Richard ToutounjiDirector, Meet Your Network · Connecting fitness & wellness suppliers to our marketing community.

The inconvenient truth about your team's impact on your business 🙌

23 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker emphasizes the critical role of surrounding yourself with people who uplift and support you in business. He argues that having a team that pulls you up is essential because business challenges are already demanding. The speaker advises evaluating whether members of your team, even long‑time collaborators, truly help you move forward. If a person has been with you for years but is now hindering progress—evidenced by constant complaints or a negative attitude—they may not be the right fit for the next stage of growth. The speaker uses a personal reference to a colleague named Joey to illustrate the importance of supportive relationships and suggests being willing to replace misaligned team members to keep the business moving forward.

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So just think about the people around you. Are they supporting you? I certainly know from my type of personality, you know, me and Joey have always had supporters around us. It's really important. We need people that bring us up instead of pulling us down. I think business is hard enough. You get pulled down by so many different things. So the people around you in your team, in your vehicle, they want to be people that support you, that move you forward. So if you've got the wrong type of person in the driver's seat of your business or you're bitching or moaning too much about that person, it's probably wrong person that's helping you get to that point. And just because they've been with you for years, it doesn't mean they're the right person to take you to the next path.