You work hard in your business. On the Profit by Design Podcast, we ask the BIG question: What has your business done FOR YOU lately? Join Dr. Sabrina Starling, The Business Psychologist™ and founder of Tap the Potential weekly, as she brings you tips, tools and strategies to support YOU in making intentionally profitable AND sustainable business decisions to live the lifestyle you desire. After all, work supports life, not the other way around. Dr. Sabrina is the author of the The 4 Week Va ...
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We spend so much of our lives thinking about what's wrong with us instead of recognizing what we do best. If we can play to those strengths, think of how powerful we could be. Think of how powerful businesses and organizations could be. The most common denominator of the most successful leaders is self-awareness. On this show, hosts Darren Virassammy and Brandon Miller help leaders uncover and their superpowers by using the CliftonStrengths Assessment. Along the way you’ll learn how a streng ...
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Profit First Professionals Archives - Mike Michalowicz
Profit First Professionals Archives - Mike Michalowicz
Eradicate Entrepreneurial Poverty
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This is a unique and special time in our lives to consider how we can lead, no matter our status in life, to cultivate a world filled with compassion and care for humanity. This podcast will provide nuggets of wisdom from wide-ranging guests who are both well regarded and humble and compassionate at their core. In each episode, Rob Dube (Best-Selling Author and Co-Founder of imageOne - a Top 25 Forbes Small Giant), interviews some of the greatest leaders to explore how their journeys and per ...
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293: The Blueprint for Building a Great Place to Work with Dr. Sabrina Starling
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You want to have a good culture. You know it is important to attract A-players to your team. The good news is that there are simple steps you can take to make your business a great place to work. From predictability and resources to leadership and camaraderie, you can learn how to craft a workplace where A-players thrive. Join Dr. Sabrina as she br…
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294: Attracting A-Players in Today’s Job Market with Kaitlyn Beaver
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Is your business a great place to work? Today’s episode focuses on current hiring trends and the importance of creating a great workplace for your A-players. Dr. Sabrina is joined by Kaitlyn Beaver, Tap the Potential’s Success and Connect Team Lead and the Lead Facilitator of the How to Hire the Best course. Kaitlyn describes her passion for helpin…
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Empathy: A Coaching Conversation with Susan Giacobazzi
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Susan Giacobazzi found passion and purpose by aligning her job with her top strengths. As the founder of Love Your 5 and an expert in empathy and coaching, Susan shares her transformative journey from career dissatisfaction to finding her niche in strengths-based development. Together, host Brandon Miller and Susan delve into the complexities and p…
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Arranger: A Coaching Conversation with Aashi Arora
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Aashi Arora conquers imposter syndrome and boosts self-confidence with her strengths. With over a decade of experience, Aashi focuses on the Arranger strength, where Aashi reveals her innate talent for planning, orchestrating, and navigating change, essential skills that enable her to lead and coach with agility and foresight. Together, she and hos…
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292: Navigating Entrepreneurial Challenges: Persist, Pivot, or Throw in the Towel?
