Episode 305
Entrepreneur to CEO How to grow and still have time for your life with Lynne Roe | DFS 305
Get all the inside secrets and tools you need to help you develop your intuitive and leadership skills so you are on the path to the highest level of success with ease. Many listeners are making or have made the transition from W-2 employee to entrepreneur. Lynne will help entrepreneurs transition to the CEO of their business and quit being the entrepreneur employee!
In this episode you will learn:
- Identify your mission
- Have systems in place. The more you have the quicker and smoother things happen.
- Think like a CEO!
Connect with Lynne Roe:
Lynne works with entrepreneurs and small business owners to develop a strong foundation to lead their business. She guides them in developing strategic action plans and sound decision-making that leads to dynamic business growth. She takes business owners from Entrepreneur to CEO of a successful and profitable business. Lynne is the author of “Leadership In Action: Inspiration for Intentional Leadership” designed to help leaders skills a little bit every week.
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Listen in as Jennifer Takagi, founder of Takagi Consulting, 5X time Amazon.Com Best Selling-Author, Certified Soul Care Coach, Certified Jack Canfield Success Principle Trainer, Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst and Facilitator of the DISC Behavioral Profiles, Certified Change Style Indicator Facilitator, Law of Attraction Practitioner, and Certified Coaching Specialist - leadership entrepreneur, speaker and trainer, shares the lessons she’s learned along the way. Each episode is designed to give you the tools, ideas, and inspiration to lead with integrity. Humor is a big part of Jennifer’s life, so expect a few puns and possibly some sarcasm. Tune in for a motivational guest, a story or tips to take you even closer to that success you’ve been coveting. Please share the episodes that inspired you the most and be sure to leave a comment.
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Jennifer Takagi
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Transcript
Welcome to destined for success. I'm your
Jennifer Takagi:host Jennifer Takagi and today is Potter Palooza Day and I love
Jennifer Takagi:Potter Palooza today because I get to meet so many amazing
Jennifer Takagi:people that I probably wouldn't have encountered otherwise, and
Jennifer Takagi:I get to bring them to you. Our next guest is Lynn row. And
Jennifer Takagi:Lynne is a business growth specialist. Lynne, welcome to
Jennifer Takagi:the show.
Lynne Roe:Thank you so much for having me today.
Jennifer Takagi:I just really want to know how you show up in
Jennifer Takagi:the world and how you became a business growth specialist.
Lynne Roe:Oh, how would I became one? Well, I don't know,
Lynne Roe:I
Jennifer Takagi:Why are you passionate about it? Like, why
Jennifer Takagi:is this important? Um,
Lynne Roe:I became a business growth specialist because I had
Lynne Roe:grown several businesses before I became a specialist in helping
Lynne Roe:others growth businesses, but I'm working with other business
Lynne Roe:owners is part of it kind of fits my mission for my life. I
Lynne Roe:work with i My mission is to help build people into
Lynne Roe:outstanding leaders. And I do that with business owners to
Lynne Roe:become outstanding leaders of their businesses. And the reason
Lynne Roe:I do that is because when I help someone lead a business and grow
Lynne Roe:their business, it's a ripple effects. You know, they hire
Lynne Roe:people, and those people have the opportunity to send their
Lynne Roe:kids to college or go out in their community and donate to
Lynne Roe:whatever causes they think are important in my in the business
Lynne Roe:owners I work with, they also have the opportunity to make a
Lynne Roe:difference in their communities. And I see it as you know, we
Lynne Roe:each individually make contribution to our communities.
Lynne Roe:But collectively, we're a positive force. So I'm the
Lynne Roe:center of this or the beginning of this positive force in the
Lynne Roe:world.
Jennifer Takagi:I was at an event several months ago, and
Jennifer Takagi:this gentleman took the stage and said, It's my mission to
Jennifer Takagi:impact I want to say he said a billion lives, wow. And I sat
Jennifer Takagi:down I was like, like, that's so out of my scope. I don't, I
Jennifer Takagi:can't even but he broke it down a little bit. And he said, as a
Jennifer Takagi:coach, if I impact one life positively, and they make a
Jennifer Takagi:change, then that one person can impact 10 more. And those 10
Jennifer Takagi:could impact 10 more and 10 more, and you get to a billion
Jennifer Takagi:pretty quickly. Yes. And I was like, oh, okay, wait, I can wrap
Jennifer Takagi:my head around that like, Okay, I Yes. And I love start with
Jennifer Takagi:you. And it's gonna grow into the community, and then the
Jennifer Takagi:community into the state and then the state into the country
Jennifer Takagi:and then into the world. And then we live in a better place.
