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I'm Carla Reeves, and this is Differently. Whether you feel stuck in survival, navigating a change, or seeking more for your life, may this podcast be your weekly nudge to take a risk to build a life that is uniquely bold, authentic, and in alignment with your deepest values. After a decade of coaching individuals from corporate leaders to creative artists to multimillion dollar CEOs, I'm convinced we are far closer than we realize to what we deeply desire. And it's a willingness to do differently that can change everything. I recently hired someone to create a dashboard for my business and life. A place where I can keep my eyes on all the important things going on. From this dashboard, I can get to my vision and goals, my monthly projects and to-dos, my journals, content I'm working on for this podcast, shopping lists, gift ideas for my family, and more. I hired someone from Upwork and was unexpectedly delighted to find someone really good. I like to share good people who are doing good work, and I invited Guillaume to join me on the podcast today to inspire you around architecting systems that can help you to manage your business and life differently. Guillaume is a McGill University architecture grad with a longtime love of process optimization. He's the owner of Efficient Business Edge, a consulting agency that specializes in developing and implementing cutting-edge tailored business systems and automations. We dive into things like what holds us back from stopping long enough to build things that our future self and business will thank us for. Guillaume shares a process for helping you determine where there are gaps and opportunities in your workflows and get ready to open your mind to new ideas around systems and automation that can allow for increased joy and ease in your everyday life and biz. Grab a pen and paper, sit back and enjoy. Hi, Guillaume. Welcome to differently.
SPEAKER_01Hi, Carla. Thank you. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I was really inspired to have you on. For people listening, I met Guillaume through five or no, through Upwork. Was it Upwork?
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SPEAKER_00Upwork. Yeah. And um I was looking for somebody to create a business dashboard for me. And he was actually one of the first profiles that I saw. And I just kind of took a leap and um hired him. And I was just really pleasantly surprised from the moment you first communicated with me. And you just to me, you stood out. I've hired people on Fiverr or Upwork before, and I've had some really terrible experiences. And your communication, your professionalism, your um the product that you created for me, everything just stood totally stood out. And so I thank you for that. And I'm excited to have you on and share your business and what you're doing with other people. So welcome.
SPEAKER_01Wow. Well, I'm thank you for the for the intro. I'm I'm really, really happy to hear that um you're happy with our collaboration. It's definitely been a really uh enjoyable experience for me as well. I'm I'm really happy with what we're able to accomplish for you, and I look forward to you know doing more down the line.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, likewise. And just so you guys have a sense of what he did, he actually created a business dashboard for me in Notion where I can kind of link to all the important facets and components of my business from one spot. And it's just been a couple weeks, but it is already saving me so much time. Everything is all in one spot. I am building on it. I have all my to-dos in one spot. I mean, you it it's really, really changing the way in which I work, and I still have to train myself in some ways to start to use this new system. So I'm excited to talk to you about all of those things. Um, so today we're really talking about, I think on your website it says unleash the power of efficiency. And I think that that's so relevant and important to the people I work with, and I think the people that listen to this podcast. And so, how can introduce us to this idea of how good systems um can really help us to not only lead our businesses more effectively, but maybe even our lives?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, absolutely. Well, first of all, I just wanted to say obviously listeners can't can't see this, but uh while you were just talking about you know how it's been using this system, I was just smiling ear to ear because it makes me it makes me so happy to to hear that. That's exactly kind of what I'm in this for, really. Um and I think especially being now a small, a small business owner myself, um, and this is just as true for for people who are um doing things solo, um it's very easy to kind of just get started and you know try to kind of build up systems as we go on kind of an ad hoc basis and and based on what you know needs emerge. Um, but we rarely have or find or make the time to kind of think about these kinds of things in a more kind of systematic way. Um, and it's just over time it just becomes a really big, heavy, invisible mental burden to just try to stay on top of everything. Um, like so many people are out there and just kind of everything is in their heads, uh, everything they have to do, everyone they have to talk to, everything they know about, the people they work with, it's just all in their brain. Um, and that is an incredible weight to carry every day. And it's just um I think all of this was born out of my own um kind of need to deal with that issue myself. Um, and it so happened that that resonated with with other people in similar situations. Um and and now I just uh have the you know, I'm I'm blessed to be able to do that um as a full-time job. Um and yeah, it's just it just when you have good systems in place, um, and that's as much kind of operationally, so in terms of the way that you do things and kind of systematizing how you approach tasks and and projects, as much as the kind of we call it kind of the infrastructure that supports your processes, um, and that you know, that can include databases, dashboards, automations, um, all kinds of things. Um, that just really allows you to focus more on the things that are kind of really important, the things that you want to spend your time and energy on, and the things that are, you know, kind of high-leverage um things to be spending your time on. Um so that's really what we're trying to do. We're trying to free up time and energy for people to focus on the things that really matter. And that's you know, as much in their professional as their personal um life.
