What if one question could change everything this year?


Reader —

Every Friday, I sit down with my clients and ask them four carefully crafted questions based on our work together. Time and again, I've watched the right question delivered at the right moment shift a business owner's entire perspective.

My questions aren't random. They are carefully crafted based on my experience helping entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses for the past several decades.

And my goal for 2025 is to bring this transformative practice to more business owners at every stage of success. While not everyone is ready for a full accountability program, I do believe every entrepreneur deserves the chance to see their business through a fresh lens.

After spending several months thinking through the different ways to provide snack-size accountability that's both effective and affordable, I finally landed on a solution: a premium weekly email subscription that you can start or stop at any time.

I'm calling the subscription From Insight to Impact, drawing attention to the fact that careful reflection with a partner truly invested in your success is the missing link to achieving the impact you seek in your business.

Here's what's included:

  • One focused question each Friday that cuts through the noise
  • Space to reflect on what matters in your unique situation
  • A personal response with context-aware insights
  • A practice of intentional reflection and action

As a GEARshift subscriber, you get the first chance to try it out. No minimum commitment or deposit required.

Click the button above for all the details. And if you have questions, you can reply here and we'll be sure to get you the answers you need.

It's going to be a great year!

Gwen

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Gwen Bortner is a no-nonsense Operational Strategist and Business Advisor with an intuitive coaching mindset. She helps visionary female entrepreneurs achieve their most ambitious goals without the stress and overwhelm of trying to do it all on their own. Her approach comes from the belief that personal and professional success looks different for everyone, and most business owners waste time and energy trying to conform to outside expectations and definitions of success. From finance to IT, and small business operations to academia, Gwen has seen cookie-cutter strategies put organizations on the fast track to frustration, burnout, and eventually failure. Problem-solving is her zone of genius, and Gwen can quickly discern the root cause of issues, simplify systems and processes, then create the most direct path to any given solution.

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