SGBS Consulting, Inc.

SGBS Consulting, Inc. We help heart-centered business owners navigate the perils of running a business throughđź’°management.

Your business can be Hallmark on Monday, mystery by Wednesday, a brief horror film Thursday afternoon, and somehow a com...
10/02/2026

Your business can be Hallmark on Monday, mystery by Wednesday, a brief horror film Thursday afternoon, and somehow a comedy again by Friday.

You don't need one perfect label. Just look for the pieces that actually resonate.

Sometimes the next level of growth isn't a new strategy. It's a different version of you making the decisions. Not fake-...
09/28/2026

Sometimes the next level of growth isn't a new strategy. It's a different version of you making the decisions. Not fake-you. Not some polished LinkedIn CEO character — you, but maybe more decisive. More willing to say no. More trusting.

So ask yourself: what qualities does the business I'm building actually require me to bring forward more often? That question can move things a to-do list never will.

It's one thing to spot the story. Yep, lots of drama, lots of firefighting, owner playing all fourteen characters at onc...
09/25/2026

It's one thing to spot the story. Yep, lots of drama, lots of firefighting, owner playing all fourteen characters at once.
Then comes the part that actually matters: what would I rather be creating? Not a fantasy — a direction. What needs to feel different? What would I stop doing? What would my team fully own? What would my clients actually experience?
Clarity gives you something better than an explanation. It gives you a choice.

I take business seriously. I don't think we have to take ourselves quite that seriously while doing it.There's something...
09/24/2026

I take business seriously. I don't think we have to take ourselves quite that seriously while doing it.

There's something genuinely useful about noticing one of your own patterns and just going — well, THAT'S interesting. Humor gives you a little breathing room, and sometimes that room is exactly what lets you see something honestly instead of getting defensive about it.

You can put something on a vision board and still have another part of your brain arguing with it.I want more clients.Cl...
09/23/2026

You can put something on a vision board and still have another part of your brain arguing with it.

I want more clients.
Clients are exhausting.

I want financial freedom.
Every time I get ahead, something goes wrong.

I want the business to grow.
Growth means more pressure and even less time.

That contradiction is worth paying attention to, because your brain constantly looks for evidence that supports what it already believes.

I know this one personally. There was a stretch where the business was growing, and I still didn't feel free, because it still needed me for everything. More money hadn't solved what I thought it would.

So vision work isn't only deciding what you want. It's getting curious about the story running underneath it, then giving the vision real structure - the goal, the timeline, the next milestone, what actually goes on the calendar.

Vision without action stays a picture. Action without vision becomes another to-do list. The work is bringing the two together.

When we talk about business stories inside Level It Up, the goal was never a dramatic new label for yourself. Great, app...
09/22/2026

When we talk about business stories inside Level It Up, the goal was never a dramatic new label for yourself. Great, apparently I'm the martyr starring in Business Horror.

The point is objectivity. A story gives you enough distance to see a pattern without making it your whole identity. You can say interesting, I'm over-functioning here, or interesting, I keep avoiding the numbers. Once you can name something, you can actually work with it.

Before you decide you made a bad hire, ask a few questions first.Did they actually know what the role was?Were the outco...
09/21/2026

Before you decide you made a bad hire, ask a few questions first.

Did they actually know what the role was?
Were the outcomes clear?
Did they get real training, or three Loom videos, a pile of passwords, and a cheerful "let me know if you have questions"?

I've hired people who turned out to be the wrong fit for reasons that had nothing to do with skill. Usually it came down to something I never made clear in the first place.

Hiring was never find person, hand over chaos, enjoy freedom. It's a leadership decision, whether you treat it like one or not.

A real onboarding plan moves someone through stages - thirty days to learn, sixty to integrate, ninety to actually own it. And as their ownership grows, yours should shrink. That's the part we tend to forget.

The goal isn't just being ready to hire. It's being ready to lead.

Here's an exercise I like because it's simple and occasionally a little uncomfortable. Pretend your business belongs to ...
09/20/2026

Here's an exercise I like because it's simple and occasionally a little uncomfortable. Pretend your business belongs to someone else and you've been asked to evaluate it — no emotional attachment to why anything's done a certain way.

What do you see? Would you keep that client? Would you keep doing that task yourself? Would you structure the team this way?

I learned this one the hard way: the wrong client can cost you more than they will ever pay you.Not just in unpaid invoi...
09/19/2026

I learned this one the hard way: the wrong client can cost you more than they will ever pay you.

Not just in unpaid invoices. In extra hours. Scope creep. A frustrated team. Emergency requests that somehow become your emergency.

I took on a client once who genuinely couldn't afford me, told myself I needed the income, and spent the whole relationship doing the work and then chasing payment. That wasn't alignment. That was desperation wearing a nicer outfit.

Some business owners hold onto clients like this because losing the revenue feels scary. But revenue without healthy boundaries isn't always profitable revenue.

This is why knowing your values matters before the hard moment shows up.

What do you stand for?
How do you work?
What's negotiable, and what genuinely isn't?

You don't need every yes. You need the right yeses.

There have been times I've looked at something in my business and thought, I genuinely cannot figure out why this is so ...
09/18/2026

There have been times I've looked at something in my business and thought, I genuinely cannot figure out why this is so hard. Then someone from the outside asks one question, and I'm suddenly staring at the answer like — oh. Right. That.

Sometimes you don't need to work harder on the problem. You need enough distance to see it differently. That might mean stepping away, mapping the process, or just talking it through with someone who isn't standing where you're standing.

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333 Washington Boulevard, Ste 341
Culver City, CA
90232

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