Productive and Paid with Jamila Payne

What if your next five-figure offer did not require a launch? My guest this week is Tenagne Turner, founder of BRB Retreats, a luxury international retreat company serving high-achieving women entrepreneurs, coaches, and consultants. Since 2021 she has generated over a million dollars in revenue through a relationship-first, invitation-only model built around retreats. She has done it without paid...

This is the conversation I want every woman in business to hear. The belief that selling is sleazy, pushy, and something to apologize for is quietly costing you more money than any pricing mistake ever could. I walk through where the fear of asking for money actually begins, why so many of us are running an old money story we never agreed to, and the proof that people genuinely want to be sold to...

There is a number sitting inside your business right now that you have never calculated. It is the total of every hour you worked this year that you never sent an invoice for. The follow-up calls. The quick questions. The over-delivery. The free consults that turned into coaching sessions. In this episode, I am walking you through six places this is showing up in your business, doing the actual ma...

Your calendar is telling on you. It is telling on your priorities. It is telling on your revenue. And it is telling on whether you are actually running a business or whether you have built yourself a job. In this episode, I am pulling back the curtain on the calendar patterns I see over and over again with my clients. The missing sales blocks. The generic marketing time. The client meetings that s...

If you have ever sat down at the start of the month, looked at your revenue goal, and realized you have no idea where those clients are actually coming from, this episode is for you. I am pulling back the curtain on the one thing most established service providers are missing in their business and it is not a new offer, a new funnel, or another marketing course. In this episode, I am breaking down...

What is actually holding your business back? For most experienced entrepreneurs, the honest answer is not strategy, not marketing, and not the algorithm. It is fear, and more specifically, the quiet, sneaky kind that disguises itself as procrastination, over-researching, and endless tweaking instead of taking action. In this episode, I am breaking down one of the most important reframes I teach: f...

You are making money. But are you actually keeping it? Too many entrepreneurs I talk to are generating real revenue and still not paying themselves consistently. They are running profitable businesses and their personal finances do not reflect it at all. Here is what most people do not realize. How you pay yourself depends entirely on how your business is set up. LLC owners and S-Corp owners play...

You got off the call feeling great. The conversation flowed, they seemed interested, and you said — "I'll send over a proposal." And then you spent the next two hours writing it, the next two days waiting for a response, and the next two weeks following up. Sound familiar? If you are a coach, consultant, brand designer, VA, marketing agency owner, or any kind of service provider who is sending pro...

Is a disorganized business quietly costing you money? If you've ever lost 30 minutes hunting for a file, kept 47 tabs open because you were scared you'd never find something again, or felt that low-key embarrassment when a client asks for something and you can't pull it up quickly — this episode is for you. I sat down with Tracy Hoth, 17-year veteran professional organizer, certified life coach, a...

What if the thing keeping your business stuck isn't your mindset, your offers, or your prices but the structure you've been building all along? In this episode, I'm breaking down one of the most important distinctions I wish someone had handed me years ago. And honestly? It might change the way you see every decision you've been making in your business. In this episode, you'll find out: Why so man...

What if the reason you're exhausted, overwhelmed, and still not where you want to be in your business has nothing to do with how hard you're working — and everything to do with how you're working? That's exactly what today's guest, Lacy Newman, discovered after spending nearly a decade in real estate running herself ragged, nearly burning out, and eventually walking away — before coming back with...

Your LinkedIn profile might be costing you clients. Most entrepreneurs assume LinkedIn growth comes from posting more content. But what actually drives opportunities on the platform is far more strategic and often invisible. If you are showing up consistently and still not seeing conversations, referrals, or inbound interest, it is not because LinkedIn is not working. It is usually because of posi...

Most virtual summits generate attention. Very few generate real revenue. In this episode of Productive & Paid, I sit down with Gemma Bonham Carter to break down exactly how she built a virtual summit that generated $90,000 in year one — without using it as a back-end launch. We talk real numbers. Real pricing decisions. Real strategy. If you've ever considered hosting a summit to grow your email l...

