Uncomplicating Business with Sara Torpey

The very BEST version of your business - whether it’s a dream now, or already up and running - is the ZONE between what you’re good at, what you love to do, and what need. The trick? Actually FINDING that place. This week on the podcast we’re going to talk about how to find THE zone in your business, and my favorite visual way to think about it.

Growing is NEVER instant. And yet we often have expectations of ourselves that are for exactly that. We expect to be perfect, to be expert, to be able to figure out all the things immediately, rather than incrementally. This week I’m making the case for embracing the idea of ‘incremental expansion’ in your business. Embracing this idea will save you hours upon hours of time, and help you do EVERYT...

One of the superpowers of ALL teachers is problem-solving. In a teaching setting, we solve a million problems a day, as they come up, from one moment to the next.  We do exactly what we need to figure out what’s happening and how to move forward, and we use the tools and resources at our disposal in the system we work in as supports. In the business world - especially if you own your own - things...

In a classroom the responsibility of a teacher is to get everyone on board - no matter how much or how little the faces in the room want to ‘buy’ the information for sale. As a result, you have to talk to EVERYONE. You have to connect to everyone. In business, things are different. You aren’t responsible for getting everyone on board or for talking to everyone. You only have to talk to your yeses...

Networking is something lots of people AVOID, but really, it’s just business-speak for talking to people. And talking to people is one of the fastest and most effective ways to make more money in your business.  So how do you network effectively in a way that actually works for YOU?  This week we’re talking about  simple, easy to implement strategies to network like YOURSELF. Watch out - you might...

Simplicity is one of my core business (and life!) values. Simple is just better. It makes everything - from day to day life to work and everything in between - easier.  This week we’re going to talk about how to approach growing a business in 2021 without making it complicated. It really is possible to keep it simple AND thrive, all at the same time. 

This week, I’m sharing 10 thoughts that have changed my life and business in 2020. They are the thoughts that have helped me to create a thriving business from nothing in less than a year, the thoughts I use to help my clients create their OWN thriving businesses, and the thoughts that have kept me sane in a less-than-sane year.  I’ll share not only how these thoughts have helped me, but also how...

In planning for your business in the new year, I believe that the most effective approach is focusing on ONE goal. This week on the podcast we’re going to talk step by step through the ONE goal approach to planning for your business in 2021! 

Teachers LOVE to learn. We like to read, to research, to figure out, to discover, to hunt down resources...and it’s a GREAT asset to us in the education world. It’s the ability to think ‘hmmm, I wonder how other people have done that’ and then go out and find something to help us do what we need to do.  When teachers move into the business world, we take our learning brains with us. And this learn...

When I left the teaching world and started a business I had alllll kinds of guilt. Guilt that I’d left my calling - my forever job. Guilt that I had changed my plans. Guilt that I wanted to do something else. Guilt that I was making more money than I had made as a teacher (and even more guilt because I wanted to make even more…). On this episode we’re going to talk about all the flavors of guilt t...

Silence can be scary in business. Especially if you are coming from the teaching world, where there's ALL kinds of feedback/information coming at you all the time. In this episode we talk about assessing as a teacher versus in a business (and where to start thinking if it's so quiet you're WISHING there were crickets...)

One of the core ideas of Teachers in Business is this: teaching skills ARE business skills. This is what I’m here to help you see. Today we’re going to talk about the first layer of this which is how this idea - that teacher skills ARE business skills - could actually be true. We’ll also talk about who the hell am I to have the nerve to say so!

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