Originally aired Thursday, March 26, 2026. Businessing is now a weekly show with a new episode every Monday.
Short answer: Celebrate your wins because running a business always hands you a problem to fix, and nobody high-fives you when something goes right. If you only focus on problems, you get more problems. Stopping to name one good thing reminds you that you're good at this. Hearing other owners' wins also shows you what's possible and how they got there.
Today we tried something new. Owners called in live to share their wins of the week. Talmar Anderson talked about a client's 8 PM celebration call, Lynn Corazzi shared his book hitting bestseller lists, Jennifer Buchholz talked about a wave of Microsoft Copilot work, Nikki Lee shared Genhead's first hire, Michael Cohen talked about using Claude to sort his tax invoices, and Brad showed how AI helped him rebuild a chamber presentation. I explained why celebrating wins matters so much. For the AI story, I tried the Department of Labor's free AI literacy course that runs by text. In the Idea Slam, I covered whether to refer clients out when they need help outside your expertise, and the most overrated business advice I've heard.
Businessing is the weekly show where small business owners figure out what to do next, with a new episode every Monday. Hosted by Pat Miller, founder of the Small Business Owners Community: owners only, nobody pitching, $19 a month.
Key takeaways
- Once a week, write down one good thing that happened in your business, even if it's just on a sticky note.
- Listen to other owners' wins and look for one piece of how they did it that you can borrow.
- When a client needs help outside your expertise, refer them to someone you trust instead of faking it.
- Keep a short list of experts you'd stake your name on, because a bad referral comes back to you.
- Take care of your sleep, food and movement, because as the owner you run the whole business.
Questions this episode answers
Why is it important to celebrate small wins as a business owner?
Because there's always a problem on your list, and nobody notices when you land a client or launch something. If you only focus on problems, you get more problems. Naming a win reminds you that you're good at this, and hearing other owners' wins shows you that you can win too.
Should I refer a client to someone else when they need help outside my expertise?
Yes, once you're past the early days. When you do work you aren't an expert in and it goes poorly, clients start to doubt the work you are good at. Keep a list of people you can refer to instead.
How do I choose who to refer my clients to?
Only refer people you trust and know are good. Don't refer someone just because they pay you a referral fee. If they do a bad job, it comes back on you because you're the one who sent them.
Is hustle and grind good advice for small business owners?
For some people it works, but it can run you into the ground. When you're the product, a worn-out owner means a worn-out business. Taking the right amount of rest for you can leave you recharged and more creative when you get back to work.
Worth quoting
When you only focus on the problems, you get more problems. But if you stop and say, whoa, I did something good. You remember, you're pretty freaking good at this.
Pat Miller on Businessing
If you refer someone to your client and they stink, that will come directly back to you.
Pat Miller on Businessing
I am the product, I'm the business, and if this is worn down and worn out and tired and not sharp, then my business is worn out and tired and not sharp.
Pat Miller on Businessing
Just on a post-it note, write down one good thing that happened to you this week. This stuff matters and it really works.
Pat Miller on Businessing
On the show
- Talmar Anderson, Boss HQ: A newer client called her at 8 PM to celebrate how well her team reviews went.
- Lynn Corazzi, Guided Money Tours: A fractional CFO whose book with Andy Wines hit number one in two bestseller categories.
- Jennifer Buchholz, Excel and Flourish: A surge of Microsoft Copilot training and consulting work, mostly from existing relationships and referrals.
- Nikki Lee, Genhead: Making Genhead's first hire so she can step away from operations and focus on vision work.
- Michael Cohen: A photographer and audio engineer using Claude Cowork to pull invoice data into a spreadsheet for taxes.
- Brad, Vision for Business Solutions: Rebuilt a chamber leadership presentation with AI tools and tested an AI-built wage calculator with a client.
- Idea Slam question: How do you handle clients who need help outside your expertise, and what's the most overrated business advice you've ever gotten?
In this episode
- News: baseball opening day, March Madness, a study on staying active
- Why celebrate your business wins
- Live call-ins: owners share their wins
- Take care of yourself, you run the business
- AI story: a free AI literacy course by text
- Idea Slam: refer clients out or figure it out
- Idea Slam: the most overrated business advice
- Is a trivia champion's talent becoming obsolete?
Watch, listen and join
- Watch this episode on YouTube
- Apple Podcasts
- Listen anywhere
- Small Business Owners Community
- The Small Business Library (add it to your AI tool)
More on this topic: Keep going answers from the Small Business Owners Community
Full transcript
Businessing 260326
And good morning. It's Thursday, March 26th and we are Businessing. This is Small Businesses Daily Live show. Hi there. I'm your host, pat Miller, the Fridays off guy founder of the Small Business Owners community, and it's really great to have you with us this morning. We're sponsored by our friends at Gen Head.
Thanks to Nikki and the team for making this show possible on today's show. We're gonna have some fun because it's my last workday of the week and ah, it's opening day in Major League baseball and the sun is out and it's not 82 degrees below zero. So I'm in a heck of a good mood. So we'll check on the news, but like the fun stories in the news, I don't think we have any downers in the news today.
We've got two idea slam questions that we're gonna knock out, but the big thing today is, and this has been kind of a theme of all the things, this week we have been testing things on the show. Today we're going to test something. We're gonna give you the opportunity to call into the show live. This is something I've always wanted to do and it's something that I've tried in the past, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
But with Businessing, we've never tried it. So I just put the link in the chat and we're gonna have folks come on the air and we're gonna celebrate our wins of the week. This is really hard to do. You would think it would be simple for someone to come on and say, Hey, I sold a thing, or I built a new partnership.
I wrote a new book, or whatever it might be. But there's something inside of us that stops us from coming on a platform like this and sharing the good things that are happening in the business. I'll talk to you about why that is, and together we will celebrate you and your business. It also serves as some publicity too, so we would love to have you on the air with us today.
Our AI story of the day is shocking, frankly. It has nothing to do with Claude or Gemini or chat GPT or anything. It has everything to do with the government. Question mark. The government did something good with ai. They've launched a free AI literacy course and it is shockingly good and it's delivered in a really unique way.
I took the first class this morning and it's like, I really wanted to think, ah, this is terrible. It's the government. No, it's actually really good. I'll share with you how you can enroll and how you can take advantage of it. 'cause it was, again, it was just surprisingly good. Uh, let's see who's here. Good morning Steve.
Great to see you. And, oh, look at this. Stephanie Kern, who's with us for the first time all week and she shares, I've started a list of sticker ideas from last week and this week. I suppose these phrases could be a sticker and or a T-shirt. WTF, Claude. That would be my personal request right now, but you've heard us all week talking about where's Stephanie in my sticker?