SPEAKER_00I love that. And I think for for me, just being on the other side of you, building a system for me, it's it, I think it's eliminated like so many times I was reinventing the wheel on things, or I was repeating, like doing these repetitive things that I you know, even like having my to-dos in multiple places on sticky notes and in my journal, and um and also just spinning my wheels, doing things um just the long way, or trying to find things over and over and over again, like spending wasting time finding things where it's all kind of streamlined and brought this all together. So I can't even quantify um the amount of energy and mental space like you're describing that this resolves. So what are some of the challenges that you see people like that you see holding business owners back? And maybe, maybe how do we yeah, go ahead.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, that's a that's a really good one. And we actually have a bunch of um you like examples on the website that that um we try to call out you know to people and say, like, hey, are you is this something you're experiencing? If so, it's you know, we can probably help you with this. Are you you know losing time following up with people individually? Are you wasting time on repetitive tasks, uh spending a lot of time creating reports from kind of you know data that you're you're gathering manually, um, scheduling posts and meetings and uh other things like that? Um, there are just so many tasks in kind of running a business that are kind of menial and repetitive and um error prone also is a big component. Like these are really the two things that we can solve with robust systems and automations is kind of the the human error factor that we can really, you know, probably never completely eliminate, but certainly reduce to something that's way more manageable. Um and then, you know, everything that is kind of really repetitive, um generally these are things that we can automate um and just free up a lot of time um that way. Yeah, I'm just looking at the example. I mean, yeah, check out the website and have a look and and see if uh any of these things kind of uh speak to you, I think would be my my answer to that one because there's so so many things.
SPEAKER_00Yes. What is um so you talk about automation on your website? It talks about smart automation, but that's kind of a new term to me. And so in case it's new to other people, what what is that? What exactly is that? What does that mean and look like for a business owner?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, absolutely. So I think what we're trying to um kind of articulate with that particular term is our goal is not to go in and automate everything that can possibly be automated. Because that that might sound like a good thing. And in general, in some sense, we do try to automate everything we can, but at the end of the day, it has to work for the people that are involved, and we really seek to create um systems that support workflows, and so it really needs to start from the workflow, and we we kind of we automate the parts of the workflow that you know it makes sense to automate while leaving any kind of human factor, kind of desirable human factor, right? The parts where you actually want someone to have eyes on things and to be you know humanly involved in certain aspects of the workflow, we we want to make sure that we leave that intact and in fact that we kind of optimize for that and make sure that that's supported as as well as possible. And then everything else around that that we can eliminate or streamline or automate in a way that makes sense, um, that's something that we seek to do. So it's not about you know creating crazy automated systems that are sometimes you know too complicated and hard to understand for the clients we're building for. Like that's not the goal. The goal is to really um do things that help them at the end of the day.
SPEAKER_00Well, and I I think what I hear you saying is that you um you really seek to understand the individual that you're working for in their business um before you jump in and start to just say this needs to be automated or this needs to be automated. And I that's one of the things that stood out to me with you is you actually took the time to understand my business before even jumping in to create anything. And I deeply appreciated that. And it sounds like that's very much a part of your process.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, definitely. I mean, if you have something specific that you know you want to automate, um you can probably find someone online for, you know, to do that for you for pretty cheap to just do the execution. Um, I think a big part of the value of working with us is exactly that kind of holistic approach that you just described, where we really, really seek to understand what is the context for this. Do we, is that even the automation that we need here, or is there something else that makes sense? Like, are we optimizing for the right problem here? Um, because sometimes it's happened multiple times where um a client comes to us and has something pretty specific that they want to automate, and then we take the time to kind of zoom out and look at kind of what the situation is, and we realize that yeah, automating that would solve like a very kind of short-term immediate problem, but ultimately we can probably bypass that entire part of the workflow if we're being smarter somewhere else in you know, kind of upstream of that. Um so that's really the the the value that generally people have found uh when working with us.