Jennifer Takagi:We do. Oh, my gosh, I love this so much. And I have done a lot
Jennifer Takagi:of leadership development training myself. And it's
Jennifer Takagi:amazing when you share a message that resonates with the person.
Jennifer Takagi:And they actually believe that if they do one thing better or
Jennifer Takagi:differently tomorrow, it will immediately start making a
Jennifer Takagi:change and a shift like people think it has to be huge, but
Jennifer Takagi:it's like, no, just do one thing better tomorrow, and everybody
Jennifer Takagi:will notice
Lynne Roe:exactly one thing at a time, you don't have to be
Lynne Roe:doing it all, you know, business owners, and they're they're a
Lynne Roe:special breed, because they have to lead the business with clear
Lynne Roe:direction, and comprehensive strategy and whatever they need
Lynne Roe:to actually grow the business. But then they also have to lead
Lynne Roe:their team with, you know, smooth communications, clear
Lynne Roe:roles, responsibilities, and they have to set all that out.
Lynne Roe:And then they have to lead themselves lead themselves to
Lynne Roe:become the CEO of the business as opposed to just the doer, the
Lynne Roe:person who does the stuff, right. So as a business is
Lynne Roe:growing, as the business owner is growing the well actually,
Lynne Roe:it's gonna say as the business is growing, the business owner
Lynne Roe:has to grow themselves as well. Or
Jennifer Takagi:there are going to be consequences for choosing
Jennifer Takagi:not to absolutely, and they're not going to be good. No comes
Jennifer Takagi:from that.
Lynne Roe:They're not going to be good. And you know, the the
Lynne Roe:common one is they just can't grow anymore. They can't get to
Lynne Roe:where they want to be because they're they're hustling,
Lynne Roe:they're doing all the work, they they're overwhelmed, there's and
Lynne Roe:they're losing their family, they're losing their friends,
Lynne Roe:they haven't taken a vacation. All of that happens because they
Lynne Roe:haven't been leading the business and leading a team most
Lynne Roe:of them don't have a team yet. And then leading themselves so
Lynne Roe:yeah.
Jennifer Takagi:So can we take a minute on that leading selves
Jennifer Takagi:piece because I am done screening for the right state of
Jennifer Takagi:Oklahoma, I'm in Oklahoma City. And one of them is transitioning
Jennifer Takagi:into a leadership position, a management position. And one of
Jennifer Takagi:the things we talk about is leading self leading others.
Jennifer Takagi:There's a third one, and the fourth one is leading a change
Jennifer Takagi:initiative. So my personal opinion, I'd love to hear yours
Jennifer Takagi:is that leading self is probably the most critical piece of all
Jennifer Takagi:of this. Because if you lead yourself well, and with
Jennifer Takagi:integrity, and you show up as the evolved, you know,
Jennifer Takagi:appropriate boss, and leader, then you have the capacity to
Jennifer Takagi:learn, if you don't already know it, learn how to do the other
Jennifer Takagi:pieces. So can you speak to that a little bit, and what leading
Jennifer Takagi:self means to you?
Lynne Roe:So yes, I can speak, I will speak to that a little
Lynne Roe:bit. So as as a business owner, very often, since I work with
Lynne Roe:small business owners, that's, that's my, those are the people
Lynne Roe:that I really interact with the most. And can we help the most,
Lynne Roe:and one of the things is that you, you have to use that
Lynne Roe:integrity, but you have to do what you said you were going to
Lynne Roe:do, when you said, we're going to do it in the way you said you
Lynne Roe:were going to do it. And you have to do that with yourself
Lynne Roe:too. And that's, that's one of the problems that a lot of
Lynne Roe:people have is they, they tell themselves, Oh, I'm going to
Lynne Roe:make 10 phone calls tomorrow. And then they don't make the 10
Lynne Roe:phone calls tomorrow. And now they're out of integrity with
Lynne Roe:themselves. So making the decisions to, to do something,
Lynne Roe:you have to be careful what you're agreeing to do even with
Lynne Roe:yourself. And then you have to make sure that you follow
Lynne Roe:through on it. And it's the consistency of following through
Lynne Roe:that, that gives you the the courage to keep going and also
Lynne Roe:the self confidence to keep going
Jennifer Takagi:so long that that I've loved this so much.
