Hitting The Ceiling

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Most entrepreneurs will tell you about the pivot, Hitting The Ceiling™ will tell you what happened the night before. Hitting The Ceiling, brought to you by EOS Worldwide is the perfect podcast for businesses, entrepreneurs, and key leaders and managers to talk about the moments they’ve never said out loud.  Hitting the Ceiling is where business leaders and entrepreneurs talk about the moments they’ve never said out loud that often keep them from growing their businesses in healthy ways. These stories often happen behind closed doors, in the quiet, when the business was surviving, but the entrepreneur wondered if they were burning out. The cashflow ran out. The team walked. The personal life fell apart while the company kept going.  Everyone hits a ceiling. On this show, host Mark O’Donnell helps guests identify the Five Leadership Disciplines that help leaders break through those seasons to realize the business and entrepreneurial success they were made for.  New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you consume podcasts.  In upcoming episodes of Hitting The Ceiling, you can expect to hear:  What Happens When The Business Owner Is The System with Jill Young The Power of Simplifying Business When Everything Collapses with Sue Hawkes How Success Nearly Destroyed Their Friendship with Al Alexander and Ryan Loos of ConEquip When You’re Forced To Lead Before You’re Ready with Avery Ward When Growth Starts Stealing From Your Family with Ben Glass Upcoming episodes with Patrick Lencioni, Gino Wickman, Kelly Knight and more on leadership, business growth, managing growing teams, and the Five Leadership Disciplines in business.   Hitting The Ceiling is hosted by Mark O’Donnell, CEO and Visionary of EOS Worldwide™. The Entrepreneurial Operating System is a better way to run your business with tools that hundreds of thousands of business around the world are using to strengthen their businesses,  New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you consume podcasts.  To find out more about EOS Worldwide, visit www.EOSWorldwide.com  To subscribe to Clarity Break Thoughts, visit www.ClarityBreakThoughts.com

  1. When Growth Starts Stealing From Your Family with Ben Glass

    2 DAYS AGO

    When Growth Starts Stealing From Your Family with Ben Glass

    How do you know when your business is stealing from your life? As Ben Glass built a thriving law firm through relentless marketing and reputation, the success didn’t just grow the business; it trapped him inside it, consuming his time and pulling him away from his family. The pressure escalated as more clients poured in, chaos multiplied, and every decision bottlenecked at his desk, forcing him to confront the reality that he had built something that couldn’t scale without breaking him. You’ll hear how he rebuilt the firm from the inside out, handing off control, restructuring leadership, and ultimately proving the system worked when a life-threatening surgery forced him out, and the business didn’t miss him. What you’ll learn in this episode: (00:01:36) How early success exposed a lack of business knowledge and created hidden fragility (00:04:36) Why mastering marketing first can create an entirely new operational crisis (00:09:01) How growth forced impossible tradeoffs and began stealing time from family (00:11:20) Why trying to self-implement systems often fails without outside help (00:14:05) How bringing in the right operators can turn chaos into structure (00:18:39) What it really takes to give up control—even to your own family (00:27:38) Why holding onto the wrong people can quietly stall your company’s growth (00:40:04) How a sudden health crisis proved whether the business could survive without you Thank you to Ben for being on our show! Learn more about Ben Glass and Ben Glass Law: https://www.benglasslaw.com/ Get a grip on your business with Traction by Gino Wickman—the proven system to help you gain clarity, accountability, and results. Learn more: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-library Subscribe to Clarity Break Thoughts (https://claritybreakthoughts.com/) Follow the show on your favorite platform: http://lnk.to/hittingtheceiling This episode was produced by Story On Media: https://www.storyon.co/

    1hr 15min
  2. How Success Nearly Destroyed Their Friendship with Al Alexander & Ryan Loos of ConEquip

    21 APR

    How Success Nearly Destroyed Their Friendship with Al Alexander & Ryan Loos of ConEquip

