The Ali Dee Show

Ep 105: How To Stop Spiraling And Start Solving In Your Business

• Ali Dee • Season 1 • Episode 105

Share episode

Growth doesn’t come from chaos; it comes from better leadership under pressure.

JOIN LET'S GO GIRLS HERE

Join LET'S GO GIRLS, my space for daily audio trainings, lessons, strategy and more here.

Join us inside the TRENDSETTER UNIVERSITY here.

Work directly with me in TRENDSETTER VIP, DM Me on IG to apply

Follow the Ali Dee on TikTok and Instagram @ali.dee.ceo

SPEAKER_00:

Hey, welcome to the Al E D show. Today's episode is gonna be super fun and a little bit different. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to include an audio training from a brand new space that I just launched called Let's Go Girls. Cue the Shania Twain. I am so excited. So this space is specifically built for boutiques and brand owners who are ready to hear daily lessons, daily trainings, strategy, mindset, energy, behind the scenes, how I've been able to build such successful businesses. What are my main things that I believe you need to focus on in order to get the success that you want for your business? So let's go, girls, is essentially a membership and a community specifically built for you. And what I know about being a freaking business owner out here is there's a lot that goes into your success. And if you have a space that you can plug into every single day, listen, like 10 minutes, okay? Like you gotta be able to invest 10 minutes in yourself per day if you wanna have any kind of growth in your business. Because at the end of the day, guess who's the leader of the business? I'm pointing at you. You are. So if you're not growing, you're staying stagnant. And if you're staying stagnant, that means you're stuck. And if you're stuck, you're not gonna get the sales and the results that you want. So how do we get unstuck? You invest in your growth because this thing is only as gonna be as good as you are as a human and as a business owner. So we gotta get you freaking sharp, laser focused on honing in, on improving you and your skills and everything that goes into being an entrepreneur. So I'm gonna invite you inside Let's Go Girls. The link will be in the show notes, but all it is is I'm a trendsetter.com slash let's go girls. Of course, you could DM me on Instagram for this. You can um find it in the link in my bio. But this new space is so freaking affordable. It's insane. And I'm just charging a little bit, a little tiny bit, because I want you to have skin in the game. I want you off social media, I want you stopping comparing yourself and scrolling and like pretending like you're looking up business stuff, but really next thing you know, you're invested in some like random fight between two influencers on TikTok, like you were trying to work on business stuff, an hour goes by and you still haven't really learned anything. Okay, those days are over. We're gonna start taking you off of these platforms into Let's Go Girls. You're gonna get again daily trainings Monday through Friday on exactly what you need to be doing to grow your business. Um, this just launched literally two days ago. So I'm gonna drop in the day two training right here so you can listen, get an example of what this space is gonna be like. And then if this is for you, again, I want to invite you inside. Of course, uh, you know, it's up to you. But listen, if I were you, I would do what it takes to grow. And this is a very easy step to get you going into the right direction, okay? Again, 10 minutes a day. If you invest 10 minutes a day in yourself for the next 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, one year, you will be unrecognizable to yourself and to your business. You will be that freaking much of a bad ASS. Okay. Here is the audio training inside of Let's Go Girls from day two. I hope you love it. Again, if at the end you decide to join or you want more information, you want to read more about this sucker, just go to IMATrendsetter.com slash let's go girls. Today is one of those days where things just happen in business and it's a roadblock, and it's one of those things where it's like, okay, how am I gonna handle this hiccup? What am it's a hiccup, but it's a big one, and what can I do to make this have the best resolution possible? And I want to talk to you about this because this is something that's happening real time in my business, and it made me think of like how at first, in the first few years of running a business, anything that goes awry or doesn't go your way can really feel so heavy. And it could take days to get over. Like, let's say you make a mistake, or someone returns something, or someone says, like, oh, this is you know not what I thought it was gonna, whatever, you know, like someone says something funky about the sizing of a product, or maybe they don't like the scent of your candle, or whatever it is, right? And these things, like, they can really make us upset as business owners because we're so emotionally attached to literally every single thing in our business, right? Like top to bottom, it's freaking us. Like, this is our baby, our dream, our you know, thing that we have made come to life from scratch. And so it's really, really hard when we have these roadblocks. Now, the bigger you get, the more business you have, you have bigger roadblocks that you face. And it's wild because things that happen at my stage of business now, where we're shipping out six figures per month in orders, the things that happen now, if they would have happened like a few years ago, I would have gone into a complete tailspin and like locked myself in my car and just cried it out for hours and then like you know, had to go home, decompress, go for a walk. And now something throws me, you know, for a loop or should throw me for a loop. I'm kind of just like, okay, well, I'm very problem solution oriented. So there's not a lot of emotional attachment anymore, which is a very freeing thing, which is what I try to teach you guys in all of my programs is I know I get it's an emotional thing. I'm just like you. I'm very emotionally attached to my businesses, but I'm also at the point now where I can separate myself emotionally from any kind of disruptions or hiccups or mistakes or things that don't quote unquote go my way, and switch on CEO hat and go, okay, what how do we fix it? How do we fix it? And this is the same for you in any facet of your business. So sales are slow, customers not showing up, emails not converting, no engagement. Like it's always how do we fix it? Like that is where I want you to get to, not oh my gosh, no one's buying my stuff, my product launch stunk. Now nobody likes, does anybody even like my products? Are they even good? Is anyone ever even gonna care? Like, you get into this tailspin, right? And this is normal in the beginning because we don't really know how to separate the emotional connection to every little thing in our business and the CEO hat that you need to grow into wearing, which is going to be hard to do, but it's gonna be game changing for you. So, for example, for me today, we have a major retailer that my brand is in, and I just got notice from my VP of operations that one of our suppliers is out of stock on something that we need to fill this order. And we're about a hundred and fifty pieces short to fill this order. 