The CEO Sage

All business owners face this dilemma: Should I hire a friend? Of course, there is an added emotional dynamic when employing someone close to you. Those ties do require consideration. However, regardless of who you hire, consistent frameworks need to be in place. Without them, decisions and potential outcomes can become very messy.

In this first installment of "Live Coaching with Kris" on my Leadership is Feminine podcast, I address the common question of employing people you know. As I coach a very successful business woman regarding this, we cover guidelines in employing people, clarifying expectations and defining roles, delegating not abdicating, and much more.

By the way, I'm very excited to add these episodes. I'm loving doing these live, anonymous coaching sessions with one of you, my listeners, recording it, and then sharing it so we can all benefit. It's a blast! I can't wait to share more of them with you all.

"I think I need to hire someone to support me. Not someone I'm going to support. And that was incredibly delineating for me." – Kris Plachy

• Impart your vision clearly
• Don't build for a specific person in mind
• Clarify what you need and outline the scope
• Define your values
• Delegate not abdicate
• Measurables
• Follow-through plan
• Timeline

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CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)

Five full days of complete immersion during which you'll be coached and advised, and you'll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.

The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.

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Has believing you're not business minded held you back? If so, I have good news to share: That may only be because being business minded may not be as you envision it. There is much more to it than stats, accounting and marketing. Don't allow behaviors and skills that can be cultivated and activated – even if you weren't good at them in the past – hold you back any longer!

Because how we think about all this can be such a hindrance, I wanted to address it. When I thought about how to approach this topic, my friend Jody Moore immediately came to mind. Jody is a gifted coach and she's developed a program literally called "Business Minded". As we recorded this episode, Jody shared how she used to believe she wasn't business minded but learned differently. She and I go on to discuss several aspects of what it actually means to be business minded, including important metrics, consistent behaviors, sales approaches, and much more.

"Without consistent behavior, skills don't matter. And, the good news is, you don't even have to have the skills if you just compensate with behavior… And, then of course, ironically enough, the more behaviors you put in, the better your skills become." – Jody Moore

• What it is to be business minded
• Metrics that matter versus indicators that don't
• Behaviors, skills and consistency
• Reframing making offers
• Is the Business Minded program right for you?
• Goals that pull
• Removing bottlenecks

Jody in her own words…

Hello, I'm Jody. I'm a lot like you. I am a mother of 4, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and a woman trying to figure out how to minimize resentment, overwhelm and guilt, and replace them with happiness, gratitude and joy.

Three years after getting married I found myself with two kids under age 2, a loving husband, and a lot of self-loathing. I struggled with the duties associated with being a mom and wife and then I felt guilty for feeling that way. After all, this was the life I thought I'd always wanted.

I have a BA in Communications and an MA in Adult Education along with 15 years of experience as a Corporate Trainer and Leadership Coach, but what has helped me the most to overcome my struggles and to conquer all of my goals, are the tools I use now to coach my clients. Thanks to my extensive training with Brooke Castillo of The Life Coach School, I am now a Certified Life Coach, and I couldn't be more proud of the work I get to do in the world.

What I learned when I found coaching (and now teach to others), helped me gain my confidence back. It helped me enjoy my kids and love my husband exactly as he is. It helped me create a successful business and be the kind of mom I want to be at the same time. The tools I teach are the ones that have helped me live gospel principles and develop a closer relationship with my Heavenly Father.

Today I have the honor of helping women (and a few brave men) achieve the results they desire in all areas of their life. My clients range from young newlyweds to empty nesters and together, we are changing the results in their lives.

I feel so honored to get to work with these individuals to improve their relationships, their confidence, their physical, mental and emotional health, their money situation and their contribution in the world.

I believe all of my previous education and experience has prepared me to do this work. I'm a lucky woman. And guess what?

So are you. I will help you find it.

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Five full days of complete immersion during which you'll be coached and advised, and you'll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.

The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.

