{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Zen Desk Podcast","title":"118 Merry’s business used to only make money when she was on Zoom with clients… now it's set up to pay her while she’s in Europe with her 3 kids for the summer ⛱️","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/df4410b3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3454,"description":"In this episode, I’m talking to my client from The SOP Bootcamp Merry Chiu about her experience inside the program. She’s a successful and talented college admissions mentor.Fully booked with 1:1 clients from all over the world.Flexible around her life with 3 kiddos.But…She had no space to take her business beyond the Zoom room and free up her time to serve more people at different price points.Before The SOP Bootcamp, her days looked like this:👉 get 3 kids out the door👉 client calls while kids were at school👉 intention to “scale business” (whatever that means) but always pushing tasks like writing newsletters, creating content or developing digital offers to tomorrow because there was no time for that…👉 pick up kids and do after school activities👉 repeatAnd she told me:“I’ve tried SOPs before… but I just never had the time to get it properly up and running to support me inside my business”Inside The SOP Bootcamp, we changed that.Now?We’ve revamped her business to run from one simple CEO dashboard that holds her daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly tasks together next to managing a FULL Google Calendar with life and family activities.Her calendar has expanded with time slots for her business that show her exactly what to do every day to scale her digital products next to her busy client schedule.(without writing a to do list from scratch).She’s created space.She’s EXPANDED time.Which is why during her time in The SOP Bootcamp…👉 She launched a new digital course👉 Reduced her 1:1 workload👉 And is planning a time-rich summer traveling with her kids in Europe while launching her next course.She told me that the biggest shift from the program was actually emotional.Her words:“I don’t worry anymore about all the little things I did or didn’t get done”Because there’s a system in place holding the business together for her now.So even if they call from school and say one of the kids are sick, she can go get him and move her tasks to the next day without rewriting to do...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GjlYJ2QpiNMPRgeD0QN3fCqo3xcGhw3OQJIOooBw8qs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMjVi/N2E0NTMzOTNkMTY1/NTNjOGU4MWMxMzFi/MTAzYy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}