395: The Real Reason You Can’t Take Time Off From Your Business

Let’s be honest. When was the last time you took a real vacation—without checking your email? If the idea of stepping away from your business makes your stomach tighten up in knots, this episode is for you. You didn’t start your business to be on call 24/7, yet most entrepreneurs are putting their businesses before their families. If this is you, you have an owner dependency problem. In this episode, Melissa Kay and Dr. Sabrina Starling break down the real reason you can’t take time off from your business, and what it actually takes to build a self-managing team that allows you to step away confidently. Learn why being the hero in your business is keeping you stuck, the psychology behind control and burnout, how to shift from a survival trap to sustainable profitability, the structure required to create breathing room, and what must change before a 4-Week Vacation® becomes possible for you!

Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential production.

Show Highlights:

  • The origin of Dr. Sabrina’s book, The 4 Week Vacation®
  • Owner dependency is the #1 risk to small businesses today.
  • Being “the hero” in your business keeps you stuck.
  • The lie we tell ourselves (that actually creates glass ceilings)
  • The business owner being away builds ownership and accountability in your team.
  • The underlying issue is that we have created co-dependency in our businesses.
  • Melissa’s example of a Tap the Potential client who has been transformed into a business owner
  • The amazing results our clients are seeing in the first year with Tap the Potential
  • Ready to take your life back from your business? Sign up for the Better Business Better Life Jumpstart today!

Resources:

Join our Jumpstart beginning April 7th! We will walk you through the step-by-step process to:

  • Free up 10 hours per week.
  • Pay yourself an additional $50K this year.
  • Take an extra week of vacation.

Enroll now for Leadership Bootcamp! The next session begins in April.

Take our Better Business Better Life Assessment to determine your level of burnout and receive a complimentary call with the next steps you need to take in your business to support your life. Click here!

 

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About The Author

Tap the potential of your team and double profit!

Sabrina Starling, Ph.D., PCC, BCC, The Business Psychologist, is the international bestselling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation®.

The third generation in her family impacted by entrepreneurial hustle culture, Dr. Sabrina is transforming the story of success from long hours and grinding it out to work that supports and enhances life.

Hustle culture often means sacrificing our health, well-being, and relationships, all for the sake of success. Dr. Sabrina’s research shows this leads to burnout and pain in our relationships. There is a better way. Work supports life, not the other way around!™

Dr. Sabrina is revolutionizing the workplace with concepts like Work Supports Life™, 4 Week Vacations®, $10,000 an-hour activities, 25-hour workweeks, and unlimited vacation and sick time in highly profitable businesses winning the war for talent. She inspires transformation in a world where work often overshadows life, sharing insights from her ongoing research with over 650 entrepreneurs and their high-performing teams.

Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and Thrive Global, Dr. Sabrina is the founder of www.tapthepotential.com and the globally top-ranked Profit by Design Podcast. Listed in The Daily Hustle’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022, Dr. Sabrina is on a mission to get 10,000 business leaders taking the Work Supports Life™ Pledge.

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