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Being in business is tough. Hard times come, and sometimes they go on for a long time. Have you found yourself asking, “Is it worth it? Will it EVER get better?” You are not alone–but are experiencing common feelings of most entrepreneurs. The big questions are: How do you know if it’s time to quit? How do you know when to keep going and persist? J…
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Developer: A Coaching Conversation with Jessica Cowan
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As a developer, Jessica Cowan shares her journey of self-discovery and highlights the transformative power of incorporating strengths into organizational culture in this episode of the Coach to Coach series. Host Brandon Miller talks with Jessica about her perspectives, offering a profound understanding of how strengths can shape individuals, teams…
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The Path Within: Uncovering Self-Love and Mental Wellness with Blake D. Bauer
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"All the past and all the future are present in this moment." — Blake D. Bauer Blake D. Bauer is the author of the international best-seller You Were Not Born To Suffer. A speaker and teacher, he has studied a wide range of modalities, including psychology, nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine, and past life regression therapy-hypnosis. All that…
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291: Embracing Legacy: An Entrepreneur’s Triumph Over Adversity with Deanna Cotten
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Welcome to a very special episode. You have my guarantee that you will find this conversation inspiring and impactful for your business and your life. Please take the time to listen. I’m joined by Deanna Cotten, the owner of Jumpstart Business Builders. She helps business owners acquire the tools, resources, and coaching to grow six-figure business…
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Communication: A Coaching Conversation with Jennifer Doyle Vancil
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In this episode of The Strengths Whisperer, host Brandon Miller introduces us to the Coach to Coach series with Jennifer Doyle Vancil, a global strengths expert and founder of Communicating Strengths, LLC. Together, they talk through the impact of the Communication strength in both personal and professional settings. Jennifer shares her transformat…
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290: Why Being Everything to Everyone Leads to Burnout
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Does this sound familiar? You are on the hamster wheel, always working hard just to keep up with the demands of your business and trying to be everything to everyone—and still coming up short. This is a common scenario for entrepreneurs, but things CAN be different! In today’s episode, I’m diving into the mindset that is undermining us in our self-…
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289: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour, Part 2
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Today’s episode is the follow-up to last week’s episode on how to make your time worth $10,000 an hour. Today we shift from you, the business owner, to your team members and how you can support them in making their time more valuable to the team. Dr. Sabrina reveals how to support your A-player team members in delegating effectively so they invest …
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288: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour, Part 1
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Your time is valuable. Don’t waste it on clients and customers who don’t fit your ideal client profile. A much better strategy is to identify the sweet spot of your business and have a system for attracting the right people and deterring the wrong people. Today’s episode covers a popular topic with the Tap the Potential family of business owners: h…
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287: I’m Scared to Hire! How Do I Know If I Can Afford It, and Other Hiring Fears
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“We’re busy, I’m overwhelmed, and my team is overwhelmed. We have more work than we can handle. I know we need to hire, but I’m scared. How do I know if we can even afford it?” Does this sound familiar? If this describes your experience, today’s episode is for you! Many business owners face this common problem, and we are diving deep into this topi…
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Introducing Coach to Coach with Brandon Miller
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In this season of the Strengths Whisperer, host Brandon Miller is diving deep into the world of Clifton strengths themes with the help of 34 global strengths experts. This season is called "Coach to Coach," where Each episode will focus on one of the 34 strengths, exploring how they fit into four domains: executing, strategic thinking, influencing,…
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Elysabeth Williamson - Relationship as a Doorway to the Soul
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"Relationships are where we receive the greatest fulfillment and the greatest challenge." — Elysabeth Williamson Today's guest is Elysabeth Williamson, a self-taught yoga teacher of 35 years who developed Principle-Based Partner Yoga,™ a system of yoga that focuses on relationship and connection with others. She also uses this work to encourage peo…
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286: Your 4 Week Vacation®️ is Within Reach and Entirely Possible! with Kristin Meyer
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Are you preparing for YOUR 4 week vacation®️ in 2024? Or is this another year of stress and overwhelm moving you toward full-blown burnout? Help is available, and your 4 week vacation®️ is possible! Today’s episode is a live coaching call with Kristin Meyer, the CEO and co-owner of Southern Crafted Shutters. They are an exterior shutter manufacture…
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285: Tapping Into a New Talent Pipeline to Grow Your Business
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Are you ready for another game-changing strategy to grow your business? A successful internship program can be transformative in bringing fresh perspectives and innovative ideas to the table. This topic prompts many questions about how to hire interns, what they can do for your business, what requirements should be in place for an internship, and h…
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Re-Release: Balancing Competition and Teamwork with Charlie Saffro
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Charlie Saffro joins the conversation to share the journey of starting her business as a solopreneur and the importance of balancing competition and teamwork within organizations. She shares her experience working in a male-dominated industry and how she overcame stereotypes by prioritizing empathy and compassion. The pandemic has further emphasize…
