I dive into some great opportunities that can often be found during slower periods in your business so you can embrace them and benefit from taking action on those hidden opportunities. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Elephant In The Room ✔ What To Do When Business Is Slow ✔ A Beneficial Mindset Shift You Could Make ✔ Where You Should Be Focusing Your Time & Energy ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/280 . P.S. If you w...
May 23, 2023•28 min•Ep 280•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the Owner of Risk Oversight and Bellehumeur Co., Adrienne Bellehumeur, to dive into six practical steps for navigating process documentation in a way that is effective and non-intimidating. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Problem With The Way Documentation Is Traditionally Taught ✔ How Much Documentation Should SBO’s Strive To Achieve ✔ How & Where To Get Started With Documentation ✔ What Dynamic Documentation Is And How To Utilize It ✔ Common Challenges Small Busines...
May 15, 2023•53 min•Ep 279•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the what, when, why, and how of doing a reset so you can get right back on track to achieving your goals after a misstep. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What A Reset Is ✔ When You Should Do A One ✔ Culprits That Create A Need For A Reset ✔ 3 Steps To Doing A Reset ✔ The Most Important Aspect Of A Reset ✔ Common Opportunities For A Reset ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://amberdelagarza.com/278-magical-power-reset . P.S. If you w...
May 08, 2023•33 min•Ep 278•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with Anabeth McConnell who is the owner of Inbound Design Partners. We dive into her entrepreneurial journey and pull back the curtain on the work she put in to transition from project manager to business owner who must project manage an entire business. What You’ll DiscoverIn This Episode: ✔ Why Anabeth’s Business Felt All-Consuming ✔ The Strategically Made Shift She Made To Change That ✔ What Challenges She Faced Personally & Professionally Prior To Joining Leverage Lab® ✔ Her Exper...
May 01, 2023•42 min•Ep 277•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into how you can Increase your fulfillment beyond running a successful business by setting intentions for each season of your life and choosing to work to live instead of the other way around. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ The Results Of Constantly Going Full-Throttle In Your Business ✔ Why Identifying And Planning Your Seasons Is So Important ✔ What Your Seasons Might Reflect And Why That Matters ✔ How To Schedule For Different Seasons With Intentionality ✔ So Much More! To acc...
Apr 24, 2023•32 min•Ep 276•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the owner and founder of Becoming Iconic®️, Jennifer Szpigiel, to dive into business owners’ quest to create work/life balance. We discuss if balance should even be the goal and if not, what to aim for instead in order to become the best, fullest version of yourself. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why Pursuing Balance Sets Business Owners Up To Fail ✔ What You Should Be Pursuing Instead ✔ The Shocking Truth About Your Capacity ✔ Why We Allow Ourselves To Live Out Of Alig...
Apr 17, 2023•1 hr•Ep 275•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the strategy of taking a hard look at your business to recognize that you’ve normalized certain behaviors that aren’t normal at all. Once you identify the behaviors that don’t feel good in your business, you can begin to change the experience of running a business to one that is more joyful. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Common Behaviors Business Owners Normalize ✔ Why Such Behaviors Are Like Death By 1000 Paper Cuts ✔ What You Can Do To Unnormalize Your Normal ✔ The Result...
Apr 11, 2023•47 min•Ep 274•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the Owner of Build Scale Grow, Benjamin Friedman, to dive into 5 practical ways to make scaling your business in uncertain times less daunting, less challenging, less lonely, and quite simply, more achievable! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Action Steps To Grow Your Business ✔ Tips For Effectively Optimizing Those Steps ✔ Advice For Honing Your Priorities In Order To Make The Best Choices ✔ The 1 Reassuring Certainty You Can Always Count On ✔ Strategies For Planning When...
Apr 03, 2023•51 min•Ep 273•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down for an update interview with my long-term coaching client, Tim Clothier, CEO of Illusion Projects, to gain insight into the inner-workings of an entrepreneur who has greatly stepped up his CEO game and now owns a few successful businesses. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How Tim Makes Time Blocking Work Even When His Roles Are Changing Fast ✔ The Project That Pulled Him Far Outside His Comfort Zone ✔ How Tim’s Team Is Structured So The Business Moves Forward In His Absence ✔ T...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 272•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with my long-term client and the CEO of Illusion Projects, Tim Clothier, to discuss how he’s been stepping up his CEO game during our years of working together. We cover his magic power of jumping back and forth between creative and CEO, what hadn’t been working in his business, what he had to release to see better results, and what he’s doing to stay on top of his game and run a successful international business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why Your Time Blocks Need A Mak...