150 pieces, okay, sold out all over the country, can't find what we need. So instead of me freaking the F out, right, and going, oh my god, what are because this major retailer is very finicky, they like things how they like them, they they don't like any hiccups in their system. It they're a well-oiled machine, and if you funk up that machine, it's not good. Okay, I'll just leave it at that. So, what I don't want to do is cause any turmoil in their business. So, me, instead of like freaking out, having a meltdown, oh my gosh, what am I gonna do? Crying in my car, I put on my resourceful CEO hat and I call the supplier and I said, Okay, give me like four options of things that might work that you do have available, and let me see what that looks like. So him and I were on the phone for about 30 minutes. They were they're great. I mean, we do we do so much business with them. I'm like, you can give me 15 minutes of your time to figure this out, right? But he was great. We went through all of the options, we weighed them, the price points, like because everything is very locked in and margins and price points, and you know, like when there's you can't really throw off, you know, your profit margins. So I'm trying to do the best that I can to just really be resourceful and solution oriented here. So we found about four possible options, and it's Friday, right? It's uh I mean the day that I'm dropping this in, it's Friday. It's late in the day, people are gone from the office. Like my normal rep at that um company, my supplier, she she was gone for the day. So I was dealing with someone brand new. Um, but we were able to figure out some options for a solution. And so all I did was I said, let's get four samples, they'll be here on Monday. Um, one of them actually arrived today because my VP of operations already saw this coming because she's so freaking brilliant. So she already had picked out a couple possible solutions until we're restocked in this item. But anywho, so all the samples will be here on Monday, and we will look at them then. And if I have to end up calling my retailer, I will. But what I didn't want to do, and what so many people do, is they immediately go into dumpster fire mode. Dumpster fire mode is like spaz mode, chaotic mode, and you cannot make any good decisions from that mode. But this is where so many people are used to like actually taking action and making decisions, and it's not a good place to do it from. So instead, I was like, let me just take a breath. Is it a big deal? Yes. Can we fix it? I believe so. I believe wholeheartedly that one of these four samples that I get on Monday is going to be the perfect solution. I'm putting that into the universe. I'm not going into meltdown status. I'm not like assuming the worst. I'm not gonna, you know, just think that everything's gonna fall apart. I'm going to methodically and emotionally detach from this issue. And I'm I'm gonna wait and see what happens on Monday. And then we can reconvene then. What else this does, if you have a team, is this relieves the pressure from your team of feeling like either, you know, you're gonna blow your top at any minute or walking on eggshells. Like they're when you have a good team, they you really gotta trust them with what they they know and what they can do, but you also owe it to them to not spaz out or freak out on them in situations like this, even if it's like, you know, non-intentional. So by me taking the reins and saying, let me call the vet let me call the supplier. You know, she's in Dallas, she's at market right now, we've got people in our showroom. I was like, let me take the reins on this one. You keep selling in the showroom, and I'll let you know what's gonna happen. So I took the reins, I made the phone call, I was on the phone, you know, like I said, with the guy for about 15 minutes. He was great, he was looking at swatches, like doing all the things, color swatches, trying to find, you know, the best possible solution to this problem with me. And what it did also was it took that weight off of my team members' shoulders because again, you don't want to place things on their shoulders all the time that feel like you know are big deals. Like if you can take the reins on something like this and relieve them, especially when they're either like running your store or have they're shipping orders, they got other things they're doing. This was a CEO moment. This is where you step in and you go, Okay, let me just take the reins and see what we have available. So the bottom line is now my my myself, my team can go into the weekend more at ease, more like we got this, not in a panic, chaotic, spazzy mode. Again, which so many people operate in that space, especially as an entrepreneur. Listen, if everything is a big deal to you, then everyone is going to be on eggshells all the time. And you, you're not gonna live a happy life because you're gonna be so emotionally invested in every single freaking thing. It's gonna be exhausting. You're gonna burn the F out and you're gonna burn out fast, and you're never gonna reach your potential because you haven't learned how to emotionally mature and control your feelings about things that happen in business that especially when they're not in your control, right? This is I like there's no way I could have controlled this. This is something that is um, again, totally out of my hands. But what I can control is how we deal with it, how the team deals with it, and how we solve the problem. So I just want to tell you start removing some of the emotion. This is gonna bring back a lot more joy into your life. And and start on something small, right? Like, let's say someone returns something, and usually like returns really get you like in a tizzy, and you're like, oh my god, the return, I blah blah blah blah blah blah. It's part of business. Don't take it so freaking personal. Get the return in the mail, process it, and move the frick on. Don't let it stall you, don't let it weigh you down, don't feel some type of way about it. And it may take you a little bit to figure out how to do this. But once you do, you'll start applying this more and more and more, and you start separating the business from the emotion, and this is how you become more free. And you live a fabulous life that's not bogged down by exhaustion and overwhelm from your business because you learn that sometimes things just happen. You can't control the person returning the thing. Okay, it didn't fit them, so what? They didn't like the smell, so what? Let humans be humans. Your job is to graciously accept it and then move on because we got other things to do, right? Okay, I hope you have an incredible day. I'm going to continue to drop real life stories in here because I think it's really important for you guys to like see how I handle real life situations in real time and how you can apply it to your own businesses. Because listen, if this was all just about what's the strategy to go viral, like we would all be zillionaires right now. But it's not. So much more goes into it. Okay. So have a little take a little, you know, relaxation moment for yourself. Gather your thoughts. Don't let the roadblocks throw you off your wagon. Just take a breath, and you got this. Again, if you decide to join or you want more information, you want to read more about this sucker, just go to I'm a trendsetter.comslash let's go girls.