When some of the habits we have with our families come into our business, it can lead to problems. If you have people on the team who've been with you a while, listen to this for some quick and simple advice.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Your business is there to make money and serve a purpose. It’s not there to be an employer.
2. Your business in not there to suffer and indulge dysfunction. It’s there to get the work done and serve the purpose of the business.
3. A business has to have clearly defined, communicated and accountable to, expectations.
4. A business has to have accountability to outcomes. When leaders want to treat people like a family, they don’t hold them accountable.
5. A business has to factor in how growth affects the team it has now versus the team that was hired before.

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As your business grows, you’ll need to hire people to do some of the things you used to do. The first, and most important, step is to create a job description for the role. Here are some key steps in that process.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. First, define the purpose of the job.
2. Make a detailed list off all the things you want this position to do, and look for a theme.
3. From the details, list your required skills and experience for the position.
4. Include your cultural and fit component – “the vibe.”
5. Verne Harnish believes we should only hire people who have already experienced success and results. 
6. Every role in your business should have a description, including yours.

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Kris talks with Angela Kim, founder and owner of Savor Beauty. They discuss what motivates Angela and what has been the most challenging aspect to growing and scaling her business.

Angela Jia Kim’s passion for beauty began with her mom. “Koreans are obsessed with their skin, and my mom always had something new sent over from her sisters in Seoul,” she says.

“I would play with her creams that were filled with ingredients like gold and silkworm cocoons.” Angela spent her early career as an award-winning concert pianist, until one day, onstage in front of hundreds of people, a so-called natural lotion she had applied made her break out in hives.

Horrified, she began to study ingredients and craft her own skin care products in her kitchen. “I added luxury ingredients with tremendous skin benefits like champagne, caviar, and truffles,” she says.

“I infused them with organic extracts for anti-aging results.” She started gifting these products to friends, and they wanted to buy them as gifts for their friends. She became the “accidental entrepreneur.”

"I wanted to incorporate the Korean beauty rituals that I grew up with. But as a busy mom and wife living the gorgeous chaos of New York City, I needed flawless skin in a New York minute. And it must be organic, and it must work."

Now Angela runs a group of holistic facial spas in New York City's West Village and Upper West Side, and in upstate New York. She continues to develop luxe organic products in the Beauty Kitchen with her team of Savor Spa Estheticians.

Her Dollars & Scents initiative hires women who are transitioning back into the workforce, by giving training and tools to develop new skills. They make and ship the beauty creams fresh from the Hudson Valley in New York.

Angela Jia Kim is a former concert pianist, wife to a Swissman who loves to brew craft beer in his spare time, and mom to a second grader CEO and a yellow lab named Ella Fitzgerald. They live in New York City's Upper West Side.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. What it is that drives Angela to continue to excel and grow and take on new challenges.
2. What the big areas are that you need to be conscious of as a woman who runs her own business.
3. What the hardest part was of bringing other people into the business.
4. Angela’s biggest insight to share with women around accountability.
5. What Angela loves most about her business.

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As a visionary, you have tons of ideas all the time. But in order to up-level your business, you have to focus on your zone of genius instead of your zone of excellence. Here’s how.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. When you grow and become more successful, your discipline with your brain has to increase.
2. Identify your revenue goal for the year and the plan to make that happen.
3. When you have new ideas, use your goal and plan as your filter.
4. Visionaries tend to burn out team members.
5. Visionary constraint reminds us that, in order to achieve what we want, we have to be willing to go “all in” on the belief that what we want to achieve is possible.
6. Be willing to say “no” from abundance instead of saying “yes” from scarcity.
7. Honor your ideas with a notebook and vet those ideas with someone you allow to tell you “no.”

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In order to move past those stuck spots as an entrepreneur, you have to be willing to work on yourself. You need to do some stretch assignments in your mind about what’s next. Here is a series of questions I’d like you to think about as a woman who is leading a business and a team.

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. Who are you in this role as a leader?
2. What do you find is easy and what is difficult?
3. How are you different today than when you first started your business?
4. What do you love about what you do in your business?
5. What are you like to work for?
6. What do you want to be like to work for?
7. What’s your philosophy around paying people money?
8. What expectations do you have of people who join your team?

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Kris talks with Laura Patrick, founder of Kids Physio Group. They discuss what it’s like being a solopreneur with one location and evolving into a leader managing five clinics and 35 employees.

Laura Patrick (nee Turner) was born and raised in North Vancouver, BC Canada. She is the founder and owner of Kids Physio Group - Canada's largest chain of private pediatric physical therapy clinics.

With a passion for sports, she first graduated from UBC’s Human Kinetics (Exercise Science) program in 2001 before continuing on to receive her Masters in Physiotherapy from McMaster University in 2003.