    How do you handle resentment when your partners aren’t carrying the same weight? As ConEquip scaled into a nine-figure company, the pressure didn’t just grow the business; it exposed cracks in control, communication, and trust. One founder was ready to walk away, the partnership was strained, and the weight of leadership started bleeding into their personal lives. You’ll hear how they faced those moments head-on, brought in outside help, and rebuilt not just the business, but their relationship with each other. Al Alexander is a co-founder of ConEquip, a leading supplier of heavy equipment parts. He leads the company’s vision, marketing, and culture, and has played a key role in scaling the business from a small startup into a nine-figure company. Al is passionate about building people, developing leaders, and creating a workplace where core values actually drive decisions. Ryan Loos is a co-founder of ConEquip and leads the company’s financial strategy and operational structure. Originally brought in as a consultant, Ryan became a partner and helped bring the discipline, systems, and accountability needed to scale the business. He’s known for turning ideas into executable processes and helping teams move from chaos to clarity. What you’ll learn in this episode:  (00:04:57) How shifting from working in the business to working on it unlocked scalable growth (00:06:20) Why delegation feels risky at first and how hiring your first employee changes everything (00:10:50) The moment a consultant became a full-time partner and transformed the company’s trajectory (00:16:13) What it looks like when each founder hits their personal ceiling and tension starts to build (00:19:17) How refusing to let go of control can become the biggest obstacle to growth (00:24:36) Why making decisions at 60–75% certainty can accelerate growth faster than waiting for perfection (00:35:37) How outside counsel and hard conversations rebuilt trust and saved the partnership Thank you to Al Alexander and Ryan Loos for being on our show! Learn more about ConEquip: https://conequip.com Get a grip on your business with Traction by Gino Wickman, the proven system to help you gain clarity, accountability, and results. Learn more: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-library This episode was sponsored by ENRG, the community where leaders like you find connection—and the who’s and the how’s—to make your businesses thrive. Tap into the ENRG of entrepreneurs growing together by joining a local chapter (75+ cities + virtual) and gain connections, community, access to the EOS Conference, and more. Get connected here: https://enrg.life/locations/ Subscribe to Clarity Break Thoughts (https://claritybreakthoughts.com/)  Follow the show on your favorite platform: http://lnk.to/hittingtheceiling This episode was produced by Story On Media: https://www.storyon.co/

    58 min
  3. The Power of Simplifying When Everything Collapses with Sue Hawkes, CEO of YESS!

    21 APR

    The Power of Simplifying When Everything Collapses with Sue Hawkes, CEO of YESS!

    How do you keep showing up when you feel like a complete fraud? As Sue Hawkes, CEO of YESS!,  built a career helping leaders find clarity, her own life was quietly unraveling behind the scenes. Her businesses were struggling, her family was facing devastating loss, and a single unopened letter revealed she was about to lose her home. You’ll hear how she navigated that breaking point in real time, simplified everything down to what truly mattered, and rebuilt her life and leadership from the ground up. What you’ll learn in this episode:  (00:02:30) How everything can collapse at once—and what that moment really feels like (00:06:45) How simplifying your world becomes the only way to move forward (00:10:30) What it takes to ask for help when your identity is built on having answers (00:14:45) The daily practices that create stability when life feels out of control (00:19:00) How to build systems and habits that carry you through uncertainty (00:29:30) What resilience looks like when a new wave of challenges hits later in life (00:41:15) Why seeing problems as “just an issue” can completely change how you lead Thank you to Sue for being on our show! Learn more about Sue Hawkes and YESS!: https://sayyess.com/ Get a grip on your business with Traction by Gino Wickman, the proven system to help you gain clarity, accountability, and results. Learn more: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-library This episode was sponsored by ENRG, the community where leaders like you find connection—and the who’s and the how’s—to make your businesses thrive. Tap into the ENRG of entrepreneurs growing together by joining a local chapter (75+ cities + virtual) and gain connections, community, access to the EOS Conference, and more. Get connected here: https://enrg.life/locations/ Subscribe to Clarity Break Thoughts (https://claritybreakthoughts.com/)  Follow the show on your favorite platform: http://lnk.to/hittingtheceiling This episode was produced by Story On Media: https://www.storyon.co/

