The Smart Gets Paid Podcast Leah Neaderthal

Sometimes life throws us a curveball that hits us right in the feels, which can also wreak havoc on your business. How do you recover from setbacks and bounce back even stronger? In this episode, Leah chats with Joanna Lovering, an executive presence and leadership coach and consultant, who shares how she navigated a personal difficulty and helped her business bounce back stronger than ever.

A client relationship, like any relationship, is based on mutual respect. When you sense that a client doesn’t respect your work, the relationship can become toxic. Then you’re left wondering: how did I get here? And how do I ensure it won’t happen again? In this episode, Leah helps a client who’s struggling with those questions, and together they discuss how to attract clients who respect your expertise.

When consultants are asked what they need to make more money and grow their business, most say ”more leads.” But you actually don’t need as many leads as you think. In this episode, Leah shares the real problem most consultants face (and how to solve it), so you can stop spending so much energy focusing on leads, and get paid more for each client engagement.

Do you find yourself yearning to be recognized as a strategic partner by your clients? Are you tired of getting stuck in tactical execution work? Then you’re going to want to listen to this episode. In this insightful podcast episode, consultants Sarah and Corey Jackson share their transformative journey from being stuck in the weeds of tactical execution to becoming sought-after strategic consultants. They share the steps they took to shift their focus and win over clients who now see them as invaluable strategic partners. If you’re ready to shift from execution to strategic consulting, this is the episode for you.

When we take a marketing or sales action towards getting a new consulting client, we all have that little voice that tell us we shouldn’t, or we can’t, or who are we to think...? We lovingly call this ”head trash,” and it’s the silent confidence killer that can make you play small in your consulting business. In this episode, listen in as we explore the head trash that comes up in selling, and how to overcome it.

When your consulting business is doing well, it can feel like you got there through luck. But then the thought pops into your head: what if your luck runs out? In this conversation with consultant Meghan Goff, you’ll hear how that fear showed up for her, what she did to quiet the fear, and how she learned to not only maintain her business but grow it dramatically.