You run a funeral home. You're an entrepreneur. But here's something worth thinking about: when was the last time you had a real conversation with another funeral home owner?

Not a quick hello at a conference. A real conversation about the challenges you're facing and how you're thinking about growing your business.

There's a pattern among business owners that's impossible to ignore once you see it.

A Pattern Among Growing Businesses

Owners who grow their businesses fast tend to share one habit: they regularly connect with other business leaders.

Coffee meetings with other funeral home owners. Phone calls to talk through challenges. Conversations where people share what's working and what isn't. A day out playing golf with other leaders.

Owners who stay flat or struggle? They tend to work in isolation, figuring everything out alone.

What Your Team Can't Give You

Your team is valuable. But they can't help you figure out big leadership challenges. They're looking to you for answers.

Your neighbour supports you. But they're not running a funeral home every day. They don't understand the specific pressures of your business.

Other funeral home owners who are building businesses? They get it immediately. They've faced the same situations. They know what works and what doesn't.

What Happens When Owners Connect Regularly

Funeral home owners who talk regularly with other leaders get specific advantages:

They learn faster. Another owner can tell them exactly what happened when they tried a new marketing strategy. They skip months of trial and error.

They see opportunities they're missing. When someone shares how they doubled their pre-need sales, suddenly that becomes possible instead of impossible.

They get called out on blind spots. Other owners spot the things you can't see about your own business. The pricing strategy that's leaving money on the table. The marketing opportunity sitting right in front of you. The operational issue you've gotten used to but shouldn't accept.

Problems get solved quickly. That challenge they've been wrestling with for weeks? Someone they know already solved it. A 10-minute conversation saves months.

Decisions get easier. When they're thinking about hiring an agency or investing in new technology, they can talk to owners who've already done it. Real insights from people with nothing to sell.

Their thinking expands. You become like the people you spend time with. Talk regularly with owners who think big, and your own thinking starts to match.

Napoleon Hill studied America's most successful people for 20 years and discovered a powerful principle he called the "mastermind"—when people work together in harmony toward common goals, they achieve more than working alone. The most successful people he studied weren't figuring things out by themselves.

The Other Side

Funeral home owners who work in isolation face different challenges:

Problems that might have quick solutions can take months to figure out. Mistakes that someone else already made and learned from get repeated. Patterns that need changing stay invisible because there's no outside perspective.

The Pattern Is Clear

Regular connection with other funeral home owners doesn't require money or complicated systems. Just intentional time with people who understand what you're dealing with.

The owners who do this consistently tend to grow faster. The ones who don't tend to struggle more.

Worth thinking about: when was the last time you had a real conversation with another funeral home owner about your recent challenges and wins?