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Setting Your Team Up for Success: Building Trust, Communication, and Clear Expectations
You’ve done it — you found the right person (or people!) to help lighten your load. That’s a huge step for any small business owner, and it’s one worth celebrating. But let’s be honest — hiring help is one thing. Setting them up for success so you can actually step back without worrying? That’s another story. The truth is, even the best hire can’t thrive without the right structure, communication, and clarity. So before you hand over the reins, let’s talk about how to create
Oct 20, 20253 min read


Finding the Right Help: How to Choose the Right People to Support Your Business Growth
You’ve done the hard work. You tracked your time. You documented your processes. Yay! Now comes the part that’s equal parts exciting and a little scary — finding the right people to help you take things off your plate. Let’s be honest: it’s one thing to know you need help, and another to actually trust someone else with pieces of your business you’ve built from the ground up. But here’s the good news — finding the right support doesn’t have to feel overwhelming or risky.
Oct 17, 20253 min read


From Chaos to Clarity: How to Build Simple Systems Before You Outsource
Warning: Read the previous post and then return to this one! If you took last week’s challenge and tracked your time, you probably saw it — the endless cycle of small, repetitive tasks that somehow take over your entire day. Maybe you noticed hours spent replying to emails, managing schedules, or updating spreadsheets. You might have even realized that much of what you do doesn’t need to be done by you. That realization is powerful — but before you can delegate or outsource
Sep 29, 20253 min read


Wearing Too Many Hats: How Small Business Owners Can Get Their Time Back
Ever have one of those days? You start with emails, which lead to invoices, which remind you of bookkeeping… then marketing. Suddenly it’s 8 p.m., and you realize you haven’t even eaten. Trust me, I’ve been there. I know the never-ending rabbit hole of small business ownership. Our days spiral like this when we wear too many hats. We either lack the right resources or chase perfection, and the result is the same: burnout, missed opportunities, and no time for the work we actu
Sep 29, 20252 min read


Why I Started Carpenter Collaborations: Helping Small Businesses Reclaim Their Time
If you’re a small business owner, you probably know the feeling of juggling 10 different roles at once — and still feeling like there...
Sep 22, 20252 min read
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