Diamond Effect - Strategies to Scale Your Service Business as a Sellable Asset
This podcast helps service-based entrepreneurs and business owners scale their businesses in any economy without overworking or overwhelm. The goal is to create an asset you can sell while enjoying life as you build it.
Here, you turn your business into a client-attracting gem and become a high-performing CEO.
About the Host:
Maggie Perotin is the founder of Stairway to Leadership. As an international business and leadership coach, Maggie helps service-based business owners start, grow, and scale their businesses without overworking or being overwhelmed.
With her DREAM-PLAN-DO coaching model, her clients scale while transforming into high-performing CEOs of their businesses.
This is what USA Today wrote about this model in the article titled: "How Stairway to Leadership is turning small businesses into high-profit ventures."
"(...) her DREAM-PLAN-DO coaching model, she helps her clients align their mindset, business strategy, and high-performance habits to transform their businesses from an unreliable source of income to a super-productive client-attracting gem. Maggie adds that she uses all her knowledge and experience to help her clients grow their businesses in a strategic and innovative way while supporting them in building a successful business that consistently attracts their ideal clients. She specializes in helping them build a brand that showcases their uniqueness to reach their full potential, becoming the powerful CEO they’re capable of being."
Maggie has over 15 years of experience in corporate leadership in various business domains and coaching. She holds an executive MBA from the Jack Welch Management Institute.
Maggie lives in Toronto, Canada, with her blended family with four kids. She loves spending time in nature, traveling, reading, dancing, good food, and giving back.
To learn more, head to www.stairwaytoleadership.com
To work with Maggie and gain break-through clarity on why your business isn't scaling- schedule a free 50-min consultation https://calendly.com/maggie-s2l/discovery-call
Diamond Effect - Strategies to Scale Your Service Business as a Sellable Asset
9 Books That Changed My Life And Why I'm Recommending Them to You - EP # 264
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This One's a Little Different.
I read a lot. Business books, self-development, the occasional novel on vacation. And for years, people have been asking me — clients, colleagues, family — what I actually recommend.
So today I'm sharing nine books that didn't just teach me something. They genuinely shifted how I think, how I lead, how I show up as a business owner, a coach, a mom, and a partner.
But here's what makes this list different from every other "books I love" episode out there. I'm not just telling you what the books are about. I'm telling you why I read them, what was happening in my life at the time, and what specifically changed because of them. Because that context is what makes a recommendation actually useful.
A Few Hints of What's on the List:
A mindfulness book that turned a self-proclaimed non-meditator into a convert and started everything else on this list.
A business fable about team dysfunction that I used to turn around one of the most broken teams I'd ever inherited, without replacing a single person.
A book that gave me permission to admit I'd been shrinking in rooms I'd earned the right to be in.
A classic that completely dismantled the hidden belief that being ambitious and being a good person are somehow in conflict.
And one that will completely change how you set goals, in a way that feels counterintuitive until it suddenly makes total sense.
That's just five. There are four more, including one on money that has nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with the beliefs quietly running your financial decisions.
Who This Episode Is For:
- Anyone who loves books and is always looking for the next great read
- Entrepreneurs who want to understand the mindset and inner work behind building a successful business
- Leaders who want to grow their teams, their confidence, and their thinking
- Anyone who has ever felt held back by self-doubt, money blocks, or fear of thinking too big
After You Listen
Have you read any of these? Is there a book that changed your life that you'd recommend? Find me on Instagram or LinkedIn, I'd love to add it to my reading list.
📧 maggie@stairwaytoleadership.com 🌐 https://stairwaytoleadership.com
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