Simplify to Scale Show

Do you want to scale your business, generate new qualified leads, and amplify your message but aren't sure the best strategies to focus on? Are you feeling hesitant to invest much in paid advertising given all of the recent changes?  Michelle Fernandez has all the right answers for you! She is a Facebook & Instagram Ads Strategist, a Funnel Expert, and Speaker. She loves the strategizing process t...

Do you want to have a simple, sustainable, and scalable business? Do you want to create systems that will help you scale your business and remove yourself from everything that depends on you? Then this episode is for you!   In today's episode of the Lean Out Your Business Podcast, we'll dive into the different layers of systems that your business needs to scale sustainably. A lot of times people s...

In today’s episode, we are going to analyze how to increase your visibility, through marketing, branding, and PR! We are going to explain what makes a brand really successful and what are the most common mistakes of entrepreneurs, when it comes to branding.   So today, I have the pleasure to be joined by an expert on that topic, Hannah Nieves. She is one of the amazing thought leaders and entrepre...

Having the right team in place is a critical component of leading a self-run and self-scaling company where everything is no longer dependent on you. But you don’t want just any team, you want a lean dream team.   There is an art and science to building a high-performing lean dream team who can take your big bold vision and help make it a reality while providing a solid ROI instead of feeling like...

Are you a company owner and want to scale up your business? Are you a solopreneur and want to create a successful team? Then, Danielle Mulvey is the right person for you!  She is a former flight attendant-turned-entrepreneur who has cracked the code on recruiting and retaining what she refers to as “5-Star Employees”. Danielle has scaled her several companies to over $50 million in annual revenue,...

Do you find yourself sacrificing what's important to you today for a better tomorrow? We skip the vacation, skip the walk, skip journaling, or skip even just taking a few moments to breathe and check in with ourselves. It can feel like we need to give up so many things now for the promise of a bright future of tomorrow and we end up putting our life on hold until we hit the next business milestone...

Success Coach, Nicola Wilkes, works with women in the creative and design industry, showing them how to take their business from good to great. With a design career spanning two decades working for designer furniture retailers, writing for global interiors magazines such as Elle Decoration and creating, running and successfully selling her own interiors brand and lifestyle store, House Envy - whic...

As an entrepreneur you most likely have no shortage of ideas. In fact your natural tendency to create and innovate is what sent you on the entrepreneurial journey in the first place. This creativity and innovation makes you great at getting things started but it’s often the exact same reason why projects don’t get finished and why team members can often get overwhelmed or frustrated. In the end, y...

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...