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Hitting The Ceiling

EOS Worldwide

Most entrepreneurs will tell you about the pivot, Hitting The Ceiling™ will tell you what happened the night before. Hitting The Ceiling, brought to you by EOS Worldwide is the perfect podcast for businesses, entrepreneurs, and key leaders and managers to talk about the moments they’ve never said out loud. 

Hitting the Ceiling is where business leaders and entrepreneurs talk about the moments they’ve never said out loud that often keep them from growing their businesses in healthy ways. These stories often happen behind closed doors, in the quiet, when the business was surviving, but the entrepreneur wondered if they were burning out. The cashflow ran out. The team walked. The personal life fell apart while the company kept going. 

Everyone hits a ceiling. On this show, host Mark O’Donnell helps guests identify the Five Leadership Disciplines that help leaders break through those seasons to realize the business and entrepreneurial success they were made for. 

New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you consume podcasts. 

In upcoming episodes of Hitting The Ceiling, you can expect to hear: 

  • What Happens When The Business Owner Is The System with Jill Young
  • The Power of Simplifying Business When Everything Collapses with Sue Hawkes
  • How Success Nearly Destroyed Their Friendship with Al Alexander and Ryan Loos of ConEquip
  • When You’re Forced To Lead Before You’re Ready with Avery Ward
  • When Growth Starts Stealing From Your Family with Ben Glass
  • Upcoming episodes with Patrick Lencioni, Gino Wickman, Kelly Knight and more on leadership, business growth, managing growing teams, and the Five Leadership Disciplines in business.  

Hitting The Ceiling is hosted by Mark O’Donnell, CEO and Visionary of EOS Worldwide™. The Entrepreneurial Operating System is a better way to run your business with tools that hundreds of thousands of business around the world are using to strengthen their businesses, 

New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you consume podcasts. 

To find out more about EOS Worldwide, visit www.EOSWorldwide.com 

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    April 21 · 1 hr

    What Happens When You Are the System | Jill Young, Creator of Coaching Magic

    What signs are you ignoring before everything breaks? As Jill Young’s accounting firm grew and won awards, the success masked a deeper issue: everything depended on her. When she lost her top employee and biggest client on the same day, the pressure didn’t just shake the business; it exposed a system that had never been built to run without her. You’ll hear how she faced that breaking point, challenged everything she thought she knew about leadership, and rebuilt the business around systems instead of herself. Jill Young is a business coach, EOS Implementer®, and creator of Coaching Magic. She helps entrepreneurs build healthier, more sustainable companies. After scaling and selling her own firm, she now works with leadership teams to implement systems, strengthen accountability, and build businesses that don’t rely on a single person for success. What you’ll learn in this episode: (00:02:09) How overwhelm, confusion, and loss of control show up in leadership. (00:03:51) Why creating a “go ask me” culture turns you into the bottleneck. (00:05:28) The early warning signs that something is wrong before everything breaks. (00:08:44) The mindset shift from personal failure to fixing broken systems. (00:12:53) How one chapter of Traction triggered a deeper personal reckoning. (00:15:42) What it actually takes to rebuild a business through systems over time. (00:24:12) Why letting go of control feels uncomfortable but is necessary for growth. Learn more about Jill Young and Coaching Magic: https://www.jillyoung.com/coaching-magic Get a grip on your business with Traction by Gino Wickman, the proven system to help you gain clarity, accountability, and results. Learn more: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-library This episode was sponsored by ENRG, the community where leaders like you find connection—and the who’s and the how’s—to make your businesses thrive. Tap into the ENRG of entrepreneurs growing together by joining a local chapter (75+ cities + virtual) and gain connections, community, access to the EOS Conference, and more. Get connected here: https://enrg.life/locations/ Subscribe to Clarity Break Thoughts (https://claritybreakthoughts.com/) Follow the show on your favorite platform: http://lnk.to/hittingtheceiling This episode was produced by Story On Media: https://www.storyon.co/

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