1597: Beyond Mindset: The Nervous System Secret to Entrepreneurial Growth w/ Shervon Laurice

Feeling stuck, burned out, or hitting the same revenue wall year after year? This episode is your permission slip to stop searching for the next "perfect" strategy. We sit down with Shervon Laurice, a licensed psychotherapist and transformational coach who reveals why your biggest business breakthroughs have nothing to do with your marketing plan or sales funnel. She explains that real, sustainable growth comes from developing your inner world—regulating your nervous system, consciously shaping your identity, and building the capacity to hold the discomfort that comes with expansion. For wantrepreneurs and entrepreneurs tired of the hustle, this conversation is a masterclass in building a business that feels aligned, expansive, and truly successful from the inside out.💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR BusinessThe Entrepreneurial Mindset Shift: Discover the critical difference between being an employee in your own business versus being a true entrepreneur who works on the business.Break Through Your Plateaus: Learn why simply changing your strategy isn't enough when you're stuck, and how to use Shervon's "pause and regulate" method to diagnose the real root of the problem.Beyond Awareness: Understand why awareness alone isn’t enough for change and how to move from intellectual understanding to embodied action that actually drives results.Nervous System as a Business Tool: Learn how to regulate your nervous system to build capacity for more success, handle risk, and make decisions from a place of clarity instead of fear.Identity as Your Foundation: Uncover how your current identity—shaped by family, community, and past experiences—might be holding your business back and how to consciously build a new one.Become Irreplaceable in the Age of AI: Get a powerful framework for shifting your perspective on disruptive technologies, focusing on where your human expertise provides irreplaceable value.📝 About Shervon LauriceShervon Laurice is a licensed psychotherapist, transformational coach, and psycho-spiritual guide with over 23 years of experience helping people create profound change. She is the founder of Restore Tranquility, a psychotherapy practice, hosts The Expansion Room podcast, and created ELEVATE, her 90-day coaching experience for soul-led entrepreneurs. Shervon’s unique power lies in her ability to merge deep therapeutic knowledge with practical coaching, guiding leaders to understand that real change lives in the body, not just the mind. She helps founders stop working against themselves and start building from a place of true alignment and inner power.🎯 Shervon’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs"Develop your inner world... Entrepreneurship is a spiritual practice."📢 Memorable Quotes“You can be an employee in your own business because you still have employee mindset, or you can be an entrepreneur who works on your business and looks at expansion always as your option.” – Shervon Laurice“Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. And so you've really got to build a foundation so that you can move forward consciously.” – Shervon Laurice“Most of us are moving through our businesses dysregulated and we don't even know it.” – Shervon Laurice💡 Actionable TakeawaysConduct an Identity Audit: Ask yourself, "Who am I being in my business right now?" and "Is this the identity of the person who can achieve my biggest goals?" If not, start defining who you need to become.Practice the Pause: The next time you feel stuck or hit a wall, resist the urge to immediately find a new strategy. Instead, take time to sit with the discomfort and ask what it's trying to teach you about your inner state.Identify Your Nervous System Triggers: Pay attention to what situations in your business cause you to feel fear, anxiety, or shutdown. Awareness is the first step to learning how to regulate through them.Reframe Your Value: In the face of changes like AI, shift your focus from what you do to how you think. Your judgment, historical context, and ability to be the "bridge" are skills that cannot be automated.🔗 Links & ResourcesWebsite: https://restoretranquility.orgPersonal website: https://shervonlaurice.com/assessmentConnect with Shervon on LinkedInFollow Restore Tranquility, LLC on LinkedInCheck out The Expansion Room Podcast

