This episode is a recording of Un-complicate Your Business, a free roundtable I co-hosted with Laura Sinclair, founder of This Mother Means Business.

We got into why business doesn't have to be as hard as we make it — and the very specific ways we make it harder anyway. Paralysis dressed up as "still figuring it out." Solving the wrong problem instead of the real one. Drifting away from the basics because they're not exciting enough to post about.

This is a real, live conversation — not a polished presentation. A few attendees joined in too, and one of them said the line that's stuck with me since: "the little things are the big things." That's really the whole point.

Timestamps:

• 0:02 — Intros and how this conversation started
• 4:05 — Laura's "die on this hill" belief: business isn't as hard as we make it
• 9:33 — The two business types: complicated models vs. simple models we overcomplicate
• 27:11 — The flavor of overcomplicating I call "solving the wrong problem"
• 33:09 — Paralysis dressed as strategy (the 5-month email story)
• 39:17 — Attendee reflections: what landed and why
• 49:52 — Final thoughts: leading with why instead of what

The closing thought I want to leave you with: the thing you're trying to fix is usually downstream of the real issue... which is why fixing it never quite sticks. Next time something feels harder than it should, ask yourself what it might actually be downstream of.

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