Intentional Living with Ben Robins

Designing a life with intention is hard. This show makes it easier.Once you've achieved success, it's all too common to realise that what you built may not be what you actually wanted. We achieve success on paper, but quietly question if the life we're building still fits.I’m Ben Robins: a life and leadership coach who left corporate not because things were failing, but because they no longer felt like mine. I help founders and leaders think more clearly about what they actually want - and how to go after it.No frameworks. No hustle culture. Just clearer thinking, and a life that fits.

Intentional Living with Ben Robins is a education podcast hosted by Ben Robins, with 5 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Intentional Living with Ben Robins

  Live Strategy Session: Can I Keep Growing Without Working 12–14 Hour Days? | Jackie Cook

  Sep 9, 20261 hour

  Jackie Cook has built a successful business in just one year. But now she’s facing a difficult question: if she changes what’s already working, will she lose the traction that got her here?Want me to help you 1-on-1 with the next stage of growth in your business?Click here https://www.ben-robins.com/contactWant to steal the best ideas from Owner’s Block?I send them out every Sunday https://www.ben-robins.com/owners-block-ideas/---Jackie Cook is the founder of Momentum Group, where she works across leadership, consulting, and AI-powered products.The business is growing and opportunities are coming in but Jackie is still working 12-to-14-hour days. She’s now trying to work out whether she can afford to change something that is working.She wants to spend less time on one-on-one work, build more collective experiences and create a business that gives her more time for the things she actually wants to do.But there’s a fear underneath that decision: “I don’t want to lose the traction. I don’t want to lose the forward motion.”In this strategy session, we work through the business strategy behind that decision: how to keep growing without becoming trapped by the things that created the growth in the first place.We discuss:- How to change a business model when the current one is already working- The fear of losing traction as a business grows- How to separate a real business risk from the story you’re telling yourself- Moving from one-on-one services towards collective experiences- How to decide which parts of your business deserve more of your time- Why “just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should”- Designing the business around the life you actually want- What actually compounds over the long term in businessDetails for Jackie Cook:Website: www.momentum-grp.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-cook/Instagram: www.instagram.com/momentumgrpllc/Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction & Momentum Group Overview01:30 - Current Dollar vs. Compounding Currency04:30 - Breaking Down Revenue & Time Allocation07:25 - Designing Your "Ideal Tuesday" & Lifestyle Goals11:00 - The Founder Bottleneck & Expansion Ambitions14:30 - Assessing 1-on-1 Client Work vs. Scalable Models20:00 - Managing Multiple Ventures & Juggling Focus21:35 - The Root Fear of Losing Momentum & Traction24:15 - Questioning Startup "Shoulds" & Overworking27:30 - "Why Not Wait 6–12 Months?" & Comfort Zones30:00 - Fear of Brand Damage When Pivoting34:10 - Just Because You Can Do Something Doesn’t Mean You Should36:45 - Transitioning Out of 1-on-1 Work Without Guilt40:00 - Pitching Existing Clients on the "Collective" Model45:00 - Cutting Down From 12–14 Hour Days50:00 - Protecting Energy & Daily Creative Time53:30 - What Actually Compounds in Your Business58:35 - Jackie’s Top 3 Key Takeaways & Outro

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  Live Strategy Session: How Do I Stop Being the Bottleneck in My $10M Business? | Nazeera Dawood