As Q4 kicks into high gear, the pressure is on to launch new products, create flashy promos, and find new customers to finish the year strong. But what if your biggest opportunities aren't in what’s new, but in what’s old? In this Solo Sunday episode, Brian shares his all-time favorite, most effective, and deceptively simple strategy for generating massive momentum: the reactivation campaign. Forget overcomplicating things. Brian breaks down why reaching out to past prospects—even the ones who ghosted you or said no—is the single most powerful move you can make right now. This is the exact tactic he uses across all his businesses and with his clients to turn forgotten conversations into closed deals.✨ Why This Matters for YouThe reactivation campaign is a game-changer for entrepreneurs because:It’s a low-cost, high-return strategy that doesn't require a big ad budget.It leverages your most valuable asset: the list of people who already know you exist.It reframes rejection. A "no" is rarely permanent; it's usually just "not now."It simplifies your marketing by focusing on warm leads instead of constantly chasing cold ones.It generates quick wins and tangible results, building the momentum you need to crush your end-of-year goals.📝 Key TakeawaysReactivate > Chase. Your old leads, proposals, and conversations are a goldmine. The easiest path to revenue is often through reconnecting, not just prospecting."No" Often Means "Not Now." Don't be afraid to follow up with people who rejected you, went with someone else, or ghosted you. Circumstances change, and your check-in might be perfectly timed.Conversation Before Conversion. The goal of a reactivation email isn't to make a hard sale. It’s simply to restart the conversation, see where they are, and understand their current needs.Systemize Your Past. Go through your emails, calendar, and CRMs to build a master list of every prospect you didn't get to work with. AI tools can make this process faster than ever.Simplicity Wins. In business, it’s often the boring, fundamental actions that produce the best results. Stop overcomplicating your strategy and focus on what works.🚀 Put It Into ActionThis week, schedule your own reactivation campaign:Block off one hour in your calendar.Go through your sent emails, old proposals, and calendar invites from the past 1-2 years.Create a simple list of at least 10 people who showed interest but never moved forward.Draft a short, non-salesy email checking in. Ask how their year has been and if they ever solved the problem you originally discussed. Send it and see what conversations bubble up.🔗 Stay ConnectedSubscribe to the show so you never miss an episodeConnect with Brian on Instagram @imetbrianShare this episode with a fellow entrepreneur who needs a simple, powerful way to boost their Q4 revenue

In this special Collab Week episode of Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur, eight founders come together to answer one deeply honest question:Take us back to a lean season in your business. How did you get through it, and how do you prepare differently now?Some are in a lean season right now. Some are still learning from their first one. Others have watched their busy seasons and slow seasons flip on them. It’s a wide-ranging episode about relationships, pipelines, cash, self-care, and why the best time to prepare for a lean season is before you’re in one.For any wantrepreneur or entrepreneur wondering what to do when the pipeline goes quiet, or bracing for the next slow stretch, this episode is for you. You’ll walk away with practical ways to stay steady, stay visible, and keep building when business isn’t moving at the pace you want.✨ What You’ll Take AwayIn this episode, you’ll learn:Why lean seasons can be financial, human, or about impact, and how self-care keeps you steady through all of themWhy doing more is the wrong instinct when cash gets tight, and how to decide what to cut before you have toHow to build relationships before you need them and use slow periods to reconnect and strengthen your processesHow to map your clients’ seasonal patterns so you can ramp up new channels before your own slow stretchWhy a single point of dependency is risky, and how low overhead buys you time to adaptHow to treat building the business as the work, even when the calendar is empty (or too full)🎙️ Meet the Collab Week ContributorsKacy Webster — Profit QuiverKacy Webster is a Business Transformation Strategist and Certified AI Consultant who helps leaders aim precisely at what matters most: people first, then technology. With 30+ years of executive leadership across higher education, workforce development, and enterprise transformation, she has held senior roles including Regional Market President, Campus Academic Dean, and Senior Director of Market Strategy & Insights for a nationally recognized assessment organization. Through Profit Quiver and The PrecisionX System, Kacy partners with leadership teams using her 12 Domains of Human-First AI Adoption, a framework that starts with culture, alignment, and readiness, not just technology.Connect with Kacy: https://www.profitquiver.com/Drew Dorenfest — Client Magnet CRMDrew Dorenfest is a marketing expert who has worked with global brands such as Netflix, Apple, Warner Bros., and the NFL as a video editor. Today, through Client Magnet CRM, he helps small business owners get found online with SEO, GEO, and automation. That means more clients, more 5-star reviews, and more sales without having to create social content nonstop.Connect with Drew: https://clientmagnetcrm.com/Anne Gillaspie — Fix & FormAnne Gillaspie is a global keynote speaker, truth disruptor, and creator of SHARE YOUR FEAR™, a movement making fear less scary and truth easier to tell. A 12-year entrepreneur, CEO and founder of Fix & Form Branding Firm, and