin Plan - For competing in the market place How to Hire the Best - For building the team who advances your goals Dr. Sabrina addresses the natural progression of her How to Hire the Best book for rural business owners becoming a series for contractors, entrepreneurs, and beyond. Dr. Sabrina shares from the heart about the naming of her business and her desire to help people reach their potential. There are many benefits of hiring A-players, including lower turnover and profitability. Dr. Sabrina’s passion project will be her next book, The 4 Week Vacation™, which will be all about work supports life, not the other way around. She is so excited to show the research that shows the irony of when we work less, we’re more effective and more productive. Coming up, Dr. Sabrina and Stacey will be previewing some of the chapters in How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members. They’ll cover why hiring is such a challenge for small business owners, and Tap the Potential’s solution to having the business that gives you more money in your bank account than you’ve ever had before and more free time for what matters most to you! Hire the Best - Book Launch Ambassadors - Sign up to help spread the word and have access to contest, treats, and inside info! Links and Resources: RELEASING NOVEMBER 18! Become an Ambassador! How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Enjoy Listening to These Referenced Episodes! Episode 105: Systemology with David Jenyns Episode 108: Vision 2021 with Stacey Seguin Books Mentioned: Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz How to Hire the Best: The Rural Business Owner's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD The Game of Work by Gibbs SmithMentioned in this episode:TapthePotential.com/assessmentWould you like to have your own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities, the things that you know with confidence? If I focus on this area, it's going to improve the ease of doing business and the profitability of our business. Not only that, it will improve your quality of life. You can take our Better Business, Better Life assessment at TapthePotential.com/assessment, and you will have the opportunity to receive your very own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities. Plus, we will also send you a signed copy of my book The 4 Week Vacation™. Head on over to tapthepotential.com/assessment.

Lisa Robbin Young joins Dr. Sabrina and Mike Bruno for a discussion around creatives and the unique challenges they might encounter as entrepreneurs. As you’ll hear Lisa explain, all entrepreneurs are creatives, but not all creatives are entrepreneurs. Lisa shares how to find out where we fall on the creativity spectrum and how we can use this to our business advantage. But first, we’re kicking this conversation off with the amazing story of how Profit First has led to the success that Lisa is experiencing now and how she is sharing this with others! Lisa Robbin Young is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author, and an accomplished musician with multiple albums to her credit. In 2015, she launched Creative Freedom, a web series that's evolved into a book, podcast, and live event series that helps creative entrepreneurs define and achieve success on their own terms. She believes that the best way to be truly successful in life and business is to be yourself—warts, sparkles, and all—so you can own your dreams without selling your soul. Lisa founded Ark Entertainment Media, a production company and business incubator, to help ambitious creatives build a profitable and sustainable business while doing what they love. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Lisa edited the first edition of Mike Michalowicz’s Profit First, and she is mentioned in the second edition, with which most people are familiar. Implementing Mike’s principles in her business before his book even came out brought about drastic changes. Out of this, Lisa became one of the first certified Profit First business coaches in the world. Lisa shares how she recognized the errors she was making in her own business and how anger motivated her to make changes. Lisa has created an assessment that helps you identify your strengths, skillsets, and challenges. Each creative type shows up in the world differently and responds to the world differently. Lisa details the various types on her creativity spectrum and provides real-life examples that are easily identifiable. Understanding the results of your assessment can have huge payoffs by helping you to avoid the pitfalls of your creative type. Lisa’s words of wisdom on scaling up. Creative Freedom™ Incubator is Lisa’s pay-for-results program. The Courage to Be Rich - Lisa discusses new content from her upcoming book. Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Connect with Lisa! Lisa’s Website Lisa’s Facebook Lisa’s Instagram Lisa’s Twitter Lisa’s Gift to You: Free Assessment: What's your Creative Entrepreneur Type? Books Mentioned: Profit First by Mike Michalowicz How to Hire the Best: The Rural Business Owner's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling, PhD How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling, PhD  Mentioned in this episode:TapthePotential.com/assessmentWould you like to have your own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities, the things that you know with confidence? If I focus on this area, it's going to improve the ease of doing business and the profitability of our business. Not only that, it will improve your quality of life. You can take our Better Business, Better Life assessment at TapthePotential.com/assessment, and you will have the opportunity to receive your very own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities. Plus, we will also send you a signed copy of my book The 4 Week Vacation™. Head on over to tapthepotential.com/assessment.