• Get on the CEO LIVE Immersion waitlist: CEOImmersion.com
• FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed
• Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.
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Stress is inevitable. We're running our businesses, cherishing our personal lives, navigating the changing world around us… No matter where we turn, stressors are present. Simply trying to tell ourselves not to feel stressed, and to just relax or to just suck it up, is unhelpful and often ineffective. I want to offer an approach that helps: acknowledging the stress, identifying what's going on when we feel stressed and knowing what we can do to mitigate it.

As we examine how to manage stress for women business owners, I want to discuss the elements of stress. I believe there are major contributing factors such as resistance to the truth, how we buffer stress, and our personal tipping points. In consideration of stressors, we have countless outside sources but the inner source – that is, our own inner dialogue – is the overpowering one. Therefore, the thoughts you think are the ultimate source of stress, and framing them is key to management. Let's talk about it.

"That inner dialogue that you entertain is really, ultimately, the source that we have to talk to… that inner dialogue is either promoting your ability to be resilient and capable… or that inner dialogue is promoting your ineptitude, your lack of skill... But as you tell that story about who you are, I want you to look at what that does to how you feel emotionally and physically." – Kris Plachy

• Resistance to the truth
• The skill of resilience
• Breaking down stressors
  • Countless sources
  • Stories we tell ourselves
  • Victim vs. owner
• Framing your thoughts with power

• CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)
• Five full days of complete immersion during which you'll be coached and advised, and you'll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.
• The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.
• Get on the CEO LIVE Immersion waitlist: CEOImmersion.com.

FREE help for managing stress: krisplachy.com/overwhelmed

Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.

Speaking of business mastery, having that throughout your business is crucial. Without it, your business won't thrive. In Season 4 of Leadership Is Feminine, I'm focusing on various aspects of business mastery. If you've missed any of the first three episodes, I encourage you to go back and listen to them. Thus far, I've talked about leadership excellence, the 'Founder's Curse', and even how to fire someone nicely.

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Business models, kits, courses, systems and similar flood the marketplace. A simple online search pulls an overwhelming number of options. But finding a model designed for women, with women in mind is trickier. As female entrepreneurs, we possess natural strengths and assets which differ from men. We need a business strategy that leverages those.

In this business mastery episode, I address business strategy for women business owners. Before we begin, I want to establish that it's healthy to periodically adjust and rework your strategy. As your desire for the results of your business changes, your strategy needs to as well. I find I adjust mine about every 24-36 months.

"And that is the part that is so dynamic: that your strategy has to be that fluid AND concrete… and fluid and concrete... It's just an evolving process. It's a breathing process. And I think that's what so many models don't account for." – Kris Plachy

• Set a clear result
  • Leading a heart-centered business
  • Creating the life you want
  • Sitting with your belief
• Clarify what drives revenue
  • Your vital few
  • Keep or go
  • Plan for failure

CEO Immersion (aka How to CEO LIVE!)

Five full days of complete immersion during which you'll be coached and advised, and you'll develop every team system you need to have in place to build an amazing team. You, and your person that helps you with all this (your Ops person), will leave with everything in hand, built, documented, ALL ready to implement. It will be a week of not just learning about how to do things but having everything developed so you can implement immediately.

The week is scheduled for late August, in Scottsdale, AZ. You must be at 7 figures to join because the complexity of your team is important for this exercise.

Get on the CEO LIVE Immersion waitlist: CEOImmersion.com.

Get How to CEO DIGITAL! This course is available for all entrepreneurs looking to increase their business mastery. Access includes weekly Q&A calls for additional help.

Speaking of business mastery, having that throughout your business is crucial. Without it, your business won't thrive. In Season 4 of Leadership Is Feminine, I'm focusing on various aspects of business mastery. If you've missed any of the first three episodes, I encourage you to go back and listen to them. Thus far, I've talked about leadership excellence, the 'Founder's Curse', and even how to fire someone nicely.

