Name: Why Every Growing Business Needs to Hire Help? Right Now
Uploaded: 2018-02-10T22:48:41.000Z
Duration: 9 min 14 s
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Past simple

Hey, it's Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV, the place to be to create a business

Now, if you know that you need to grow but you're afraid of what you gotta do to get

there, let me tell you, this is the episode for you.

Today's question comes from Helena, and she writes:

“Hey, Marie, I have a business called Yummy Italy where I offer culinary experiences for

people who want an authentic taste of Emilia, Romagna.

My most frustrating challenge right now is trying to do everything well.

Managing a home, a child, a business that wants to grow, a struggling marriage, and

Working by myself from my kitchen table I'm having to say no to clients because there's

a lot of work and not enough people to do it, and funds are limited.

Last spring I had a moment of wanting to throw in the towel because I couldn't cope with

However, things took off by themselves and I need to find a way to go beyond my own limitations.

I need more staff and an office, but I'm fearful of taking the next step.

How do I break down that wall of fear and branch out?

Helena, now, I'm not gonna lie, you had me at Yummy Italy and I could not help but

swooning over all those pictures of pasta on your website.

Now, that said, I also really loved the honesty and the vulnerability of your question.

First off, I gotta say this, you need to know how awesome you are and how much I admire

you for how hard you're working and all the things that you're doing to take care

of your son and your business and your clients and your mom, and I'm sure the 50 other

things that you're managing each and every day like a friggin' champ.

And, you know, I know you probably don't feel like a champ, but you are one.

You know, sometimes it feels like we have the weight of the world on our shoulders and

no one sees what we're doing and what we're managing.

So I just want you to know that we see you, we admire you, and we say brava.

Now, the reason that I wanted to answer your question is because this is a pattern I notice,

And yes, people, I know I am making a broad generalization here so I'm don't wanna hear

In my experience, women in particular tend to wait far too long to get the help that

This is true in our businesses and it can also be true in our personal lives.

Now, I'm certainly guilty of this and at some point along the journey virtually every

woman I know has struggled with getting the help they need too.

Now, you mentioned fear and how afraid you are to take that next step to grow.

You know, most of us know the naughty acronym for fear, right?

But I want to give you a more productive acronym where fear actually stands for “face everything

And I'll rise up, I'll rise like the day, I'll rise up, I'll rise unafraid, I'll

You see, Helena, the key to breaking through your fear is to learn how to really use it

You want to learn how to reframe it and change what it means to you and how you look at it.

Because 99% of what each of us needs to do in order to grow our business, we've never

So of course it's gonna feel daunting, it's gonna feel terrifying and overwhelming.

And in your case, Helena, what's so awesome is you know exactly what you need to do.

Look, I remember when I was still doing everything myself from my kitchen table just like you.

I could not keep up with all the demands on my time.

I knew I needed to hire help, but I was so scared, probably much like how you're feeling

I wasn't making a lot of money at that time.

I had never been a boss before, so I had an important choice to make.

Choice A was to stay in my comfort zone and keep trying to do more and swim faster and

But the truth was, and I knew this deep down, that if I stayed in my comfort zone much longer

I was probably gonna kill that very thing that I loved that I was working so hard to

There was really no chance that I'd ever get beyond the stage that I was at.

Now, choice number B was to get out of my comfort zone and start living in what I now

This is that magical place where I could learn how to be a boss, I could learn how to delegate,

and I could learn how to grow my business.

And yes, that growth zone, man, it was terrifying because I knew I was probably gonna fall flat

I hired the wrong people at first, I wasted money, there was a lot of tears.

I stayed in that growth zone and eventually I started to get it right.

Now, you know Helena, I am a visual learner so I really wanted you to see how this whole

Here in the comfort zone, which is where many of us live, things feel safe.

Even if things are stressful and unpleasant, at least we feel secure in the fact that it's

Now, so many of us tend to stay here in the comfort zone way too long.

So long, in fact, that we start to kill the very things we love.

But, see, all the good stuff in business and life exists outside of it here in the growth

zone, which is also known as the discomfort zone.

So, yes, things will be uncomfortable at first.

You feel really vulnerable and insecure because you don't know what the hell you're doing.

But if you're able to hang out there in the growth zone, also known as the discomfort