SPEAKER_00So for people listening who might be wondering, like, gosh, is this is this something for me? Like, am I at a point in my business where this would something like this would make sense? And do you have any questions they could be asking themselves to kind of articulate um when that time is and and maybe where even you would start?
SPEAKER_01Absolutely, yeah. Um, I think the minute you find yourself struggling to keep up, and and and whether that's because you're literally, you know, missing appointments and things are falling through the cracks, or it's just you, you know, you end your day and you end your week and you're completely mentally drained and exhausted more than you feel you should, right? Like we all know, running a business is exhausting always, and that there's only so much we can do to help with that. But there is, I think, a degree where it's just it becomes extreme, and you know, you have to be able to enjoy your life. Uh, and when you find that it kind of takes over the rest of your life, then I think that's when um you have to realize you have a problem and and and um we can help, right? So I don't think there's necessarily a set stage where that becomes relevant. Um, I'm talking to someone right now who is pretty much a uh a one-man shop at the moment. It's just him doing all the consulting and the fulfillment that he does. Um, and he's bringing like one person on board in the next month or so to take on one particular part of his process. Uh, but he's still interested in building out pretty much a full robust system that will work for him right now and um will also grow with him and scale with him as he brings on more uh more team members and more clients and and just you know increases um overall workload over time. So I think you know, if you're solo and you plan on remaining solo, uh, we can definitely help you, just like we did in your case, Carla. I think we were able to build something that has tremendous value for you as a as a as a one-person business. Um but particularly if you're planning on on scaling and growing and bringing more people on board, um, and you realize you just don't have the capacity to manage that currently, um then absolutely like you know, get in touch and and we'll help you out. And we we will work with you now to create something that works, but also over time to kind of make sure that um your systems are kind of adjusted and upgraded as required along your journey.
SPEAKER_00I didn't expect to have all these questions pop up in my own mind, but um, is this something that you have to like before you are ready to say hi or you? Um, is it something you need to like prepare or be ready for? Or is it better to almost have that exploratory conversation first? Like I I don't I yeah, help me through that thought process. Like for I know it happened for me, but I'm curious for like what you normally see.
SPEAKER_01Um I think this is a really interesting question that I honestly haven't really thought about in those specific terms before, but um just thinking back on it, I think I think we're able to provide more overall value when things start off less defined. Um so it's like it's almost like if you think of it like a funnel, um, you know, kind of the further up the funnel you are, the more well, actually, I guess that's that's the wrong metaphor. Um, but think of it like you know, the earlier you are in the process or the you know, the less focused you are, the more um possibilities there are ahead and and the more room we have to to go different ways. And and whereas if you're kind of already down into a very specific situation, um, you know, that that's sometimes a little more limiting. It doesn't mean we we can't help you as much. I just think um in retrospect, people who have come to us with kind of a less clear idea of what they needed, um, that's where we've really been able to orient them and like just provide like tremendous value from even just defining the need, right? Um and it it really helps to think through workflows together and do that that first part of kind of strategic thinking and figuring out all right, how does this happen? And like what are the steps? And a lot of times people who come to us actually have never thought about things in those terms themselves. They just do it right. And they don't really think about how it happens on a day-to-day basis, it's just what they do. Um, but it really helps to kind of pull back and um yeah, like just think about how things are happening and if there's any way that we could make them happen uh a little better or or easier for everyone involved.
SPEAKER_00Honestly, that was like one of my favorite parts, I think, when we sat down and went through some of my workflows. Because like to have somebody interested enough to like get in the weeds of the details of what I do is so exciting. And it opened my eyes to a lot of things. As you walk somebody through what you do, it just it stirs a whole bunch of valuable thinking. So I appreciated that part of the process too. So I I want to get a little bit more personal. So, how did you end up here doing what you're doing, building your own business? Is it something that you always knew you would do? Were you like if you think of yourself as like a systems guy, were there clues of that growing up? Like, fill us in.
