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The Get Sh!t Done Podcast teaches entrepreneurs & visionary business leaders how to successfully grow game-changing businesses. We're revolutionizing the rules of business success by featuring real talk from visionary entrepreneurs who’ve scaled $1M+ businesses on their terms. Hosted by Alex Batdorf, 3X entrepreneur & CEO of Get Sh!t Done, each episode reveals the stories, steps, & tools that powered badass business growth. This is a movement designing businesses that energize & empower you to achieve YOUR vision of success. Signup for Weekly Growth Playbooks— shegetsshitdone.com/join

  1. 2D AGO

    #151: She Built a $1M+ Company But Owned Nothing: How to Build a Personal Brand That Survives Your Business (Lisa Bragg, MediaFace) 2023

    You built the company. You are the company. And that can feel like a strength until something goes wrong and you realize you have nowhere to stand that wasn't inside that one entity you'd poured everything into. That's the trap most founders don't see until they're already in it. This week, Lisa Bragg joins us. She's a former broadcast journalist, founder of Media Face, and author of Bragging Rights. She built a multi-million dollar content company in Canada through government contracts and journalistic credibility and then hit a legal situation that made her want to walk away. She couldn't. Not because the situation required her to stay, but because she'd never built herself as a portable asset. That crisis became the clarity that changed everything. What we break down: The RFP unlock: How Lisa turned a failed government bid into a feedback loop — and why the debrief she requested was worth more than the contract she didn't getThe identity trap: What happens when your company's reputation and your personal credibility are the same thing, and one of them hits a wallMarketing to your future self: The specific framing shift Lisa made to stop leading with where she'd been and start signaling where she was goingThe gazelle decision: How Lisa scaled back from 12 to 20 employees, made more money, and slept better — and why she calls that successBragging as service: The reframe that makes self-promotion feel less like ego and more like clarity for the people you're meant to helpThis episode is for you if you've ever realized your business is growing but you personally feel stuck, if you're doing great work and nobody outside your immediate network knows it, or if you've thought about a second revenue stream but can't figure out where you'd even begin. The paid playbook this week goes deep on all three plays: building portable credibility outside your company, using government RFPs as a scalable revenue channel, and signaling your future positioning before you have the receipts to prove it. Become a paid subscriber and get this week's playbook HERE

    1h 6m

  2. MAY 6

    150: How She Built an $864 Million Empire (Mary Ellen Pleasant)

    The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act. A law people marched for, bled for, died for. And if you're paying attention, it's hard not to feel like the ground is shifting under everything you've built. Rights that took decades to embed into law are being rolled back in real time. And the question underneath all of it is the same one founders have always had to answer: how do you build something durable inside a system that was never designed for you to win? Here's what history keeps showing me. This is not new. This is the same playbook that gets run every time Black people, women, and communities that were never supposed to have power start accumulating too much of it. The mechanism doesn't change. Only the legal instrument does. Mary Ellen Pleasant figured this out in 1852. She arrived in San Francisco as a Black woman with no legal right to testify in court if someone robbed her, built what would today be worth nearly $864 million, secretly funded John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, and won a civil rights case against streetcar segregation nearly a century before it became a national conversation. And then the courts found a way to take almost all of it back. Not because she wasn't brilliant. Because her assets were in someone else's name. In this episode, we break down: The access play she ran in 1852 that most founders are still sleeping on: She arrived with $50,000 in gold and took a cook's job. Not because she had to. Because it got her into rooms where the most powerful men in California talked freely about deals that hadn't been announced yet. She was taking notes.How she stacked a near half-billion dollar portfolio in three layers: Service businesses funded access. Access generated intelligence. Intelligence funded investments that compounded without her showing up every day.What actually brought it all down: When her partner Thomas Bell died, his widow went to court and claimed everything. Pleasant had built it all and could not legally prove it was hers. Teresa Bell didn't need to be malicious to win. She just needed paper that Pleasant didn't have.The four things founders can do differently today: From ownership documentation to building equity that doesn't depend on anyone's goodwill to survive.What she chose to put on her tombstone: Not "millionaire." Not "entrepreneur." Four words that tell you exactly what she understood capital to be for.This episode is for you if you're in a partnership that runs more on trust than documentation, if you're building a service business and haven't started converting that income into compounding assets yet, or if you've been watching what's happening politically and wondering what it actually means for what you're building. 🔥 Want to go deeper? This week's paid Growth Playbook breaks down the three-layer wealth structure Pleasant used and how to map it to your business, a step-by-step ownership audit you can run this week, and low-cost legal resources for founders who need to close documentation gaps without a big attorney budget. Paid subscribers also get access to The Collective, our private WhatsApp community where founders are digging into this week's topic together right now. 👉 Become a paid subscriber and get this week's playbook here: https://shegetsshitdone.substack.com/subscribe

    43 min

  3. APR 29

    149: 150 Employees to Fractional-First: The Operating Model Founders Need as AI Dismantles Corporate America (Amy Sterner Nelson, The Riveter)

