Ignore The Crap That’s Holding You Back & Discover What It Really Takes To Be The Boss
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The Badass Wellness Coach Show
Di-Di Hoffman | BadassPreneurs Academy for Health and Wellness Coaches
This show is for the wellness professional on a quest to become a recognized authority in their category. Tune in to get: ✔️ Actionable strategies designed to bring success, clients, and a smoothly running business. ✔️ Inspiration from the successes and mistakes of your peers. ✔️ First-hand learning from celebrity and below-the-radar wellness coaching business experts. Visit https://badasspreneurs.com/podcast/ to binge listen to topic playlists.
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Finding Creative Success
Matt Peet interviews today's TOP Photo and video experts to talk business!
Finding creative success is a weekly podcast where Matt Peet interviews successful creative entrepreneurs to learn what drives their success and what can be learned from their success. The guests will be people who have found success in either photography or videography. Matt Peet studied Graphic design with an emphasis on photography in college and runs a video production company so he wants to interview people who have similar skill-sets and are truly finding creative success.
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Ep 210: Jeremy Schwartz on How Squarespace Supports Creative Professionals
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I am a long-time user and proponent of Squarespace for client projects and we’ve used them exclusively for over a decade. In this episode, I chat with Jeremy Schwartz, Squarespace’s Director of Channel Partner Business, about what makes Squarespace such a powerful tool for creatives and designers and how it can help you build your business. Jeremy …
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Ep 209: Kris Byers: From Frustrated Creative to Positive, Confident Business Owner at the Helm of Horrible Brands
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Today, I’m excited to share a conversation with someone who has been on an absolute rocket ship ride inside No BS Agencies Mastery. Kris Byers has transformed his business and achieved phenomenal results and become a real leader and inspiration in our community. So I wanted to talk to him about what exactly he did, how his process changed, and how …
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All this month, I’m talking about some of the most common and frequent mistakes I see people make in their one-to-two person branding agencies. Today, I want to talk about choosing a niche. Yes, you need a niche and I love helping businesses find theirs, but it’s not as straightforward as it sounds. Niching is about more than just picking an indust…
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This month, I’m digging into some of the mistakes I see one-to-two person branding agencies make over and over again. And today, I want to talk about pricing. Pricing your services is an art and it’s something people struggle with all the time inside the No BS Mastery program and out in the world. It also happens to be one of my favorite things to …
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When you spend a lot of time working with one market, you start to notice patterns. I’ve worked with hundreds of one-to-two person branding agencies over the last few years, and I see people make the same mistakes over and over again. No matter how we address it in our curriculum, or how many times I talk about it, there are certain things that peo…
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Ep 205: Erika Stanley on Launching a Business During the Pandemic, Unlearning Agency Practices, and Going the No BS Way
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Today, I’m sharing a conversation with one of my star students-turned coaches, Erika Stanley. Erika has truly mastered the No BS model. She's done an amazing job finding more freedom, space, and enjoyment in her life in a way that I know so many entrepreneurs wish they could. She’s also become a highly-valued and much-loved member of our No BS comm…
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Ep 204: My Motivations: Why I Built a Training Program
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“If you can make $30,000 or more in just a few days of branding work with Worst of All Design, why would you ever start a training program?” This month, I’m talking about my why. Why I do what I do, what motivates me, and what has made me the business owner I am today. And today, I’m going to answer one of my most frequently asked questions. Why st…
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Ep 203: My Motivations: The Bigger Mission
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Sometimes people ask me, “If you’re so successful in your agency, why are you doing this training program?” To really answer that, we’ll have to rewind a bit, to my introduction to the concepts of microlending and social entrepreneurship, and how they taught me that seemingly small actions could have major positive impacts. Continuing this month’s …
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Ep 202: My Motivations: Why I Do What I Do
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There’s a daily journaling exercise that I suggest to everyone who joins No BS Agencies Mastery. There are four questions in the exercise, and it takes as little as five minutes to complete, but one question in particular is critical for success: Why are you doing this? There is no right or wrong answer, and your response might change every day. Th…
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Ep 201: Andrea Merrill on How Her Business Changed When She Discovered and Owned Her Niche
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You need a niche. You’ve probably heard it a million times. But what does honing and owning your niche look like in practice? Today, I’ve invited one of my longtime star students turned No BS Program coach, Andrea Merrill, to share her story of how she went from drowning in low-paying client work to consistently closing the high-ticket clients of h…
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Ep. 200: Critical Mindset Shifts for No BS Agency Owners: Ease
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Does your business ever stress you out? Silly question, right? Of course it does! Being a business owner can be incredibly stressful and overwhelming. The responsibility can be heavy and when things aren’t going well, it can feel like your entire world is imploding. I know I’m not the only one who’s been brought to tears with stress and frustratio…
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Ep 199: Critical Mindset Shifts for No BS Agency Owners: Freedom
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When you decided to hang your own shingle and be your own boss, did you imagine that you’d finally have the kind of freedom and flexibility that you never did as an employee? But how much freedom do you actually feel? Are you tied to your business at all hours, constantly answering emails, afraid to leave your phone or laptop for even a day? If tha…
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Ep 198: Critical Mindset Shifts for No BS Agency Owners: Profit
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If you’ve been running your business for a while and still feeling underpaid and overworked —you are not alone. There are three things that most people are looking for when they decide to build a No BS Agency: Profit, Freedom, and Ease. We can teach them all of our strategies, tactics, and action plans to make that happen. But none of it will work …
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Ep 197: Ben Guttmann on Why Certain Messages Work and How to Design Them
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What makes messaging stick? Today, I’m digging into that question with marketing and communications expert, Ben Guttmann. Plus we’ll talk about his experience of growing and then selling an agency, and the opportunities that have opened up as a result. Ben Guttmann is a marketing and communications expert and author of Simply Put: Why Clear Message…
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Ep 196: FAQ: "But Pia, How Long Will It Take to Build My Authority Machine?"
