Do you struggle with scaling your business because you’re still doing everything yourself? In this episode, healthcare entrepreneur Nicole Serena shares how she shifted from solopreneur to CEO by implementing Strategic Coach® lessons—delegating to experts, focusing on her unique skills, and adopting an abundance mindset—and how she 10x’d her business without burning out or sacrificing innovation.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why the healthcare system is under unprecedent pressure—and where the biggest gaps exist for entrepreneurs.
• The critical mindset shift that all entrepreneurs must make if they want to grow.
• Why trying to do everything yourself is the fastest path to burnout (and how to avoid it).
• Why business coaching should be viewed as an investment, not a cost.
• Why Nicole became an entrepreneur in the healthcare industry.
• The mindset change that helped Nicole scale her business without sacrificing her sanity.
• How to find the right person for every role.
• Why the healthcare system needs innovative problem solvers.
• The limitless growth potential in healthcare.

Show Notes:

AI has revolutionized healthcare, delivering results in minutes instead of months.

Strategic Coach teaches entrepreneurs to focus on their strengths and build teams for the rest.

Doctors can’t compete with patients who self-educate via social media.

Healthcare is largely a disease-management industry, not a wellness system.

Canada’s healthcare system is fragile—but also ripe for innovation.

Entrepreneurship can be isolating without the right peer support.

If you’re busy trying to be an expert at everything, you may miss out on critical opportunities.

Delegation frees up mental space for creativity and strategy.

It’s important to unplug and recharge so that you can be there for your clients, your team, and your community.

Your Unique Ability® is your superpower—what only you can do exceptionally and joyfully.

Leading a team can be scary, especially for first-time entrepreneurs.

Strategic Coach connects entrepreneurs to accelerate learning and growth.

Resources:

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Your Business Is A Theater Production: Your Back Stage Shouldn’t Show On The Front Stage

Unique Ability®

Time Management Strategies For Successful Entrepreneurs (Successful Strategies Only)

Can ADHD be a business advantage? In this episode, Amber Swope shares how embracing her ADHD has fueled her entrepreneurial success, transforming challenges into creative strengths and business opportunities. Listen now to discover how leveraging your unique gifts can revolutionize your approach to entrepreneurship and unlock new paths to success!

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How Amber is sharing her ongoing ADHD journey with others.
• The circumstances that led Amber to become an entrepreneur.
• Steps to identify whether you have ADHD or another neurodivergent condition.
• Insights into how Strategic Coach® thinking tools may relate to Dan Sullivan's own experiences with ADD.

Show Notes:

Different people experience ADHD differently.

Nearly half of Strategic Coach members have ADHD.

ADHD provides a unique perspective on complex situations.

It’s unrealistic to be good at everything (and a waste of energy to try).

It might be that no matter how hard you try, you’ll never be successful at certain activities. (And that’s okay.)

Once you understand your ADHD, a world of possibilities opens up to you.

If you feel like a failure, it might simply mean you're engaging in activities your brain isn't wired for.

It’s not enough to know something. You have to share it.

When everyone’s on the same page, everyone has a better experience.

For some people with ADHD, it can be a struggle to do things that other people find easy.

Adults with ADHD are 60% more likely to be fired.

Once you know you have ADHD, you can stop spending energy masking it and start embracing your uniqueness.

You create more opportunities when you empower yourself.

Resources:

Unique Ability®

Kolbe A™ Index

Time Management Strategies For Entrepreneurs (Effective Strategies Only)

Deirdre Van Nest teaches entrepreneurs and subject matter experts how to become high-performance, high-impact speakers, storytellers, and content creators so they can increase not only their income, but their influence and their impact on the lives of others. In this episode, Deirdre shares how she’s found business success and happiness in helping her fellow entrepreneurs increase their effectiveness.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• The experience that caused Deirdre to “leave the stage” for 24 years.
• What Deirdre did as a “fearless living coach.”
• How her business grew through speaking engagements.
• How she created a system to meet the needs of entrepreneurs.
• Why anyone can become a skilled speaker.
• The opportunities you get as a member of the Strategic Coach® community.

Show Notes:

• The promise of technology is that it’s going to improve teamwork. But it’s teamwork that gives rise to technology to start with.
• Technology doesn’t coach itself.
• Information technology is the fastest growing industry in the world. Coaching is the second.
• In coaching other entrepreneurs, you become a better entrepreneur.
• Doing speaking engagements means reaching more people.
• Speaking is a skill that lives inside of you and goes with you wherever you are.
• Your reason for doing something has to be greater than your fear of doing it.
• Whenever you speak, people are subconsciously making snap judgments on your competency based on your communication skills.
• It’s important that you treat every speaking opportunity as a high-stakes presentation.
• If another person is willing to give you their attention, you owe it to them to be good.
• Every time you speak, it’s an opportunity. You don’t know who’s in the audience.
• Whenever you open your mouth, it’s an audition for leadership.
• Delivery is only about 20% of what goes into being a great speaker.
• To be an incredible speaker, you have to be an incredible content creator.
• When you think differently, you become different. And when you become different, you do different.

Resources:

The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan

The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Time Management

Your Business Is A Theater Production: Your Back Stage Shouldn’t Show On The Front Stage