#GrowNOW The Podcast

We welcome the summer break with sweet and sour emotions as we will be closing the 3rd season of the podcast “ The Entrepreneurs Story” but… starting September we will be giving our full attention to the complicated, complex yet so vital topic of RELATIONSHIPS.

Today we would like to encourage you to take that well deserved break over the summer months, focus on relaxing and recharging your mental and emotional system, so that when September comes around, it finds you full of energy and vitality.

Stay safe and be well, dear listeners and friends.

Anxiety is caused by the fear of the unknown and that is something most of us have a hard time dealing with.

The 2 main reasons why we have anxiety in the first place:

1. When we live in a future that is not as clear as we expected

2. When we generalise

Under these conditions, we sometimes create problems where there are none, or we have such a broad perspective over everything that we can’t see anything going right.We become detached from reality in a way.

That’s why this episode has 5 practical steps to stop overdramatising everything.

Continuing on our last week’s episode “How to know when to stop your business”, today we address the next steps if you truly down’t want to give up on your business. Besides considering selling, getting outside help for a new strategy or just to keep continuing to hold on to the business as it is, there are other steps if the goal is to turn the business around.

One of the first things to do is always HONESTY. With yourself, with your figures, with looking at your business as if it belonged to someone else. That ’s the main crucial step.

Keep listening to today’s episode to find out the keys to turning your business around when it is in trouble.

What to do when your business is not growing, when it doesn’t produce the expected results, not only financially but also in terms of customer satisfaction or personal fulfilment, etc?

Someone from outside has a clearer picture sometimes over your business, than you being in the middle of it all the time. What are really afraid of when deciding it’s time to move on? Is it the time invested, the idea of failure?

Find out in today’s episode

In today's episode we talk about how our business ambitions are influencing our decisions and lifestyle.

In today's episode we talk about how our business ambitions are influencing our decisions and lifestyle.

As an entrepreneur, with an objective and pragmatic way of looking at our business results and figures, deciding when to let go of a client may not be the “safest” thing to do, it may seem at first. We create relationships and trust with our clients, there is almost an emotional side to every business connection we develop.

In today’s episode we cover the topic of when and how to know, almost for sure even if there isn’t such a thing anyway, that letting go of a client or a business contact, is the best decision after all.

As an entrepreneur, with an objective and pragmatic way of looking at our business results and figures, deciding when to let go of a client may not be the “safest” thing to do, it may seem at first. We create relationships and trust with our clients, there is almost an emotional side to every business connection we develop.

In today’s episode we cover the topic of when and how to know, almost for sure even if there isn’t such a thing anyway, that letting go of a client or a business contact, is the best decision after all.

There are many examples of businesses where, because of the nature of the service provided, a sort of more sustainable and real connection can be experienced between the person providing the service and the client, a feeling of friendship even in some cases.

In personal coaching for example, we are taught in school not to work with friends and family, because in order for that to happen, both parties need to be able to detach. And usually, the person receiving the advice, will not be able to do so, because the friendship or familiarity will take over their feelings.

Toady’s episode explores the fine line between treating clients like friends and how that can backfire… eventually!

Every so often, we should audit ourselves and our business, by asking 2 very important questions:

1. What do I truly want ( expect ) from my business?

2. Why is that relevant for me?

And depending on your answers, the 3rd question will follow/:

3. How do I reach those things that are relevant for me?

The experience of working with entrepreneurs from all over the world, has showed us that usually the answers to the first question can be categorised into 3 directions :

* joy

** stability

*** money

Which one does stand our for you?