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Chris Hanna led, hired, trained, and promoted more than 500 people across his career. He was known as a good leader. He coached other leaders for a living. So why can't he delegate a single task inside his own business?
This one is honest to the point of uncomfortable. Chris walks through the pattern he has been wrestling with for months: every time he hands work to someone else, he ends up doing more work, not less. Nine people have worked with him at different points. Local, remote, virtual assistants. The same thing happened every time.
The part that really got him thinking: his team member has been on vacation for two weeks, and he is more caught up and further ahead on every project than when they are there.
In this episode:
Why leading people inside your own business is a completely different job than leading people for someone else
The corporate supports, processes, and buffers that made him look better at this than he might actually be
What happens when clients recognize work you did not personally do
Why he told a client yesterday that he may not be the right person to give leadership advice anymore
The solopreneur trap, and why going fully solo caps what he can build
Whether contractors are the answer instead of permanent team members
What he is seeing behind the scenes with other business owners facing the exact same problem
No resolution on this one. Chris is building in public and this is a live argument he is still having with himself. If you have wrestled with whether to hire, who to hire, or whether to just do the work yourself, this will sound familiar.
More episodes like this are coming. Chris is going fully transparent about what is happening in the business right now.
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Welcome to the Chris Hannah Show where business as usual gets a swift kick in the ass. If you're tired of a stable device and ready to disrupt the status quo, you're in the right place. I'm cutting through the noise of old strategies, unfiltered truth, and a no-nonsense approach to entrepreneurship, video marketing, and content creation. Buckle up because it's time to level up. Stand out and dominate your market. This isn't just another podcast, it's a wake-up call for entrepreneurs and would-be aspiring solopreneurs who are all in. Let's get started. Welcome back to another episode of the Chris Hannah Show. I'm going to be honest, blunt, really transparent here today. I've been doing a lot of reflecting over the course of the last, I'd say five, six months. You see, over the last five, six months, I have been looking at how things are going in my business and more importantly, reflecting on the years that came before it. Not only just the years of me just running my own business and going through this journey, which has been a wild journey, but I also think I have been reflecting on my career. You see, throughout my entire career, and I've talked about it on this podcast before, I've led a lot of people throughout my career. I have hired, trained, promoted, led countless individuals, probably 500 plus people throughout my different stops throughout my career, everything from car rental to, you know, every business that I was ever part of. And during that time, I was always in a place of being a leader or a manager, was the official titles that I was given when I worked for other people. And then I was, of course, for those who do know my journey, I did work my way up to becoming, you know, CEO of a real estate education company where I'm leading the entire business. And so I used the word lead because that's what I felt like I did. I felt like I was a leader. I was known as a good leader. People would always commend me for what I had done. But as I've reflected more and more lately, I'm kind of starting to think that maybe I'm not so good at it. I'm not so good at leading people. You see, I did do leadership coaching for a long time. I did a lot of consulting in the space as well. When I had just left the corporate world of working for other people, that was one of the kind of the first gigs I kind of did. I actually did it on the side while I was working in a in a corporation. But I look at this journey of me now leading and running my own business. Leadership has actually been the struggle. Right? Like I care more about this business than any other business that I've ever been part of. Obviously, I love what I do. I love the ability to help people, show up consistently, help them win with content, and it's great. It's absolutely amazing. But I think I have now struggled more than anything else with the ability to hand off work to people. I've hired and had people on my team over the course of you know the last number of years, right? I've I've had people who were local, I've had people who were remote, I've had people who were other side of the world, right? In terms of virtual assistants. I've had the opportunity to have actually just I think I counted the other day, I think it's nine people. So if you include myself, ten people that I've had at different points working as part of my company. And I have kind of struggled every single time when I've had people working for me in this company. It seemed to be a lot easier working for other people, right? There was more of the supports, the processes, the systems in place. But what's your own business? At least I'm finding in my case, it's hard. I care so much about obviously what I do and the clients that we support, you know. But in my own business, letting someone else do the work, I have not been able to escape this problem that has really plagued me and it's really got me thinking a lot as I've reflected. The problem is that the more that I let other people do the work, the more work I end up doing. Right? I've brought on people that maybe haven't kept them on for whatever reason. I just can't find a way to let go. I can't find a way to separate the being working on the business and in the business. Obviously, if you follow me on social media, you know that I'm the face of the business. So people then ask to work with me directly. They want me in a video session with them, they want me to even do a raw video session with them. So it's hard for me to actually step away successfully. I don't know how to delegate anymore. And I don't know why this is the case, but my inability to delegate has definitely obviously been a problem. Because when I again give work to people that I have hired in my current business, I end up having to redo the work or find more mistakes or just step in, or sometimes even get complaints about the