The Seasonal Edit

I met today's guest about two years ago when I was speaking at a local women's entrepreneurship event. She was on a panel discussion at the event and I immediately knew that we had so much in common when it came to how we think about business, strategy, systems, and more! I'm so excited to finally bring her to the podcast today to talk about the profit-first system.

Val Duvick is a wedding photographer-turned business coach and certified Profit First Professional for female creatives with some hot takes and unconventional, but life-centered and life-giving business strategies. She speaks the creative language and is passionate about proving that even creative brains are capable of taking back control of their money and time! If you've heard of profit first but think "it's too complicated" or if numbers in general seem overwhelming to you, this episode will be a breath of fresh air. Val shares how the profit-first system simplifies her monthly financial decisions and has even allowed her to take two paid maternity leaves in two years. Tune into this episode to start paying yourself a regular paycheck this month (yes, it's possible)!

SHOW NOTES: jadeboyd.co/simplifying-profit-first-and-predictable-paydays-with-val-duvick

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• Salary Made Simple Free Guide
• Instagram: @val_marlene_creative
• Website: valmarlene.com

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine, by Mike Michalowicz
• ClickUp

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The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Want to be more intentional about actually enjoying the season you’re in? Download the free Seasonal Living Guide for simple ideas to help you slow down, notice what matters, and make the most of each season—without adding more to your to-do list.

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Most business owners want to slow down and take time off during the summer, but few will actually take the steps they need to take (ahead of time) to make that possible! This summer, I'm completely unplugging from business for 8 weeks, and taking an additional 6 weeks semi-off. But let me warn you: slow summers don't just happen! It takes a lot of intention and planning to take extended time off without sacrificing your paycheck. In this episode, I'm sharing tangible tips for making your dream summer schedule a reality without abandoning your business goals. Press play to live your best life while going after your business growth goals this summer.

SHOW NOTES: jadeboyd.co/refresh-your-life-and-business-routines-for-summer/

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Want to be more intentional about actually enjoying the season you’re in? Download the free Seasonal Living Guide for simple ideas to help you slow down, notice what matters, and make the most of each season—without adding more to your to-do list.

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

If you're struggling with inconsistent sales, the pressures of live launching, or feeling completely stuck in a business you hate, you need to listen to this conversation with Nicki Krawczyk!

As the visionary CEO and Founder of Nicki K Media, Nicki loves to challenge the conventional norms of live launching and traditional evergreen strategies. Her proven methodologies provide course creators with a predictable path to success, freeing them from the stress and limitations of outdated approaches. Her Circuit Sales System helped her grow her business from $40k to $1.6 million in revenue in just a little over two years (yes you read that right).

In this episode, Nicki shares how to create an evergreen funnel that allows you to never live launch again, while driving consistent, predictable sales in your business. She also gives us a peek behind the curtain into how she scaled her business to 7-figures with ONE offer, as well as the mindset and systems shifts she's used to reach multiple 7-figures today. Press play to learn the secret to move from struggling with self-doubt and feeling stuck to attracting multiple 7-figure success in your business.

SHOW NOTES: jadeboyd.co/build-an-evergreen-funnel-with-nicki-krawczyk/

CONNECT WITH GUEST:

• Circuit Sales System Instagram
• Nicki's Instagram
• Website: circuitsalessystem.com

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Nicki's Signature Circuit Sales System
• Build Your Copywriting Business Podcast
• Energize Your Online Business Podcast
• Check out Nicki's free training video

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• The Business Minimalist Blueprint Workbook
• The Business Minimalist Podcast Archive

Mentioned in this episode:

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Want to be more intentional about actually enjoying the season you’re in? Download the free Seasonal Living Guide for simple ideas to help you slow down, notice what matters, and make the most of each season—without adding more to your to-do list.

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

When's the last time you've said to yourself, "I don't have time for that"? If you're an average human being without time travel capabilities, I'd imagine it wasn't that long ago! But have you ever stopped to ask yourself, "Why don't I have time for that"? It's easy to jump to the obvious answers like "my schedule is packed" or "life is just crazy right now", but are those really reasons or just excuses?

Here's the not-so-sexy truth about reaching your business goals... It takes time! And until you can uncover the real reason why you don't have enough time to move your business forward, the hours will not magically appear in your calendar. In this episode, I want to help you uncover the not-so-obvious reasons why you feel like you don't have time. If you can solve the root problem causing your time famine mentality, then your can start making more time for what matters most in your life and business.

SHOW NOTES: jadeboyd.co/the-real-reason-you-dont-have-time/

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Business Edit group coaching program

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• The Business Minimalist Blueprint Workbook
• The Business Minimalist Podcast Archive

Mentioned in this episode:

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Want to be more intentional about actually enjoying the season you’re in? Download the free Seasonal Living Guide for simple ideas to help you slow down, notice what matters, and make the most of each season—without adding more to your to-do list.

