Growth rarely hides in the work you already mastered. When stress hits, many of us retreat to the familiar—polishing systems, tweaking designs, triple-checking the books—because the wins are quick and comforting. We talk candidly about how that loop keeps businesses stuck and what it takes to move from maintaining operations to creating momentum through leadership, sales, and business development.
I open up about my own defaults from decades in operations and how a career pivot into real estate exposed the same pattern: spending time on headshots, websites, and collateral instead of conversations. A mentor’s challenge—touch 25 people every day—became a practical reset. We break down why relationships are the true engine of future revenue and how to build a daily cadence of outreach that compounds into trust, pipeline, and results. If you’ve been waiting to “feel ready,” this conversation reframes readiness as something you earn by acting.
You’ll get three questions that cut through busywork: which activities create future revenue, what are you doing because you’re good at it but someone else could do, and what would you choose if your goal was growth instead of comfort. We unpack delegation without abdication, share ways to use virtual assistants, teammates, vendors, and software, and outline a simple structure to protect your leadership time. Expect practical steps: one task to delegate this week, one growth block on your calendar, and one uncomfortable action that builds your capacity to lead. Operations keep the lights on, but leadership turns the light outward—to purpose, customers, and the future you’re building.
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