Why you can’t do it all on your own and what help you need

In today’s episode of the podcast, I talk about hiring a team for your business. I tell you about my own team, how I get stuff done and manage things and why hiring has been so crucial to my business.

KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST

It takes a village to raise a child, and run a business!

You may not be able to hire people in your business straight away, it will take time to be able to.

If you are working with a part-time VA, be mindful they may not be available every day for you.

Before you hire your first member of your team, make sure you have some money in the bank to cover their wages for a couple of months.

Every time you hire someone, they will be able to take something off your plate to free up your time.

Sometimes you do have to hire people before you can fully afford them – but as soon as they help you, this frees up your time and headspace in order to do more in your business and make money.

Having a team that can’t do anything unless you do it, makes you be more productive and holds you accountable.

There are people who will be able to certain things better than you can!

You do have to let go of some things.

There is a hiring process – how you find them, how you communicate, how you set boundaries, what you’re going to pay them, how you onboard them.

Systems are so important when it comes to working with a team – you can use something like Trello to organise your processes.

Loom is great for recording processes for your team.

Hiring people for your team takes time and thought.

THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE…

You don’t have to do everything! Hiring people to help you in your business can really help to free up your time and allow your business to grow.

HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN’T MISS

My team who help me with my business 02:05

Building a team 11:43

Tips for building your team 15:22

The importance of systems 20:00

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Transcript

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are you? I'm good. I am batching content as we speak or say, as I speak, I'm speaking right now. I'm literally spending the day doing podcast episodes because we've had a really, really busy few months in the business and I got a bit behind not behind as in it didn't come out on time.

As in, I like to batch and be ahead and over these last few weeks, I've really well. Last couple of months, I've literally been doing things as they need to doing so I'm working really hard at the moment to get ahead and get organized, which actually flows really nicely into what I want to talk about today.

You know, that saying It takes a village to raise a child. Well, I think that can be true about running a business. And often, especially in a business like mine, where I'm the face of my business. It can often seem like there's just me. There's just me and maybe one or two other people. And I do most of the stuff because it's my business. But I want to give you some reality of running a business.

I mean, if you're running a business, you'd know the reality. But as in kind of the reality of how I get stuff done, how I manage things, who I've got on my team and why getting that team was absolutely crucial to having the business I have today and the business I hope for going forward. So I guess let's start by going through who helps me and who I have in my world.

Now, most of these people are on a business side, but I also have some people helping me on the home front as well. So at work, right. I don't want you to listen to this and think "How on earth I I'm never gonna be able to afford those people. I can't afford to bring them to these people like sounds great Teresa, but yeah, it's not...