Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

I can't afford to invest in myself

24 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this motivational business coaching monologue, Kelly Alhooie argues that the biggest expense for founders and small‑business owners is ignorance—specifically, not knowing how to hire, build culture, develop leadership, run the company rather than be in it, manage money, and train teams. She claims these knowledge gaps cost entrepreneurs hundreds of thousands of dollars each month or year. Kelly positions this lack of skill as the primary barrier to scaling an asset and invites listeners who are ready to "level up" to contact her for a conversation about their next growth stage, emphasizing a proactive, game‑on attitude.

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I can't afford to invest. Here's the thing. The biggest expense that you will have is ignorance. Not knowing what you don't know is actually costing you a crap ton of money. You don't know how to hire, okay? Because no one's ever taught you that skill. You don't know how to grow culture. You don't know how to create leadership. You don't know how to pull yourself out and actually run the company instead of being in the company. You don't know how to manage money. You don't know how to actually train the team. All these things are ignorance when you're at this phase of trying to figure out how do I really build an asset here? And that is actually costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, a year, wherever, whatever level you're at, it is costing you so much freaking money because you don't know actually how to do the next level. And if you guys are looking for more of an opportunity to be like, you know what, I am ready to level up, reach out to us. I'd be happy to chat with you to say, where are you at along this path? Okay, what is the next level? And these are the things that we need to do to to actually take you here. And I always say, game on, let's freaking go!