144: Making Better Business Decisions with Simon Meadows

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simon Meadows of Sterling Coaching is our guest today. Dr. Sabrina was a featured guest on his podcast a couple of months ago, and today, he takes the hot seat.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the things that most impressed Dr. Sabrina during their conversation was Simon’s willingness to share and reflect on his own experiences and how he uses that to serve those who he coaches. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Simon is based in the UK, we get the added pleasure of hearing from him an international perspective of what’s going on today in small business.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simon Meadows has owned and run his own businesses in many sectors such as construction, retail, importing, online learning, aviation, and business coaching. He has always shared his experiences, good and bad, with others so that they can benefit and he loves to do this every day.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simon likes to be honest and plain-speaking, which comes from his 30+ years of working in and with the construction sector.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He now has the privilege of being a coach for over 12 years and he also coaches other coaches from around the world.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group.</span></em></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both Dr. Sabrina and Simon are certified “Fix This Next” advisors!</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simon shares some of the misconceptions he had about coaching when he first started out in his early 20s, and what he has learned in terms of how to be more effective.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Sabrina walks us through a simple exercise for becoming self-aware when we’re on the hook and emotionally charged.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">De