S5E38🎙️ LIVE with Alan Kilian

20 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Alan Kilian on why entrepreneurs feel trapped by their own businesses. The core problem: building a company that only works when you're there. Most seek coaching after hitting pain, wanting to understand how they got stuck and how to escape.

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The question I was asking was, in your experience, when you do your executive coaching practice, whether you work with very small businesses or very large businesses, is there a trend that is the same regardless of the size of the business? Like, do they face similar problems, or do you Do you see the leadership of the organization facing similar trends regardless of the size of their company?
Yeah, it goes back to control. And, you know, so many people, again, they want to be business owners, but then their businesses start owning them. That's where a lot of the folks, when they get in enough pain, they're going to call somebody, right? They're gonna say, how in the world did I get here and how do I get out of it? I want to build an organization that doesn't need me here day in, day out. You know, it's that, um, it's the same, you know, if you only build a business that runs when you're there, you haven't built a business. You know, you're— yes, you've built fear. You know, you've built a something that you've built your own prison, if you will, right? So, so many of the business owners, they, they do what they know how to do, and that's grind