Do you want to achieve and maintain a healthy work-life balance?

In this interview, Mathew Heggem Owner and CEO of SUM Innovation reveals how he was able develop a company culture that empowers his employees to make important business decisions, and how that has allowed him to achieve a meaningful work-life balance!

You will also discover how an anxiety attack led him to the important realization that his business needed to be systematized, and how his employees helped to systematize his business.

 

 

In this Episode You will Discover:

* Why Mathew had an anxiety attack and how that led to the realization that his business needed to be systematized.

* How Mathew solicited feedback from his employees, and how that helped him improve the systems in his business.

* Why Mathew sits down with his business partner on a regular basis to talk about their vision for their company.

* How Mathew allowed his employees to come to the realization that they needed certain systems and tools.

* How Mathew resolves differences with his business partner.

* Why Mathew puts such great emphasis on work-life balance.

* Why Mathew is now working on developing content for thought leadership.

* Why Mathew hired a person that handles his in-depth employee review process.

 

Episode Transcript:

OWEN: My guest today is Mathew Heggem and he is the owner and CEO of SUM Innovation. Mathew, welcome to the show.

MATHEW: Thank you man, I’m excited to be here.

OWEN: Let’s jump right in. This interview is all about getting entrepreneurs on here who systematized their business and we want to always learn how they did it by showcasing the current result that they’re experiencing right now as a result of systematizing and automating their business. And then going back into the journey of before now, what was it like in how you transformed the business. Starting now, what will you say are some mind blowing result that you now currently experience as a result of going through that process of systematizing and automating your business?

MATHEW: Yes, absolutely. I think the first mind blowing result that I truly experienced was actually the ability to take a vacation. It sounds very simple at the end of the day but realistically the fact is that you get so caught up in the day to day and the activities that you need to do that the moment that you really feel like you can step away from the business, it becomes a critical turning point for you. And I’m pleased to say that I actually have multiple vacations planned for this summer, and then just super excited about that. The other thing that’s really important to pay note to is quite frankly, it rolls back to the bigger conversation about work-life balance. But I think frankly when you get to the place where you can push the development of your business to have the systems that you need for it to run itself. You can spend more time with your family and friends, personal things. Another thing that I’ve been able to do in that regard is to spend some time educating myself in other ways and start to go through this certification program and really investing in my own education, my own development. And that’s a really important milestone I think for me because it really does help me to find that work-life balance that we need to have in order to be successful business owners.

OWEN: How will you say your company has been transformed as a result of systematizing your business?

MATHEW: I think the transformation really has come in the sense that you see more leadership amongst the team and certainly more leadership and management responsibility being taken by other people within your practice to lead the way.