Your Business Is Not Your Boss
Geoff Welch is on a mission to help small business owners overcome overwhelm and redefined their relationship with their business so they can regain relaxed control. His unique ability to help small business owners clarify how their business should serve them, develop effective systems, professionalize their documentation, and delegate, delegate, delegate has made him a trusted resource for decision-makers across the country. This podcast will help you run your business on YOUR terms, because your business is not your boss.
Episodes
July 21, 2024 • 21 mins
Everything in my closet matches every other thing in my closet.
What can I say? I love navy blue.
Each morning when I scan my closet for something to wear I get to skip the part where I have to decide if these pants go with that shirt. Anything goes with everything.
In a world where we spend our days making nearly 40,000 unique decisions, I’ve simplified my wardrobe choices...
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July 14, 2024 • 20 mins
Once upon a time, Nicole and I were discussing a frustrating interaction she had with a colleague.
The details are wholly unimportant because the conversation ended with us deciding that about 50% of the “facts” that were informing how she felt about this interaction were actually assumptions or projections.
I offer this up to you because Nicole isn’t alone in the practice of filling in info...
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July 7, 2024 • 22 mins
Here’s one way to get more of what you want, even if you don’t want to do the work required to get what you want: become so disciplined that you do the work in spite of how you feel and in spite of your environment and in spite of the pain you experience.
If you believe this is the ONLY way to get more of what you want – and have a really hard time being graceful with yourself when your discipline isn’t at its ...
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June 30, 2024 • 13 mins
That feeling that the work you are producing isn’t as good as it could be is a gut punch of disappointment.
Here are three reasons why it is happening, and how to flip the script…
You are trying to keep too many plates spinning. Everyone I know is competent at piloting a vehicle. Everyone I know is also adept at operating their phones. Almost none of them can do both successfully at the...
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June 23, 2024 • 10 mins
I used to think doing it all myself was how I needed to prove my value and validate my worth as a small business owner. Asking for help felt like an admission of weakness or failure.
And then I got really, really busy.
Suddenly I had to renegotiate terms with my ego, because doing it all myself was no longer possible.
When I realized that I wasn’t...
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June 16, 2024 • 21 mins
Almost everyone with whom I have worked has overestimated how busy they were.
It’s not that they weren’t busy, it’s just that they felt much busier than the work demanded because they were disorganized.
How many surgeons enter the operating room hoping that the right tools will be sterilized and ready to go? Zero. That kind of organization and preparation is essential. The same...
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June 9, 2024 • 15 mins
Here are the two things that made it difficult for me to accomplish my goals:
The mistaken assumption that I wouldn’t have to fundamentally change my habits and behaviors to get where I wanted to go.
The mistaken assumption that I couldn’t fundamentally change my habits and behaviors to get where I wanted to go.
The pursuit of interesting goals is not like taking on a challenging afternoon hike, afte...
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June 2, 2024 • 14 mins
For small business owners, email is a blessing and a curse.
Your inbox is likely a place that could contain exciting opportunities (they said “yes” to my pitch!) as well as time-consuming, but necessary tasks (please fill out this 40-page form to renew your worker’s comp insurance) that distract us from our highest and most valuable work.
That’s why I believe that the person wh...
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May 26, 2024 • 12 mins
I’ve been researching pickleball lately because I am looking for a way to exercise without realizing I’m exercising.
Because I know very little about pickleball, and don’t feel embarrassed at all about knowing very little about pickleball, I am seeking out and soaking up information like a sponge.
I’m watching videos and YouTube and asking for insights about how to get st...
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May 19, 2024 • 17 mins
I’m firmly convinced that I do my very best thinking on planes, but that doesn’t mean air travel is without its share of complexities that can really stress you out.
And since I spent the majority of yesterday at 30,000 feet, here are my favorite ways to make travel days less stressful…
Plan ahead. I use a packing checklist I’ve built over the years to ensure that I have al...
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May 12, 2024 • 19 mins
You probably assume that feelings of overwhelm are a reaction to external factors.
My employees keep interrupting me…
The market is changing and I need to adapt…
I have so much to do and there aren’t enough hours in the day…
There are certainly plenty of external factors that will make things more difficult for you, so it’s time to make sure you aren’t makin...
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May 5, 2024 • 13 mins
It’s so easy to find yourself unsure of what to do next, or overwhelmed by how to get started, so you put off the work for an hour, a day, a week…
Which gives you plenty of extra time to worry. Somehow the worrying always gets done.
But what if you did the opposite?
What if you chose to put off the worrying – you can always tackle that tomorrow – ...
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April 28, 2024 • 11 mins
When I reflect on the myriad calls I have shared with overwhelmed small business owners, the one thing that surprises me the most is that nothing has ever been particularly surprising.
Sure, a few circumstances have been a little more exotic than others, but the underlying themes are ultimately the same:
I’m stuck and I don’t know what to do…
There aren’t enough...
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April 21, 2024 • 15 mins
The two things that are most likely to prevent you from having good ideas are simple:
You find it untenable to have bad ideas
You are so focused on doing that you don’t invest time in dreaming
You don’t have to be the smartest person on the block to have good ideas, but you do have to invest time to think AND be willing to generate a stack of ideas that won’t work.
Here...
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April 14, 2024 • 11 mins
Does anyone remember a professional basketball player named Michael Jordan?
Look him up. He was really good. Rings on rings on rings good.
He was an iconic, generational talent, and is regarded as one of the top two NBA players of all time on every list I could find.
And he was very terrible at baseball. Minor league baseball.
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April 7, 2024 • 17 mins
I grew up in the 80’s and learned a lot of valuable lessons from sitcoms.
Unfortunately, these shows also drove home a subconscious message that still haunts me to this day: nothing ever changes.
That massive promotion that would change everything for our fictional heroes? Yeah, it never materialized.
The winning lottery ticket? Yeah, that got lost in a...
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March 31, 2024 • 23 mins
No delegation, no freedom.
You know you need to do it, and I’m going to give you four ways to cancel your excuses and make delegation happen.
Fix your processes
One reason delegating feels so difficult is that your subconscious knows that it’s going to be embarrassing to hand off a messy process..
Maybe it is riddled with workarounds tha...
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March 24, 2024 • 21 mins
Getting started is the most difficult part of documenting your processes and workflows.
To help you get started, here are 5 things you should document right away…
The simplest process you can think of. Jump start your progress by documenting something that is so easy to capture that you can’t contrive any reasons to wait.
The most mission critical process in your busines...
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March 17, 2024 • 22 mins
I want to share one of the most profound things I have learned in nearly 20 years of small business ownership: the workaround is not the solution.
In the heat of battle you are likely to find short-term workarounds to get a project completed. You are going to use duct tape and bubble gum to make things work in a pinch. It’s not going to be pretty, but it’s going to save the day.
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March 10, 2024 • 20 mins
My knowledge of SpongeBob SquarePants is incredibly limited, but here’s one thing I’m certain of: Mr. Krabs loves money.
He knows exactly what his business exists to do FOR HIM and he’s a model for the rest of us.
When you have complete clarity about what you want from your business you can better contextualize the difficult days (because there WILL be difficult day...
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