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How do you know which part of your business to go ALL IN on? Today I'm giving you a test. One question that separates businesses that explode from businesses that stay stuck. Steve Jobs used this filter to take Apple from 90 days from bankruptcy to the most valuable company on Earth. $3 trillion. Your homework: Run the test. Circle your winner. Go all in. Join Momentum

Last year, Anik Singal asked me to sit on his mastermind's board of directors. I said yes—but only because I had space. If I'd been buried in commitments, I would have said six words that kill opportunities: "I don't have the bandwidth." Space feels uncomfortable. The "should" voice screams at you to fill it. But every time I clear space, my income goes up. Every time. Space isn't lazy. Space is availability for the things you can't predict. Your homework: Look at next week. Where's the space? What's trying to fill it? Protect the space. Want help protecting your time? That's Momentum. $200/month. Link is here. Leave a 5-star review if this helped you see space differently.

Yesterday I told you I fired my agency clients. Today—what happened next. Nic gave me a path. Simple. Clear. Focused on my Enough Number. $6K to $25K in two months. Not by adding more. By doing less of the right things. Your homework: What's YOUR path? Write down the 2-3 activities that will actually get you to your Enough Number. Want someone to give you the path? That's Momentum. $200/month. Link is here Leave a 5-star review if this week helped you clear the path.

I was making $21K a month on paper. But my agency clients weren't paying. I had $6K in the bank. My mentor Nic told me to fire them. I was terrified. But I trusted him. Within two months, I went from $6K to almost $25K. Not by adding. By subtracting. Sometimes you need permission to quit. So here it is: It's okay. The weight lifts. The space fills with something better. The fear is smaller than the relief on the other side. Your homework: Write down the thing you've been scared to quit. Ask yourself: What would it feel like if this was gone? Need to talk it through? DM me @thelaurelshow on Instagram. Let's talk. Want that support every month? That's Momentum. $200/month. Link is here. Leave a 5-star review if this gave you permission.

People are always disappointed when they find out what I do every day. They want a secret funnel. A cutting-edge strategy. A magic trick. Here's the truth: I put out content. I talk to people. I fulfill on my current clients. Three things. Every day. Master the basics. It's boring as hell but it makes you rich as fuck. Most entrepreneurs never go deep. They have 5 things at 20% instead of 1 thing at 100%. They chase the dopamine hit of "new" instead of doing more of what's already working. Your homework: Pick ONE thing that's working. What would 2x look like? Do it this week. Want help going deep instead of wide? That's Momentum. $200/month. Link is here. Leave a 5-star review if this convinced you to stop chasing.

A client spent $10K building a webinar funnel. I told her to validate the offer first—a $1K test before spending more. She couldn't. She'd already invested too much. She spent her entire savings. $25K total. Zero sales. Bankrupted the business. The leads probably would have converted eventually. She just ran out of runway before that could happen. This is the sunk cost trap. The investment becomes the reason to keep going—instead of the results. Your homework: Is there something you're holding onto because of what you've already invested—not because it's working? Ask: If I had spent $0 on this, would I start it today? Want the funnel alignment training? DM me on Instagram, mention this episode, and I'll send it free. Need someone to tell you the truth before you spend? That's Momentum. $200/month. Link is here. Leave a 5-star review if this saved you from becoming the cautionary tale.

I had a student making $100K+ a month. Taking home less than $15K. Her Enough Number was $20K. She was running a "scale" strategy when she should have been running a lifestyle strategy. Her low-ticket funnel was burning $70K+ a month in ads—cash flow that was sitting right there the whole time. I killed the funnel. She replaced it with three things: content, monthly activation campaigns, and sales calls. That's it. Your stop-doing list might be the most valuable thing you create this year. Your homework: Write your stop-doing list. Find at least one thing that doesn't serve your Enough Number and ask: What if I just stopped? Want my full training on funnel alignment? DM me on Instagram, tell me you heard this episode, and I'll send it free. Leave a 5-star review if this saved you from burning money.

I would make more money if I did sales calls. I don't do them. Because they drain me—and I've earned the right to protect my energy. But I didn't skip sales calls. I graduated from them. Hundreds of calls first. A brand built. Volume earned. The filter for knowing when to quit something that drains you: Am I at my Enough Number? If yes, you've earned the friction. If no, you still need the reps. You can't buy your way out of the work. You have to earn the right to quit. Your homework: What drains you the most? Are you at your Enough Number? Answer honestly. Need help knowing when to quit? In Momentum, we figure it out together. $200/month. Link is here. Leave a 5-star review if this helped you see the difference.

February was my highest revenue month ever—not because I did more, but because I did less. My mentor Nic taught me a framework called the Four Lenses. Every activity has to answer four questions: Does it make me money? Does it save me time? Does it save me money? Is it a forcing function? The rule: It has to hit at least THREE of the four. If it only hits one or two, don't do it. Free summits that generate $14? One lens. Creating content on my own platform? Four lenses. Same hours, completely different return. Your homework: Pick three activities from last month. Run them through the four lenses. What should you stop doing? What should you do MORE of? Want help clearing your calendar? In Momentum, we run your commitments through the lenses together. $200/month. Link is here Leave a 5-star review if this gave you a new filter.

I'm on the city council for a small town in Louisiana. When I dug into the numbers, I realized we're almost entirely dependent on electricity revenue. If that dips, the math falls apart fast. Sound familiar? It's the same thing that happened to online businesses when iOS 14 hit. Facebook ads broke, and businesses that were "balanced" went under—because they were structurally dependent on one thing. "Balanced" doesn't mean "healthy." This week you tracked the surface. Now it's time to look underneath. Your homework: Where is your revenue concentrated? Where are your leads concentrated? What's your iOS 14—the one thing that could break your whole model? Want a second set of eyes on your structure? That's what we do in Momentum. $200/month. Link is here. Leave a 5-star review if this week changed how you see your numbers.