What would you do if life suddenly pulled you away from your business?

Ever thought about what might happen if an urgent personal crisis hit you out of nowhere? Could your business survive—let alone thrive—without you?

In this week's episode of Bella In Your Business, Bella Vasta shares her personal, heart-wrenching story of being abruptly pulled from her thriving pet sitting business due to a medical emergency. She dives deep into the essential strategies every business owner needs to ensure their enterprise can run seamlessly in their absence.

Learn actionable steps to automate payroll, conduct effective scheduling, manage marketing, and ensure smooth hiring processes. Whether you're going through a personal crisis or simply planning for the unplanned, this episode equips you with the knowledge to secure your business's future.

Tune in now to discover how demonstrating that your business can operate independently not only ensures its survival but also significantly increases its value.

Your future self will thank you for listening.

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro and Personal Story

[00:40] The Unexpected Hospitalization

[01:59] Running a Business During Crisis

[03:51] Preparing for the Unexpected

[06:57] Key Business Operations to Consider

[14:46] The Importance of Business Continuity

[19:39] Final Thoughts and Reflections

Notable Quotes:

"Imagine you just received an urgent call and your immediate presence is required somewhere else. Is your business going to thrive, just survive, or end up dead?"

"I’m a firm believer that something in your life, if you're in business long enough, is going to require your full attention—your business needs to be ready for that moment."

"If you can prove that this business can work without you in it, you have just increased the value of your business."

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Transcript:

Welcome to another episode of Bella in your business. My name is Bella Vasta. Today, we're going to talk about something that literally happened in my life about 10 years ago now. And it's something that I've spoken from stage about multiple times, but I'm not sure it's something that we've talked about on this podcast that I can remember in the past, almost 400 episodes.

But it is something that I need to plant seeds in your head to make sure that if and when this happens to you, you are prepared. So let's go. Alright, so about a little over 10 years ago, I was sitting in a parking lot and I was pregnant, and I thought that I was going to be a yoga yogi when I was pregnant.

So I was just getting out of prenatal yoga and I got a call from my doctor and she was like, you need to get to the hospital. And I'm like, what? Nah, I'd never been hospitalized. Thankfully, I've never broken a bone. You know, I've never been in the hospital. That was a big, scary place. I was like, I don't have to go to the hospital.

She's like, yeah, your blood pressure levels are not healthy and you'd be hurting your baby. And so I went to the hospital and very long story short, it was right over Memorial Day weekend. And I was there for five days. And when I was done with that, I was ordered to be on bed rest at home.

And you guys know me. Bed rest? What? I was in bed for so long that when I would get up to take a shower, just putting my arms over my head to wash my hair was like lifting weights. Because my muscles were deteriorated. It was gross. I mean, not gross, but it was very disheartening.

I tell you this to say that I was running a six-figure pet sitting company. We were mostly pet sitting with a little bit of dog walking. I had about 10 employees and I did have an office manager. It was very fluid. It wasn't as maybe solid as what some of you guys do today.