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.

In this episode, I chat with Jeremy Schwartz, Squarespace’s Director of Channel Partner Business, about what makes Squarespace such a powerful tool for creatives and designers and how it can help you build your business.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve worked with hundreds of one-to-two person branding agencies over the last few years, and I see people make the same mistakes over and over again. No matter how we address it in our curriculum, or how many times I talk about it, there are certain things that people in our industry gravitate towards doing that aren’t doing them any favors. This month, I want to dig into some of the mistakes I see people make all the time, in our program and out in the world, that I think you should avoid at all costs.

Erika Stanley has truly mastered the No BS model and has done an amazing job finding more freedom, space, and enjoyment in her life in a way that I know so many entrepreneurs wish they could. In this conversation, she shares her story of going from agency employee to No BS owner.

This month, I’m talking about my why. Why I do what I do, what motivates me, and what has made me the business owner I am today.  And today, I’m going to answer one of my most frequently asked questions. Why start No BS Agencies Mastery?

This month, I’m talking about the big “why” and how it’s so powerful for keeping you going through the tough times. In this episode, I share how I discovered my “big mission”.