#GrowNOW The Podcast

In the previous episode, we were pointing out that one way of dealing with curious potential clients, is to direct them to your free content, which will give them already a feel of your work or your product, without you having to invest time and jump directly into phone calls with them. But how to make sure people are interested in your content in the first place? Social media is just like any oth...

Investing time until you manage to strike a deal with a curious client, is absolutely normal until you start feeling that no progress is being made. Understanding from the beginning the reasons why these clients are looking for you and why they need you, is key. Do you think that a client is continuing the conversation because he is interested in your coaching service for example, or because you a...

How much should we get involved with curious clients? Those that call up, ask for a ton of information ( sometimes even a contract ) and then never answer your follow up call or email. Especially in the service business, we tend to spend a lot of time looking ourselves for clients, until we reach the stage that they will come looking for us. Is absolutely normal to invest time with any potential c...

As entrepreneurs, we like TO DO : to solve, to make a better life for those around us, to find new ways of fulfilling demands. As a result, constantly moving, we tend to overdue, just out of a “fear” that our lack of any kind of action will have negative results. Today’s topic comes on the heels of last week’s episode, when we addressed the 3 essential choices that entrepreneurs can always fall ba...

Assuming the position of an entrepreneur means that we are leaders, in the same time as we become a sort of role-model for our community, our teams and our families. There for, in moments of crisis or stress, feeling powerless or feeling guilty for what someone else is going through, doesn’t really benefit us because that puts us away from the “action mode” that will actually help us move forward....

Courage is one of those qualities that cannot be teached or coached. A child may replicate it and be inspired by it but adults we have a harder time doing it because we immediately switch to overthinking. What does courage means for entrepreneurs? They dare to step out of a comfortable life into one of constant pressure. This week’s episode is a bit of a pep talk, as we are all in the situation to...

As the world is still under the shock of a raising war ( in this day and age) we are again confronted with the same fears and doubts as 2 years ago: when an unexpected crisis arrives, how well are we prepared for it? Looking objectively to the developing situation in Ukraine, we can’t help but understand that in no time, the conflict that started between 2 countries, it has the potential to turn i...

At the beginning of every business venture, in order for us to actually start working, we may say yes to almost everyone, since any paying client is a good client, isn’t it? As we well remember, we were talking that there is this rule of 3-3-3 : first 3 clients for free, next 3 clients at cost, and the 3 after that on a minimal profit margin. And along the way, as we grow and keep developing produ...

As business owners, we get motivated by the idea of thriving, stepping up our game, daring to bring new products or new clients. And yet, it takes courage to get over the discomfort and the doubts that come with the package of growth. Moving out of our comfort zone it takes effort but isn’t the reward worth it? In this episode we will talk about how to make the task more important than the difficu...

It can happen sometimes that in business, we may acknowledge intuitively and logically what our next best move should be, and yet hesitations and sometimes confusions can cloud our judgement. One of the most common reasons is the fact that at some point, we identify so much with a certain aspect of our business that changing can seem somehow counterproductive. Today’s episode focuses on the work e...

The definition of an entrepreneur should definitely include the fact that we don’t want other people dictating our life. Is one of the main reasons why the decision to be self-employed is one of the hardest but most rewarding. And because we have to own up to the fact that it’s all up to us now. When we don’t get to sign a contract after putting so much time and effort, after losing clients for “u...

What to do when a blue Monday suddenly transforms in a blue month? You know, those days when we feel low on energy, almost to the point of depression. Studies do show that it is a phenomenon specific more to the Northern emisphere. As far as January is concerned, the 3rd Monday of the month is the one that gives us this failed feeling, just after the Holidays and by now, realising that the New Yea...

The main reason why New Year’s resolutions don’t work is because you might know WHAT you want, but most of the time not have it very clear WHY you want it. We trick ourselves in thinking that we need to wait for the 1st of January or first Monday of the month to go after something we really want. Instead, what we want to present in these 2 Bonus episodes, is an alternative to the resolutions, a pr...

The main reason why New Year’s resolutions don’t work is because you might know WHAT you want, but most of the time not have it very clear WHY you want it. We trick ourselves in thinking that we need to wait for the 1st of January or first Monday of the month to go after something we really want. Instead, what we want to present in these 2 Bonus episodes, is an alternative to the resolutions, a pr...

In today’s bonus episode we want to have an imagination exercise about the year that just ended. Wanna join the game?

The thrill of wishing and receiving presents for Christmas does certainly diminish with age, because we know there is no magical old man in a red suit, we know where presents come from. But thinking back to the childhood, one can understand the magic behind having a goal, a toy above all toys, that one thing that we thought we wanted more than anything in the world. How thrilling was the idea of r...

Working with so many entrepreneurs, sometimes it comes easy to find the right topics to share in the podcast. As the word goes, every story is a good story if we can learn something from it. And as we have the custom here, we approach those ideas that can resonate with the business community, from a more personal and sometimes vulnerable angle. This end of the year has its challenges like any othe...

What is the reason why we push harder at the end of this year 2021, compared to other years? Talking with our community of international entrepreneurs or discussing with coaching clients, we come to the realisation that the answers are not so straight forward as they may seem. But one recurring theme shows up in all the discussions: the approaching deadline of December 31st is an extraordinary wak...

There is no secret that chasing your dream, your life plan, is at times extremely challenging and exhausting. Entrepreneurs feel this pressure all year long almost and yet it amplifies at the end of each year. Finding the life/work balance is truly important but is not a standard set of techniques that work for everyone, right? In this episode, we are putting on the table 5 questions that every en...

What made this 2021 so stressful and difficult? No doubt, one one hand the Coronavirus implications and its global impact. But once we remove this from the picture, what else has the entrepreneurs on edge about the way this year will end? There is an intensity just about every aspect in our lives now and as usual, entrepreneurs seem to have an added layer of responsibility and stress in the sense...

In our previous episode 63 “Why entrepreneurs don’t hire people” we were looking at the reasons why sole-entrepreneurs are so reluctant to hire and we provided a checklist that can be used as a guideline to understand when SHOULD be the moment to start hiring, in any business for that matter. As the world has evolved and communication has become more digitalised, so has evolved the world of “getti...

The human resource is the most valuable in any type of business format. But more so, in entrepreneurship, the founder of the business, the one who had the courage and the drive to invest and implement his idea, is the core of his business. So as the business is growing, so are the demands and the workload. But hiring somebody will change the format and the dynamic of the business. And that may be...

In this last episode of this mini-series on Negotiations, we will not be focusing on the techniques of negotiation ( as those are readily available already ) but rather on the mindset, on knowing how exactly we want to feel about ourselves and the deals we are getting. Can compromising be a winning strategy? Should we want to win at all costs? Here we give you the 5 golden rules.

When we enter any kind of exchange from a win-win perspective, we may end up winning much more than we expect at the beginning. Especially when having to deal with negotiations that have an emotional power over us, when we are attached to the outcome. A first step is seeing the situation form an objective way, not better, not worse. And the second important step that follows, is to see this negoti...

In coaching we talk about different energy levels and this is valid also when we are on the topic of negotiations. Entering a negotiation deal of any kind, bearing the energy of a “victim” has totally different results than when, for example, we have an angry energy and we bring that to the table with us. In both cases, are we still focused on the end result or did we just get lost in proving the...