The Biz Doctor Lauren Goldstein

In this insightful episode of The Biz Doctor Podcast, host Lauren Goldstein sits down with Dave Ziozios, a seasoned financial leader and advisor, to discuss the essential steps business owners can take to increase their business valuation and ensure a smooth succession.

Lauren and Dave dive into the challenges small business owners face with scalability and profitability, and share actionable strategies to overcome these hurdles. Whether you're looking to eventually sell your business or simply want to reduce your daily involvement, this episode offers valuable insights to help you plan for a successful future.

In this episode, we cover:

Profitability and Succession Planning: Ensuring your business thrives even when you’re not at the helm.Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): The importance of clear metrics and the three most crucial ones for your business. BONUS: merging big picture vision and tactical problem solving: aligning company strategy with measurable results.Continuity Planning: How to prepare your business for your exit and ensure ongoing profitability.
Find out more about guest Dave Ziozios at B2B CFO Strategic Business Advisors and on LinkedIn.

Dave’s must-read book recommendation: "Mastering the Rockefeller Habits" by Verne Harnish

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Meet your host. Lauren Goldstein is founder and CEO of the award-winning and globally-recognized business consulting firm, Golden Key Partnership.

Her clients lovingly call her “The Biz Doctor” (which also happens to be the way this podcast got its name). Her superpower is helping 7-figure service-based entrepreneurs uncover what is keeping them stuck in the trenches of their business, so that they can have more freedom, profitability, impact, success, happier teams, and can breathe a much needed sigh of relief.

She’s been featured in Thrive Global, Huff Post, Authority Magazine and is a trusted expert to Fortune 500 companies like Apple, Nike, and AT&T, among others.

For more from Lauren, and to learn more about her signature diagnostic framework or how she helps business owners get out from under their business, visit her website GoldenKeyPartnership.com.

You can also connect with her on Instagram or LinkedIn.

The Biz Doctor Podcast is produced by Story Studio Network.

Are you struggling to onboard new team members efficiently? In this episode, Lauren unveils a powerful technique that not only streamlines the onboarding process but also ensures your new hires are truly ready to contribute. Plus, she shares a game-changing tool that will revolutionize the way you train and integrate new talent. Tune in to transform your onboarding process and set your new team members up for success from day one!

We cover:The "See One, Do One, Teach One" Technique: Learn how this simple yet effective method can ensure comprehensive training and understanding.Maximizing Efficiency with Parallel Work: Discover Lauren's secret to saving time and optimizing the onboarding process.Creating Comprehensive SOPs: Find out how to build effective Standard Operating Procedures to guide your team members and ensure consistency.Loom: A free video recording software that simplifies the creation of training materials.
Loom App: Download loom.com/download

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Meet your host. Lauren Goldstein is founder and CEO of the award-winning and globally-recognized business consulting firm, Golden Key Partnership. 

Her clients lovingly call her “The Biz Doctor” (which also happens to be the way this podcast got its name). Her superpower is helping 7-figure service-based entrepreneurs uncover what is keeping them stuck in the trenches of their business, so that they can have more freedom, profitability, impact, success, happier teams, and can breathe a much needed sigh of relief.

She’s been featured in Thrive Global, Huff Post, Authority Magazine and is a trusted expert to fortune 500 companies like Apple, Nike, and AT&T, among others.

For more from Lauren, and to learn more about her signature diagnostic framework or how she helps business owners get out from under their businesses tune visit her website GoldenKeyPartnership.com.

You can also connect with her on Instagram or LinkedIn.

The Biz Doctor Podcast is produced by Story Studio Network.

Have you ever invested so much time, money, and energy into a new employee only for them to quit after a short amount of time? Leaving you bewildered as to why.

Or maybe you hired someone who you thought was a perfect fit only to discover things during onboarding that made it clear they were not a fit and you had to let them go within their first few days, weeks, or even their first month?

It is basically the worst, isn’t it? In fact Lauren shares that she had two people in two days sending her emails about “burning through employees” or having to let someone go after THREE days… shesh. While she have yet to dig in deeper into why, her gut told her it is a few simple tweaks that would have made all the difference.

