We’ve all let chances slip by because of fear at one time or another. Maybe you’ve avoided making an investment in your business because you just couldn’t be sure it would work out so why take the risk? Let’s talk about how to stop letting fear control your decisions, so that you can take smart, calculated risks that will actually move the needle forward in your business.

If you had $20,000 to invest today, would you put it in the stock market or into your own business? One of these options could give you a 47% ROI in 5 years, but the other could give you over 1000% ROI. Which option would you choose?

The majority of the people I talk to worry about money. And I’ve been there too. I’ve been scared with $40,000 in debt and I’ve been scared with $40,000 in the bank and clients rolling in. Everybody who works for themselves feels this way at some point. Let’s talk about why we feel that anxiety and how to free ourselves from that feeling.

If you want 2025 to be your best year yet, it’s vital that you envision not only the big picture, but what steps it will take to achieve it. Here’s the process we follow inside Mastery.

Getting away from bad bosses may be one of the reasons you started your own business in the first place. But it is all too easy to end up treating ourselves horribly. Let’s talk about how to be a great boss to yourself so you can have the freedom and ease you set out to find.

If things didn’t take off quite the way you hoped and you feel like you worked so hard and don’t have much to show for it, remember, this is the end of the year, not the end of your story. Where you go from here is up to you. Let’s talk about planning for 2025 if your year wasn’t so great.

What do you do when you’ve had your best year yet? Let’s talk about how to reflect on a big year so you can move into 2025 set up for success as the kind of business owner you want to be.

Katie Koch and Jess Dyroff are No BS Agencies Mastery success stories. They joined the program soon after they started their business and setting the right course that works for them from the start.

Setting boundaries with your clients is key to managing expectations and client relationships. Equally important are the boundaries you set for yourself, in your life and in your business that will actually help you grow.

Things often go off the rails when you can’t communicate and maintain clear boundaries with clients. That’s when you get scope creep. That’s how everyone ends up unhappy, you and your clients. Let's talk about how to have clearer boundaries for yourself and your business and how to communicate those to your clients.

Whether it’s saying no to a casual invite to an event you’d rather not attend or holding firm to your boundaries in a professional setting, having and communicating clear boundaries can be stressful. But it is absolutely vital to your business for you to develop this skill. 

Eleanor Hancock is a star student inside No BS Agencies Mastery and her transformation over the last couple of years has been absolutely phenomenal to watch. She’s an inspiration to me and in the community, and I know you’ll get so much out of hearing her story.

If you could just make the right social media posts, if you could just make your offer better, if you could just find the people who would pay the high prices, would that make you successful?  What does it really take to be successful as a one to two person branding agency?

Many creatives don’t like talking or even thinking about money. But it is such an important and powerful aspect of your business. If you don’t have a handle on the truth about money and numbers and how it impacts your business and everything else in your life, it can keep you playing really small.

Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur these days.  Start your own business! Be your own boss! It might look glamorous from the outside, but small business owners know, the truth isn’t all that. In this episode, I’m laying down hard truths about what it really means to be an entrepreneur.

I’m sharing some of the biggest hard truths that one-to-two person branding agencies need to hear and learn. In this episode, I share five hard truths that most business coaches won’t tell you about marketing.

Caitlin Lang has been an absolute delight to have in our community and it’s been awesome to watch her take action and transform her business. She shares her journey from the dot com boom to working as a freelance brand designer, to embracing the No BS way after years of struggling with the default way of running a branding agency.

Following up can not only cost you a lot of time in trying to craft a thoughtful email that will hopefully get a response, it can be emotionally draining and frustrating too. Especially when you need or want the work, it feels like there’s a lot on the line. In this episode, I talk about what the default way gets wrong about trying to get a response from prospective clients and what we do instead.

How do you schedule your day? Do you plan your week out? Do you know what you're working on every single day?  Or are you in reactive mode and constantly playing a guessing game for when you’ll hit project milestones? Been there, done that, and trust me, there is a better way.

This month, I’m talking about some common things that we all have to do as agency owners, and the very different way that we do it inside No BS. In this episode, I talk about the difference between the traditional retainers model and the No BS way of doing retainers.