De-stress Your Business
Business doesn’t need to be stressful. This weekly podcast is for business owners, leaders, and managers who want to get better results, with less stress. We go deep on tactics you can roll out today, such as freeing up 15 hours per week (!) of your time, empowering your teams, and sorting out employee onboarding. Paddy Mann and Alexis Kingsbury are serial entrepreneurs who have learned these lessons the hard way over the last 15 years, and now support 100s of other business leaders as co-founders at AirManual.
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Episodes
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Tuesday Jan 17, 2023
Is ChatGPT something that will actually help your business?
Or is it just hype?
We’ve been using ChatGPT and other AI tools extensively over the last few weeks and can confidently say that it has serious implications for all businesses.
These tools offer immediate opportunities to:
Move faster
Provide more value to customers
Reduce business stress
But… they also present new risks:
AI tools could erode the value of your business offering
The changing marketplace could disrupt your current sales and marketing channels
If you ignore AI, it offers your competition a chance to get ahead
So, as a business leader, you NEED to take pay attention.
The first step is to educate yourself, and a great a place to start is today’s episode of De-stress Your Business.
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
As a business owner, you NEED to take a 4-week holiday!
It’s important for you… and it’s important for your business.
You’ll be better when you:
Recharge your batteries
Enjoy life experiences
Invest in relationships outside of work
Your business will be better when you:
Remove yourself as a bottleneck
Give employees the space to thrive
Reduce the impact of you getting sick
But why 4 weeks?
Because you can cheat a little if it’s less than 4 weeks.
By taking a full calendar month off, you’re forced to truly handover the majority of tasks you’re responsible for.
In today’s episode of De-stress Your Business we cover this in more detail, and then look at how you can get into a position where you can take a holiday for 4 — or more — weeks.
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
At AirManual, we help business leaders to set life changing goals.
Yes, the work we do will have a huge impact on business success. But our greater purpose is about the impact on people.
For example:
We help leaders to spend more time on the tasks they love (and less on the ones they HATE!)
We make it possible for business owners to take 4+ week holidays
We give employees the resources they need to thrive and love their jobs
In today’s episode of De-stress Your Business, we take a look at our own life changing goals for 2023.
And then challenge you to set your own!
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
With less than a week until Christmas, a pesky process gone wrong threatened to cause a lot of festive stress for Paddy.
What went wrong?
How was it dealt with?
Will Paddy’s Christmas be saved??
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Not being on top of you business finances can cause so much stress
And in so many ways…
You’re never clear on the real situation.
Just how much money do you have? When will you run out?
You discover issues too late.
Thousands of pounds get wasted on unused subscriptions.
Tens of thousands of pounds have to be written off after some internal fraud.
(We’ve seen this — it sucks!)
You can spend years scaling a business, yet struggle to find the money to pay yourself more.
We experienced this ourselves.
To say it’s depressing is an understatement.
You feel stressed when you spend time on finances (which you think is better spent elsewhere)… and stressed when you don’t spend time on finances.
It’s a lose-lose situation.
To sort this… you need to develop some good habits. And in today’s episode of De-stress Your Business, we’re looking into just how you can do that.
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
What would you do if you lost most of your clients over a period of a few weeks?
The stress would be unbearable for many business owners.
However, expert copywriter Arfa Saira Iqbal responded by developing and using an approach that delivered a record-breaking quarter and now gives her a steady stream of new clients — completely taking the stress out of where her next project will come from.
The approach is so simple…
Every day, Arfa:
Found her ideal clients in Facebook groups
Engaged with the content others shared in there
Shared her own relevant content
Connected with anyone who engaged with it
As a result, she acquired 1,000s of followers and a steady stream of clients!
Listen to hear more from Arfa Saira Iqbal, author of the best-selling book: “Mind-Hack Marketing: How to Turn Customer Psychology into Breakthrough Sales”, and an expert copywriter who written copy for clients that has collectively brought in over $125 million in revenue.
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Helpful resources:
Arfa’s website: http://arfasairaiqbal.com/
Afra Iqbal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arfa.s.iqbal
Simple daily checklist you can use to Engage on Facebook daily to grow followers and attract new clients: https://airmanual.link/templates/gain-facebook-followers
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
In small businesses, most line managers have had zero training of how to manage.
This is not a good situation.
We all know that bad line managers are:
A huge source of stress
A major hindrance to team productivity
A common reason for leaving a job.
So… it’s not enough to hope that someone can be a good manager simply because they’ve previously been managed.
As with any other role in your business, managers need onboarding
They need support in how to run 1-2-1s, give feedback, coach and delegate.
Sounds complicated? It doesn’t need to be. There are great resources you can lean on to introduce this into your business today.
In today’s episode of De-stress Your Business, we dive deeper into why line managers need onboarding, and how to tackle this.
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Helpful resources:
- Line manager onboarding template: https://airmanual.link/templates/get-started-as-a-line-manager
- Manager Tools® “Basics” podcasts: https://www.manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics
- The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Manager-Mark-Horstman/dp/1119244609
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Friday Nov 25, 2022
Friday Nov 25, 2022
When we work with new customers, we often help them to answer this question:
What’s your life changing goal?
In business, we’re often too focused on the revenue and growth, and forget the impact it’s having on our actual lives.
Rather than focusing on increasing profit 10%, what would it mean for you if:
You could take 4 week holidays every summer?
You could spend much less time on the tasks that drain you, and much more time on the tasks you love?
You were no longer spending evenings and weekends fixing issues?
You were no longer needed in the business, and could sell or work less [as a business owner]?
These are life changing goals.
And if you fix them the right way, then…
You’ll be happier.
Your friends and family will be happier.
Your colleagues will be happier.
Your business will be stronger (and yes — revenue and growth will improve too!)
In today’s episode of De-stress Your Business we go deeper into why this is such an important question, and how it can help your business.
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
One of the biggest sources of stress in the workplace?
Key person dependencies.
A key person dependency is simply when your team or business is dependent on a specific person to do certain tasks.
If your business only has one person who knows how to send invoices, or do payroll, or set-up the equipment for new joiners… you have a key person dependency.
You’ll experience the stress most acutely when that person isn’t available.
Suddenly, things will grind to halt. The team and customers will get frustrated. Countless hours will be wasted.
If you are that key person, then you’re going to struggle to finish on time, relax during your holidays, and catch-up when you get back.
On today’s episode of De-Stress Your Business we dig further into the pain caused by key person dependencies, and how to fix them.
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing the same mistakes happening again and again.
And it hurts in so many ways…
Team members end up:
Wasting countless hours repeating the same work
Getting anxious about not delivering
Feeling like they’re not growing
Feeling under-supported and frustrated with management
And managers:
Lose countless hours providing support and fixing issues
Get frustrated at the team not delivering
End up micromanaging rather than coaching
Don’t get time for the higher value tasks they really enjoy
How do we put an end to mistakes? How do we get off the treadmill and start making real progress?
This is our topic for today’s episode of De-Stress Your Business.
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Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!