Twenty-plus years inside businesses, and for nearly a decade I owned my own. A restaurant, a catering company, a food truck. I made every decision, fielded every problem, and held it all together through sheer force of will. That's not the backstory to my consulting work. It's the foundation of it.
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I spent 20+ years inside businesses, building, running, and fixing what broke. For nearly a decade of that, I owned the business myself. I know what it feels like to be the person a company can't function without. To be the bottleneck every decision routes through. To carry the whole operation in your head because there's no structure holding it instead.
That experience changed how I work. When an owner sits across from me and tries to describe what's broken, I don't interpret it from a textbook. I recognize it. I've lived it.
I'm not a strategist who hands you a deck and leaves. I get inside the operation, find what's actually broken, and build what's missing. I stay until it holds.
Most owners I work with don't have a people problem or a revenue problem. They have a structure problem. The business runs on them. That's not a character flaw. It's a structural failure, and structural problems are fixable.
Before I ever fixed businesses for a living, I owned one. I built The Southern Spread from a home bakery into a food truck, a restaurant, and a catering operation, and for nearly a decade I ran all of it myself. The budget, the schedule, the staff, the vendors, the menu, every fire, every decision. It carried six-figure revenue and my name was on every part of it.
And it still didn't make it. Not because I didn't work hard enough. I worked harder. I was so deep in the daily fires, making every call alone, that I couldn't step back far enough to see what was actually breaking. Decision paralysis. Exhaustion. The whole thing ran on me, and I couldn't see past the next problem long enough to fix the real one. Eventually I closed it.
That failure is the most useful thing I bring to your business. I know exactly what it feels like to be the person everything runs through, too buried in the day-to-day to see the bigger picture. You can't diagnose your own operation from the inside. So now I've become the outside set of eyes I didn't have back then and desperately needed — the one who sees clearly what you're too close to see.
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