Small Business Straight Talk | Productivity, Time Management, Business Systems, & Mindset

I sit down with the co-founder of email management company InboxDone.com, Yaro Starak, to dive into an effective email management solution that could reduce chaos, keep you from drowning in emails, and get you to inbox zero every single day.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What Is Making It Hard For You To Grow

✔ Why Yaro Hired His First Email Assistant

✔ The ...

I dive into the root causes of why you’re micromanaging your team so you can stop doing so and instead, empower your team to grow in their roles and invest more of your time in your own high-value activities.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What Micromanagement Is

✔ How It Might Be Showing Up In Your Business

✔ Why You Might Have The Tendency To Micromanage

I sit down with the Founder and CEO of Keystone Group International, Jaime Taets, to dive into the leadership role a business owner plays in building culture and how a strong culture is the foundation for scaling.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ Why Strong Cultures Help Businesses Grow

✔ How To Get Out From Under The Founder’s Dilemma

✔ Ways To Reduce Cultural...

I dive into the topic of time blindness so you can learn how it might be affecting you and your business, then take action to minimize its unintentional costs.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What Time Blindness Is

✔ Who It Affects & Why

✔ Common Symptoms & Costs of Unintentional Time Blindness

✔ Ways To Tell If You Struggle With It

✔...

In this episode of the Small Business Straight Talk Podcast, I sit down with personal coach James Brackin to discuss how intentional action can fuel your growth and lead to exceptional results.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ James’ Background That Significantly Influenced The Way He Lives

✔ What Specific Event Led Him To Bet On Himself

✔ How James Defines Int...

I dive into the different kinds of perfectionism and how you can use guardrails to curb your perfectionism tendencies so you can stop sabotaging yourself and your business!

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ How Perfectionism Shows Up In Your Business 

✔ What Excellence Seeking Perfectionism Is

✔ What Failure Avoiding Perfectionism Is

✔ How Perfectio...

I sit down with retail shop owner and marketing coach, Lauren Tilden, to dive into strategies to cut the noise, devise an effective marketing plan, and be consistent with it so you get the results you want!

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ 3 Reasons Why It Proves Difficult To Show Up Consistently

✔ How To Keep Showing Up When You’re Not Seeing Results Yet

✔ Lau...

I dive into discovering the root cause of why you aren’t more productive so you can take action to eliminate the biggest threat that is holding you back.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What True Productivity Is

✔ The Underlying Reason You’re Not Productive

✔ How You Might Be Sabotaging Your Success

✔ What To Do To Break The Shackles Of Self-Sabot...

In this episode of the Small Business Straight Talk Podcast, I sit down with Marcel Petitpas, the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. We dive into how you can interpret your important operational metrics to help you take the right, decisive actions on them and skyrocket your profitability.

I dive into how you can ruthlessly starve your distractions and feed your focus so you can consistently show up your best during scheduled work time.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What You Can Do To Starve Your Distractions

✔ What you Can Do To Feed Your Focus

✔ Resources To Help You Implement Each Of Those

✔ How Environmental Factors & Physiolo...

I sit down with self-care strategist and the owner of B.Nourished.com, Katie McDonald, to dive into her journey to becoming an expert on self-care which began with a long period of self-neglect which led to self-destruction and a life-changing epiphany. Katie shares strategies for committing to nourishing self-care and getting on the path towards a more balanced and vibrant life.

What You’ll Discover In Th...

I dive into strategies to create time to work ON your business so you can stop spending so much time working IN your business and instead, invest your time in the activities that will grow it.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ How I Became The Productivity Specialist

✔ Why It’s Important To Create Time To Work ON Your Business

✔ What That Means & Where To Get St...

I sit down with Nick Hutchison, the visionary force behind BookThinkers and author of Rise of the Reader, to dive into strategies to consume information in a way that makes an impact and supercharges your success by applying your learning.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ How Nick Became A Book Guy

✔ What Helped Him Stop Living Below His Potential

✔ Ways To Con...

In this episode of the Small Business Straight Talk Podcast, I reflect on the last year in my business and give you a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges I overcame, as well as my thought process on determining the right solutions for myself and my business which included holding the line.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ Productivity Redefined

✔ What Holding The Line ...

I sit down with the CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc., Dre Baldwin, to dive into what he believes is the real key to showing up consistently and achieving success in business and life: self-discipline. This episode is jam-packed with golden nuggets of wisdom you can apply to your business. 

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ How Dre Started His Personal Development Journey

Not every idea or project is worth pursuing. Not every goal is worth creating. When deciding what you want to accomplish in your business this year, make sure it honors your vision of success, otherwise you could be sabotaging many of your personal goals in the name of a successful business and wind up ringing in 2025 feeling like you deserve a big fat F for 2024. 

Need help finding clarity on your vision ...

I dive into committing to one new microhabit that will help you enjoy the journey of being a business owner so you can be sustainable for the long haul  and that is celebrating your wins, both big and small.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ Why Focusing On Microhabits Is Important

✔ The Key To Success With Any Microhabit

✔ Why You’re Not Celebrating Your Wins B...

I dive into how taking time to gain clarity on what hasn’t been working in your business  this year and cleaning the slate of that baggage this month can help you start fresh in 2024. 

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ An Easy Way To Reclaim A Lot Of Time & Energy

✔ 3 Powerful Questions To Ask To Gain Clarity 

✔ What You Need To Leave In 2023

✔ Idea...

I dive into some of my favorite task management strategies I use in my business and discuss how they can easily be implemented into your personal life to reduce stress and accomplish more.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ 5 Fundamental Task Management Strategies For Your Personal Life 

✔ What Those Strategies Look Like In Your Business

✔ Easy-To-Implement Ideas...