In this episode, Mariah reviews everything that happened through 2020 and 2021 in the business since our last podcast episode. As you can imagine, things were pretty wild through these years and this episode is an honest behind the scenes look at the growing pains, challenges, wins, and celebrations through rapidly growing the company and team through these wild years.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Our plans going into 2020 and how that turned out (hint: we were about to pivot to all live events going into 2020…oops!)
- My initial expectations and goals around launching High Ticket Hybrid and what ended up happening
- How our panic pivot from our planned live events to hosting virtual events completely changed the trajectory of our business “overnight”
- The real issues that can occur when you grow faster than you anticipated and have to hire quickly
- Why I pressed “pause” on certain projects in early 2021 and how that affected our plans that year
- Lessons learned from not rushing to hire key leadership positions and waiting for the right fit
- Riding the waves of intense growth and scale in all areas - and how I felt as an “unlikely CEO” through it all
- How and why I came up with the idea for our rebrand at the end of 2021 and a new program
- The true meaning of “Fearless CEO” to me and how it helped me through the anxiety I felt as we grew so quickly
- Where we landed at the end of 2021, having grown so much over these 2 years, and what we were thinking and planning going into 2022