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When we assume the mantle of leadership, we take one the big decisions. But we rarely know everything we need to know to make those decisions with 100% confidence -- that's where imposter syndrome sneaks in.  In this episode, I talk about my journey with imposter syndrome and how I've adjusted my leadership to minimize it. 

What if you focused all your efforts on selling just one thing? If you took the thing that your business does best, that your clients value the most, and just sold that? I've got 2 stories today about business owners who did it, and what they learned. 

Do you ever get the feeling that you haven't done enough? That maybe you aren't enough? In today's episode I'm trying to find that elusive "enough" -- I'd love to hear how you find it!

Have you ever felt stuck, working hard to change a situation in your life or business and yet feeling like you are trying the same things that HAVEN'T worked before? Today we talk about getting unstuck. 

If you are disappointed with your agency's performance who needs to make changes? Is it that lousy team you hired, trained, and managed? Or could there be someone else who needs to change?

My most important work is not done in front of a screen with my fingers on a keyboard. My most important work might not even be done at work. I earn my work time by spending time away from the office, with nature.  Come along with me.

I have a lot of spreadsheets and tools that I use to try to control the future or really to manage my anxiety about the future! But there's one thing I can do that gives me the most control over the future -- and it's not in any spreadsheet. I talk about that in today's episode.

What is your job if it isn't to "do the thing" (like we talked about in the last episode)? There are four distinct roles that  only you can play for your agency.  If you can focus on those, you can grow a strong agency. 

When you started your agency it was because you were adept at doing a thing. Something that clients found valuable and that you enjoyed.  But as your agency has grown doing "the thing" is making you a bottleneck! To grow your agency you need to stop doing "the thing!"

Humans love to tell stories about heroes.  We like the story even better when we can see ourselves as the hero! If we're telling a hero story about our business and our role in the business, how does that serve us? How does it hold us back?

Sometimes my head gets into a bad neighborhood and normal things start to trigger me into all kinds of crazy thinking.  This week I tell you about one of those times, and walk through what I did about it. 

You have come to the realization that one of your team members doesn't know what he's doing! Alarmed, you try to decide what to do next.  In this episode, we help you to walk through your next steps. 

When I started my business folks told me to "fake it 'till I make it." But that felt inauthentic and dishonest.  More recently I've applied the idea of "faking it until we're making it" in a way that makes me MORE authentic. 

Running your own business can feel like you're riding a rollercoaster. So many ups and downs, lots of them really scary! In this episode, we talk about how to make the ride less terrifying, and I share a ninja move that can get you off the rollercoaster for good. 

One of the things that I feel like people get most confused about. Is lead generation and business development for agencies. In this episode, I give you my dead-simple approach to agency new business.  The answer is right there in the episode title!

Warren Buffet said, "The difference between successful people and really successful people, is that really successful people say no to almost everything." In this episode, we talk about why it's so hard to say "no".  

At a time in my life when I felt like I was failing at everything, my business, my family, caring for my health, and myself, a mentor gave me the advice to "ruthlessly eliminate hurry from my life." Although the idea of eliminating hurry felt hopeless, I gave it a try. It's still something I work on every day and every week, but it's made a world of difference. 

This weekend, I was a little disturbed when the screen time alert popped up on my phone, telling me how much time I had spent on it over the last week. It said, "Your screen time was up 170% from last week." A hundred and seventy percent!?!  That seems a little extreme. Last week, there were (gesturing broadly) things going on . So it makes sense that I was doomscrolling a little bit. But that num...

Why do we think it's fair that CEOs make more than front-line workers? Why do you believe that you should earn more money than your team members? In this episode we look at how one researcher, Elliot Jaques, used science to demonstrate how you can make the BIG BUCKS (and how you can hold yourself back).