PODCAST: Season 7, Episode 42
What if you’ve correctly identified the problem in your business… but you’re trying to solve it in completely the wrong place?
You know sales are inconsistent. You know you’re struggling to create content. You know your team relies on you too much, your boundaries aren’t working or you keep filling the space you said you wanted.
So you do what smart business owners do: you try to fix it.
Another strategy. A better system. A new content plan. Stronger boundaries.
And yet somehow, the problem is still bloody there.
In this episode of The Rebellious Leader, I’m exploring a different question:
Where does this problem actually live?
Using the NLP model of Neurological Levels, I look at six different places a business problem can exist: environment, behaviour, capability, beliefs and values, identity, and purpose and why the same presenting problem can require completely different solutions.
Because being inconsistent with content could mean there is genuinely no space in your working week to create it.
It could mean you don’t know how to create it.
Or it could mean you know exactly what to say, have plenty of time to say it, but believe that talking about your success makes you look boastful.
Same problem on the surface.
Very different problem underneath.
Is It a Mindset Problem or a Business Problem?
- Why the problem you’re seeing might be real, but you’re trying to solve it at the wrong level
- The six Neurological Levels and how I use them as a diagnostic lens in business
- Why another content strategy won’t fix a visibility belief
- How a supposed “boundary problem” can actually be an environment or structural problem
- Why changing the system sometimes works and what it tells us when it doesn’t
- The difference between a genuine business strategy problem and a founder belief or identity problem
- Why deeper mindset work isn’t automatically better
- The danger of both under-psychologising and over-psychologising business problems
- Why strategy and emotion can be two separate problems that both need attention
- How to diagnose a problem before deciding what intervention it needs
The Rebellious Leader Audit
Take one problem you’re currently trying to solve in your business and ask:
WHERE? Where and when does this happen? Who is involved? Is the environment contributing to it?
WHAT? What am I actually doing or not doing? What would someone watching me see?
HOW? Do I genuinely know how to do what I’m expecting myself to do? Is a skill, strategy or capability missing?
WHY? What do I believe about this? What have I decided it means? What matters to me here?
WHO? Who am I being in this situation? What identity am I protecting? Listen for “I’m just someone who…” or “I’m not the kind of person who…”
WHAT FOR? What is changing this ultimately in service of?
And finally:
Where have I been trying to solve this and where does it actually need solving?
Because you might not need another plan.
You might need a skill. A system. A different environment. A belief questioned. An identity challenged.
You can’t choose the right intervention until you’ve diagnosed the problem.
Read The Rebellious Leader
If you’re ready to question the rules you’ve been following in your business and look at what’s actually keeping you stuck, grab your copy of The Rebellious Leader on Amazon.
Come and find me on Instagram
Tell me what came up when you ran your problem through the Rebellious Leader Audit I’m @mills_gray.