Ep. 77: Hiring, Firing, and the Art of Letting It Work Itself Out

There is a moment most practice owners know well. A seat opens up, the pressure builds, and every instinct you have screams to fill it fast. What nobody tells you is that the urgency you feel is data, and it is worth sitting with before you act on it. In this episode, Sara and Marisa get into the real, unfiltered conversation about what hiring and firing actually looks like as you grow as a leader. Not the polished version, not the version where you always knew what you were doing. The version that includes holding out for eight months, learning to separate your intuition from your anxiety, and recognizing that sometimes the most strategic thing you can do is pause.

🔥 In This Episode:

• Why putting a warm body in an empty seat is a short-term fix that often creates a longer-term mess, and what to do in the waiting instead
• How Sara's team spent months simplifying systems and refining culture before making their next hire, and why that season made the eventual yes even clearer
• The difference between hiring out of fear and hiring from a place of quiet, grounded certainty, and how to tell the one from the other
• Why your team is the most honest mirror you have as a leader, and what it means when hiring keeps falling apart
• Marisa's honest look at how timelines she had mapped in her head collided with reality, and what she learned about trusting herself through the uncertainty anyway

The leaders who build teams that last are not the ones who always make the fastest decisions. They are the ones who do the inner work between hires, trust what they have built, and stay grounded enough to let the right people find them.

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