Jennifer Takagi:I'm looking down because I'm I'm writing there, I do a lot of
Jennifer Takagi:mindset work and energy healing work also with my clients. And
Jennifer Takagi:that idea of making a promise to yourself or a commitment and not
Jennifer Takagi:following through. You set your subconscious mind up to
Jennifer Takagi:believing that you don't do what you say you're going to do. So
Jennifer Takagi:then when you're trying to dig deep to make it happen, because
Jennifer Takagi:it's really important, internally don't have the right
Jennifer Takagi:things in place. So if you say, I'm going to wake up at seven in
Jennifer Takagi:the morning, and I'm going to do these three things every day,
Jennifer Takagi:and you don't do any of them or you do one or two half assed or
Jennifer Takagi:whatever your subconscious mind picks up on that. And it just
Jennifer Takagi:leaves everywhere. Yeah,
Lynne Roe:it's all about building trust. And your you
Lynne Roe:know, we talked about building trust with others. And I do a
Lynne Roe:whole workshop on that with people. And in order to build
Lynne Roe:trust with others. Yeah, it starts with you trusting them.
Lynne Roe:But to build trust, you also have to trust yourself. And if
Lynne Roe:you can't trust yourself, how can you trust anybody? Right?
Jennifer Takagi:And in growing a business, that's a big deal.
Jennifer Takagi:Do I trust myself to take on this responsibility? That I say
Jennifer Takagi:that I want? I, I, I was on a call with a gal she she did on
Jennifer Takagi:Mondays? I don't know if she still does, but she had us do a
Jennifer Takagi:little journaling. And she was like, Okay, if you got two new
Jennifer Takagi:clients, what would that look like? How would you feel? How
Jennifer Takagi:would you respond? What changes would you have to make and we
Jennifer Takagi:got to the end of the exercise, I was like, Screw it, I don't
Jennifer Takagi:want to employ it's like, that no longer fits what I want. I
Jennifer Takagi:did find out how I do actually want way more than 10 clients
Jennifer Takagi:and how I'm going to do that. But at the time, it was like, I
Jennifer Takagi:don't know how to manage that. Like, I don't know. But that
Jennifer Takagi:happened.
Lynne Roe:And that's a problem often with, with people I work
Lynne Roe:with, like I want to grow but oh my god, how do I you know, if I
Lynne Roe:get those many new clients and how am I going to manage them
Lynne Roe:all? I don't have time for all of that. And that's that's a
Lynne Roe:piece of you know, you have to manage the business. Right. And
Lynne Roe:that's, that's a part of leading the business is figuring out how
Lynne Roe:you're going to manage all those new clients when you bring them
Lynne Roe:in.
Jennifer Takagi:Exactly. So for me like I'm, I'm a one woman
Jennifer Takagi:shop and I'm the one who does the work with the clients. And I
Jennifer Takagi:was like, Wait, if I had 10 clients, and they all wanted to
Jennifer Takagi:call in the same week, that's 30 hours of client work. Again, I
Jennifer Takagi:don't want Add. And then I talked to somebody and they
Jennifer Takagi:said, Well, you have a calendar, they booked the call based on
Jennifer Takagi:your availability and I was like, okay, like, I can totally
Jennifer Takagi:do that. That means I may not have 30 calls that are an hour
Jennifer Takagi:each week. Okay? Okay, this is a whole different story. Okay, I
Jennifer Takagi:can put on the big rock beanies I can do this. So sometimes you
Jennifer Takagi:don't know like, what is it going to look like? And that's
Jennifer Takagi:scary.
Lynne Roe:Right. And very often when clients say, oh, I want 10
Lynne Roe:new clients. And I'll say that's great. Now, what's going to
Lynne Roe:happen when you do that, because you've got to put other systems
Lynne Roe:in place to be able to manage those 10 new clients, right? One
Lynne Roe:of them being in your case, a way for people to book with you.
Lynne Roe:And that means that then means you got to make sure that your
Lynne Roe:calendar is always up to date with all your personal stuff, as
Lynne Roe:well as your business stuff, because if it isn't, now you're
Lynne Roe:double booking and that I that becomes a whole other challenge.