    The companies telling their employees "we're a family" are the same ones laying off thousands in a press release. The startups that raised money and hired fast to look sophisticated are now burning through runway and calling it an AI problem. And the founders who came out of corporate to build something different are, in a lot of cases, quietly rebuilding the same broken model at a smaller scale without realizing it. This is the moment that forces the question: if the old operating model is collapsing, what do you build instead? Amy Nelson left a career as a litigator at 37 — two kids, no business background, no marketing training — to build The Riveter. She raised $30 million, scaled to 150 employees, and operated co-working spaces in 10 cities across six states. Then COVID shut it down almost overnight. What she built after that looked nothing like what came before. Fractional teams. AI-compressed workflows. A membership model for women learning to generate income entirely on their own terms. She didn't pivot within the system. She rejected the operating model. What We Break Down: Why the social contract is structurally dead — not weakening: How corporate's "family" framing was always a compensation strategy, what that means for founders who've inherited that language, and what an honest agreement with your team actually looks likeAI as scapegoat vs. AI as actual disruption: Why a lot of what's being called AI-driven restructuring is really overhiring correction — and why that distinction matters for how you buildThe fractional-first operating model: How companies like Lettuce Financial are building entire teams on contractor relationships, why VCs are starting to align with it, and how to map your own team against actual outcomesHeadcount as performance vs. headcount as strategy: The hiring math that tells you whether a role is closing a real gap or just making the company look seriousAI as a time sovereignty tool: How Amy cut a 10-hour content workflow to 90 minutes, what she does with the time she gets back, and why the goal was never productivityIn this week's paid playbook, we break down the fractional-first operating model, the exact sequence to run before any hiring decision, and the workflow mapping exercise that tells you where AI can give you your time back. The Collective is where you take this work and actually apply it alongside other founders building in real time. Become a paid subscriber and get this week's playbook here: https://shegetsshitdone.substack.com/subscribe⁠

    52 min

  4. APR 15

    148: How to Turn What You Do for Free Into Paying Clients

    Let's be honest about something. When revenue slows down, the instinct is to go build something new. Like a new offer, product, etc. And meanwhile, people are already coming to you repeatedly, for free, for something you've been doing for years without charging for it. That's not a coincidence. That's demand. And in this episode, we're getting into exactly what to do with it. This is a community episode pulled straight from a recent collaboration circle inside Get Sh!t Done. We stopped asking "what should I build to make more money" and started asking "what do people already ask me for that I'm not getting paid for?" We break down: The Easy Money Filter: How to know if an expertise offer is actually worth pursuing or just more work you don't have bandwidth forWhy Your Expertise Buyer Probably Isn't Your Primary Customer: The real estate founder in our community who had two completely different buyers and didn't know it. Once she separated them, the revenue got real.How to Build the Offer Without Building a Business: The e-com founder who has multiple paying clients with no website, no brand, and no business plan. Because she stopped saying "that's just something I do" and started saying here's what I charge.The Question That Changes Everything: What we asked in the collaboration circle that made the whole room shift and how to run it yourself this weekWhat's Actually Not in Your Control: The systemic stuff that makes this harder for some founders than others and why that's not a personal failureThis episode is for you if you're in a revenue gap right now, if you're building something new and need income while you do it, or if you've been giving away something valuable and haven't quite let yourself charge for it yet. 🔥 Want to go deeper? This week's paid Growth Playbook breaks down the full framework including the exact questions to ask yourself, who to talk to first, and the copy-ready message to send to make your first ask this week. Paid subscribers also get access to The Collective, our private WhatsApp community where founders are working through this exact play together right now. 👉 Become a paid subscriber and get this week's playbook here: https://shegetsshitdone.substack.com/subscribe⁠

    33 min

  5. APR 8

    #147: How to Build a Product Customers Will Fund Before It Exists (Morgan Hewett, Devin Toys)

    Meet Morgan Hewett, 2X founder with 1 exit under belt, and now, CEO of Devin, an AI-powered sex tech company rethinking how women experience pleasure, connection, and autonomy. After building and exiting her first AI startup, Morgan changed how she builds. Instead of raising fast and figuring things out later, she focused on something most founders avoid: getting customers to pay before the product is fully built. In this episode, Morgan breaks down how she’s using customer co-creation, social media, and pre-sales to validate demand, move faster, and build a company that can be funded by customers, not just investors. From turning content into a real-time focus group to challenging the obsession with fundraising, this is a masterclass in building with signal instead of assumptions. 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode: How to Validate Demand Before You Build: Why Morgan skipped the waitlist and went straight to pre-sales—and what that unlocked for her business.How to Turn Social Media Into a Growth Engine: The exact way she uses content to recruit, validate product decisions, and stay top of mind with customers.Why Overraising Can Hurt You: What she learned from raising millions in her first company and how it impacted her outcome at exit.How to Build With Your Customer (Not Just for Them): How she uses social media as a live feedback loop to co-create her product in real time.How to Move Faster With Less Risk: Why getting to payment earlier changes how you make decisions, prioritize features, and launch.🔥 Want the exact frameworks behind this episode? Get the weekly Growth Playbook where we break down how founders actually grow, with step-by-step frameworks you can apply immediately, and a community you can connect with to get feedback 👉 Subscribe here: https://shegetsshitdone.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 3m