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For many leaders, hiring is scary enough but what about when you need to let someone go? As I promised, throughout Season 4 of Leadership Is Feminine, I'm tackling some of the most daunting and critical components of business mastery. And how to fire someone, and do it nicely, ranks right at the top for most leaders.

Knowing how to kindly part ways is an invaluable skill, not only for yourself but for the other person. You are able to soften an already difficult and very uncomfortable situation when you know how to address the problem. In this episode, I teach you some guidelines and share some wisdom on how to cause the least amount of injury and pain to both you and them.

"If I walked into your business today and asked people who worked for you if they knew what their goals were, if they knew what the result was that they're responsible for, would they know? If your answer is 'Ummm, maybe?' or 'Uh, probably not', we already know we have a cocktail for confusion when it gets to potentially firing someone." – Kris Plachy

• Honor that pain exists in firing someone
• Don't surprise people
• Never assume roles are self-evident
• Come from a clean place

Let me encourage you once more to listen to every episode from Season 3 of Leadership Is Feminine. The insights, ideas and magic shared by the women I interviewed are invaluable.

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What exactly is The Founder's Curse? Of course, it's not truly a curse but there is a genuine concept here. One that, for lack of a better description, plagues most founders.

As we journey together through Season 4 of Leadership Is Feminine, I want to focus on business mastery. You already have mastery of what you do in the world, that is, your subject matter expertise or practitioner expertise. But what about mastery of the necessities of running your business, such as how to lead and manage teams? We can all use more mastery in that area. And one block to building that mastery is overcoming The Founder's Curse. I want to bring that into the light, discuss it, and help you conquer it.

"For as long as you keep believing that you're the only one, ultimately, who will ever really know how to make it work, you will remain the only one, who really knows – ever – how to make it work. And you will keep working harder." – Kris Plachy

• What is The Founder's Curse?
• 3 ways you create delay
  • Reaffirming unproductive habit
  • Usurping
  • Crippling accountability
• Recognizing you've got The Founder's Curse
• Overcoming it
• Learning to leverage the skills, talents and minds of others

If you've not heard all of the amazing, everyday women I had with me in Season 3 of Leadership Is Feminine, I encourage you to go back and listen to all the episodes. The encouragement, inspiration and wisdom you'll gain is phenomenal.

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This episode starts Season 4 of Leadership Is Feminine. If you've not heard all of the amazing, everyday women I had with me in Season 3, I encourage you to go back and listen to all the episodes. The encouragement, inspiration and wisdom you'll gain is phenomenal.

For Season 4, I want to focus on leadership excellence and mastery for women. In particular, I believe that the characteristic of resilience is a core quality. Embedded in resilience is consistency, and with consistency comes mastery. Mastery isn't based on complex systems. It's about basic truths, basic principles. In looking back on my own growth over the past 10 years, I've found that the same principles are still true, and they are what work.

"I love watching the powerful ability of a women, once she no longer feels helpless to managing and leading people… once she's no longer helpless to the behaviors and choices of others… once she knows that there's nothing in her business… she can't handle… Watching that happen and being witness to women who experience that kind of resolve, and knowing, and wisdom has been so inspiring for me." – Kris Plachy

• Changes for Season 4
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Changing your mindset as a leader is a magical gift. It allows you to manage yourself, and therefore, your team, with greater empathy. The beautiful truth about changing yourself is that some change can happen very quickly and it is always worth the investment.

In today's episode, Dr. Camysha Wright and I talk about change as a leader. We discuss how empowering it is to make time for necessary changes, to refill your own tank so you aren't always depleted, and the value in investing in your own leadership and management skills. We also revisit a very powerful statement Dr. Wright made during a previous discussion, one that has stuck with me ever since: many things can actually be accomplished in a day. And this can include changing yourself. As you listen to this episode, I hope this truth encourages you as much as it does me.

