The C-Suite Mentor - Business Growth for Small Business Leaders with Theresa Cantley

I teach all of my clients about business resilience. The ability for your business to make it through any adversity and come out swinging on the other side is essential for long-term success. But how do we achieve this resilience through multiple income streams? First, take a look at what is already making you money. How can you expand that so that if your brick-and-mortar store faces an issue, yo...

You cannot work on your business and bring it to the next level if you have the same mindset, the same capacity, and the same vision you had when you were working to get it started. Being an entrepreneur and meeting others who own their own business over the years, I've come to realize we all feel this way. We're all taught that we just need to put our heads down, work harder, and don't stop until...

Too often do people come to me with complaints about trying to get people to do their job correctly or better and my answer to them is always the same: it all starts with you. You set the tone for your business, and within that should be a plan that you've created to properly educate employees on what they need to do and why so that there is no room for questions or uncertainty. If they are traine...

The biggest question I get asked is "Theresa, how can I scale my business?". They want to hear the magic formula or miracle answer that will solve all their problems overnight. And really, the answer is quite simple. You only need two things: the right processes in place and the right people.

Culture isn't something that comes from external sources and we let it define us. It's something we work to create each and every day. When I bring up culture, I'm not talking about heritage. I'm talking about the culture one creates within their business. And it's not something that just sort of happens overnight that we adopt and let define us. It happens slowly over time with the energy we brin...

Recently, I lost my best friend. My soul sister, my business partner, and so many other things, it's been tough to figure out how to move forward. But I find myself thinking about how Vanessa lived her life and how she inspired many others to be better people. Because of Vanessa, I learned the importance of betting on yourself. Each and every one of us has our self-doubting thoughts and that can o...

This past week it felt like my whole world came crashing down. Just three days before my 45th birthday, my business partner and best friend lost her long battle with cancer. Even though she had been fighting for years, when her husband called to tell me the news, it came as a huge shock. I simply couldn't believe she was actually gone.

Mel Abraham: The man who has been my mentor for several years, pushes me out of my comfort zone, and believes in me even when I don't believe in myself. He's helped me discover strengths in myself that I never even realized I had. And today I got to interview him.

One of the most commonly asked questions I get from friends and clients is what tools do I use to help me conduct my business. In this episode I share some of my top software programs and systems that I swear by.

People follow those that inspire them. Think about who's pages you follow on social media. Is it because they follow trends? Is it because they are doing and saying what everyone else is? No, it's because you look to them for inspiration and to get away from the "norm". When we think about our businesses, the same is true. Your customers don't go to you because you're just like every other busines...

How can we get employees to do their jobs better? Well, to be frank, there is no magic answer. However, when people come to me with this question and I take a deeper look into how they run their business, the answer often lies in that they aren't setting their employees up for success.

Knowing that difference between work management vs. project management can be what's standing in your way of success. I think that people get work management and project management confused. They interchange the two and don't even realize they're doing it. I believe that the distinct indication between the two is that work management deals with tasks and daily functions of the business, while proj...

Most people don't like processes. This I know. I've heard all of the excuses from "We're a small business, we don't need processes" to "I'm too creative. I don't work that way". Processes are necessary for any business, and any business owner is capable of creating them.

When we base our thinking only on our current circumstances, we can't see all of the good that can be made from the bad that is currently occupying your mind. The reality is, to change this way of thinking requires realizing that we have a choice. A choice in how we show up for the world. A choice in whether or not we are going to work towards making the futures we dream about. The only thing stan...

"There is no greater agony than bearing and untold story inside of you." This quote from the famous author and amazing woman, Maya Angelou, has been playing over and over in my head this past week. My family has experienced a series of tragedies already in 2021, including the loss of my mother-in-law. It got me thinking a lot about the truth about loss and how it is inevitable in anyone's life, th...

When it comes to our businesses, we never want to leave anything to chance. If we run things in a random, go-with-the-flow fashion, we will probably never see the growth we want to. We'll be too busy being stuck in a state of overwhelm and mediocrity that real achievements will become lost in the mix. In order to take that next leap to bigger and greater things, processes have to be put in place,...

The answers that you and countless business owners out there are searching for are usually a lot closer to home than we think. We just need to start looking.

What type of entrepreneur are you? These simple but powerful questions can be all there is standing in between you and the ultimate success of your business. And by asking these to yourself, you might also be able to discover what type of entrepreneur you are.

You might not realize it, but when you look really close at what is holding your business back from achieving great success, sometimes the answer lies in your own daily habits. Now, there are good and bad ones we can all fall into. But what we need to focus on more than any marketing strategy or social media presence is getting into those habits that take us from functioning like an amateur, and f...

I've asked myself plenty of times this year: "Am I doing enough?". This question often stems from looking only at the things you aren't accomplishing and not giving any credit to all of the things that you are getting done each and every day. I'm here to tell you, you are doing enough, and you are enough. Just keep looking ahead to that future vision you have for your business and the rest will ac...

When we run our business in a state of panic and haste, there is no good that can come from that. External problems will always be there and claiming that those external sources are holding you back, is actually what's holding you back. We can't control the adversity that is thrown our way, but what we can absolutely control is how we handle ourselves in tough situations. In this weeks episode I s...

We've probably all heard it before, or at least thought about it, especially early on in our business ventures. The movie Field of Dreams made the line famous, but when we aren't talking about cornfields, "build it and they will come" doesn't necessarily apply. "All I've got to do is open up shop and the customers will flood in. Piece of cake." you may have thought to yourself. But nothing is ever...

You've probably heard it countless times before: you need to have a vision for your business. The problem is, some people might get confused as to what this really does mean. Because all too often do I see that when people write out their vision statement or their mission statement, it's all based on where they are now. Their current circumstance. Creating a vision for your business should not be...

This past year has been one filled with a lot of hard times and uncertainty, and with that brought a rise in anxiety and depression for many, especially business owners. Some have seen up to 80% loss in profits and others forced to close their doors entirely. With so much working against us, it can be very difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel. My guest today is Seamus Kelleher, here...

Your true north, or north star, is the thing that will always be there to help you find some direction in your life. If ever you find yourself heading down the wrong path or you've lost your way down another, you look to this true north, this thing that gives you clarity and reminds you which way is right, and you correct your course back to where you were originally headed.