Stacey Seguin, valued team member of Tap the Potential, joins Dr. Sabrina for today’s show. As the Tap the Potential lead strategist Stacey specializes in Profit First and Pumpkin Planning. She supports Tap the Potential’s clients with guidance toward advancing their company goals, while assisting them through business challenges they encounter on their entrepreneurial journey. It’s that time of year when clients are renewing their engagement with Tap the Potential beyond their first year, and Dr. Sabrina and Stacey offer a glimpse into what is needed to get their clients to the next level. This involves a customized action plan that is based on an individual client’s wins and successes for the year. One of Tap the Potential’s immutable laws is to walk the talk. So, in true transparency and example, this inspiring conversation between Dr. Sabrina and Stacey also shares evaluations and insights regarding the strategies of Tap the Potential to meet the 2021 Vision. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Stacey recaps her most recent wins and successes. Profit First is a very simple system, yet there are principles that can be misunderstood which can have big consequences. Tap the Potential guides business owners through the Profit First implementation, helping them to avoid those potentially costly misunderstandings. Stacey addresses a recent presentation she gave on the Energy Leadership model, which is leading your life by choice, rather than by default. This has provided an opportunity to bring the Energy Leadership Assessment and debrief to Tap the Potential for leadership teams. Dr. Sabrina and Stacey discuss the MVP (Mission, Vision, and Purpose) Series that Darren and Stacey teach to Tap the Potential clients. This helps the clients with strengthening the foundation of their businesses. Stacey relates how important a support structure is within a company. Dr. Sabrina shares her exciting 2021 Vision and invites Stacey to coach her afterward. Stacey explains how our personal visions can have a massive impact on company legacy. Tap the Potential’s Leadership Bootcamp is for clients’ A-player team members who are ready to step into leadership roles in the business. Business owners who complete the Leadership Bootcamp often take the communication skills that they’ve learned back home and teach it to their families. Remember, it’s not about how much you make, but about how much you keep! A sabbatical concept is so important in the context of a 4 Week Vacation™ because a sabbatical means stepping away from the day to day and creating that space to do deeper-thought work. Dr. Sarina shares some final thoughts on the emotional pieces to creating a vision and hopes that you will make some space for creating your own vision.   Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Please Enjoy Listening to These Referenced Episodes: 95: The Right Clients Bring Peace and Personal Growth with Andrew Tvardzik 104: Authentic Negotiating with Corey Kupfer Referenced Book: Vivid Vision by Cameron HeroldMentioned in this episode:TapthePotential.com/assessmentWould you like to have your own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities, the things that you know with confidence? If I focus on this area, it's going to improve the ease of doing business and the profitability of our business. Not only that, it will improve your quality of life. You can take our Better Business, Better Life assessment at TapthePotential.com/assessment, and you will have the opportunity to receive your very own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities. Plus, we will also send you a signed copy of my book The 4 Week Vacation™. Head on over to tapthepotential.com/assessment.

One of the greatest challenges we face as business owners is when we feel that desire to motivate others. Motivation comes from within and it can feel really hard to figure out how to motivate someone else when we might struggle with it ourselves on occasion. On today’s episode, Dr. Sabrina sits down with Matt Granados to chat about motivating team members who had plenty of drive and ambition when they were first hired but have somehow lost their spark and drive along the way. Listen in to this conversation to learn more about how you can engage your team members to keep them motivated. Over the last decade, Matt has tested, developed, and helped thousands of others implement an effective and easy to duplicate system that will help you build an unbreakable foundation for your life as well as motivate even the most unmotivated individuals in your life. Matt regularly delivers keynotes, workshops, and individual coaching to organizations of all industries and sizes. From Google Headquarters and Twitter to the United States Air Force and professional organizations all around the world. Matt has been able to teach these systems to thousands of individuals along with his team at Life Pulse, Inc. Using these concepts, Matt has been able to do the following: Build his first $1,000,000 business by the age of 25 ​Travel all over the world teaching top executives how to build an unbreakable foundation and sustainably motivate others. ​See continued success for thousands of individuals who have applied these systems to their lives and businesses. Along with speaking and coaching, Matt is an author, featured columnist, and sought-after expert in the field of motivating others. Matt is happily married to his wife and business partner (Maria) with two amazing kids (Natalie & Zach). The drive behind Matt’s work is his obsession to make sure no person's potential is wasted and that each person he helps is able to experience their maximum level of success. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Matt shares how most entrepreneurs start a business from inspiration or desperation, but he happened to stumble onto this system through luck. Two people might have the same goals, but their PATHS are going to be drastically different because getting there will mean something different to each of them. The impact of Matt’s system is immediate and massive. Two reasons that people aren’t able to have the deeper conversations. Team members need to be able to manage the rest of their lives so that they can be the person you hired. Matt details the “Motivational Formula” from his book, Motivate the Unmotivated. Three questions to ask yourself each week: What is your one word for the week that you are focused on? What are you grateful for? What are you working towards? The four vital signs of fulfillment are: Internal (how are you growing your mind) Professional (how are you growing your career) physical (how are you growing your body) Relational (how are you growing the connections in your life) Why managers should no longer separate the concept of personal and professional. The difference between fear-based motivation and love-based motivation. External factors have always affected motivation, except for right now they’re happening much faster and they’re much more impactful. Matt’s tips for reconnecting. Dr. Sabrina’s caution about the fallout when you don’t get to know your team members on an individual basis. Matt has a FREE PodGift for you! Please mention “Profit By Design Podcast” so Matt will know where you heard about his offer! Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Connect with Matt! Matt's Website Matt's Instagram Matt's Facebook Matt's Twitter Matt’s PodGift for Profit By Designers! Please mention “Profit By Design Podcast” so Matt will know where you heard about his offer! Books Mentioned: The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelley Motivate the Unmotivated: A proven system for sustainable motivation by Matt Granados  Mentioned in this episode:TapthePotential.com/assessmentWould you like to have your own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities, the things that you know with confidence? If I focus on this area, it's going to improve the ease of doing business and the profitability of our business. Not only that, it will improve your quality of life. You can take our Better Business, Better Life assessment at TapthePotential.com/assessment, and you will have the opportunity to receive your very own personalized list of $ 10,000-an-hour activities. Plus, we will also send you a signed copy of my book The 4 Week Vacation™. Head on over to tapthepotential.com/assessment.