Joe DownsCEO & Co-Founder, Belrose Storage Group. Founder, Storage Moguls.

Balancing Growth and Service in Storage

13 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker discusses the pitfalls of rapid, unchecked growth for a management company, emphasizing the need to balance expansion with maintaining high-quality service and reputation. He projects that within five years the company will surpass 300 (presumably clients or employees), aiming to climb higher among management firms, but insists growth must be purposeful, not for its own sake. The speaker also shares personal passions for teaching and education, mentions co‑hosting a podcast that explores women’s leadership, and reflects on growing up without a role model for leading a company, highlighting a broader renaissance of women in leadership positions.

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What I've seen some companies do is scale up in growth and crash right down. And we don't ever want to do that. I don't ever want to lose our service, our customer touchpoint, our deliverable, like our reputation because we grew too fast. I think growth can be really, really dangerous as well as not growing. So you have to hit that right mark. So 5 years from now, I think we'll be at more than 300 given our trajectory. I think we'll exceed that very well. We'll be higher on the list of the management companies. I don't want to grow for growth's sake. I want to be able to offer good service to the people who have found this industry and love it because it's amazing and help more. I really like teaching. I like educating. A friend of mine have a podcast that we talk about what it looks like to lead as women. How do we, how do we, how do we live our lives? There's, I feel like women are coming through kind of a renaissance right now. There's more of us finally in leadership seats and positions. And I grew up without a template of what that looks like to lead a company.