If You Waited for Certainty in 2025, You Lost

If you waited for certainty in 2025, you lost.

In Episode 1 of Project Notes, Cheryl Spangler pulls back the curtain on what it really looks like to build businesses and manage projects while everything is in motion. This is an unedited, unscripted breakdown of the lessons that shaped her work in 2025—and the systems, decisions, and mindset she’s carrying into 2026.

In this episode, Cheryl covers:

1. How she more than doubled her business from ~$8M to ~$19M in one year
2. Why contractor quality only reveals itself in a tough market
3. The counterintuitive strategy of waiving commissions—and how it creates leverage
4. How AI replaced low-value tasks and freed time for high-impact work
5. Why most teams don’t need more people—they need better systems
6. How useless meetings and networking quietly drain time and capital
7. Why fear is often the final barrier before real progress

What makes Project Notes different:

1. No scripts, no polish, no hindsight storytelling
2. Real projects, real decisions, real consequences
3. Lessons shared while the work is still happening—not years later

Each episode delivers weekly, real-time notes from active projects—across real estate, business, systems, and strategy—focused on solving real-world problems as they arise.

If you’re building something and don’t want motivation or theory—just honest insight from the trenches—you’re in the right place.

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