  6. APR 1

    #146: How Smart Founders Make Money While Their Business Is Still Growing (Dawn Dickson)

    Meet Dawn Dickson, founder of PopCom and one of the first Black women to raise over $1M through equity crowdfunding, who has raised over $7M and helped other founders raise $50M+. While most founders are told their business should eventually “take care of them,” Dawn took a different approach. After navigating venture funding, stalled momentum, and market shifts, she realized something most people don’t say out loud: your business isn’t always built to support your life in real time. So instead of forcing it to, she built income alongside it. From scaling her consulting business from $300K to $3M, to selling founder shares for personal liquidity, to building multiple income streams and investments, Dawn created a model that allowed her to keep building without putting herself on the line financially. In this episode, Dawn breaks down how she separated her business growth timeline from her personal financial stability, and what founders can do right now to stop putting all the pressure on one company. 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode: How to Make Money While Your Business Is Still Growing: Why relying on one company to fund your life creates pressure and what to do instead.How to Turn Your Expertise Into Real Income: How Dawn scaled consulting and partnerships into a multi-million dollar revenue stream.How to Create Personal Liquidity (Without Waiting for an Exit): The exact move she made to sell founder shares and secure her financial future.How to Build Income Streams That Support Your Business: Why parallel income changes how you operate and make decisions.How to Reduce Financial Pressure So You Can Build Smarter: The connection between personal stability and better long-term business decisions.🔥 Take the Free Traction Quiz: Feeling stuck or scattered? Discover your next best move to gain traction based on where you are and where you're headed. 👉 ⁠Take the Quiz HERE⁠ https://form.typeform.com/to/j6LscUHF 🚀 Get weekly Growth Playbooks and access to a community designed to help you collaborate, get unstuck, and make meaningful progress. 👉 Subscribe & Join: https://shegetsshitdone.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 1m

  7. MAR 25

    #145: The #1 Thing Quietly Killing Your Revenue (Rochelle Carrington, Emotional Blueprinting)

    Meet Rochelle Carrington, founder of Emotional Blueprinting and former sales leader who built a seven-figure business before uncovering the hidden factor slowing down high-performing founders. Most founders think when growth stalls, the answer is more effort. More discipline. More consistency. But what Rochelle found, both in her own company and working with leaders, is that pushing harder often makes things worse. In this episode, Rochelle breaks down performance drag, the accumulated emotional load that quietly interferes with how you think, decide, and execute. And why your nervous system, not your strategy, is often the real bottleneck to growth. 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode: How Performance Drag Slows Your Revenue: Why things start to feel heavier as you grow and how it impacts your execution without you realizing it.Why More Effort Backfires: The conditioning that tells founders to push harder and how that actually compounds friction.How to Catch Forced Execution in Real Time: The subtle signals that you’re operating from pressure instead of clarity.How to Decide How You Want to Feel Before You Execute: A simple shift that changes how you show up in sales, decisions, and leadership.How to Improve Execution Without Changing Strategy: Why removing internal friction leads to faster follow-through and more consistent results.🔥 Take the Free Traction Quiz: Feeling stuck or scattered? Discover your next best move to gain traction based on where you are and where you're headed. 👉 ⁠Take the Quiz HERE⁠ https://form.typeform.com/to/j6LscUHF 🚀 Growth happens faster when you’re not doing it alone. Get weekly Growth Playbooks and access to a community designed to help you collaborate, get unstuck, and make meaningful progress. 👉 Subscribe & Join: https://shegetsshitdone.substack.com/subscribe

    58 min

  8. MAR 11

    144: How Community Led to a $250K Contract Now Worth 7-Figures (Diane Strand, JDS Productions)

    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.🔥 Take the Free Traction Quiz: Feeling stuck or scattered? Discover your next best move to gain traction based on where you are and where you're headed.👉 Take the Quiz HERE https://form.typeform.com/to/j6LscUHF 🚀 Whether you’re a founder, operator, or ecosystem builder—growth happens faster when you’re not doing it alone. Get weekly Growth Playbooks and access to a community designed to help you collaborate, get unstuck, and make meaningful progress. 👉 Subscribe & Join: https://shegetsshitdone.substack.com/subscribe

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The Get Sh!t Done Podcast teaches entrepreneurs & visionary business leaders how to successfully grow game-changing businesses. We're revolutionizing the rules of business success by featuring real talk from visionary entrepreneurs who’ve scaled $1M+ businesses on their terms. Hosted by Alex Batdorf, 3X entrepreneur & CEO of Get Sh!t Done, each episode reveals the stories, steps, & tools that powered badass business growth. This is a movement designing businesses that energize & empower you to achieve YOUR vision of success. Signup for Weekly Growth Playbooks— shegetsshitdone.com/join

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  • Creator
    Get Sh!t Done
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    169
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    © Get Sh!t Done
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