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This month, I’ve been talking about the value of building an Authority Machine, what it is, what it can give you and your business, and what you need to focus on to make it successful. So at this point you might be asking yourself, “So how long is this going to take?” Here’s the truth: It’s not simple, fast, or free. Building an Authority Machine t…
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Ep 195: What Nobody Understands About Building the Authority Machine
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Over the years, I have taken a lot of people through the process of building their Authority Machine. One of the most common reasons people get stuck or can’t even begin is the thought that they don’t have anything new, unique or interesting to add. Others know what they want to say, but feel like an imposter and not successful “enough” to share th…
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Ep 194: FAQ: How Can An Authority Machine Lead To Stability and Freedom in Your Business
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Most entrepreneurs I meet built their businesses because they want more agency over their lives. They want to make more money and have more freedom over how they spend their time. And yet, starting a small business usually comes with anything but financial freedom and stability, at least at first. But once you nail down your processes you’ll start …
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Ep 193: FAQ: What Exactly is an Authority Machine and How Do We Start One?
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Everybody wants to be seen as an authority or an expert, whether you use those words or not. Why? Because being seen as an expert or an authority is what allows you to continuously raise your prices, sell more and more profitable projects, and achieve higher and higher levels of freedom and ease in your business and your life. Inside Mastery, we ta…
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Ep 192: Sara Chambers Levels Up Her Business and Goes From Good To Great
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Today I’m talking with one of my star students turned No BS Mastery coach, Sara Chambers, about ditching proposals, committing to the No BS process even through bumpy times, and how she’s been able to up level her business since joining the program. Sara Chambers loves collaborating, community, and coffee. Alliteration is clearly her favorite liter…
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Ep 191: FAQ: "But Pia, What if I do the work and the client hates it?"
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What happens if the client hates the work you bring to their Intensive? Presenting your work to a client is always a little nerve wracking. You’ve put time and effort and love into it and it’s hard not to take it personally when the client isn’t excited about it. So of course when I tell people that we do entire branding projects in one-to-three da…
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Ep 190: FAQ: "But Pia, can you actually do quality work in an intensive?"
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Can you actually do quality work, bespoke custom brands and websites and amazing copy in an intensive? For real? Today I’m going to break down the three major assumptions behind that question. Because absolutely yes, you can do quality, custom work in an intensive, and I wouldn’t do it any other way. Tune into this episode to hear: Why the time you…
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Ep 189: Intensives 101: What Exactly Is It and How Exactly Do You Do It
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How do we put a stop to dragging project timelines and scope creep? Intensives. Intensives are a core piece of the No BS model that I talk about on this podcast and inside our No BS Agency Mastery program. But a lot of people have preconceived notions about what intensives are and what they aren't. So today I want to tell you exactly what intensive…
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Ep 188: Chris Do Drops Truth Bombs on What It Takes to Play on the Big Stage
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Chris Do is a major name in the industry with a massive following across social media and YouTube. And while we have very different philosophies about scale and how we work with clients, there actually is a lot of overlap between Chris’s methodology and the No BS way. So we had plenty to talk about during this conversation that I’m so excited to sh…
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Ep 187: FAQ: "But Pia, I tried networking and I didn't get anything out of it!"
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Picture this: You get all dressed up and drag yourself to a networking event. You spend a couple of hours meeting people. Maybe you have a few nice conversations. You leave at the end of the night exhausted and wondering why you even went to the event and if there was any value in it. Last week I talked about how connecting with people in real life…
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Ep 186: FAQ: "But Pia, Where Do I Find The Leads?"
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“How do I get leads?” It’s the million dollar question. When you have a business, you need sales. To make sales, you need leads. And finding them is probably the biggest challenge that small business owners face. Maybe right now you’re taking whatever work you can get and relying on referrals to bring in new business. But when you rely on referrals…
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