work. And people say, Hey, I know it looks like it's obvious that you didn't do this work because they were used to what I did. So it's fine, it's easier for me just to do the work myself. So I'm kind of at this inflection point where it's like, man, should I just be a solopreneur? But then the problem goes back to when I was classifying myself as a solopreneur when I first kind of kicked this journey off years ago, I could only scale so much. There's only so much I could do. Right? And it's been a challenge that I I want to grow and I want to scale, and I really don't want to be involved in every single minute aspect, but I've not been able to bridge that gap. I was talking to my wife about it last night, though. A lot of businesses that I work with, or that I've been having the pleasure, I guess, of being behind the scenes, because obviously you do their content, but I see a lot of stuff that happens too. I'm realizing most business owners that I've supported over the years are also struggling with the talent perspective of getting the right people, training those people, leading those people, and they end up doing a lot of the work still themselves, even though they may hire people to do it, right? It's still more effective for them to do it. And I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's because as people who run our own businesses as entrepreneurs, we care more, so therefore we put in more of the effort, we do whatever it takes. Could be the case. Because in the corporate world, right, you've got all these different protections, and maybe things do fall through the cracks, but they're not as noticeable because things are bigger, right? Like I've worked in some big companies before, I've worked with different teams that have been more isolated from the mistakes. But when you're so close to every aspect of it as I am, I can't find a way to separate it. And it kind of in time I found has made me angry. And it makes me hard to maybe even work with people or trust people if I find that they're making mistakes. I can't slow down to stop and pause and train them, and therefore then it just creates this vicious cycle where then they're kind of not growing, but I'm doing everything. And obviously, I know being a solopreneur caps what I can build. And you know, there's there's a world where I've thought, well, instead of having actually permanent employees, whether they're part-time, permanent, whatever, um, maybe I look at contractors, right? I've looked at some companies who are in the same space as what we are here at All In Content, and they rely more on contractors, maybe have a core few people. And so this is an argument I've been having back and forth with myself. Like, what do I do? What is the right path? If you're listening to this and you've kind of gone through trying to build your own business and you're wrestling with do you hire the right person? Do you hire it all? Do you do the work yourself? What's it for you? Like to give you some perspective. Like over the last little while, I have been doing a lot more myself in terms of the business. You know, I I do have a team member right now on the team and they've been on vacation for a couple weeks. But I have found I am more caught up and ahead on every project because I've been solo doing everything while they've been away. But when the team member's back, it takes a little bit longer for things to get done. And then I'm not caught up and I feel like I'm behind and I feel like I'm chasing or I'm asking for stuff. And I'm like, oh, that's weird. Like, I literally looked at my to-do list this morning before I recorded this this podcast, and I was like, wow, I can get almost all my major projects done if I worked really, really hard over today and tomorrow to start really fresh and clean for next week. And I can't do that if I'm delegating to somebody else or I'm assigning tasks to somebody else to do because just the way things are structured. So it's just it's such a weird space that I'm finding myself in right now. Like, I don't know if I am the leader that I once was. I think when people ask me for advice, and I had a client yesterday ask me for advice of how to deal with some um employee situations, we'll call it. And I started trying to give advice, and then I was like, you know what? I don't know if I'm the right person to talk to anymore about this because I don't think I'm as good as I used to be. I think I had a lot more support behind the scenes in the corporate world that were able to help and be a buffer. Um whether there's you know additional training, there's a bigger team that people rely on, better processes and structure. But me right now in my business, I'm not the leader. Um a people leader, I should say, that I think I once was. I love the idea of being a solopreneur, but also being a solopreneur again caps me. I can only build so much. So it's finding the answer to it. So again, this is more of a I'm gonna call it self-help therapy style of episode where I'm kind of a little bit all over the place, but I'm really been wrestling with this the last little while. Do I just continue to build the business with you know minimal staff? Do I do it solo? What's the right play? I don't know, but uh, I'm building in public. That's the thing that's true. So I'm being super honest. And you're gonna see actually in some of the planned episodes that I have coming up here with the podcast, I'm gonna be super honest and transparent about what's going on and what's happening because uh I think we need to be real. I think the more that we can be real as business owners and help other business owners or would-be aspiring entrepreneurs out there, uh, the better everyone's gonna be. So that's what uh the purpose of today's podcast was. And uh just gonna continue to keep uh keep sharing. All right, that's a wrap for today's Dose of Reality on the Chris Hannah Show. If you're fired up and ready to kick some serious ass, then I've done my job. But remember, knowledge without action is just wasted breath. So what are you gonna do? Sit around and let opportunities pass you by, or are you gonna step up and take what's yours? The choice is yours. But don't expect sympathy if you choose the easy road. If you've got value from today's episode, smash that subscribe button, leave a review, or share it with somebody who needs a wake up call. Don't keep this gold to yourself unless you're afraid of a little competition. Stay bold, stay hungry, and remember, always go all in. Until next time, this is Chris Hannah signing off. Now go out there and take what's yours.
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