Fix, Close, Sell

When you’re up, you’re incredibly UP! And when you’re down, you're just DOWN. Business wins and losses can drive everything, from self-esteem to culture to legacy, but they are complementary of each other, and as an entrepreneur you need to get good at both! This episode helps you learn how to benefit from both wins and losses.

This is a pep talk, a 2023 retrospective, and a kick in the pants. It’s a reminder of who you are as an entrepreneur and a vulnerable share. As you leave one year and enter another, YOU’VE GOT THIS.

It’s tempting when things go wrong to try to shield children from everything. As parents we want to give them an existence that is untouched by the stress and the pain of our own lives. But the truth is the children are remarkable and if given the chance as well as solid support and good tools, they can show US what resilience means. This episode is all about talking to, and supporting your children through, your own business failures or challenges.

Nothing makes your heart sink into your gut like running out of money—whether it’s overdrawing the business checking on payroll day or hitting an operational gap! This episode helps you tackle the problem WITHOUT bringing in an investor and handing over your power and future profit.

When your business is hitting walls, bleeding cash, or failing, one of the toughest things is navigating what to tell other people. Especially when it’s close to home and you’re personally hurting, but you can’t show weakness! In this episode of Fix, Close, Sell I share my own experience with communications during business failure, and give you some guidelines to get you through.

As an entrepreneur, you need to get very good at quitting things—or you’ll pay the price. You’ve got to quit fast, quit easily, and quit often. This episode of Fix, Close, Sell teaches you how to quit without regret so you can move on to the next chapter of your life.

When times are tough in your business, your decisions narrow to a simple question: will you Fix, Close, or Sell it? This is the first episode of Fix, Close, Sell, the podcast giving troubled business owners clarity through a mix of hardheaded business advice, explaining options, and tested processes to reach success.