We’ll be the first to admit that hitting the bullseye with new hires can be a challenge - that is if you don’t know how to ready, aim, fire - which is why we know today's episode is going to be so valuable for you.

Welcome back to The Biz Doctor Podcast, with your host Lauren Goldstein. Today we’re going to share with you the three things that will make all the difference with not only onboarding success but also helping ensure your new employee sticks.

Why employees don’t stay

Keys to Onboarding Success

And lastly, a few of our favorite check-in questions for those first 90 days so make sure you stick around to the end.

Key takeaways:
Why employees don’t stayKeys to Onboarding SuccessA few of my favorite check-in questions for those first 90 days so make sure you stick around to the end.
CTAs/Resources

If you want to set yourself and your team up for success, here is our favorite tool to create clarity and a high performing team - The Golden Key Scorecard - https://www.goldenkeypartnership.com/scorecard/

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Meet your host.

Lauren Goldstein is founder and CEO of the award-winning and globally-recognized business consulting firm, Golden Key Partnership.

Her clients lovingly call her “The Biz Doctor” (which also happens to be the way this podcast got its name). Her superpower is helping 7-figure service-based entrepreneurs uncover what is keeping them stuck in the trenches of their business, so that they can have more freedom, profitability, impact, success, happier teams, and can breathe a much needed sigh of relief.

She’s been featured in Thrive Global, Huff Post, Authority Magazine and is a trusted expert to fortune 500 companies like Apple, Nike, and AT&T, among others.

For more from Lauren, and to learn more about her signature diagnostic framework or how she helps business owners get out from under her business tune visit her website https://www.GoldenKeyPartnership.com

You can also connect with her on instagram (www.instagram.com/itslaurengoldstein) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/laurenegoldstein)

The Biz Doctor Podcast is produced by Story Studio Network. www.storystudionetwork.com/

In this episode Lauren recalls talking to one of her favorite humans, Tim Francis the other day and as two operational experts they were discussing how often operational health gets overlooked.

It is very sexy to have a million dollar business. But you know what is sexier? Having a highly profitable million dollar business with not only good cash flow, but a deep cushion of “free cash” in the bank.

Welcome back to The Biz Doctor Podcast, today’s show is something that is top of mind for me and sure to be a perspective shifter so let’s dive in.

Something that Lauren admits that irks her to no end are the smoke and mirrors 7-figure businesses and launches that look good on the face, but when you peel back the curtain the behind the scenes is a different story.

Some might say Lauren is on a mission to end this silly braggadocious way of thinking about business because, let's face it… there is nothing sexy or fun about living on the edge with your business and going through the doldrums or worse revenue roller coaster fretting about how to make payroll.

Which brings us back to the question… what if we built businesses with the end in mind? The end being an exit.

What if we built, ran, and scaled our businesses asking this simple question “would I buy my business?”

It's a good question, huh?

Personally, we love the question because it forces us to take off the emotional glasses we normally view our businesses through and instead makes it objective, and dare we say vulnerable.

Apples to apples. When you look at the team you have, the business's operational vitals, your profitability and balance sheet, and the kicker - YOU … if you were looking to buy a business, would you buy yours and pay a top multiple?

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Meet your host. Lauren Goldstein is founder and CEO of the award-winning and globally-recognized business consulting firm, Golden Key Partnership.

Her clients lovingly call her “The Biz Doctor” (which also happens to be the way this podcast got its name). Her superpower is helping 7-figure service-based entrepreneurs uncover what is keeping them stuck in the trenches of their business, so that they can have more freedom, profitability, impact, success, happier teams, and can breathe a much needed sigh of relief.

She’s been featured in Thrive Global, Huff Post, Authority Magazine and is a trusted expert to fortune 500 companies like Apple, Nike, and AT&T, among others.

