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Episode 176 – Know Thy Numbers: Why Your Metrics Matter
Knowing the ins and outs of your business is essential, and that includes your numbers. Unless we sit down periodically and go over where money is coming in and where it is going out, there’s no way to know if we’re profiting each month or digging ourselves farther...

Episode 175 – What Being a Tutor Teaches You About Yourself with Jake Adams
In this week’s episode, Theresa sits down for a chat with owner and founder of the tutoring business, Simplifi EDU, to find out just what teaching others can help teach yourself not only as a business owner, but about who you really are and the values you hold. If...

Episode 174 – Will Main Street Businesses Survive?
More and more we seem to hear about online businesses taking over the market which leads us to ask the question: Will main street businesses survive? The brick-and-mortar shops and stores we know and love might seem to be falling wayside to the cyber world, but...

Episode 173 – The Truth About My Business This Year
When you make the decision to become an entrepreneur, those voices in your head that you may get telling you you’re an imposter or a fraud get louder. You’re a small percent of people willing to put themselves and their ideas and their creations out there for the...

Episode 172 – What Really is Vision and Why It’s Key to Achieve Business Success
Vision is more than just what you see happening in the future. It’s all of the things you have to do on a daily basis that help to create that future before your, and everyone else’s, eyes. If you enjoyed this episode and, in some way, it inspired you to start taking...

Episode 171 – Are You a Captain or a Leader?
I’ve been to my fair share of masterminds over the years. Some have stuck with me, others not so much. On one particular trip with Bo Eason, I was encouraged to tell my story of how I got to be where I am today in front of not just the other attendees, but also have...

Episode 170 – The Real Work is in the Rest
All too often do I see business owners burning themselves out by thinking they have to work 24/7, 365. Not only is it not realistic to ask that of yourself, but you wouldn’t ask anyone else to make those kinds of sacrifices either. Take the time you need to really...

Episode 169 – The Best Way To Become Irresistible To Your Ideal Customer
Your ideal customer won’t return to your business time and time again solely for the products that you sell, but instead, why you sell them in the first place. CEO, author, & filmmaker Jude Charles joins me on this episode of the Locally Grown podcast to...

Episode 168 – My Take on Quiet Quitting
Working for years at a corporate job that didn’t value my skills and knowledge and routinely took advantage of me, I get why so many employees are “quiet quitting” their jobs. The pandemic really helped to expose a lot of bad ways in which businesses were functioning...

Episode 167 – Finding the Gaps in Your Business and Fixing Them
Figuring out what parts of your business might be holding you back isn’t always a simple thing to do. But when you really break down your systems and operations and all the parts that make your business run the way it does, you’ll be able to see where you are...