Mar 20, 2023•57 min•Ep 271•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into how doing just this one damn thing will make everything else in your business easier, help you stay in your focused zone for much longer, and increase your efficiency. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What You’re Doing To Sabotage Your Focus ✔ How That’s Affecting Your Ability To Get Work Done ✔ The One Strategy You Can Implement Immediately To Combat It ✔ All The Do’s And Don’ts You Must Know To Get It Right & See Results ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from thi...
Mar 13, 2023•20 min•Ep 270•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with Improv Edutainer, Failfluencer, and Professional Zoombie Erin Diehl to dive into how failing to process your failures can negatively impact your ability to show up for yourself and your team. Erin discusses how you can confront your failures, move on from them quicker, and heal your body in the process. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What F-Bomb You Need To Move On From & Why ✔ The Mind-Body Connection Too Often Ignored ✔ How Dissociation Impacted Erin & Her Business ✔ H...
Mar 06, 2023•48 min•Ep 269•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the topic of scheduling white space on your calendar so you can minimize the chaos that ensues when you don’t. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Whitespace Is ✔ How It Affects Your Workday ✔ How To Schedule White Space Effectively ✔ What To Do When Your Day Doesn’t Go As Planned ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/268 . P.S. If you want help managing your time, creating efficiency, making a new hire, reducing...
Feb 27, 2023•16 min•Ep 268•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the Cofounder and CEO of Scribe, Jennifer Smith, to dive into the world of SOPs and processes. We discuss how Scribe’s innovative software can automatically create SOPs, complete with screenshots, instructions, and clicks in just 56 seconds, thus making every business professional who uses it more efficient and their days run more smoothly. What You Will Discover: ✔ Why It’s Important To Document Your Processes ✔ How Key Man Risk Comes Into Play ✔ How To Lower Your Resistance To ...
Feb 20, 2023•43 min•Ep 267•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with best-selling author Melody Wilding to discuss imposter syndrome and the many ways to break free from it so you can find the confidence to lead and run your business effectively and live up to your full potential! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Imposter Syndrome Really Is ✔ The 5 Primary Ways It Shows Up ✔ The Ironic Thing About Imposter Syndrome ✔ How It Can Stop Your Productivity in Its Tracks ✔ Preventative Measures To Combat Imposter SYndrome ✔ Why It’s Worthwhil...
Feb 13, 2023•46 min•Ep 266•Transcript available on Metacast I go behind the scenes of my business to show you exactly how I’ve been creating operational efficiency so you can gain insights on how and where to create more operational efficiency in your business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Operational Efficiency Is & Why It’s Important ✔ Where I Created Operational Efficiency In My Business ✔ Best Practices For Creating Operational Efficiency In Yours ✔ My Top Strategy For Preventing Unnecessary Fires ✔ So Much More! To access resources a...
Feb 06, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into ways to create operational efficiency in the areas that will provide the biggest impact so you can increase profits and reduce the stress of running your business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Operational Efficiency Is ✔ Where To Create It In Your Business ✔ The Link Between Operational Efficiency & Profitability ✔ The One Change That Will Have The Biggest Immediate Impact ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza...
Jan 30, 2023•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with Business Strategist, Coach, and Mentor, Diann Wingert, for an in-depth conversation about the intersection of ADHD and business ownership. We dive into Diann’s acceptance of her own diagnosis and how she effectively manages her ADHD daily so it doesn’t sabotage her success. What You’ll Discover In This Episode:c b ✔ How ADHD Shows Up In Your Business ✔ Why Unmanaged ADHD Can Prevent Your Success ✔ Ways Diann Has Successfully Managed Her Traits ✔ What Time Blindness And Time Optim...
Jan 23, 2023•58 min•Ep 263•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of Productivity Straight Talk , I dive into areas of your business that can feel especially difficult and discuss a simple strategy to reduce the stress that often accompanies them: flipping the script. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Flipping The Script Really Means ✔ The Tangible Benefits Of Doing So ✔ How To Make Running Your Business More Enjoyable ✔ Simple Ways To Get Started ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://Amber...
Jan 16, 2023•28 min•Ep 262•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with executive recruiter and talent acquisition leader Tatiyana Cure to dive into the skill set of hiring, a skill set which many small business owners lack but all small business owners need. Tatiyana shares numerous actionable hiring strategies that are easy to implement and quick to work. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Works To Attract The Right Candidate ✔ Where To Look For Them ✔ Why Clients Might Skip Over Your Job Posting ✔ How To Delegate Some Of Your Hiring Proc...
