#185 You Can’t Run a Growing Business From Your Gut

Christy Carter shows you how to recognize when growth has exceeded your personal capacity, document what lives in your head, delegate responsibility, and move from running everything yourself toward leading through people and systems.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn

Why running a business from your gut becomes less reliable as the company grows

How documentation helps an owner delegate without remaining the answer to everything

Why increasing capacity requires recognizing what you can handle and what someone else needs to own

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If your business is growing but more work, more employees, and more responsibility keep pulling you deeper into day-to-day operations, Christy’s experience provides a practical look at what has to change. She shares the difficulty of letting go, the cost of keeping critical processes in your head, and what helped her move into a leadership role.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

02:00 Growing Beyond the Kitchen Table

06:00 Trust, Control, and Learning to Let Go

11:00 Getting Processes Out of Your Head