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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
Feb. 9, 2021
Security and Digital Privacy Concerns for Small Businesses with Jessica Robinson
Jessica Robinson is an outsourced Chief Information Security Officer, founder, and CEO of PurePoint International and an expert in data security, cyber risk, and privacy. PurePoint International provides cybersecurity consulting and training for financial
Feb. 2, 2021
Growing a Business With Digital Privacy as a Priority with Paul Jarvis
Paul and his cofounder, Jack Ellis, are two of my go-to experts on both digital privacy AND on the logistics of how to build that ethos into the DNA of your company. It's a core value for them as well, so they have to navigate the balance of promoting, ma
Jan. 26, 2021
Make Financial Choices and Business Decisions Based on Your Definition of Success with Brian Plain
Brian helps clients figure out what to do with their finances and helps them figure out a plan to meet their financial goals. A lot of that work means really examining what success means, what enough means, and recognizing that, even with a good financial
Jan. 19, 2021
Making "Enough" in Our Business with Rita Barry
Rita Barry is a certified measurement marketer. She founded her company, a boutique digital marketing optimization consultancy based in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, in 2009. Rita deals with numbers and measuring success all day long and the journey to an
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 some of that inequality.
Key t
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 my go-to.
Key take-aways:
Dec. 22, 2020
Increasing Profits Through a Revenue Sharing Structure with Lacey Sites
We've been talking this month about creative strategies around pricing or packaging your services. And as part of that exploration, I wanted to re-air an interview that I did with Lacey Sites from a Lit Up Life in 2019.
Lacey is a business mentor and
Dec. 15, 2020
Combining Intensive Service Offerings with Recurring Revenue with Hunter Niland Welling
Today, I'm talking to Hunter Niland Welling – marketing consultant and coach for women growing high-end service-based businesses. I wanted to bring Hunter on the podcast because she has a way of working with her clients that, when I experienced it as a cl
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 ANY relationships. To him, lon
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 of time exploring new technique
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 time than ever to spend in or on
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 her best year ever in 2019, was
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 suddenly aren't there anymore, wh
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. Today, Melody and I talk abou
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, educator, and future-forward strat