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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 talking about streamlining or increa
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 best selves to our businesses. Bu
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 theme, I wanted to take you behin
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 brain worked and has helped her fi
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.
Margo and I have both quit busines
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 success of her students, too.
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 process to prepare for maintenance
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 of her agency and for her to be
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 sent on time, your products and s
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 figuring out how to put sales on ma
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 prepare your business for mainten
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 maintenance.
Key Takeaways:
- H
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 myself from breaking it? What am I s
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 her, building a business based on
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 ground up to be the kind of bu
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 meant to them and I never got the
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 with Michelle Warner.
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 how to get out of your own way
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 transistor.fm, the company that hosts th
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 bring on someone who did go through
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-scenes at ScaleSpark
- Behind t