SEASON: 7 EPISODE: 9
Episode Overview:
Welcome back to Becoming Preferred, the podcast designed to help you level up your game and become the best version of you. If you are an entrepreneur or business leader, you’ve probably been told that scaling your company requires endless hustle, 80-hour workweeks, and wearing every single hat yourself. But what if the very thing driving your early success is the exact habit holding your company back from its next big breakthrough?
Our guest today has built $500M+ businesses, flown planes, and surfed waves around the world, yet his most radical advice for CEOs wanting to scale is remarkably simple: stop working so hard and do less.
Bill Gallagher is a world-class executive coach who has led four companies as CEO, helped build multi-million dollar enterprises, and trained leaders across 13 countries and over 28 cities. As host of the Scaling Up Podcast and author of Busy Is Broken, Bill is on a mission to help leaders restore order, regain their sanity, and build high-growth businesses that don't depend on them being in the room 24/7. Please join me for my conversation with Bill Gallagher.
Guest Bio:
Bill Gallagher is a highly rated business coach whose passion is helping CEOs and entrepreneurs manage growth better; restore time, order and sanity to their lives—and get growing again or growing faster. With more than 36 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience and 18 years coaching and training leaders who want to improve their leadership and performance, he now works with leaders and teams in over 28 cities and 13 countries. He has led four companies as CEO/owner and was a partner/executive in two others as they grew from startup to more than $500 million in annual revenue.
A former DJ and radio executive, Bill hosts the Scaling Up Podcast. In his free time, he is an avid surfer, sailor, skateboarder, pilot, scuba enthusiast and recovering triathlete. Happily married for more than 20 years, he and his wife Lori live in the Oakland Hills and are parents to two grown children.
Resource Links:
- Website: https://scalingcoach.com/Q20/
- Product Link: https://busyisbroken.com/
Insight Gold Timestamps:
03:05 I went to fifteen different schools before I finished and I finished two years early
06:41 Your book actually makes that bold statement: busy is broken
11:44 We've got to work on our business and not in our business
14:29 The next one is perfectionism
16:39 Typically I have the home schedule and then I have the road schedule
19:38 If you like Dan Sullivan, you will get something different but related from my work
21:37 My podcast today, we're over 700 episodes now
23:39 You want actual partners who are fully engaged in the enterprise, who are leaders accountable for things
26:05 If you go to busyisbroken.com, there's a link to their study
29:13 A $200 million sale, if you start from nothing, it's fantastic, but a 200 million dollar sale if you were at 2 billion is really tragic
31:30 In a period of high growth for the company, my team leveled up
35:16 We'll worry about strategy if we're not growing
38:25 You deal with whatever it is in real time
45:30 The richness is not just the quality of life and what I do, but also the impact
47:50 The book is Busy is Broken by Bill Gallagher
47:53 The website is scalingcoach.com
49:33 Thinking I'm smarter than I am gets me in trouble every time
Connect Socially:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billgall/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scalingupbizcoach/
Podcast (Scaling Up Business): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scaling-up-business-with-bill-gallagher/id1106735103
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BillGallagherScalingCoach
Email: bill@gallaghertraining.com
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