Moving from employee to owner requires a psychological shift most people miss. You carry an employee mindset into your business and can't see yourself as the operator. Former insurance agency workers often struggle with this, staying stuck in employee habits even after they own the place.
that you begin to kind of see yourself a certain way. And so for those of you that maybe worked for either a corporate entity or worked for a small business owner, I think that you have to begin to— at least for me, I needed to change my mindset as to how I saw my role in the organization. I see this quite often with some of the clients that we work with. If they were in, say, they worked for another insurance agency owner as an example, and they take that W-2 mindset into their role as the business owner of the business. And so they see themselves— they, they have a hard time making the shift or the transition from being an employee to being an owner. And I would tell you, the way that that begins to actually manifest itself is you begin to kind of see yourself as the operator of the business as opposed to the
