The Get Paid Podcast: The Stark Reality of Entrepreneurship and Being Your Own Boss

It's time for another Year In Review! I'm sharing what worked well, what went badly, and what's changing in the business in 2021.  Resources Mentioned: Rachel Rodgers' We Should All Be Millionaires Club and Podcast Learn about the new way to work with me in 2021 by signing up at clairepells.com/updates   Want to Work With Me on Scaling Your Business?   We're launching a brand new group program in...

I prepped to be able to completely take off from the business for her second maternity leave. In this episode, I share the birth story of my son, what newborn life was like with a 4 year-old and a pandemic in the picture, how I got more sleep this time around, plus a serious rant and some tears at the end.  Resources Mentioned: The episode where I talk about how she prepped the business for her ma...

Andr é a Jones is fiercely committed to helping businesses and podcasters build profitable communities online through simple social media solutions. She's been featured in places like Hubspot, Aweber, and WordPress. She's also been named as one of Social Report's top marketers to follow in 2019. As the host of the Savvy Social Podcast and creator of SavvySocialSchool.com, Andr é a is dedicated to...

Tony Rulli is the lead strategist for all paid marketing campaigns at Intentional Spark, including Facebook Ads, Adwords, and web retargeting. He's also a friend, and one of my go-to people to talk shop with.   SO, this week on the Get Paid Podcast, we're doing something a little different. Instead of diving into Tony's backstory (been there, done that), we're swapping notes on tripwires. Tune in...

Janelle Allen is a Learning Designer and serial entrepreneur who believes that every company is in the education business. For the past ten years, she's worked with corporations such as Pearson Education, Potbelly Sandwich Works, Starbucks, and Apple to create training and online courses, using principles of adult learning and design.  On this week's episode of the Get Paid Podcast, Janelle joins...

Mariah Coz has been creating and selling online courses, building webinars, and crafting funnels for many years. During that time, her company has helped hundreds of people create and sell courses about everything from watercolor painting, programming, decluttering, football, and everything in between.   Mariah has become known for a no-BS style and creating insanely highly converting webinars, fu...

Rachel Rodgers is a woman of color, a mother of four and a seven-figure business owner -- in that order. Rachel started her career working as a lawyer with nonprofits, federal judges and Hillary Clinton. When she realized that changing the world is easier when you have some cash in your bank account, she decided to build a million dollar business and then teach other women how to do the same. Rach...

Maya Elious is a personal branding strategist that teaches experts how to position themselves as the go-to authority figure in their industry so they can confidently launch their signature offer. She's helped hundreds of students and clients get clear on their message, confidently increase their prices, and have successful five-figure launches with their masterclasses, webinars, courses, and progr...

Jessica Eley is a personal development and mindset coach for high achieving clients. Through her coaching programs, intensives, and online courses, she has helped countless entrepreneurs achieve the work-life balance they desire, breakthrough boundaries that are holding them back from achieving their next level of success and move from the typical Type-A personality to embracing a Type- Free minds...

Erika is the mastermind behind DailyWhip, where she dishes out business advice for bold women.   Showing early entrepreneurial skills when she let her brother throw a pie in her face for $5, Erika wheeled and dealed her way through high-school, earned degrees in Women Studies and Apparel Design, spent 9 years swinging around a stripper pole, went on to co-create a multi-million dollar commercial r...

Tasha is the wealth expert and business strategist behind One Big Happy Life, where she helps people grow their income and learn to spend intentionally so they can live their dream life today while also building wealth along the way.    What started off as a couple of YouTube videos about curly hair, has grown into a social following of over 170,000, and amassed over 10 million views on her YouTub...

Eman Zabi started a copywriting business in the upstairs bedroom of her parents' house in Qatar. Now the founder and copywriter behind The Scribesmith, Eman and her team work with entrepreneurs launching courses and membership platforms.     Eventually, she realized that her love of research meant that her skills were best suited to the launch space. With a background in neuromarketing, internatio...

