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Aug. 20, 2024

Hidden Funding: Grants for Creatives, Consultants & Agency Owners with Danielle Desir Corbett

Can grants really fund your service business? This episode wraps up our deep dive into unique funding options for service businesses, exploring an often overlooked resource—grants. Meet Danielle Desir Corbett. She's a former…
Aug. 6, 2024

How to Use Debt Strategically

In this special 100th episode of Beyond Margins, host Susan Boles delivers her first solo discussion on utilizing debt thoughtfully to fund service businesses. Drawing from her experience as a fractional CFO, she explores th…
July 9, 2024

Finding the Money to Grow with Eda Henries

Cash is only easy to come by when you don't really need it. When things are going well, banks are happy to finance loans and lines of credit, and investors are easy to find when you're profitable and growing quickly. But we …
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…
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. 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 …
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…
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…
June 23, 2020

The Risk of Inconsistent Cash Flow with Priya Malani

I'm talking with “The Rebel of Wall Street”, Priya Malani, whose goal is to change the way young professionals think about money by empowering them to get their financial sh*t together. Key Takeaways: - Money managemen…
June 16, 2020

Identifying Financial Risks & Building Resilience with Jacquette Timmons

Jacquette and I talk about financial risks, resilience, and the relationship between the two. Key takeaways: - How assessing your risk is actually a move towards building resilience - What the relationship between ris…