When You Don't Know ... Are You Willing to Ask for Help?

SR: John, since I know you’ve been successful in growing your connections worldwide to nearly 50,000, and your business to include some international clients, what spurred you to think of applying to 2xgrowth in the first place?

JW: When you’re running a business, it is easy to get too close to it from running the day-to-day that you lose focus on scaling. Simply put, you get too busy running the business to be able to objectively critique it. That’s when stagnation sets in. I felt like I had hit that point in my business but wasn’t sure what to do about it. I needed a different set of eyes on my business that could see it from an external perspective. I have been following Austin Netzley and his team at 2x for a while now. So, when I got the chance to attend his mastermind, I jumped on it.

SR: How hard was it to stand up in front of all those entrepreneurs and ask for help?

JW: Being on “the hot seat” in front of 20+ successful entrepreneurs and growth coaches from 2xgrowth was stressful and scary.

I stood up there for 30 minutes as we went over the numbers in my business, and they picked apart my operations to uncover the bottlenecks that are preventing growth from happening faster.

It was an experience I will never forget. Sometimes we have to go through exercises in life that are scary and painful on the surface. We have to move past those fears and work through the pain in order for growth to happen.

Never let your fear of uncovering the truth behind your shortcomings prevent you from finding the best possible version of yourself and your business.

SR: What was your biggest takeaway?

My biggest takeaway is that I need to develop systems in my business, so that I can build out a complete team. I have been doing too much of the work myself and taking on simply too much responsibility. I have this false belief like so many other business owners that “nobody can do it like I can.”

This is only true if you don’t train your employees, and you don’t have systems in place that your employees or contractors can follow.

As the head of the company, I need to build out a fully sufficient team, so that I can free up more of my time. That way, I can focus on bigger-ticket items like strategy and scaling the company. It will also allow me to work fewer hours and spend more time doing the things I love outside of work.