Jennifer Takagi:I just on on one of my interviews today i She
Jennifer Takagi:was mentioning the importance of calendar. And I said, Yeah, I
Jennifer Takagi:need to reach out and have somebody helped me because my
Jennifer Takagi:personal calendar on my Google account is not buffering time
Jennifer Takagi:in. So somebody booked a podcast interview great. But I'm having
Jennifer Takagi:surgery in 10 days. And I have a pre op appointment. What didn't
Jennifer Takagi:build any time for me to get to the pre op appointment or get
Jennifer Takagi:home? Yeah. And so I just I had to break down, I hated to do it,
Jennifer Takagi:but I had to break down and just reschedule the meeting, because
Jennifer Takagi:I don't know if it's gonna work. So that's, that's a problem with
Jennifer Takagi:my strategy. And the problem I bumped up to at a time or two,
Jennifer Takagi:but I know it's something I need to do in my Google Calendar, I
Lynne Roe:finally got to the point where I now schedule and
Lynne Roe:travel time for anything that isn't from the office, you know,
Lynne Roe:travel time for everything. And now anytime anything goes on my
Lynne Roe:calendar, it also gets a travel time attached to it. Oh, and
Lynne Roe:that's excellent. It did that automatically. Even
Jennifer Takagi:if you're doing it at home on Zoom. If I
Jennifer Takagi:finished with you as a client, I might need to take a breath
Jennifer Takagi:before I start the next one, buffer time. Totally beckertime.
Jennifer Takagi:So what are some keys or strategies you can share with
Jennifer Takagi:me? I mean, audience, I hope you're getting great things for
Jennifer Takagi:this. But at this moment, it's all about me, like how can you
Jennifer Takagi:help me even more than I've already gotten some ideas.
Lynne Roe:Um, so I think the most important thing is to, to
Lynne Roe:have a plan for how you're going to get to where you want to get
Lynne Roe:to so and that's really where I start with all of my clients, we
Lynne Roe:create a strategic plan for growing their business to where
Lynne Roe:they want it to be. And that strategic plan starts with,
Lynne Roe:where what's the lifestyle that you want to be living, and let's
Lynne Roe:design your plan so that you can live that lifestyle that you
Lynne Roe:want. And then we bring that back from all right, 10 years,
Lynne Roe:this is where we're going to be this is what lifestyle I want.
Lynne Roe:This is the business I need to have. Where do I need to be in
Lynne Roe:three years? And in order to be there in three years? Where do I
Lynne Roe:need to be this year? And then we bring that back to what am I
Lynne Roe:doing each quarter? What am I doing each month. And what that
Lynne Roe:does is it takes that spaghetti of ideas that you have in your
Lynne Roe:head, oh my god, I got all these things, all these great ideas I
Lynne Roe:want to do and I don't know how to get it all done. And how am I
Lynne Roe:going to incorporate all of that, right? You've got these
Lynne Roe:this giant spaghetti bowl of ideas in your head. But what
Lynne Roe:that does is it takes that spaghetti bowl of ideas, and it
Lynne Roe:lays it out for you over time. And all of a sudden you're calm,
Lynne Roe:like, I know how to do this, I'm gonna do this. And then I'm
Lynne Roe:gonna do this. And then two months, I do this next step, and
Lynne Roe:then eventually it's all and you're like, oh, okay, I can get
Lynne Roe:it done. And when something new comes along, because there's
Lynne Roe:always something new that comes along, right, a new opportunity,
Lynne Roe:or something doesn't work the way you thought it would. No
Lynne Roe:problem. You either just plunk it in where you've got some
Lynne Roe:space on this nice calendar, right? This nice laid out plan
Lynne Roe:of what you're going to do. Or you say, You know what, I can
Lynne Roe:take this piece out and put this other thing in, and that'll
Lynne Roe:work. So it's not, it's not it doesn't add stress, it actually
Lynne Roe:takes away stress, because you've got it all figured out
Lynne Roe:how you're going to do it.
Jennifer Takagi:I am in a mastermind group with Brendon
Jennifer Takagi:Burchard, his Ultra group. And at the March 1 2024 training, he
Jennifer Takagi:said sometimes the answer is not this year. Yeah, like I want to
Jennifer Takagi:add that I want to do it but it doesn't fit this year. It
Jennifer Takagi:doesn't mean I'm not going to do it. I just need to not put my
Jennifer Takagi:focus on accomplishing that this year. And it was like wow,
Jennifer Takagi:that's really big. It
Lynne Roe:is and but you don't Want to lose those ideas either?
Lynne Roe:So those get put, when I when I do this with people those get
Lynne Roe:still put onto your plan? Yes, of course not this year, it's
Lynne Roe:next year or the year after or, you know, we kind of place where
Lynne Roe:we think it might end up being right. You know, the world does
Lynne Roe:change. So you can't have exact, but there's a place
Jennifer Takagi:marker for it even if it shifts? Yes, exactly.
Jennifer Takagi:Exactly. Oh, that's awesome. So you got this strategic plan, you
Jennifer Takagi:got your lead and yourself how to lead your people how to grow
Jennifer Takagi:your team? Yeah, give me give me one more big thing I know it's
Jennifer Takagi:come in systems. See.
