{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#392 - Brad Farris gets REAL about Leadership Development for Agency Founders.","description":"The actions, mindsets, and activities that built your agency to $1M in sales are not going to get you to $5M.  Getting to $1M took hustle, grit, and determination. YOU invested the time, the sweat, and the energy that build this firm. You learned so much, accounting, HR rules, how to manage, how to sell\u2026the list goes on and on!  But now you are the bottleneck.  \ud83d\udc49 You can\u2019t learn it all anymore \u2013 you need to hire people who know more than you do! \ud83d\udc49 You can\u2019t be in every meeting, schmooze every client, review all the creative \u2013 you need a team to do that. \ud83d\udc49 And the accounting was never your thing, but you need more than a bookkeeper!  How could you ever hire all the help you need without going broke? Besides, if you did, what would your job be?  \ud83d\udde3 \u201cYou can only grow your business as big as you grow yourself.\u201d \u2014 Julia Pimsleur  What if, instead of pursuing business growth as your metric, you pursued growing your leadership capacity instead?  You might find that the freedom, accomplishment, happiness, and growth you were looking for are available to you in the business that you have. Your company might only grow as a result of your personal growth without the sleepless nights and nail-biting terror that others have experienced.  The life you want to live and the person you want to be don\u2019t come from your circumstances. All of that comes from who you are and how you are in the world.  If you want to experience a shift there, then let\u2019s talk.  \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f \u201cBrad gave us a smooth-running agency that is profitable and healthy. In our industry, things are unpredictable, and with Brad\u2019s help, I know we can withstand anything.\u201d  Learning where you are is a great place to start. If you head over to https:\/\/anchoradvisors.com\/growth-phase, there\u2019s a brief, 8 question assessment. It can help you to determine what your focus needs to be NOW. ","author_name":"Be Real Show","author_url":"http:\/\/bereal.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/22572926\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/124003061"}