Shannon Miles is the CEO and Co-founder of BELAY, a staffing company serving businesses all over the U.S. Without an office, BELAY has graced the Inc. 5000 list four times — and four years in a row — and was awarded the number one spot in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Best Company Culture. Shannon’s new book The Third Option: Why a Woman Doesn’t Have to Choose Between a Career and Family, but Can Actually Have Both and Succeed is available now.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• The story behind how Shannon and her husband started their business, BELAY
• How having the right help can help you grow your organization
• Why it’s vital to ensure that your team is happy
• Why it’s not wise to satisfy other people’s perceptions of you
• Why business owners need to consider what working remotely would look like for them
• Why Shannon was compelled to write her book, The Third Option
• The importance of having the mindset that you don’t have to do it alone
• Why you need to assign value to your time
• The power that comes from shifting your mindset to owning, not running, your business
• Why you should consider developing and promoting employees from within your organization

Ways to contact Shannon:

• Website: belaysolutions.com
• Instagram: @shannonkmiles
• Book: The Third Option