Stop Leading with Your CV: Why Your Credentials Are Repelling Your Ideal Clients
You spent years building your credentials—the PhD, the publications, the speaking engagements, the teaching experience.So when you launched your freelance editing or coaching business, it felt natural...
30 Apr 21min
"I Wish I Hadn't Waited So Long": How to Build a Business With Your Academic Expertise
You stayed. You pushed through. You asked for help—and got gaslit instead.If that just hit a little too close to home, this episode is for you.Julia Gray's post-academic path included a government job...
23 Apr 42min
My First Online Course Flopped (and What I Did to Sell 120 Seats in the Next One)
You've been sitting on a course idea for months. Maybe years. You know it could help people—but you haven't launched it yet because it doesn't feel ready.Here's the thing: building your course first a...
16 Apr 46min
Your Post Got 2 Likes: Here's Why That Doesn't Matter
You posted on LinkedIn. Got 2 likes. Felt like a failure. But what if that post was actually working, and you just couldn't see it?In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on a real LinkedIn post...
9 Apr 47min
How to Market Your Academic Business... Without Feeling Gross
You think marketing will be gross. But what if it doesn't have to look the way you imagine?If the word "marketing" makes you cringe—if it conjures images of pushy salespeople, empty promises, and Inst...
2 Apr 36min
The Money Stuff Nobody Tells You: What a Financial Planner Wants Academics in Business to Know
Think you want to leave academia and go freelance? You should watch this.Most academics who dream of leaving their job focus on the exciting stuff—landing clients, working from home, finally having fr...
26 Mar 43min
How to Land Your First Coaching Client (When You Have No Idea What You're Doing)
He had no coaching packages. No clients. No idea how to run a sales call. And then, in week 5 of his BAE cohort, he signed his first client to a 6-month coaching contract. 🥳In this episode, I'm walki...
19 Mar 36min
Rethinking Education: How to Teach Outside the Traditional Classroom
You love teaching. You love the research. So why does it feel like academia is suffocating you?In this episode, I sit down with Kelly Merritt—education PhD, former K–12 teacher in Switzerland, and fou...
12 Mar 1h 3min
