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Kelly Roach
The Entrepreneur's Guild to Building an Unstoppable Team
18 mins
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Bigger Than You guides entrepreneurs in building scalable teams and systems for business growth. It offers practical advice on leadership, empowering others, and creating a company culture that supports sustainable success.
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Escaping the entrepreneurial grind
Most entrepreneurs yearn for freedom – working wherever they want, choosing their schedule, and creating something that matters. But their daily reality often tells a different story. They stay glued to their business, working endless hours without a break. This gap between their hopes and their actual situation comes from a basic mistake in how they build their business.
Take Charlie’s story. He spent $100,000 to start his juice company. His passion for health led him to buy expensive equipment, software, and marketing tools. But after three years, he had no customers and lots of debt. That’s because Charlie focused on buying things instead of building the basic structure his business needed to grow.
The thing is, a business grows steadily when it has two basic building blocks: a clear way to make sales and the right group of people working together. Without these basics, business owners stay stuck doing all the daily tasks themselves. They can’t grow their company past what they can handle alone.
It’s normal to assume you should wait to build your team until after you make more money. But that’s backward thinking. Your team helps you grow – you can’t do it alone. Some owners might try to patch things together with temporary workers, part-time help, or relatives. But these temporary solutions don’t give their business the full support it needs.
The answer starts with thinking differently about hiring people. Good business owners look for something special in their workers – not just what they know, but who they are. They search for people who stay motivated, adapt easily, and always do what’s right. You can teach someone new skills, but you can’t teach them to care about their work or to have strong values. Someone who believes in what your company wants to do will help you more than someone with experience who just shows up for a paycheck.
Look at Kelly’s own team – Stephanie, Nicole, and Lindsay. They started without a lot of experience, but they care deeply about doing great work. They help clients succeed, and do whatever needs to be done beyond their regular jobs. Kelly’s business runs smoothly, even when she’s away, because her team treats their roles like their own small companies.
So if you want real freedom as a business owner, you have to stop trying to do everything yourself. Build strong systems and find good people who can run things without you there. Training your team is essential – which we’ll look at more next. But at some point you’ll need to take a leap of faith and let others take control, even if you don’t feel completely ready.
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What is Bigger Than You about?
Bigger Than You (2018) shows how to create a team that fuels your business growth, boosts your profitability, and frees you to focus on what matters most. Learn how to hire strategically, build powerful systems, and lead with clarity to transform your company into a self-sustaining enterprise. If you’re ready to scale without burning out, this guide gives you the tools to make it happen.
Who should read Bigger Than You?
- Entrepreneurs seeking to scale their businesses without burning out
- Business leaders looking to build high-performing, self-sustaining teams
- Professionals interested in actionable strategies for growth and leadership
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