Ep 227 | How To Make Better Business Decisions, Use AI Wisely and Talk to The Right People with Fractional COO Sandra Booker

If you've ever walked away from a mastermind, a coaching call, or a well-meaning conversation with a colleague feeling more confused than when you started — this episode is going to name something you've probably been living with for a long time. It's not that there's too little advice out there. It's that most of us have never stopped to ask whether the advice we're taking is actually right for us, our business, and where we are right now.

My guest today is Sandra Booker, founder of Sidekick COO and creator of Scale Society, a fractional COO who works with established online service providers to find the single constraint costing them the most time and money — and then designs the systems and team structures to solve it. Sandra is one of the most well-respected operators in the online business world, and this conversation is exactly as good as I knew it would be.

What Sandra and I get into goes way beyond operations and systems. We talk about how to know when you actually need to hire someone versus when you need a better process, the art of pausing before reacting when urgency sets in, and Sandra's concept of "curating your room" — being intentional about whose voices you let influence your decisions, and why the most impressive person in the room isn't always the right one to listen to. Sandra also shares a super cool AI tool that she built and has been using in her own business that I cannot wait for you to hear about — and that I think is going to change how a lot of you are using AI.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why the "self-made" entrepreneur is a myth — and what the business owners who actually build something have in common that nobody talks about
• How to tell the difference between needing a team member, needing a system, or needing to pause and look at what's already in your business
• The real cost of making decisions from fear, urgency, or comparison — and what to do instead
• Sandra's concept of curating your room — why your business bestie might be exactly the wrong person to consult when you have a hard decision to make
• The AI tool Sandra built called “The Advisory Board” — and how you can do the same for yourself
• Why the right move in a revenue dip is almost always to look inside your existing business first — and what to look for
• How to evaluate advice you're hearing — whether it's from a podcast, a mastermind, or someone making big revenue claims online

Your next best business decision is probably not going to come from someone else's strategy. It's going to come from getting clearer on what's actually happening inside your own business — and this episode is going to help you do that!

Design the room your decisions deserve with Sandra's AI Boardroom Blueprint.

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