
[ScaleX Bite-Size] Is Your Business Growing or Just Repeating the Same Year?
Your business pays you a comfortable salary. You know how to run it. But are you still moving towards something you want? In this ScaleX Insider clip, Jodie Cook joins Brendan McGurgan to explore how comfort can keep business owners stuck. She shares thought experiments to help you decide what comes next and explains why rebuilding her agency after losing 25% of its clients prompted her to consider selling. For SME leaders weighing up whether to scale, step back or sell, Jodie offers a useful question: if you were starting again today, would you build the same business? Timestamps 00:00 How comfort can keep business owners stuck 00:40 Are you repeating the same year? 01:35 Making a deliberate choice about growth 02:35 Thought experiments to explore your next move 03:30 Losing 25% of clients and returning to daily operations 04:30 Why Jodie decided it was time to sell 05:00 Would you start the same business today? About Jodie Cook Jodie Cook is an entrepreneur, author and Forbes contributor who built and sold a social media agency within ten years. She is the author of Ten Year Career and co-author of How to Raise Entrepreneurial Kids with Daniel Priestley. In this conversation, she draws on her experience of running an agency, travelling and competing in powerlifting to explore how business owners can design their work around the lives they want. Connect with Jodie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodie-cook/ ScaleX with Us Free Diagnostic - Score Your Business Across the 10 principles of Scaling: https://scalexaccelerator.simplescaling.com/scalex-10p-scaling-diagnostic ScaleX Accelerator (over £3M revenue)- Register Here: https://scalexaccelerator.simplescaling.com/sx-programme-application ScaleX Elevate (under £3M revenue) - Register Here: https://simplescaling.com/solutions/scalexelevate-scale-up-coaching/ Book: Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business Website: https://simplescaling.com Email: hello@simplescaling.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simple-scaling Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple_scaling Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@simplescaling















