Welcome to the Buckets and Boom Gates Studio with Kim White and Jill Olish. This week's conversation in the Team Series dives deeper into delegating. They discuss how delegating can bring time back to your schedule that you need for doing business or doing life. Listen along for some more confessions.

• People take it lightly to delegate something
• Delegate something the right way, brings time back to your schedule that you need for doing business or doing life
• Do you want to delegate something because you want more to do?
• Knowing why you're going to delegate something will help you know where to start delegating
• Start with what's going to benefit you the most in time
• We need to also consider what's going to help us make more money
• You're building a business that's going to support your life, an entire other family or an entire team of families
• Trading time for money
• When it is past time to delegate
• Humans supporting and helping is what delegation looks like
• So hard conversations come with delegation

Knowing these things before you start to delegate will keep you from giving up and encourage you to keep looking for the right person for your team. Start practicing delegating now, write down the processes in your business now, it actually can be easier to delegate when you do it from the beginning.

Join us next week for another episode in the Team Series.

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Welcome back.

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We are back in the BBG studio buckets and

boom gates of what we're talking about.

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And we are here for episode 72.

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And I'm joined with Kim White, the

Princess Kim White from My Sexy Business.

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You are the fierce Kim Founder

of the team and community there.

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I'm so excited to be here having this

conversation again, talking more about

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delegating and I am Jill Olish and

team member of my sexy business and

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founder of mama outspoken learning right

along as we talk all these things out.

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So.

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We are revisiting where we left off from

the last episode, all about delegating.

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Kim, where are we going today?

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Oh my goodness.

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Don't.

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Well, thank you for

the great introduction.

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I feel like this is such a deep thing.

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People take it lightly

to delegate something.

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They're like, yeah, we'll just delegate

that when you delegate something

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the right way, and it brings time

back to your schedule that you need

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for doing business or doing life.

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Let me say that.

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Um, I just think this is worth

taking the time to go through

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these little details about it.

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So, if, if you're already a Master

Delegator and you don't have any

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trouble on your team and you don't,

maybe you can skip this episode, I

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wouldn't recommend it, but maybe?

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But for the rest of us humans,

I think it's really important

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to have this conversation.

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Oh yeah.

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Um, especially, you know, this podcast

is for entrepreneurs and a lot of times

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beginning entrepreneurs as well as

entrepreneurs wanting to level up or

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take a next step in their business and

delegating might just be that next step

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and learning how to do it the right way.

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And so the wrong way.

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Is key because it's powerful as Kim

says, and if you didn't listen to the

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last episode to see the wrong way or

to hear about the wrong way of doing

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it, go back and listen to that one.

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Lots of confessions go on here.

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Let me just say that the

studio is full of confessions.

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Continuing this conversation though,

when you're, when you're thinking of

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delegating, let me say that when you're

thinking of delegating something,

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Is it because you want more to do

because that's something to consider?

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Are you cleaning off your calendar

so that you can handle more clients?

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Are you cleaning off your calendar so

that you can be home more with your kids?

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Are you cleaning off your calendar?

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Like, why are you cleaning

off your calendar?

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And I think when you look at

that, that piece of it, Look for

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the place that's the most painful

for getting that time you need.

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So for me, email is definitely

always a top contender.

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I'll just like be out there with that.

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That is one of the hardest

things for me personally.

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And I think I share that with

millions of other entrepreneurs

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is when we are, when we are having

to communicate back and forth.

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We're communicating with our clients,

our team or whatever, or we're being

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solicited all the time because if you

have a great website, these are just some

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of the problems I want to discuss, Jill.

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Um, when you have a great website,

you actually get a lot of nonsense

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emails because people see you

as successful on your website.

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So then all of a sudden they

want to sell you something.

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A lot of people out there take that

approach to their businesses that

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they're soliciting all the time.

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So my email is full of some of that

stuff that is just no thank you or

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delete or whatever it is that takes time.

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I don't want to spend my time doing

that when there are people who, and I'm

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going to give an example for our team.

