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June 1, 2021
Hiring, Selecting Business Partners, and Growing a Team That Enables Maintenance Mode with India Jackson
India started off her career as a model and bodybuilder and evolved that into an agency where she now leads a team. We talk about her evolution as a leader and how hiring and finding the right fit was critical to the growth …
May 25, 2021
Leveraging People, Processes and Technology with Jason Staats
In order to get your business into maintenance mode–and build a stronger business while you're at it–you have to answer the question, "What if I'm not here?" Ideally, the answer is that nothing changes. Invoices still get se…
May 18, 2021
Develop a Sales Process With An Eye Toward Consistency with Allison Davis
While sales are one of the first things business owners seem to want to outsource, sales are probably one of the very last pieces of your business operations that you should be handing off to people. And that means that figu…
May 11, 2021
Work on a Consistent Message and Marketing System to Prepare For Maintenance Mode with Michelle Mazur
Consistency in your messaging means that you don't have to reinvent the wheel every quarter. It means you know what you need to say and you know to whom and how you need to say it. And it’s the first part of being able to pr…
May 4, 2021
Shift Your Model To Get Your Business to Maintenance Mode with Mark Butler
Instead of shutting his business down and starting over when he realized that something needed to change for him, Mark Butler created a complementary business with a different business model–one that was designed for mainten…
April 27, 2021
The Maintenance Mode Mindset: Stop Breaking Your Business with Racheal Cook
One of the biggest challenges of getting your business into maintenance mode is your mindset.
HOW do I get out of my own way? HOW do I stop getting distracted by every new idea that pops into my head? How do I keep mysel…
April 20, 2021
Finka Jerkovic - Assessing + Addressing Your Capacity as Founder
Finka Jerkovic was forced by burnout and exhaustion to re-assess her capacity as a founder
Managing her own energy as a business owner has been crucial in making sure that she is building a business that is supporting he…
April 13, 2021
Assessing Your Business' Capacity with Anna Wolf
When Anna ran up against her capacity ceiling, she decided that she loved the work she was doing and didn't really want to change the way that she was working. But that something still had to change.
April 6, 2021
Startup vs Maintenance CEO: Is it One or the Other? with Sarah Avenir
What the journey from being a startup CEO to a maintenance style CEO has been like for somebody who thinks in systems and who is comfortable with consistency.
March 30, 2021
Starting With the End in Mind and Reverse Engineering the Plan with Ryan Lazanis
Most of us are creating businesses that tie us to a physical place and set hours. But oftentimes, the life we want to live doesn’t always align with the businesses we create. When I started ScaleSpark, I designed it from the…
March 23, 2021
What Does Maintenance Mode Look Like? featuring Ryan Lazanis, Anna Wolf, and Tamara Kemper
For this episode, I wanted to figure out what maintenance mode means to different people and what it looks like in different kinds of businesses. I started asking podcast guests and people around me what maintenance mode mea…
March 16, 2021
The Best of Break the Ceiling – Michelle Warner
For the past couple of weeks, I've been re-releasing episodes that are the best cuts from three of my very favorite Break The Ceiling Episodes.
This week—and our last Best of Break The Ceiling—I'm revisiting my interview…
March 9, 2021
The Best of Break the Ceiling – Charlie Gilkey
For the next three weeks, I'm going to re-release episodes that are the best cuts from three of my very favorite Break The Ceiling Episodes.
This week, I'm revisiting my interview with Charlie Gilkey where we talked about …
March 2, 2021
The Best of Break the Ceiling – Justin Jackson
For the next three weeks, I'm going to re-release episodes that are the best cuts from three of my very favorite Break The Ceiling Episodes. This week, I'm revisiting my interview with Justin Jackson, co-founder of transisto…
Feb. 23, 2021
Leaving Social Media and Re-Investing in Organic Growth with Nathalie Lussier
Social media is a major marketing channel for LOTS of small businesses, and it's an important part of the decision-making process if you're thinking about your own marketing from a perspective of privacy, so I wanted to brin…
Feb. 16, 2021
Why SEO is Well-Suited For Privacy-Focused Marketing with Kim Herrington
Kim has been instrumental in helping me execute my privacy-focused marketing strategy and keeps me up to date on changes in the marketing and digital privacy world.
Key Takeaways:
- What Kim’s done for me behind-the-s…
Feb. 9, 2021
Security and Digital Privacy Concerns for Small Businesses with Jessica Robinson
Jessica Robinson is an outsourced Chief Information Security Officer, founder, and CEO of PurePoint International and an expert in data security, cyber risk, and privacy. PurePoint International provides cybersecurity consul…
Feb. 2, 2021
Growing a Business With Digital Privacy as a Priority with Paul Jarvis
Paul and his cofounder, Jack Ellis, are two of my go-to experts on both digital privacy AND on the logistics of how to build that ethos into the DNA of your company. It's a core value for them as well, so they have to naviga…
Jan. 26, 2021
Make Financial Choices and Business Decisions Based on Your Definition of Success with Brian Plain
Brian helps clients figure out what to do with their finances and helps them figure out a plan to meet their financial goals. A lot of that work means really examining what success means, what enough means, and recognizing t…
Jan. 19, 2021
Making "Enough" in Our Business with Rita Barry
Rita Barry is a certified measurement marketer. She founded her company, a boutique digital marketing optimization consultancy based in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, in 2009. Rita deals with numbers and measuring success all…
Jan. 12, 2021
Understanding Our Money Mindset Lineage with Bear Hebert
Once we understand how the system we live in impacts our relationship with money, we can start thinking about it in a much broader view -- and we can start considering using our businesses as a means to start evening out som…
Jan. 5, 2021
Why We Buy The Things We Buy with Margo Aaron
WHY do we buy what we buy? That's what I want to know. And, as it happens, I know someone who LOVES geeking out on buying and marketing psychology. When I want to nerd out on the psychology behind marketing, Margo Aaron is m…
Dec. 22, 2020
Increasing Profits Through a Revenue Sharing Structure with Lacey Sites
We've been talking this month about creative strategies around pricing or packaging your services. And as part of that exploration, I wanted to re-air an interview that I did with Lacey Sites from a Lit Up Life in 2019.
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Dec. 15, 2020
Combining Intensive Service Offerings with Recurring Revenue with Hunter Niland Welling
Today, I'm talking to Hunter Niland Welling – marketing consultant and coach for women growing high-end service-based businesses. I wanted to bring Hunter on the podcast because she has a way of working with her clients that…