Meet Diane Strand, founder of JDS Video & Media Productions and JDS Creative Academy, who built a multi-million dollar company by doing something many founders overlook: showing up in community and starting real conversations.

When Diane and her husband launched their production company, they didn’t start with funnels or complicated marketing strategies. They started by introducing themselves to businesses, learning what people needed, and building relationships inside their local ecosystem. Those conversations led to enterprise clients like Pfizer and Bragg Orthopedics and eventually to a $250K contract that’s still generating seven-figure value today.

But Diane’s story goes far beyond landing big clients.

Through her involvement in community organizations, she also created a training program for adults with developmental disabilities entering the creative industry, an initiative that now generates seven figures in revenue while helping people launch meaningful careers.

💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to Turn Conversations Into Real Business Opportunities: The simple outreach strategy Diane used to move from cold introductions to boardroom meetings with enterprise clients.
• How to Structure Projects So Cash Flow Stays Predictable: Diane’s milestone billing framework that keeps projects organized and prevents work from drifting into unpaid chaos.
• How to Build Visibility That Actually Leads to Clients: Why turning your completed work into proof-of-service credibility helps people trust you faster.
• How Community Creates Opportunities You Can’t Predict: The story behind how one chamber introduction led to a seven-figure program and long-term impact.
• How to Reverse Engineer Revenue Goals: Diane’s approach to breaking big financial goals into milestones you can track and execute throughout the year.

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Meet Bea Arthur, licensed therapist turned YC-backed founder who helped put online therapy on the map.
Bea launched one of the earliest online therapy startups, became the first Black female founder in Y Combinator, built the first Alexa skill for mental health, and worked with enterprise partners like MetLife. But her real edge is that she’s lived both sides of the pressure: building in high-stakes tech while watching founders quietly break under the weight of performance culture.

In this episode, Bea breaks down why “therapy talk” is everywhere but founder distress is still rising, how misalignment shows up as anxiety long before it shows up as failure, and what it actually looks like to build a business that does not require you to abandon your people, your body, or your peace.

💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

• Strong Seed, Wrong Soil: How to recognize when your business model or ecosystem is misaligned and what to change before the wheels fall off.
• The Founder Performance Tax: Why “fake it till you make it” costs everything and how to build without sacrificing your relationships and sanity.
• Therapy Without the Price Tag: What to do when you cannot afford $300 sessions, including the communities and lower-cost therapy pathways Bea recommends.
• The White Man Within: How to access the confidence and entitlement that moves fast in business without recreating the same ruthless, extractive patterns.

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Meet Maggie Lena Walker, the first woman in the United States to charter and own a bank and the architect behind one of the most powerful economic ecosystems in American history.

Born in 1864, in the final year of the Civil War, Maggie survived Reconstruction and Jim Crow by building infrastructure. When political rights were stripped away and violence ran rampant, she didn’t beg for inclusion. She stabilized capital, redirected spending, and built media. And when the Great Depression hit, she consolidated instead of collapsing.

This is not just a history lesson. It's a blueprint for how to persist today.

💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to Strengthen Your Core Revenue Engine Before Expanding: Why Maggie formalized the bank before launching anything else and how to stabilize your primary offer first.

• How Hiring Becomes Economic Strategy: Why payroll decisions shape power, loyalty, and long-term revenue stability.
• How to Redirect Consumption to Increase Leverage: What the St. Luke Emporium and streetcar boycott teach us about where money flows and why it matters.
• Why Owning Your Communication Channel Protects Revenue: How the St. Luke Herald became coordination infrastructure and why founders can’t build on rented platforms alone.
• When to Consolidate Instead of Compete: How merging Black-owned banks during the Great Depression ensured survival and what that means for founders navigating tighter markets today.

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Meet Christina Blacken, founder of The New Quo and one of the sharpest narrative strategists working today.

As access tightens, contracts get redlined, and equity language quietly disappears from scopes of work, many founders, operators, and ecosystem builders are asking the same question:
How do you protect your business without becoming complicit?

Christina has trained over 25,000 leaders on how narrative intelligence shapes power, trust, and decision-making inside institutions. In a backlash cycle she calls “The Great Retraction,” she argues that business outcomes aren’t just economic, they’re narrative. The dominant stories circulating in the market influence procurement, partnerships, investor behavior, and risk tolerance long before policies change.