We need to get the sticker club going while she's with us this morning. And yes, Lynn Corazzi, great to see you sir. Thanks for tuning in and you love the new cool song and credit to Wendy Babcock for making that happen. Okay, we'd love to have you on the show. The link is in the chat. We're gonna celebrate wins in a minute, but first, let's go through our news headlines.
It's kind of sporty today. Like I mentioned, it's Major League Baseball's opening day, so I live in Milwaukee and 41% of Milwaukee is already unable to drive because it is 11:00 AM The game starts at one and drinking is a sport here in Wisconsin and we're undefeated at drinking. As my old colleague, gene Miller used to say, you can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
An opening day is the singular drunkest event I've ever been to in my life. True story. Quick story. I moved here from. Omaha, Nebraska. My very first public event was opening day and we were the flagship radio station for the Brewers and we had a big broadcast trailer and me and the promotions team had set up the trailers and I was watching what was going on like a tourist.
'cause I had never been to Milwaukee before. And we set up and we start talking to people and we're there like five hours before the game 'cause we had to beat traffic. And I started to see people getting drunker and drunker and happier and happier. And everyone was super cool. But by the time it got to be like the second or third inning.
'cause people still had not gone into the game. They were so drunk, some of them like dragging people in kind of drunk. And I was sitting there unhooking one of the trailers. I was doing something and all of a sudden I hear a missile blam. Someone threw a full beer at my head. If I had not bent down to do whatever it was that I was doing, it would've exploded all over my face.
It hit the trailer it beer spray everywhere, and I thought these people know how to party. Okay. So that was my introduction to Milwaukee and my introduction to opening day. So for those of you about to tailgate, I salute you in other sports news. Uh, we have big basketball. Big basketball tonight, Talmar.
Good morning. Good to see you. Sweet. 16 tips off tonight, Purdue and Texas will play. The main event in my household is Nebraska and Iowa. Abby and I lived in Nebraska for a long time, so go Big Red. But Abby is an Iowa Hawkeye grad, so she's very allegate to Iowa, so she's wearing her yellow and black today and she's out cheering for Iowa, so that'll be a big deal.
Arizona and Arkansas will also play. It's going to be a very fun round of 16 and CBS set viewership records over the weekend. So when people say, yeah, nobody watches TV anymore, well they do watch live sports. That is a thing. Another thing that's happening tonight, the iHeartRadio Music Awards are airing live tonight at seven o'clock.
It's on Fox. It's from the Dolby Theater, and the thing to watch for is that, uh, Taylor Swift is gonna be there. So half of the country will be watching this thing. She's making her first awards appearance of the year. She's nominated for nine nominations. She's already won 34 awards from the iHeartRadio Awards people.
John Mellencamp will receive the Icon Award and perform Live. Live. Ludicrous is gonna host. He's so cool. It's gonna be a fun show if you like that sort of thing. So that's happening later tonight as well. One more story, then we're gonna get to celebrating our wins. 'cause I really want to hear from you what good is happening to you this week.
Um, we have some people queued up. They're gonna come on the air too, which is really exciting. So we'd love to have you dial in and we want to hear your wins as well. This story is kind of a gut check. Are you willing to stay active if it means you live longer? Are you. Stanford released a new story where they tracked Phish from birth to death, and they found that their behavior directly correlated with their lifespan.
Now, this is not record breaking news, but we know this now factually phish that took too many naps and didn't stay active, especially in middle age. That's the discovery in this survey, in this, uh, research rather that midlife activity were the strongest predictors for how long the fish lived. So I would assume you're at or near midlife.
If you are. How you doing? Are you a napping fish or are you swimming daily? If you're swimming daily, you're gonna live longer. The researchers now have the stats, but if you like naps like I do, and if you love beer like I do, I love beer. You might want to move a little bit more if you plan on living a long time, new research to consider as we go into a fun three day weekend.
Today's lead story is gonna be great. This is something we do in the small business owners community all the time. On Fridays, we celebrate our wins. Why do we celebrate our wins? I think this is absolutely crucial to do because when you run a small business, there's always a problem. Right now on your to-do list, there is a flashing red problem, something that must get fixed or else.
So there's always stuff to handle. And what will happen is you'll sign a client, uh, you'll get a deal you've been chasing, you'll launch a product or something you've been working really hard on, and no one notices, no one gives you a high five. No one says, well, that was really good. No one does anything.
You just keep on going and worrying about the problems. And when you only focus on the problems, you get more problems. But if you stop and say, whoa, I did something good. You remember, you're pretty freaking good at this. Why would we put it on the show? Ha. This is the thing that we discovered inside the small business owner's community.
When we hear other people win, there is, I dunno if it's subconscious or conscious, but we go, wow, they won. I can win too. Oh, that's how they did it. Oh, that solves the problem. Why I couldn't get the thing to work. So what we're gonna do today, we're gonna bring some callers on the air, gimme your win of the week, tell us what you do.
Cool. How did you do that? What was the hardest thing about doing that? And I'm gonna ask some questions of the people who are winning. And if you have questions for the people that are winning, put it in the chat. This is our chance to talk to the people that are doing good things, and I would remind you every single one of you could come on the air and share a win, because if you are in business, something good is happening to you.
I promise. First up today. Oh yeah. Tammar Anderson, baby. Good morning, Talmar Anderson. How are you, my friend?
Good morning, pat Miller. Thank you so much for having me here. I'm super excited, doing great this morning.
I'm glad you're here. Longtime. SBOC member, you've done this before so you know what to expect, but if someone hasn't met the talmar yet, tell them who you are and what you do.
Haven't met a Talmar? Well, let's talk about what the hell of telmar is. I am the CEO of Boss hq, and we are a hiring strategy and management framework company. We get to work with exhausted bosses that are ready to build, lead, and celebrate with kick ass teams and a rockstar second in command. I
love all of that.
Alright, so you know how this goes. We need to hear a win. Give us a win of the week. What good happened to you?
Again, this is another way that you just, your timing and you really remind us to be in this moment. This is something that happened literally last evening. It's a rare occurrence, but, uh, it's, I would not be sharing it today if you hadn't prompted us.
Right. So thank you for letting us celebrate.
Love it.
I took a call from a client at 8:00 PM which is actually against the rules. Yes, ma'am. But this is a newer client and, uh, it, you know, in the first month or two, we've doing a lot of work and she has a lot of balls in the air, and so I was worried this was a crisis moment that we were gonna need to get her through because 8:00 PM calls are usually not, yay, let's celebrate.
But it was, it was a celebration call. She was so freaking excited about how she had served for her team. She had a bunch of quarterly reviews. She showed up in a very different structured way. The team was so excited. Each of these one-on-ones, she got to go deep with them. She was so excited. She couldn't wait for our call two days later.
