Business

Why Finding and Living Your Legacy Matters According to Sarah Gibbons

Published

4 years ago

April 7, 2021

Leaving her successful executive life of over a decade to run and manage her leadership and corporate coaching business.

A loving and caring wife, mother of three young boys, and an active philanthropist, Sarah Gibbons is a leading success coach who left all of her seemingly perfect career in the tech-business industry to fill a void she felt deep down. Despite her numerous success and accomplishments in over a decade of pioneering tech businesses in North America and Europe, Sarah still felt the lack of contentment and a drive and hunger for a different kind of fulfillment.

Upon returning to the US from London, Sarah Gibbons earned her Master in Psychology while raising her three young boys with her youngest only under 5 years old at the time. Then, she later established and built her own coaching business Sarah Gibbons & Co. which is based in Los Angeles. Sarah works with clients virtually around the globe including top-level Executives, Founders, and industry-leading Entrepreneurs in the Tech, Film, and Creative Arts Industries for both established public companies and growing and innovative brands. Sarah’s coaching concepts and techniques are designed for individual executives and teams who want to lead and live from a place of presence, purpose, and power to exponentially grow professionally without sacrificing their personal lives.

Before starting her business, Sarah Gibbons drove results for brands including Amazon.com, IMDb (an Amazon company), Fox Interactive Media, and Rotten Tomatoes. Sarah advanced to lead teams globally and consistently leading team members to surpass goals and deliver sales growth. Still, Sarah wanted more. She wanted to help others achieve their full potential because it’s what gets her more excited than anything. She knew that was HER legacy.

As an Executive Success Coach, Sarah is very passionate about helping powerful leaders live their legacy today. She does this through her group and 1-on-1 coaching, the annual Tidal Summit, and four proprietary corporate programs known as “The Boards”. The latest Board launching at the end of April 2021, The Circuit Board, is created for the busy professional who’s seeking reconnection and effective leadership tools after a year of this pandemic. It’s ⁠the most cost-effective, time-conscious, and results-driven leadership program that Sarah has created yet.

Also, Sarah Gibbons & Co is focusing on helping leaders grow exponentially and experience their infinite potential. Her clients have grown their income and revenue as much as three times, landed better projects, launched new businesses, and achieved greater satisfaction in their professional and personal lives because of her coaching programs. All of these were because of her bold risk in investing six figures for her training and incorporating her corporate background with her extensive professional development. This dauntless yet smart move helped Sarah develop a vast array of coaching tools that help her groups, 1-on-1 clients, and workshop participants experience powerful insights and often dramatic transformation that are leading them towards building and living their legacies.

Sarah Gibbons can now finally say that she has indeed made the right decision in leaving her career and starting her own business. After years of tenacious and passionate effort, having her first full year as an entrepreneur/business owner, Sarah earned more money than she ever did while working for someone else.

Business

Scaling Success: Why Smart Habits Beat Growth Hacks in Modern eCommerce

Published

1 month ago

July 26, 2025

Matthew Wiles

There’s a romanticized image of the eCommerce founder: a daring risk-taker chasing the next big idea, fueled by late-night caffeine and last-minute inspiration. But the reality behind scaled, sustainable brands tells a different story. Success in digital commerce doesn’t come from chaos or clever hacks. It comes from habits. Repetitive, structured, often unglamorous habits.

Change, a digital platform created by eCommerce strategist Ryan, builds its entire philosophy around this truth. Through education, mentorship, and infrastructure, Change helps founders shift from scrambling for quick wins to building strong systems that grow with them. The company doesn’t just offer software. It provides the foundation for digital trade, particularly for those in the B2B space.

The Habits That Build Momentum

At the heart of Change’s philosophy are five core habits Ryan considers non-negotiable. These aren’t buzzwords; they’re the foundation of sustainable growth.

First, obsess over data. Successful founders replace guesswork with metrics. They don’t rely on gut feelings. They measure performance and iterate.

Second, know your customer deeply. Not just what they buy, but why they buy. The most resilient brands build emotional loyalty, not just transactional volume.

Third, test fast. Algorithms shift. Consumer behavior changes. High-performing teams don’t resist this; they test weekly, sometimes daily, and adapt.

Fourth, manage time like a CEO. Every decision has a cost. Prioritizing high-impact actions isn’t optional; it’s survival.

Fifth, stay connected to mentorship and learning. The digital market moves quickly. The remaining founders are the ones who keep learning, never assuming they know it all.

Turning Habits into Infrastructure

What begins as personal discipline must eventually evolve into a team structure. Change teaches founders how to scale their systems, not just their sales.

Tools are essential for starting, think Notion for documentation, Asana for project management, Mixpanel or PostHog for analytics, and Loom for async communication. But tools alone don’t create momentum.

Teams need Monday metric check-ins, weekly test cycles, customer insight reviews, just to name a few. Founders set the tone by modeling behavior. It’s the rituals that matter, then, they turn it into company culture.

Ryan puts it simply: “We’re not just building tools; we’re building infrastructure for digital trade.”

Avoiding the Common Traps

Even with structure, the path isn’t always smooth. Some founders over-focus on short-term results, chasing vanity metrics or shiny tactics that feel productive but don’t move the needle.

Others fall into micromanagement, drowning in dashboards instead of building intuition. Discipline should sharpen clarity, not create rigidity. Flexibility is part of the process. Knowing when to pivot is just as important as knowing when to persist.

Scaling Through Self-Replication

In the end, eCommerce scale isn’t just about growing a business. It’s about repeating successful systems at every level. When founders internalize high-performance habits, they turn them into processes, then culture, then legacy.

Growth doesn’t require more motivation. It requires more precision. More consistency. Your calendar, not your to-do list, is your business plan.

In a space dominated by noise and novelty, Change and its founder are quietly reshaping the conversation. They aren’t chasing trends but building resilience, one habit at a time.