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Business Advice Shopping – Smart or Sabotage?

Today, we’re talking about whether shopping around for business advice is smart, or if it could actually be sabotaging your success. Spoiler: It’s a bit of both! I want to help you work out when it’s genuinely strategic and when it’s a sneaky form of procrastination or self-doubt.

This is also the last day of #Tashmas – day 12! I’ve got a special gift for you at the end of today’s episode, so stick around for that.

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I do it for both my birthday (1-12 March) and pre-Christmas (1-12 December) every year! Every day up to the 12th of December, there will be a new daily podcast episode, with a hot tip or practical strategy as per usual… but you ALSO get a gift! The daily gift could be a freebie, a special offer, a competition… but there will be something for YOU every single day.

Why Shopping Around Makes Sense (Most of the Time)

Let’s be real: not all business mentors, advisors, or coaches are created equal. There is a massive range of pricing, strategies, personalities—everything. You can pay anywhere from $100 to $50,000 for a single session! So yes, most of the time, shopping around, asking questions, and following a few different people is a smart thing to do.

For example, when Davey and I first started dating, we went TV shopping together. We went to every TV shop on the Sunshine Coast. After finally buying a TV, we drove past another store Davey had forgotten about... and lo and behold, the perfect TV, $25 cheaper! We returned the first TV just to get the cheaper one. I told my flatmate I wasn’t sure I could date someone who needed to shop around that much—was it a red flag? In the end, Davey even brought up the story at our engagement party as proof he knows the value of shopping around, but it did NOT land well with the crowd. Seriously, people started heckling his speech. (He rescued it with some mushy sentiments, thankfully.)

So yes, I’m all for smart shopping around… but there’s a limit. Let’s not go full Davey when it comes to your business!

When Shopping Becomes a Sabotage

Here’s where things get messy: at some point, shopping around for advice or strategy moves from being a wise, empowering move to a way of derailing ourselves. How do you tell when it’s crossed the line? And what if you want to buy something without shopping around—how do you know that’s not sabotage in its own way?

Let’s break it down with a few real-life examples and some questions to keep you grounded.

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