She had to share that moment. We spent 30 minutes on her really just going, stepping into the structures. We'd set up, feeling more confident, getting to enjoy the team, was excited about the structure that she was doing. It was. I, I, I, I, I literally was, she was like, I'm so sorry. I said Two minutes and we've gone.
I was like, this is a call. I wanna call me anytime. Right. That was, it was so exciting because we don't always get to be in the moment of the wind with the clients. They wait and they tell us later. And that, that real excitement can be a little lost from there. Uh, so the fact that she reached out and let me share in her own personal, um, awareness and, uh, enjoyment and how she could show up and how the team appreciated it right then, and in the moment, the new structures and that fear that she'd been carrying, it was gone and she was just rocking her boss.
I too, it was so much fun.
First of all, congratulations. And secondly, sometimes we gotta bend the rules, especially when Yeah. Potential, good or bad things can happen. Yeah. So that's a great reminder.
Yes.
The fact that you remembered it and now you're sharing it out loud. Yeah. What was the transformation or the moment.
That you taught her about, or she realized that helped her be there for the team? Can you think of something absolutely. In your transformation that you offered to her that unlocked the value?
Absolutely. The thing she kept pulling back to is how proud she was that she was presenting the details to the team.
It was all about their own positions in the company, but it was about making the company better and serving clients better and setting up a better team. She moved away from. I need you to, I want you to, I think you should. She really started representing that her job is to be the, uh, the representative of the company and the business she's building and how we can all serve the clients, serve the business, serve each other on the teams.
And it completely shifted not just her confidence and the way she was communicating, but how they could hear it and they didn't feel so defensive. Because when it's I against you, of course we're gonna be defensive when we're talking about my performance, but when we're talking about the company's really going this way and the company really needs people to show up this way, it totally diffuses that emotion and lets people have a conversation, receive feedback, and get excited about the momentum.
Now with that awareness, you're reliving all of this good vibe this morning.
Yes.
How has that changed what you're doing today? What are you gonna take from that conversation and put into the next email that you send people, the next client discovery call? What did you learn from this experience that you're going to take with you moving forward?
I, I, you know, I think one of the, uh, the marketing lanes that I will take down is bending the rules. You're quick to notice because that's, you know, we've set boundaries in. So much of what we work on with our clients is letting them have permission to not take their team's calls at 8:00 PM and not be there all the time, but where, where you have to trust your instincts that this could be a crisis moment.
Take the call and it might turn out to surprise you. Um, but the second piece is to really just constantly be out there reminding people if you can check in with your clients and you can find ways to know when to communicate with them during what's might seem like high stress. But if you're giving them tools, they're gonna wanna share the wins.
And as a CEO, we don't have a lot of people that are gonna get it. Mm-hmm. So, uh, if you're, however you're serving your clients, be in front of them, even in the stressful moments so that you'll get to share the wins as well as get them through that hard part.
That's awesome. Yeah, a great reminder and Telmar, congratulations and thanks for coming on the show.
I really appreciate
it. Thanks for letting me share. I love the show, everybody. Make sure you're listening. Pat's just the bee's knees and so is the SBOC, so if you're not in it, get there.
Thank you, Telmar. Appreciate you. Okay. On the air next.
Lynn
Razzi. Lynn, it's great to see you, my friend. Uh, you've had a big week, but I won't spoil your win.
If someone hasn't met you yet, tell 'em who you are and what you do.
My name is Lynn Zi. I'm a fractional CFO who runs a ServiceNow called Guided Money Tours. Guided Money Tours is all about making sure that you understand your numbers, how to use them, and how you can turn them into better decisions that are gonna help you grow your business.
Love that I do that through something called about thinking and Smart Money Management.
Okay, so the business is about helping people and you help people in a slightly different manner. This week give us your win of the week.
The, for the past year and a half, I've been working on a book with Andy Wines.
And, you know, about two weeks ago I put a post out there and said, Hey, I've been doing this. And it's scary as hell because you know what if you do it and nobody buys a darn thing. And I got a lot of great reactions to that. And yesterday we learned that we in fact, hit the number one category, um, bestseller in two of our three categories, and we're number two in those.
And really the, what's really cool about that is the categories that we picked are ones that everybody has to deal with, understanding financial statements, pricing, and how do you manage cash flow and look ahead to where your cash is gonna be so that you can actually predict and make better decisions as opposed to continually reacting.
And that's the whole key of everything. If we can just get in front of things just a little bit, you can get more control
now that you've done it and it's out there. And congratulations to the bestseller status and working with Andy and all of that.
Yeah.
Tell me about the process of writing a book. Did you enjoy it?
Was it hard? Tell us about that. And now that it's done, what is life like?
Um, li life is gonna feel empty because it is all consuming. When Andy and I started this, um, you know, all you realize it became literally another part-time job. We had a call every week on Wednesday for two hours. Andy and I talked separately on Fridays for another hour and a half to think about what, what are we gonna say?
And so going through the whole process, and one of the questions was that I get a lot of times was, you and Andy are so different. In fact, we were on a podcast that just dropped. I'm gonna put a note about Ed, um, later on today. And the guy's first question was, you obviously are not gonna hang out together.
How did you get together and write this book and, you know, and, and what was cool about it, even though you like I'm the, the corporate finance guy. Yes. It took me a long time to shed a lot of the corporate speak, but I still slip into it now and then and, but Andy's the fourth generation entrepreneur. It was so much freaking fun working with him because even though we approach the world from two completely different perspectives, we always landed what's gonna be the best message for the small business owner?
'cause we're both pulling in the stories that you know of, of the people that we worked with, what we've learned, what we've experienced, and how do you bring it all together and say, this is what you really gotta know.
Tell us who exactly should read it, name of the book, and then we'll have you drop the link into the chat so people can get it.
So who is this exactly for and what's the name of the book?
It's written for business owners with generally half million to $2 million in revenue. Who really are out there doing their thing, but we're just completely avoiding these numbers because the world tells us, you know, you get a bookkeeper, send it all to them so you don't have to worry about it.
Well, the numbers are what's going on in your business, the result of every decision and behavior you've ever, you've ever made. And that's, that's why you need to understand your numbers and what causes them.
Amazing.
Yeah.
Okay, so we Yep, that's exactly who it's for. And, uh, you'll drop the link into the chat for us.
No problem.
I will have it out there in just a second.
I love it. Thank you, pat. Thanks for joining.
Thanks for letting us celebrate.
Absolutely. Congrats, man. That's a big, big win, uh, man. To write the book. And to get it out and then get into the categories you need for the best seller. That's also a big win.
So congratulations to Andy and to Lynn. Alright, we've got two more people standing by. We're gonna celebrate wins with, this is the last call if you want to come on the air, click the link QR code in the corner. We'd love to include you. Always great to see Jennifer ols. Good morning my friend. How are you today?
