Simplify to Scale Show

Amber Hawley is a licensed therapist and lifestyle strategist who works with entrepreneurial individuals and couples with the emotional side of business. She is the owner of a therapy practice in Silicon Valley, host of The Easily Distracted Entrepreneur and Couples Fix podcasts, wife, mom of three kids, and Marvel movie super fan. Amber originally worked in the tech industry but her love for peop...

Camille L. Miller is the Founder and Chief Visionary of The Natural Life Business Partnership and pioneer of the Soul Professional movement. As an Alternative Business Engineer Camille helps you shift from business owner to entrepreneur as well as find the courage to align your business with your values through her Six-Figure Soul® Strategy Sessions. Camille believes there is no great secret to cr...

In May of 2022, Michelle  Glogovac, THE Podcast Matchmaker, and Crista were roommates at a retreat on Necker Island, Sir Richard Branson's private island paradise in the British Virgin Islands, a stunning and unspoiled area of the Caribbean where flamingos and iguanas keep you company while you eat your breakfast.  One week away changed Michelle and Crista and made a lasting impression that they b...

Amy Birks is a business coach who specializes in helping conscious companies and founders increase their impact, reach and revenue by focusing on the simplicity that comes when they are doing work in alignment with their values. Often referred to as a master connector, Amy leverages 10 years of corporate strategy and project management experience to help her clients make marketing and business dev...

Michelle Glogovac is THE Podcast Matchmaker, an award winning publicist and host of the My Simplified Life podcast. After an 18 year career in corporate aviation, Michelle is changing the world, one voice at a time, by matching her clients with the perfect podcast hosts and teaching them how to share their story, vision, and expertise in impactful and powerful ways. She has helped entrepreneurs, a...

The largest companies in the world spend millions of dollars every year in an effort to eliminate waste and improve efficiencies; they do this because the cost of not doing it, is greater.  As a small business owner, you might not have millions of dollars to spend, but you can leverage the same principles, to make sure your business is running as lean as possible and to guarantee the largest retur...

Learn what it can feel like to unapologetically reclaim your power to live your best life in Episode 74 of The Lean Out Your Business podcast. If you have been stuck in fear, too afraid to move forward in your life because you’re concerned about what other people might think or because you think your dream may be too impossible to achieve then you won’t want to miss this interview with Karen Fagan...

Do you find it difficult to prioritize the most important things in your business? If you’re like many of the clients we work with at Lean Out Method, then the answer is most likely yes. With a seemingly never ending list of things to do, how do you prioritize what’s most important when everything seems important? It might not seem simple now but by implementing certain techniques in specific stag...

In Part 1 of this 2 part series, Host, Crista Grasso, walked you through how you can make time off non-negotiable this summer by taking a critical look at four critical elements within your business: strategy, planning, systems and team.  In Episode 72, part 2 of this series, Crista shows you how you can be confident that you’ll actually generate money this summer while you are on vacation or are...

The idea of meditating can sometimes feel overwhelming. How do you stop that hamster wheel in your mind long enough to slow down, to stop your thoughts and to focus on your breath? And even if you could force yourself to slow down, who has time for that? If you’ve ever thought something similar you aren’t alone. You’ve most likely heard or read that meditation is something you “should” do, but wit...

Do you plan on taking time off this summer? Or when someone asks you if you plan on taking time off this summer do you think, “how could I possibly do that?” In her work with entrepreneurs, Crista Grasso has found that business owners typically land in one of two camps; either one, they plan on slowing down in the summer but then life happens and they never do, or two, they actually do step away f...

At Lean Out Method, we’ve been talking a lot about what it looks like to reimagine our business. In Episode 67 of the Lean Out Your Business Podcast (part 1 of this series) we looked at determining how to know when the right time is to reimagine your business. We also went over a list of questions you should ask yourself while you’re reimagining. If you haven’t already, you may want to go back and...

