E. 226: Be a Great Boss To Yourself

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.

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Pia Silva
E. 221: The Power of Having Clear Boundaries With Clients

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.

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E. 220: The Great Thing About Boundaries

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. 

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E. 217: Telling It Like It Is: Hard Truths About Money

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.

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E. 213: The No BS Way: Following Up

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.

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E. 212: The No BS Way: Scheduling Your Time

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.

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E. 211: The No BS Way: Retainers

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.

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E. 209: Kris Byers: From Frustrated Creative to Positive, Confident Business Owner at the Helm of Horrible Brands

Kris Byers  has been on an absolute rocket ship ride inside No BS Agencies Mastery. He has transformed his business and achieved phenomenal results and become a real leader and inspiration in our community. I chatted with him about what exactly he did, how his process changed, and how he’s successfully applying the No BS philosophy to even larger clients with big projects.

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E. 208: Don't Do This: On Niching

Niching is about more than just picking an industry you want to work with. In this episode, I talk through three big mistakes I see people doing both inside our program and out in the world when it comes to niching.

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E. 207: Don't Do This: On Pricing

Pricing your services is an art and it’s something people struggle with all the time. It also happens to be one of my favorite things to help people reconsider and fix so that they can build successful, sustainable businesses full of the flexibility and freedom they desire.

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