How to Shift from Problems to Profit Through a Wholistic Evolution in Business-Building – In Just 7 Minutes with Angela Bell

Resources/Links:

• Take this wholistic business assessment to make growing your business & living your very best life easy. Click here: https://wholisticallymade.com

Summary

Are you constantly battling recurring business problems that never seem to go away? Many entrepreneurs find themselves stuck in a cycle of solving issues that keep popping up, draining their time and energy. Instead of merely fixing problems, what if you could dissolve them and create a thriving, stress-free business environment?

Angela Bell is the creator of the Wholistically Made Millionaire, a strategist who thrives on guiding entrepreneurs from problems to profitability and personal freedom.

In this episode, Angela reveals a transformative approach to problem-solving that can lead to greater personal freedom and sustainable success. And shares practical tips to identify and address the root causes of your challenges effectively, ensuring long-term growth and fulfillment.

Check out these episode highlights:

• 02:30 – Angela’s ideal client: Either someone who’s at a tipping point because their business is on fire. Or they’re a business owner that is tired of playing whack-a-mole with their problems.
• 03:35 – The problem she helps solve: There’s the business owner that has the recurring problems, that’s plain whack-a-mole. There’s also the business owner that has that elephant in the room that is successful as they’ve been. They haven’t been able to solve that one. And it goes everywhere with them.
• 05:02 – Symptoms of the problems she helps solve: They have anxiety, they’re really frustrated and they feel kind of stuck between their success and the reality of where they are.
• 05:41 – Mistakes her clients make before seeing her: The first one is trying to solve it. Instead of creating something new, you want to create a leader in a company where those problems don’t exist.
• 06:29 – Angela’s Valuable Free Action [VFA}: First, becoming someone who has a leadership vision. Number two, collaborate. Number three, think bigger than the problem.
• 09:16 – Her Valuable Free Resource [VFR]: Check out this wholistic business assessment with her scale squad. Click here: https://wholisticallymade.com
• 09:43 – Q: What is a wholistically made millionaire? A: We look at the world differently and it’s not just about money, it’s not even just about freedom. It’s what we can do with it in our capacity, both in our business and in our personal life and in our health.

Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode:

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Transcript
(Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast)

Tom Poland 00:10
Greetings everyone, and a very warm welcome to another edition of Marketing The Invisible. I’m Tom Poland, beaming out to you forever from the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Joined today by Angela Bell. A little bit you told me is about two hours south of a big city, in mountain time. Where are you, Angela? Where are you hanging out?

Angela Bell 00:30
I’m just 20 minutes south of Salt Lake City. So I live on Utah Lake with this big 12,000 foot mountain to look at. It’s gorgeous.

Tom Poland 00:39
Holy dooley. Sounds fantastic. What the heck are you doing talking to me? We should be out there. I guess it’s cold right now. Is it? Like we’ve got just starting February, in Australia, January. Still in the US but, is it cold?

Angela Bell 00:50
It’s 32 degrees, but the sun is out and it’s beautiful. And I walk around the lake year round because it just changes every month or so. It’s just gorgeous.

Tom Poland 00:59
There’s a few good reasons for living there then 32 Fahrenheit. A little cooler than 32 Southeast, but still quite nice. So, thumbs out. Let’s get off the weather and back onto you. Angela is the creator of a Wholistically Made Millionaire. And the whole thing about Wholistic is a theme that runs through your brand, which I absolutely love because very often people get unbalanced and people end up with health problems, they end up with mental problems, they end up with relationship issues because they don’t have a wholistic approach to business. I think it’s some sort of silo or one-dimensional approach. So music to my ears, Angela can’t wait to unpack that a bit. She’s a strategist, so she’s looking at the big picture, which is very often difficult for us as the person who’s in the weeds, so to speak, to see what’s going on.

Big picture. So she looks at that and her thing is to guide us from recurring problems. You know, putting out the fire, so to speak, to actually having a business where those problems have transformed into profitability and personal freedom. Which is one of the big reasons why we all got into our own business to serve other people effectively. Fulfillment, et cetera, personal freedom is a big thing. So let’s kick off. Angela can’t wait to unpack all this. Title today focuses on How to Shift from Problems to Profit Through a Wholistic Evolution in Business Building. I got there. Okay, time is going to start now. Angela, let’s go. Ideal client, please.

Angela Bell 02:30
Our ideal client is twofold. They’re either someone who’s at a tipping point because their business is on fire, marketing, sales leads, all that is great. Or on the other hand, they’re a business owner that is tired of playing whack-a-mole with their problems and they’re about ready to burn the thing down themselves. And we help them do a controlled burn of controlled growth on the bottom line, not just the top line without having to slow down, fall apart, or lose that personal bandwidth.

Tom Poland 03:04
Right. That’s another thing a lot of us entrepreneurs lose sight of is that bottom line. We get very excited about sales. You can always tell an entrepreneur, you ask them, how’s their business, they go, oh it’s great. Sales are great. I’ve got no money, but the sales are great. Go for it again.

Angela Bell 03:18
How about your pocket?

Tom Poland 03:20
So the common denominator between that person whose business is really taking off and the person who’s struggling a bit maybe is that there are problems and might be a different set of problems, but there are still problems. So let’s talk about that. Question two is, what is the problem you solve?