Thanks for calling in.
Hello. Good morning, and I am great.
Excellent. We get to celebrate wins today, but if someone hasn't met you yet, it's their loss. Tell 'em who you are and what you do.
My name's Jennifer Buchholz. My company is Excel and Flourish, and we help organizations leverage their investment in their Microsoft 365 platform, especially productivity tools and ai.
Okay, so I don't, I have no idea what you're going to share. Give us a win. What do you have?
Well, we've been having so many calls right now about Microsoft's copilot.
I'm sorry, my cat just muted my microphone. True story. Um, so we've been having so many calls about Microsoft Copilot and a lot of them are from existing relationships that I've had that they're just now turning to me for this. Uh, we have landed, half of the revenue that I made last year got landed in the last two weeks of, yeah,
back, back that fang up as the famous song said.
You are saying in the last two weeks you've made 50% of 2020 five's revenue.
Correct.
Som really?
I know. My eyes bugged out too, pat.
Damn, that's amazing.
And you know, it's training, it's projects, it's consulting, it's adoption of the program. It's long-term stuff. It's. And it's creating so much more fun energy.
And guess what? I'm using AI to help me deliver ai.
Oh,
shocking. Isn't that
interesting?
Shocking. It's so
much
fun.
Here comes this waterfall of revenue and opportunity. How are you handling it? 'cause it is changing, like it is moving your cheese big time. Like, wait a minute, look at what is possible. If I can make 50% of last year's revenue in two weeks, how are you?
I, I don't wanna say dealing with it, but that would freak me out a little bit. How are you dealing with it?
Totally freaked out and you know, I think it's because we've been practicing so many good habits around our businessing for some time. So it's the habits, not just around, you know, doing the work.
And, you know, doing, I, I am not great at prospecting, right? Like, these are these, I get a lot of my business through referrals. So like, just making sure that I'm keeping those relationships up. But it's also been so much about balance and really protecting what that balance means for me, including, you know, the time Fridays off, including, uh, making time to go work out during the day, at least two, if not three times during the regular work week.
You know, and those things that give me a moment away from the computer. And the do, do, do allows for the space to be more creative or to come up with those solutions or unexpected, you know, wins. And it, it's, the balance is, is the blessing. Because without it, none of this would be happening. There's no way.
It's incredible. So what's next? So now you're gonna keep on aggressively selling, or do you have to take a pause and try and process what you just moved?
The prospect list right now is going to get me,
um, I'll hit two thirds of last year's revenue before the end of Q2.
Hello. I mean, if things go just okay, like if things go well, you might hit the whole year by the end of Q2.
It's, I don't wanna, you know, I don't wanna, I, I'm really excited, right? Like, I'm gonna just keep it all on the positive I am.
Mm-hmm.
I know that what we're doing is the right work. I know we're going about it the right way, and I know I have the right partners in place to deliver and. That's what's gonna keep happening. So let's, let's go.
Amazing. And I love you framing it in the positive. That's a great way to go about it. Okay, JB Congra or Jennifer Les, congratulations on your wins and, uh, high five.
And you know that when you came on the air, if you said, oh, maybe I'll make the thing by, you know that I'm gonna push you to say, well make the thing buddy. You know that, that's kind of how it goes. You know that?
Yeah. You're a little bit pushy that way, buddy.
It's all with love. It's all with love.
Congratulations jb. Huge to see, uh, God. Isn't that great? It's one of those situations, and I've talked about this on the show before, what if they say yes, we keep on selling, we keep on asking, and we are one call away from a dream partner or a giant contract and everything changes. JB just is living that right now.
Oh my gosh. They all said yes. Oh my gosh. My entire framework of what's possible has changed. That is really cool to see. Okay, we got two more folks. Awesome. Nikki Lee. Awesome to see. Nikki Lee. Good morning, Nikki Lee, how are you today? Morning.
Hello everyone. Hi friends.
Great to see you on the show. Thanks for tuning in.
If someone hasn't met you yet, hard to believe, tell 'em who you are and what you do.
Um, so I am the president of Gen Head and we are an AI growth agency. We help businesses scale without the chaos.
Love it. We talk about it all the time because you are our amazing sponsor, which we will promote endlessly here in a few minutes, but I'm dying to hear what good happened to you and Gen Head this week.
Tell us something good.
So this was exciting. Um, you know, as you know, and we've shared, we're we're at a really exciting crossroads of potential. Explosive growth. And in that we've started to make some hiring moves, which is exciting and terrifying at the same time. Um, and, uh, we hired a, our first hire, uh, this week.
Uh, and she started pretty much immediately her, um, she's the, our new client, um, relations admin. And what's great about her is that she is going to help take off so much off of my plate and my director of growth, um, who basically kind of taking, um. A note out of, uh, Dan Martel's, uh, playbook and going to finally get to step away from like emails and finally gets really, really focused on the deep vision work that I want to do to take gen head to the next, to the next level, which is really exciting.
That is incredible. Knowing that you needed to go there, what was stopping you? Not what took so long, but what was holding you back from making this decision?
I mean, the first thing that was keeping us there was definitely, I think the fears around, you know, do we have enough, you know, cash flow and the bank to support a hiring decision like this?
Mm-hmm. Um, one of, you know, there's. So many questions around hiring. I mean, I, I stumbled into, you know, becoming a business owner. Um, I was supposed to be a film director, so like, this is such a vast difference in so many ways. Um, so I'm, I'm really like making it up as I go, so to speak. You know, fake it till you make it.
Sure. That is absolutely neat. So. Um, one, one thing was just, you know, I wanted to be super cautious about, you know, not hiring too early where I can't support that person appropriately because, um, while it's exciting on paper, it's, it you've become very, very quickly aware of this is a real person that has real responsibilities to themself and their family and they need to be able to eat and feed themselves and all of that.
So, uh, was hyper, hyper aware of that. And then the other side of it, which is, um, figuring out, you know, gen head and the culture that I wanted to cultivate, you know, and that I think is so, so important to think about when you are starting to get into the hiring process. So I've spent the last about month and, no, actually all year.
So three months. I can't believe it's, we, I know it's
crazy.
Uh, okay. Um. But I spent pretty, a large part of this year really diving deep into the gen head ethos, the culture that I wanna cultivate. What are our values, uh, today and potentially down the road, and how do I want to shape that through the people that we bring on to our team.
Right. You did the work to figure out what it takes to bring someone in. You've been thinking about the culture, you found the person, they're there. Let's take that off the table for a second. I want to talk to the people that haven't gone that far yet by looking into what will you be able to do now that you weren't able to do before.