host of the top-ranked OnlyFounders podcast, she’s also a brand therapist to founders and executives. Through provocative storytelling, unexpected dance, and radically human experiences, Anne helps audiences stop performing who they think they should be and start telling the truth about who they actually are.Connect with Anne:https://theannegillaspie.com/https://fixandform.com/Rami Akeela — Nera SystemsRami Akeela is the founder of Nera Systems, a confidential AI company that helps enterprises use AI on their most sensitive data. With 20+ years at the intersection of hardware, software, and cryptography and PhDs in electrical and computer engineering, Rami is a deep-tech builder with a record of solving problems before the market knows it has them. He previously founded DZK, the first company to build zero-knowledge proof systems.Connect with Rami: https://nera.systems/Heather Waisanen — Coastal MaverickHeather Waisanen is the founder of Coastal Maverick, a woman-owned, boutique out-of-home advertising agency helping brands stand out beyond the screen. With more than a decade of experience across the client, agency, and media owner sides of advertising, she launched Coastal Maverick after being laid off from her role as a senior media planner. Now in her fourth year of entrepreneurship, Heather leads nationwide campaigns while staying deeply involved in Jacksonville’s business community. She’s a JAX Chamber Small Business Leader of the Year and a member of the inaugural 2026 Visionaries 200 class.Connect with Heather: https://www.coastalmaverick.com/Drew Mehta — ThinkFractionAfter 20+ years in corporate, Drew Mehta founded ThinkFraction to help owner-operated businesses fix the leaks in their back-end workflows and bring AI into their day-to-day in a practical way. His approach pairs advisory with implementation and education, with no hype, to grow revenue, lower costs, and improve quality. He’s also learning to be an entrepreneur himself, and he’s in his first full year of running his own business.Connect with Drew:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhroovmehta/Website: ThinkFraction.xyzSara Reece — WorkmindSara Reece is the CEO and Co-Founder of Workmind, where she helps organizations use practical, operations-first automation to eliminate friction and grow without adding headcount at the same pace. Over the last seven years, she has designed and implemented automation with organizations ranging from nonprofits and small businesses to franchise systems and Fortune 500 enterprises. Her career has spanned journalism, television broadcasting, environmental research, and technology. Sara is the author of The Practical Path to Operational Automation and has appeared on Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur, It Starts with Joy LIVE, and Level 10 Leadership. She has also presented at The Business Show Miami and Akerman’s Global Franchising Summit in Denver.Connect with Sara:https://workmind.cloud/https://www.saralreece.com/Mike Gross — Michael J. Gross LLCMike Gross is a trainer, training provider, consultant, and auditor who helps organizations make sense of ISO standards and apply them in a practical way. With over 35 years of experience, including steady growth into executive leadership roles, he focuses on building understanding through training first, then supporting organizations as they refine and improve their systems. He started Michael J. Gross LLC and Management System Certification Training Solutions about seven years ago after finishing his corporate career. As a committed solopreneur, his approach is straightforward: build on what already works, keep it practical, and leave people more capable than when he started.Connect with Mike: https://mj-gross.com/

Ever frantically searched for your keys, wallet, or even your luggage at the airport? Daniel Daoura, the founder and CEO of Pebblebee, transformed that universal feeling of anxiety into a global tech company. Drawing on over a decade of experience developing tracking systems for military assets at Boeing, Daniel applied his deep expertise to solve an everyday problem. This episode is a masterclass in turning specialized knowledge into a consumer-focused brand, navigating the complexities of hardware manufacturing, and having the perseverance to build something truly innovative. You'll learn how Daniel led Pebblebee to become the first company to create a universal tracker that works seamlessly with both Apple and Google, and how his personal mission for his family's safety is now pushing the industry into its next frontier: personal safety devices.💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR Business🚀 How to translate high-level enterprise or military-grade experience into a scalable consumer product.🤝 The art of navigating partnerships with tech giants like Apple and Google to create a universally compatible product.💡 Why your most personal pain points (like losing your keys or worrying about your family's safety) are often your most powerful business ideas.📈 How to strategically expand your product line into new verticals that align with your core mission of providing value and peace of mind.