The Ten-Step Turnaround

10/18/2026

If you stepped away for two weeks, would your business keep running?

If the honest answer is no, you're the bottleneck. And that's fixable.

Join our free 1-hour training: Build a Business That Runs Without You.

Wednesday, Oct 28 · 11am PT · Live on Zoom

Register free — link in bio.

10/17/2026

About 1.4 million people in the U.S. earn more than $500K a year.

You might assume they're all surgeons or Fortune 500 executives. Many of them are small business owners.

I personally know dozens of owners across different industries earning well over $500K, in many cases seven figures.

Join our free 60-minute live training and learn three proven strategies that have helped owners grow profits without working crazy hours.

Wednesday, Oct 28 · 11am PT · Live on Zoom. Link in bio to register.

Individual results will vary.

10/15/2026

Watch Steph Curry and it looks like magic. It's not — he's just practiced the math hundreds of thousands of times until it's automatic.
Business works the same way. If you're operating at a 10% margin and raise prices 10% while keeping your customers, you don't grow your income — you double it.
Pricing is one of the highest-leverage levers in your business, and most owners are afraid to touch it.

10/14/2026

If everything in your business still runs through you, you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common things we hear from business owners, and it’s one of the biggest things holding growth back.

On Wednesday, October 28, Chris J. Porter, CPA and founder of The Ten-Step Turnaround, is hosting a free 1-hour live training. He’ll walk through three steps from our program:

✔ Evaluating where your time really goes: working in your business vs. on it
✔ Hiring strategically, so your team carries the load
✔ Redefining your role from doer to leader

These are the same steps that have helped our clients take back their time and build businesses that thrive without them.

📅 Wednesday, October 28 · 11am Pacific · Live on Zoom
🔗 Register free: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6817919974007/WN_5TyDeJ1UTOOpp8cO37sU9w

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You'll leave with practical steps you can start using right away to build a business that runs without you.

10/13/2026

My coach hasn't answered a single email in six months. His team took over his inbox completely.
Most business owners assume they have to touch everything. You don't.
Figure out what you're actually good at, what genuinely lights you up, and delegate the rest.

10/11/2026

I stopped answering my own phone and it changed everything.
Three things successful business owners need to stop doing:
Stop doing free work for friends and family — delegate it to your team.
Stop answering your own phone.
Stop managing your own team — that's a manager's job, not the visionary's.

10/09/2026

I have a friend who hasn't had a real job in over 10 years.
He owns rental properties and two businesses that run without him. Then he works exactly 200 hours a year at an airport job, just to get a flight benefit for his family.
He built the retirement most people picture decades from now — in his 40s.
What does your version of that life actually look like? Not someday. Now.

10/07/2026

“If two people are exactly the same, one of them is irrelevant.”
My business partner and I have been partners for 12 years. We recently took the Kolbe test and scored completely differently — and that's exactly why it works.
Look for a partner with different strengths and weaknesses than yours, not a copy of yourself.

10/05/2026

Ran into an old friend who's started 12 businesses since hiring his first manager.
Once you're no longer needed for daily operations, your time opens up for whatever actually matters — another business, more travel, a hobby.
Freeing yourself from day-to-day operations isn't a luxury. It's the prerequisite for almost everything else you want.

10/03/2026

The Empire State Building was built in 13 months, during the Great Depression.
Parkinson's Law: work expands to fill the time you give it. Tight deadlines force fast ex*****on. Loose deadlines invite delay.
Next time you set a goal for six months out, try cutting it to three.