Epic Success with Dr Shannon Irvine

In this show, Dr. Shannon and her guest experts share actionable strategies and practical steps to master your life and business so you achieve Epic Success! From proven systems to achieve big goals, master productivity and time management shortcuts, to achieving mindset and habit mastery, leadership prowess, motivation strategies, and believing God for dreams for your Epic life and Business. Grow Smarter, stronger, happier, more integrated, faith filled, and build an Epic Life and Business that you LOVE!

Epic Success with Dr Shannon Irvine is a business podcast hosted by Dr. Shannon Irvine, with 387 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dr. Shannon Irvine hosts Epic Success with Dr Shannon Irvine, a business show with 387 episodes published.

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  Episode #384

  Stop Hiring B‑Players: The 3‑Layer A‑Player Interview

  Jul 23, 202613 min

  Free Self-Scaling Business Workshop: https://getepicsuccess.com/registration-yt ➡️ If you're a business owner who keeps hiring "nice" people who still hand every problem back to you, and you want to spot true ownership before you make the offer - start here. More resources down below ⬇️ Resources to Help You Grow Get The 67 Day Year Book: https://67dayyearbook.com/book Listen to the Epic Success / Scaled CEO Podcast: https://drshannonirvine.com/podcast Work With Me Book a 1:1 Scalability Audit: https://getepicsuccess.com/ceo-org Connect with Dr. Shannon Instagram: https://instagram.com/drshannonirvine YouTube: https://youtube.com/@DrShannonIrvine Subscribe for more videos on building a self-scaling business that can grow without you being glued to Slack, email, and every decision. About This Video In this video, Dr. Shannon Irvine breaks down the 3-Layer A-Player Interview Framework you can use to stop hiring B-players and start identifying true owners before they're on your payroll. Most interviews only tell you if someone can do the job on paper. They do not tell you whether that person will own the outcome when something goes wrong, make decisions in messy situations, or hand the problem right back to you. You'll learn the three layers every interview needs: competence, ownership behavior, and decision capacity. Dr. Shannon walks through the exact questions to ask in each layer, what to listen for in an A-player answer, and the warning signs that someone may be technically qualified but still unable to own a result without constant direction. You'll also learn how to create your own Layer 3 interview question using a real, unresolved decision from your business, so you can test whether a candidate can think, decide, and act inside the actual complexity of the role. If your last bad hire looked great in the interview but became another person you had to manage, this episode will help you upgrade your hiring process and start building a team that takes work off your plate instead of adding more back on.

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  Episode #383

  The 7 Numbers Every Business Owner Should Check Every Week (Don't read this)

  Jul 15, 202616 min

  🚨 Free Self-Scaling Business Workshop: https://getepicsuccess.com/registration-yt ➡️ If you're a business owner who only checks your bank account to know how the business is doing, and you want a simple weekly dashboard that shows what to fix next - start here. More resources down below ⬇️ 🚀 Resources to Help You Grow Get The 67 Day Year Book: https://67dayyearbook.com/book Listen to the Epic Success / Scaled CEO Podcast: https://drshannonirvine.com/podcast 🤝 Work With Me Book a 1:1 Scalability Audit: https://getepicsuccess.com/ceo-org 🌐 Connect with Dr. Shannon Instagram: https://instagram.com/drshannonirvine YouTube: https://youtube.com/@DrShannonIrvine Subscribe for more videos on building a self-scaling business that can grow without you being glued to Slack, email, and every decision. About This Video In this video, Dr. Shannon Irvine breaks down the seven numbers every business owner should check every single week. If you're only checking your bank account, QuickBooks, or your monthly financials to know how your business is doing, you're flying blind. Those numbers tell you what already happened. They do not show you what is about to happen, where demand is weakening, whether sales is actually working, whether clients are winning, or where the business still depends on you. You'll learn the seven weekly metrics that belong on a simple CEO scorecard: qualified demand, offers made, new clients or booked revenue, client wins captured, clients lost, owner operator hours, and cash above your minimum buffer. Dr. Shannon walks through why each number matters, who should own it, what question it answers, and how to use it inside a weekly leadership rhythm so the numbers actually change behavior instead of becoming "data decoration." You'll also learn how to turn these seven numbers into a real operating system by giving each metric one owner, one target, one place to live, one weekly review rhythm, and one clear action when the number turns red. If you want to stop making decisions from vibes, bank balance panic, or gut feel, this episode will help you build a simple weekly dashboard that shows you what to fix first so your business can grow without depending on you for every decision.

