Your Worth Isn't Your Revenue: Identity Beyond Business (Ep 84)

Here's a question most business owners won't ask themselves: When did your bank account start determining your value as a human being?

If you've ever checked your revenue numbers or your follower count and felt your sense of worth shift, you're not alone. It's one of the most common patterns I see with the business owners I work with. And here's the thing: it's quietly sabotaging both your happiness and your business growth.

In this episode, we're talking about something that doesn't get discussed enough in entrepreneurship: the dangerous practice of tying your identity and worth to external numbers. Your revenue. Your net worth. Your business success. Even your credit score.

In this episode, we dive into:
Why detaching your identity from your business actually makes it more successful (yes, really)

The self-sabotage pattern that keeps pulling you back into the day-to-day

How to answer "who am I?" without leading with what you do

Why your team needs you to stop being needed

⏱️ KEY MOMENTS:
0:00 - Introduction: Have you ever tied your worth to a number?
2:00 - The truth nobody tells you: You are enough, full stop
3:00 - You are not your business (and why that matters)
4:00 - The identity trap that keeps you stuck in the weeds
6:00 - Why your business should be built around your life, not the other way around
9:00 - The numbers that don't matter at your funeral
11:00 - A love letter to business owners in the hamster wheel

MEET THE BIZ DOCTOR®:
Lauren Goldstein is who 7- and 8-figure business owners call when they're stuck in the weeds of success and need their business to truly run without them.

As the founder of Golden Key Partnership, a boutique business consulting firm, she has spent the last decade behind the scenes of high-growth small businesses, fixing broken team dynamics, untangling operational chaos, and helping leaders reclaim their time and sanity.

Nicknamed The Biz Doctor® (how this podcast got its name), Lauren doesn't do surface-level advice. She diagnoses what is actually holding the business back, then builds custom strategies that create clarity, capacity, and a culture that scales.

Her work has helped some of the most respected small business owners build companies they actually enjoy running again.

She's been featured in Thrive Global, HuffPost, Authority Magazine and is a trusted expert to small business owners and Fortune 500 companies alike, such as Apple, Nike, and AT&T, among others.

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