So give me something that's a presidential role that now gets attention, whereas before you didn't have time to do it. And how will that affect the company? Gimme, gimme an example or two.
Um, okay. So, um, I think that, um, just the nature of the startup, you wear a lot of hats. Um, I have had to do a lot of things like quality assurance, checking and helping to just do a lot of honestly operation stuff.
Mm-hmm. Um, that is not to dog the work and by any means, but is definitely for me, a little soul sucking. It was burning me out. Mm-hmm. And, um, quite frankly, not worth the cost of, of my salary. So I was, you know, it's that. Really awful feeling of I have to do this work so the company can keep going, but I know that like I, I'm worth, like, I charge too much to be doing this work.
Sure. And so the reality of like, I'm also costing the company money by getting stuck in the weeds of these tasks. Um, and don't get me wrong, like AI has been so helpful in alleviating like so much of what I could get stuck in the weeds on. Sure. But there, there, I mean, AI can't do everything yet. So it's like, you know, you still need somebody that can be the human connection and, and have the, give the attention to our clients.
Yeah. That I care so, so much about. But quite frankly, I need to stop being the essential face, especially around delivery.
Yep.
So I can focus on the visionary work because. Whew. We got a lot of, we got a lot of very exciting things coming down the pipeline. We started a, a new sister company at the beginning of the year, um, and we're looking at, you know, potentially starting a nonprofit this year.
There's a lot of really exciting things. Wow. So, yeah,
so taking the moment to celebrate that we hired someone is great. And Nikki's a great example of why we do this on the show, because we got to talk through what does that mean for the company. If the president is doing quality assurance, that's a massive over bill.
It's a huge loss center for the company. If the president is even talking to new customers, that's valuable. The president really should be doing that. Visionary, big picture planning, uh, course charting. Where are we headed? Not what are we doing? And by doing this, you're gonna make people a lot of money, which is really exciting.
Congratulations. How did you celebrate? You hired somebody. What did you do to celebrate? Um,
my way of celebrating is, um, we'll circle this back to what you were sharing earlier is, um, I, I invested in my own personal time and my own personal wins this week because, um, you know, I just scratched the surface on what Michelle is gonna be able to do for me.
Um, but the biggest thing is that, you know, I can finally step away from the screen for a second and I can start to work out again and start investing in eating healthier again. So I was able to, uh, partic start, um, a new, uh, food program this week that I've been dying to try. And I have also walked on the treadmill.
Every day this week while watching this, this movie, which I have never been able to do before, because I was always like answering emails and having to like deal with fires.
That's amazing. Congratulations. I thought you just looked so much better this morning. I had no idea. What? I'm just teasing.
I'm glowing.
You're glowing. Awesome, Nikki. Thanks for calling in. I really appreciate it. Thanks
guys. Bye friends.
Bye friends. So much fun. Thank you to Gen Head for being our sponsor as well. I do wanna have a real talk though, just for a second. And we have Michael standing by. We'll go to him in a second. I do wanna have a real talk just for a second.
Imagine if your computer could run faster. Your computer can run faster if you take care of yourself because you as a solopreneur are the essential operating system for the entire business. When you eat better, when you move, when you pay attention to your sleep and your rest. It really is that important.
We were joking about fish and you know how you take care of yourself on your midlife, but I guarantee you Nikki's gonna be more productive and make better decisions now that she's moving and eating better. So congratulations to her and if you take nothing else out of this conversation. Seriously. Think about that.
How are you doing taking care of yourself? It really matters. Okay, our final call in today to celebrate wins. Michael is on the air. Michael, great to see you friend. How are you today?
Good, good morning.
Awesome. Thanks for calling in. If someone hasn't met you yet, tell 'em who you are and what you do.
Uh, Michael Cohen.
I live in Birmingham, Alabama and I am a photographer. And um, I'm also an audio engineer.
Awesome. Oh man. Audio.
Hopefully, hopefully I sound okay.
You sound amazing. And now it's like, go. Is my mic tuned, right? Am I getting now? I'm like, now I'm, uh, overthinking it.
Yeah, maybe I need to visit.
You need to visit.
Get up here and, and help me get my squad or my, uh, road caster all tuned up. Alright. Uh, what do you got to celebrate this week? Give us a win or two.
Well, I mean, it, it's not necessarily anything that's, um, immediately making me any money. Um, one would be joining SPSE. Um, one would be, uh, tonight's Nebraska game.
Oh, heck
yeah.
The Iowa LA Ladies basketball game coming up. Sort of a contentious subject to the house.
Yeah.
Um, but really, it, it's, and this is a lot of this comes from you. Is your fault, pat? Uh, um, I'm terrible at, I'm great at buying things. I'm terrible at putting invoices into spreadsheets or anything like that.
Mm-hmm.
Um, I'm okay at downloading the, the invoices, putting 'em in a folder. Then it comes this time of the year and I keep putting it off. Taxes, taxes, tax. I keep putting it off. Um. And I've been using cloud cowork and, um, trying to teach it to do my bidding.
Mm-hmm.
And, um, just, just this morning, like it's, it's gotten me working.
So getting my taxes outta the way is gonna help me focus more on my photography business.
Sure.
Pun, pun intended, I guess. Um, but it's basically, it's pulling in all the PDFs and it is parsing all the fields that I need. You know, invoice numbers, item pricing dates, all that stuff, and just dumping in it, doing an Excel sheet.
Um, and it's working. So it's, it's pretty exciting that, uh, I'm learning to use some of that to save myself some time. Of course, it takes a few hours to like set up
Yeah. You gotta get it up and
running. Yeah. But I'm learning and the more I learn, um. How to train it, and the more it comes back and says, uh, you know, here's your answer.
And I'm like, okay, all right, now let's try this again, but do this.
Mm-hmm.
You know, whether it's something as simple as let's, let's let justify and use this font.
Mm-hmm.
Or, um, you know, split the odd penny on this multiple item thing to the most expensive item. Yeah. You know, like, like simple little rules like that.
Yeah. Um, and so I'm learning a lot about how that works and that's, it's exciting. Um, and I, I, I know I'm like not even scratching the surface yet. Uh, yeah. But, but to me, it's a win because it's actually helping me get something done.
When you start using it, you start rolling up the repetitive, oh, I used it for this, I used it for this.
It'll get to the point where you can't live without it. It was down for a minute yesterday and I was just kinda like rocking.
I know. That's what I was trying to work. I'm like, oh my gosh, is it me? Is it my account? What, what's wrong?
Claude is down. I'm so lonely. Claude. Come back to me.
Yeah.
That's a huge win and not one that should be understated.
Now I want to, I would assume you had the WTF Claude moment. Do you remember the first time Claude did something for you and you went Oh, did anything like that happen to you?
Um, actually kind of, yeah. Um, I had asked it to, I had to look at all the March Madness schedules.