Jan 09, 2023•52 min•Ep 261•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the strategy of tracking your time and analyzing your calendar to help you identify where you can make small improvements in your time management to see major results. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Your Calendar Can Tell You If You’re Paying Attention ✔ Strategies For Time Tracking & Calendar Analyzing ✔ What Effective Time Management Tool Entrepreneurs Often Overlook ✔ Where You Might Be Miss-Stepping ✔ How Hofstadler’s Law Impacts Your Planning ✔ So Much More! To acc...
Jan 02, 2023•29 min•Ep 260•Transcript available on Metacast I dissect the time management strategies Bill Gates uses, uncover why they won’t work for your small business, and discuss what to do instead to manage your time more effectively. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Bill Gates’ Time Management Strategies ✔ His Framework For Investing Your Time Equally ✔ What I Agree With And What I Don’t ✔ Why His Strategies Will Or Will Not Work For You ✔ My 4-Bucket Time Management Framework For Small Business Owners ✔ Tips For Planning Your Annual Calenda...
Dec 12, 2022•35 min•Ep 259•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the three gifts you should give yourself this holiday season to reduce holiday stress, make running your business more manageable, and make your holidays a little more merry and bright: What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Suggestions For Devising A Holiday Plan ✔ Why Some Traditions Are Meant To Be Broken ✔ Tips For Embracing The Unexpected ✔ Ways To Create The Balance You Desire ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/...
Dec 05, 2022•27 min•Ep 258•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with Jessica, the owner of Jessica Risko Smith Interior Design, to pull back the curtains on her business and discuss what wasn’t working, how she’s managed to overcome those challenges, and how embracing structure has been surprisingly freeing and empowering! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ How Jessica Built Her Team & How It’s Serving Her ✔ What She Had A Hard Time Recognizing ✔ Why Jessica Sought Additional Support & How It’s Helping ✔ The Time Management Skills She Utilize...
Nov 28, 2022•55 min•Ep 257•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the Director of Ei4Change, Business Psychologist and Emotional Intelligence Trainer, Robin Hills to dive into his world of emotional intelligence and emotional resilience. We discuss how business owners can remain calm, cool, and collected in the face of adversity (and thus make better business decisions) by developing their emotional resilience. What You’ll Discover In This Episode ✔ What Emotional Resilience Is And Is Not ✔ The Importance Of Parking Tough Decisions ✔ How To Ack...
Nov 21, 2022•45 min•Ep 256•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the topic of work/life balance and discuss how getting clear on what you don’t want and do want to experience can lead you to take action and create the ideal balance for yourself that you desire. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Imbalance Looks And Feels Like ✔ Useful Visualization Techniques For Gaining Clarity ✔ 3 Specific Steps To Create More Balance In Your Life ✔ Why It’s So Important To Claim Balance For Yourself ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from t...
Nov 14, 2022•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into the idea that you should say no to anything that’s not serving you so you can free up your time and energy for the activities that do! What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Why Embracing Opportunities Can Be Detrimental To Your Pursuit Of Success ✔ How Overcommitting Outside Your Business Prevents You From Showing Up In It ✔ What Activities You Should Consider Saying No To ✔ So Much More! To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/254 . P.S...
Nov 07, 2022•27 min•Ep 254•Transcript available on Metacast In celebration of Halloween, I dive into the BIG BAD HABITS of business owners to help you identify which ones are the main villains in your business sabotaging your success so you can take action to transform them into habits that positively impact your business. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ What Bad Business Habits Are ✔ Some Of The Most Common Ones Affecting Business Owners ✔ How Allowing Them Impacts Your Business ✔ What You Can Do About It ✔ Curated Episodes To Amplify Your Learn...
Oct 31, 2022•30 min•Ep 253•Transcript available on Metacast I sit down with the Owner of Lacey & Co. Consulting, Lacey Updegraff, for an insightful discussion on the ins and outs and do’s and don’ts of working with independent contractors so you can learn how to work with them effectively and get the results you want. To access resources and links from this episode, click on https://AmberDeLaGarza.com/252 . P.S. Grab your spot in Leverage Lab® to get business coaching, training, and accountability to take your business and life from surviving to thriving...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep 252•Transcript available on Metacast I dive into an alternative strategy to focusing your time and efforts on what could work. And that’s leveraging what’s working already! Doubling down on what’s already working is a simple but powerful goal achievement strategy that’s underutilized but could prove very beneficial. What You’ll Discover In This Episode: ✔ Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Goals ✔ The Simple But Powerful Questions You Should Be Asking Yourself ✔ What Actions Can Give You The Biggest Wins in Your Business ✔ How To Do...
Oct 15, 2022•16 min•Ep 251•Transcript available on Metacast 
