[Excerpted from an interview with Debbie King published by Authority Magazine.] Sometimes experience is our best teacher. Other times we just need to hear the right message at the right time. Authority Magazine recently interviewed me about 5 things I wish I’d known as a business owner. Perhaps one of them will be exactly what

Here’s what they don’t teach in business school: the single most important thing you must do is love your business. This isn’t a new flavor of “woo;” if you don’t love your business, no one else will either. Not your clients, not your team, not the market. Because the way you feel about your business

Ever have days where you wish you could just sell your business? Cash out and escape it for good? Like when your third operations manager in a row quits and you have to jump back into running the day-to-day. Or maybe it’s when your most talented employee quits and goes to work for the competition.

[Article by Debbie King published by FastCompany.com. Photo: Brooke Cagle/Unsplash] Our subconscious is filled with rules, do’s, don’ts, and “truths” we’ve been collecting since childhood.  There’s not enough time, so hurry. No matter what you do, it must be the best. Work hard to get ahead. These rules make up a hidden instruction manual we

I used to spend a lot of time resenting my business and trying to escape from it. One time I took a three-week trip to New Zealand to ride horses on the spur of the moment because the stress was too much, and I decided I deserved it. What I was really doing was running

Does this sound familiar? “Before I’m even fully awake in the morning, I start worrying about my business—the bank account, the staff, the clients or the proposal I have to write.”  I hear this from business owners all the time, and my day used to start this way, too. Even worse was the soul-crushing doubt that