Mm-hmm.
And I said, I want you to find all the games and give me an ICS file to put into my Google calendar.
Oh my gosh.
And it spit it out and it worked.
No,
it,
that's cool.
It totally worked. And it was like. That just saved me like a ton of time.
That's incredible. The, the ticky tack stuff, it can make go away. When you roll up your sleeves and work on it, uh, frees up someone like you to go do what you do, which is take pictures and make things sound great and be an artist.
It helps the business side get easier. Congrats on that. That's really huge. Yeah,
and I, I'm just, I'm super A DHD so, you know, things can distract me from doing important things very, very easily.
Mm-hmm.
Um, but if I get into a flow state, which I do when I'm trying to get the clo any, any sort of programming, I've been doing programming for decades.
Right.
Um, anything like that. Or editing photos where I'm like in the flow, I'm focused. Yeah. And like I'm going and like, I will not go to the bathroom for four hours
because you're in it, you're just, you're dialed in the thing
I'm like, oh gosh, I gotta take my bag meds. I just took up. I just stood up.
Yeah. If someone doesn't use Claude yet and they have attention, habitual issues or medical issues, like attention is a thing, those scheduled tasks are gonna be huge. You can schedule tasks to happen every hour, every other hour. Some of these tedious things that maybe you would forget to do or get distracted away from doing, like every Friday, it could download all of your bills and sort them and parse them like you were talking about.
Mm-hmm. Or it could do something as simple as emailing your parents, like, don't forget to email your, whatever it might be. It's, it's that. Those repetitive tasks are something that it can really excel in with the scheduled task feature inside of Claude. So all of,
and you mentioned this stuff yesterday about it actually going out and following mouse moves and stuff.
I haven't tried that yet, but um, I have a feeling that's gonna be really helpful too.
Yeah, I of the stuff is great and congrats on Claude, but the big win is becoming SBOC member. I just gotta say Michael,
thanks. Go big red.
Go Big red. Thanks for coming on man. Michael, it's really great to see you and, and welcome to the community.
It's great to have you here. Alright, we are done. But wait, we're not, we weren't gonna do any more callers that called in. Oh no. But. We had a late entry that we have to recognize to come on the air and celebrate some wins. Everyone say it with Brad heard a Hello, sir.
Oh, you're way too funny, sir.
Way, way too.
Yeah. We, we've been doing this for 30 minutes. We're all wrapped up and like, okay, Michael's the last caller and here comes the brad. So we have to say good morning. You were all brewers out. Look at you on brewer's opening day.
Absolutely. It's opening. That's correct.
Are you going to the game?
No. It's the worst game to go to.
And why is that? Tell me, because I was talking about it earlier. Tell me why.
No, it is a, uh, it, it's just amateur hour. It's not baseball.
Yeah, it's an open air bar today. Correct.
Correct.
Correct. Okay. Well, if someone does not know Brad, tell them who you are and what you do.
Uh, founder of Vision for Business Solutions in coast of the two time award-winning blue Collar Bs podcast.
Uh, we, uh, we for blue collar manufacturing, construction trades organizations through m and a, transition exit, multi-generational workforce, all the things to get their business in a transferable position.
I love it. Okay, I gotta hear some wins. What do you got for us?
Uh, so this week I got to present, uh, with a chamber at our leadership.
Uh, we got a leadership program that we run through our chamber and I redid the presentation using, uh, AI tools, taking old presentations and new branding documents and bits and pieces of the products and all the different things. Um, presentation got kicked out in like less than 20 minutes. Modified a tad bit, some animation activity 'cause it's way too many words on the slide at one time.
Um, went through, did a little of work, about an hour and a half worth of work, delivered the presentation yesterday. Um, and the feedback was, it was the best presentation I've done for them, um, ever for that because it was different. It was there and it hit all the points. It brought it all together, it consolidated.
So the use of the AI tools to, uh, make my shit more effective and more, uh, opportunistic has been helpful.
I found that when I ask Claude to make something for me, it's so much more professional than I could ever make it looks like, oh, well clearly he had help with this. Did you have that kind of, uh, overwhelming feeling of, oh, this is a lot better than what I do?
Uh, no, because it took all the same words that I generated before. Right? So it, it just put it into a format and a presentation and using the branding guidelines and the colors and the themes, uh, tends to want to go to the dark theme of my product, of my color scheme. So I had to make sure I told you it in a, in a light 'cause the room is dark, so.
Very good. Alright. Now that you have this ability, what does that unlock for you? Does that give you more confidence to go speak more or do more presentations or as you get more confidence with Claude, what does that do for the business?
Uh, it's going to allow the opportunity, take more direct action I want to do for the business and target those that I wanna support.
Awesome. That's
great. So I'll be able to get better targeted messages. Now the product is the, the, um, connecting the product to the wage calculator, to the all the things. Um, after going through the demo with the client on the product side of things, uh, we were within percentage points of the calculator actually getting to the right dollars that they're paying for, for the vast majority of their people.
So, hold on. AI built you a calculator that could work in practice. You presented the calculator to a client. Then when you ran the numbers with the client, you were this close to being exactly right on,
uh, we were, yeah, we were. It is, it is, uh, it is past min viable, minimal, viable product opportunity versus just me having a wish and a dream to break out wages into three SE segments.
This is something we've talked about on the air here, is that lead magnets are yesterday's news tools are where we need to be going. If you can put in front of a client what will happen when we work together or what is the current state of their situation, and give them the opportunity to calculate it.
You're getting them really close to a Yes. And the person that you did this with, are they already a client or are they potentially a client?
Yeah, they're already a client and, and we're like, Hey, let's try this. And what he told me afterwards is, Hey, we've been trying to get to this for like two years in our organization from the HR side of it, and this is all there I need to get with.
So I'm, we're going up to the see him, the operations manager next week. I'm tweaking some of the feedback that I received to get that to them. I'll send them the emails today and they're gonna go, oh wow, this is way more than we ever thought. So we're gonna turn them from a, um. Out out states type fabrication weld shop into a, we're gonna be a world class producer, um, pretty easily and they're gonna have the systems in place to attract and retain and keep their talent pool and, and be able to explain to them why George is making $39 an hour and why Aaron's only making $29 an hour
and have the data to back it up.
Correct.
Amazing. Awesome. Brad, congrats on the wins. Thanks for calling in and go Cubs, appreciate you
get, get the right flag behind you. Could you,
it's always a pleasure. It's so much fun when Brad calls in. No, I'm teasing. Brad, thanks for coming on the air. We appreciate it. It's great to hear your wins as well.
