Do you have a Toxic Relationship with your Business?

How do you know if you’re in a toxic relationship with your business. A conversation with Dr Nicole Rivera: committed to giving entrepreneurs their lives back.  

Summary:

In this episode Phil Rose talks with Dr Nicole Rivera, integrated practitioner and business coach. She is an expert in functional medicine and business – a unique combination where she (and her husband) help both diagnose and then ‘cure’ health and business issues to create sustainable benefits. Do you have a toxic relationship with your business? 

(Some of) The main points for listeners: 

• How to build a business AND maintain your health and wellbeing 

• Dr Nicole’s tips for sustaining your business and health 
• The biggest topic entrepreneurs wanted to hear about from Dr Nicole’s survey and how that helped her reinvent herself and business 
• Lessons from an entrepreneur growing from 2 people to 25 people and trying to do it all 
• Sometimes we need answers AND coaching to help us move forwards 
• How Dr Nicole discovered Scaling Up (Verne Harnish) & Built to Last (Jim Collins) 

• Are you serving to ‘make humanity better’ 
• Built on a foundation of wanting to help people 
• How Dr Nicole ‘discovered’ the need for business coaching as a result of her integrative medicine course 
• What to do when you discover your business is reliant on you… 
• Could you go to Wyoming and your culture continue? 

• A coach can  help when you are in business and discover a new way of doing things, especially when it comes to decisions about the team 
• Consulting AND coaching – how that balance works in practice 
• What decisions do you need to think through once you’ve made a choice about your business direction? 
• From Work Life balance to work life integration 
• Discover the foundational issues that are influencing the outcomes you are getting in your business today 

•  And discover the root cause of issues in your life that lie behind some of those business issues 
• We don’t guess, we test! Get to the root of the issue before you start 
• The similarities between medicine diagnosis and business issue diagnosis – what are you settling for that could be resolved to enable you to really achieve all you can 
• Retirement should never interfere with your work! 
• Conflict avoided is conflict multiplied – what do you need to address right now? 
• Just because you can do it all, doesn’t mean you should 
• Give all 4 quadrants equal energy – business, health, self, family – discover how to create your own integration