Laura founded Kids Physio Group in 2006 in the humblest of surroundings.

After 3 years working in the public system with school-aged kids, she recognized a need for all children to have access to trained pediatric physiotherapists in clinic space designed just for them.

In the past few years, Laura has stepped back from clinical work. Although she still loves taking on the occasional baby motor milestone assessment and the opportunity it gives her to connect with parents, most of her efforts are dedicated to running Kids Physio Group and seeking out new partnerships and markets for them to expand into!

On the personal front, Laura loves outdoor adventures with her family in Deep Cove, keeping up her fitness, exploring new cities abroad and cooking and eating delicious food!

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. What it’s like going from technician/doer to manager/leader. 
2. Get a mentor; someone you can trust.
3. Many of Laura’s team are working in the Manager Formula.
4. Hire good people and then let go.
5. The resources Laura thinks everyone should know.
6. The unique challenges Laura believes that female entrepreneurs face.
7. The qualities Laura looks for in someone she hires.

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There are several qualities that drive you and your entrepreneurial spirit. Here are some suggestions for avoiding wasting your brain space and your time dragging people along because they can’t handle working with you.

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. Founders have high expectations and low tolerance for mistakes.
2. They’re incredibly generous and want to recognize and reward people who work for them.
3. They’re visionaries and they change their minds a lot.
4. It’s hard to earn their trust, and that can feel like micro-management. Founders are "swoopers" and they always will be. 
5. Sometimes they forget to say thank you and they can be very direct.
6. They move so fast.
7. Founders must hire people with “a maturity of spirit” who have enough independence to take action and yet enough humility to not take it personally when they’re told they did it wrong and need to do it again.

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Thinking about your employees as human capital instead of an incurred expense will totally change the way you run your business and the results you achieve.

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. Capital is the assets that add to the long-term wealth of a company. 
2. Instead of thinking of someone as an expense you need to incur, think of them as an asset and an investment into your wealth.
3. In preparing to make such an investment, first ask yourself, “What is the result I’m trying to achieve with this role?”
4. Second, ask yourself, “How will I track and measure the results of the role to make sure I’m achieving those results?”
5. Third, “Have I clearly defined this asset’s job?”
6. The four things you’ll stop doing as a result of thinking of employees as human capital.

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I coach female entrepreneurs and help them overcome their challenges. I have found that there are five key things that entrepreneurs struggle with. Here they are - along with their solutions.

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. The first challenge is failure to lead. 
2. Second is failure to define the game.
3. Third, not having very clear expectations as it relates to what you pay people.
4. Fourth, thinking down instead of up and out.
5. Lastly, not cutting the ties and continuing to drag parts of your business along that no longer serve the bigger goals you have.

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For most women, when we are invited to study leadership the teachers, scholars, authorities and models are primarily… men. We are indoctrinated from the time we are born that men are the leaders and that natural male characteristics are the strengths you must also possess to be a good leader.

Powerful.
Strong.
Authoritative.
Direct.
Assertive.
Decisive.

These and so many more are attributes that are typically associated with the male model of a leader.

And so, for the better part of the last one hundred years as women have made their way into the fold, in a variety of leadership roles, we have learned and studied to walk the way of a men to achieve success.

Women dismiss their own knowing because we’ve been so indoctrinated in male leadership models.

We dismiss what we know for what others tell us to be and how to be seen.

There is another way to lead.

To be in alignment.

To not feel like an imposter.

It’s time for the reimagining of leadership. That’s not to disparage any of the progress that has come before us. Progress is progress. For those of us who stand in the footsteps of the women who came before us we are here because of their courage, bravery and resilience.

I wonder instead if women equally looked to the characteristics they learned from their mothers for leadership. I wonder if we were taught to lean on different qualities to drive success. I wonder what might happen then?

The traditional qualities of mothering are communication, nurturing, listening, strength, support, grace, and yes… love.

What if to be the best leader you can be as a woman, you integrated the best of both?

This is how women will stand with integrity in their role as leaders.

As women, we can be assertive, direct, powerful, and authoritative but we need not only rely on those attributes for success.

After 25 years of watching and studying leaders, I can tell you that for sure many traditional male attributes are effective in the short run, but they typically only serve a few. Whereas, when leadership is feminine. When the leader possesses the strengths of femininity and grace the results are for all.

This podcast is my like my gentle request and invitation to my fellow female leaders that we reclaim the world leadership as one that is a feminine definition. That we continue to work with all of our allies to build organizations and systems that include more support, collaboration, grace and communication. And that we do so not because we are uncomfortable with the more traditional male-dominating models, but because we truly do know that leadership is a feminine strength and attribute.

And the world needs more of us leading. Now more than ever.