57: The WHY Behind How to Hire the Best with Mike and Dr. Sabrina

<p>Dr. Sabrina is in the hot seat in today’s episode! Her co-host, Mike Bruno, interviews her about her BIG NEWS, and that’s the upcoming release of her new book, <em>How to Hire the Best Contractors,</em> which will be published October 24, 2019.</p> <p>As you will hear Dr. Sabrina explain, she had written the first edition of <em>How to Hire the Best</em> for rural business owners, but as soon as that was published, she started getting calls from entrepreneurs not in rural areas, but from large metropolitan areas all around the country.</p> <p>The more she talked with these entrepreneurs, who were asking for her help, the more she began to see that hiring and attracting top-performing employees in small business wasn’t just a problem for her and her clients, who were mostly rural. It was a problem for small business owners all over the country.</p> <p>Dr. Sabrina began to see a pattern among the callers who were seeking her help and discovered that most of them belonged in the same industry: construction. Once she started researching more about this, she found that out of all industries out there, construction has the greatest labor shortage. <span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>Stay tuned to find out more about her personal “why” for writing this book, and what it has to offer you!</p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Mike shares his own personal story about the struggle to find the right people.</li> <li>Dr. Sabrina shares the impact on entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial spirit when you don’t have a good system in place for recruiting and hiring.</li> <li>Working 80-90 hours a week with no time off is not sustainable. You might be able to do it for a few years, but that’s taking a huge toll on your health.</li> <li>As a psychologist, Dr. Sabrina wants to help business owners have a better quality of life and work-life balance. It’s not that we don’t WANT a better work-life balance, we just don’t often have the SKILLS and the SYSTEMS for attracting A-player team members to o