    55 min

  4. 17 APR

    Welcome to Hitting The Ceiling, a Business Podcast from EOS Worldwide

    Most entrepreneurs will tell you about the pivot, Hitting The Ceiling will tell you what happened the night before. Hitting The Ceiling, brought to you by EOS Worldwide, is the perfect podcast for businesses, entrepreneurs, and key leaders and managers to talk about the moments they’ve never said out loud.  Hitting the Ceiling is where business leaders and entrepreneurs talk about the moments they’ve never said out loud that often keep them from growing their businesses in healthy ways. These stories often happen behind closed doors, in the quiet, when the business was surviving, but the entrepreneur wondered if they were burning out. The cash flow ran out. The team walked. The personal life fell apart while the company kept going.  Everyone hits a ceiling. On this show, host Mark O’Donnell helps guests identify the 5 Leadership Disciplines that help leaders break through those seasons to realize the business and entrepreneurial success they were made for.  New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you consume podcasts.  In upcoming episodes of Hitting The Ceiling, you can expect to hear:  What Happens When The Business Owner Is The System with Jill Young The Power of Simplifying Business When Everything Collapses with Sue Hawkes How Success Nearly Destroyed Their Friendship with Al Alexander and Ryan Loos of ConEquip When You’re Forced To Lead Before You’re Ready with Avery Ward When Growth Starts Stealing From Your Family with Ben Glass Upcoming episodes with Patrick Lencioni, Gino Wickman, and more on leadership, business growth, managing growing teams, and the 5 Leadership Disciplines in business.   Hitting The Ceiling is hosted by Mark O’Donnell, CEO and Visionary of EOS Worldwide. The Entrepreneurial Operating System is a better way to run your business with tools that hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world are using to strengthen their businesses.  New episodes drop weekly. Follow the show on your favorite platform: http://lnk.to/hittingtheceiling To find out more about EOS Worldwide, visit www.EOSWorldwide.com.  To subscribe to Clarity Break Thoughts, visit www.ClarityBreakThoughts.com

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Most entrepreneurs will tell you about the pivot, Hitting The Ceiling™ will tell you what happened the night before. Hitting The Ceiling, brought to you by EOS Worldwide is the perfect podcast for businesses, entrepreneurs, and key leaders and managers to talk about the moments they’ve never said out loud.  Hitting the Ceiling is where business leaders and entrepreneurs talk about the moments they’ve never said out loud that often keep them from growing their businesses in healthy ways. These stories often happen behind closed doors, in the quiet, when the business was surviving, but the entrepreneur wondered if they were burning out. The cashflow ran out. The team walked. The personal life fell apart while the company kept going.  Everyone hits a ceiling. On this show, host Mark O’Donnell helps guests identify the Five Leadership Disciplines that help leaders break through those seasons to realize the business and entrepreneurial success they were made for.  New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you consume podcasts.  In upcoming episodes of Hitting The Ceiling, you can expect to hear:  What Happens When The Business Owner Is The System with Jill Young The Power of Simplifying Business When Everything Collapses with Sue Hawkes How Success Nearly Destroyed Their Friendship with Al Alexander and Ryan Loos of ConEquip When You’re Forced To Lead Before You’re Ready with Avery Ward When Growth Starts Stealing From Your Family with Ben Glass Upcoming episodes with Patrick Lencioni, Gino Wickman, Kelly Knight and more on leadership, business growth, managing growing teams, and the Five Leadership Disciplines in business.   Hitting The Ceiling is hosted by Mark O’Donnell, CEO and Visionary of EOS Worldwide™. The Entrepreneurial Operating System is a better way to run your business with tools that hundreds of thousands of business around the world are using to strengthen their businesses,  New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you consume podcasts.  To find out more about EOS Worldwide, visit www.EOSWorldwide.com  To subscribe to Clarity Break Thoughts, visit www.ClarityBreakThoughts.com

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