The Best Small Business In the World

The Best Small Business In the World

Is your business pulling you in all directions while not reaching its full potential? Then join Matt Fitzsimmons and Sturdy McKee to learn how make your business easier, simpler, and more profitable. In this podcast we explore the lessons learned from over 50 years of combined experience in building, growing, and running small businesses in order to make yours simpler, easier, and more profitable.

Episodes

December 11, 2023 38 mins

When should I expect to be good at something?


Matt & Sturdy dive into why you shouldn't be worried about being great at something right away and when you can expect to be good, all the way up to mastery.


Stop beating yourself up and thinking you'll be great at something you just started because you're good at something else.

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Collaboration - how the rules of the game change from school to life

Collaboration in school is known by a whole different name.

Matt & Sturdy discuss how the rules of the game change from school to life, and how what's punished in school is actually one of the skills most important to your success in the rest of your life.

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The Difference Between Excellent and Really Good

Matt & Sturdy discuss the difference between excellent and really good, and how that relates to you and your business.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur #businessdevelopment #burnout

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Burnout - and what to do


Matt & Sturdy discuss burnout and what to do about it as a business owner.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur #businessdevelopment #burnout

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Who Should I Listen To?

As a Business Owner and Entrepreneurship everybody has advice for you. But who do should you listen to?


Matt & Sturdy breakdown some ideas for who, how, why, and what advice to give credence to, and when to nod politely and move on.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur #businessdevelopment #advice

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Power and Civility

Join Matt & Sturdy for on civility and power in the world of business.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur #businessdevelopment

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Stop Ghosting - Use your manners

Ghosting is something that happens way too often. But are you ghosting people in your industry and community? What is that doing to your brand?


Join Matt & Sturdy for their conversation about ghosting and manners. Keep up your brand with all interactions and all people. #smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur #businessdevelopment #ghosting

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It's important that you remember to take care of yourself.

Being an entrepreneurship is hard and can take a toll.

Join Matt & Sturdy for ideas on how to take care of yourself and keep your tank full.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur #businessdevelopment #selfcare

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When to Coach, and How.

Whether the player you are working with is a Novice or a Master of their craft, your role as their coach is critical. It requires you adapt to the situation and to the level of your team member. Join Matt & Sturdy for their conversation about how and when to put on your coach's hat, and how to adjust your approach for each and every member of your team.

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Rolling with the Ups and Downs

Business is hard. Entrepreneurship is hard.


Join Matt & Sturdy for their conversation about Rolling with the Ups and Downs. This too shall pass. Whether it's the highest of highs or the lowest of lows, entrepreneurs not only go through it, but they know that the situation is never static.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur #businessdevelopment

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Digital and Technology vs Analog and Personal When does tech win vs the personal touch?


Join Matt & Sturdy for their conversation.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur #marketing #businessdevelopment

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Employee Reviews When, Why, and How

Join Matt & Sturdy for their conversation on employee reviews.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur

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First to Market or Best to Market?


There's a mystique around first to market. But is it really all it's cracked up to be?

Join Matt & Sturdy for their conversation on how you can enter a market with maximum effect.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur #marketing #businessdevelopment

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Your Candidates Don’t Have a Process.

Whether you do or not have a process in your business, it's likely that your candidates don't have a full process themselves.

Join Matt & Sturdy for their conversation on how you can help your candidates make a great decision around fit.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur

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Choose WHO you work with. It's one of the most important decisions you will make now and in the future of your business.

Join Matt & Sturdy for their conversation about how, why's, and wherefores of choosing WHO you work with.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur

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Signs your business is heading for tough times

Join Matt & Sturdy for their conversation about the signs your business is heading for tough times.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur

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The Secret to Success is No Secret

Join Matt & Sturdy for their discussion about the (not so) secret to success.


#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur

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Don't give away your unique talents. Provide great value and charge for what you do.

Join Matt & Sturdy for this essential conversation around your business.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur

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Managing change doesn't have to be mysterious or daunting. Matt & Sturdy dive into a few hacks that can make managing change in your small business heaps easier.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur

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That challenge you're facing right now... you're not the first one to ever face it.

Others have been down this path before.

It's time for you to stop reinventing the wheel.


Matt & Sturdy talk about how and why you should stop reinventing the wheel in your business.

#smallbusiness #leadership #management #businessowner #entrepreneur

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