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I am very heart centered when it comes

to why we have such a great team.

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I want our team to be able to benefit

in their life for being on the team.

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So sometimes to kick off a business, it

takes starting on someone else's team.

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Before you understand how to

create your own team or your own

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business or whatever that is.

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I love the fact that this part of our

business that we're doing the podcast

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the The website you see the all of that.

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I love that.

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This is the side of the business.

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I get the privilege and honor

to train other people to do

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things Like this makes me happy.

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This part just, it makes my heart sing

when somebody has a light bulb moment or

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they understand how to do something and

now for maybe someone else, or they can

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do it for their own business, whatever

it is, but me having time was where this

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all started, like me having time because

I was so busy with clients, I didn't have

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time to train, I didn't have time to do

some of the things that I love to do.

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So knowing why you're going to

delegate something, I feel like is

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a piece of the puzzle that will help

you know where to start delegating.

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I don't want to delegate

the parts I love at first.

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So if you pick out the most painful

thing though, which is what a lot

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of us do, that can also create a

harder time of delegating because

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you're not first at delegating yet.

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So if I hate something, that's

the thing I want to delegate.

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Maybe it is because I don't know

how to do it, or maybe it is

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because I'm not very good at that.

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And if you don't get clear instructions

to delegate, They're not going to

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know how to do it either, y'all.

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I was going to be my question, but can I

not just delegate the things I don't know

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how to, like, it really is, can I delegate

the things that I don't know how to do?

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Because like you're saying, obviously

it might mean that I don't like them.

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Doing it at first in my eyes because

I don't know how to do it for me.

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That was social media.

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I just didn't enjoy it at all.

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And I wanted someone else to be

on the team doing it and not me.

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And then I had to do it for myself, but

I also learned a better way of doing it.

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So now I am doing it both for

the team and myself in a way.

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I'm back to square one,

but I don't hate it now.

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So.

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Are there really things though that we

can delegate that we don't know how to do?

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Always.

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Like there are always things we want

to delegate that we don't know how to

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do, but I'm not sure that's the right

place to start because when you're

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starting out to delegate, what's

going to benefit you the most in time

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is really where you need to start.

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And I'm going to say something kind

of controversial here and I'm okay.

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Just save your hate for somebody else.

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Um, I think a lot of times we need

to consider what's going to help us

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make more money because the bottom

line is if you're not making money in

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your business, you can't have a team

because they need to be paid as well.

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And this is a really like, I'm going

to call it a sketchy part of this is if

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you're delegating just minutia stuff, And

you're not delegating something that's

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actually going to help you be able to

go out more money, then you're just kind

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of trading, you're trading off things.

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I think it's really important, especially

in the beginning as an entrepreneur,

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what can you delegate that will

actually give you the time to deal

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with maybe more clients or customers

so that you're getting a little bit

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of a buffer so that you can afford to

hire someone maybe a little bit more.

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Experienced on your team, or you can,

you can do training your own self to

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learn how to do something if you need

to, but that just getting rid of the

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things we don't like, and then, and

I'm going to laugh and say, and eating

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bonbons on the couch and watching

soap operas in the afternoon, that to

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me is not the right way to delegate.

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You really need to delegate things.

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In the beginning, especially that

are going to give you the time

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that you need so that you can make

more money so that you can delegate

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more because that's part of the

different way of thinking about this.

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It is, you're building a business

that's going to support your life,

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but if you have a team, guess what?

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You're not only using that

business to support your life.

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You're using that business

to support an entire.

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other family or an

entire team of families?

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I'm writing down notes

because I'm getting ideas.

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Um, I'm getting questions,

all kinds of stuff.

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But, um, let's see, where do I want to go?

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How then do I, so I'm just starting out.

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You started out pretty much

delegating with your email and

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We don't want to delegate things

that we don't know how to do.

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And we want to delegate when we are

ready to clear our calendar to add

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something new or something that's

gonna, you know, start moving the

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needle someplace in our business.