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  Episode #382

  The Hiring Order That's Keeping You Trapped In Your Business

  Jul 8, 202613 min

  🚨 Free Self-Scaling Business Workshop: https://getepicsuccess.com/registration-yt ➡️ If you're a business owner who keeps hiring more people but still feels like every road leads back to you, and you want your next hire to finally give you time back - start here. More resources down below ⬇️ 🚀 Resources to Help You Grow Get The 67 Day Year Book: https://67dayyearbook.com/book Listen to the Epic Success / Scaled CEO Podcast: https://drshannonirvine.com/podcast 🤝 Work With Me Book a 1:1 Scalability Audit: https://getepicsuccess.com/ceo-org 🌐 Connect with Dr. Shannon Instagram: https://instagram.com/drshannonirvine YouTube: https://youtube.com/@DrShannonIrvine Subscribe for more videos on building a self-scaling business that can grow without you being glued to Slack, email, and every decision. About This Video In this video, Dr. Shannon Irvine breaks down the hiring order that keeps business owners trapped in the day-to-day. Most business owners do not get stuck because they are bad at hiring. They get stuck because they hire in the wrong order. They add an assistant, delivery help, a marketing person, or another "helper," but somehow every decision, fire, and client outcome still comes back to them. You'll learn the three hiring traps that keep established businesses owner-dependent: the Helper Pile, the More-of-Everything Trap, and the stage where every road still leads back to you. Dr. Shannon walks through what to hire for at each stage of growth: your first non-you delivery owner, a right-hand operator who runs the weekly rhythm, and true function owners over revenue, delivery, operations, or marketing. You'll also learn how to reset your team if you already hired in the wrong order by mapping helpers vs. owners, identifying your current stage, and making one ownership correction in the next 30 days. If your team keeps growing but your calendar is not getting lighter, this episode will help you understand which ownership seat is missing and who your next hire should actually be.

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  Episode #381

  Steal These Boring Systems So Your Business Runs Without You with Dr. Shannon Irvine

  Jul 1, 202626 min

  🚨 Free Self-Scaling Business Workshop: https://getepicsuccess.com/registration-yt ➡️ If you're a business owner stuck in the middle of client follow-ups, team questions, repeated mistakes, and constant "just checking in" messages, and you want your business to run with less of you in the middle - start here. More resources down below ⬇️ 🚀 Resources to Help You Grow Get The 67 Day Year Book: https://67dayyearbook.com/book Listen to the Epic Success / Scaled CEO Podcast: https://drshannonirvine.com/podcast 🤝 Work With Me Book a 1:1 Scalability Audit: https://getepicsuccess.com/ceo-org 🌐 Connect with Dr. Shannon Instagram: https://instagram.com/drshannonirvine YouTube: https://youtube.com/@DrShannonIrvine Subscribe for more videos on building a self-scaling business that can grow without you being glued to Slack, email, and every decision. About This Video In this video, Dr. Shannon Irvine breaks down five boring systems you can steal from other industries to help your business run without you. Most business owners try to build impressive systems: complicated dashboards, giant SOP libraries, fancy project management tools, and big automations. But the systems that actually get used are usually simple, obvious, and boring enough for your team to understand immediately. You'll learn how to use the "Rebook and Goodbye" system from dentists to stop next steps from disappearing, the "Prewritten Panic Button" from virtual events to protect trust when something goes wrong, the "Bug Backlog" from software teams to stop solving the same problems over and over again, "Self-Service Status" from delivery apps to reduce client check-in messages, and "Overflowing Fries" from restaurants to create repeatable moments of client delight without burning out your team. Dr. Shannon also walks through how to choose which system to install first based on your biggest bottleneck, and how to turn any borrowed idea into a real operating system using five questions: what triggers it, who owns it, what happens next, where it lives, and what number tells you it's working. If you want fewer client follow-up loops, fewer team escalations, fewer repeated mistakes, and fewer decisions coming back to you, this episode will help you install simple systems your team and clients can actually use.

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  Episode #380

  The Worst Business Guru Advice of 2026 with Dr. Shannon Irvine

  Jun 24, 202615 min

  🚨 Free Self-Scaling Business Workshop: https://getepicsuccess.com/registration-yt ➡️ If you're a business owner who has tried hiring, automating, documenting, or delegating, but your business still depends on you for every decision - start here. More resources down below ⬇️ 🚀 Resources to Help You Grow Get The 67 Day Year Book: https://67dayyearbook.com/book Listen to the Epic Success / Scaled CEO Podcast: https://drshannonirvine.com/podcast 🤝 Work With Me Book a 1:1 Scalability Audit: https://getepicsuccess.com/ceo-org 🌐 Connect with Dr. Shannon Instagram: https://instagram.com/drshannonirvine YouTube: https://youtube.com/@DrShannonIrvine Subscribe for more videos on building a self-scaling business that can grow without you being glued to Slack, email, and every decision. About This Video In this video, Dr. Shannon Irvine breaks down four pieces of popular business advice that sound smart online, but can actually make your business heavier, more expensive, and more dependent on you. If you've been told to automate everything, hire more people, document every process, or bring in a COO so you can finally step out of the day-to-day, this episode will show you why those strategies often fail when they happen in the wrong order. You'll learn why AI on top of a broken process creates faster chaos, why hiring into unclear systems creates more management, why SOPs can become a digital graveyard, and why a COO can't run a machine that hasn't been built yet. Dr. Shannon also walks through what actually works instead: installing the three systems every self-scaling business needs - your CEO System, Team System, and Profit System. If you want to stop collecting more tactics and start building a business that can grow without depending on you for every decision, this episode will help you understand what to fix first.

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