Is your firm's growth a success, or is it slowly drowning you?
You’re winning clients and the work is piling up, but it feels like you're hanging on by your fingertips.
This feeling of being trapped is the scaling crisis, a predictable stage where your methods become a bottleneck and you, the owner, can’t escape client work. In this episode, we’re giving you the playbook to break free by shifting your role from the firm’s star player to its most valuable coach
What you'll learn in the podcast episode:
- My personal story of hitting the wall with my own crises and the hard-won lessons I learned.
- The three hidden reasons you feel stuck and why your current methods won't scale.
- A practical framework for building a business that can run without you, starting with your own playbook.
- How to have the difficult conversations about success, not just failure.
- The one powerful question that will completely change how you think about your role in the business.
Chapters
05:55 Building a Scalable Business Model
11:12 Embracing Change and Evolving Your Role
Related episodes:
Why we feel the compulsion to overwork (and how to stop): https://startuptogrownup.substack.com/p/7-reasons-you-are-overworking-and?r=l8khy
The science behind why you wouldn't delegate: https://startuptogrownup.substack.com/p/the-science-behind-why-you-wont-delegate?r=l8khy
How to deal with your firm's Dysfunctional Star (without losing your sanity): https://startuptogrownup.substack.com/p/how-to-deal-with-your-firms-dysfunctional?r=l8khy
What I did next when my rheumatologist told me I was broken: https://startuptogrownup.substack.com/p/what-i-did-next-when-my-rheumatologist?r=l8khy
Useful links:
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Welcome to a free podcast episode of Start Up To Grown Up: Your source for ideas, insights and tactics to take back control of your business and scale it sustainably and profitably by Heather Townsend, award-winning author of The Accountants’ Millionaires’ Club and Founder of The Accountants’ Growth Club
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