Work Less PROFIT More Business Podcast
Tune in each week as Diana Lidstone shares business strategies, tips, and resources so you can work less and profit more. This business podcast is for established business owners who want to stop being the Chief Everything Officers ... but still want to make more money!
The truth is....business owners who earn 10x more DO NOT work 10x harder. Diana coaches her clients to go from low 6-figures to 7-figures and beyond using her results-driven framework.
Whether you're a financial advisor, lawyer, real estate investor, or another expert, here's the truth: you've successfully grown your business but now find you're caught in the hustle and chasing the money. I totally understand. It's time to finally have the freedom you've always desired.
You can read more also at www.dianalidstone.com/blog
Episodes
166 episodes
Ep. 165 – Can Your Personality Profile Help You Prevent Burn Out?
In this episode, Kareen and I explore:Basic principles of DISC personality profilesWorld Health Organization's definition of ‘mental health’The difference between mental health and mental health issuesPers...
Ep. 164 – Scaling Smart: How To Avoid These 9 Common Challenges
Over and over again, business founders find themselves in a trap! A growth trap where they feel trapped by their business – not only is it running their life; it’s consuming almost every waking hour; they are working as much as they can; and YE...
Ep. 163 – Burnout Lessons Learned: A Wellness Professional Shares Her Journey
Of all the types of entrepreneurs in the world, you won’t expect a wellness professional to suffer from burnout! But here’s the personal story of how it happened so slowly, she didn’t recognize how it came to be. My guest, Lydia Di France...
Ep. 162 – Mastering the Art Of Recognition as a Small Business Leader
People may forget what you say; forget what you did; but they will never forget how you make them feel – take on the famous quote Maya Angelou. So how do you make people feel? Your clients, your team, your suppliers?? My...
Ep. 161 – Evolve From Solopreneur To CEO
#1 reason people start a business – freedom. In the USA, the SBA says that 80% of the 29.6 million small businesses are run by a single person – the solopreneur. But most often these entrepreneurs realize that true economic an...
Ep. 160 – Discover Your Stand Out Strategy To Unleash Your Marketing
It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in – whether you’re a lawyer, accountant or other professional, real estate investor – there’s a lot of competition for clients!So how do you stand out from your competition?And what if stand...
Ep. 159 – How To Reduce Your Workload: The 7 Step Sequence
Can’t believe that this is the last week of this free 5-part training series on how to get focus and find your freedom without hiring an additional employee!One thing I know for sure is that when I listen to podcasts like these – great ...
Ep. 158 – How To Save Your Time & Sanity: 5 Productivity Tips (Ultimate Focus & Freedom Masterclass - Week 4)
Research shows that of the time given to a workday, 80% is spent doing tasks with little to no value and only 20% is spent doing something important. That’s a BIG scary stat!And yet when Google sends me my website report, one of the MOS...
Ep. 157 – Free Up Time: Why It’s Systems BEFORE Team (Ultimate Focus & Freedom Masterclass - Week 3)
If you’re anything like a lot of my clients, you heard this before… Systems will set you free! Sound familiar? But what I do hear back from my clients is that they don’t know where to start to create systems and they are often confused about wh...
Ep. 156 – Which Activities ACTUALLY Move The Needle? (Ultimate Focus & Freedom Masterclass - Week 2)
As a business owner, if you ever struggle with deciding what to tackle first on your to-do list or if you ever wonder how to pinpoint the tasks that will have the biggest impact on your business growth – have no fear, you aren’t alone.
Ep. 155 – Get Focused: Build Your Business With Purpose (Ultimate Focus & Freedom Masterclass - Week 1)
Toss the confetti – it’s Week 1 of my 5-day podcast series The Ultimate Focus & Freedom Masterclass!!I’m super excited to be offering this free training – Some of you who know me, may have done a similar training with me; however, I...
Ep. 154 – Feel Like You’re Herding Kittens?
If you’ve ever been the surrogate to a group of young kittens, you’ll learn that they have boundless energy to run in every direction without really accomplishing anything – are you running around like that? I don’t want that for you beca...
Ep. 153 – A Narrower Niche Leads to Simplified & More Effective Marketing: One Real Estate Investor’s Story
You’ve heard it before – the riches are in the niches! Narrowing your niche makes your marketing easier and when your marketing is easier, you’ll close more sales!Or in the case of a real estate investor, he attracted more deals and mor...
Ep. 152 – 9 Ways To Easily Stand Out From Your Competition
Whether you’re a lawyer, accountant or other professional – it's important to realize that we are currently in a global marketplace. With today's technology, no longer is our business growth stalled or capped by our location. For instance, ther...
Ep. 151 – Using Storytelling & Communication Intelligence to Close More Sales Faster & More Effectively
While it is true that customers are attracted to the best marketers, not necessarily the best products, it is our job as business leaders to turn prospects into customers, in other words, to close the sale.My guest on this episode is a ...
Ep. 150 – One Simple Step to Dramatically Increase Your Sales Conversions
Having sales conversations that convert and that aren’t an hour long is vital to a successful and profitable business! In this episode, I want to share my journey with sales and how one simple change can increase your conversion rates and reduc...
Ep. 149 – Ditch The Billable Hour: What To Do Instead!
Pricing your services for profit can be a challenge for most business owners. And in some industries like bookkeeping, accounting and legal, it’s been tradition to price by the hour. But this week, my special guest will challenge yo...
Ep. 148 – 10 Signs It’s Time To Raise Your Prices
Raising your rates can be one of the most uncomfortable activities you do in your business and yet, it can be one of the most satisfying too!In this episode, I talk about:Money set point10 signs it’s time to ...
Ep. 147 – Four Steps to Take Back Your Life
(This podcast was inspired by an article from E-myth)One of my deepest held core values is ‘life before business’. As I’ve moved to the farm, my life has changed and so has my business to be in alignment with my desired life.<...
Ep. 146 – My Favourite Strategy For Creating A Predictable Profitable Business & A Life I Love
Welcome to the 3rd part of this podcast series – The Path to Predictable Profits & Sustainable Success!!!To summarize, this series is filled with gold nuggets to help you build a predictably profitable business.Episod...
Ep. 145 – The ONE Thing (mistake) Keeping You From Predictable Profits & Sustainable Success
Welcome to the 2nd part of this podcast series – The Path to Predictable Profits & Sustainable Success!!!Last week #144 – I spent time answering one of the most common questions I get from clients and prospects…Where do I focus f...
Ep. 144 – Path to Predictable Profits: Where Do I Focus First?
Welcome to this new podcast series – The Path to Predictable Profits & Sustainable Success!!!Today’s episode #144No matter your stage of business growth, I know that one of the questions that you ask yourself time and...
Ep. 143 – What business Personality are you? with guest Kris Ward
There’s nothing I love more than talking to a fellow Canadian about business. In this episode, I welcome back Kris Ward, from Win the Hour, Win the Day.Kris and I talk about:Her business personality quiz (Take i...
Ep. 142 – The Power of Relationships and Technology with guest Shadgie Jean
What do a luxury sales rep, a fashion entrepreneur, a tech sales rep, a cold calling expert and a real estate investor have in common?My special guest Shadgie Jean, Sage Investments, has learned that building strong relationships no mat...
Ep. 141 – Building a Sustainable REI Business with guest Adriana Ostapenko
How does a young mother of two children and a real estate investor have time to build not one, not 2 but 3 profitable and sustainable businesses? My guest today will share her secret sauce!Successful entrepreneurs have some common...