You didn't start your business to quietly resent it. And yet, a lot of successful entrepreneurs wake up one day realizing the business grew… but their life somehow got smaller. In this episode, I'm talking about what it really looks like to build a business without sacrificing your life outside of it, not someday, not after the next milestone, but now. This conversation is for you if you love your...

Being productive and paid is not about doing more. It is about who you decide to be as a business owner. In this episode, I break down the identity shift behind Productive & Paid. The standards and expectations. It will change the way you see your time, your work, and your money. Because growth does not start with tactics. It starts with self-concept. I talk about the invisible standards you alrea...

In this first episode of Productive & Paid, I am opening up a conversation most entrepreneurs avoid. Too many people talk about how much money they made, but they never explain how they made it. They post wins and big numbers, but skip the details that would actually help you grow. That lack of honesty creates confusion. It leads to underpricing, overworking, and women staying stuck longer than th...

Productive & Paid is a podcast for entrepreneurs who want real conversations about money, time, and what actually drives results in business. Hosted by Jamila Payne, productivity expert and small business consultant, the show goes behind the scenes of how business owners generate income, structure their work, and decide what's truly worth their energy. In this trailer, you'll get a preview of the...

This is one of our best Episodes of 2025. A few years ago,I had a brilliant idea for a new offer. I mapped it out in detail, brainstormed all the possibilities, and spent weeks refining it. Guess what? I never launched it. I got stuck in the overplanning cycle – tweaking, refining, and second-guessing.  Sound familiar? The truth is, overplanning can feel productive, but it's really just a sneaky f...

Over 300,000. That's how many business owners are in the communities that I did workshops for to in January alone.  Sounds crazy, right? It's a visibility strategy that I like to call OPP, otherwise known as other people's people. Since I have yet to become Instagram famous, I had to figure out another way to grow my reach and impact more business owners.  But then something clicked. I started thi...

Before you rush into 2026, there is one move I want you to make: Pause and reflect. That pause will shape your next year more than any strategy, planner, or vision board ever could. Inside this episode, I walk you through a simple end-of-year reflection ritual you can use to close out 2025 with clarity — and step into 2026 feeling grounded, focused, and in control of your next level. You'll get th...

Before you rush into 2026, there is one move I want you to make: Pause and reflect. That pause will shape your next year more than any strategy, planner, or vision board ever could. Inside this episode, I walk you through a simple end-of-year reflection ritual you can use to close out 2025 with clarity — and step into 2026 feeling grounded, focused, and in control of your next level. You'll get th...

Last week, we cleaned up your money habits. This week, we build your financial empire. Because once you stop saying "I'm bad with money," the next question is— "How do I make my money work for me?" That's where this week's episode of Breadwinning Business Women comes in. We're going beyond cash flow and into CEO-level financial strategy—the kind that turns profit into wealth. Here's what I'll walk...

You're not bad with money. You just haven't been taught how to own your numbers yet. In this week's episode of Breadwinning Business Women, I'm calling out the five money mistakes that quietly keep smart women broke — and how to fix them for good. And I know them all because I've been there. Think of it as a financial detox for your business. You'll learn: 💸 The #1 number you need to pay attentio...

You sit at your laptop. The email draft to a potential client is open. The cursor blinks. But you freeze. You tell yourself you'll come back to it later. But "later" keeps turning into someday, maybe, never. That's not procrastination. That's success avoidance. In this week's episode of Breadwinning Business Women, I'm breaking down how fear, doubt, and discomfort quietly sabotage your next level...

Your calendar is full. Revenue feels stuck. You are doing more work, not getting better results. You need skills that convert effort into income. I'll share seven of them today. In this week's Breadwinning Business Women , I coach you through the skills that pay the bills . I show you how to practice each one without overwhelm. Clear steps. Real examples. What to do first, and what to stop doing n...