🧠 The founder's discipline: learning when to say "no" to good ideas to maintain focus and execute on the great ones.🔋 How being the first to innovate with features like rechargeability can create a massive competitive advantage in a crowded market.🌍 The gritty reality of building a global hardware company, from managing manufacturing and certifications to providing world-class customer support.📝 About Daniel DaouraDaniel Daoura is the Founder and CEO of Pebblebee, a visionary leader in the trackables and personal safety industry. His journey began with a focus on predicting satellite communication traffic for military asset tracking systems, which led him to a decade-long career at Boeing leading teams developing global tracking technology. Inspired by a personal moment of losing his keys, Daniel leveraged his immense experience to create Pebblebee, helping people track what matters most. With over 40 patents to his name, Daniel brings a unique perspective shaped by his technical genius, his personal experiences growing up in Beirut, and his dedication as a father.🎯 Daniel’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs"Perseverance. Don't give up. When you believe in something, just continue to find ways to solve that challenge."📢 Memorable Quotes"What excites me is adding value in this economy and creating products that people really use and feel that is adding peace of mind to them." – Daniel Daoura"A good idea is only the beginning, and especially in our space, since we do hardware. I mean, it requires patience, capital, certifications, and manufacturing." – Daniel Daoura"Part of being a father—my daughter just started college... I want her to have a simple way to, you know, feel safe... That's why safety became a thing for Pebblebee." – Daniel Daoura💡 Actionable Takeaways✅ Solve Your Own Problem: Look at the daily frustrations and anxieties in your own life. Your most authentic and powerful business idea might be hidden there.✅ Create Universal Value: Don't force your customers into one ecosystem. If you can, build products that offer flexibility and value to everyone, like Pebblebee did with Apple and Google compatibility.✅ Reinvest in Innovation: Adopt a mindset of sustainable growth. Use profits to fuel R&D and stay ahead of the curve, rather than just maximizing cash reserves.✅ Let Your Mission Guide Expansion: When considering a new product or service, ask if it truly aligns with your company's core mission. For Pebblebee, moving from tracking items to personal safety was a natural extension of providing "peace of mind."✅ Don't Underestimate Perseverance: The next time you hit a wall, remember Daniel's advice. Give it time, break the problem down, and just keep taking the next step forward.🔗 Links & ResourcesWebsite: https://pebblebee.comConnect with Daniel on LinkedInFollow Pebblebee on LinkedIn

In this episode, Brian sits down with Micah Alexander, the 22-year-old co-founder of Junior Innovators, a company revolutionizing entrepreneurship education in K-12 schools. Micah shares his powerful journey from launching teenage businesses like snow shoveling and t-shirt companies to building a national education venture that teaches students to do business, not just study it. This episode is a masterclass in the "ready, fire, aim" philosophy, emphasizing that the best way to learn entrepreneurship is by getting in the weeds, creating value, and embracing failure as a critical learning tool. For any wantrepreneur feeling stuck in the planning phase, Micah’s story and insights are the ultimate permission slip to stop waiting and start doing.💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR Business🚀 Why "Ready, Fire, Aim" is a more effective startup strategy than endless planning and analysis.💡 How to find a scalable business idea by focusing on solving one small problem, not trying to build a billion-dollar company from day one.💰 The truth about startup capital: why creating value for a customer is the only thing you need to get started, even with $0.🧠 How to reframe failure as a learning opportunity that is just as valuable (if not more so) than early success.🗣️ The simple yet powerful strategy of talking to people to conduct real-world market research without even realizing it.🔥 Why high school (or any early stage) is the perfect low-risk environment to experiment, fail, and build entrepreneurial muscle.📈 The difference between learning business theory and actually doing business—and why the latter is the only path to real growth.📝 About Micah AlexanderMicah Alexander is the co-founder of Junior Innovators, an education company dedicated to bringing hands-on entrepreneurship curriculum to K-12 schools. A serial entrepreneur since he was 16, Micah experienced firsthand the gap between academic business classes and the real-world action required to build a venture. Alongside his co-founder Logan, he bootstrapped Junior Innovators while still in college to give students the chance to fail, learn, and succeed by building real companies. His unique perspective as a young founder working with the next generation of innovators provides a fresh and urgent take on what it truly means to be an entrepreneur.