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284: How to Hire Your Next A-Player with Dr. Sabrina Starling
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Today’s show focus is very near and dear to my heart: hiring A-players. I’ll explain what small business owners are getting wrong and why traditional hiring practices will only bring difficulties and heartache. The mis-hiring process is painful because of the time and effort involved in screening applicants and interviewing, and statistics show tha…
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283: Expect More, Achieve More: The Power of Setting Boundaries and Owning Accountability
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Are you struggling to set boundaries with your team and hold expectations? This is a common struggle for business owners. If you find yourself having the same conversations over and over with your team members just to see nothing change, this episode is for you! We are diving into practical ways to set boundaries and hold expectations for them, alo…
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Re-Release: Painting a Picture with Your ‘Why’ in Mind with Chad Peterman
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Chad Peterman, President of Peterman Brothers, is a visionary leader with a focus on execution and a passion for learning. Under his leadership, the company has experienced significant growth and has been recognized as a top employer. In this episode, Chad shares how he takes his big ideas and turns them into reality. You’ll hear how he leans into …
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282: The Dream Manager: An A-Player's Story of Aligning Her Vision with the Company's Vision
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Welcome to today’s episode! Last week, we covered how your organization’s future and your team members’ potential are intertwined. You also learned why Tap the Potential’s Dream Manager Program is the solution to the monumental problem of employee disengagement. Today you’ll learn the vital importance of putting your personal strategic plan in plac…
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281: The Dream Manager Program: The Solution to Employee Disengagement
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“The great corporate battle in the coming decades will be the war for talent.” Do you feel overwhelmed by the challenge of attracting and retaining engaged A-players on your team? Is employee disengagement sinking your ship? In this episode, Melissa Kay, Tap the Potential’s Lead Strategist and “Chief Dream Officer,” shares how your organization’s f…
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Re-Release: Leaning Into Genius Over Grind with Sapidah Shefa
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Every strength has pitfalls, but when you can recognize them, you can avoid them. Sapidah Shefa, VP of Operations at Road Runner Sports, says knowing both the balconies and basements (highs and lows) of her strengths is vital. Understanding them allows her to stick to work she excels at and pull herself out of situations when she dives too deep. In…
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280: How to Strategically Manage Your Time with Melissa Kay
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Do you feel like you never have enough time to get everything done? You are not alone! Most business owners identify time management as one of the biggest challenges they face. When you started your business to have more time freedom, you probably didn’t envision getting caught in the survival trap and experiencing real symptoms of burnout as your …
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279: Strategic Planning Series Part 4 of 4: Designing for Profit in 2024
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Set yourself up to double or triple your profit and owner’s pay in 2024! How does that sound? Join Dr. Sabrina for Part 4 of our Strategic Planning Series as she walks you through what it means to design your business to be sustainably profitable. You’ll learn how to get out of the survival trap, plan for growth that increases profit and owner’s pa…
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Re-Release: Channeling and Appreciating the Power Within with Dr. Sabrina Starling
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Dr. Sabrina Starling joins the conversation to delve into the transformative power of understanding and embracing our strengths. She shares valuable insights on the importance of self-awareness, prioritization, and fostering a supportive environment. In this episode, you will learn practical strategies to simplify your approach, delegate effectivel…
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278: Strategic Planning Series, Part 3 of 4: Design Your Clear Compelling Vision for a Better Business and Better Life in 2024
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Are you caught in the survival trap? If you take a few steps forward but aren’t building the momentum you want or getting the results you need, it could be that you need to design your clear compelling vision. Why not start now to improve your quality of life in 2024? Download your copy of our Strategic Planning Series Workbook today; you’ll also g…
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277: Strategic Planning Series Part 2: Celebrating Wins and Looking Ahead to 2024
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Our clients’ successes, big or small, help fuel our team at Tap the Potential. We have supported business owners in 2023 through some very challenging circumstances, and I want to brag about our clients who have been resilient in achieving major wins this year. If the end of 2023 finds you still in the struggle, I hope today’s show inspires and enc…
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276: Strategic Planning Series, Part 1 of 4: Reflect, Plan, and Exercise Your Resilience Muscles
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It is an exciting time of year with all the joys that the holidays bring! As the year winds down and we have time to reflect, it’s the best time to strategically plan for the year ahead. This episode kicks off the first in our four-part Strategic Planning Series, and today’s focus is on you, the entrepreneur—because the success of your business beg…
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275: Practical Steps for Handling Difficult Clients and Customers
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Have you ever found yourself scratching your head wondering how to deal with someone who has a very difficult personality? Dealing with a difficult client, customer, or team member is a situation that a lot of us encounter in business because we deal with different personalities all the time. I have identified three types of personalities that are …
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