Promote Yourself to CEO

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We all love hearing success stories. If you’ve listened to this podcast since August of 2021, you may remember Sarah Young and her accounting business. Back then, she was about a...

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So many people use the threat of an incoming recession to fear-bait you. They promise that they have the answer (in the form of a product, a free email course, etc.) on how to...

You make yourself available to your clients constantly. They can email or text or call you 24/7, and you make it a priority to respond to them as soon as possible. And you might...

Do you think of yourself as a CEO?

For years – I didn’t. I happily thought of myself as ‘just an entrepreneur’.

That’s it. Just a humble small business owner, doing work that I loved from home while I raised my babies.

After all – who was I to give myself the title of CEO?

My business didn’t have dozens of employees.

My business wasn’t generating millions of dollars.

My business wasn’t a house-hold name brand like Spanx!

Sara Blakely could call herself a CEO – she had all those things!

And because she was the CEO of Spanx, she had the confidence to pitch her products to Oprah or Nieman Marcus. She had an entire team to support her in growing her business. She had funds to grow, grow, grow!??

But here’s the thing -?????????

She had NONE of those things when she started as CEO. If you haven’t ever heard her story – she started with $5K and an idea. She didn’t wait until she HAD the confidence or the team or the connections or the funding – she just SHOWED UP.

Do you think of yourself as a CEO?

For years – I didn’t. I happily thought of myself as ‘just an entrepreneur’.

That’s it. Just a humble small business owner, doing work that I loved from home while I raised my babies.

After all – who was I to give myself the title of CEO?

My business didn’t have dozens of employees.

My business wasn’t generating millions of dollars.

My business wasn’t a house-hold name brand like Spanx!

Sara Blakely could call herself a CEO – she had all those things!

And because she was the CEO of Spanx, she had the confidence to pitch her products to Oprah or Nieman Marcus. She had an entire team to support her in growing her business. She had funds to grow, grow, grow!??

But here’s the thing -?????????

She had NONE of those things when she started as CEO. If you haven’t ever heard her story – she started with $5K and an idea. She didn’t wait until she HAD the confidence or the team or the connections or the funding – she just SHOWED UP.