🎯 Micah’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs"Just try something. You can't come up with an idea unless you have a problem to solve... Entrepreneurship is one of those things that is for everybody and anyone can go out and try to create value for someone else."📢 Memorable Quotes“A lot of entrepreneurs, especially, think of a business idea as being this big thing. And they need all this funding to get started. Like you don't. You need to figure out a way to create value for someone.” – Micah Alexander“If a student can clearly articulate why their business failed… that's just as good as someone who made $500 their first time. That is the same level of learning.” – Micah Alexander“There are so many businesses that have solutions to nobody's problem. And a problem is the first thing that you have to figure out when you're trying to come up with a business idea.” – Micah Alexander💡 Actionable TakeawaysIdentify one problem in your immediate community or circle of friends this week. Don't think about the solution yet—just define the problem.Talk to five people who experience this problem. Ask them questions to understand it at its core. This is your first step in market research.Take one small, tangible step on your business idea today. Don't wait for permission. This could be creating a landing page, making one sales call, or designing a simple prototype.Look back at a past "failure" in your career or business journey. Write down three specific lessons you learned from it that you still apply today.🔗 Links & ResourcesWebsite: https://junior-innovators.orgConnect with Micah on LinkedInFollow Junior Innovators LLC on LinkedIn

In this episode, Brian sits down with Matt Justice, a career finance expert turned AI founder who is revolutionizing how SaaS companies interact with their own numbers. Matt shares his journey from feeling the intense frustration of data wrangling in corporate finance to founding SMPL.ai, a platform that gives teams their time back and empowers them with true financial intelligence. This isn't just a talk about spreadsheets and compliance; it's a masterclass in shifting your mindset to see finance as a strategic tool for making faster, smarter decisions. For any wantrepreneur or entrepreneur tired of flying blind, Matt’s story and insights will show you how to connect the dots in your data, build a business founded on personal experience, and leverage AI to scale as a solo founder.💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR BusinessFinancial Truth vs. Financial Intelligence: Understand the crucial difference and why your business needs both to survive and thrive.Connecting the Silos: Discover how to use AI to integrate your pipeline, bookings, revenue, and cash flow for a single, reliable source of truth.The Power of Timely Data: Learn why having perfect information too late is useless (the "Titanic" principle) and how to get real-time insights for your business.A Solo Founder’s MVP Strategy: Hear how Matt built a proof-of-concept in just a few days and used a "pre-dinner barbecue" to get brutally honest early feedback.Milestones Over Timelines: Why focusing on achieving the next critical milestone is more effective than getting bogged down by rigid, long-term projections.The Unbeatable Motivator: Learn how to ground your business idea in your own blood, sweat, and tears to create a vision so clear that motivation is never a question.AI as Your Co-founder: See practical examples of how a solo founder uses AI as an extension of his team to manage everything from customer support to coding.📝 About Matt JusticeMatt Justice is the founder of SMPL.ai, an AI-powered financial intelligence platform for growing SaaS companies. With a deep career spanning FP&A, accounting, and strategic finance, he has spent years in the trenches building the data systems and reporting infrastructure that finance teams rely on. Matt turned his professional frustration with disconnected systems and manual data wrangling into a powerful mission: to give finance professionals their time back and empower them to make better, faster decisions. His firsthand experience makes him a uniquely insightful guest on solving real-world business problems with technology.🎯 Matt’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs"When you go out and you start this, make sure that it's something founded in your experience and your beliefs...and then I think motivation never becomes a topic again."📢 Memorable Quotes"The Titanic had perfect information, it was just late." – Matt Justice"The more you can stay down, it just means you're learning... the more lessons you can learn now, I guess the longer you stay in the highs." – Matt Justice"I never thought in a million years creating a software platform was going to be the easy part." – Matt Justice💡 Actionable Takeaways✅ Audit Your Data's Timeliness: Ask yourself if your financial reports are helping you make decisions for next month or if they're just a history lesson. Identify the biggest bottleneck in getting timely information.✅ Reconnect With Your "Why": Write down the personal frustration or experience that led you to start (or want to start) your business. Use this as your north star for all future decisions.✅ Identify Your Next Milestone: Forget the 5-year plan for a moment. What is the single most important milestone you need to hit to move your business forward? Focus all your energy there.✅ Delegate One Task to AI: Find one repetitive, time-consuming task in your day (writing email drafts, summarizing notes, troubleshooting code) and find an AI tool to handle it. Start building your "extra pair of arms."🔗 Links & ResourcesWebsite: https://www.smpl-ai.comConnect with Matt on LinkedInFollow SMPL.ai on LinkedIn

