Joana Beldade

The Quiet Game

Business EN ↓ 4 episodes

If you've ever felt like the online business world was built for someone else, you're in the right place. The Quiet Game is a podcast for established women entrepreneurs who are done with the noise. Done with the highlight reels, the hustle narratives, and the advice that sounds good at 9am and useless by noon. Done pretending everything is fine when it isn't. Every week, your host Joana Beldade, sits down for one honest conversation about what it actually takes to build a business that works for your life. Not someone else's life. Yours. Jo has spent 8 years working with service-based entrepr...

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Joana Beldade

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The Clients Who Almost Made Me Quit 06.07.2026 20:43

What happens when the work you love starts to break you? In this episode of The Quiet Game, Jo shares three real client stories that she has never spoken about publicly before. Stories that left her feeling disposable, guilty, and so drained that she almost walked away from her business entirely. This is not a cautionary tale about difficult clients. It is an honest conversation about what it cost...

You built a job, not a business. 26.06.2026 12:51

If you're a service-based entrepreneur who is fully booked, exhausted, and wondering why your income has stopped growing no matter how hard you work, this episode is for you. In this episode of The Quiet Game, host Jo breaks down the difference between a business and a very demanding job you created for yourself. Most online service providers, coaches, therapists, consultants, and freelancers...

Same Work. Four Times the Price. 26.06.2026 16:36

What if you could earn four of five times more without working five times harder or even changing what you do? In this episode of The Quiet Game, Jo tells the story of a client who went from charging $60 per hour to $400 for the same work, simply by changing how she packaged and presented her offer. She didn't gain new qualifications. She didn't reinvent her services. She just stopped un...

I Disappeared. Here's What I Learned. 25.06.2026 16:30

For almost two years, I was invisible online. No content, no launches, no presence. Just gone. It wasn't burnout. It wasn't a strategy. It was life arriving all at once and refusing to wait. In this first episode of The Quiet Game, I share what those two years cost me, what they taught me, and why I came back building differently. If you have ever felt like your business was held togethe...