🔥Hot Tip: You were not meant to go it alone.
The Beauty of The Collective: Preventing Founder Burnout.
Being a business owner is a lot. I get it. I am one. Every decision is on you, but is it the right one? Every expense is on you too, but is it the right area to spend a little more? How do you know you are hiring the right person or vendor? Pushing through rejection and even celebrating wins is less satisfying when your solo. And you are your IT, CPA, and Admin, as well as your own sales, marketing, design, development, and PM. You wear literally 4.2 hats.
To make an impact with your vision you have to avoid burnout…we all do. When you work with others who have different skills, systems, and strategies from you, you get to shine and you create mutual benefit for fellow strugglers in a broken economy. Once you get support, you’ll realize just how much you needed it. I know every time I get support, I wish I had done it sooner. An outside perspective when you are a business of 1 or even a dozen is priceless.
Startups and solopreneurs don’t have the luxury to hire 10 people—even 1 is a stretch. BUT we can invest a little more so we don’t keep doing it all ourselves. When you wear ALL the hats, you are not getting to the work you are meant to do.
The patriarchy is not a support system made for us to thrive. Do Fortune 500 CEOs deserve help or need advisors? Maybe, but do they need pinch hitters? I argue we need it more than they do, but rarely do we get it. We usually don’t know where to start. What we do know is the stress, the loneliness, the lack of funding.
Our ecosystem, The Collective was created to fill the gaps and connect you with people who can teach you what you need to learn or connect you with someone who can do it for you! FLOWLab if you truly are working with zero resources or need a community and regular meetups. coFLOWco if you want more 1:1 support or are ready to outsource parts of your workflow.
Curious how we can help with overwhelm? We assess your business holistically, then advise you where to invest first. We support small orgs and independent creators, to keep you moving, keep you working in your zone, to help you find your flow state.
Wondering if you’re spending too much time OUT of that zone? Here’s how you can tell.
Do you have too much to do and can’t keep track of things?
Do you start every day rethinking what you do or who you're trying to reach?
Constantly digging for your logo or proposal?
Do you do handshakes or emails with a loose to-do list instead of contracts?
Maybe you know you have value, but struggle to articulate it?
Running an event or a launch from your head?
What about your website? Do you keep forgetting to fix those 3 small things (you swear, you were going to do that today) Wait, you don’t have a website!?!
If you said yes to any of the above, you need coFLOWco or one of our partners.
Of course, bigger projects and clients are welcome. We’ve run multi-million dollar projects for multi-billion dollar orgs. But we love our fellow small fry with big dreams. We love taking what we know from those bigger orgs and sharing their tricks and tools of the trade.
Small is good; you don’t have to scale or hire bigtime…but don’t grind yourself into a breakdown–get help! Small is relative anyway; the SBA says small biz have 0-500 employees. Whether your a team of 10 or you’re just starting out, we got you.
Entrepreneurship has no final destination; it’s about the ride, and it’s better with a co-pilot. Don’t know what your goals are or don’t believe in measuring impact? We do, and will convince you that even a rough plan is better than no plan. Regardless of where you are headed, we can help you find and define that path. Do you have a plan for the next 3 years? 6 months? 3 days? If not we will help create your roadmap, and focus on your mission to drive next steps.
Now that FLOWLab is moving along, and our underfunded/pre-revenue founders have a place to get support and tap into our resources and content…we’re ready to help those who need a wing-person! Need fractional CSO, CCO, or COO? Need a writer who can help you craft your brand? Need a sounding board? A PM? We can step in wherever you need, and if you’re unsure where that is, we can guide you. Check out our smaller services to move forward immediately.
We have tons of discovery packages that can take the edge off self-employment so you can sleep. We love quick turn, bang for your buck, guaranteed to make you breathe a sigh of relief, boost your confidence and/or capacity work.
We love to take something off your plate so get you that much needed nap. The bonus? When you hire coFLOWco, it helps us do the same.
