Amy Porterfield
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 29 Oct
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I'd used contractors, but didn't have any employees. And so fast forward to where we are today, and one of the best perks that I've given my team is a four-day work week. And so we work Monday through Thursday, regular eight-hour days, and we take off Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Sometimes during a promotion, we'll work on a Friday, but the goal is for the majority of Fridays, we are not working.
And selfishly, I wanted this for me. I just didn't want to work five days a week. But then I thought, I love my team so much. I can't possibly take the day off knowing everyone else is working. That just is not my personality. I'd love to say that I'm that girl. I cannot. And so I gave it to everyone. It was the best decision I made. And the year that we did it, we read a book called Shorter.
It's a great book. I highly recommend it. A lot of corporations are examples in this book, not entrepreneurs, but corporations, big businesses, small businesses. And one of the things in the book said, just experiment. So just do 90 days of four-day work weeks and then reevaluate what worked, what didn't, where are we struggling?
But the day I went to my leadership team, I thought I was going to be the best boss in the world. And I presented to my leadership team, I want to go to a four-day work week for everyone. And instead of saying, you're the best boss ever. We love you. This is so cool. They said, you have lost your mind. We can't get this much work done on four days. There's no way.
And I was like, oh no, I thought this was the greatest thing ever. But I was convinced that we could figure this out. And so they all got on board with me. They all read the book. We figured it out. And I'm proud to say it's been at least three years that we've had a four-day work week and we did not lose money. I thought we'd lose money the first year. We absolutely did not.
Yeah, and for some people thinking about doing their own thing, that could stop them in their tracks. Like, no way, I can't put myself out there because people are mean online. And the truth is, they are. Just today when I mentioned that Q&A, one of my students said, I had two social media posts that went viral last week, which is a very big deal.
And she said, the hate on those posts have crushed me. She had two employees that were disgruntled. They were really good friends, so they kind of banded together and they just have taken over those posts. And a few things that I told her. Number one, this is going to happen. It's your social media account. You block them, you hide the post, and they do not need to be anywhere in your world.
Now they could go create little stupid accounts that come in, you don't know who they are, but you just do your best. But it will never be foolproof. The other thing is that you just need a tiny sliver of the internet to pay attention for you to be profitable. There are over 7 billion people in this world, but if you started your business and 20 people hired you, that could be a lot of money.
So you need to know that not everybody needs to like you or agree with you in order for you to be ultra successful online. And that is something that really is important for people to understand and not everyone will like you. And here's the worst part about it. The bigger you get, the more haters you have. So I definitely have people that do not like me and I am a people pleaser.
I have gone to therapy over this. Why wouldn't this person that I really like not like me back? And we've had to work on that and I've had to let it go. Which leads me to my final thing and that is, Mel Robbins wrote a book. She's a dear friend of mine. She wrote a book called Let Them.
Anyone who is struggling with people pleasing, worrying about what others think, or being deeply hurt by other people's habits or behaviors or anything that they're doing reflecting on you, you have to read the book Let Them. It is a powerful message and it has really changed my life.
Yes, that's so true. Like I knew this would happen. You kind of manifested it. So yeah.
I think that when you want to do big things in your life, whether it's quit your job and start your business or other big things, but stay in your job, one of the things that is absolutely necessary is to work on your mindset on a regular basis.
When I worked for Tony Robbins, one of the things he said that I never have gotten out of my mind is that building a business and being an entrepreneur and having success just in general, even not an entrepreneur, just having success, 80% is mindset, 20%. 20% is mechanics, like the strategies and techniques. 80% mindset. So you can bet that since I've started, I've been in masterminds.
I've always had some kind of a coach. I read all the self-help books that I can get my hands on, and I have an audio book in my ear or a podcast, reworking my mindset on a regular basis. My mind is a very dangerous place if it goes unattended. So mindset is a huge, huge piece of the puzzle for me. But I want to talk about money mindset because this is one that I've definitely dealt with.
Many, many years ago, I had just hit a million dollars in a calendar year. It was like three years into my business. And I was in a mastermind with a bunch of my peers. And there was this one guy in my mastermind that was just brilliant, doing brilliant things with paid advertising and all this stuff. So one day I asked him, hey, will you help me do that in my business, that paid ad strategy?
I'll give you a cut of my sales. And he said, I can do one better. Let me be your business partner. Now, I'd like to tell you that I spent weeks mulling over this, talking to a lawyer, talking to my husband, really thinking, is this the right move? I just hit a million dollars. This business is working. It took me one night where I said, yes. One night's sleep.
And the reason for that is I was insecure. I thought that this was a fluke. My success was going to go away. I couldn't do it alone. I've always needed or had a man in my life, my dad and my bosses, to guide me. I need him. And so he came into my business. He did not pay a penny to come into it. He got 50-50. These are decisions I made at a young age and we killed it.
For the next few years, my business went from a million to three to five beyond. It did really well for several years. I think about three full years. And then I realized this is the worst decision for me. I'm losing my voice. I'm letting him be my boss. It's not his fault. It's mine. But my business became his. And so I literally would get on a call with him.
I'd have 20 action items after the call. He'd have zero. Like he was running the show. And I thought, I have lost myself. So I needed to get out of the partnership. And I said to him, I need to get out. This is not working for me. I want to get my business back. Let's talk about what it's going to take. And the first thing he said was, this is going to be bad for you. And I said, why?
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