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BEYOND Podcast Ep. 289: Simplify Your Business Operations Today with These 5 Proven Solutions

  If your relationship with your business feels complicated, you’re not alone. Getting a business off the ground requires a lot of us, and in those early stages, we often feel like there’s so much to do and so little time to reach the goals we dream of – you’re in GO mode, you hustle […]

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  Is chasing growth KILLING your business as a creative or coach? If you’re thinking, “Wait… what? – Growing, isn’t that what I’m supposed to be doing over here!?” I get it. In the world of online business, we’re told that growth = success. But did you know that rapid growth is the number one […]

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BEYOND Podcast Ep. 288: 3 Reasons Growth is Killing Your Creative or Coaching Business

  Jen Olmstead, co-founder and Lead Designer of TONIC Site Shop, takes us along on her journey from accidental entrepreneur to successful Showit website template designer over the past 11 years. She shares the importance of storytelling in marketing and the power of creating content that is valuable, engaging, and fun to create – anything […]

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BEYOND Podcast Ep. 287: Be Weird: The Genius Marketing Strategy That Builds Trust with Jen Olmstead

  Many of us want to build an intentional business, but we’ve never actually defined our owner’s intent as a small business owner. I like to think of your owner’s intent as a simpler, less-corporate version of a vision statement. It basically answers the question: what is your intention as a business owner? What is your END […]

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BEYOND Podcast Ep. 286: Owner’s Intent: Why Every Creative and Coach Needs One This Year

  When we want to make changes in our lives and businesses, one of the things that can trip us up or slow us down is that we mis-diagnose. We THINK the problem is this thing, so we focus on solving that, or getting help with that, when in reality the actual issue is something […]

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BEYOND Podcast Ep. 285: What Self-Sabotage Actually Looks Like (And Why It’s Hard to See For Ourselves)

  Story has become a bit of a buzzword in online marketing and business in the last few years, and there’s a reason for that. Stories are powerful. We learn and communicate through narratives. We FEEL things through the power of a good story, right – it’s why we want to watch the movie that […]

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BEYOND Podcast Ep. 284: The Two Most Valuable Stories To Prioritize for Peace and Profit in 2024

  Early on in my business, I was asked this of my future plans: “Are you willing to do whatever it takes?” It was insinuated that I should be answering in the affirmative. In my heart, I knew my answer: a hard no. At first I wondered if this would be a problem. Then, I […]

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BEYOND Podcast Ep. 283: Building a Business on YOUR Terms When You’re Not Willing To Do “Whatever It Takes”