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Business coach Robin Waite helps coaches, consultants, freelancers and small business owners build businesses that make double the income with half the clients. Each week you get one of two kinds of episode. In solo episodes, Robin shares the frameworks, mistakes and lessons from over 20 years in business. On The Business Bench, he sits down with a real business owner and coaches them live through their biggest challenge, from pricing and finding clients to cash flow and confidence. Everything comes back to three pillars: 1. Your offer. Build a product you love delivering, that gets real results. 2. Your pricing. Charge two to three times what you do now, without the guilt. 3. Your lead flow. Attract the right clients and turn them into paying ones. Robin is the international bestselling author of Take Your Shot, Fearless Pricing and The Fearless Business Blueprint. Through the Fearless Business Accelerator he has coached hundreds of business owners. Grab a free signed copy of Take Your Shot: https://www.fearless.biz/tys Book a free coaching session with Robin: https://www.robinwaite.com/app More at https://www.robinwaite.com and https://fearless.biz
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It is easy to scroll through the highlight reel of other entrepreneurs and assume everyone else has it figured out. In this episode, Robin Waite does the opposite. After 22 years in business, award wins and bestselling books, he talks openly about a September that left him stressed, tired, overwhelmed and, for the first time in ten years of coaching, not enjoying the work.
Robin explains how a strong couple of years led him to take his eye off the ball, how quickly a rainy day fund can shrink when consultations dry up, and why being a hands-on parent makes a dip feel even harder. He is candid that a lot of what rattles around your head in these moments is not true, and that separating the real from the imagined is part of the work.
He then walks through the 4 Stages of Business Growth from his book Fearless Business Blueprint: Consolidation, Imposter, Fear Zone and Breakthrough. Robin has been through the dip five times before, and his goal each time is the same: get into it and out of it as quickly as humanly possible. If you are in the fear zone right now, this one is for you.
What you will learn:
- What entrepreneur burnout looks like from the inside, even after decades of success
- Why good runs are often when owners take their eye off the ball
- The 4 Stages of Business Growth and why you usually come out of a dip stronger
- How Robin is protecting his pipeline with a backup source of leads
- Why shrinking the next task matters when everything feels hard
- The early warning signs that you are heading into a dip
- Why a problem shared really is a problem halved
Robin's message to anyone listening: "Whatever it is that you're going through in your business right now, I get it. I'm going through it as well."
Read the full write-up: robinwaite.com/blog/surviving-entrepreneur-burnout-business-dip
Resources and links
- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMjZna6HXu4
- Book a free coaching session with Robin: https://www.robinwaite.com/app
- Free signed copy of Take Your Shot: https://www.fearless.biz/tys
- Free copy of Fearless Pricing: https://www.fearless.biz/fp
- Take the Fearless Business Quiz: https://www.robinwaite.com/quiz
- Work with Robin: https://www.robinwaite.com
About Robin Waite
Robin Waite is a business coach, professional speaker, and international bestselling author. Through the Fearless Business Accelerator he has helped coaches, consultants, and freelancers productise their services, fix their pricing, and build businesses that deliver double the income with half the clients.
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