At Laundry Advisors, we’re all about helping laundromat owners grow thriving, profitable businesses. But if we’re being real, some of the most powerful improvements you can make aren’t inside your laundromat at all—they’re inside you.

Yes, clean machines, smart marketing, efficient systems, and great customer service matter. But here’s the truth: the speed of your business growth will rarely outpace your own personal development.

So here’s the challenge: Are you spending as much time improving yourself as you are improving your store?

Why Personal Development Matters

Your business is a direct reflection of you, your mindset, your leadership, your decision-making, your vision. If you want to scale your laundromat or open multiple locations, your growth has to start within.

The best laundromat owners aren’t just operators. They are leaders. Learners. Visionaries.

And they’re constantly investing in becoming the kind of person their future business needs.

Practical Ways to Invest in Yourself

Here are a few proven ways to start (or accelerate) your personal growth journey:

1. Read 10 Pages a Day

It sounds small, but consistently reading 10 pages of a great book every day will change your perspective. That’s 300 pages a month, roughly one powerful book. Need ideas? Start with:

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber

• Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute

• Your Next Five Moves by Patrick Bet-David

2. Listen to a Business Podcast on Your Drive

Turn windshield time into wisdom time. Here are a few laundry-friendly podcasts that bring high-level thinking to your earbuds:

• My First Million

• How I Built This

• The Game with Alex Hormozi

Even 15-20 minutes a day compounds over time.

3. Follow Industry Leaders Online

Surround yourself (even digitally) with people who are where you want to go. Follow successful laundromat owners, franchise leaders, and business strategists on Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Learn how they think, not just what they do.

4. Get in the Room with Winners

This is huge. Find someone who owns a laundromat that’s a level (or two) above yours and invite them to lunch. Ask questions. Be humble. Offer to help them. There is no faster way to grow than to build relationships with people who’ve done what you want to do.

Pro tip: Join a mastermind or community like the Laundry Advisors Innovators Lounge, where you can regularly connect with like-minded owners pushing each other forward.

5. Do a Weekly Self-Review

Once a week, take 15 minutes and ask yourself:

• What did I learn this week?

• What mistake did I make, and what did I learn from it?

• What’s one thing I could do next week to lead better?

Growth isn’t accidental. It's intentional.

Final Thought: Be the Bottleneck and the Breakthrough

Your laundromat’s biggest bottleneck is probably not your machines or your marketing. It might be you, but that’s the good news.

Because when you grow, everything else grows with you.

So go read. Go listen. Go learn. Go connect. The next version of you is the CEO your business has been waiting for.

P.S. If you haven’t yet joined the Laundry Advisors Innovators Lounge, you’re missing out on one of the best personal development environments in the industry. Surround yourself with winners, level up your thinking, and lead your business into its best season yet.

Let’s grow together.
~ Josh Chapman
The Laundry Advisors Team