The best time to delegate often arrives before it feels like the right time.
In this episode of Her Table, Her Rules, Juliet Peters goes solo to make the case for delegating and hiring before you feel ready. Setting the financial side aside for most of the conversation, she focuses on the mental blocks that keep business owners doing everything themselves, and the lessons she learned from waiting too long to grow her team.
Juliet admits she held off on hiring for far too long, including a firm belief that bringing on another lawyer wouldn't pay off. Her very first hire, though, came before her very first client. Knowing that doing the books was never her strong suit, she brought on a bookkeeper to keep her financials pristine while she focused on bringing in business. She opens up about launching Framework Legal with no clients, no plan B, and a family relying on her, why she wouldn't recommend that level of stress to everyone, and how it pushed her far outside her comfort zone. Her time, she realized, was better spent meeting people for coffee and building her network than filling in QuickBooks.
From there, Juliet gets into the real work of delegation. It takes effort and time, and the instinct to step in and do it yourself never fully disappears, even with a business that has been running in some form since 2011. She shares why teaching people how to fish beats doing the work for them, how she has learned to depersonalize employee behavior, and why setting clear expectations means allowing people to change, grow, and sometimes leave. Drawing on her years at the attorney general's office, she explains why waiting too long to let go of the wrong person costs you your best people first, and why delegation always comes with accountability.
Tune in to Why You Should Delegate Before You Feel Ready and consider which task on your plate is ready for someone else's hands, even before you feel sure.
Juliet Peters, founder of Framework Legal, brings a wealth of experience to her legal career. She worked first as a television news journalist and later transitioned into law. She earned her JD Cum Laude from ASU in 1998 and began as a civil litigator specializing in complex commercial disputes. Juliet has also served as Division Chief Counsel for the Child and Family Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office, overseeing a team of 380 lawyers and staff statewide. In her role as Vice President and In-House Counsel for a large Phoenix ice cream franchisor, she collaborated closely with various business departments, including Human Relations, Real Estate, and Marketing, while advising C-suite executives on crisis management and strategic initiatives. Her diverse background gives her a unique perspective on the day-to-day challenges businesses face.
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