SPEAKER_01Oh wow, what a what an interesting question. Um, it's kind of a crazy story. I think you you already know a bit of the background because we've we've talked about it a little bit, but um I definitely was not destined to do this in any kind of way, shape, or form. Um so many things have happened along the way. It's kind of a crazy journey. And if I've learned one thing in kind of the past year or so, it is to kind of embrace the unexpected and just really lean into it. And I've found that that leads to like the best things in life. Um, but no, my my background, um, going all the way back, I was actually gonna go to med school. Um, I was, you know, I always did very well in in school, and that was just kind of the expected um path um until I realized I I didn't actually want to do that. Um and so yeah, I left home at like 19. I moved to another city and I took up fashion design um in school uh for a little bit. I wanted to do something more creative, um, and it was it was really interesting. And then I realized that wasn't really the specific thing I wanted to do. Um, I went to um to university for art history for a little bit until um, especially my mom someday who uh during some conversation we had was saying, Oh, like wouldn't you enjoy architecture? Like, wouldn't that be interesting? And I said, Oh yeah, that would be interesting. Um so I applied to architecture school. I did my undergrad in architecture at um the University of Montreal. Um and then I would say even during my undergrad, I was already thinking about starting my own office and just like that. I didn't really want to work for someone um indefinitely, and I kind of wanted to run things. Uh I thought that would be my own architecture office. Uh and then I after my my undergrad, most people who do their undergrad there um because it's in French, and there's there's only one other um actually it's the only university that does a master's uh program in architecture in French uh in Montreal. Uh so most people just go right to that program. Um and I decided to take a gap year instead and try to apply to McGill, um, which I did. Uh I got into McGill. The the Gap year was very interesting. I worked full-time in architecture during that time. I think that also it kind of even more emphasized the fact that I didn't really want to work for someone uh forever. Um and then McGill was like really eye opening because I got to meet people who um came for from all kinds of backgrounds, people from um the rest of Canada and And elsewhere who had worked all over the world. A lot of Waterloo grads, and Waterloo is a university in Ontario that has a very robust co-op program. So everyone who came from that program had worked in like four different countries. You know, like they they worked in New York, they worked in Europe, they worked in Asia, they worked uh, you know, on the West Coast, uh, whatever. And that really kind of opened up for me possibilities as to what I could do after school. Um, and that that was when I really considered kind of um leaving and and and going elsewhere. So at that point, um, I had been living in Montreal for um already like like seven or eight years, um, and I was pretty much ready to you know move elsewhere. Uh well I'm really giving you the full story here. I hope that's okay. I hope it's interesting for for other people. Um and then um I started this solo consulting as I was um in my last year of masters, um, you know, I was playing around with Notion in my personal life, and I figured, you know, that might be of use to someone. I started doing solo um uh freelancing on Upwork, um, and it kind of picked up like way more than I expected uh to the point where like I could see myself just doing that. Um I wasn't too sure at first, and I thought, you know, I might just keep doing the two, but it was definitely taking up a lot of time with my part-time job in architecture school and then the freelancing, uh kind of a crazy time. Um, but yeah, eventually that's what led me to realize I could do this full-time. And I yeah, I just realized I would rather do that than continue doing architecture. Um, but I wanted to finish my master's because you know, it's something I started and it's something I I worked really hard for. So I I stuck with it and I did um finish my master's degree and graduate. But um, but yeah, and then systems thinking um I think is really the running thread. Um, and that is something that's really kind of drilled into you in architecture. Um, think in systems. And even when I was working, I worked two different um architecture jobs, and at at both offices, I was really into kind of setting up standards and procedures and supporting documents and things like that. And I I I was really lucky that the second job I had, I worked with a phenomenal um boss, phenomenal bosses who were very organized and also very into kind of um systematizing things and having kind of um robust processes and supporting infrastructure. Um, they were running everything in in uh Google Sheets pretty much, which is uh really impressive and has its own drawbacks, but um I think that also really helped um make me realize that's what I really wanted to focus on going forward. Um yeah, so that's that's kind of how I got to here. I feel like I could have done a shorter version of that, but um, in some ways it was like completely unexpected, in other ways it was meant to be. Uh, and that's that's good, I think.
