You can have the right strategy, a good offer, and years of experience and still keep building a smaller business than you actually want.

Marc Hildebrand joins Marcia Riner to explore the beliefs and automatic reactions that can quietly shape business decisions. They discuss why working harder often creates more complexity, how better questions create new possibilities, and why small tests can help business owners move through growth plateaus without forcing massive change.

Podcast: Profit With A Plan Host: Marcia Riner, CEO of Infinite Profit® Guest: Marc Hildebrand, Founder of Modern Leadership Coaching Episode: 359 Release Date: September 9, 2026

• How hidden beliefs can quietly keep your business at the same level

• Why working harder may create complexity instead of solving the problem

• How to recognize reactive thinking when pressure hits your business

• Why better questions can create business options you could not see before

• How small tests help you move forward without forcing massive change

• Why reflection and accountability matter after taking the first step

[00:00] The hidden belief behind expensive business decisions

[06:38] Why old thinking can limit your next stage of growth

[13:28] How pressure triggers automatic business decisions

[21:49] Turning a mindset shift into real business action

[25:16] Using small tests to get out of your own way

[30:33] How to recognize and break through a growth plateau

Marc Hildebrand’s 5-Part Self-Leadership Series https://modernleadership.us/lead

Infinite Profit® https://infinite-profit.com

Profit Booster® Growth Map https://profitbooster.biz

Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more, whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

Questions? Call (949) 229-2112 or visit Infinite-Profit.com

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Your business can be growing while the reason behind that growth remains surprisingly unclear. And when you do not know what is actually producing your results, changing the wrong thing can quickly expose how fragile that success really is.

Joel Miller, co-founder of The Sky Floor, explains what he calls an “accidentally successful” business and how owners can identify the customers, positioning, marketing, relationships, and decisions that are really driving results. You will also hear how one company eliminated more than $100,000 in questionable marketing spending and increased leads by 40%.

Podcast: Profit With A Plan Host: Marcia Riner, CEO of Infinite Profit® Guest: Joel Miller, Co-Founder of The Sky Floor Episode: 358 Release Date: September 1, 2026

• How to recognize whether your business has become accidentally successful

• Why knowing where customers come from is not enough

• How customer feedback reveals your real competitive positioning

• What happens when you remove something that was quietly driving revenue

• Why marketing activities should be measured instead of simply maintained

• How founder-led businesses can scale without removing the founder completely

[00:00] The hidden fragility behind successful business growth

[04:12] What an accidentally successful business actually looks like

[07:46] One overlooked change that caused sales to collapse

[11:15] How customers reveal why they really choose you

[18:08] Cutting marketing spend and increasing leads by 40%

[22:16] When the founder is actually part of the positioning

The Sky Floor

https://theskyfloor.com

Accidentally Successful Quiz

https://theskyfloor.com/accidentally-successful

Infinite Profit

https://Infinite-Profit.com

Profit Booster® Growth Map

https://ProfitBooster.biz

Marcia Riner is a business growth strategist, creator of the Profit Booster® strategies, and CEO of Infinite Profit®. She helps entrepreneurs scale smarter, increase profitability, and build businesses that are worth more, whether they plan to keep them or sell them.

As host of Profit With A Plan, Marcia shares expert interviews and actionable strategies to help business owners increase revenue, improve systems, and prepare for high-value exits. With decades of experience in finance, operations, and marketing, she delivers clear, profit-driving insights you can use right away.

📞 Questions? Call (949) 229-2112 or visit InfiniteProfitConsulting.com

💰 Profit Booster® Podcast Monetization Hub

Turn your interviews into a client-generating machine without adding more work to your plate.

Learn more at ProfitBoosterPod.com

📈 Free Profit Booster® Growth Map

Find the gaps slowing down your revenue, profit, and growth.

Get yours now at ProfitBooster.biz

🎧 Never Miss a Profit-Driving Strategy

Subscribe to Profit With A Plan on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite platform.

Stop Chatting With AI and Start Building With It

Most businesses are already using AI.

But if your process still looks like this, open a chat, type a prompt, copy the answer, paste it somewhere else, then repeat the whole thing tomorrow, AI is still depending on you to move the work forward.

In this episode of PROFIT With A Plan, Marcia Riner talks with Alane Boyd, Co-CEO of Biggest Goal, about what happens when you move past basic AI chat and start building AI into the way your business actually operates.

Alane breaks down how Claude Cowork can connect to your files, email, project management tools, and other platforms, then use reusable skills, plug-ins, and scheduled tasks to handle repeatable work more consistently.

She also shares real examples from her own business, including automating client call follow-up, updating project systems, preparing sales information, creating CPA-ready spreadsheets, and building daily meeting briefs before her workday begins.

The big takeaway is simple: AI becomes far more valuable when it stops being another place to ask questions and starts becoming part of your workflow.

EP357 Profit With A Plan Podcast

Release date: August 25, 2026

Guest: Alane Boyd, Co-CEO of The Biggest Goal

Host: Marcia Riner, business growth strategist, CEO of Infinite Profit®️

• Why AI chat often creates only small efficiency gains
• How Claude Cowork differs from browser-based AI chat
• How to give AI better business context without constantly retraining it
• What connectors, skills, and plug-ins can do inside your workflow
• How AI can handle post-call follow-up, CRM updates, and project tasks
• How scheduled tasks can prepare work before you even ask for it

Alane explains that chat still relies on the user to initiate the interaction, take the output, and manually move it elsewhere, which is why she considers much of that use “micro-efficiency” rather than true operational improvement.

[03:41] Why AI chat is still only the beginning

[07:07] Moving from browser chat into Claude Cowork

[11:46] Giving AI better business context

[14:34] Connectors, skills, and repeatable workflows

[20:16] Turning weeks of manual research into a finished spreadsheet

[25:35] Security, permissions, and protecting business data

[30:36] Using scheduled AI tasks to prepare your day automatically

Biggest Goal https://biggestgoal.ai

Free Claude Cowork Masterclass https://your.biggestgoal.ai/c/claude-cowork-masterclass/

Alane’s free training includes 26 lessons designed to help users set up Claude Cowork, configure the Claude.md instructions file, and start creating skills instead of relying only on chat.

Marcia Riner is a Business Growth Strategist and the Profit Booster behind Infinite Profit.

Each week on PROFIT With A Plan, Marcia shares practical strategies, expert insights, and real-world ideas to help business owners increase revenue, improve profitability, and build a stronger, more valuable business.

Learn more at: https://infinite-profit.com

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