Your Business Is Running You (And You Don't Even Know It) | ft. Greg McElroy & Jon Fisk | Ep. 501

About this episode

In this episode, Matt discusses with Greg and Jon how tradies often find themselves owned by their businesses and the importance of transitioning from operator to owner.

🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 Book a Free Strategy Call with Tradie Web Guys: https://tradie.wiki/tssyt Most tradies think they own a business, but the business owns them, dictating every waking hour and every skipped family event. In this episode, Matt sits down with Greg and John from CrystalLIQ to unpack why your business is running you into the ground, how you became the bottleneck without realising it, and the exact moment you need to step out of the operator's seat and into the owner's chair. If...

People in this episode

Host: Matt Jones

Guests: Greg McElroy, Jon Fisk

Topics covered

• business ownership
• entrepreneurship
• work-life balance
• bottlenecks
• business strategy

Keywords

• business running you
• tradies
• bottleneck
• owner's chair
• strategy call

Sponsors

Tradie Web Guys

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CrystalLIQ

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