And thank you to everyone that called in, in shared wins. If you're like me, that just like should have filled your cup just like, wow, look at what they're doing. That big thing that I'm working on, I can do it too. I try when we're talking to people about their wins, to try and find a piece of how they did it or what about what they did is something we can borrow and steal so we can get further down the road.
So to everyone that shared today a win, thank you. And if you watched it but didn't come on the air, just in your own quiet time, just on a post-it note, write down one good thing that happened to you this week. This stuff matters and it really works. And then maybe if we do it again next week, you can call in and share your wins of the week as well.
Let's ramble onto the AI story of the day, shall we? I am so excited because the government did something right. Whoa. They have launched a course called Make America AI Ready, and it was launched by the Department of Labor. I saw this story and thought, Hmm, government doing an AI course. Hmm, well, it's a free AI literacy course.
What makes it super unique? It's all delivered via text. So I saw that and thought, okay, people that really need introductory AI literacy, if we can reach them on their phone, everyone knows how to use their phone. Everybody knows how to text. So I'm like, okay, that's smart AI Literacy course delivered via text.
And to do it, and I'll put this in the chat, you text ready to 2 0 2 0 2, okay. You text ready to 2 0 2 0 2, and I thought, oh, what the hell? I'll be on the treadmill for an hour this morning. I'll take their first class. They have seven classes ready. They're all delivered via interactive text. So I clicked ready and boop.
Here it comes back to me. Hey, welcome to the course, and it starts asking you questions, and the questions are educational and they walk you through what AI is and and how it works. The first class was eight minutes maybe, and it will text me another class, I think tomorrow. It doesn't just keep on going indefinitely.
But the first class was really good at ask good questions, and it gave us the introductory stuff that we need to know about AI to at least get started. Didn't need a laptop, didn't need an app, didn't need a subscription. Just needed to know how to text. So I am excited to High five, the Department of Labor.
Shout out, text ready to 2 0 2 0 2. Try it. It's, it's really good. I'm gonna recommend this to people because it's a great place to start your baseline AI knowledge. Well done. Coming up, we're gonna do the idea slam two questions today in the idea slam. How do you handle it when clients need help outside of your area of expertise?
And do you refer them out or do you figure it out? So that's the first question. What do you do when people need something out of your area of expertise? And then the second question is, what's the most overrated advice you've ever gotten about running a business? Now, I assume you have some overrated advice that you've received as well, so this will be a good use of our chat.
Get ready to answer that course. Let's see. Michael says that he signed up for AI 1 0 1. Awesome. Well done. It's gonna serve you well and it's not running on Anthropic, although it probably should be. And Nikki says that she just signed up as well. Very curious to see how they're training on this stuff. I will tell you in the big picture, I'm always looking for techniques and process that we can steal.
I'm really intrigued by an interactive text curriculum. I know that's been around forever, but I haven't seen it in such a long time, and I thought, Hmm, that's a really contemporary, very low friction, easy way to deliver content to someone. And I thought, how could I do that? I could do it with Gen Head.
Hey, they're the sponsor of the, it's really our show is sponsored by Gen Head, and yes, you could do a text class using the Power of Gen Head built for early stage entrepreneurs. Gen Head is perfect for a solopreneur or a lean team that doesn't want the complex, disconnected tools that require a full-time operator to babysit.
Everything is streamlined and practical and easy to act on immediately. For example, if I said, I want to do a text-based course, I will text them this, and if they say, back to me, A, B, C, or D, they get that and then they say this and they get that. All of that could be mapped out and delivered. Inside Gen Head, no problem.
Texting, phone calls, email websites, funnels, your CRM, it's all in one place. So instead of juggling all these tools independently and duct taping everything together, what if you just bought one Clear operating system for less chaos, clearer data, and better execution? I recommend Gen Head, they power my business.
You should check it out as well. Gen head.com. That's gen head.com. And look at that Nikki's right there. Yes, you can do that inside Gen Head. You're darn right, but it is a good idea. Just sit on that idea for a minute. We're gonna find a way to do that. Tech Space class. That's a really good idea. Idea slams on the air today.
And the idea Slam is your chance to solve a problem or capture an opportunity together, because we all have things in the business that we need to fix. And instead of guessing. Bring the problem to us, myself and the folks in the chat. We can chew on your issue and give you a very valuable gift, and that is feedback.
Don't guess when you're making a big decision, bring it to us. Scan the QR code, tell us what's on your mind, and we will help you live without a net here on the air. Two questions today. The first one is, how do you handle it when clients need help outside of your area of expertise? Do you refer them out to somebody or do you just try and figure it out?
There is a fine line between helping someone and admitting that you don't know how to do something and you're just gonna delegate it out. Early on, when I was consulting small businesses, when I just started back in 2018, I would just take everything. No matter what a client needed, I, I would take it and I would try and figure it out, and the clients liked that until I was outside of my area of expertise.
As a professional in broadcasting, I had done a little bit of everything, so I thought I could help people with a little bit of everything. And on more than one occasion, I found myself doing work where I was not an expert. And when I did work that I wasn't an expert on, this is the danger. It put at risk all of the stuff that I was an expert on.
So if they asked me to do something I didn't know how to do and I was kind of faking it and I'm not getting them results in that area, they quickly started to think, well, what about the stuff he is an expert on? Maybe he isn't as good as we thought he is. It distracted them away from what I was actually good at.
So there's a fine line when you start out, when you very first start out, say yes and figure it out later. That's a good piece of advice. But when an existing client is asking for your help in an area that you're not an expert, I try and curate a list of people I can refer to. I wanna have experts that I can say, I don't know as much about that, but I know Brad does.
Let me connect you with Brad. So it's good to have people you can refer to. The other part of this is you own those referrals. Don't just refer to people that give you 15% of the business. And that's it. If you refer someone to your client and they stink, that will come directly back to you. Make sure that the people that you're referring to are people that you trust and they're people that are actually good.
'cause if they're not good, it's not their fault, it's your fault 'cause you are the one that referred them. Make sure you've got a very strong referral list. You know who they are and don't fake it. And I guess that's the big picture. You can fake it a little, but if you find yourself outside of your area of expertise, you're jeopardizing the whole relationship.
So curate your referrals and be ready to give them to the right people. Second piece in today's idea slam. And this is where I need your help, 'cause I know you have an answer here. What is the most overrated advice you've ever gotten about running a business? Think about that. Think of all the advice you've received about running a business a lot.
And remember when you just started, the people that had the most advice were people that had never run a business before, ever. They had always been an employee someplace else, but they had the ideas and it all came from a good place. They cared about you and they wanted you to be successful, but a lot of the folks that gave you ideas had never run anything before.
When I think back to the worst advice I've ever received,
uh, I would probably say it's hustle and grind. That advice just drives me crazy. I know there are successful people that work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. It's in their DNA. It's how they operate, and if that's you, great. More power to you. It's not even the wrong thing to do. It's the wrong thing for me.
