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Making Calm Your New KPI: How to Set Goals That Truly Matter
In this episode of Beyond Margins , Susan dives into the heart of goal-setting, breaking free from default metrics and focusing on what truly matters to your business and life. She shares her own approach to prioritizing calm...
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Self Awareness as the Key That Unlocks Consistency with Marie Poulin
Marie and I talk about consistency and how critical it was to her success with Notion and her course and community Notion Mastery. We also talk about how discovering she was neurodivergent explained so much about how her brain worked …
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Examining Your Relationship With Your Business With Nicole Lewis-Keeb…
Nicole and I talk about how your foundational experiences might show up in your business and create limitations to your growth, especially when it comes to perfectionism and control.
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Bake In Boundaries in Your Default Settings with Brittany Berger
What choices we make about where our boundaries are–or aren't–can have a huge effect on our overall capacity and how much time it takes to actually serve each client. Boundaries can be a really powerful tool when we're talking about …
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Making Calm Your New KPI: How to Set Goals That Truly Matter
In this episode of Beyond Margins , Susan dives into the heart of goal-setting, breaking free from default metrics and focusing on what truly matters to your business and life. She shares her own approach to prioritizing cal…
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Using Efficient Systems to Create Calm with Amelia Hruby
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Building Systems of Care with Heather O'Neill
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Susan Boles
Susan is the founder of Beyond Margins. Through its newsletter, podcast and consulting services, Beyond Margins helps you build a calmer business with comfortable margins. Susan is a speaker, podcaster, and consultant with more than 15 years of experience as both a CFO and COO, in a variety of industries. She's worked with major universities, small retail shops, software companies, just to name a few - and now she focuses on working with agencies, consultants and creatives.
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