You don't need to work harder, get more organized, or squeeze another productivity system into your business... In this episode of the Sold Out SEO Podcast, I’m talking with Dortha Hise, founder of Summit to Your Success, about what happens when your business starts depending too heavily on you. We talk about business overwhelm, delegation, automation, nervous system responses, and why it can be so difficult to let go of control, even when you desperately want more time. Dortha explains how she looks at both the business and the human running it, using systems, delegation, thoughtful automation and somatic practices to help business owners create more capacity without simply filling that new space with more work. 🟡 A few words from Dortha: I’m Dortha Hise, founder of Summit to Your Success. I work with established business owners whose businesses are successful, but still depend too heavily on their knowledge, decisions, attention, and involvement. My work brings together strategy, systems, delegation, and thoughtful automation with somatics and nature, so we can look at both the business and the human running it. I help people create more capacity, carry less of the business themselves, and get back to the work and life they actually want to have. Capacity Assessment - Find where your business is eating up your capacity. This free assessment helps you identify where your business is relying too heavily on your knowledge, decisions, attention, systems, or involvement. You'll see where capacity is leaking and get a clearer starting point for what to address first. https://capacity-leak-detect.vibepreview.com/ Field Sessions: Come as you are, from wherever your field happens to be. Field Sessions are 90-minute virtual experiences built around paying attention, grounding, and noticing what's happening beneath the surface. Join from your backyard, a favorite chair, a park, your car, or wherever gives you room to be present. We begin with what's actually here and see what becomes clearer from there. https://go.summittoyoursuccess.com/field-session-free-377633 Want to talk through what’s happening in your body or your business? Book a conversation with me, and we’ll look at what you’re noticing, what you’re carrying, where things feel heavier than they should, and what kind of support would make sense from here. https://link.digitalmentorhub.com/widget/bookings/capacity-strategy-session 🟡 Connect with Dortha: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorthahise/ Website: https://summittoyoursuccess.com/ 🟡 CHAPTERS: • 1:54 Why comparing your business to someone else’s can completely distort your expectations • 9:28 The difference between being proactive and constantly reacting to your business • 14:16 Why delegation can be a self-trust issue • 19:04 What to automate first in a service-based business • 19:48 Why your freebie, booking and onboarding systems matter more than you might think • 20:55 The client experience problems that simple automations can prevent • 24:51 What somatics actually means for business owners • 25:35 Why paying attention to your body can give you useful information about your business • 29:14 How to tell the difference between healthy fear and a genuine “this isn’t for me” signal • How getting time back can give you space for the things you actually want to do • Why you don’t necessarily need to fix what you notice immediately Listen to the Sold Out SEO Podcast for conversations about SEO, marketing, visibility, business growth and building a business that doesn’t require you to be online all day to get clients and share with a business friend who needs to hear that. Thanks for watching, Morgane Sales Copywriter & SEO Strategist for Service Providers and Practice Owners
