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Scaling Without Growing Broke Academy - Phase 1

Scaling Without Growing Broke Academy - Phase 1

A 12-week one-on-one coaching program with access to Barr Business School courses. Get personalized guidance to start or grow your business while maintaining financial stability, cultural alignment, and work-life balance. 12 weekly 1-hour sessions plus on-demand support for real-time challenges.

By Frumi Barr In Entrepreneurship and Business · Leadership Development · Teaching / Education

Last updated Apr 03, 2025
English
General Audiences - suitable for all ages

What you'll learn

🔹 Overcoming Setbacks & Building Resilience: Learn how to move past failures and develop a success-driven entrepreneurial mindset.

🔹 Entrepreneurial Strategy & Growth: Gain a deep understanding of strategic planning and execution to scale your business effectively.

🔹 Develop Your Business Strategy: Craft a clear and actionable plan to align your vision, set achievable goals, and drive sustainable growth for your organization

🔹 Cash Flow & Financial Management: Master budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow strategies to ensure long-term financial stability.

🔹 Effective Communication & Leadership: Strengthen your ability to lead teams, influence stakeholders, and communicate with impact.

🔹 Your Custom Success Blueprint: Walk away with a practical, tailored plan for scaling your business with confidence.

🔹 Self-Paced Learning & Expert Guidance: Access multiple courses, each with several lessons, plus book summaries to reinforce key concepts.

🔹 Live One-on-One Coaching: Weekly personalized coaching sessions to apply lessons directly to your business.

🔹 Just -in time Coaching: Easy access for time critical decisions.

Content

In our first session, we’ll dive into what you and your business need most right now. Whether it's overcoming a previous failure, adopting an entrepreneurial mindset, developing a winning strategy, mastering cash management, or refining communication skills, we will start where guidance is needed most. Your journey will include: Weekly One-on-One Coaching: A dedicated session each week to provide personalized support and direction. We will set recurring meetings during our first session. "Just-in-Time" Coaching: Access to additional support through on-demand sessions. For "just-in-time" challenges you will get a quick response to schedule a call. Self-Assessment: You'll complete a needs-assessment to uncover strengths, challenges, and priorities. This will shape our focus for Lesson 2 and beyond.

At Barr Business School, you’ll gain access to a range of impactful resources designed to accelerate your success. Our self-paced courses, crafted into bite-sized, actionable lessons, are included in your program to deliver quick, meaningful results. To enhance your learning, we provide book summaries of renowned business titles, offering deeper insights into key concepts. Your progress will be supported through weekly one-on-one coaching sessions, where we’ll address your questions, tackle challenges, and ensure you stay on track to apply these strategies effectively in your business. We will schedule your coaching sessions during our discovery meeting.

Discover how failure can be a powerful tool for growth. Learn to recognize its causes, pivot effectively, and know when to move on. Explore the role of risk, luck, and resilience in success. Then, shift your focus to building a winning mindset—starting with why, making strong decisions, developing persistence, and forming success-driven habits.

Developing an entrepreneurial mindset is critical for success and reduced stress. This essential lesson will guide you through: Developing an entrepreneurial mindset to seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Crafting and defining your "why" to effectively communicate your message. Identifying your unique strengths and leveraging them for success. Recognizing when to pivot and adapt to changing circumstances. And much more to help you grow and thrive as an entrepreneur.

A winning strategy is essential for driving revenue and dominating your industry. In this lesson, you’ll explore the 10 Commandments of Strategy, uncover key frameworks, and evaluate whether your current approach is delivering results—or if it could be stronger. Learn how to define your why, establish a unique market position, and develop differentiating activities that set you apart. Avoid costly mistakes and build a strategy that leads to sustainable success!

Cash is the lifeline of your business—manage it well or risk failure! In this lesson, you'll learn to read your financials with confidence, master cash management and optimization, and discover creative funding hacks to keep your business thriving. In this lesson you will learn: • Finance and accounting essentials • Key cash decisions: profitability, liquidity, and growth • Managing cash flow and the cash conversion cycle • Budgeting vs. forecasting • Setting owner or founder salaries • Understanding breakeven and productivity • Leveraging cash flow for success • The role of financial statements • Capital sources and crowdfunding

Do you ever find yourself struggling to effectively communicate your ideas to others? Are you tired of miscommunications and conflicts in the workplace? Or do you simply want to improve your overall communication skills? These lessons are designed to equip you with the tools you need to become a skilled communicator in any situation.

Requirements

Phase 1, STRATEGY, delivers personal mentorship designed for you to succeed. Bring an open mind, a growth mindset and determination to succeed. Upon completion you can decide to continue on to the implementation phase.