Writing My Book: How I Scaled My Business Through Delegation
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Season 4 of Scale You Podcast is here! 🔥
In this solo episode of the Scale You Podcast, I will take you behind the scenes of writing my book and how it’s rooted in the same thing that helped me scale my business: DELEGATION.
I shared real lessons from the early days of doing everything myself, the turning point that led me to let go, and the systems that helped my team thrive without me needing to be everywhere at once.
✅ What inspired me to write the book
✅ How delegation helped me scale and get her time back
✅ Lessons I really wish I’d learned sooner
✅ The mindset shift that changed everything
✅ How writing the book helped me reflect and refine my own systems
If you’ve ever felt like your business can’t grow unless you are doing everything, this episode will show you a better way. 👀
Timestamps:
00:00 – What does “Scale You” actually mean?
00:21 – Why Season 4 is all about authors
01:01 – Wait… there’s a book now?
01:34 – The moment everything crashed (and why I started writing)
02:36 – My weird healing ritual: 1,000 words + English breakfast tea
03:40 – 2XU was still small when I started writing
04:30 – I used YouTube transcripts to build chapters
05:16 – When AI changed everything
06:09 – The world's worst book pitch (and it worked?)
07:32 – How I designed the cover—kind of by accident
08:39 – Why this cover won
09:42 – What it feels like to be a published author
10:04 – I swore I’d never write nonfiction…
11:17 – What’s actually inside the book? (Spoiler: It’s loaded)
12:19 – How I use the book like a literal playbook
13:23 – The biggest lesson I learned from writing it
14:08 – Please leave a review (and yes, it helps)
14:45 – What’s next on the Scale You Podcast
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Le-an Lai Lacaba is the Co-Founder of 2xYou, winner of the 2021 Stevie Award for Employer of the year. 2xYou is an outsourcing company that specializes in switching service-based entrepreneurs from owning a job to owning a business with a highly-trained, executive assistant who comes with a custom business operating system.
She has been working from home since she was 15, published her own books at 18, became CEO at 20, and partnered up with her boss to start 2xYou Executive Services at 23 and aims to help 10,000 entrepreneurs grow remotely, and 1 Million Filipinos to work from home.
She also has a coaching brand on Youtube, where she trains Virtual Assistants on how to work from home. She is also an international speaker, and a content creation monster who has a blog, a Youtube channel, and an upcoming book.
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