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Dec. 8, 2020

Building Long-Term Relationships as a Core Strategy with Rob Howard

Meet Rob Howard, the founder and CEO of Howard Development & Consulting, the web development firm that creative agencies trust when every pixel matters. One of Rob’s core values is building relationships—and not just…
Dec. 1, 2020

Pricing Strategies Through a Lens of Justice With Kate Strathmann

You can use your pricing to create exclusivity—BUT, you can also use your pricing to create access and to start moving towards using your business to create more social and economic justice. Kate Strathmann spends a lot …
Nov. 24, 2020

Managing Increased Demand When You Have Less Capacity with Alethea Cheng Fitzpatrick

Alethea Cheng Fitzpatrick and I talk about what happens when things go BOOM and you have to figure out how to manage that boom in your business at a time when your personal situation might actually mean that you have less ti…
Nov. 17, 2020

Managing Through The Worst Case Scenario with Lauren Caselli

Lauren's been through a MASSIVE change this year, so I wanted to bring her back on the show to talk about how she's been managing the impact on her business. Lauren used to run an event planning business for tech, and after …
Nov. 10, 2020

Managing Risks and Contingency Planning with Mary Beth Simon

YOU built your business and most likely, it depends on you in some form or fashion to keep going. Even if you have a staff or other people that do a lot of the day-to-day work, they still look to you for direction. If you su…
Nov. 3, 2020

How Personal Resilience Builds Business Resilience with Melody Wilding

You know that the ability to be resilient and flexible in the face of change IS a skill and a mindset that you can work on. You can't control the change (because change is inevitable!)—but you can control how you react to it…
Oct. 27, 2020

Managing Change and Building Our Resilience Muscles with Elatia Abate

How DO we go about building up those change management muscles? How do we make ourselves and our business stronger and better able to weather this ever-changing environment? Meet Elatia Abate. She is an entrepreneur, edu…
Oct. 20, 2020

Driving New Business and Managing Operations Using ClickUp with Layla Pomper

You can use no-code tools like ClickUp to streamline and automate your internal processes and enhance your communication with clients. You can also build digital products, help your students learn more effectively, and add t…
Oct. 13, 2020

Building Products and Adding Value Using No-Code Tools with Brittany Berger

This week, we're talking about using no-code tools to actually build your own custom software products. My guest today is the queen of this. Brittany Berger is the founder of Work Brighter, a digital media company that helps…
Oct. 6, 2020

Scaling a Service-Based Business Using No-Code Tools and Solutions with Jason Staats

No-code or low-code tools–Jason and I are talking about the tools that have been built specifically to enable YOU, someone with no background or experience in building software, to build your own custom tools. Jason is espec…
Sept. 29, 2020

How To Measure the Value and Success of Your Podcast with Tara McMullin

I thought it’d be fun to take you behind the scenes and talk through how and why I decided to invest in starting this podcast, how it all works behind the scenes, and a look back a year into podcasting. To help me answer the…
Sept. 22, 2020

How Do You Measure the ROI On Your Social Media Investment with Andréa Jones

Social media is one of those investments you can choose to make in your business where the ROI isn’t always super clear. That’s why I invited Andréa Jones—host of the Savvy Social podcast, creator of the Savvy Social School,…
Sept. 15, 2020

When Your Values & Opportunities Collide with Nancy Jane Smith & Bonnie Gillespie

I want to talk about when an investment seems like a pretty straightforward payoff—but taking advantage of that opportunity might conflict with your values. How do you balance the financial health of your business against yo…
Sept. 3, 2020

How Do You Decide WHAT to Invest In? with Beryl Young

We all have a process we go through when we're thinking through new investments in our business. Whether you're conscious of your process or not... it's there. Today we are talking with Beryl Young about how she goes about i…
Sept. 1, 2020

How to Approach Investments in Your Business with Michelle Mazur

Michelle Mazur helps business owners shake things up (but having trouble talking about it) through their messaging. In this episode, Michelle shares some of the significant investments she's made in her business that had a l…
Aug. 25, 2020

How Your Team Impacts Your Business' Ecosystem with Emily Thompson

No stranger to making hard decisions and priming herself for growth, Emily Thompson talks about how hiring the right people for the right positions with the right mix of skills has made her business more efficient, more eff…
Aug. 18, 2020

How Your Software Impacts Your Business' Ecosystem with Melanie Richards

Today, Mel Richards shares with us how her choice of software has helped her scale her company, increase profits, and deliver better results for her clients. Key takeaways: - How the right choice of software has help…
Aug. 11, 2020

How Your Process Impacts Your Business' Ecosystem with Tamara Kemper

Tamara Kemper and I talk about how a rock-solid process allows you to deliver better service to your clients, onboard team members with ease, deliver projects and services more profitably, free up time for you and your team,…
Aug. 4, 2020

How Your Default Decisions Impact your Business' Ecosystem with Ashley Gartland

Your business is an ecosystem. Every part of your business is interconnected with other areas of your business. The decisions you make about the kind of business model you have affects how you market your business. I’m excit…
July 28, 2020

How to Build a Community Around Your Business with Katie Hunt

Katie Hunt, founder of Proof to Product, helps product-based businesses create product lines, sell wholesale, and build stronger businesses. She has a podcast, courses, masterminds, coaching, conferences, and yes, a communit…
July 21, 2020

Evolving Toward a Community Business Model with Margy Thomas

Margy looked at her business and realized that 1:1 services was no longer the best delivery option for her clients and it wasn’t the business she wanted to be running. Creating the ScholarShape community was the natural evol…
July 14, 2020

Where Community Belongs In Your Business Model with Sophie Bujold

Harnessing your IP isn't the ONLY way you could add additional revenue or build resilience into your business. Sophie Bujold has another option: building a community product around your business. Key takeaways: - Using…
July 7, 2020

Using Your Intellectual Property To Pivot & Build Resilience with JoAnn Holmes

We're talking about how to build some more resilience into your business model by using work you've already done—your intellectual property—and turning it into another source of revenue for your business. Key Takeaways: …
June 30, 2020

How to Better Understand Your Numbers & Your Tax Risk with Luke Frye

I’m excited to discuss the importance of accounting, bookkeeping, and understanding your taxes with Luke Frye, cofounder and CPA at Timber Tax Accounting. Luke was the first accountant at Bench.co and has been helping entrep…