What if you could condense weeks of expert-level analysis into just a few minutes? Former McKinsey Partner Raman Julka is doing exactly that. In this episode, he breaks down his journey from advising global corporations to building two AI-native companies, ValueChaser.ai and Chance-Me.ai, with a radically lean team. This conversation is a masterclass in how AI is shattering the traditional barriers to entry in business. You’ll learn why your human judgment, not coding skills, is your most valuable asset and how to leverage your unique expertise to build a scalable business in this new economic landscape.💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR Business🚀 How to transform weeks of expert analysis into minutes of automated work using AI, freeing up your time for high-value strategic decisions.🤖 Why your human judgment and industry experience are becoming your most critical assets in an AI-driven world.💰 The new economics of entrepreneurship: Learn how to build an enterprise-grade business with a lean team and minimal coding knowledge.📈 Why distribution and credibility are the new "moats" for your business when technology is no longer a barrier to entry.🧠 How to leverage your existing domain expertise to build a scalable, AI-native product that solves a real-world problem.🎯 The seismic shift from "brand name" to "guaranteed impact" and how you can compete with established giants as a small service provider.🛠️ How to operate like a "human + AI" team to massively accelerate your path from idea to market.📝 About Raman JulkaRaman Julka is an entrepreneur and former McKinsey partner who spent 13 years advising major companies on technology and large-scale transformations. He left his corporate career to pursue a powerful hypothesis: that AI could turn complex, expert-driven work into scalable, accessible products. As the founder and CEO of ValueChaser.ai and Chance-Me.ai, Raman is proving that very small teams can now build businesses that previously required large organizations, offering a unique perspective that blends high-level corporate strategy with scrappy, hands-on startup execution.🎯 Raman’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs"Perfection is the enemy of getting it done."📢 Memorable Quotes “For me, AI replaces the part that's repeatable, that's actually mundane, and it allows you to apply the human element in a much longer time frame in a much more effective way.” – Raman Julka“As it becomes easier to build many businesses and ideas, what really differentiates is the distribution.” – Raman Julka“How can I build a $100 million ARR business without requiring 100 additional people?” – Raman Julka💡 Actionable Takeaways✅ Identify the most mundane, repeatable tasks in your business this week and explore AI tools to automate them.✅ Stop waiting for your idea to be perfect. Launch a minimum viable product (MVP) to a small group of pilot users this month to gather crucial feedback.✅ Re-evaluate your business's "moat." If it's just your technology, start building your distribution channels and personal brand credibility now.✅ Practice working with AI. Instead of just asking for answers, learn to provide deep context and use your expertise to guide AI tools toward superior outputs.🔗 Links & ResourcesValueChaser.ai website: http://valuechaser.ai/Chance-Me.ai website: http://Chance-Me.aiConnect with Raman on LinkedInFollow ValueChaser.ai on LinkedIn

Ever have one of those days where the motivation just isn't there? You know you should work on your business, but you're tired, uninspired, or just don't feel like it. In this raw and personal Solo Sunday episode, Brian pulls back the curtain on the single most important trait for entrepreneurial success: just keep doing it. Recorded at 11:30 PM on his birthday, this episode isn't about theory; it's a real-time example of what it takes to show up when everything in you wants to quit. If you’ve ever waited for the “right time” or the “right feeling” to take action, this episode is the jolt of reality you need to build unstoppable momentum.✨ Why This Matters for YouThis isn't just about pushing through tiredness; it's about building an identity as someone who follows through. For entrepreneurs, this mindset is everything:It proves that discipline, not motivation, is the engine of your business.It helps you break the cycle of procrastination and waiting for perfect conditions.It builds trust with yourself, proving that when you make a commitment, you will honor it.It’s how you build real momentum, where small, consistent actions compound into massive results over time.