Jasmine Star is a photographer and business strategist from Newport Beach, California. She dropped out of law school and became an internationally recognized entrepreneur, later to become the founder of Social Curator , a social media marketing membership for business owners. Harnessing her chutzpah and hustle, Jasmine empowers entrepreneurs to build a brand, market it on social media, and create...

Shinah is a whiskey-loving, curse-word slinging, Harvard-trained former corporate attorney who left everything behind to find her passion.    Shinah spent her entire life on the straight, "proper" path. She went to an Ivy League college, then a prestigious Law School, then worked her butt off as a corporate attorney for a big international law firm.   But, after one too many days of uninspiring wo...

Sarah Noked is an Executive MBA graduate, Certified Online Business Manager® and Digital Marketing Strategist with more than 10 years' business experience in the online space. Her agency helps online entrepreneurs conquer their growing pains to scale the team-based business of their dreams – with systems, processes, automation, and smart delegation. When she's not working in her agency supporting...

What are the things that have driven my business forward? What have been my biggest learning opportunities? What was the single biggest decision that I've ever made in my business and personally? What mindset issues do I think are holding me back? Since you loved my recent Q&A episodes, I wanted to tackle a few questions that I was initially afraid to answer, but were of great importance and led t...

Are podcasts essential for all businesses? What role does tech play in my business?  How have I successfully been able to reduce the amount of client work and focus on growing my business? After being asked so many great questions I had to do a Round 2. That's why I've taken another bunch of your hottest questions and done my absolute best to answer them as honestly as I can. I'm going to be talki...

Do I get nervous when asking personal questions on money? What's the best place to start with ads if your audience is tiny? Do you A/B test every ad? Is it possible to have success with FB ads with low spend on a low ticket product? Since I've been getting a ton of excellent questions lately, I thought it would be a great time to do a Q&A. On today's episode, I've taken some of your hottest questi...

Cami Farey is a web design expert, coach, and course creator who teaches ambitious entrepreneurs how to create a website that sells, 10x your email list with JV Webinars, and bring your big ideas to life online.  Over the years, she's had the honor of changing the game for award-winning photographers, coaches, copywriters, healers, designers, and so many more. This Week on the Get Paid Podcast   W...

Are you thinking of launching your own course? Or, maybe you're already an ace at course creation but you're struggling to find the right people to buy. If you're running a service-based business, you may have many people telling you "just create a course and run ads to it." While that all sounds great, it's not that simple. In this episode, I'm going to be talking you through the greatest hurdle...

Is it possible to run a successful business while balancing motherhood? Hell yeah! Although it's never going to be easy. If you're currently reviewing the question of daycare, thinking of having kids, or you're planning your maternity leave then this episode will hopefully help a lot as we're trying to plan and prepare for our second child. When expecting my first baby, my business was still a bab...

If you're someone who's putting yourself out there, creating a personal brand, and connecting with potential customers, you're going to find this episode particularly interesting.   I'll be going through the 7 key skills that I think are essential if you want to set your business up for success. Here's a quick summary:   Be remarkable: You have to be compelling, interesting, and stand out from the...

What impact does your upbringing have on your relationship with money? By the time you listen to this episode, I will have already begun maternity leave. With our second child on the horizon, my husband and I had been pondering an important question: What's the best way to go about raising your kids when it comes to money? Should you step back and let your kids figure things out for themselves? Or...

What figure comes to mind when you think about growing your business? The number most people talk about is revenue. And, when you're focused on growing revenue, this is what drives the business decisions you make.  During my last launch, however, I had an epiphany. There I was, getting ready to sell a valuable course on evergreen with a low price offering of around $300. If I sold 100, that would...

Trudi Lebron is a straight-up BAD-ASS. The former teen mother of two and high school "opt-out" is now a business coach and impact strategist specializing in supporting entrepreneurs and multi-million dollar executives in the personal development and transformation industry. Trudi helps her clients co-create inclusive, impactful communities, and prepares them to scale in our shifting social climate...