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School Hours or Less: The Podcast for Mums & Moms Building Profitable Businesses Around Family LifeAuthor: Kirsty Knight: Business & Life Coach for Mums & Moms
If you are currently juggling the job of raising little humans while also trying to grow and scale your business and you're finding it challenging to fit it all in, then this is the podcast for you. Hosted by Master Certified Coach and Melissa Tiers trained Hypnotist Kirsty Knight, this show delivers the productivity-boosting and time-leveraging strategies, sales and business growth insights, time management tips, and mindset shifts you need to grow and scale a profitable business in school hours or less, without sacrificing time with your kids and without burnout. Having coached hundreds of women over the past five years, and as a serial entrepreneur and a mum herself, Kirsty knows all too well the time and productivity challenges most mums face. She brings that expertise, along with the revenue, marketing, and business growth strategies she teaches her clients, into this show so you can build a business that actually works around family life. This podcast is part of Kirsty's wider mission to help 1,000 mums build profitable businesses in school hours or less, proving that women should never have to choose between ambition and the motherhood they want. No matter what stage of business you are in, and whether you call yourself a mum or a mom, this is the podcast for you if you are an entrepreneur, solopreneur, small business owner, coach, consultant, or an online service provider with a big heart and big ambition. Because why on earth should women have to choose? If you're looking for the answers to problems and questions like... I want a 6-figure business during School Hours Only but I'm struggling to fit it all in. I want to only be working during School Hours but want to be making more money. I can't put my baby down for even five minutes. How am I going to get any work done? I actually had the whole day free, because I had childcare for once, and I wasted the whole day. Why isn't time-blocking working for me? How can it possibly work for mums? How am I supposed Language: en Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Management Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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194 - Your Business Shouldn't Need More Hours: How to Diagnose What's Actually Wrong
Episode 194
Sunday, 16 August, 2026
If your business is taking more hours than you want to give it, your first instinct might be to get more organised, become more productive, hire some help — or simply work more. But what if you're trying to solve the wrong problem? In this episode, I introduce the philosophy behind my School Hours Only Method and a simple three-circle diagnostic for working out what's actually stopping your business from creating the money AND life you want. We'll look at the three roles every founder needs to play: the Adventurer, who decides where you're going and how you want to experience the journey; the Architect, who designs a business capable of getting you there; and the Leader, who develops the self-leadership required to actually drive it. You'll learn how to recognise whether you have a Journey, Vehicle or Driver problem, why productivity can't compensate for a business model whose maths doesn't work, and how my 5 S's — Strategy, Systems, Schedule, Support and Self-concept — help you identify what actually needs to change. Most importantly, I'll help you answer one question: What should I fix first? Because when your business needs more hours than you're willing to give it, the answer isn't automatically to give it more of you. Diagnose first. Then redesign. And if you'd like my eyes on your business, I also explain how you can work with me through a Business Diagnostic Audit to identify your biggest constraints and create your personalised Business Redesign Roadmap. DM me AUDIT here when you are ready.
