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Rossi: Scaling to seven figures requires team complexity avoidable at six figures
“I do believe that there is a level of scaling and team that comes when you get to seven figures that I'm very happy to have independent contractors and a VA every now and then at the six figure level.”
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Rossi: SOPs reduce review time, but founders never reach zero review
“Once all your SOPs are in and they're like getting your brand totally underwing and they're adopting it as their own and they know what your voice is and you can trust them. I think the review will be less. I don't think we ever have zero review because I thin…”
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Rossi: Coaching drives action rather than rehashing old stories
“And I think that's one reason that I absolutely love and am passionate about coaching. Because there's an action to it. There's not just digging in a groove of the same story over and over and over again.”
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Rossi: Combining coaching with implementation consulting stifles client decision-making
“The piece that I found is when your coach is also your consultant that's going to be having the to-do list,
There is this shift that happens, I think, and there's a reliability that happens from the client where they're like, I'm not sure, what do you think?
Y…”
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Rossi: Overworking is often a mask for unworthiness and people-pleasing
“And I think the root of a lot of them is people pleasing and worthiness. And that's something that so many of us struggle And that we use working, overworking, and over delivering to mask the core underlying emotional things that don't just go away overnight.”
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Rossi: Abstains from psychedelics and alcohol to maintain clear consciousness
“I don't do drugs. I don't drink. And part of not doing psychedelics is really always being able to have that connection to my soul and not debase my consciousness in any way.”
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Rossi: 'What' questions drive transformative coaching, while 'how' questions are merely tactical
“And so I would say the most powerful questions are what questions versus how questions.”
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Rossi: Celebrating small wins trains the reticular activating system
“I'm a huge fan of celebrating often and really programming our reticular activating system, our RAS, to continue to look for things to celebrate, because then we're gonna find all these little micro wins that are just waiting to be noticed and experienced.”
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Rossi: Audiences Value Entrepreneurial Struggles Over Just Highlight Reels of Success
“People want to know all of the chapters. They don't just want the ta-da moment of you at the peak of the mountain. They want to see the struggle and also get inspired of how you overcame those challenges.”
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Rossi: Confectionery brand reached 10,000 wholesale and 3,000 retail customers
“We had built from the ground up 10,000 wholesale customers and 3000 retail customers, and they really liked what they liked, and it's all going back to knowing your ideal client avatar.”
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Rossi: Excitement when someone cancels indicates overbooking
“You know, you're, I want to say Sean, you know, you're overbooking when you're excited when someone cancels.”
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Rossi: Works from 8 to 4 with a daily two-hour lunch
“Like I just put my day in from like eight to four. I always take a two hour lunch where I usually meditate or walk or hang out with Cher.”
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Rossi: Repeatable daily routines protect creatives from distraction
“Even though it can be boring for creatives, there is a beauty to slotting into a routine that works for you and it's repeatable. And then you don't give your monkey mind the opportunity to say, Ooh, shiny object over here.”
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Rossi: $10,000 print magazine advertisement generated zero leads or subscribers
“Years ago, I took out an ad in a popular magazine, and I just, I had this, like, preconceived notion that, like, my business was gonna blow up, and it was, like, a ten-k ad, and that was the most that I had spent on a print ad, and this was, again, years ago, …”
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Rossi: Embodying core values speeds up decision-making and boundary setting
“Once somebody really kind of embodies their core values, their decisions come so much faster. So they're not on the yes train, but they can actually be more conscious of what they say yes to, and also be super aware of if they're saying yes to something, they …”
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Rossi: Manufacturing business required traveling up to 26 weeks annually
“We were doing sometimes 26 weeks out of the year going from trade show to trade show with the manufacturing company”
