411: How I Prepared My Business for a 6-Week Vacation

What if you could step away from your business for six weeks… and everything kept running? For many business owners, even taking a long weekend feels impossible. It’s not because you don’t have a great team or you don’t work hard enough. It’s because your business still depends on you for too many decisions. The freedom you’re looking for isn’t found by working harder; it’s built through intentional leadership, clear systems, and a self-managing team. In this episode of the Profit by Design Podcast, Dr. Sabrina Starling shares how she prepared her business for her 6-week vacation—and the lessons every business owner can apply to create more time, more freedom, and a more sustainably profitable business. Imagine signing off for six weeks and returning to a more confident team, a business that’s still growing, and a life that finally feels aligned with why you became an entrepreneur in the first place. Join Melissa Kay and Dr. Sabrina to learn how to make this dream a reality in your business!

Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential production. 

Show Highlights:

  • Dr. Sabrina’s hard rule about “no takebacks” after delegating tasks for her vacation
  • Practical steps of vacation preparations for Dr. Sabrina (How she prepares her team)
  • The key to creating a sustainable business and job stability for your team
  • Focus on key results for team members.
  • Dr. Sabrina’s mandate to her team about using AI for repetitive activities
  • The incredible results our clients are experiencing because of innovation and creativity
  • Melissa’s example of freeing up her time by offloading tasks to others
  • The business owner’s trap: “I am the ONLY one who can do this.”
  • Give your team members more confidence, ownership, and job stability!
  • Ready to discover what’s keeping your business dependent on you? Find out more about our Better Business, Better Life program. Learn how to slash ten hours off your work week! Book a call with Kaitlyn today!

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About The Author

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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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