One of the major mistakes I see entrepreneurs make is not having a strategy for their business growth. This costs them signing fewer clients, having to work with non-ideal clients, additional unnecessary fires they need to put down, more work and overwhelm, less money (from lost opportunities and wasted energy, time, and money), and ultimately less joy in running their businesses.If you are a business owner with no growth strategy, this episode is for you. Tune in to learn what a strategy really is and why it is important.Plus, I invite you to join me in the upcoming free challenge, 3 Radical Shifts for Serious Business Results, June 19-21 at 3 pm EST. Register HERE.

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I talk about high performance a lot because I'm passionate about helping my clients become high-performing CEOs. However, I realized recently that I don't talk enough about what I mean by high performance. In a nutshell, it's when you think at your best, feel at your best, and take the best action. In this episode, I dive deeper into this topic. I talk about each of the three areas to show you how your high-performance will drive the growth of your business.

We live in a world where being busy almost means "I'm important." Because of it, "I'm busy" became a favorite, widely accepted go-to reason to explain we didn't do what we planned or committed to do. But what would happen if you couldn't use "I'm busy" anymore as such an excuse? What benefits could it actually create in the day-to-day of running your business? In this Motivational Monday, I'm challenging you to try this for a week - not to say, "I'm busy" as an excuse.

It's easier to honor bigger commitments that we have made to others and that carry some sort of penalty if canceled or missed. It's a whole other ball game to honor commitments we have made to ourselves. Or smaller commitments to people we don't have strong relationships with, and missing them doesn't carry any form of penalty.And yet, those smaller commitments are the most important. Because they are the ones that build our leadership self-concept. Our self-confidence and self-trust. From there, we build consistency, discipline, and high performance. In this episode, I share five main reasons I see business owner miss their small commitments. Plus, simple steps of how to become a leader who does what they say they will do and when they say they'd do it. No matter the commitment size or to whom it was made.

Good habits are a key part of high-performance. We are habitual creatures :). To operate at your best in your business is much easier and simpler with good habits supporting you.Starting a habit is easy. Continuing it to the point it becomes a part of who we are, and we can progressively build on it, up-leveling the way we operate; it's a skill in itself.  Listen in to find out what are the two most important factors in successful habit building.

The primitive part of our brain likes things "easy." It doesn't like anything hard because that means exerting more energy and, more often than not, dealing with the discomfort that goes with it. So it lets us believe that if things don't come easy, then there is something wrong, and we shouldn't be pursuing them. Yet, creating the best results for us in business and life can feel hard. Raising small children is hard and the most fulfilling at teh same time. Getting a business off the ground successfully can feel hard as well. And there is nothing wrong with that. It doesn't take away the fun, pride, and fulfillment you can feel during this journey. In this episode, I want to normalize " the hard," encourage you to embrace it, and at the same time give you some tools that will make hard feel good :). Ready to take your business to the next level? Explore how you an do it more simply and without overwhelm by scheduling a free 50-minute consultation with me HERE.

Our primitive brains love to operate in extremes. Either I beat myself to exhaustion to achieve my goal or feel sorry for myself and don't do anything. But extremes never serve us. The happy middle does. That's what giving yourself grace is all about. Accepting you are human and not letting yourself off the hook at the same time.

This episode is the extension of Motivational Monday 94. As the leader of your business, you're responsible for making money decisions.What to invest and how so that your business keeps growing. What to pay yourself and how to spend that money. How much income you want to make (how many people you want to help) this year, the next, and in 3 years. Being in charge of your money allows you to create a successful business and live the life you want. Yet you cannot manage what you're scared of, don't understand, and don't track.In this podcast, I'm talking about three main things every business owner should have in place in order to be in charge of their money.

Being a high-performing CEO if your business means you can think, feel, and operate at your best. That cannot happen if you're tired, exhausted, or burnt out. Rest and recharge are critical to scaling your business sustainably and creating balance in your life. Daily. Weekly and through planned longer time off.

This episode is inspired by an entrepreneur asking me this question "Maggie, how do you know when the fear you feel and actions you avoid as a result is self-sabotage and when it is a valid self-protection mechanism?"Not only do I answer it, but also I'm showing you how to use my Dream-Plan-Do coaching model to develop the skill of knowing for yourself. Ready to take your business to the next level simpler, faster, and without overwhelm? Explore how coaching with me can help you. Schedule a free consultation call with me HERE.

As the CEO of your business, your main responsibility is to understand and strategically allocate your business finances. Yes, you have your accountant, bookkeeper, or CFO as experts to help you with that, but in the end, the decisions are yours, and you'll experience the consequences of those decisions. You can't manage what you don't track or understand.

I love networking and meeting amazing business owners and other coaches.  Wade Thomas, a fellow business coach, and I met through networking and decided to do this collaborative podcast interview together. We review strategies and tools business owners can use to exceed their business goals and evolve into high-performing CEOs.It's a great conversation about the potential small businesses hold and how they can fulfill it more simpler and faster. Of course, as a coach, I believe that every entrepreneur should have a business coach, just like every athlete has one.Connect with Wade Thomas on his LinkedIn HEREAimtoWin websiteAimToWin Podcast HEREWade Thomas - Instagram HERE Connect with me on Instagram HERE, LinkedIn HERE, or website HERE.

Last week we spoke about spring cleaning your business by eliminating tasks that shouldn't be done at all. Today's motivational Monday is all about cleaning your mind out of thinking that doesn't serve you, i.e., doesn't move you any closer to creating the results you want in your business.

Learn the five stages of business growth. These are different from your typical business textbook ones. These are the five stages of your growth as a business leader. Because only after you grow will your business follow. You'll also learn why the progression from stage to stage is important and what happens when you don't progress. To expand on this topic and learn major traps in each stage that you want to avoid, as well as five essentials to sustainable scaling, join me in the free upcoming masterclass How to Scale Without Overwork or Overwhelm on April 18th at 1 pm EST. Register HERE.

"Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Hans Hofmann

Creating CEO time for you every week is the first key essential to scaling your business sustainably. What is it exactly, why is it important, and how do you go about it - these are the questions I answer in this episode. And if you're listening to it before April 18, 2023 - then secure your spot now HERE for a free masterclass on How to Scale Without Overwork or Overwhelm. It's an online  90-minute LIVE event starting at 1 pm EST.

In this bonus, I'm asking you a very important question. You want to know the answer to it for yourself as a business owner. Tune it and take a few minutes this week to reflect on it.

Growing a business can feel overwhelming at times, or sometimes even more :). There are always more things to do than time to do them.It's not about doing them all. It's about doing the most impactful things. Ones that will create the most growth fastest and simplest.In this episode, I share a 3-step process I follow to help my clients keep scaling while working less, being less stressed, and feeling more in control of their results.And if you're ready to implement it successfully with step-by-step support from me, let's have a conversation about how it would look like.  Pick a time and date that works for you HERE.

Some business owners start a business because they cannot imagine having a boss or they had a bad boss experience in the past. From my experience, bad bosses, for the most part, aren't bad people. They just lack people leadership skills. As you scale your business and start hiring help, don't become a boss you yourself wanted to avoid. Today I'm talking about 3 key essentials that get you started on the journey of becoming a great people leader.