Episode 7: How To Buy Back Time With Your Committee

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What if your biggest growth move this year isn’t doing more—but instead making every move with intention? In this episode, we discuss how building a trusted committee over time can buy back your most valuable resource: time. From personal support to professional advisors, we cover: who and how to build your trusted committee, what systems, mindset, and boundaries are required needed, and a full list of personal and professional ‘committee’ teams.

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Hello, friends, and welcome back to Mind Over Matrimony. I wanna just talk a little bit about intention setting in the new year. I just actually returned from this really amazing conference in San Miguel, where six business owners all came together for kind of like what could be described as a corporate offsite for solopreneurs and entrepreneurs that have smaller size teams like we do at Julian Leaver Events.

The cool thing that really struck me from this retreat was setting an essential intent for the year, and then trying to move all of my goals for the year towards that essential intent, stripping away the things that don’t really matter, and really hyper focusing in on the things that are going to achieve these goals.

So I’m gonna just read my essential intent: Success this year looks like maintaining the quality that Julian Leaver Events is known for, working 30 to 40 hours per week in my business, focusing on training my new team on systems and procedures, and working with 20 amazing clients producing their multi-day events with a team structure of lead planners, a lead designer, an operations manager and production manager, while allowing for quality time with my family and a renewed sense of intention in my sobriety outside of work, and leaving a legacy of growing a team that has the space to spend time with their families.

One of those areas for me really has been time management. And so I was kind of just having this conversation with a good friend of mine and I was just walking through, oh, well I outsource this and I outsource this. And so I think we can look at all of the kind of functions of our lives and what could be outsourced, what could actually work better.

I would say that I have in buying back time for myself is really just having someone come and help me with the things, with the chores that I hate. Hi, my name is Julian Leaver and I hate doing laundry. And so I was like, okay, the thing that I’m gonna gift myself this year is someone to come in and help me with this laundry.

The business piece is a little bit harder because you have to really look and find people that you can trust to help you. How do you know that they’re going to do what they said they’re going to do? Did I ask that person or that company to do something? And then did they actually do it? Were they the first to respond? Were they the first to just pick up the phone and ask the question that needed to be asked? Is the communication easy? Is the product that they’re delivering back to you clean?

All of the people who are kind of in my committee, I found through other people that I trust. Who should I use for this? Did you have a good experience? If you are an expert in the field, who are you using as your expert?

So here’s the list guys. There is the social media agency, really more like 360 marketing agency who kind of handles all of the different elements. There is an amazing fractional HR company that helps me make sure that I’m maintaining all the laws. There’s an amazing fractional legal company. There’s a business coach whose conference this was. Also, he weighs in on all the things they do my copy. And there’s another company that does the website and the SEO. Then of course there’s the overarching brand company who helps me with the direction. And then there’s a company that helps me curate the portfolios and help curate all of your weddings into these beautiful submissions that go into magazines.

All of those people are buying back time. You can’t do this alone. You have to rely on other people to help you.