"I think the biggest gift for me has been the change in mindset… learning how to deal with my own mind… managing your team is definitely very important but you also have to manage yourself… changing the way that I see things and how I analyze, like a problem, has been a huge gift…" – Dr. Camysha Wright

• Stepping into the ins and outs of business
• Empowering yourself to make time
• Investing in your own leadership and management
• Expanding your mindset is a huge gift
• Giving space for refilling your own tank
• Changing yourself in a day

Dr. Camysha Wright is a Board Certified Ear, Nose and Throat Physician in Plantation, Florida and runs a full service clinic for children and adults. She is President-elect for the Florida Society of Otolaryngology head and neck surgeons and will serve as president in 2023. She is also currently the Allergy Director for ENT and Allergy Associates of Florida.

Dr. Wright is a member of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. She is also board certified by the America Board of Otolaryngology and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy. Dr. Wright serves as Clinical advisor for NOVA University for physician assistants and allergy fellows.

She received her Medical Degree from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC and graduated with A0A honors and completed a General Surgery Internship and Otolaryngology Residency at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She also has obtained her Master of Public Health degree.

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How much do you allow yourself to have in regards to money? As women, we are conditioned to "tuck it in" when it comes to being extremely successful in earnings. Shame often accompanies this conditioning and holds us back from fulfilling our full potential both for ourselves and for those we love. But a woman's relationship with money is more deeply connected than it appears on the surface.

In this episode, I talk about women and money with award-winning leader and creative founder of the #1 business and money certified coach training academy, Kendall Summerhawk. Kendall specializes in and emphasizes putting the power to make money into every woman's hands. We discuss how critical it is to rewrite our relationship with money, the impact of money stories, choosing to control and not control, and so much more. I hope her wisdom and experiences help you shift into magical CEOing and having an abundant life.

"It isn't selfish at all. If you're making money through your business… you're working for it, you're offering value, you're changing people's lives… you have to be the guardian of your dream." – Kendall Summerhawk

• You are in relationship with money
• Who has earned the right to know
• The impact of money stories
• The fix is your own growth
• Magical CEOing
• Sharpening the blade
• What you'll learn working with Kendall

Kendall Summerhawk is an award winning leader and the creative founder of the #1 business & money certified coach training academy for Firestarter women who want to be high earning coaches.

When Kendall launched her coach certification academy, she pioneered a revolutionary approach that fills a gap other coaching schools miss.

Her revolutionary approach is why the women Kendall certifies make money, fill their coaching programs and stand in the power of creating financial independence.

Kendall runs a 7+ figure business working from home in Arizona, and enjoys riding dressage with her beautiful Spanish horses and spending time with her husband and business partner, Richard.

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No matter how long we've been working at something or how much money we make, doubts will creep in and times of uncertainty will come. But we must learn to listen to that little voice inside that guides us. Tuning into the wisdom of that inner voice, as well as listening to the wisdom of others will fuel us with resolve to carry on.

In this episode, I chatted with Deborah Perlman, founder and CEO of Cocus Pocus about listening to that inner voice. We discuss building your own Queendom, dancing with failure, dealing with hires that don't work out, and more. Deborah shares how she was encouraged to leave corporate America and do for herself what she'd been accomplishing for others. As you listen to her share her experiences and what she's learned since becoming an entrepreneur, I hope you are emboldened to follow your own little voice.

"I look at these people in these high level positions and it looks like a golden cage to me now." – Deborah Perlman

• Building your own Queendom
• Rewriting expectations
• Dancing with failure
• Dealing with hires that don't work out
• Changing your clothes
• Sitting with the thoughts as they come
• Listening to that little voice

Deborah is the Founder and CEO of Cocus Pocus, an international lifestyle brand that designs and curates clothes, art, accessories, gifts, stationery, and more. Their carefully curated goods are meant to cultivate a creative lifestyle and they are inspired by the power of friendship, the good old days, and all things fun.

Cocus Pocus is also really into supporting their community of customers, fellow artists, and like-minded brands. They think there is room at the top for all of us.

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