📝 Key TakeawaysConsistency > Intensity. Showing up every day, even when it's not your best work, beats waiting for a perfect day that never comes.Stop Negotiating With Yourself. Once you decide to do something, the debate is over. Brian shares how he adopted the Kobe Bryant mindset of refusing to negotiate with his own commitments.Action Creates Motivation. Don't wait to feel inspired. The act of starting is what generates energy and clarity, not the other way around.Redefine "Just Do It." It's not just about doing it; it's about doing it despite the excuses, the tiredness, the fear, and the self-doubt.Show Up for Your Future Self. Every time you push through resistance, you're giving a gift to the future version of you who will benefit from that consistency.Your "Best" Is Situational. Give your best for that specific moment. It doesn't have to be your all-time best performance, but it has to be your best effort right now.🚀 Put It Into ActionThis week, honor the contract you made with yourself:Identify the #1 task you've been avoiding because you "don't feel like it."Set a timer for just 15 minutes and start. No negotiations, no overthinking.The goal isn't to finish it perfectly, but simply to prove to yourself that you are the kind of person who shows up, no matter what.🔗 Stay ConnectedSubscribe to the show so you never miss an episodeConnect with Brian on Instagram @imetbrianShare this episode with a fellow entrepreneur who needs to hear this message today

In this special Collab Week episode of Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur, six founders come together to answer one deeply personal question:What's one thing you faked… until you made it?You'll hear from Sheri Roder of Get UnStuck HQ, Bill McCumber of Rowan Elder, Wendy Votroubek of Integrity Legal Nurse Consulting, Sara Reece of Workmind, Patricia Ballivian of Altura Strategies, and Jane Alexander of Emma Advisor. Each of them talks about a moment when they had to show up before they felt ready.For any wantrepreneur or entrepreneur wondering whether they really belong in the room, this episode will help. You'll hear how six founders moved from feeling like impostors to feeling like themselves, and why the "faking" part was never really pretending.✨ What You'll Take AwayIn this episode, you'll learn:Why acting with confidence before you feel confident is how real confidence gets builtHow to choose the kind of leader you want to be without turning into someone elseWhy nearly everyone in the room feels the same impostor syndrome you doHow asking for help and investing in yourself can close skill gaps faster than faking itWhy being publicly visible is part of the job when you lead a companyHow to stop borrowing someone else's version of leadership and own the one you've earnedWhat changes once you have real customers and can say your title with conviction🎙️ Meet the Collab Week ContributorsSheri Roder — Get UnStuck HQSheri Roder is the founder of Get UnStuck HQ, a career and leadership coaching and advising practice for accomplished professionals at an inflection point. She spent more than 40 years in corporate life, including leading a department in London for the first time. Then she stepped away to build a practice around the work she loved most: helping people make decisions they've been circling for months, see options they couldn't see before, and trust their own judgment again. Today she helps clients turn messy, complicated situations into something they can act on.Connect with Sheri: https://www.getunstuckhq.com/William "Bill" McCumber — Rowan ElderBill McCumber is the founder of two ed-tech companies, Rowan Elder Productions and Applied Erudition. Rowan Elder is an async faculty development program that teaches professors to build studio-quality online lectures that feel more like YouTube than a stale slideshow. Applied Erudition is a platform that measures real capability rather than seat time.Connect with Bill:https://www.rowanelder.com/homehttps://appliederudition.com/Wendy Votroubek — Integrity Legal Nurse ConsultingWendy Votroubek, RN, BSN, MPH, LNC, founded Integrity Legal Nurse Consulting in 2010. She leads a team of more than 20 legal nurses who translate complex medical data into legal strategy for civil and criminal defense attorneys nationwide. She is in the fifth decade of her nursing career and has written three nursing textbooks, including The Path to Legal Nurse Consulting. She taught at the University of Portland School of Nursing from 2011 to 2021 and now speaks on personal injury, medical malpractice, and criminal defense matters.Connect with Wendy: https://legalnursepdx.com/Sara Reece — WorkmindSara Reece is the CEO and Co-Founder of Workmind, which helps growing organizations use practical, operations-first automation to remove friction and grow without adding headcount at the same pace. Over the last seven years she has implemented