Why Your Business Hits a Plateau (& What To Do When It Happens)

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⏱️ Episode Timestamps:

0:19 — “If you can’t sell something, you don’t have a business.” — the hard truth

0:43 — Why plateau happens and what stalls founders and creators

0:50 — How to pull yourself out of the hole (first steps)

1:15 — Learning as the lifeblood of content & business growth

1:47 — If you stop learning, you stop having something to teach

2:19 — Content fatigue, burnout, and the danger of trend-chasing

4:34 — Stop waiting for the “how” — act now and learn through doing

6:08 — Story: changing my brakes — why getting thrown to the wolves builds skill

7:50 — Overcoming analysis paralysis: start before you’re ready

9:18 — Real example: mentee charging $7,500/mo after investing in skill-building

10:26 — Fire the version of yourself that can’t scale the company

11:10 — Ego kills growth — when founders can’t let go

12:31 — The power of delegation and replacing yourself in roles that don’t scale you 14:11 — How to replace yourself without losing control (hiring & systems)

16:25 — Fitness, discipline and the correlation to business stamina

18:22 — Mental health, coaching, therapy — non-negotiables for founders

23:24 — Stuck? Collaborate, learn, and network outside your house

28:14 — “Becoming sticky”: bundle complementary services to make clients stay

31:33 — Two high-value skills to build now: sales + storytelling (how to package transformation)

37:00 — Pick complementary skills that expand your offering (marketing, ads, email) 39:52 — The final move: choose one new challenge, implement, and iterate

🔎 What you’ll learn in this episode How to diagnose a business plateau and the first 3 moves to break it.

Why “doing more content” isn’t the answer — learning + execution is.

Concrete ways to become indispensable (client stickiness playbook).

The two non-negotiable skills every founder/creator needs today: selling and storytelling.

How personal discipline (health, therapy, mentorship) ties directly to business outcomes.