Making Better Business Decisions with Simon Meadows

Simon Meadows of Sterling Coaching is our guest today. Dr. Sabrina was a featured guest on his podcast a couple of months ago, and today, he takes the hot seat.

One of the things that most impressed Dr. Sabrina during their conversation was Simon’s willingness to share and reflect on his own experiences and how he uses that to serve those who he coaches.

As Simon is based in the UK, we get the added pleasure of hearing from him an international perspective of what’s going on today in small business.

Simon Meadows has owned and run his own businesses in many sectors such as construction, retail, importing, online learning, aviation, and business coaching. He has always shared his experiences, good and bad, with others so that they can benefit and he loves to do this every day.

Simon likes to be honest and plain-speaking, which comes from his 30+ years of working in and with the construction sector.

He now has the privilege of being a coach for over 12 years and he also coaches other coaches from around the world.

Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group.

Show Highlights:

  • Both Dr. Sabrina and Simon are certified “Fix This Next” advisors!
  • Simon shares some of the misconceptions he had about coaching when he first started out in his early 20s, and what he has learned in terms of how to be more effective.
  • Dr. Sabrina walks us through a simple exercise for becoming self-aware when we’re on the hook and emotionally charged.
  • Decision-making: what’s the best method?
  • Simon reflects on some of the ways that having a coach can make a difference as a business owner.
  • To Simon, coaching is simply about three things: awareness, education, and accountability.
  • Even coaches have a coach!
  • When someone shares their experience with you, you get to pick and choose what you’d like to take away from that. They aren’t trying to impose their will on you.
  • Perspectives on coaching through COVID.
  • Tip: If you’re a business owner who has built up massive debt during the coronavirus event and it’s causing you to lose sleep, implementing Profit First is the ticket out.
  • Oftentimes, when we have one problem in our business, there are more. Simon explains how Fix This Next coaching helps you to know what your business needs from you next.
  • Join Tap the Potential’s Entrepreneurs Take Your Life Back! Facebook Group. Upon joining, you’ll get access to exclusive, free, mini-trainings from Dr. Sabrina, including the Better Business, Better Life™ jumpstart, as well as the “How to Hire the Best” jumpstart! No charge to join! Let’s get to know each other!

 

Connect with Simon:

Visit Simon’s Website, like him on Facebook, listen to his Podcast, or follow him on LinkedIn or Instagram.

FREE gift from Simon: Download your free, authorized copy of Mike Michalowicz’s Fix This Next eBook!

Links and Resources:

NEW! Facebook Group: Entrepreneurs Take Your Life Back! Upon joining, you’ll get access to exclusive, free, mini-trainings from Dr. Sabrina, including the Better Business, Better Life™ jumpstart, as well as the “How to Hire the Best” jumpstart! No charge to join! Let’s get to know each other!

BUY THE BOOK ON AMAZON: How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD

How to Hire the Best Toolkit

COURSE: How to Hire the Best

Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business?

The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at:

https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment

NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results.

THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program.

Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE

Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST – PLEASE RATE & REVIEW!

Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group

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Books Frequently Mentioned:

The 4 Week Vacation by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD – COMING OCTOBER 2021!

How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD

How to Hire the Best: The Rural Business Owner's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD

How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD

Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz

The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz

Fix This Next: Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business by Mike Michalowicz

The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins

About The Author

Dr. Sabrina Starling, The Business Psychologist and international best-selling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation™, is the founder of Tap the Potential and host of the Profit by Design podcast. At Tap the Potential, we work to free business owners from the constant demands of a growing business.

We believe work supports life, not the other way around. Clients in our Better Business, Better Life coaching program have more time for what matters most and more money in their bank account than they’ve ever had. Next, we send them off on a 4 Week Vacation™ to celebrate their hard-earned journey to take their life back!

Dr. Sabrina and her team at Tap the Potential are on a mission to change the story of entrepreneurship from one of long hours, grinding it out, to one of sustainably profitable businesses that support and enhance life. The Tap the Potential Solution™ and our Tap the Potential Family of Business Owners are disrupting small business as usual. We are on our way to making the Tap the Potential Solution™ the mainstream model for growing business.

By 2023, 150 Tap the Potential clients will have taken 4 Week Vacations. These are the trailblazers, role modeling what’s possible for entrepreneurs. In many entrepreneurial circles, it is becoming more and more common for one entrepreneur to ask another, “Have you taken a 4 Week Vacation™?” (as opposed to asking “How many employees do you have?” or “What is your annual revenue?”). Taking a fully unplugged 4 Week Vacation is rapidly becoming the recognized symbol of entrepreneurial success.

Never one to accept the status quo or back down from a challenge, Dr. Sabrina’s How to Hire the Best series grew from her desire to solve the toughest hiring challenges interfering with her clients’ growth and profitability. What sprang from her experience working with entrepreneurs in rural areas catapulted her into becoming the world’s leading expert in attracting top talent in small businesses—no matter what hiring challenges those businesses are facing—and earned Tap the Potential’s reputation as the go-to resource for entrepreneurs committed to creating Great Places to Work with thriving coaching cultures and highly engaged team members working from strengths.

As The Business Psychologist, and with her years of driving profit in small businesses, Dr. Sabrina knows what it takes to find, keep, and motivate exceptional performance out of your biggest investment—team members.