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

"Am I ready to scale my business?"

This is a question I get a lot because there are so many misconceptions about what it takes to scale a business. I mean, you don't want to dive into something you're not ready for and risk falling flat on your face, right? But you also don't want to disqualify yourself from taking bold steps in your business even if you're not 100% ready! You can think about scaling your business like having kids. There's no perfect time to do it, and you'll never be 100% ready. But there are certainly things that will make the process easier, and today, I want to help you figure out if your business is "ready enough" to scale.

In this episode, I'm breaking down the four stages to scaling your service based business, how to identify which stage you're in, and how to know if you're ready to scale your business this year.

SHOW NOTES: jadeboyd.co/how-to-know-if-your-business-is-ready-to-scale/

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Business Edit Group Coaching Program
• Episode 70: 4 Ways to Scale your Service Based Business
• Episode 72: Build a Scaleable Offer Suite with Less but Better Offers

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• FREE Weekly Review Checklist
• The Business Minimalist Blueprint Workbook
• The Business Minimalist Podcast Archive

Mentioned in this episode:

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Want to be more intentional about actually enjoying the season you’re in? Download the free Seasonal Living Guide for simple ideas to help you slow down, notice what matters, and make the most of each season—without adding more to your to-do list.

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Are you into spring cleaning? I'm not really into cleaning, and typically couldn't care less if the floors are scrubbed (as long as the clutter has been put away)! However, in the spring, I always get the urge to do a deep clean and declutter of my entire house. I wish I could say that I get that urge as a business owner only once a year too, but in reality, it comes about every 90 days! If you're creative and ambitious, you might get that urge to reset and refresh your business routines every once in a while, too. But what if, instead of taking on a shiny new project to your plate to scratch that itch, you went through a spring cleaning process to get that fresh start feeling instead?

In this episode, I'm sharing 5 practical things that you can deep clean in your business in order to get a fresh start feeling going into spring. Press play to get a little boost of energy to carry you into your next season of business!

SHOW NOTES: jadeboyd.co/spring-clean-in-your-business/

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Quarterly Reset
• Episode 75: The Quarterly Business Reset: How to Reach your Annual Business Goals Faster
• Organize Your Business Course
• Free Resource: Task Batching Workbook
• Pinterest: Planning Tips and Resources
• The Business Edit group coaching program

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• Organize your Business Digital Course
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• FREE Double your Profit While Working Less Masterclass
• FREE Task Batching Workbook
• FREE Weekly Review Checklist
• The Business Minimalist Blueprint Workbook
• The Business Minimalist Podcast Archive

Mentioned in this episode:

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Want to be more intentional about actually enjoying the season you’re in? Download the free Seasonal Living Guide for simple ideas to help you slow down, notice what matters, and make the most of each season—without adding more to your to-do list.

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Have you ever struggled with knowing how to balance maintaining a sense of privacy and building your personal brand as a service provider? Showing up as yourself while also curating an intentional, business-building personal brand can be a difficult path to navigate. Today, I'm excited to share this conversation with my past client, Randi Beranek, a pharmacist turned brand photographer who helps businesses and brands stand out online.

Randi is one of those people who exudes confidence. In any situation I've met her in, it's seemed to me that she was fully showing up as herself. In this episode, Randi is sharing tips and strategies for how to build an authentic personal brand, how to become more confident as a business owner, and also how to take a countercultural, grace-based approach to prioritizing your personal health. Press play to learn how you can build your personal brand just by being yourself.

SHOW NOTES: jadeboyd.co/building-your-personal-brand-with-randi-beranek/

CONNECT WITH GUEST:

• Instagram: @randileaphotography
• Website: www.randileaphotography.com

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Give Em the Bird Podcast
• Coaching Waitlist
• Freebie: 5 Must-Have Visuals for Business Success

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• The Business Minimalist Blueprint Workbook
• The Business Minimalist Podcast Archive

Mentioned in this episode:

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Want to be more intentional about actually enjoying the season you’re in? Download the free Seasonal Living Guide for simple ideas to help you slow down, notice what matters, and make the most of each season—without adding more to your to-do list.

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Everyone is talking about "building community" but few business owners have figured out how to bring people together in a meaningful way. I met today's guest when I was invited to guest present to her membership in early 2023, and I was immediately blown away by the type of community she'd built. Not only that, I was intrigued by the structure of her membership, how many people she was serving, and how many ways the membership was benefiting her business overall.

Sabrina Gebhardt is a lifestyle photographer of more than 13 years in Fort Worth, Texas and a business coach to photographers and other creative entrepreneurs. She's scaled her service-based business through multiple offers, and today, she's sharing her secret to building a membership offer that's profitable, sustainable, and builds real community!