For more from Lauren, and to learn more about her signature diagnostic framework or how she helps business owners get out from under their businesses visit her website https://www.GoldenKeyPartnership.com

You can also connect with her on instagram (www.instagram.com/itslaurengoldstein) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/laurenegoldstein)

The Biz Doctor Podcast is produced by Story Studio Network. www.storystudionetwork.com/

Clawing your way back or white knuckling… two sides of the same coin … both having an underlying current of control.

Lauren talks about the time where she saw this happen in one of her clients. It was like his body was possessed by another.

He went from being really excited to get out of the trenches and focus on what we call his “Big 3” - you know the three things that, not only were they his unique abilities, but they were things he really enjoyed in the business - to suddenly trying to stick his fingers in every part of the proverbial pie.

Suddenly the team and business were thrown into chaos and whack-a-moling again after months of smooth sailing…

So why did this happen? Well that my friend is exactly what we are going to talk about on today’s episode.

Welcome back to The Biz Doctor Podcast, with your host Lauren Goldstein. Today we’re going to share with you the three things Lauren sees standing in the way of most business owners having the true entrepreneurial freedom that comes with getting out from under your business and out of the weeds. 

Key takeaways:
Are you a 'seagull leader'Lack of trust, in yourself and your teamNot being clear about what YOU actually want?
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Meet your host.
Lauren Goldstein is founder and CEO of the award-winning and globally-recognized business consulting firm, Golden Key Partnership.

Her clients lovingly call her “The Biz Doctor” (which also happens to be the way this podcast got its name). Her superpower is helping 7-figure service-based entrepreneurs uncover what is keeping them stuck in the trenches of their business, so that they can have more freedom, profitability, impact, success, happier teams, and can breathe a much needed sigh of relief.

She’s been featured in Thrive Global, Huff Post, Authority Magazine and is a trusted expert to fortune 500 companies like Apple, Nike, and AT&T, among others.

For more from Lauren, and to learn more about her signature diagnostic framework or how she helps business owners get out from under their business, visit her website https://www.GoldenKeyPartnership.com

You can also connect with her on instagram (www.instagram.com/itslaurengoldstein) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/laurenegoldstein)

The Biz Doctor Podcast is produced by Story Studio Network. www.storystudionetwork.com/

Have ever looked around at other business owners who have similar businesses to you that “seem” to be so much more successful or easy than yours - and wondered what the heck you're are doing wrong?

If you answered yes, you are not alone. Lauren recalls she was very much in this camp for a few years banging her head against the wall and wondering why it seemed like such an uphill battle - that is until she discovered that each entrepreneur has a unique winning formula that if left unsolved will be the difference between struggling and sustainable success.

When Lauren learned what her winning formula was it changed everything which is why she wants to let you in on this secret on today’s episode.

Welcome back to The Biz Doctor Podcast, with your host Lauren Goldstein. Today we’re going to share with you a framework that will help you hit the easy button in your business and breathe a much needed sigh of relief.

Let us introduce you to wealth dynamics, which we lovingly call entrepreneur dynamics

Key takeaways:
The 4 energies of a business and team: Introvert vs extrovert (hint this isn’t what you think it is. Starters vs finishers - why it is CRITICAL to know who is whoMeasuring Vale and LeverageMeasuring Trust and Flow
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Meet your host. Lauren Goldstein is founder and CEO of the award-winning and globally-recognized business consulting firm, Golden Key Partnership.

Her clients lovingly call her “The Biz Doctor” (which also happens to be the way this podcast got its name). Her superpower is helping 7-figure service-based entrepreneurs uncover what is keeping them stuck in the trenches of their business, so that they can have more freedom, profitability, impact, success, happier teams, and can breathe a much needed sigh of relief.

She’s been featured in Thrive Global, Huff Post, Authority Magazine and is a trusted expert to fortune 500 companies like Apple, Nike, and AT&T, among others.

For more from Lauren, and to learn more about her signature diagnostic framework or how she helps business owners get out from under their business, visit her website https://www.GoldenKeyPartnership.com

You can also connect with her on instagram (www.instagram.com/itslaurengoldstein) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/laurenegoldstein)

The Biz Doctor Podcast is produced by Story Studio Network. www.storystudionetwork.com/