Ya'll, I just had Josh Thomas on a call and my mind is blown.
This guy has 20 years of entrepreneurial experience and has helped businesses go from $30K to $300K a month... all by fixing ONE thing most of us get wrong.
Hiring.
And listen... I've made every mistake in the book.
When I first started my business, we hired a swarm of $3/hour VAs. They had no defined roles, no systems, every single question came back to us, the founders.
We thought we were building leverage while we were actually building a prison.
Decision fatigue is REAL. And we weren't having fun anymore.
Josh broke down exactly why cheap labor ends up being the most expensive decision you can make. That $3/hour VA has his head on a swivel looking for a side hustle because he can't actually live on that wage.
But when you pay fair and put them in a high-performing environment, you get 10x, 20x, even 30x the output.
To your freedom,
Phil
P.S. If you're stuck in an income rut, Josh says leverage is how you get out. A VA can be that lever. Worth thinking about.