Joshua NelsonSeven Figure Agency · Mentor / Coach at Seven Figure Agency

The fastest way to free yourself is building a true leadership team

Name: The fastest way to free yourself is building a true leadership team
Uploaded: 2026-01-21T18:01:19+00:00
Duration: 1 min 2 s
Channel: Joshua Nelson
Description: In this advisory monologue, the speaker emphasizes that the fastest way for an agency founder or CEO to free themselves from day‑to‑day operational grind…

21 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this advisory monologue, the speaker emphasizes that the fastest way for an agency founder or CEO to free themselves from day‑to‑day operational grind is to build a genuine leadership team rather than relying on freelancers or doers. The core team should consist of leaders for sales, account management, web development, SEO, paid search, and HR/administration, each owning a department, making decisions, and driving innovation. The team meets weekly in a structured Level‑10 (L10) meeting lasting about 90 minutes, where they review scorecards, assess key metrics, and run the IDS (Identify, Discuss, Solve) process to surface and resolve business obstacles. By establishing clear departmental metrics and empowering leaders, the CEO can step back, focus on strategic direction, and operate at a higher level without getting bogged down in every decision.

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Yeah, one of the best things you can do to free yourself in the agency is build a true leadership team. So not just a bunch of freelancers, not just a bunch of doers, but a true team of leaders that own specific functions within their department, right? They can make decisions, innovate, and move things forward. Our leadership team is comprised of sales, account management, web dev, SEO, paid search, and HR administrative. I'm sure there's others, but that's kind of the core structure of the leadership team. We meet every single week for an L10 meeting, level 10 meeting, very structured, 90 20 minutes, we review the scorecard, we review the stocks. Most importantly, we IDS, which is identify, discuss, and solve. And so every week we've got an opportunity to say, here's an area we're stuck within the business, like, what are we going to do about it? How do we move it forward? And I found that kind of as we built that leadership team, we got the clear metrics for each of the departments, it really enabled me to be able to elevate within the business and be the true CEO looking at where things were going without having to get too much into the weeds and have to make all the decisions to move things forward.