Episode 210: 11 Questions Every Entrepreneur Needs to Ask
Every excuse we’ve ever heard for a stalled business — it’s the economy, it’s the team, it’s the algorithm — has one thing in common: it’s rarely true. In this episode, we get brutally honest about the questions most entrepreneurs are terrified to ask themselves, and why avoiding them is the real reason a business gets stuck.
We built this one around a single non-negotiable truth: the only person you lie to is yourself. If you want different results, you have to get honest — and then you have to act. So we ran through eleven questions we ask ourselves, and the entrepreneurs we work with, to find out where they’re really getting in their own way.
In this episode, we cover:
- Where am I the bottleneck? Why the gap in your business is usually standing in your own shoes — and why this is the fastest fix on this list.
- What do I actually want this business to look like? Not what Instagram says success looks like. What you want.
- Am I doing this because it works, or because it’s how I’ve always done it? Past success is not a strategy. It’s a trap.
- Am I making decisions based on fear instead of facts? “People won’t pay that” is a feeling, not a fact.
- What would I stop doing if I wasn’t worried about what other people thought? Including the people closest to us.
- What am I tolerating that I already know needs to change? The bad client. The unprofitable offer. The conversation we’re avoiding.
- What decision do I already know I need to make? Is the pain of staying where we are actually worse than the pain of the change?
- What is actually making me money versus what is just keeping me busy? Busy is comfortable. Comfortable doesn’t pay the bills.
- Am I solving the actual problem, or just slapping a Band-Aid on it? (Yes, we go there — Eastern medicine vs. Western medicine, cancer-survivor story included.)
- If my revenue doubled tomorrow, could I actually handle it? And what does “enough” really look like?
- Is my calendar reflecting the business owner I want to be? Or just whatever felt urgent this week?
This episode is a mirror, not a lecture. We ask ourselves these same questions — and we still hate some of the answers. If we’re ready to stop lying to ourselves and start building the business (and life) we actually want, this episode is the permission slip to get honest.
Ready to go deeper? This is exactly the work we do inside the Badass Amplifier and in 1:1 consulting — helping you see what you can’t always see on your own, and helping you break the plateau for good.
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