Dear Farillio member,

On 23rd April 2021, you asked our fabulous expert Lisa Laing on the Go Far Fast Show:

“I know I need a coach to help grow my business, but I struggle to pay for things as they are. How can I get help to grow in this situation?”

And Lisa said:

Be mighty always, Farillio

Transcript:

“I come across this one a lot. In my experience, there's over $150K to $200K that I've invested over the last 12 years in business coaching programmes. Every single time I had to pay for a mentor it hurt. There was a point when I had to use three credit cards to get to a conference, but that conference changed my life. I would perhaps turn the question around and say, can you afford not to get that information?

That's the opportunity cost of not having a good mentor. Of course, you need to be financially responsible. However, if you've researched and you've found a mentor or coach that has the expertise you need, you can in almost every case pay back the cost of working with them within a month or two of working with me. I have the expertise to help people to tweak things, decrease expenses, and increase revenue. Where can we look for low hanging fruit? How can we tweak this and change that? I think that is a value that then extends.

I had a coach at one point who I worked with for four years, so you can imagine how much incredible guidance I got every year of those four years. I would say, how can you afford not to have a good strategy person in your world?”

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