Episode 18: Traci Bermingham on The Reason Your Business is A Hot Mess & How To Fix It
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Today I’m chatting with Traci Bermingham who is an expert in business efficiency. With experience working for companies like Del Monte Foods, Traci is giving you a step by step guide for how to go from hot mess to highly functioning entrepreneurs. This episode is great for my struggling CEO’s out there, but you will also look like the hero to your CEO with Traci’s tips on how to improve business processes and flow. She’s teaching you time management life hacks, how to simplify your workflows, and how to create clarity on the backend of your business.
Interestingly, she and I chat about how all the information out there surrounding success in business is centered on how to make it profitable, but no one is really talking about what happens after you get the business off the ground. So many founders are miserable because they don’t have the processes to support them and their teams on the back end. How do you stop, and create the flow state when you feel like you’re drowning?
If that sounds like you, just know, it’s okay to not have everything figured out. Instead of pretending like everything’s fine, just listen to this episode. Traci is leaving you with all the tangible hot tips for building a business that’s highly functioning and productive. But buckle up, because Traci is also hitting you with some major realness about the root cause of why your business is struggling and some of you might not like the answer…
Here are the key takeaways:
- Project manager & entrepreneur similarities
- Benefits of getting PMP certified
- How to ask questions you don’t know you should be asking
- Simplify - start by doing the core things well, add on later
- How to structure your day for success, every day.
- How to create clarity in your sinking business
- The 80-20 rule: discover what’s causing you problems & what’s making you money
- YOU have to change if you want your BUSINESS to change
- You actually don’t have to have all the answers as the CEO
- Heed advice that resonates with you
- How to build the flow state
- Choose the hard stuff now, so it’s easy later
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Background
02:57 Similarities Between Project Management & Entrepreneurialism
07:59 PMP Certification, Is It Worth It?
22:59 Simplifying Processes
25:10 Getting Organized Tips & Tricks
28:13 Prioritizing and Delegating Tasks
29:10 Creating The Flow State
34:06 You Need Work Management Tools
38:09 Creating Clarity and Identifying Priorities In Your Business Today
39:15 Using the 80-20 Rule
41:23 Taking Responsibility for Your Business’ Challenges
42:06 Addressing Personal Issues for Business Success
43:38 Breaking the Stigma of Needing Help
51:08 The Importance of Consistency
54:12 Choosing to Do the Hard Stuff Today To Make Tomorrow Easier
57:33 Building Time Freedom
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