Your Business Is Not Your Boss

Your Business Is Not Your Boss is a resource for small business owners who want to swap stress and overwhelm for calm, focused, and effective action. Covering topics related to personal leadership, self-management, effective delegation, and healthy mindsets, Geoff Welch uses each episode to help small business owners accomplish more with less effort.

Your Business Is Not Your Boss is a business podcast hosted by Geoff Welch, with 57 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.

Geoff Welch hosts Your Business Is Not Your Boss, a business show with 57 episodes published.

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  Episode #58

  Leadership isn’t a reward

  Feb 2, 202515 minS0

  I hope you aren’t waiting around for the day when someone with authority finally rewards you with the title of leader.<br><br>This is my hope for two reasons:<br>1. Leadership isn’t a reward, it’s a massive responsibility.<br><br>2. Leadership has nothing to do with assigned authority.<br><br>Waiting to finally be rewarded with a stamp of approval is a great way to miss the opportunity to lead today.<br><br>It’s easy to think of leadership as a destination, but leadership is a part of the journey.<br><br>When everyone is frustrat...

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  Episode #57

  The two people you need to know in 2025

  Jan 26, 202518 minS0

  I just opened a Christmas present from someone I didn’t know when 2024 began.<br><br>It may sound strange coming from a 48-year old, but 2024 was great because I made a couple new friends this year.<br><br>I know some folks who can’t chart a path to their mailbox and back without making a new friend, but that is definitely not me.<br><br>I don’t really need to stack up friends like firewood, but investing in new friendships this year has really shown me how refreshing and energizing it can be to develop connections with people...

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  Episode #56

  No one should outlearn you

  Jan 19, 202516 minS0

  Derek Jeter ended his career in pinstripes as an iconic Yankee, but it wasn’t because he was the most gifted athlete on the field.<br><br>In fact, he was famous for arguing that talent wasn’t the true measure of a person’s potential:<br><br>“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.” - Derek Jeter<br><br>The gentle spin I’d like to place on this quote is to offer a pinch hitter for the word “work” in this...

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  Episode #55

  This is the only way to grow

  Jan 12, 202522 minS0

  All growth is on the other side of incompetence.<br><br>This means that the enemy of growth is an unwillingness to embrace incompetence.<br><br>In order to do something you can’t currently do – like speak French, bench press 150 pounds, or make it through the day without feeling overwhelmed – you will have to enact behaviors you aren’t currently capable of doing well.<br><br>In my experience, the people who do this best are at the early stages of their careers…and at the late stages of their careers.<br><br>When people are starting out, they are hungry...

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  Episode #54

  Geoff’s Law of Clean Countertops

  Jan 5, 202516 minS0

  A long time ago some dude named Newton came up with some incredibly popular ideas called Newton’s Laws of Motion.<br><br>One of these laws, basically, is that objects at rest stay at rest and objects in motion stay in motion unless something interacts with them.<br><br>This law parallels neatly with Geoff’s Law of Clean Countertops which states that clean countertops are more likely to stay clean and messy countertops are more likely to become more messy.<br><br>It’s like this:<br><br>When a countertop is empty, anything you put on it sticks...

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