For me, it took me 18 months of running the business before I realized that being a small business owner, especially a solopreneur, wasn't a job. It was a lifestyle. I am the product, I'm the business, and if this is worn down and worn out and tired and not sharp, then my business is worn out and tired and not sharp.
While we can make money, we can also run ourselves directly into the ground. And when we do that, what good are we to our clients? How are we getting ahead? If the company is making money, but we're miserable and we're exhausted, we don't even know our family anymore, we're not healthy. One of the reasons why I'm talking so much about Friday's off is because I've discovered that having a better balance between my work and my life makes everything better.
Not only is your life better if you take three days off every weekend, it is pretty awesome. But when I get back to my desk on Monday, man, I am fired up and creatively I'm recharged and I'm excited. I can't wait to get on the air Monday morning at 11:00 AM because I get to talk to you and we get to talk about what's going on.
We get to have some fun, but I'm not doing it every day of the week. I'm not doing it seven days a week. Maybe it's accentuated for creatives, but I would imagine anyone that uses their brain a lot in their business would be better off taking the right amount of rest for you. So if Fridays off is even an idea for you, uh, it's something to consider.
And what I found is that the people who dole out hustle and grind advice, ooh, they don't like Fridays off. Oh, they don't like Fridays off. And when I started talking about Fridays off and I started to get legitimate haters about me talking about Fridays off, that's when I knew, hey, we're onto something.
I had one guy every time I posted about Fridays off every time, boy did he love to come onto my post and say, Ew, when you're taking, this is the voice of a jerk. Ew, ew, ew. That's how I envisioned him writing. Ew, when you're taking Fridays off, I'm taking your client. Like that's what I pictured he would be doing.
And he would say that stuff every single post.
Okay bro, go for it. If my clients wanna work with you rather than me, then God bless like, fine. Fine. He got so obnoxious. He was the only person I've ever had to block on LinkedIn that obnoxious. But it also let me know that Friday's off is a thing. So thank you jerk. I mean Guy for, for telling me that. So take your time off and recharge and if you've got bad advice, let us know and we'll feature it here on the air.
Gonna get outta here with one more story to end the week. And I think it's kind of a sad story. We look at it and it's an exciting story. Like, Ooh, look at this person who's winning big. But on the flip side, I think it's kind of sad. One of the most talented people I've ever seen, maybe obsolete. Soon. It's kind of a sad story.
We'll share it after we talk about the AI installation group. We are getting ready. It is two weeks from today, April 8th, I think. No. April 9th. April 9th. We're kicking off the AI installation group and this is answering the big problem. A new study says everybody wants to use AI in their business, but nobody knows where to start.
Start here in the AI installation group. This is going to help you unlock your ability to install AI in your small business. You heard what me and Michael were doing with Claude. I had a call yesterday with someone about what we're doing. We're uploading spreadsheets. Brad is making, uh, PowerPoint decks and, uh, changing the way that he's presenting things and it's all being powered by ai.
It's changing everything, and in the next six months, your business is going to change. The question is, will it start changing now? Or will it start changing after all your competitors have figured it out and show you the way I would rather be the previous, not the latter. We're gonna do a monthly mastermind group.
We're gonna do a monthly AI slam where we solve problems and capture opportunities together. And we do show and tell like, oh, Brad, tell me about that, uh, scorecard that you made. And we'll show how it works. It's part education, it's part action. And this group is designed to teach you what you know and help you install it into your business.
Here's what I know. This is turning into hiring your first employee. 'cause as you heard me say on the air earlier this week, I'm now a cla aholic and I've tuned it up so much. He's pretty much my first employee. So if you're thinking, yeah, I gotta get on this AI thing, I'm gonna guide you through it. I say all the time, don't grow it alone.
This is your opportunity to get the answers to the test that you need to properly install AI in your business. Sign up before we start in early May gonna end the show on this today. What does it mean if your unique talent becomes obsolete? There's something happening right now on Jeopardy. A guy named Jamie has won nine straight Jeopardy games.
He's won $245,000 on Jeopardy. Wow. He's in New Jersey. And you know, people like this, people that are really good at trivia, people that are like scary, smart. They're really good and he's crushed Jeopardy. The question that I have is, is this a sad story? The good old days of sitting around the bar, I'm like, oh, who led off for the 2016 World Champion Cubs?
And the guy at the end of the bar would say, oh, it was Dexter Fowler. That was like a party trick. People could do that. And I don't even know how I remembered that. I think that's right. Even that it was Dexter Fowler world champion Chicago Cubs, by the way, Brad, uh, that's fun and that's a skill today I have the person that knows everything in my phone on my desktop.
Hey Claude, who lead off, who let off for the 2016 Chicago Cubs answer. And this guy, Jamie, probably has worked his whole life to be the greatest at trivia in the history of the world. But now, is it kind of like being really good at riding a fast horse or being the fastest at assembling a car? Now robots are doing it, or you're the fastest at using a calculator.
I'm the world's greatest calculator operator. It's not really a skill we need anymore. At one time, that hobby was really awesome, but now it's kind of a commodity. So I'm gonna keep on chairing Jamie on because man, a quarter of a million dollars on jeopardy. That's a lot of jeopardy. So congratulations to Jamie and keep on going.
We're done for the week. We're moving over to the small business owners community. If you want to continue the conversation, if you've not checked out the SBOC, uh, you need to think about all of these decisions that you're making and how much it's costing your business to run your business all by yourself.
This is the way I've kind of framed up the SBOC. You're gonna make choices today that will affect your business. Who to hire, what to price your product at? Should I continue to offer this product or service? What technology are you using? How do I fire a client? How do I fire an employee? What do I do when the thing happens?
The SBOC is a community built for small business owners only to come to bed, come together and share their experience and solve problems. We don't let managers in. We don't let employees in. You gotta own a business to get in 'cause only other owners will understand what you're going through. If you wanna see how much running your business by yourself is costing you, scan the QR code and you can understand what it means and what the benefit is of being a member of the small business owner's community.
And heck, when it's $19 a month to be a member, it's pretty much on you if you're running your business all by yourself. Big thanks to everyone for joining us today. Big thanks to Gen Head for being our sponsor and our producer, and to all the folks that came on the air today and celebrated their wins. I just feel all good now that that was just a fun.
Show and let me know if we should do it again next Thursday if you wanna celebrate your wins as well. And as we sign off, make sure don't forget to like and subscribe and share the show with your network so Businessing can business with more people. It's the new daily habit for small business owners.
I'm back on the air Monday morning at 11:00 AM I'm Pat Miller, the Fridays off guy founder of the SBOC. Thanks for playing along today. We'll see you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Take care.