{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Time to Be Your Own Hero","description":""Help is on the way" might be the most comforting sentence in the English language. It's also a lie. Not on purpose. But average emergency response time in this country runs seven to fourteen minutes. Brain damage from oxygen loss starts in four to six. Do the subtraction. The outcome was decided by the people standing in the room, inside a window that closed before the siren was ever audible. This industry heard "help is on the way" a long time ago, and it's been standing in the waiting room ever since. Waiting on a regulation. Waiting on the market. Waiting on the AMCs to get what's coming to them. Waiting on somebody, anybody, to notice how unfair it's all been. Nobody is coming. In this episode, Blaine breaks down the seven rules of self-rescue, taken straight from survival and emergency response training and mapped directly onto the business you're running right now: No one is coming Scene safety \u2014 don't become the second victim Learn the umbles Self-arrest before you slide You fall to the level of your training Triage \u2014 you can't save everything Self-rescue is not solo rescue You'll learn why comfort is the current, why the slow slide is deadlier than the fast one, why trying to save every client is precisely how you lose the business, and why the phrase "I get to" changes more than any productivity system ever will. Plus the Self-Rescue Audit, three questions to answer on paper this week, starting with the most honest number in your business: if your biggest client disappeared tomorrow, how many days until you're in real trouble? If nobody is coming to save you, then nobody can stop you either. You're the first responder. You always were. You just hadn't accepted the job. Do more. Be more. Live more. Give more. ","author_name":"The Real Value Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.coachblaine.com","html":"