In this episode, Christina breaks down how to read the moment clearly, assess your leverage, and choose your response strategically without shrinking your values or your vision.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How Dominant Narratives Shape Business Outcomes: Why stalled contracts and tightened funding aren’t always personal failure and how to identify the story influencing decision-makers.
• The Power Audit Framework: How to assess your financial, social, skill, and platform capital before making public or private moves.
• Strategic Containment vs Performative Speech: When quiet coalition-building builds more leverage than loud positioning and when silence becomes avoidance.
• How to Avoid the Fear Trap: Separating real financial exposure from worst-case storytelling so you don’t freeze your own growth.
• Narrative Ownership in Practice: How to define the story your business advances before backlash defines it for you.
• How to Signal Alignment Without Self-Erasure: Protecting your runway while still building a future that is equitable and opportunistic.

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It's my 1st solo episode, y'all! And I'm breaking down one of the most overlooked growth levers founders, operators, and ecosystem builders have access to right now.

As 2026 continues to reshape how businesses grow, scale, and stay stable, many of the strategies that used to work simply don’t hit the same. Funding feels harder to access. Corporate jobs feel less reliable. And builders are being forced to make sharper decisions with fewer resources.

In this episode of the Get Sh!t Done Podcast, I'll walk you through why guessing what to build next is one of the most expensive mistakes you can make and how to get consent so you know where to unlock revenue.

This is a simple unlock I've used from years of training thousands of entrepreneurs and designing revenue-first programs with cities and economic development offices.

💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why Surveys Alone Don’t Tell the Full Story: How poorly designed surveys lead founders to solve the wrong problems and what to do instead.

• The 3 Questions That Reveal Real Revenue Opportunities: The exact questions Alex uses to uncover what customers actually want and would pay to fix.

• How to Turn Conversations Into Patterns You Can Trust: A clear framework for analyzing feedback without overthinking or forcing insights.

• How to Build With Consent, Not Vibes: Why customer feedback is the fastest way to know when to lean in, slow down, or stop forcing an idea.

• How to Translate Feedback Into a Confident Next Move: Whether that’s a pivot, an optimization, or a small test, without blowing up what’s already working.

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Meet Gaby Neves, President and co-owner of Factory360 — one of the largest independently owned experiential marketing agencies in the country.

In an ecosystem that consistently downplays service-based businesses as “lifestyle,” Gaby quietly built a company with 50+ employees, blue-chip clients, and systems that actually hold under growth.

This conversation is about what it really takes to grow a service-based business, when revenue depends on people, delivery, cash flow timing, and trust.

In this episode, Gaby breaks down how she turned early career opportunities into long-term leverage, built a referral-driven revenue engine, and created the operational and financial infrastructure required to scale an agency without chaos.

💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to Build Early Career Leverage: The specific moves Gaby made to turn short-term gigs into long-term industry opportunity.
• How Service Businesses Actually Drive Revenue: Why relationship-based selling and referrals became Factory360’s growth engine.
• The Systems Required to Scale an Agency: What needs to be in place across HR, roles, and operations before growth breaks you.
• The Financial Habits Behind a Healthy Agency: How monthly P&Ls, project-level margins, and the right finance partners changed everything.
• How to Navigate Access to Capital as a Service Business: What’s systemic, what’s in your control, and how to stay positioned without self-blame.

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Meet Christina Alessi, founder of Sfera Agency and one of the most trusted voices in the speaking industry — the person behind the scenes helping who actually gets booked and who gets rebooked.

Christina spent years selling keynotes alongside Simon Sinek, watching hundreds of would-be speakers chase stages, burn money, and confuse exposure with demand. She’s seen the fantasy from the inside and she’s not here to sell it to you.

In this episode, Christina pulls the rug out from under the speaking-industrial complex and starts with the question most people avoid: who should not be a speaker? From there, we get radically practical about what actually works if you do want to get paid and get people to care.

💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

• Who Shouldn’t Be a Speaker (And the Red Flags You’re Ignoring): Why being “good at talking” isn’t enough and the signals you’re about to waste time, money, and energy.
• How to Define the Message Only You Can Own: The difference between studied expertise and embodied experience and why interchangeable thought leaders don’t get booked twice.
• How to Tailor Your Talk Without Chasing Trends: Christina’s approach to adapting one core message across industries while still standing for something real.
• The Most Practical Pricing Roadmap You’ve Never Heard: How speaking fees actually increase over time, what price jumps make sense, and why random numbers kill credibility.
• How to Get Paid, Baby (For Real): How demand is built, why prospecting backfires, and how speaking turns into real revenue .

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Meet Jacquees Anderson — former Harvard Law grad, corporate M&A attorney, startup operator, and co-founder of a venture-backed company that raised over $160 million.

