Finding Ease in Your Leadership Journey with Giselle Urbina
Why Giselle struggled to claim and own the COO hat, and what tipped the scale into empowerment.

Description
What are the goals you’re working towards in your firm? Do you know how to put systems and metrics in place to meet them? Are you in the midst of a transition in roles, or wondering how to implement a leadership team in your firm so you can finally feel a sense of ease and balance?
These are just some of the things behind the curtain that every business owner has to make decisions on, and you’re not alone if you feel blind and alone as you forge the right path for you and your business. So this week, you’re hearing from Melissa’s client, Giselle Urbina of Urbina Law Firm, and she’s here to give you insight into her own experience of growth and learning throughout their work together over the last 18 months.
If you too are in the thick of making difficult changes in your business, trying to figure out the hiring and firing process, or wanting to empower yourself and your team into higher titles within your company, listen in. Giselle is generously sharing the challenges she’s had to overcome, what helped her own her role as COO, and how having a leadership team has allowed her to do more in life and business.
What You’ll Discover:
• What Giselle’s role in the operations seat at her firm looks like.
• The difficult decisions Giselle has made to get to a place of flow and ease now.
• How she came up with concrete systems to make sure she’s got the right people in her business.
• What she’s learned from the hiring and firing process.
• Giselle’s thoughts on the value of having an accountability chart in her firm.
• The difference between internal operations and company-level operations.
• Why Giselle struggled to claim and own the COO hat, and what tipped the scale into empowerment.
• What having a leadership team has allowed Giselle to do in life and business.
Featured on the Show:
• Create space, mindset, and concrete plans for growth. Start here: Velocity Work Monday Map.
• Giselle Urbina: Email
• Ep #57: Accountability Charts
• Ep #137: Tesla Efficiency Mindset with Micheal Urbina
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