  Sep 2, 202656 min

  Nazeera’s built a $10M business, but she’s become the founder bottleneck. This is the strategy session to help her scale to $30M.Want me to help you 1-on-1 with the next stage of growth in your business? Click here https://www.ben-robins.com/contactWant to steal the best ideas from Owner’s Block? I send them out every Sunday https://www.ben-robins.com/owners-block-ideas/___Nazeera Dawood has built Vendorship into a $10 million business with 33 people.Vendorship helps businesses navigate government contracting, from finding opportunities and certifications to writing proposals and helping companies win government contracts.Nazeera started the company after working inside government herself. At one point, she spent two months helping put together a $150,000 RFP. Two companies applied, one submitted a minute late, and the other didn’t meet the criteria. Two months of work, resulting in zero valid bids.That experience eventually helped turn something Nazeera started from “a couch corner” into the business it is today. Now she wants to grow Vendorship from $10 million to $30 million, but there’s a problem.The first $10 million was built with Nazeera in the middle of almost everything. Even her COO told her: “You are the bottleneck.”In this live strategy session, we work through how Nazeera can stop solving everyone else’s problems and spend closer to 70% of her time on the work that could actually take Vendorship from $10M to $30M.We discuss:- How to stop being the bottleneck as your business grows - Why founder dependency becomes a problem as a company scales - How to delegate without slowly taking the work back again - The difference between delegating tasks and transferring ownership - Why constantly solving your team’s problems makes the business fragile - Why she says she wants “a double me” and what that means for her sales team - Turning founder instinct into something the team can learn from- The identity shift involved in no longer being the person who fixes everything - The three commitments Nazeera makes to help Vendorship scale beyond herDetails for Nazeera Dawood and Vendorship:Website: https://www.vendorship.net/Nazeera on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazeera-dawood/Vendorship on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendorshipinc/Timestamps:00:00 – How Nazeera Built a $10M Government Contracting Business02:08 – The $150K RFP That Received Zero Valid Bids05:56 – How Vendorship Helps Businesses Win Government Contracts09:50 – $10M Revenue, 33 People and a $30M Goal14:24 – THE STRATEGY SESSION STARTS: How Do You Stop Being the Bottleneck?17:26 – What Nazeera Has Already Done to Step Back22:15 – Working Less, But Still Too Involved27:51 – “I Want a Double Me”: The Sales Challenge30:38 – Only 30% of Her Time Goes to Her Highest Priorities33:19 – The $10M Cost of Being the Bottleneck38:20 – Why Being the Fixer Is So Hard to Give Up40:10 – How Solving Every Problem Can Weaken Your Team43:39 – Delegating Tasks vs Transferring Ownership46:16 – “Nobody Can Do It Like You”: What Should Nazeera Keep?49:04 – Turning Founder Instinct Into Teachable Sales Skills52:25 – Nazeera’s 3 Commitments for the Next Stage of Growth53:45 – The Power of Constraints: How to Force Efficiency

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  Live Strategy Session: How Do You Make the Right Bets With Limited Resources? | Jimmy Zollo

  Aug 26, 202658 min

  Want me to help you 1-on-1 with the next stage of growth in your business? Click here https://www.ben-robins.com/contact Want to steal the best ideas from Owner’s Block? I send them out every Sunday https://www.ben-robins.com/owners-block-ideas __ Joe & Bella has grown between 150% and 200% a year. But founder Jimmy Zollo is trying to answer a tricky question: how do you keep scaling an ecommerce business when cash, inventory and a three-person team are all finite? Jimmy founded Joe & Bella after seeing his grandmother, who had advanced dementia and very limited mobility, spend more than 20 painful minutes getting dressed in her memory care community. Today, the company makes adaptive clothing designed to make dressing faster, easier and safer for older adults. The product works, the business is growing, and the opportunity is huge. The question is where Jimmy should put his limited resources next. In this live strategy session, we work through the business growth strategy behind Joe & Bella and find three areas that could potentially move the company forward without simply spending more money on advertising. Want me to help you 1-on-1 with the next stage of growth in your business?Click here https://www.ben-robins.com/contactWant to steal the best ideas from Owner’s Block?I send them out every Sunday https://www.ben-robins.com/owners-block-ideas/___Joe & Bella has grown between 150% and 200% a year. But founder Jimmy Zollo is trying to answer a tricky question: how do you keep scaling an ecommerce business when cash, inventory and a three-person team are all finite?Jimmy founded Joe & Bella after seeing his grandmother, who had advanced dementia and very limited mobility, spend more than 20 painful minutes getting dressed in her memory care community.Today, the company makes adaptive clothing designed to make dressing faster, easier and safer for older adults. The product works, the business is growing, and the opportunity is huge.The question is where Jimmy should put his limited resources next.In this live strategy session, we work through the business growth strategy behind Joe & Bella and find three areas that could potentially move the company forward without simply spending more money on advertising.We discuss:- How to scale an e-commerce business with limited capital and a small team- Where Jimmy should focus when there are more growth opportunities than resources- Whether adding more products and marketing channels is helping or hurting growth- The role senior care communities could play in Joe & Bella’s next stage- How to make the value of adaptive clothing clearer to the people buying and recommending it- Whether Joe & Bella’s product range has become too complicated- What the company should become known for as it scales- How Jimmy can make better use of the expertise already inside his team- Where analysis ends and testing needs to begin- The three areas Jimmy decides to focus on nextDetails for Jimmy Zollo and Joe & Bella:Website: https://joeandbella.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellojoeandbella/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-zollo-25668622/You can also find Joe & Bella on Amazon.Timestamps:00:00 – How Joe & Bella Started: Adaptive Clothing for Older Adults06:16 – 18 Months to Market: Launching the First Products10:05 – How Joe & Bella Grew 150–200% a Year14:14 – Inventory Management, Financing and Scaling Ad Spend20:00 – How Do You Scale a Business With Limited Resources?22:25 – Building a Lean Team: Why Jimmy Hired a Memory Care Nurse28:00 – Senior Care Communities: An Overlooked Growth Channel?34:00 – Using Storytelling to Sell a Difficult-to-Explain Product42:27 – Building the Business Case: Time, Safety and Cost47:30 – Product Complexity: Are Too Many SKUs Hurting Growth?52:16 – Nurse Taylor: Building Trust Into the Customer Experience55:54 – Jimmy’s 3 Priorities for the Next Stage of Growth

