Small Business Productivity Straight Talk | Strategy, Efficiency, Time Management, & Mindset

I sit down with Myrna Everett, the CEO of Home Vogue Interiors, to dive deep into her evolution from running a successful business on the front end but headed toward a breaking point on the back end, to running a successfully business on both the front end and back end, AND in a strategic way that has essentially made replacing herself possible.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ The Stressful Reality Of Being A One-Woman Show

✔ How Myrna Overcame The Deep-Seated Resistance To Delegation And SOPs

✔ Why Documenting Systems Must Precede Successful Hiring

✔ The Time Myrna Spent Away From Her Business Which Proved Its Scalability

✔ Her Plan To Successfully Transition From Operational Expert To Full-Time CEO

✔ Myrna’s Experience Attending My In-Person VIP Business Blueprint Events

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/397

P.S. Want to discover what’s most holding you back in business and receive a personalized playlist to help you overcome those specific challenges? It only takes a few minutes to take the Next Level Business Owner Quiz and get on the path of taking your leadership and business to the next level! 

And… If you want help managing your time, creating efficiency, making a new hire, reducing the stress and overwhelm of running a business, or making strategic decisions that will help you level up your business, I’d like to talk to you. Let's discuss how we can partner together to help you get unstuck, reduce stress, and determine a clear path to increased profits! Schedule your Discovery Call

In this special Behind The Business episode I sit down with Author, Keynote Speaker, host of A Well-Designed Business and Window Treatments for Profit Podcasts, LuAnn Nigara, to peel back the curtain on what it took to evolve from the CEO of WindowWorks to her current career roles, and discuss what it now takes to face operational realities in her businesses as a creative visionary. 

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ The Genesis of LuAnn Nigara, Inc. 

✔ Why She Considers Herself A Creative Entrepreneur & Visionary

✔ What She Learned Over 4 Decades In Business

✔ What It Takes To Get Into The Boardroom Of Directors

✔ The Ah-Ha’s LuAnn Received Through Coaching With Amber

✔ What’s Next For LuAnn

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/396

P.S. Want to discover what’s most holding you back in business and receive a personalized playlist to help you overcome those specific challenges? It only takes a few minutes to take the Next Level Business Owner Quiz and get on the path of taking your leadership and business to the next level! 

And… If you want help managing your time, creating efficiency, making a new hire, reducing the stress and overwhelm of running a business, or making strategic decisions that will help you level up your business, I’d like to talk to you. Let's discuss how we can partner together to help you get unstuck, reduce stress, and determine a clear path to increased profits! Schedule your Discovery Call

I dive into the messy reality of how revenue leaks actually show up when you're running a business day-to-day and divulge real-world solutions to the pricing, billing, and operational issues causing them.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ How Your Commute Can Become An Unpaid Customer Service Hotline

✔ The Revenue Leaks That Could Be Showing Up In Your Business Daily

✔ How You Might Be Sabotaging Your Billing & Business Model

✔ Ways Your High Efficiency Could Actually Be Penalizing Your Profitability

✔ The Importance Of Building Upon An Operational Foundation

✔ The Freedom That Comes From Shifting To Reward Efficiency

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/395

P.S. Want to discover what’s most holding you back in business and receive a personalized playlist to help you overcome those specific challenges? It only takes a few minutes to take the Next Level Business Owner Quiz and get on the path of taking your leadership and business to the next level! 

And… If you want help managing your time, creating efficiency, making a new hire, reducing the stress and overwhelm of running a business, or making strategic decisions that will help you level up your business, I’d like to talk to you. Let's discuss how we can partner together to help you get unstuck, reduce stress, and determine a clear path to increased profits! Schedule your Discovery Call

I dive into the five levels of revenue leaks that compound into massive losses year after year and show you exactly why most "fixes" don't actually fix anything.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What Separates Successful Business Owners From Those Who Stay Stuck

✔ The 5 Revenue Leaks That Most Business Owners Miss

✔ What Must Be Done To Acquire Lost Revenue

✔ The Time-Money Connection Most Business Owners Miss

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/394

P.S. Want to discover what’s most holding you back in business and receive a personalized playlist to help you overcome those specific challenges? It only takes a few minutes to take the Next Level Business Owner Quiz and get on the path of taking your leadership and business to the next level! 

And… If you want help managing your time, creating efficiency, making a new hire, reducing the stress and overwhelm of running a business, or making strategic decisions that will help you level up your business, I’d like to talk to you. Let's discuss how we can partner together to help you get unstuck, reduce stress, and determine a clear path to increased profits! Schedule your Discovery Call

I sit down with “America’s #1 Small Business Tax Lawyer” - the Founder and CEO of Main Street Tax Professionals, Mark Kohler, to dive into how you can utilize little known business tax secrets to keep more of your hard-earned money.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ A Great Summertime Tax Tip That Can Make Yours Better

✔ What Flow Through Taxation Is

✔ Why Converting From An LLC To An S-Corp Can Save You On Taxes

✔ At What Point You Should Convert (Yes, There’s A Specific Moment)

✔ The Payroll Action You Should Be Making Quarterly

✔ How To Pay Your Kids Through Your Business

✔ The Crossroads Of Crypto & Small Business

✔ Advice For Creating A Trust

✔ How That Coincides With An LLC & Those Protections

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/393

P.S. Want to discover what’s most holding you back in business and receive a personalized playlist to help you overcome those specific challenges? It only takes a few minutes to take the Next Level Business Owner Quiz and get on the path of taking your leadership and business to the next level! 

