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Are You Ready to Hire Someone?

  • Writer: Raileigh Easterling
    Raileigh Easterling
  • Apr 29
  • 4 min read

 Bringing someone in with new perspectives and new ideas, a different kind of educational background, or unique approaches to your current systems can be highly advantageous.


Raileigh Easterling, professional retreat host

If you require help with creating your vision or in building your business, the number one sign that you are ready to bring someone onto your team is if you have been sustainable long enough to sustain your own life and all of your responsibilities. That means your business is already profitable and you have no or very little debt. You might be thinking, "Well, I'm trying to build that for myself, so I need help now." Well, I want you to consider the perspective of bringing someone onto your team and putting that kind of weight on them. Because the question for you then becomes, are you hiring help, or are you hiring someone to pat you on the back and push you forward to take care of your responsibilities and build your own life? 


The number one thing I coach entrepreneurs through is what I learned from my spirit of practice in Shamanism - to never take someone to a realm we haven't been before. So if I'm hosting a retreat, I would never book the retreat and invite people to retreat with me if I have never been there before, do not know the area, and especially if I do not know the community. This would be professionally irresponsible and can be dangerous, especially if you are inviting vulnerable persons into a space. A business owner should always be careful and be 20 steps ahead of their clients and the people they serve. It is our responsibility to pave a safe path for them to take because that is what they are paying us for, and why they have invested their trust.


So if you have not made sustainable income for yourself with the business you are hiring for, but you want help to get you to where you need to be, understand that there is no other person you can bring onto your team that is going to help you get there. You have to take yourself there first. In the meantime, new and novice business owners can budget carefully with freelancers and contractors, or maybe coaches to help them strategize and make the day-to-day tasks and actions more efficient.


Number two, you might be ready to hire someone if you are truly ready to diversify your business culture or your community. Bringing someone in with new perspectives and new ideas, a different kind of educational background, or unique approaches to your current systems can be highly advantageous. However, you have to be willing to expand your vision to include the perspectives of everybody else, and not every business owner is truly and honestly ready to take that on. If you find yourself feeling threatened by your team, by the people you have paid money to, people you have hired, the people who you have already supposedly put your trust in, and you begin finding them as a threat to your own business, that is no one's fault but your own. You have to be in a very stable place emotionally, a very secure place spiritually, to hire someone else who has life dreams and visions for themselves. 


If you want to hire someone onto your team, you have to make sure that you are in a genuine place to help them reach their life and career goals, while also achieving your own. This means there has to be a pure alignment in the professional relationship. You test the alignment of a working relationship by setting standards for yourself and determining what your professional boundaries are. When they are crossed, you accept you are sabotaging your vision to serve a vision of someone else, and perhaps harming the vision of the other as well. You must have strong emotional intelligence and be able to consistently hold honest and direct communication. 


The third question to ask yourself if you are ready to hire someone: Are you ready to teach someone else? I mean, do you have the time and patience to train them? If you do not do the due diligence of your professional interviewing process, and you find yourself frustrated with your employees, that is no one's fault but your own. If you truly want to hire an employee versus hiring a contractor a freelancer to momentarily help you with a project, you need to take as much time as possible making sure that this person is the right fit for you, and you for them. Do not bring someone on board to test and trial them. Get to know them as much as possible, and feel confident in them when you give them that first paycheck. The last thing you want is fast turnover rates with your employees, as that will frustrate and confuse your audience and perhaps your other team members. And if you've gone through the process of what is highlighted in this article, you should be okay. You should be at a place where when you bring this person on board, you know you are not putting pressure on them to save you, you are open to their new ideas, and are ready to empower them from a secure place of self. Then, you would quite assuredly make an excellent leader and an employer to work for!



Raileigh Easterling is the Founder of Conscious Lifestyle Coaching LLC. She is a motivational author, poet, & public speaker; a transformational retreat host & mindfulness teacher; and a business & public relations consultant.


Conscious Lifestyle Coaching LLC is a sacred space for entrepreneurs, changemakers, and visionaries on the path of self-development, healing, and spirituality to experience transformation and holistic growth.


Raileigh offers guidance through authentic embodiment and deep present awareness to catalyze significant lifestyle changes that align with higher vision, greater purpose, and life fulfillment.


You can learn more about her and her services, including her 1-on-1 coaching sessions, books, and free resources at consciouslifestylecoaching.com


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