You’ve heard of passive income but have you heard of residual income? It’s income that one continues to receive after the completion of the income-producing work. Carina Gardner is a fabric and paper designer. She has a PhD in design, taught at the University of Michigan for 5 years and is the Founder of  Design Suite , the only program that teaches designers how to make money while they learn how...

When you started your business there’s a good chance you did so because you were passionate about the service/product you offer and because you wanted freedom; time freedom, freedom to choose who you work with and how you work with them and freedom to enjoy your life outside of work. The problem is, oftentimes, the business we created for freedom ends up ensnaring us. We end up working more hours...

In life and in business there is no shortage of problems. Although problem-solving is an essential skill set in growing a business and in navigating our daily lives, when we become fixated on solving a problem we might actually be hindering the growth of our business.  In order to accelerate the results we desire in our businesses we need to learn to transition problems into possibilities; in Epis...

Being a bold, brave female entrepreneur doesn’t mean you never fall down; it means that when you do fall down, you get back up, because if you don’t quit, it will get better. Amber Hurdle is living proof of this. Amber is the CEO of Amber Hurdle Consulting , a multi-award-winning consulting firm that pioneers using both science and marketing principles to strengthen customers’ brands from the insi...

Can you believe we’re already a quarter through the year? As we enter Q2 it’s not uncommon, especially with time flying by so quickly, to feel overwhelmed, behind in setting the goals you set at the beginning of the year and like you are nowhere near where you want to be in your business or in your life.  At Lean Out Method we walk our clients through a 90-day retrospective process where we assess...

People always ask, “what is the secret to scaling your business?” The truth is, there is no secret. There are no secrets, but there are proven ways to simplify, systematize and scale your business. There are also a lot of common mistakes entrepreneurs make when growing their business that can be avoided if you know what to look for.  In Episode 63 of The Lean Out Your Business Podcast, Host, Crist...

How do you know when it’s time to hire a new team member? And if it is time to hire a new team member then how do you make sure you hire the right person? These are the types of questions that plague business owners as they look to grow their teams but are afraid of wasting their time or their money. Horror stories of hiring a team member who actually made you work harder rather than providing rel...

When we first start our businesses we’re excited about the impact we’ll have, the freedom to make our own schedules and work on what we love. Often we’re also a little naive about what it’s going to take to get that business to be successful. We end up working more than we ever did before and at the end of the day, the month, the year, we find that we worked REALLY hard but the size of our bank ac...

Joining a mastermind and getting into a room of like minded entrepreneurs may be the best thing you ever do to grow your business. Surrounded by successful individuals who are willing to encourage and challenge you, drawing on their experiences and learning from their mistakes could help launch your business to the next level, if you join at the right time for you and your business.  If you’re in...

If you’re like many entrepreneurs you want to create content that helps sell your product and does justice to the amazing service or product that you’ve created but you’re terrified of being on camera.  You might feel self-conscious about the way you look, you might feel silly talking to a screen, maybe you are afraid you will freeze and have no idea what to say or maybe you are concerned what oth...

Have you ever heard the saying, “what got you here, won’t get you there?” It’s the idea that the habits, the tasks, the mindset, behaviors and strategies you used to get to wherever you are in your life right now will only be good at keeping you where you’re at. If you want to evolve or grow in your life and in your business (what entrepreneurs are known for) then you are going to have to change n...

Have you ever chosen a word of the year? That word you use to guide your decision-making and hit your personal goals before the clock strikes 12 on New Year’s Eve? I’m not a big fan of those words, mainly because I think they look good on social media but they rarely translate to action.  At The Lean Out Method, instead of choosing a word, we choose a themed intention, and then we set out to achie...

Most people, especially entrepreneurs, have mixed feelings around sales. It might seem odd that you have built a service or a product that you believe could genuinely solve a problem, a want or a need, but then struggle to sell it. But according to Nikki Rausch, CEO of Sales Maven , it’s because we have all had a similar experience of being sold to instead of being sold with.  Being sold to, looks...