89: Pumpkin Plan Your Biz: A New and Stronger Normal with Donna Leyens

<p>Dr. Sabrina welcomes Donna Leyens to the show to discuss reimagining what’s possible for our businesses as we come through the coronavirus pandemic and transition from surviving to thriving, creating a new and stronger normal.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>Listen in to this conversation and prepare to be inspired as Dr. Sabrina and Donna take on several powerful questions themselves.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>Donna is the President and co-founder of Pumpkin Plan Your Biz. She is on a mission to save small businesses from extinction by providing business tools, strategy, training, and support to business professionals who want to make a big impact as small business growth strategists.</p> <p>Most business coaches and consultants find themselves reinventing the wheel with each client, producing inconsistent results for their clients, and mental burnout for the coach. That’s why Donna, who experienced these issues herself in her early years as a business coach, partnered with Mike Michalowicz in 2012 to create a repeatable business growth program based on the strategies in Mike’s book, <em>The Pumpkin Plan</em>. Today, she spearheads the training, certification, and continued development of their proven business growth program, so that their certified Pumpkin Plan Strategists can easily and consistently deliver high value to more clients.</p> <p>Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group.</p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Donna shares a compelling story she heard recently about a restaurant owner who mortgaged her house to buy the business, and due to the current events, she may lose both.</li> <li>Many businesses who were doing relatively well a few months ago now are just hanging in there by a thread.</li> <li>However, business owners who have been doing <em>Profit First</em> in addition to <em>The Pumpkin Plan</em> seem to be the businesses that are doing relatively well and are maki