Episode 76: 10x Jumps - Coming to a crossroad

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Welcome to CEO Meets Homeschool. My name is Tamiya Parker, and I am both a CEO and homeschool mom to my four boys. Welcome to episode 76. This evening, I am kind of rushing around. I'm actually getting ready to get on a flight in just a few hours, and I'm trying not to be a bottleneck. So I have someone waiting on me for this podcast. So I was like, I can do this. So this is hopefully still going to A good podcast, but it will not be long. I'm going to jump into this 10 X jump by starting with a couple stories. And I remember a few years ago, one of my staff, she had said her neighbor had been asking about the work that she did for me and told her that she was. That my staff had her dream job and it just our team. We have a lot of flexibility. We make a point like it's a bunch of a lot of us are a bunch of moms. Some of them also homeschool and there's definitely that type of a culture. The freedom is probably. The most valued commodity, if I were to share or have my staff give some feedback. And this neighbor, one of my staff had shared was pretty high level in the corporate world, worked a ton, made really good revenue as far as I understood when she shared the story, but none of that mattered. She was just exhausted, getting burnt out. And I always appreciate hearing those stories. And then. I'm actually getting, well, I'm in the process of hiring for a couple different positions and things shift as you kind of evolve. And one of my big goals is to always hire people that are smarter and well ahead of me, if it's something they're helping me with, or some of my staff is tied to helping with hiring. And I said, find someone you're going to love working with who's exceptional. We're not going to settle. We're going to. Take our time and we're going to plug in the right people. And one of the higher positions, senior positions, the person was a Stanford graduate working for one of the applications. We're seeing all kinds of stuff, but I just had a moment where I was thinking, Oh, my word. I'm seeing more of this where it's not just, how should I say this, they're like highly qualified, like overly qualified people that have had a massive amount of experience, large multi billion dollar companies they work for, and they're applying for my tiny little, at my tiny little consulting firm, and I thought, I was thinking about that today, I got a few applications, some of them are similar, and I'm just like, wow, this kind of boggles my mind, but at the end of the day, I think people want freedom and I think some of these high level corporate jobs, they just, you get really great pay and you're kind of, you've got the golden handcuffs. So I've been thinking about that as we're getting ready to hire and this leads up to the 10 X jump and I don't have a very good title for this. So I decided we're going to call it coming to a crossroad. And I, when I first started out, it was obviously just me for many years. And then as I had my babies, that's when I really started getting some help, but it was still me. And then I mentioned in prior episode, the beginning help was with a little bit of childcare. So the next phase was me getting help with the, the consulting, the work. And I remember when I was, it was just me. And I had different clients and I would sometimes see some of the, the work that my clients did. And every now and then they'd have this huge project or contract or ongoing work. And I was thinking, what would it be like to have such a big client or to do this type of work? And as my small business grew, I started getting some larger clients. We do a variety of different work, but this story today is about getting a larger client and Coming to that crossroad and thinking, I either will not see my kids anymore, or I have to now get work and trust my team to get the job done. And this is such a huge gap coming from when you're a one person entrepreneur and you do almost everything for your company, to where then you sort of shift into what this is. I would describe more of a CEO where you now have a team that works with you, and eventually you start stepping away from the day to day activity. So this was the, the beginning step of that shift for me. And with this, I'll share this one story, one of the clients I'm thinking of. We had this pretty big project, and I had to help build it, and I had gotten someone to help me, and I remember us staying up all night building this, the system that we were going to follow, and looking back, it's such a dear memory, because it's like, I had to get the system started, but I was never going to be the one to always maintain it. And as we created this system, then I immediately brought on more staff to carry it and take care of that client. And the big takeaway for me was I knew I couldn't do all of this, and I knew I didn't want to work myself to where I was completely missing out on my kids. And that's That was the beginning of me building my team for the bookkeeping and consulting side of things. And that definitely, I, I never really had other people working with me. I'm kind of quiet. I worked on my own. But when you were forced to say, you're going to either miss out on your family or you have to start shifting. I, I really, I took that step and I've been learning how to continue doing that in other areas of my life ever since. It's a definite transformative 10X jump. And so I wanted to share that really quick and then I'll end by saying I've said this earlier that one of the big things for us being in Montana right now is I want to homeschool our boys on the ski mountain and the mountain open last Thursday. And our family has been at the mountain. I haven't been every one of these times, but we've been there four days. So I'm super proud. So it's exactly one week and a few different folks went, but we're off to a pretty good start. And I just want to encourage as we wrap up this year. Make plans. Everyone's making plans and goals for 2025. Find things that make you excited, light you up, that challenge you, and baby steps toward those goals. So it was pretty special to have some of those ski days when I knew there had been months and months of planning going into it. Now we get to, uh, reap some of those rewards. Have a great day, everyone.