If you're considering adding a membership to your offer suite, but are overwhelmed by how to structure it, what to charge, and how to get engaged members in a lower-ticket offer, this one's for you! Press play to learn how to scale your business through a membership offer.

SHOW NOTES: jadeboyd.co/scale-your-business-with-a-membership/

CONNECT WITH GUEST:

• Instagram: @sabrinagebhardtphotography
• Website: www.sabrinagebhardt.com
• Sabrina's Round Table community membership
• Shoot it Straight Podcast

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Atomic Habits, by James Clear
• The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, by John C. Maxwell

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• FREE Task Batching Workbook
• FREE Weekly Review Checklist
• The Business Minimalist Blueprint Workbook
• The Business Minimalist Podcast Archive

Mentioned in this episode:

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Want to be more intentional about actually enjoying the season you’re in? Download the free Seasonal Living Guide for simple ideas to help you slow down, notice what matters, and make the most of each season—without adding more to your to-do list.

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

I grew up on a farm in the midwest, so I'm very familiar with the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality, and I don't shy away from doing work that's hard. HOWEVER, and this is a big however, we do not live in the time economy anymore. In the time economy, the more hours you put in, the more money you make. This was the height of the industrial revolution and where we got the lovely 40 hour work week. But now, we live in a knowledge economy, where it doesn't matter how many hours you work. You get paid for the value that you bring to the table, and this is true for many 9-5 jobs but also for freelancers and service providers.

And yet, so many of us still fall into the trap of believing that in order to reach our goals, business or otherwise, we better work hard or else. It seems almost sacrilegious to say that working hard isn't something to be valued since our society puts so much emphasis on it, but there will come a point in your business or really any area of your life where working harder won't help you get better results. Everything has a tipping point, and the law of diminishing returns applies to this situation as well.

I don't think we stop often enough to ask ourselves, "how could this be easier?" because we assume and prematurely accept that it's going to be hard. And today, I want to share why I believe that working hard won't help you make more money in your business as a service provider. In fact, I strongly believe that the least effort your business requires of you, the more successful you'll ultimately be. It seems counterintuitive at first, but I hope to change your mind!

SHOW NOTES: jadeboyd.co/the-harder-you-work-the-less-you-make/

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Episode 19: Is the 40 Hour Work Week Really Productive?
• Effortless, by Greg McKeown
• Episode 66: Are Your Services Priced to Scale?
• Episode 34: How to Align your Business to your Strengths with Arica Ohloff

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LEVEL UP YOUR BUSINESS + PRODUCTIVITY

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• FREE Double your Profit While Working Less Masterclass
• FREE Task Batching Workbook
• FREE Weekly Review Checklist
• The Business Minimalist Blueprint Workbook
• The Business Minimalist Podcast Archive

Mentioned in this episode:

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Want to be more intentional about actually enjoying the season you’re in? Download the free Seasonal Living Guide for simple ideas to help you slow down, notice what matters, and make the most of each season—without adding more to your to-do list.

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

I recently read that as many as one in three entrepreneurs struggle with depression and burnout and 95% of entrepreneurs are unsure of how to achieve a healthy work-life balance. Here's why this is so important: when we don't manage and address stress in our life, it will inevitably lead to burnout. You can't sweep your stress under the rug and hope it goes away. You have to learn how to manage your stress levels if you want to build a sustainable business.

In a recent podcast episode, 4 Business Lessons I've Learned the Hard Way, I mentioned that I've recently noticed how much of an impact stress has on my business. Over the past 6 months, I've been focussing on reducing stress triggers and learning how to process unavoidable stress. Today, I'm going to deep dive into the things I've found to be helpful in dealing with stress as a business owner in hopes that you'll be able to pick up a strategy or two and declutter some stress in your own business too.

SHOW NOTES: jadeboyd.co/stress-and-anxiety-as-a-business-owner/

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Episode 071: 4 Business Lessons I've Learned the Hard Way
• 11 Scary Truths about Mental Health and Entrepreneurship
• ClickUp
• Organize your Business course
• Journaling Prompts Pinterest board
• Common Planner 5 Year Journal
• Unbound 5 Year Journal
• Episode 067: My 2024 Planning Stack
• The Best Planners Blog Post

CONNECT WITH JADE

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LEVEL UP YOUR BUSINESS + PRODUCTIVITY

• Organize your Business Digital Course
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FREE RESOURCES

• FREE Double your Profit While Working Less Masterclass
• FREE Task Batching Workbook
• FREE Weekly Review Checklist
• The Business Minimalist Blueprint Workbook
• The Business Minimalist Podcast Archive

Mentioned in this episode:

The Free Seasonal Living Guide

Want to be more intentional about actually enjoying the season you’re in? Download the free Seasonal Living Guide for simple ideas to help you slow down, notice what matters, and make the most of each season—without adding more to your to-do list.

The Free Seasonal Living Guide