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Sept. 24, 2024
Why Clarity Matters: Creating a Calmer Business Environment
How can defining your business values and success more clearly lead to a calmer operation? This episode kicks off our miniseries on deconstructing the common elements that all calm businesses share. We're starting with the m…
Sept. 3, 2024
Essential Elements of Building a Calm Business
What if you could design a business that inherently operates on calm, not chaos? What are the essential elements to make this possible, and how can they be systematically incorporated into your business model? As we dive int…
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 23, 2024
Crowdfunding For service Businesses with Lena West
Do you need funding for your business but loathe the idea of giving up a piece of your company to someone else? I get it. You built this baby with your own two hands, most likely giving up nights, weekends, early mornings, a…
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 …
June 25, 2024
The Structure & Policies That Support Your Team with Kate Tyson
Consider this scenario: a key employee unexpectedly needs to take an extended leave. Is your business financially and structurally prepared to handle that without a hitch? This is a challenge many small businesses face, and …
June 11, 2024
Lazy Training, Fire Drills & Expecting the Unexpected
What happens when you unexpectedly need to step away from your business's operations? How can you prepare your business not just to survive but to thrive, even when key team members are away? In our continuing series on plan…
May 28, 2024
Planning for Parental Leave with Erica Courdae & India Jackson
How do you step away from your business for a necessary break without losing momentum or compromising your values? Deciding to take a leave or sabbatical, and then figuring out the best approach for you, how to maintain clie…
May 14, 2024
Navigating Breaks In Business and Life: Inside My Unplanned Hiatus
Sometimes, you just need a break. I know I did. What was meant to be a quick breather turned into a transformative journey of two and a half years . The show (and my company) emerged with a new name, a new look, and a new pe…
May 1, 2024
Introducing Beyond Margins
Break the Ceiling is now Beyond Margins. I’m excited to bring back the show and introduce you to people thinking about operations, finance, and business-building with calm as their top KPI. Do you know someone who could use …
Aug. 3, 2021
Taking a Break
I wanted to let you know that we're going on hiatus, so we won't be releasing any new episodes for a while. I want to take some time to think about how I want the show to evolve, and I'd like to reimagine it a bit. So I'm ta…
July 27, 2021
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 talki…
July 20, 2021
Examining Your Relationship With Your Business With Nicole Lewis-Keeber
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.
July 13, 2021
Busting Productivity Myths and Redefining Work Life Balance with Tanya Dalton
There’s a ton of research out there that says resting actually increases your productivity, your effectiveness, your problem-solving skills and your creativity. We need rest to do our best work and to be able to bring our be…
July 6, 2021
The End Goal of Maintenance Mode, What it Is, and What it Isn't
I've spent the last 16 episodes interviewing founders about maintenance mode and consistency, exploring capacity, business model, and techniques to prepare and execute maintenance mode in your business. And to wrap up the th…
June 29, 2021
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 bra…
June 22, 2021
When to Quit and When to Persevere in Your Business with Margo Aaron
Failing sucks, there's no doubt about that. But those failures are a big part of what motivates me to teach financial skills and why I believe that your numbers tell you a story about what to do next in your business.
Mar…
June 15, 2021
Building Healthy Habits That Facilitate Consistency with Sarah Von Bargen
If consistency is the goal, building habits is how you accomplish it. Sarah Von Bargen uses habits to make sure they're sticking to that purpose. Habits have been a critical component in her own business success and in the s…
June 8, 2021
Preparing Your Business So You Can Take a Real Break with Claire Pelletreau
The point of maintenance mode is to give you time and space to take a REAL break. Not a vacation where you're checking your email or you're stuck on your laptop kind of break. But a real, genuine break. To go through the pro…
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…