automation for nonprofits, small businesses, franchise systems, and Fortune 500 enterprises. Before that, her career ran through journalism, TV broadcasting, environmental research, and tech. She is the author of The Practical Path to Operational Automation and speaks regularly on automation, AI, and sustainable growth.Connect with Sara:https://workmind.cloud/https://www.saralreece.com/Patricia Ballivian — Altura StrategiesPatricia Ballivian is the founder of Altura Strategies, where she helps founders bring clarity and structure to the messy realities of scaling. She is originally from Bolivia and built her career across luxury retail and startups, working where strategy, people, systems, and customer experience meet. She has always been the person searching for the real source of friction, and that instinct became the foundation of Altura's systems-forward, people-centered approach to turning growing pains into sustainable growth.Connect with Patricia: https://www.alturastrategies.net/Jane Alexander — Emma AdvisorJane Alexander is the founder and CEO of Emma Advisor, an AI platform that helps families get from high school to college with more clarity, strategy, and confidence. Her own path was unconventional: she was homeschooled in rural Idaho, went the community college route, and later did graduate work at Harvard. She then spent more than a decade advising leaders at over 200 colleges and universities. Emma Advisor grew from her belief that opportunity shouldn't depend on social capital or expensive consultants.Connect with Jane: https://emmaadvisor.ai/

Are you so focused on growth that you're accidentally breaking the very things that made your business special? In this episode, we sit down with Jeri Larsen, a former C-suite executive turned founder of Manage for Good. Jeri reveals why the traditional, siloed approach to people, operations, and growth is a recipe for disaster during scale. She provides a masterclass on how to navigate the painful but necessary "inflection points" of growth by building a solid foundation first. This episode is a must-listen for any founder who wants to scale intentionally, keep their best people, and create a high-performing organization without losing its heart and soul.💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR BusinessHow to spot the critical "inflection points" in your business and make the leap without crashing.The high-stakes decision between promoting an internal star vs. hiring an external expert (and the framework to get it right).Why building your operational infrastructure before you need it is the key to catching, not chasing, growth.A powerful daily leadership practice to ensure you show up as the intentional, empowering leader your team needs.How to stop "squeezing more blood out of the turnip" and adopt an abundance mindset that creates loyal teams and happy clients.The secret to using an objective, third-party perspective to see and solve problems you're too close to notice.📝 About Jeri LarsenJeri Larsen is the CEO of Manage for Good, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping companies scale without chaos. With a powerhouse career as a Chief Operating Officer, Chief Customer Officer, and Chief People Officer across SaaS, Fortune 500 consulting, and more, Jeri has seen it all. Her unique expertise lies at the intersection of people, operations, and growth, where she helps leaders build organizations that perform exceptionally well without sacrificing the culture that makes them great. She is the author of the new book, Manage for Good: Signals of Impact, a playbook for identifying and fixing the hidden red flags in any business.🎯 Jeri’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs"Figure out if you're the problem and figure out how to fix it, because so often we are only in our own way."📢 Memorable Quotes“As companies grow and scale, there's such a tendency to squeeze more blood out of the turnip… Instead, we're not thinking, ‘If I'm growing, I want loyal, incredible people who enjoy their day-to-day work.’” – Jeri Larsen“It is that moment where I need to jump off the cliff, but I'm scared. That's the moment you have to jump.” – Jeri Larsen“As the leader, my job is to get out of their way and just give them everything that they need to be empowered.” – Jeri Larsen💡 Actionable Takeaways✅ Start your day with intention. Before diving into work, decide what kind of leader you need to be for your team today.✅ Audit your next key hire. Are you hiring for potential and cultural fit, or just for a resume with past experience? Think through the long-term impact on your team.✅ "War game" your operations. Ask your team: "If our biggest dream client signed tomorrow, what parts of our process would immediately break?" Start fixing those gaps now.✅ Get an outside perspective this week. Ask a trusted mentor or peer to look at a persistent problem in your business. Listen to what they see that you don't.🔗 Links & ResourcesWebsite: https://www.manageforgood.comGet the book on Amazon: Manage for Good: Signals of ImpactConnect with Jeri on LinkedInFollow Manage for Good on LinkedIn