Lynne Roe:Because the more systems you can put in place,
Lynne Roe:the the quicker things happen, the more smoothly they happen.
Lynne Roe:And it just takes all the all the stress and strain of trying
Lynne Roe:to get your, your work done. When you've got some systems in
Lynne Roe:place. So so it's putting those systems in place, have your
Lynne Roe:plan, think and build your team. Yeah. And think like a CEO,
Lynne Roe:because that's what you need to do is start thinking like the
Lynne Roe:CEO of your business, not the I'm the person who does the
Lynne Roe:stuff business part of your business, right? So instead of
Lynne Roe:saying, Okay, I need to do this, I want this to get done. How do
Lynne Roe:I get it done? How do I find time on my calendar for that?
Lynne Roe:No, you start thinking, who can do this for me? What is what is
Lynne Roe:that book? Who not? How? Who not? How? Yeah, I highly
Lynne Roe:recommend that book.
Jennifer Takagi:Yeah, it's really it's really a good one.
Jennifer Takagi:But when you talk about systems, it's kind of funny. I had a
Jennifer Takagi:program, I was kind of feeling my way through about offering.
Jennifer Takagi:And I was ready to offer it. And I thought I had the whole
Jennifer Takagi:landing page, the email sequencing everything set up and
Jennifer Takagi:how to book on the calendar, right, pay me and book on the
Jennifer Takagi:calendar. And I was just one step away. And I thought, Man,
Jennifer Takagi:I'm not ready. And it was like, oh, what limiting belief What
Jennifer Takagi:fear Do I have wasn't turned out, I was missing one piece of
Jennifer Takagi:my funnel that had to be there. Or none of it would connect. And
Jennifer Takagi:it was like, Yeah, that was not fear. That was intuition saying
Jennifer Takagi:something's not quite right. I'm really, really not ready. Yeah,
Jennifer Takagi:exactly. Those are kind of big things. But I love that we've,
Jennifer Takagi:we've kind of covered a whole lot of gamut. But I I want to go
Jennifer Takagi:back to your mission, because that was so powerful. You want
Jennifer Takagi:to build people into outstanding leaders, because it's
Lynne Roe:standing leaders have outstanding businesses. Because
Lynne Roe:by doing that, everybody wins.
Jennifer Takagi:That is so good. And you told me you have a
Jennifer Takagi:free gift for the audience.
Lynne Roe:I do have a free gift for your audience. It's an ebook
Lynne Roe:called five keys to success. And it's all about the things that
Lynne Roe:entrepreneurs should be thinking about when they're growing a
Lynne Roe:business and secret. There's actually 10 in there not to tie
Lynne Roe:them in. I know I tried, I did the first five. And I thought,
Lynne Roe:Well, wait a minute, there's plenty more that are really
Lynne Roe:great. So it's really 10 on there.
Jennifer Takagi:It's really cute, because Kimberly Crowe
Jennifer Takagi:talks about she doesn't she gives a talk and it's the four
Jennifer Takagi:stages. Every speaker needs to get on. And then she's like, But
Jennifer Takagi:wait, there's a secret fifth stage. So I've got the five
Jennifer Takagi:keys, but there are five more hidden keys. Yeah. All right,
Jennifer Takagi:and we're gonna find those at Lynn's. I turn to the wrong
Jennifer Takagi:page. Sorry, that lens free gift.com And it's L y n n e s
Jennifer Takagi:free gift.com. It will be in the show notes. So all of you who
Jennifer Takagi:are on your phone saying but I'm on my phone. No problem. No
Jennifer Takagi:problem at all. Just go to the show notes. It's on your phone.
Jennifer Takagi:It's right there. You can get it Lynn's free. gift.com this has
Jennifer Takagi:been awesome. Lynn.
Lynne Roe:Thank you so much for having me today.
Jennifer Takagi:Do you have any final words for our audience
Jennifer Takagi:before we sign off?
Lynne Roe:I do. What gets you to where you are now will keep
Lynne Roe:you where you are. If you want to get to a higher level you
Lynne Roe:have to make a change. So lead yourself to grow yourself so you
Lynne Roe:can get to the higher level of your business.
Jennifer Takagi:Oh my gosh, that's a perfect way to end it.
Jennifer Takagi:Thank you so much. And thank you for your time.
Lynne Roe:You're welcome. Thank you for having me.
Jennifer Takagi:I'm Jennifer Takagi with destined for
Jennifer Takagi:success. and I look forward to connecting with you soon