If you are growing a company or just starting one, how do you know how much to pay yourself? Maybe it's very little or nothing at all. I run through a few different scenarios that you may find yourself in and how it will affect the amount of money you pay yourself. 

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Business owners and entrepreneurs are quick to make excuses for why they can't document the processes in their businesses. In this video, Lisa González and I debunk the three most common process myths.

This November highlight comes from my conversation with Lisa González. She's a speaker, author, a process fanatic, EOS implementer, and the co-author of the book, 'Process!'

Listen to our full conversation in the episode titled, Process Will Set You Free // With EOS Implementer, Lisa González.

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This "Best of Moment" comes from my livestream chat with Jonathan Ronzio, where we went back and forth about some of our favorite takeaways from Playbook 2022. During Playbook, I got the chance to interview Jason Fried, author of REWORK. This book and Jason had such a profound impact on the way I think about running my business. Hear why in this episode and then go pick up a copy of this book!!

Listen to the full Playbook 2022 recap in the episode titled, Biggest Takeaways & Behind The Scenes Of Playbook 2022 // With Trainual CMO, Jonathan Ronzio.

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In this episode, I'm talking with Trainual's Director of Finance, Drew Romney. This episode is about structuring your annual forecasting and why finance follows strategy. 

The holiday music is playing when you walk through the retail stores, and that means it's time for strategic planning and forecasting. So as we approach the end of this year, I thought what better conversation to start to surface than one about how we do forecasting inside our business. 

So I invited our director of finance, Drew Romney, onto the show. We talked through how Trainual does forecasting, how you should think about forecasting in your business, what metrics and numbers you need to have in order to do the forecasting exercise, and how to communicate it to your team. So if you are thinking about forecasting, about budgeting, about your numbers for next year, then you're going to get a lot out of this conversation.

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Productivity paranoia? Let’s call it what it is: Lack of trust and autonomy. I think this increased paranoia from managers and boss' really stems from a lack of trust, autonomy, and clear exceptions, not a remote work environment. Let me explain in today's episode. 

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There's something about doing challenging things, you come to realize that the hardest part is often just starting. That is what running has taught me, along with some other lessons and how I've applied them in my business. Take a listen on your next run!!

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In this episode, I'm speaking with Lisa González. This is almost a little meta because her playbook or her book is called 'Process! How Discipline and Consistency Will Set You and Your Business Free.'  Like mine, hers is all about creating a playbook for your business. And so a page from Lisa's playbook is a book about playbooks, like my book about playbooks. So this one's fun!  

You're going to like this if you like anything about process and operations. Just hearing Lisa's story, how she grew up in an entrepreneurial family, how she became the EOS implementer that she is now, how she got involved with the community and co-authored this book was awesome. We loved talking about it and having this banter around process.   

After applying all of the EOS principles in her companies and intersecting with Gino Wickman, reading 'Traction,' EOS had made such a profound impact on her businesses that she wanted to share her expertise and process with other growth-minded companies.  

Today she's a speaker, an author, a process fanatic, and she's, like I mentioned, the co-author of this book, 'Process!' So dive in, dig in, take some notes and I hope it helps you better document your processes.

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What is the appropriate amount of notice an employee should give before they leave? 2 weeks, 1 month, 8 months!?! 8 months might sound rare, but I actually received an 8 month heads up from one of our senior leaders on the team. Super generous! It got me thinking, what is the right amount of notice and what should this transition out of your company look like?

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A happy workday is a themed workday. Over the past couple of years I've continued to refine my calendar. The result has been putting a theme to each day. Here's how I break down my week and how you can implement this strategy into your work. 

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In this episode, Jonathan Ronzio joined me for a live discussion on recapping our incredible, annual small business event, Playbook. So this year, Playbook 2022 was epic! We had something like 5,000 virtual people registered and this was the third year we've put the event on. So, as always, we put together incredible speakers and this lineup consisted of marketing guru Seth Godin, Allyson and Wes Felix of Saysh, Montell Jordan, and tons, and tons more!

In this conversation we casually break it down, talk about the behind the scenes and biggest takeaways from those speakers. All from the perspective of the hosts of the event, which was my brother, Jonathan and I. For those of you who don't already know, Jonathan Ronzio is Trainual's CMO. So the two of us were lucky enough to be on stage together, having a lot of fun, talking to some incredible guests. Now we're going to break it down for all of you here in this podcast.

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