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SPEAKER_00I love that. I life is not linear, right? And but I love that there's this through there's the always like seems like there's a through line though, that even there was times in your life where you can't see that thread that is sort of you know running through things. But I I've had times in my life where it's like, oh my gosh, that thread has been here all along, or it it's or things that I thought I had to give up doing years ago. Now like I get to do those things again and fold them into what my business looks like today. And and I love what you said about leaning into the unexpected, that that's where life gets exciting. Okay. So back to what are some of the like your favorite like rewards or benefits that you see of taking, because I do I do think it takes it takes something to stop and have a system built, right? Because if especially for like a high achievers, even for myself, it was hard to like stop and put the time and the thinking time into like stopping to build this and being patient enough to do it, which and you did it very quickly. But um what are some of the benefits of of doing this?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think that's a kind of a sticking point for a lot of people, um, or something that will kind of stub them before they even get started. Generally, you know, things are okay. Like you're managing, you're getting by, and and you could continue doing things the way you've always done them. And that's kind of the path of least resistance for most people, even though it's hard and there's a ton of friction, and it's just you know, like a real um uh real slog to you know keep going down that route. But for a lot of people, it's what they know and they it's what they want to continue doing. Um, and we've also found that in like larger organizations, or not even that large, but when there's multiple people involved, sometimes there is quite a bit of resistance to adapting um new ways because people are quite comfortable in in what they know and and the way they've been operating. Um and yeah, and and the other thing I want to address is it it, you know, it is an investment in every way, like both as you said, in your in your kind of time and energy and and taking the time to pull back and think um you know strategically. Um and it's also um honestly like a significant financial investment. Our services are are not exactly cheap, and and we're we realize that, um, but we strongly believe that we provide outsized value really for what we charge. Um and yeah, I would say um in general, I think a lot of people are so kind of immersed in the day-to-day of running things that um they they don't really realize how much of a proportion of their time they're spending doing things that they probably really shouldn't. Um you know, like I don't know, if you're a plumber, probably a bad example, but um I'm trying to find a good example here. There's just some some times where business owners want to have their hands in things directly and it's just really not the best use of their time. And uh that's not something that you can realize really when you're in it. You have to kind of pull back and think about it and realize, hey, like I really should um outsource this to someone else or delegate this to someone else and focus on things where I am actually needed and where I am actually um valuable. Um and I think pulling back can really help realize that. And it can also, I think it can initiate um kind of a thought process of where to invest your time and energy going forward to really maximize your effectiveness. And effectiveness is a different thing from is a different thing from from efficiency, right? Efficiency is kind of like how how fast, how well can you can you do things? Uh effectiveness is are you being valuable right now? Are you doing something of value? Are you doing things the best way you can you can do them and getting the most that you can out of what you do, right? Um and yeah, at the end of the day, being more efficient leads you to be more effective, or that's the that's kind of the uh you know, the outcome we hope for for sure and what we shoot for. Um yeah, I kind of went pretty pretty broad with that one. I I don't know if that really answered your your question, but there's there are so many benefits to pulling back and and taking the time to kind of it's like strategically regrouping and to kind of better focus uh moving forward, right? And I think you've experienced that in our work together.
SPEAKER_00For sure. And I I think just the way you said it that it is an investment, and you have to be someone who's willing to kind of stop and invest in the future, right? Because you it really is an investment into um the future of your business. And I was actually just talking to a client yesterday who's kind of in that spot where you said like their business has grown to a certain point, and the way in which she has been leading and and the work she's been doing in the company has kind of out her role is kind of outlived. Like she really needs to level herself up and get out of the weeds. And I think that that's where things like this um can play a huge important role. So if we could leave people with maybe I'm gonna put you on the spot here, but I know you have a process on your website that you take people through, but is there a little maybe a couple steps of like auditing? I mean, I think you touched on them just a minute ago, but like a couple questions that they could leave today with to ask themselves to really identify. One, maybe they're not ready to make this large investment the way you help people, but maybe they're it would give them some insight into where they could um, you know, remove some of the friction.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah, absolutely. Um I'm just trying to pull up um something here. Um sorry, just a second.
SPEAKER_00That's all right. I appreciate you doing that.