Angela Bell 03:35
So there’s two problems we solve. There’s the business owner that has the recurring problems you talked about, that’s plain whack-a-mole. They solve one and 14 pop up in another area. But there’s also the business owner that has that elephant in the room that is successful as they’ve been. They haven’t been able to solve that one. And it goes everywhere with them. Imagine whatever you think of Elon Musk, he has the same 24 hours in the day that we do. And yet he manages to run several companies, successful. Imagine him showing up to the business that he just acquired and saying, okay, I’m here to solve your problems. We don’t do that. Instead of solving problems, we dissolve them. And you do that by using problems as just indicators. It’s just data. You don’t sit there and obsess over a spreadsheet. Instead it’s indicators indicating something you’re going to create over here. And that is what Elon does. He can create and he can lead. So he has more capacity, more bandwidth, more security, and more profit.

Tom Poland 04:34
Perfect. Thank you for that. So if we’re not Elon Musk, which most of us don’t seem to be. Question three is you talked, we talked a bit about problems and how to, talking about dissolving them instead of making them, sort of confronting them, representing their peers and metrics and so on. What would you say are some of the other typical symptoms of the problems that you solve? So give us a heads up on what’s going on in the life of someone who’s running one of these businesses.

Angela Bell 05:02
Yeah, absolutely. Number one is they have anxiety, they’re really frustrated and they feel kind of stuck between their success and the reality of where they are.

Tom Poland 05:12
Yeah.

Angela Bell 05:12
There is a problem they haven’t been able to solve or that’s their job is they’re just solving problems. They are angry at their team or their staff or their customers. Those are the people that have the indicators that we know they’re ready for us.

Tom Poland 05:27
Thank you. And just down to four minutes left, question four is, we we’re talking about very growth orientated individuals here. So they’re going to be trying to fix the problem. So what would you say are some of the common mistakes they make when trying to solve those problems?

Angela Bell 05:41
Well, the first one is trying to solve it. Instead of creating something new, you want to create a leader in a company where those problems don’t exist. And if you use the same thinking that didn’t see the problem coming or created the problem, you’re just going to make more problems for yourself. The second one is to let go of implementation. Leave that to your staff. Your job is to integrate. If you’re not an integrator, you cannot scale. And if you did scale what you’ve been implementing, you will hate it, you’ll hate it. It’ll kill you. We don’t want to do that. Integration.

Tom Poland 06:14
Integration. Thank you for that. So let’s dive into something really specific. What would you say is a top tip? Like a valuable reaction someone could take in a pretty short time that it’s not going to solve the whole problem, but it might take them a step in the right direction.

Angela Bell 06:29
Yeah, well the first step here is becoming someone who has a leadership vision, right? Who can create from there. So number one is just decide to have fresh eyes and look for integrated solutions not temporary fixes that mean you have to do it again tomorrow. Number two, collaborate. We cannot see our own ears no matter how hard we try, right? Like you just can’t. So you need someone there beside you. Make sure that they’re not someone who’s going to drag you back into implementation. Whether it’s some kind of strategist, consultant or colleague. Make sure there’s someone who has that leadership vision. Number three, think bigger than the problem. People get the root cause wrong. That’s part of the reason it never goes away because they think at the level of the problem. So that’s too small. Think bigger, bigger, bigger. For example, a fellow Australian client I just finished with owns several businesses there, 45% capacity, had gotten out of the business, hired a general manager, but couldn’t sell, couldn’t retire because of this elephant in the room.

She thought she had a hiring problem because it has medical, highly qualified staff injectors and doctors. It was not a hiring problem. I stepped in with my mindset team. I’m like the general contractor. I bring in these scalers who are my scale squad. They built billion-dollar companies and we identified the real problem. It wasn’t a hiring problem, it was a culture problem. Two phone calls. We fixed the culture problem because we didn’t try and fix it. We created a new culture. We didn’t try to fix the old one. Toxic people left and doctors stepped up that had only worked part-time, filled her capacity problem, attracted new doctors, and became a trainer for injectors. So she wasn’t reliant on what the schools were pumping out. She trained her own people so she could hire for culture. Guess what that did? 35% to her bottom line. She went from problems to profit.

Tom Poland 08:24
Utilized more of a capacity. So it’s a great example of not trying to solve the problem, which she said was a hiring issue, but finding out the root cause of that problem was, which was culture. Toxic people. Toxic culture. Thank you for that. Question six is a valuable free resource. Where can people go to find out more about this? Because your approach is very wholistic, I imagine you’ve got something that people could go to and find out what they’re missing in their wholistic approach.

Angela Bell 08:54
Yeah, this is the brainchild of my career. I brought together a wholistic business assessment with my scale squad. It’s not automated. It’s a panel that actually looks at each submittal and gives you real new choices with fresh eyes. Okay, I promise there’s more options than they know.

Tom Poland 09:13
Okay, and real quick, where would they get that?

Angela Bell 09:16
At wholisticallymade.com. And that’s wholistic with a W, wholisticallymade.com.

Tom Poland 09:23
Wholistically. So W-H-O-L, wholisticallymade.com. Thank you for that. Go get it folks. Once you hit that homepage, top of the fold, you’ll see the option to have a look at that diagnostic. 21 seconds left. We’re going to start the clock again. What’s the one question I should have asked you but didn’t and the answer please?

Angela Bell 09:39
What is a wholistically made millionaire?

Tom Poland 09:42
And what is that?

Angela Bell 09:43
You know, it’s simple. You really did a great set in the beginning of the intro. We look at the world differently and it’s not just about money, it’s not even just about freedom. It’s what we can do with it in our capacity, both in our business and in our personal life and in our health. And one area of wealth supports other areas of wealth. So it’s having the whole package and letting it lift and support and making beautiful business and life fun again.

Tom Poland 10:07
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