IAM2644 – Reboot Your Life: Day 290

In this special episode, Gresham shares that he’s already 290 days into his franchise‑broker venture, highlighting the everyday challenges of entrepreneurship—early mornings, fatigue, and the need for continual self‑rebooting.

He describes an experiment with ChatGPT to identify ways to overhaul his business processes, acknowledging that minor tweaks aren’t enough when foundational issues exist. He likens the situation to trying to replace drapes on a shaky house; the real work must start at the foundation.

Moving forward, Gresh envisions a lean team structure: himself as the visionary, an integrator, and a virtual assistant to help rebuild the business step by step.

• Blue Star Franchise: bluestarfranchise.com
• Browse the Franchise Inventory: bluestarfranchise.com/franchise
• Is franchising right for you? Check this out to see: bluestarfranchise.com/assessment
• Franchise CEO (A CBNation Site – coming soon) – franchiseceo.co

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Intro 00:01
Are you ready to hear business stories and learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and level up your business from awesome CEOs, entrepreneurs, and founders without listening to a long, long, long interview?

If so, you've come to the right place. Gresh values your time and is ready to share with you the valuable info you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO podcast.

Gresham Harkless 00:26
Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO podcast. And this is a special episode of our I AM CEO podcast. And this is actually going to be a snippet of a snippet.

So to speak, I'm just doing an intro because I've been starting to document my journey into starting what is now called Blue Star Franchise.

We're also going to do a kind of subsite within CB Nation called a franchise CEO. So you'll see some links in the show notes related to that.

But I just want to give you a little bit more insight, give you a little bit more color in some of the aspects of why I'm actually doing this, because one of the things I was doing as I was going through training to start up this new business
was realizing and hearing from the founder of FBA, the Franchise Brokers Association, that it'd be really cool to document your journey. going through and building this out.

I think it's something that would be super helpful, obviously, for people that are looking for and thinking about starting franchises. But frankly, if you're starting anything, any type of business, I think it's really cool to kind of just even see the journey and how it's been going from there.

So I'm going to share a few of those snippets from the from the first couple of videos that have been created. But definitely, of course, subscribe to our YouTube. Check out a lot more where I figure out exactly where we're going to post this. So I have that information that's available to you.

But Regardless, if you're a builder, continue to keep building, continue to do your thing. The world definitely needs exactly what you're trying to build. It needs you to be your unique self. So make sure to run your own race because nobody can run your race like you.

This is Gresh signing out. I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.

This is day 290 of this franchise broker journey. And I just got through waking up early because a little one woke up early. Couldn't go back to sleep myself. So here I am, red eyes and all.

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But I'll try to get a nap or something later on today. Rebooting your life. I think that's one of the things that I'm kind of focusing on right now. Like I just went through this exercise with ChatGPT around how I can reboot some things, you know, in the business.

It's not something I want to do, but I think it's necessary because, you know, you try to get as far as you can get, and then you reach this kind of breaking point where you may have gone too far, but we'll definitely kind of see. I think if I'm able to kind of make some adjustments pretty quickly, that should help out a lot. But with that being said, it's just a matter of saying, okay, let's reboot this. Let's look at how I can rebuild everything.

I tried to do some slight changes, slight adjustments, but I don't think that that did exactly what I wanted it to do entirely. Like it didn't, like I think when you have some foundational issues, you just can't change, you know, the shutters. You just can't put on some drapes and change those things. You'd have to go to the foundation to rebuild those things.

And so I kind of think that's where I'm at. I think that there's some definitely some good things that are in place. So I don't want to say that it's not that, but I do think that it's necessary for me to kind of reboot those things. It's not going to be easy conversation, not easy step that I have to take, but it's a necessary step.

So, you know, just try to take it one step at a time. Not sure exactly like what it's going to look like or how it's going to. to be, but I think that I have to go through, you know, the meeting and do the things just to kind of get these things back in place the way that I need them to be. So we'll see how everything goes.

I think that honestly a lot of this is going to be myself, visionary, integrator, and then probably a VA that I can lean on. And then we can just kind of go from there to kind of rebuild everything, do the work that needs to be done, and then just take it a step at a time. So we'll see what happens. But yeah, that's kind of like where we are and what that looks like.

Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. And of course, I look forward to giving you more and more updates.

Outro 04:02
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This has been the I AM CEO podcast with Gresham Harkless Jr. Thank you for listening.

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