On paper, Jacquees did everything “right.” She followed the path, built at scale, and operated inside high-growth environments. But during a deeply personal season of caregiving, she realized something critical: the way she was working — and leading — was completely out of alignment with how she was designed to operate.

In this episode of Get Sh!t Done, Jacquees breaks down how Human Design became a practical operating system for her work, leadership, and decision-making — not as a personality test, but as a framework founders, operators, and ecosystem builders can actually use to grow sustainably.

This is a tactical conversation about energy, alignment, and structure and how understanding your design helps you stop forcing productivity, make better decisions, and scale without burning out.

💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to Use Human Design as a Business Operating System: What Human Design actually is and how founders can apply it to work, leadership, and growth.
• The 5 Human Design Types at Work: How each type is meant to operate, lead, and make decisions and why copying other founders’ strategies often backfires.
• How to Spot Misalignment Before Burnout Hits: The “check-engine lights” that signal when something in your business or role needs to change.
• How to Make Better Decisions Faster: Why authority matters more than instinct and how knowing yours removes second-guessing.
• How to Protect Your Energy While Scaling: Using Human Design to collaborate better, clarify roles, and reduce friction on teams.

If you’ve ever felt like the strategies that used to work suddenly stopped working or like you’re doing everything “right” but still feel exhausted, this episode will help you understand why, and what to do instead.

Tools

• Discover Your Human Design here 
• Learn How to Work with Jacques here
• Connect with Jacquest on LinkedIn and Instagram

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This is our last episode of 2025! We'll see you back here in January 2026 <3

Meet Sehreen Noor Ali, a zero-to-one founder who made one of the hardest decisions in entrepreneurship: letting go of a business that was technically working.

Sehreen co-founded Sleuth, a venture-backed pediatric health startup that reached 64,000+ families, earned Fast Company recognition, and achieved a $3 CAC in an industry where the average is $168. On paper, the company was strong. But behind the scenes, market shifts, a caregiving crisis, and growing founder depletion forced a deeper reckoning.

In this Founder Confession episode of Get Sh!t Done, Sehreen pulls back the curtain on what it actually looks like to evaluate alignment, confront sunk-cost thinking, and walk away with integrity, without burning bridges or losing yourself in the process.

💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to Grow Through Trust (Not Hustle): How Sleuth built demand by positioning around shared identity, transparency, and community—leading to 64,000+ engaged families.
• How to Tell When the Math Stops Mathing: The questions Sehreen used to evaluate whether continuing, pivoting, or shutting down was the right move.
• How Founder Depletion Shows Up Before Burnout: The early signals that quietly distort decision-making and how to recognize them in your own business.
• How to Navigate Hard Conversations With Integrity: The framework Sehreen used to communicate her decision clearly to investors and stakeholders.
• How to Rebuild What’s Next With Intention: How Sehreen rebuilt her work through Te Cura Labs, including finding her ICP, packaging her expertise, and going upmarket to create sustainable revenue.

If you’re an entrepreneur, operator, or ecosystem leader navigating a crossroads or quietly wondering if it’s time to let something go—we hope this episode will help you slow down, get honest, and choose your next move without guilt.

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Most founders dream about launching a membership because they want predictable recurring revenue.

But here’s the truth: recurring revenue only works when you create recurring value.

This week, we’re joined by Mike Morrison, co-founder of Membership Academy and one of the most trusted experts in the membership space. Over the past decade, Mike has helped thousands of founders build high-retention membership businesses that grow sustainably.

When Mike launched his first membership, nothing about it suggested it would become a 7-figure recurring revenue engine. He didn’t have a massive audience. He didn’t have a huge content library. What he did have was a deep understanding of what his audience cared about and the systems to support them over time.

In this episode, Mike breaks down what most founders get wrong about memberships and the exact strategies that make the model work.

• How to Diagnose Member Motivation: The 4 Member Motivators that reveal what your audience truly values—and why people actually stay.

• How to Validate Your Idea With Real Buyers: Mike’s Paid Masterclass Test that shows you if your membership will work before you spend months building it.

• How to Design a Membership That Gets Wins, Not Overwhelm: The simple framework structure that helps members make progress without drowning you in content creation.

• How to Price for Predictable Recurring Revenue: The Founder → Step-Up → Legacy pricing model that builds trust, momentum, and long-term MRR.

• How to Keep Members for Years: The onboarding, feedback loops, and “fire yourself” systems that turn a membership from stressful… to sustainable.

Whether you're building your first membership or reviving one that hasn’t hit its stride, this is the roadmap most founders never get and the one that makes recurring revenue actually work.

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