SPEAKER_01Where is this? Here it is. Um yeah, so okay, so two things that I want to touch on. So yeah, the first are the four-step process that we outline on our website is uh audit, strategize, uh yeah, audit, strategize, uh, implement, and then support. Um and the first part is really important. You have to start from where you are. What is the situation currently and you know how are things looking? Look at your your operations, look at your processes, and and you know, evaluate things. Um we really like to do some some mapping, mapping out exercises. I don't think we really got a chance to do that together, but um when there's kind of a little bit in the Miro. Okay, yeah, yeah. So we did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right, you're right. Um so exactly that's what we like to do. We we like to use Miro for that. I'm I'm pretty visual, um, and it helps to just map out the steps and and what happens and the different possible branches depending on what you know what happens. Um and we find that that really helps understand what's happening and what could be improved. Um and the other thing that really helps is taking the time to think about how you spend your time as uh as a business owner, as an administrator, as a you know, an operations manager, um, really anyone, where does my time go? And I feel like we end, it's so common to end the day and end the week and be like, where did it go? What was I doing this whole time? Yeah. And even you know, you look at your calendar and you're like, huh. Um and I say that, and it's I'm I'm not saying I have this you know nailed down perfectly. That's definitely something that I also struggle with. But thinking about like how much time am I spending on things that I I maybe you know should not be doing or could be doing something else, uh, what are these things that I could pass off to something else or maybe automate? Um, it definitely helps to start thinking about this. And another thing that I wanted to share is, and this is from uh kind of a kind of a community that I'm part of and kind of a coaching um program that I um you know attended. Um it's called a SAD approach, SAD. Um and there's a worksheet that goes with it, and it's uh SAD is for stop, automate, delegate. And so you map out the tasks that you do in a week, you write down how much time you spend per week doing that, um, you can kind of categorize them depending, and then you decide, all right, is this well first of all, is this something I I I can and should and want to keep doing? If so, fine. But if not, should I just stop doing that? Just not do it? Is it just not worth doing? Um, should I try to automate it as much as possible so I can reduce the amount of time that I spend doing that? And finally, can I delegate it? Is there someone else on my team who could be doing this instead of me? Should I hire a VA or or some other form of um administrative support to take care of, you know, bookkeeping, invoicing, um HR, you know, payroll, um scheduling. There's so many things that it's it's really valuable to have a dedicated administrator to take care of that stuff for you so that you don't have to spend your time doing those things. And you can focus on things that um actually grow your business. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So helpful. Thank you so much. Um, I think too, like one of the things that you you helped me do is um I think some of this we don't even we can't even see. It's almost like a blind spot, you know, and having a thought partner or a thinking partner to help you sort of see things from a different angle. Um, because there were places where I thought, oh, a system would look like this, and you were like, oh, but we can do this. And it was like my eyes just got so big, like, really? I didn't even know that was possible. And so I think that's another really valuable part of what you guys do, and what having you know somebody else in your life to kind of think through your processes with you is so helpful. Sometimes they're way too close to really have good perspective.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, absolutely, a hundred percent. And that's that's one of the things that um I'm not it leads to one of the things that I really enjoy about consulting and kind of you know uh business services is we kind of get to look behind the scenes at so many different organizations in so many different um areas and industries and kind of see how people are doing things. Um, and you know, for all the things we can go in and and improve, there are also like so many things that people are doing really well. And every like at least every project, there will be at least one thing where we'll be like, oh wow, that's really cool. Like that's that's such a good idea. Um, and we learn from that. Like we, you know, it's continuous learning from from our clients as well. And then our clients benefit from that in return because these are insights that we can share with them over time, and they kind of pretty much get to learn, not not just from us, but from all of the other organizations that we've helped before. And that has like immense value, right? Because that's not really something that you get to do as a business owner. You don't really, I mean, I mean, if you're part of a community and you you talk to other people, uh, maybe, maybe you get a little bit of that and you can get to talking. Um, but we really, you know, we're really in there and and kind of looking and digging, and um, it's really interesting everything we kind of uh discover that way.
SPEAKER_00That's so awesome. I love what you're doing. I love your story. I love sharing good people who are doing good work out there. And I'm so glad that you were able to come on and kind of just open our eyes to what's possible here with systems and all of that. Um tell people where they can find out more about the good work you're doing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, absolutely. Well, first of all, thank you so much um for for all of this. I'm really glad that our paths crossed and it led to this. This is another instance of the you know, the unexpected and leaning into that. Uh I'm I'm so so glad. Yeah. Um and um yeah, you can look us up. Uh our website is efficientbusinessed.com. Um, you know, you can find us there. There is a uh a booking form on there if you want to schedule uh you know a free um 30-minute consultation. Uh, we also do paid um, you know, hour-long consultations if you want to just get in there right away and and see what we can do for you in in just an hour, kind of talking about everything and giving you some insights and strategy. Um we are also on you know Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Uh, you can add me on LinkedIn, shoot me a message. I'm I'm pretty responsive. Uh I handle these things myself uh currently, so I'm actually the one answering messages. Um so yeah, get in touch and um I'll be I'll be happy to talk. I'm really looking forward to meeting you know new people and and getting to learn more from from all kinds of contexts and situations. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So great. So good. Thank you so much for all the gems. Um, for people listening, try something on you heard today and take it into your life and check out the good work that they're doing. And thank you so much, Guillaume, for uh joining me here today.
SPEAKER_01Thank you for having me. I really enjoy this.
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