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  Episode #16

  I wore an Oura Ring every day for 3 years. Here's why I quit.

  Jun 17, 20269 min

  I wore an Oura ring every day for 3 years, but something strange happened: I’d wake up feeling like a bear after hibernation, but because my score was a 70, I’d suddenly feel exhausted. I realised I had outsourced my intuition to a metric. In this episode, I explore why psychology leads physiology and why your sleep tracker might be the very thing standing between you and a good life. This episode is for you if: You use an Oura Ring, Apple Watch, or Whoop and feel "ruled" by the data. You’re a perfectionist chasing a 90+ score every morning. You’ve noticed that "optimising" your life is actually making it feel smaller. You want to stop chasing metrics and start trusting your own experience again. 🕐 TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 The 3-year experiment (and why I stopped) 0:07 Why psychology leads physiology 0:47 How a "bad" score can ruin a perfectly good morning 1:33 The Celebrity Trap 2:18 The "Rabbit Hole" of magnesium, supplements, and cold plunges 2:59 Are you optimising for the score or for your life? 4:42 The Perfectionist Trap: Why 90 is never enough 5:04 Life Contraction 5:49 A year without a tracker: How I feel now 6:32 The Basics: What actually works (that you don't need an app for) 7:47 Do you want to live forever, or just be happy? CONNECT WITH ME: I work with business owners and leaders who are ready to step off the optimisation treadmill and design a life with true intention. 🌐 Website: https://ben-robins.com/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-robins-coaching/ What metric are you optimising for that might be moving you away from what you actually want? Tell me in the comments. Want more on designing a life with intention? Like and subscribe. #OuraRing #SleepTracking #Biohacking #Mindfulness #PersonalGrowth #BenRobins #IntentionalLiving #Perfectionism #SelfImprovement

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  Episode #15

  Your Limiting Beliefs Need Removal, Not Reframing

  Jun 10, 20267 min

  Don't Reframe Your Limiting Beliefs. Remove Them. Most coaches will tell you to reframe your limiting beliefs. I won't. Because reframing is like decorating a prison cell. You might make it look nicer, but it's still a prison cell. In this episode, I'll show you why removing limiting beliefs from the root is completely different from reframing them and why it actually works. Your limiting beliefs aren't who you are. They're mud that's been layered on top of you since childhood. And when you remove them, you realise there's so much more available to you than you ever thought possible. This episode is for you if: You're tired of reframing and want actual change You have a limiting belief that's been holding you back for years You've done other coaching but something still feels stuck You're ready to understand where your beliefs actually come from You want to remove the ceiling on what's possible for you You're considering working with a coach and want to know my approach Connect with me: Website: https://ben-robins.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-robins-coaching/ Ready to do deep work on removing limiting beliefs? I work with business owners, leaders, and people at inflection points who are ready to go deeper. If you want to explore whether coaching is right for you, visit my website or connect with me on LinkedIn. Interested in designing a life with intention? Subscribe to stay updated with new episodes on personal development, intentional living, and building the life you actually want.

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