Master Your Bliss Life

Ep.7- Who, Not How with Laura Garfield

Lia Bliss Season 2 Episode 7

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Every so often you sit down with someone and realize you've been quietly running the same playbook in two different lanes, she does video, I do LinkedIn, and the whole conversation just turns into "yes, exactly, THIS." That's my episode with Laura Garfield, co-founder of Idea Decanter and the woman who introduced me to Mitch Slater and genuinely changed the trajectory of my business. I owe her.

The line that stuck with me most: "Who, not how." Laura shared a story from Dan Sullivan's book about a CEO who tried to sell his own business without any experts, tanked the deal, and then, after finally learning to bring in the right people, went and fell off his own roof in retirement because he still wouldn't call a guy. The universe will make you learn the lesson. So stop trying to clone yourself and go find your who.

We also got into the thing nobody warns you about when you're starting out: say yes to almost everything for the first couple of years, then find the guts to start saying no. That's how you actually niche down. Laura and her partner pivoted from making videos for wineries (yep that's where the name Idea Decanter comes from) to owning one of the hardest, most regulated corners of the market: financial services. Because when you get specific enough that the airline pilot down the street feels like you're talking directly to him, marketing stops being a grind and starts being magnetic.

And if you've ever felt like a failure because you weren't 10x-ing every single year  this one's for you. Slow, steady, and specific still wins.


Connect with Laura: 

LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauragarfield

Website (https://ideadecanter.com

Idea Decanter on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/ideadecanter)

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