And… If you want help managing your time, creating efficiency, making a new hire, reducing the stress and overwhelm of running a business, or making strategic decisions that will help you level up your business, I’d like to talk to you. Let's discuss how we can partner together to help you get unstuck, reduce stress, and determine a clear path to increased profits! Schedule your Discovery Call

I sit down with trial-attorney-turned coach, Michelle Grosser, to dive into actionable strategies and practical tools to overcome stress, regulate your nervous system, and unlock peak performance in all aspects of your business and life.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What A Dysregulated Nervous System Looks Like 

✔ How It Impacts Your Business If Left Unchecked

✔ The Primary Function Of Your Nervous System

✔ How To Communicate Safety To Your Body

✔ The Impact Of Your Window Of Tolerance

✔ How To Use Your Breath To Get Out Of Fight Or Flight

✔ Other Tools To Return To Baseline Stress Level

✔ The 3 Easy Habits That Make A Major Difference

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/392

P.S. Want to discover what’s most holding you back in business and receive a personalized playlist to help you overcome those specific challenges? It only takes a few minutes to take the Next Level Business Owner Quiz and get on the path of taking your leadership and business to the next level! 

And… If you want help managing your time, creating efficiency, making a new hire, reducing the stress and overwhelm of running a business, or making strategic decisions that will help you level up your business, I’d like to talk to you. Let's discuss how we can partner together to help you get unstuck, reduce stress, and determine a clear path to increased profits! Schedule your Discovery Call

I dive into the real reason you’re always ‘so busy,’ digging deep into the underlying beliefs that keep you in this frantic, reactive cycle. I go into how society has programmed us to believe that being busy equals being virtuous, productive, and secure, talk about why those beliefs are a trap, and divulge how to make the necessary shift from reactive to intentional.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ The Underlying Beliefs Making You Feel Like You Must Always Be "Busy"

✔ How "Toxic Busy-Ness" Impacts Your Health, Relationships & Business

✔ Ways Constant Busy-Ness Is Undermining Your Expertise

✔ How Shifting To Intentionality Requires Changing Your Mindset & Business Model

✔ Strategies To Notice Your Default Response & Create Space For What Matters

✔ What True Success Is Really About

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/391

P.S. Want to discover what’s most holding you back in business and receive a personalized playlist to help you overcome those specific challenges? It only takes a few minutes to take the Next Level Business Owner Quiz and get on the path of taking your leadership and business to the next level! 

And… If you want help managing your time, creating efficiency, making a new hire, reducing the stress and overwhelm of running a business, or making strategic decisions that will help you level up your business, I’d like to talk to you. Let's discuss how we can partner together to help you get unstuck, reduce stress, and determine a clear path to increased profits! Schedule your Discovery Call

Jude Charles runs a video production company that helps entrepreneurs tell their stories via video documentaries that pull back the veil on both their business and the person behind the business. In this special Behind The Biz episode of the Small Business Straight Talk Podcast, I sit down with Jude Charles to pull back the curtain on his life and business, and dive into the journey that took him from severe burnout to establishing boundaries that work for him.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ Jude’s Genesis Story That Started In Grade School

✔ The Lesson He Really Needed To Learn As A Young Entrepreneur

✔ The 3 Rules For Authentic Storytelling

✔ Jude’s Experience With Burnout That Led To The Need For Boundaries

✔ The Time-Off Cadence He’s Learned That Works For Him

✔ The Most Important Story You Tell & Why

✔ What’s Next For Jude 7 His Company

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/390

P.S. Want to discover what’s most holding you back in business and receive a personalized playlist to help you overcome those specific challenges? It only takes a few minutes to take the Next Level Business Owner Quiz and get on the path of taking your leadership and business to the next level! 

And… If you want help managing your time, creating efficiency, making a new hire, reducing the stress and overwhelm of running a business, or making strategic decisions that will help you level up your business, I’d like to talk to you. Let's discuss how we can partner together to help you get unstuck, reduce stress, and determine a clear path to increased profits! Schedule your Discovery Call

In this episode of the Small Business Straight Talk Podcast, I dive into the raw, honest reasons why you might be stuck throwing good money after bad and teach you how to cut those losses. More importantly, I share the mindset shift and a powerful question that will help you finally make that call, free yourself from the emotional burden, and create space for genuine growth.

What You’ll Discover In This Episode:

✔ What Nobody’s Telling You About Cutting Losses In Business

✔ Why This Happens & What To Do About

✔ How To Know When It Is Time

✔ Why Stopping Something In Far From Failing

✔ When To Expect The Mindset Shift Necessary To Grow

✔ So Much More!

To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/389

P.S. Want to discover what’s most holding you back in business and receive a personalized playlist to help you overcome those specific challenges? It only takes a few minutes to take the Next Level Business Owner Quiz and get on the path of taking your leadership and business to the next level! 

And… If you want help managing your time, creating efficiency, making a new hire, reducing the stress and overwhelm of running a business, or making strategic decisions that will help you level up your business, I’d like to talk to you. Let's discuss how we can partner together to help you get unstuck, reduce stress, and determine a clear path to increased profits! Schedule your Discovery Call