Who to Hire First When You’re Drowning in Your Own Success

Who to Hire First When You’re Drowning in Your Own Success

March 27, 2026 · 19 min · Episode 89

About this episode

This episode discusses how to effectively hire when your business success becomes overwhelming.

This episode is for you if your business looks successful on the outside… but feels overwhelming on the inside. Yes, in many respects, your business works. Clients are coming in. Revenue is growing, or at least holding steady and your clients love you. From the outside, it looks like you have it all together. But inside, it feels like too much. Too many decisions. Too many moving parts. Too many things depending on you. You feel stretched thin and always “on”, needed for seemingly everything.  Even when you’re with your family, part of your mind is still in the business. If that’s you, this is a sign that your business has outgrown the version of you who built it. In this episode, I walk you through one of the most important shifts required to move from six figures into seven: who to hire first when you are the bottleneck. Because the issue is not whether you hire or not. It’s how and who you hire. Most women hire reactively. They wait until they’re overwhelmed and then look for relief. They hire for tasks, often bringing on a virtual assistant, hoping it will solve the problem. And while it may create temporary relief, it doesn’t remove the real constraint. You are still…

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