On Taking Your Time With Your Business

Scout’s Agency recently turned three. We celebrated her birthday with the team in the Joshua Tree desert.?

As I looked at the team photo we took all together this weekend and counted a total of seven women, I began to remember what the early days of Scout's Agency were like.

I remembered when Scout's Agency was just me, Scout.?

While we were away, I found myself giving a presentation to six other women with an org chart on the big screen going over our roles, who reports to, how we will achieve X amount of growth in 2022, passing out a printed employee handbook, and watching revenue numbers go up in ways I had never anticipated.?

How did I get here? In such a short amount of time? In such a long amount of time?

?I believe and know that the growth my agency has experienced has been plentiful and fast-tracked. In three years we have:

• Built a team of seven powerful women: 1 Director of Clients, 3 Account Managers, 1 Account Coordinator, my Assistant/Brand Manager, and me as the CEO
• We have booked over 1,000 podcast episodes
• We have represented over 100 women
• We have built a database by hand of over 4,000 podcasts with an emphasis in female demographics and female hosts
• Six-figure revenue in year one, 250% growth in year two, and 60% growth in year three
• We opened our dream concrete industrial office
• We launched The Emotional Entrepreneur book & rebranded the podcast
• We became the leading agency in running Podcast Tours?

When I look at that list, I am overcome with pride, joy, and awe. Within my internal celebration, one lesson comes to the forefront.?

That lesson is: time.

It took me nine years on an active healing journey to get to a place where I truly feel safe in my emotions and am confident in my ability to manage my bipolar disorder.?

It took me five years of active business building to get to a point where I thought of and launched Scout's Agency, the business that would give me my success.?

It took me three years of daily grind, anxiety, sweat, tears, joy, vision, concentration, and obsession to get Scout's Agency to where it is today.?

I have been an entrepreneur for eight years and an active healing journey for nine and have just finally found my groove.

When we have big goals for our lives, our businesses, and our personal development growth, we focus on the to-do lists and the action items it will take to get there. Then, we get impatient. We want it now. We can see the success so sweet that we want to skip the grunt work, the shitty days, the grind, the less glamorous side of all of this. We forget to give ourselves the appropriate amount of time to create success.?

When we look at other's achievements, we forget that they did these things over massive amounts of time.?

I encourage you to view your dreams and your goals in your head. Give yourself the permission to achieve them over time. Look at your dreams and your goals and? make a contract with yourself to see the long game.?

Know that you have the time if you use it properly - that if you keep showing up each and every single day, time will eventually reward you. Know that if something doesn't work, it is an invitation to course-correct and that in that course-correction, time is rooting for you.?

It will take time and discomfort and excitement and anxiety and desperation and brilliance and frustration and a massive belief in yourself.?

But if you give yourself time and call on your emotional resilience, you can do it.?

You can do it, you will do it, you are doing it.?

Time and I are rooting for you.