Erin Gray
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2,217 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Erin Gray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can have a team, you can delegate a lot of the work, and you can still be the person that carries the entire business, both mentally and emotionally.
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And if everything is still coming back to you, like the decisions, the issues, the questions, your business may have grown on paper.
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or with people and team members and clients, but it actually hasn't become less dependent on you.
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So today I want to talk about the difference between being valuable to your business and then being the one that your business needs you to function.
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Because those two things are very different things.
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So let's dive in.
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I wanna start off by saying I think that this is a very natural thing that I think this is kind of like the growing pains.
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Like this is the stuff I think founders actually have to go through in order to get through the other side to recognize like, oh, this is how it's actually supposed to be.
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I came into what a 30 year business.
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So I wasn't there from when my grandfather started the company.
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I mean, we had definitely had growing pains at 30 years when I came in and all of the changes that I had to or that I wanted to make and that we did make.
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But I don't think that because I wasn't there from the ground up and you know, growing from no employees to 32 employees, so I didn't have that experience.
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But I did have the experience of having 32 employees and having a lot of the word that comes to mind is chaos, which is not necessarily the best word, but that's what it felt like when I came on.
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So the thing that I want to say here is that you know the the thing that made you successful can also become the thing that inhibits you or limits your growth to the next level.
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Because when you think about it, when you
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Started your business, you were probably the only one.
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Like I think a lot of us start that way, unless you hire immediately, which I think that that's a great idea.
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I think that there's some sometimes there's some learning and some tweaking that we have to do in order to like within ourselves and within our business first, in order to start hiring people.
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That's a whole nother topic for another day.
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I don't want to get off on that tangent, but I think that, you know, because we are so capable.
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