Ep 124: The Power of Delegation and Trusting Your Team with Molly Nutt
Molly Nutt, owner of Acorn Digital Strategy NW and co-founder of CEO Society Seattle, talks about her journey of quitting her corporate job and taking her passion for copywriting full-time. Molly has grown her copywriting agency to a full-time 6-figure business that helps other business owners build out their website copy, social copy, and brand voice!
In this episode, Molly talks with Kelsey about how she has scaled both her team and clientele. Kelsey dives into how important it is to delegate and spend less time on things that will not help scale you toward your larger goal. Molly has done this by fully training her assistant and her team. Molly is working towards working less IN the business and more ON the business.
Tune in and learn more about how Kelsey advises Molly towards a better plan for time management and scaling her business.
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Times to Check Out:
04:45 - How Molly knew when it was the time to make her first hire
11:15 - How to delegate properly so you can focus ON your business.
12:26 - Delegating time to focus on your personal pleasures just as you would to your business
14:46 - It’s easy to fear of taking time away from your business, it’s all about trusting the systems that have been put into place.
15:05 - How do you define success in your life? It’s important to define this for yourself so you know how to work towards it. As always, sometimes it is best to work backwards!
19:48 - It’s important to assess what’s working NOW!
21:48 - Why do you love running your business? Is it because of the accolades that come with it? Or do you sincerely LOVE what you do?
23:03 - Are you working out of a scarcity mindset? Taking no breaks because you’re nervous everything will fall apart if you do? Here Kelsey talks about how it’s important to hustle, but also important to live life because you never know what day will be your last.
23:29 - You are going to struggle as a business owner and there will be hard times. Through those struggles come the growth and abundance on the other end.
25:52 - Having the ideal team is the ultimate goal for scaling a business and building an empire.
26:49 - Surround yourself with people that have the same values and goals as you. Those are the people you want to have with you as you build your empire.
30:20 - Honor and protect time for yourself as you do for your clients
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