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So what am I looking

for as a business owner?

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That's going to tell me that I'm

ready to, to hand something off, to

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open up my calendar for that thing.

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Like, is that like where we want to, like,

is that a question I can ask right now?

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Yes, yes, yes, yes.

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I think the biggest thing is if you

are maxed out on your time, And you

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cannot make more money unless you do

something different with your time.

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So I do not believe in

trading time for money.

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I do not believe that that is

the right way to look at it.

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I think that is the, you know,

the corporate experience.

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If I show up for eight hours,

I get paid for eight hours.

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That's time, time for money.

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Your time is priceless.

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You can always make more money.

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You can't always make more time.

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So I want as an entrepreneur

and a business owner, you

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have to take that part out.

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But if I am so maxed out on my

calendar, my business cannot grow.

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I'm so maxed out on my calendar

that my life is suffering.

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It is past time to delegate.

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So if you are feeling those

feelings, like, yes, you, you need

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to learn to delegate, but here's

the problem with most people.

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They don't understand.

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When you start to delegate,

your calendar gets worse.

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It, it takes, it takes a minute to

get something off your calendar.

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It takes sometimes longer.

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Well, no, it always takes

longer than you want it to.

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It always takes more

effort than you want it to.

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I think that's just a given, but knowing

that before you start to delegate will

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keep you from giving up and knowing that

finding the right person can take you a

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little bit of time because maybe you go

through a dozen assistants who they don't

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really gel with you or they don't really,

quite frankly, they don't really like you.

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They just are there.

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So you pay them, which happens and there's

nothing wrong with them wanting a job.

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I think that You know, they're

supporting their families, but I

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need somebody who's more invested

than just wanting their paycheck.

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I need somebody who, who cares what

happens to our clients, who cares

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what happens to our masterminders

because they're there for a bigger

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reason than just the paycheck.

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So, so there is a, there is a

process I'm going to call it of

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looking for the right people.

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In the beginning, you don't really

always know what that looks like.

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Somebody can say the right

things to you and you're like,

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yeah, that's the perfect person.

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And then they don't show up

four out of the five days.

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You need them.

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They're constantly changing the

schedule where their schedule can't

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even coordinate with your schedule to

do the things like there are signs.

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There are signs that you need to

find a different person because

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that, that is just how it is.

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Humans.

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Supporting and helping is

what delegation looks like.

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So let me support you and

giving you an opportunity.

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Let me support you and giving

you opportunity for training.

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Let me support you in this way.

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But what I need back is I need you

to support me and getting me more

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time so I can help more people.

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Like it's not just a straight across

the board and paying someone is an

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investment in them right out of the.

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Right out of the gate.

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If you're paying someone to delegate

to them, you're investing in them.

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You have to watch and make sure they're

investing back because if they're

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not investing their time, they're

showing up after partying all night.

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They're, they're stressed out with

something else and they're not really

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doing the job you've asked them to do.

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Those are things that you've really got

to consider as a business owner and I'm

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gonna be kind of a meanie real quick.

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Business is business.

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We don't harm humans in the process.

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But we also have a boom gate for

humans not harming us in the process.

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So hard conversations

come with delegation.

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Being honest with you and them being

honest with, you know, themselves.

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Those are hard, hard things.

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But all of that is married

into a great delegation.

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It's all married into if it's

going to be successful long term.

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I, I sometimes need somebody

just to do a project.

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Like, here's a project, go do this, and

we'll figure out what that looks like.

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But a true team, and that's what this

series is about, a true team is not just

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one project somewhere with somebody.

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A team is, we're all working

together for this goal, and yes,

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the team is compensated financially,

they, they get money for doing

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that, but it's bigger than that.

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It's I care about you.

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So if you're having a hard time,

how can I support you right now?

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Because Next week, maybe I'm

having a hard time and you're going

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to support me when I'm having.

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So there's a lot of still

unpacking to do with this Jill.

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And I feel like I need to just

stop because I could probably

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go on and on and on about this.

