The Brutal Truth About Scaling to $1M a Month (Current Lessons from the Grind)
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The episode discusses the challenges faced while scaling a business to $1M a month, including hiring mistakes and a shift from group coaching to one-to-one models.
We hit $400K a month. And honestly? It's been harder than we thought it would be. We thought we'd be at a million by now. We're not. And today we're breaking down exactly why, what we've learned, and what we had to completely blow up and rebuild to get here. This episode is raw. We're talking about the beliefs that held us back for months, the assumptions we made about hiring that cost us tens of thousands of dollars, why we completely changed our business model, and the days where Tim literally cried on a walk because he didn't know how to solve the problem in front of him. We also get into why group coaching is dead, how we're now running a one-to-one model that's actually scalable, the shiny object syndrome that almost derailed us, and why being a CEO is genuinely the worst job in the company. You'll hear: 0:00 - The brutal truth about scaling to $400K a month (and why we're not at a million yet) 3:17 - Why hiring A players isn't enough, and the training mistake that cost us months 10:10 - The belief systems that held us back from growing faster 18:27 - Why we killed our group coaching model and went all in on one-to-one 29:51 - How we're now running a one-to-one model that's…
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