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Oh, and I'm glad you brought up

a little bit of the team part.

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Cause we talked about that in episode.

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69 I believe and 70 cause that's one of

the ones that I messed up the number.

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We talked a lot about, you know,

how people are showing up and

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putting in their time to, to, um,

cause you bring up a good point.

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Like we're as business owners, we

get to be to a point in our business

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where we're needing the extra support

and that's why we would build a team.

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But what is the worth of

a team if they're not?

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Supporting because you're supporting them

and you need that support right back from

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them and the a game and all of the things

that we talked about in that episode all

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fit right into being delegatable because

that might be the other half of being

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able to delegate is someone delegatable.

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Also, you are spot on.

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You are, we're not going there though.

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That's going to be on my

notes for next time as well.

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I love it.

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So Jill, Jill is, um, princess hurting.

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I'm going to say that was one of the

things we talked about because we

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can make these episodes five hours

long with, with all the conversation.

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It's so such good stuff, but we

also want this to be something

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that you take from this episode.

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And you find something, even if it's just

one thing, one thing to consider, one

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thing to implement, one thing that you can

change about how you're delegating things.

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Even if it's, you're thinking about

delegating, consider these things.

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Or even just the process.

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Start writing out your processes now.

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That way you're not

having to remember back.

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Well, how do I do this again?

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I think that might be one of my team

confessions is as you're learning

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it yourself, write it all out so you

can tell someone else down the line,

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how it is done in your business.

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So if we have a rule on the team

that we'll do, I think we'll

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probably end up with a whole

episode of this at some point.

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And that is, the rule is, it's

required on our team anyway

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to make yourself promotable.

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It's not so that we can do without you.

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It's so that we have the ability to

train someone else to do what you're

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doing, or maybe what you're not, what's

not your favorite to do, so that they

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can be successful at it, and you can do

something and learn something different,

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or uplevel your own training things.

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So promotable is like a good thing.

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People think that you know,

you're trying to get rid of me.

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No, we're trying to literally promote you.

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Yeah.

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So when you say that Jill, I think of all

the times that I've given you instructions

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that were terrible instructions because

I've been doing something for 20 years.

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I don't even remember what I

didn't know in the beginning.

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So, it is gold, y'all, if you're listening

to any part of this, it is gold what

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Jill said about writing down while you're

learning, what didn't you know, or what

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do you know now, and that process of

creating that process, it actually can

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be easier to delegate when you do it

from the beginning, instead of waiting

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20 years to, to delegate something.

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What, what are you not telling them?

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What are you not giving them in the

process that they really need to be

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successful for their sake and yours?

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Good, good, good stuff.

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I

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can't wait to pick this up again, but

before we leave, we wanted to send an

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invitation to you listening to join

us in Groundwork Brigade Open House,

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which we have monthly, and that's

where this podcast came from also is

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our Groundwork Brigade Mastermind,

where we have entrepreneurs, business

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owners, all in this group, learning,

Alongside each other, what adventure

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they're on for their businesses,

bringing questions to the table.

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Like we just went over

today about delegating and.

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Every aspect of our business is to

make sure that we can have a business

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that we own and doesn't own us.

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So we have the opportunity to

feel how powerful delegating is

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and all the other things that

we do in business can be for us.

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Um, yeah.

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So something just crossed my mind, Joel,

when you said that, that, I don't know

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if it's crossed my mind before, but

we are spilling the T on the podcast.

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And it's our freebie.

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Like you can come on and get all

the information from the podcast,

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but we can only do so much per week.

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The community, which is a mastermind

community that Jill was talking about.

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That's kind of the fast track version.

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You don't have to wait until we

come out with episode, you know,

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712 to get an answer, you can come

into the community and ask us.

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Ask the question and get answered.

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So just, I don't know why that just, that

just bubbled up Jill, just bubbled up.

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So you have questions now,

come join us in mastermind.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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Well, I think that's it for today in

the studio, Kim, and we'll be back

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here in the BBG studio next week.

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Love y'all.